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isn’t every room you’re in automatically hot?

I just arrived Wuhan, China last night and it's 30°C lowest. 03:00 I got up and it was 30°C. It's currently 38°C.

I woke up yesterday morning to -3°C while on my way to the airport.

My cursed flesh body really doesn't like that temperature swing.

In the short term, cold showers and wet clothes are useful. Longer term I've found that a bit cardio helps massively with heat tolerance after a week or so. I mean the difference between 21 feeling warm before and 23 feeling chilly after a solid week of cardio.

I hate anything above 25° fuck off sun and dead air. Gimme some rain, how the heck am I gonna wash my neck if it ain't gonna rain no more?

I finally had the time and money to get an AC unit. Stayed up late only to find it doesn't fit, so malding a bit as well at the moment.

idk if I would be scarfing ibuprofen to deal with heat trauma

Solidarity with my sweaty comrades. It’s been mid nineties F all week long, with relative humidity in the 80’ & 90’s. Heat index in the mid 110s. This past week I’ve been guzzling fluids in attempt to stay hydrated and keep from dying of heatstroke. Something like 2 gallons a day in some combo of water, electrolyte drinks etc.

The only way I’ve found to be able to tolerate the heat is to be exposed to it constantly. Working outside while it’s cool, and just tolerating the days as they transition from cool to hot to scorching. You just slowly sorta break your body against the incessant heat and it just let it wash over you.

If for some unavoidable reason you find yourself outside - wear big hats, sunscreen, long sleeves. Loose fitting cotton clothing. Water, but at some point you supplement with electrolyte drinks. Pickles and vinegary foods, salty foods like potato chips. Regular water breaks. Avoid the sun from 11a-3p if possible.

And try to pay attention for signs of heatstroke/heat exhaustion. To yourself and to your coworkers or comrades if out with others.

100pct, I live in an older house in the midwest so all summer it doesn't get below 85F/60% humidity or so indoors. People barely use window ACs out here, central air doesn't exist frankly, an older neighbor of mine passed when we had our last heatwave, and another had something where he can no longer drive, and despite he former not being reported as a heat death I strongly suspect it was. Window ACs are super expensive to run and I can only cool it into the 80s at best. If I run it all day it'll just ice up on me and be totally useless. I saved up and finally bought a new one (along with a dehumidifier), we'll see how it does.

When it gets as humid as it does here the wet your sheets wet towel business to keep cool doesn't work well. In CA at least it was a dry heat and you could just wet a towel and lie and rot even if it was like 95 indoors with a fan and wet towel, here there's no comfort. I can't do any of my hobbies in summer since its so hot, and its no wonder my mood always tanks in summer. I always wake up sweaty and after work its like coming to a fucking fire. During the heatwave I had to take an ice cube bath, it was so damn hot even my cats joined me.

I've found working out even in the heat helps, just be careful. Drinking spicy things and eating soup also seems to help though this sounds like a poor plan.

Oh man, my partner and I moved out of Florida a couple days ago and she got heat stroke from waiting in a car with only partially working AC for just a few minutes. She stopped sweating, she could barely even think enough to get out of the car, and eventually just started crying and screaming. It was scary as fuck and she’s still shaky a couple days later.

My bedroom is 28C when cool and 30C during evenings and it's too much. I thought I could take it, but I can't. Just running the heat pump as an air conditioner, which only really cools the dining room and living room. My room has literally zero airflow. I've tried placing fans everywhere to funnel air in or out. Doesn't work.

Don't sleep on footbaths, a small tub of Canadian tapwater should be cool enough to pull the heat right out of you

I know you don't mean it like that but

"India is currently on fire and also flooding iirc, here in it's not much hotter than recent years"

totally makes you seem like a typical Canadian calling their country India because of all the immigrants lol

Since no one else in the thread has mentioned it, do you have wildfire smoke in addition to the heat? Even a few days at a lower aqi (75-100) can make me feel that weighed down/tired feeling in my body, in addition to the headaches. Where I am in has been like that almost every day in June and July.

To combat this I close windows and have an air purifier on. You can build a corsi-rosenthal box or just duct tape a single high quality furnace filter to the back of a box fan for even cheaper.