Heat wave across Germany & most of western Europe

shame - I expected better than that from you eurovol!

Hey you DD, just us about again ? where's Hams ?

I was wondering that myself... was hoping for a chat before I left..
Oh well - prost!!!

Soave here, not the best but cold and drinkable

Spanish red here - meant to be drunk in warmer temperatures.

How bloody hot do you want it ?

sweating my 'nads off here ffs

I really don't know what you people are complaining about.

It gets hot, it gets cold, sometimes it rains, sometimes the sun shines. Welcome to life on earth.

When it's hot, you sweat; when it's cold, you shiver. Welcome to being a human.

thought you people would have figured these things out by now... then again, in the same vein, guess i should have learned that people will complain no matter what the conditions.

hey - who are you classifying under "you people"? I wasn't complaining - I adapt my wine to the weather! You sound a bit snappy yourself. Try a Rioja!

the heat isn't getting to me, I have air at the office,
I love that fact that the sun is out! Its so bright, sort of hard not to be in a good mood with this much sunshine.
even a day of rain or two cannot break the great summer we have had so far.

now, if I could just get the germans to start wearing deodorant!

I hate hot weather, I always have hated hot weather. I prefer the winter, be it rain or snow.

I have a pool in the garden but I still hate the hot weather and can hardly wait to cover it up and watch the snow settle. Roll on skiing season

yeah, having a pool also makes it bearable!

I do miss my beach though

The pool does not make it bearable, its which one of my neighbours in it

Curse you canaryman! Snow belongs in the mountains for skiing - not here

I will be watching the weather forecast with interest praying that it changes. My tan is nowhere near as deep as I wanted it to be. I am now putting a catch up program into force for these next 3 days of heatwave!

it is 52 degrees on my balcony

No its not. It is great walking through a snow filled forest, spotting the deer and taking lots of photographs.

Afterwards you head home, make a hot-chocolate with rum and sit next to the Kachelofen.

Far better than sweltering in this heat, yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk!!

I would like to know how hot it was on my balcony...

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I love this weather. Obviously not for the waxy white though.

I'm loving this heat, and hoping for a LOT more...to make up for last year's complete lack of summer.

...and I agree with DDBug, snow belongs in the mountains, for skiing. Right now I wanna go water skiing, but my boat's in IL at the moment.

Summer wasn't fantastic last year, but it was a stunning autumn/fall.

Its been over 110 F here in Californian Valley for the past few weeks.Yesterday it hit 112!!

Americans do tend to think Europeans are "pussies" as the country comes to stand still at anything over 90 deg!!

What they tend to forget though is the humidity.For instance here in Cali although its well over 45 C its only 20%. A dry heat is more tolerable.

When I llived in Darmstadt over 90 deg with 80-90% humidity it felt terrible especially with no A/C.

Freezing winters...humid Summers...rainy spring..no thanks.

Just to let you know, tomorrow is suppose to be hotter. They are also worried that trees all over are going to die and are encouraging people to water the trees around their house with substantial amounts of water and not a measely little bucket full.
The Elbe is now a meter low and all boat traffic has stopped. It is freaking miserably hot.

Water the trees, no chance. It costs enough to fill up my pool

Pool party @ canaryman's place, bring your own water!

Only smart birds in tiny bikinis allowed. No mingers (I dont want to frighten the neighbours!!!)

While I can appreciate your sentiments, being a native Californian myself and currently living there, California is hardly representative of what most Americans deal with. Head on over to New Jersey or New York and spend a hot summer over there. Some Americans put up with far worse than the Europeans have to deal with as far as heat and humidity go.

but we have air conditioning in our cars and our buildings. So we feel the heat for only a minute between the house and auto and the auto and work.

boss threatened to take away my aircon today, I just about bitch slapped him!
They bought another one for the other room that they wanted to take mine to!

I haven't noticed the country coming to a stand still, oh and Europe isn't a country! Plenty of European countries are baking hot every year and they don't stop. But what do Americans know about the rest of the world?

Part of the reason Americans have this belief that French people smell bad is because the tourists all come over in the height of the summer, when it's hot and there's no aircon. They only go to Paris, and they ride the Metro, where it's baking hot and everyone's sweating. They come to the conclusion that French people stink. Of course, they stink, too.

After this summer, with London and the Tube also sweltering, the rumor will be that the English don't smell much like their roses, either!

They also look like clones, all in shorts, white socks, white trainers and baseball caps.

Don't forget our camera straps and American flags hanging out our back pockets.

I thought it was Canadian flags, so that people will be nice to you.

getting back tot he point - its hot in it?



And im sitting in a damn container... We need aircon... badly...
someone save me
"I'm melting, IM MELTING"

Isn't it raining where you are? Over here (not that far away) it's much cooler now. The sky is brightening up again but it's still raining. Got any windows in your "container"?

@kay,

don't tease me with your rain and your stories of coolness

Sorry... I would actually like it to stop now since I have to go out shortly! You're welcome to it all: rain, thunder and lightning!

Yes we have these massive windows. But its just to hot. If we had aircon it would be ok! but we dont. its UNGESUND!!! wotever.

anyway im going for a swim soon!

seeya

To try and combat this horrible and stupid heat, I am drinking an iced coffee, mixed with ground chocolate, vanilla and chocolate ice cream, and a very large measure of rum. I made it myself and it is a Maas!!!

yum!

And if it comes back it will be a Mess

True, but as long as my dog is not underneath, I will survive!!!

Finally, raining in Riem, with some cool air to go with, jubbly...

Well, after reading this thread I am congratulting myself on having been on holiday in northern Scotland for the past two and half weeks -- it did get up to 25 or so there a few times, and one day briefly hit 27 -- that's the local version of a heatwave--but most of the time it was a bit cooler... around like today here.

On a sadder note, the geraniums on my balcony have pretty much died. I have planters with water storage undeneath, but apparently the extreme heat was too much for my dried-out flowers... Any tips to revive them gratefully appreciated.

I think that the weather is beautiful!

I adore hot climates, and have so far not complained, even when my 2 favourite scented candles which were sitting in my windowsil melted. At least they made my room smell nice. I reset the shape and put them in the shade. I found it highly amusing

I remember my first trp to Turkey in 2000 when they had a heatwave there, I was wearing a jumper and felt fine. The same with India, I go there usually once a year and find that I acclimatise in a day or two at the most, and thus find it easily bareable, even just before the monsoon breaks out, when the humidity rises to nearly 95%.

Oh Wondeful Sunshine!!!

I think I was a gecko in a past life...

Cherogoth - We've been having crap weather in Munich lately and some say that summer has come to an end... Never thought I'd say this, but I so wish we had English weather here.

I think when the world turns chocolate we should have only chocolate country weather even in the northern hemisphere...at this rate, without enough sunshine i might turn white!

According to Yahoo Weather, London temperature is 13 - 20 degrees. Sounds like Munich, doesn't it?

But if the world turns chocolate and the weather's that hot, won't we all melt? That's be a big mess. (Bad joke, I know)

I was in Stockholm on Sunday and Monday, and it was around 28 there, so actually hotter than Munich, and the colleagues there tell me the sun is still shining. Unusual for Scandinavia to have hotter weather than Munich.

Yep, and me and my gf are heading up to Stockholm for the long weekend. Perfect timing.