> On 19 August 2020 at 15:50 Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 19.08.20 um 15:53 schrieb Steve Cottrell: > > > So the answer is to simply feel ill for a week and do nothing? > > We live smack in the very centre of a city of one million, with outside > walls about half a meter thick. Once this building has heated up, it > stays hot day and night even after the heatwave has ended. Outside > temperatures rarely fell below 25 deg c at night, during the last two > weeks. Daytime highs were up to 37 c. > > The most important thing is to keep an eye on temperatures, inside and > out. Open all windows as soon as it's cooler outside and close them as > soon as the sun hits the facade. Use venetian blinds and bedsheets at > the windows to keep the sun out. > > Take lukewarm, not cold, showers. Don't drink liters of ice-cold stuff > straight from the fridge. A light T-shirt soaks up and evaporates sweat > and keeps you cooler than none at all. > > Get up earlier than usual and use the cooler morning hours to do > demanding work or stuff that requires lots of concentration. > > I'll be 66 in a few weeks, about a meter too short for my weight and not > exactly fit, but still, we've just survived another heatwave doing our > normal work without the help of air condtioning, the only exception > being the A/C in the car during the weekly shopping run. >
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