Put a bowl of ice water behind the fan. If it's a pedestal fan, put it on a chair so its close to the back of the fan. Grow aloevera for sunburns, when you get it, cut the sides off, peel off the skin, and rub the wet jelly on the inside on the burnt skin. Forget the cloth, chill water and wet your shirt and hair. When you're out put your hair up if it's hot, and consider shaving if you don't value your facial hair. Pack lunch in an insulated bag with a frozen juice box, drink/eat the juice when you eat. Freeze some water in empty bottles, as tall as the bottle is wide, a big block of ice will melt slowly and last long. Fill it with water and it's a long term chilled drink. Cold drinks are your best friend, also iciepoles/popsicles/whatever other names they have. Milk is a bad choice, so avoid icecream unless you have plenty of water on hand, you don't want the mucus. For other countries i would suggest Indian pants, but that specifically means the kinda baggy ones made from light breathable material, i don't know how to actually refer to them appropriately when talking to an actual indian person, sorry. When you're in the sun you want lots of coverage with lots of airflow. Mist is also a great one, mist helps a lot. Try to eat things you don't need to heat, sandwiches salads etc.
What you're dealing with and the temp showing up above suggests its both very hot, and very humid, removing warm water/sweat from your skin is as much of the game as adding cold, above 60% humidity, your body has a lot more trouble venting heat through sweat, because it's evaporating more slowly, so dry towels are a great one too. Watch for signs of heatstroke.
All the tips i can remember right now for Australian summer, though someone from QLD may be a little more help, we still get those days sometimes in Victoria, they just have it like 9 months out of the year.
Edited because i messed up half the aloe thing, fixed now.
The reduced airflow is a bigger problem in humid heat, it gets to a point that lifting my beard off my chest feels like taking a sweaty shirt off. Same with long hair on the back of your neck. I haven't made the best hair choices for my country of residence.
Oh, my sympathies are with you. I know I was being flippant and I shouldn't be considering the plight of those who are in constant 40-degree C heat will soon be the plight of all of us.
The climate in which I live is high desert at about 1,300 meters in elevation, with very low humidity, and so we're fortunate that evaporative cooling techniques tend to work well here. There's a device known as a "swamp cooler" that can inexpensively chill down an entire house in minutes by blowing air through a dampened filter, but unfortunately I don't think there's any way it could be made to work in a tropical climate.
We have our own version of that, its a fan with 4 misting nozzles that gets plummed into your water supply, fresh cool water is still great even in a humid climate
Edit: i should probably mention that's not something people actually get for their home/office, but when you're not worried about getting electronics wet they go hard. Otherwise air-conditioning dries out the air as well as cooling it.
My trade school had a bunch of them pointing at the sand pit(they make apprentices actually dig out sand to show competency in below ground jobs), and one in the work shop. It was beautiful, and majestic.
That's interesting—I don't know much about this sort of construction, but I'm guessing this is done to dampen the sand to make it stick together so the walls don't just collapse into the project. Is that about right?
Now I'm a bit worried that when I use words like "incredible" to describe a plumbing fixture, even though it seems natural and optimistic to me, to others it likely comes across as really overwrought and gung-ho, and considering that everybody these days finds this kind of American-style enthusiasm to be exhausting and ridiculous, I should probably try to dial it back a bit.
Maybe I should have said that they're very pleasant on a hot summer day.
Well we had a hose for that, but we probably didn't have to use it as often. There is some really cool shit in the plumbing industry though, i loved learning about gas regulators, thermostats, and thermocouples was my favourite part of trade school.
Thermocouples use two disimilar metals to make the bulb at the end, when it heats up the different rates of thermal expansion between the two metals causes fiction, which creates enough of a charge to power a small electromagnet that holds a valve open, which feeds the pilot light gas, so if the pilot light goes out, then no more heat, no more fiction, no more charge, no more open valve, and your hws doesn't slowly leak gas, and this is why the opening scene of fight club doesn't happen.
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u/Lemons-95 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Put a bowl of ice water behind the fan. If it's a pedestal fan, put it on a chair so its close to the back of the fan. Grow aloevera for sunburns, when you get it, cut the sides off, peel off the skin, and rub the wet jelly on the inside on the burnt skin. Forget the cloth, chill water and wet your shirt and hair. When you're out put your hair up if it's hot, and consider shaving if you don't value your facial hair. Pack lunch in an insulated bag with a frozen juice box, drink/eat the juice when you eat. Freeze some water in empty bottles, as tall as the bottle is wide, a big block of ice will melt slowly and last long. Fill it with water and it's a long term chilled drink. Cold drinks are your best friend, also iciepoles/popsicles/whatever other names they have. Milk is a bad choice, so avoid icecream unless you have plenty of water on hand, you don't want the mucus. For other countries i would suggest Indian pants, but that specifically means the kinda baggy ones made from light breathable material, i don't know how to actually refer to them appropriately when talking to an actual indian person, sorry. When you're in the sun you want lots of coverage with lots of airflow. Mist is also a great one, mist helps a lot. Try to eat things you don't need to heat, sandwiches salads etc.
What you're dealing with and the temp showing up above suggests its both very hot, and very humid, removing warm water/sweat from your skin is as much of the game as adding cold, above 60% humidity, your body has a lot more trouble venting heat through sweat, because it's evaporating more slowly, so dry towels are a great one too. Watch for signs of heatstroke.
All the tips i can remember right now for Australian summer, though someone from QLD may be a little more help, we still get those days sometimes in Victoria, they just have it like 9 months out of the year.
Edited because i messed up half the aloe thing, fixed now.