BAFTA TV Awards 2024

[silverstarry]

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[tanglespiders]

hand fans? what is it, 75F/24C?

hannah and elizabeth’s glam and goth looks are great, i like the stephen burrows vibes of rochelle neil’s dress, and david and georgia look cute

[silverstarry]

I checked a weather website and it was 81 in London yesterday. It's wild that it was warmer in the UK than it was here in California!

Hannah always looks like a classic bombshell/goddess and I love it.

[krystiocracy]

it's 81 here in Michigan today and I'm already bitching about it lol. I hate the heat

[bethmai]

you have to remember that the UK is an island surrounded by water, meaning as a whole the country is incredibly humid. It was 22c in my city yesterday and I was sweating walking home from the train station.

the humidity in central London would have been unbearable. ask any Aussie who visits - they'll tell you that 24c in the UK feels like 35c

[steffi_333]

Can confrim. It's especially horrific on days when there's been heavy dew over night and then the sun rises and starts evaporating all of that around you

[silverstarry]

You would feel totally comfortable in California! The weather in London on Sunday was identical to the weather we had here on Friday (81 degrees and 43% humidity)!

[bethmai]

We don't have air con :(

[silverstarry]

I have lived in multiple places in California (San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and I've never lived in a house or apartment that had air conditioning. The house I currently live in is very old and has terrible insulation so as soon as the weather starts getting hot, it's 10-20 degrees hotter inside the house (and opening the windows/doors doesn't help). I love summer but it is god awful inside the house.

[anachan87]

i have no idea what is the humidity in London, but 43% humidity is not that bad...

[silverstarry]

I don't think 43% humidity is that bad, but I've also lived in Chicago (and spent summers in Washington DC and North Carolina) when it was 100 degrees and 98% humidity so I have a sliding scale for heat and humidity. The first time I went to Las Vegas in the summer, I realized what everyone meant by a dry heat being more tolerable.

[italyatmidnight]

Yep, I lived in Florida for a decade and 43% humidity would have been a welcome relief. I just looked up the current conditions where I used to live, and the humidity is at 83%.

[anachan87]

ngel, up until 2 or 3 years ago I didn't even know the humidity could go lower than 40% LOL

Yet one fine day in June I was out during my lunch break having a walk, and it was such a nice day out, sunny with a little wind, and I checked the weather and saw the humidity was around 25%

[tanglespiders]

I promise you, I am always including humidity in the calculation. Except now I’m gonna stick Aussies in the “it’s a dry heat” category with Californians and Arizonans lol

I know it’s different for you guys because you’re not used to it, but I still think it’s funny a heat wave there = what I set my a/c to during summer, and I’m a little jealous and just have to poke fun.

[bethmai]

haha it's not just a case of not being 'used to it' though - we have no A/C, our houses and buildings are insulated for winter, and as a consequence we bake. it's grim!!

[tanglespiders]

insulation is important for summer, too! it keeps the house from losing cool air and gaining hot air. i thought the real problem was the radiant heat from brick and small-to-nonexistent air cavities between the brick and, of course, the lack of a/c.

[xaristotlex]

I grew up in a Southern California desert (so am very used to the heat) and have lived in the UK for years, and I struggle far more with heat here than I ever did in the US. As the above user said, it's the lack of AC combined with all of our buildings being purposefully designed to trap heat.

The other thing is that everyone walks far more here than in the US, so we're outside more on average. I remember in the summer in CA I would leave my cold house, immediately get into my hot car, which would be cold in a few minutes, then briefly go from my cold car to the cold destination. Here I am in a hot house (it's currently warmer inside than it is outside, despite me doing my best to mitigate this) and walk everywhere in the heat or take the (usually also hot) train. Last summer I used to walk to the supermarket to stand in the chilled aisles during the heatwaves because I was worried I was going to get heatstroke being in my flat.