Air conditioning ❄️❄️❄️Brrrr!!

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We have just returned from a cruise where we complained about the freezing cold aircon in our room. A nice young man came with a probe thingy who said it was 72 degrees and that's where they liked to keep the temp. Given that we were sailing to Nova Scotia where its only just early spring it didn't seem necessary. You could adjust it anywhere people were wearing coats in the dining rooms. I picked up a dreadful cold (I know you don't get a cold by feeling cold but I got one anyway) so I felt dreadful and went to bed in my dressing gown. Its lovely to be home to cold wet England and my nice warm house.

I agree, Last week on a train from London I had to put a cardigan and a coat on! I was not the only one...couldn't wait to get off the train to a sultry 23 degrees in the North East. Sometimes however it is useful especially in a crowded carriage on a hot day. I rarely use it in the car because in general I don't like it. I think the problem is that Air conditioning is relatively "new" to Great Britain. When abroad I don't have a problem with it, especially in the US, they have got the balance right.

And I thought it was just me. Some supermarkets are really cold, at least it means that we get a move on. Some years ago, in the winter, I went into Holland and Barratt, freezing outside, and they had the doors wide open! When I asked why, I was told it was so customers could see that they were open! Do they think we are so stupid that we don't know how to open a door! The staff were freezing and fed up but weren't allowed to close the door.

I doubt menopausal women would agree the bliss of walking into a shop with air con and finding every excuse not to leave! It just goes to show that you can't please everybody

I appreciate a bit of cool when the weather is boiling, but sometimes it is a bit much. Our cinema is freezing when the air conditioning is on, it puts me off going, and I remember having to move tables in a restaurant to get out of the icy down blast of their aircon.

I don't moan about being too cold (I don't think ) but I'm like Juggernaut and find hot weather really enervating. Are supermarket temperatures controlled by computers to react automatically to the temperature outside? Hadn't thought about the environmental question, good point.

Couldn't agree more MawBroon. Never go into a supermarket without a jacket once the AC is going at full pelt. Have even been known to wear gloves to stop my fingers going numb!

Could have done with some air-con yesterday. Six of us went to a local pub/restaurant for lunch. They've just built a large conservatory extension on the side which is where we had to sit as there were no other tables available. Only one of the large windows was open

We started to swelter so I asked a waitress if they could open the doors at each end to get a through draught. She did this but the people sitting by the doors complained about the breeze.

We asked if they'd like to swap tables with us because DH was beginning to feel light-headed - mainly because he has a large dressing on the top of his head so was wearing a hat.

They refused

We ended up eating quickly and didn't bother with pudding or any more drinks. DD is health and safety manager for a large farming company so when we paid the bill she gave them a few recommendations for ventilating a conservatory.....in her own choice words

At least if you're chilly you can put a cardi on.

Won't be going there again.

This is why the American ladies carry a shawl or wrap when they go out to dinner. They also need them in their workplaces.

I work part time in Sainsburys and my store I'd absolutely freezing in this heat, it's ridiculous,customers have been heard to say they cannot shop it's so cold and they leave and go to Waitrose over the road. We have all told store managers about it and how uncomfortable it is to shop and work like this but they say it's not controlled by them which we know is a porky.

It's 19 degrees outside. I'm shivering in. a supermarket cafe. An equally cold staff member tells me it's set to be 11 degrees in here. I didn't bring a coat. Silly me.

It was like the Arctic in the Co-op, but when I went into Sainsbury's the temperature was perfect. I went for new jeggings in Sainsbury's and ended up with a white vest top and a flowery necklace. I just couldn't help myself. ??

I'm grouchy and miserable when I'm too hot, so have the air con in the car on it's coldest setting when the weather's hot. DH likes his side of the car warmer, so now we buy cars with dual zone climate control, it keeps us both happy!
Even living literally a couple of hundred yards from the beach it's been dreadfully hot here, even the sea breeze was too warm to do any good, and we had lots of sea frets, cool water, warm land, thick mist!
We have an air conditioning unit in the bedroom as I can't sleep at all in very hot weather, but it makes the room feel airless, I'd rather have the windows wide open, but it's been far too hot!
Yesterday was overcast, quite windy and cooler, it was bliss!

I hope the prediction for France is right! Heading for Provence with the family, and looking forward to afternoons by the river, mornings by (in) the pool. Heaven! However, one year, when it was just too hot for working in the summer term, I made a point of escaping during my lunch hour to a nearby Sainsbury's to enjoy its sub-Arctic climate.

I think it's kept cool in supermarkets all the time to help keep food fresher. We don't notice in winter bundled up in coats but when you are wearing a sundress or t shirt and shorts it does feel cold!

There is mention of a heatwave here in France this year, Alaska here I come.

Can't aircon be turned up or down these days?

Not by the customers in supermarkets or other public places which was the point.

I love it warm and have no understanding of people who moan all the time about the cold then one hot day and they re winging they re too hot ( before you shoot me down I don't mean on here) a few people I encountered yesterday I live by the sea and there's always a breeze but still people moan the minute the sun comes out for a full day
I seem to feel the cold more as I ve got older and feel much more miserable when the sun don't shine

Supermarkets are other places where the aircon is too cold. I have gone back out to the car to get a jacket or such in icy supermarkets rather than freeze.
I do like the aircon in my car in really hot weather but that is controllable.
A few years back I had to get a new car and it just happened to have aircon. I would not be without it now.

I hate the hot weather, I'm like Christinefrance - give me cold weather any day. Not had any heat on since March, am amazed when I go into peoples houses and still find hot radiators.
We had terrific lightning storms last night, and thankfully fresher air and a bit cooler today.

Anya, How is your dog? I am sure there are a lot of humans also effected by the heat. Meanwhile here in up in the mountains Cyprus we have storms and temperatures not reaching 20 degrees. Sweaters on and even fires lit in the evening when it gets down to 11 degrees.

Heating not hearing.

It's come upon us so suddenly that we haven't been able to acclimatise ourselves properly. One week hearing on, the next my thermal blinds closed to keep the heat out.

My dog had a seizure last night - a bad one. Sure it was partly heat-induced.