The first heat wave was in Spring, as it was already 30° celsius in April/May.
Perfectly bearable although awkward.
The second heat wave in June. After a week of unusual cold and rain, the first week of heat was welcome. Finally summer... a bit early though. But the following week, when the temperature reached 38° C. it became growingly hard. Towards the end of the week, announcements of a needed break were done. A cooler wave finally, from the following Monday rain and possibly storms.
But the second heat wave was still to be gone through! Between Saturday night and Sunday I felt my body's resistance breaking. I was totally done!
I don't have AC, actually there was a time we had it, but I couldn't stand it. As if I couldn't receive the enough quantity of oxygen, I felt the need to switch it off now and then and, in spite of the heat outside, open the windows! Now I have little ventilators, but I can't properly sleep with them on. For some reasons it annoys me the air I feel on my body. But I had to choose between the unbearable heat and the "annoying" air... and obviously I chose the latter.
Finally on Monday night the rain, a healthy thick and continuous rain, not a furious and destructive storm! It was reassuring to sleep while hearing that fat rain, calmly hitting the ground. The morning after I expected a cooler air but the humidity grew so much that it reminded me when in India, finally the Monsoon arrived!
All of us, Westerners, were so much longing for them, as that particular year, the Asian south east was hit by an incredible heat wave that prolonged the heavy summer into autumn. And in India with all the decaying and rotting rubbish on the street, not only the heat was unbearable but the horrid smell too! In anycase when the first pouring rain of the Monsoon arrived I was expecting a relief that actually didn't come. Yes, the temperature had decreased, but the humidity increased so much that I couldn't tell which between the two was the worst one.
Last Tuesday morning I had that perception too. But luckily the cooler wave with some occasional rain persisted and the relief came!
This is now the third way. In the evening I am dragging a camping mattress around the house in search of the most aired spot to sleep, followed by my two cats who always sleep near me.
Last night I slept with just the sheet, directly on the big carpet in my studio, that is also my bedroom. And I slept quite well. I remembered that around my 30's / 40's I always slept on the floor, on a carpet, and it felt so good. Something that I definitely put apart when I came to Italy, to not exceedingly shock the people around with my too many "excentricities", as they usual perceive my being so different!
This third heat wave should reach 38° C. Not the 40° and more reached in the second (not so high as in France and Spain!) and should be drier, therefore somehow more bearable. The hottest day next Wednesday, when I will be out for most part of the day as I have to meet someone in Alessandria...
Eventually it will be over. I say no more.
