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Feeling hot hot hot: the weird things that happen to your body in extreme heat

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We’ve had more than the expected five days of annual sunshine – and with temperatures across these fair isles tipping well into the 30s, we think it's time to call it. Summer is officially HERE.  A ctual  summer. We've had the  hottest day  of the year so far, with Porthmadog, in north Wales reaching a very sweaty in 32.6C. And it's so hot in Glasgow that a roof is  actually melting .  Kind of like how we’re feeling rn.  The Met office has issued a warning of  heatwave conditions  over the weekend, which got us to thinking about some of the bizarre things that can happen to our bodies in the heat. Did you know that... ...hot weather can give you bad breath You may be thinking that summer is the ultimate time to start smooth-talking the objects of your desire, but excessive heat can cause you to dehydrate (eerrrm, sweaty much?), which has been proven to have a pretty unsexy side effect – b...