Feeling hot, irritable, sticky? Me too. Chances are, though, that if you’re a woman, you’re feeling this much more acutely than the men around you.
Part of this is to do with hormones: women feel the heat more than men (and it’s nothing to do with us being “more dramatic”). Dr Amir Khan explains that oestrogen and progesterone can affect how your body regulates temperature, and menopause and hot flushes can make that worse. Women also tend to have smaller bodies and less blood volume than men, so when heat rises, our bodies have less circulating blood available to move heat from the core to the skin, where it escapes. It takes longer.
