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It will only get worse as time goes on. The heat we are seeing now has a lag time on the order of decades. So give it another 20 years and it will only get hotter.
For a while, and then it'll get really cold when AMOC collapses.
From what I've read, not exactly.
AMOC collapse would cause weather patterns in Europe to swing wildly between scorching hot to frigid cold, causing crop/local ecosystem collapse.
So first you're going to be really hungry, then--depending upon how long you make it--you'll be bitterly cold or insufferably hot.
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Managed to keep my indoor temp under 30 today here in Normandy. No AC. Not looking forward to the next few days.
My german apartment is managing, but these thick walls are getting warmer day by day. I'm afraid it's going to become an oven before long
I lived in a small city in Wales a few years back.
Pretty much no one had AC in their house/apartment.
A lot of other places didn't either. Like restaurants and pubs.
But the grocery store did. So if it got crazy hot I would sometimes wander around the tesco across the street.
The university I was attending had AC in the newer building but I do believe it wasn't in all buildings.
Train had AC.
The Bus most certainly did not.
Riding the bus on a hot rainy day was like being in a sauna. Condensation running down the inside walls and windows. All fogged up windows.
They just aren't prepared to handle this heat.
The windows I had in my apartment were like...they opened like a fridge door on its side. Not slide up like how it is common here in the U.S. Making it difficult to use window AC units.
Plus the additional demand on the power grid for people getting AC for homes and apartments is probably not currently supported.
The windows I had in my apartment were like...they opened like a fridge door on its side. Not slide up like how it is common here in the U.S. Making it difficult to use window AC units.
Basically how all european windows work
Wales though, isn't going to be at the heart of the heat wave. Them having oceanic climate and being pretty far north already, they won't be as hot. But I was surprised to see, that even there it's going to be more than 30°C for a bit.
Other countries like Spain, France and Italy are gonna experience the real extremes, with temperatures as high as 42°C in some places. Fortunately, AC is a bit more common there, as they are experience higher temperatures more frequently, but still.
In Germany, where I live, we're not very well prepared for the prolonged heat, and AC is still pretty rare here, especially in homes (and somehow has a bad rep).
We have a culturally ingrained technique to deal with it, by blocking out direct sunlight with our window blinds (if you haven't seen our common blinds, watch this: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KePLmie7lE) and airing out the house at night to cool down the building. This worked pretty well for the climate that used to be. But for heat waves like the one in front of us, where it doesn't cool down below 25°C we'll reach our limits.
I'm so happy to live in an appartement, that recently had split heat-pumps installed to replace it's old school electric heating system. Those can be used for cooling as well.
40C is just June through August where I live.
I have a window AC, but most summers I don't bother installing it. I did order a ceiling fan for my bedroom, though. Should be here tomorrow.
You've heard, "but it's a dry heat"? Yeah, that makes a huge difference. It's currently 9% humidity and dropping here.
40c is already beyond tolerable heat. Personally 24c is the upper limit.
24C?
Lol, best of luck to you in the future unless you’re planning to be around the poles.
That's not actually outside of the realms of possibility. Id just have to move to the northern part of my neighboring county and I'd be close to polar circle.
Won't help, Warsaw is at 24°C today, up to 36°C next Sunday.
24C? Man I'm in one of the coldest cities on the planet. I get heat stroke immediately any time I approach past 30°N. Even I don't feel hot until around 28C or so.
My fiancee is Turkish and she gets cold at 16 though so I guess you must somehow be further north than I am.
Not really, actually even more to the South, 59,4N.
Cant help it. My heat tolerance is abysmally bad. 24c is the last comfortable limit if I'm not active. Every point above that gets worse and by 25c I'm completely coverd in sweat constantly and performance drops, even sleep gets disrupted.
On the weekend I hat maybe 27°C in Germany but 90% humidity. It was unbearable...
This is at 23:00
I'm moving to Iceland
Sorry, it's "Slushland" now
Good luck. The glaciers are melting faster than ever, and that's their primary source of fresh water. And nearly all the food, and really all the other goods too, are imported.
This is fine.
(/s obv.)