(please end my suffering)
Europe is headed for an ice age, so just hang on.
Funny, I have air conditioning, but my crazy parents say it’s bad for you.
Guess I’ll just forget about sleep.
I don’t but my house is isolated. Windows open in the night, closed during daytime. Works perfectly.
The problem now, is that it’s hot at nights. You open windows at night, and let 29 degree air in, and there is nothing to cool it down.
It really depends where you are and also if you are in a dense city or on the countryside. Climate Change has made an impact on that as well.
I’m in Scandinavia and melt at roughly 20°C. Whenever we get 25-30°C at night I sleep with a freezer pack. Just cuddling that thing until it’s warm, then go to the freezer and replace it a few times per night.
Here on the Austrian countryside next to the mountains its not reaching 20 degrees at night
It is, but then so is heat stroke
i do use the AC a lot u know >:|
Every summer, Europeans literally migrate to the hottest parts of Europe. Greece, Spain, Italy, you name it.
Do not underestimate us.
I am going to fly to Finland ;)
Good luck. I went there last July during a heat wave and it was 38 most days. They’re absolutely not equipped to handle that. My hosts did what they do when it’s cold and sealed up all the windows and doors. Now I live in a hot climate in the US and it took me days to convince them that you need to open the doors and windows and get air moving. The idea was entirely foreign to them.
It works if you open doors at night to cool the house off but seal it before the sun heats the air up
Humidity is the issue where I live. Gotta close windows and have dark curtains or your house fills up with warm air from outside.
Best place in a flat or appartment building is the cellar, because air never mixed and cool air pools down
We do have better insulation here, especially with modern homes you’re better off closing doors and windows during the day and opening them by night.
I second this. I live in southern Romania. It goes up to 42 in the summer here. 35 or over daily for weeks at a time. My building is built like a tank
That’s 100F in Freedom Units™. In fucking Finland. We’re cooked, soon to be literally.
Weather forecast currently is 12-18C in a week ;p
Tonight it cooled down to 19°C where I live. I opened all windows at about 10pm, when the room thermometer measured 31°C in the living room.
When I woke up at 7 it was still 26°C inside.
This is bullshit
If your place is designed to retain heat that’s all their is to it.
My place in Germany it was much cooler on hotter days earlier in the heatwave. Today is the coolest day of the heatwave so far, but the building has heated up too much over the previous days. So now it stays hot. By the end of the week I expect this room to be an oven
I’m tempted to make a joke about a german and an oven room but I won’t.
I heard it anyway.
You just did.
You need a fan to blow the cold outside air into ur apartment
Blow air out during the day, so cooler air in corridors get in to the apartment. Blow air in during the night, so cooler air outside get in to the apartment
Or blow the hot air out of the house. Or even better, both. One fan in opposite Windows creating a steam.
It’s inside the walls. The heat is inside the walls. The waves. The walls. The waves are in the walls. Inside our walls.
When my wife and I were looking for a home, our main priority was actually that it’s “climate proof”.
We found a souterrain apartment facing east, on top of a hill, far from any rivers or forest.
So it stays cool in the summer even without A/C, and is unlikely to flood or get caught in a forest fire.Tried that. My ground floor near a park with a deepish, cooling lake in it is becoming unbearable anyhow tho… A week+ every single day over 35°C is just too much…
What is souterraine?
A fancy French word for basement.
Actually a floor that’s halfway between street level and basement.
So it’s possible to build normal windows into it, but they’re very low to (or slightly below) the ground outside.The only issue you can have is high humidity/mold due to the high temperature difference in summer but that can usually be adressed with proper ventilation at night.
A fancy French word for basement. It’s just a regular french word.
Cul-de-basse-fausse, that would be a fancy french word !
I have a dislike souterrain flats, because while they keep cool in summer, in winter it’s a heatsink radiating away all the heat you pay for, even with modern insulation. At least my experience.
Heating costs are divided equally among all tenants, we only have one meter :)
Ah, if you have district heating that’s nice.
Doesn’t that depend on the relative temperatures? Surely the ground is warmer than a typical winter day.
My experience is, while that is true, problem is, if you want to move away from the ground temperature, which is, let’s just say, 9°C experience-wise, then you will need to have your heating running 24-7 to move it to a liveable temperature, even if that temp is just 16°C. My perspective is insofar biased that it comes from gas heating, and I had no control over that place’s heating. So in short: fuck gas. My current living situation is as follows. I live on the second floor. Left of me, there’s a flat that’s heating. Right of me, there’s a flat that’s heating. On top of me, there’s a flat that’s heating. Below me, there’s a flat that’s heating and behind me is the hallway, which has 20°C for the entire year. Basically, I have my heating turned to frost protection and I get 25°C, no joke. Plus I have district heating now. So that’s a massive improvement.
For anyone looking for some cheap help tips:
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Block the sun from comming in, by hanging a curtain or bed sheets on the outside of the window. Of course real shutters would be even better, but price and time wise this gets you there.
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Close your windows in the morning BEFORE 8:30 or so. Open then after 20:00 BUT ONLY iit’s colder outside. Keep them open during the night. You can not cool a house down with warm air. Yes it’s warm inside, but it’s even hotter outside so opening a window during the day does not help you. If you like a breeze, buy a fan
We do nr 2 (we have a store for nr 1 + sort of blinders), we got the temp at only 28-29°C.
Outside:
Holy fucksticks, 47… Good luck out there
That’s the thing I can’t get my german roommates to understand they keep opening the windows in common areas when it’s the peak heat of the day.
Sorry guys lüften can’t fix everything
I’m in the attic so all heat goes to my room; I need to keep the shades down 95% but leave the window open so the heat can escape and air can circulate.
For 1 these metallized emergency blankets work much better. Aluminum foil also works but it’s not as durable when put outside
Yes, this exactly! This works especially well if you have temperature sensors in your house, since then you can know when exactly to open and close based on the difference between internal and external temperatures (or at least that’s what I say to myself to justify my Home Assistant setup). Extra effective if you put a fan in the window during the cooler night.
Sensor? Home Assistant? Howmuch is good enough…
BTW just in case, I think it was TechnologyConnections who did a video of a fan. But the air from a fan creates friction with more air, and you can get way more out of a fan when it’s surrounded by more air (so don’t stuff it in a carton window hole)
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get small towel/flannel
soak in water and squeeze out until damp but not dripping
drape over your shoulders close to your neck
this directly cools your carotid and jugular, tricking your brain into thinking it’s colder than it is as well as cooling the rest of your body
Meanwhile I’m living in the basement of a couple who thinks an appropriate temperature is like 65f freezing my nuts off all summer.
~18 degrees Celsius
When can I move in? /s
but seriously that’s my ideal temperature year round, much to the chagrin of anyone else when I get a hotel room with AC
We got Mr blanket-for-skin over here
I’m wearing a hoodie all the time and hearing “aren’t you hot?” every time I walk through the house. No… That would be why I’m wearing a hoodie even though it’s 85 outside…
Holy shit, is this the moment where our balkan mud and straw houses just win? Finally, the punishment of our oppressors that was promised to us at battle of kosovo has come!! (/j ofc)
We have bought reconstructed late 19th century house - all ground floor, with 1m thick stone/brick walls - here in Czechia. Even without air conditioning the temperature inside never gets above 23 degrees C even in the middle of summer. Its great. Bitch to heat though.
How do you keep the temps that low after months of continental summer? Is it drawing cold from the ground?
1 meter of brick/stone for walls is going to be one hell of a heatsink
I feel like I’ve seen this headline every year for half a decade.
Time to put those heat pumps to use, we are not doing anything about climate change so it’s the new normal.
My favorite Far Cry game.
Australians:
Protip: Take a shirt and wet it down, then wear it and sit in front of a fan. It works like an air cooler. The evaporation draws the heat out of your body and the fan turbo-charges this process.
As a Brazilian who’s also experienced with a hot climate, I’d say this would work if anthropogenic climate change weren’t leading to… wet bulb… high temperatures. When current temperatures are 40°C and the air’s relative humidity is practically 100%, no amount of wetting or sweating will get rid of the warmth, because evaporation can’t happen when the air is already saturated.
Good point, I suppose the Aussie solution works best in a hot and DRY climate.
Welcome to Canada 2021, where I thought the forecast was a typo
I was looking at weather reports that year for like, northern Quebec, to see if maybe I could move there for the summer and hopefully not get eaten by black flies.
However so far it’s been pretty temperate here this year.
I remember not having AC on hundred degree days. You just ran fans and did very little.
