Submitted 4 weeks ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
it seems crazy that the UK is only now bringing in air conditioners. I think of them as generally warmer than Canada, but I guess they rarely get hot?
I’ve been in -60°c in the northern Canadian prairies, and +40°c in southern prairies. that really is wild.
Canada and the US see much more considerable temperature extremes than does Europe. Water moderates temperature, and in the middle of a continent, far away from the oceans, you get wider swings. Europe’s basically a bunch of peninsulas.
The largest swings are in inland Asia, where you can get a really long distance from the ocean.
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I can’t find a map I’ve seen before that shows summer-winter temperature difference, but here’s one that shows it for a country’s capital which…is a very rough approximation.
brilliantmaps.com/capital-temp-difference/
Being close to the poles and being further away from water.
The UK is an archipelago, so it’s pretty much all near the water.
It hasn’t made much sense to have air-conditioning for the week a year where it’d make life a bit more comfortable. Our summers aren’t that hot. London is probably awful given that it’s all concrete and glass but the rest of the UK isn’t quite so urbanised.
Yeah, it’s hellish in London, especially closer to the river and other low elevation areas. The humidity is like living in a sauna.
We have the gulf stream to help even things out here. 30°C is considered a heat wave.
Summers regularly hit the mid 30’s now though. Sunday is forecast as 31c with almost a week over 30 ahead, and it’s still technically spring.
I swear I remember 25c being rare and called a heatwave when I was a kid, I miss that.
unknown@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Lmao, we’re not surviving this.
I know personally that I’m unlikely to survive another year of my flat being over 40c inside with 90%+ humidity.
Even if I buy an air conditioner and can somehow afford to run it, the building I’m in has no insulation and had mice so many times there’s no way of properly sealing off flats from each other.