(please end my suffering)
Every summer, Europeans literally migrate to the hottest parts of Europe. Greece, Spain, Italy, you name it.
Do not underestimate us.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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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.
Welcome to Canada 2021, where I thought the forecast was a typo
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...
I just got a used portable air conditioner for 50€ which I can easily run from my solar system. Problem solved.
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
You need a fan to blow the cold outside air into ur apartment
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.
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
I had ordered an airco before this madness started, but unfortunately the had to order it and it hasn't arrived yet. It has been hot for days already, it'll be 35 or higher the next 4 days, and I live under an almost flat, black roof with the sun on my the entire day. There will be no eepy sleepy time
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
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
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
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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.
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.
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.
A fancy French word for basement. It's just a regular french word.
Cul-de-basse-fausse, that would be a fancy french word !
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.
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.
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