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In reply to the discussion: 'Potentially Dangerous' Heatwave Set To Strike Europe [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)16. Yeah, and every building you go into is cooled to 75 degrees.
Including the homes people live in.
You been to Europe? There is pretty much no AC. Trying sleeping in a flat in crowded Paris or Munich when there is no AC, no breeze and lows in the 80s.
I have and it sucks. And I am healthy and live in Florida where I work and recreate in the outdoors all summer long. We keep our thermostat at 78 which most consider too warm. Hell, I like the heat.
But the worst nights of my life were spent in Paris during a heat wave.
I do not travel there in the summer anymore.
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Our German friend, who lives in Muenster, said the prediction there is for 104 degrees Fahrenheit
DavidDvorkin
Jun 2019
#1
I'm from the northeast coast and was as struck by that dry heat concept as much as I was struck by
JudyM
Jun 2019
#41
Not too familiar with the changes in census that took place after the advent of A/C?
LanternWaste
Jun 2019
#31
Phoenix doesn't have the humidity, overcrowding or air pollution of those cities
Merlot
Jun 2019
#32