Wait for august!!!!
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This is the most severe and widespread heatwave to have ever affected this large a region of Europe
To date.
Can't wait for it to get worse. Let's see how the right-wingers twist this into anti-immigrant sentiment, somehow blame the poor, and get the poor to vote for them. This is going to be great! The majority will be stupid and vote for populists, the populists will do nothing to improve the situation, and maybe voters will then wise up and vote green. Maybe...
It was fucking brutal, we have a first fresh morning at 23° now at 8 a clock 🫠
Exterior blinds should be mandatory everywhere, as well as AC installed correctly to allow heating in the winter.
And solar panels on everything. Everything.
The big problem is that we are still adding fuel to the fire without caring that the effects are lagging. What we do today will be rolling on to us in the near future but not today. If we reduce emissions today, it’s going to be some time in the future before things moderate a bit.
The heat has been so high I have almost gone and got adhesive hooks to hang dust sheets in front of the windows. I haven't. But it's tempting.
Living room hit 30c yesterday evening, largely because it's a few days in and I can't cool it off very well overnight. Small window that is only opened a crack because we don't want the cat to get out. Suppose that is another thing I should probably do, get some kind of net I can put over the window so I can open it more at night.
Adhesive hooks may not hold in the heat. I’ve had that problem in the north of Australia.
Maybe, you can get ones designed to be used outside and if you add a few for redundancy it might be alright. A dust sheet isn't much weight for them to hold.
If it really doesn't work you could stick a bamboo cane against each side of the window and then another between them and hang the sheet from that. Tie the verticals to something like a few bricks to hold it in position.
What are dust sheets?
And by in front of the windows you mean on the exterior? That’s probably not a bad idea.
same problem here, with the cats and all, and it's the kind of things you don't want/can't do when it's so hot
It was so cool this morning outside compared to my living room which only cooled to 29c overnight. Might be time to look at the window net idea. Suspect that the living room would have cooled down a fair bit more if I had been able to open the windows more at night.
Other rooms are more variable as they get direct sun in mornings or evenings. Normally the living room is coolest but now after days of heat it's warmed up quite a bit. Looks like the worst of the heat is over now though so it should start cooling off. Might open the doors when I get home and contain the cat in the bedroom for a bit.
There are semireflective films you can install on the outside of the window to keep more of the energy out. Just needs some mild soap water and a simple flat tool to install. You can get them in different strengths, i.e. you probably want the mildest option for windows you want to look out of, but max strength for your bedroom (which you want to be dark anyway).
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