Europe sees more than 1,300 excess deaths amid brutal heatwave, WHO says

The humidity in London is bad, like with many other bit cities far from the coast. Milan is really bad, 30 degrees feels like 40 there. Sweat on your skin does not evaporate, breathing is a chore. Really bad. Ironically, summer in Pakistan Punjab in a village is much more bearable

Many major metropolitan areas are near the ocean, and hence just as humid. The solutions are easy, but the framework necessary to implement them is the problem, as my previous comment said.
 
Many major metropolitan areas are near the ocean, and hence just as humid. The solutions are easy, but the framework necessary to implement them is the problem, as my previous comment said.

From personal experience if near a big ocean and not built up it can be quite nice, like Lisbon, Istanbul or Nice, but yes, places like Athens and NYC turn into ovens too
 
From personal experience if near a big ocean and not built up it can be quite nice, like Lisbon, Istanbul or Nice, but yes, places like Athens and NYC turn into ovens too

Oh the ocean breezes are wonderful indeed. In NYC they crank up the AC but in Athens they do not, or can not.
 
London is a blast furnace...
I was just in Ljubljana (Slovenia) for a couple of days.

Not nearly as hot as the UAE, but i'd say that is the hottest weather I have ever experienced in Europe.

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Kinda off Topic, but some of the hottest places I have ever been to were Djibouti, N'Djamena (Chad) and Basra (Iraq).

The guys in Shahbaz tell me that nothing is worse than Jacobabad (in Pakistan), so I suppose i'm gonna have to experience that too.
 
My post in another thread was that one of the reasons Europe didn’t join the window A/C revolution in the 1960’s was that their window designs open like doors instead of sliding up.

In the US you can buy an old school air conditioner for $200 that you stick in your window with a 30 second install time…but this is incompatible with the European window design.

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My post in another thread was that one of the reasons Europe didn’t join the window A/C revolution in the 1960’s was that their window designs open like doors instead of sliding up.

In the US you can buy an air conditioner for $200 that you stick in your window with a 10 second install time…but this is incompatible with the European window design.

There are other types of portable ACs that can work with types of windows other than USA's available too. They usually require a small flexible hose to dump hot air outside, plus plastic adapters and sheets that makes its use quite easy.
 
Last week i woke up at one point at night and the air felt so thick and warm, even to breathe. I wished i'd bought a charpai, i'd have just set it in my garden and slept under the open sky.
 

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