Canicule!!! Paris Sizzles in Torrid Heat
Jul 26th, 2018, 08:44 PM
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At the moment in Australia we have the other problem - houses typically aren't insulated and heated well enough for the winter. In fact, there was a story recently pointing to more deaths from the cold in Australia than in Sweden! We're currently renovating a very cold-in-winter double brick home in Canberra, replacing all the windows with double glazing (crazy that it hasn't been mandated in Australia), installing very good insulation (ceiling, cavity, and under floor), and hydronic heating, which we know has been very popular for a long time in UK/Europe, but only just catching on here; ours is to be mains and solar fed electric heat pump powered. Even though we experience very warm (others would say hot) summers (the current UK experience a doddle by comparison) we, like most other locals, have always preferred not to have AC, whether for our apartment in Sydney with high summer temps and high humidity, or our Canberra house with high mainly dry heat summer temps where evaporative cooling works well and is much less costly to run.
Jul 27th, 2018, 02:35 AM
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La canicule hits Belgium, too.
I haven't been outside for a week now, other than to run errands early in the morning.
It's 38°C on my terrace, in the shade!!, right now.
It's cool in our house but we have the A/C on all day and night.
Wherever we go in Europe between June and September, I will never book a place without A/C.
I haven't been outside for a week now, other than to run errands early in the morning.
It's 38°C on my terrace, in the shade!!, right now.
It's cool in our house but we have the A/C on all day and night.
Wherever we go in Europe between June and September, I will never book a place without A/C.
Jul 27th, 2018, 05:02 AM
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I am in Paris right now and changed hotel yesterday. I had AC the first days that I didn't use since the hotel was cool enough and some air was enough but had to put it on today, as probably the hotel isn't that well insulated. First time this year. AC in my office is off, as usual. But my colleague next door has set it to 18C.
The problem isreally in the small apartments where you can only try to cool it in the evening but temp are still above 25C, so Parisians don't sleep very well for the moment.
Metro and RER are torture though, especially during rushhour when they are crowded.
The problem isreally in the small apartments where you can only try to cool it in the evening but temp are still above 25C, so Parisians don't sleep very well for the moment.
Metro and RER are torture though, especially during rushhour when they are crowded.
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Jul 27th, 2018, 05:30 AM
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No A/C - but I like the warm weather. Much nicer than the cool and rainy pest that was summer 2017.
Since I mostly work from home, I often do siesta.
Get up at 7-8 am, get strenous things done until 9 or 10am.
Stay inside for office work.
Sleep from 2-4pm or so.
Stay inside until 7 or 8pm
Enjoy the warm evenings and nights till 2 or 3am.
Oddly enough I find it much easier to get some ZZZs on the couch during siesta than when trying to go to bed too early on a hot night.
Since I mostly work from home, I often do siesta.
Get up at 7-8 am, get strenous things done until 9 or 10am.
Stay inside for office work.
Sleep from 2-4pm or so.
Stay inside until 7 or 8pm
Enjoy the warm evenings and nights till 2 or 3am.
Oddly enough I find it much easier to get some ZZZs on the couch during siesta than when trying to go to bed too early on a hot night.
Jul 29th, 2018, 11:02 AM
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I think the Royale Vézère in Le Bugue has AC, but no, it's not typical. Today was cloudy and hot, but not sweltering. We're heading into 43C temps in the next few days, though. Keeping the shutters closed and spending afternoons in the pool (which is pretty hot, too). The farms are burning up. I wonder what's happening with the vineyards - doesn't seem as though this weather could be good for grapes/wine.
