Weather WTF

[Sheilbh]

London's way behind the rest of the country on solar and it is quite difficult because, for example, there's a lot more rented properties. The tenant isn't going to spend money improving a property that isn't theirs and the landlord doesn't get the benefit of lower energy bills, so there's no real incentive. And lots of buildings are either purpose built flats or converted into flats which mean there's multiple owners you need to deal with to get consent to change the building.

Hopefully it's something they're trying to improve, but we don't do nearly enough.

[Syt]

The tenant isn't going to spend money improving a property that isn't theirs and the landlord doesn't get the benefit of lower energy bills, so there's no real incentive. And lots of buildings are either purpose built flats or converted into flats which mean there's multiple owners you need to deal with to get consent to change the building.

Very similar in Vienna. Pretty much in many bigger European cities, I wager.

[garbon]

I can't wait for the predicted thunderstorms.

Same - but they keep pushing the estimate time back. When I was looking at the weather this weekend it was apparently going to break on Monday/Tuesday. Then this morning it's on Wednesday. Now it's Thursday.

Until then we're just going to hit 35

Yes the forecasting has been lacking.

[Sheilbh]

Yes the forecasting has been lacking.

It's always this way. I thought it was just part of being, as Duque says, an ocean climate not a continental climate.

Weirdly I have a friend who swears by the Norwegian weather forecaster.

[Duque de Bragança]

If we have a week of snow, it's a lot. We're not exactly in the mountains. Vienna in general doesn't have that much precipitation. Based on Wiki, Austin, TX has 34.32 inches annual precipitation on average vs Vienna's 25.6.

And in my London's quite dry comments - annual precipitation in London's around 22-23 inches. Very rarely snow and if we get snow it will probably cause the city to temporarily collapse

3 days of snow with like 5 cm is enough to cause quite a disorder in Paris as well. Happens every 10 years or so though.

[merithyn]

Huge storm moved across the midwest today. Over 400,000 people in central Iowa without power, including the entire city of Ames - where my daughter lives.

Admiral Yi? You okay? I heard Iowa City got walloped pretty badly, too.

[HVC]

Hit 38 degrees today. Should start cooling off again. Have a managers golf thing Wednesday. Yay(sarcasm)

[HVC]

If we have a week of snow, it's a lot. We're not exactly in the mountains. Vienna in general doesn't have that much precipitation. Based on Wiki, Austin, TX has 34.32 inches annual precipitation on average vs Vienna's 25.6.

And in my London's quite dry comments - annual precipitation in London's around 22-23 inches. Very rarely snow and if we get snow it will probably cause the city to temporarily collapse

3 days of snow with like 5 cm is enough to cause quite a disorder in Paris as well. Happens every 10 years or so though.

Is that a global warming thing, or did you guys just never have snow?

[Sheilbh]

I think London's always been a bit too warm and buildingy to get snow regularly. I think Paris is probably similar. The countryside in the south of England, I think, used to always get snow.

[Valmy]

Wait if you build buildings you have less snow?

[Duque de Bragança]

I think London's always been a bit too warm and buildingy to get snow regularly. I think Paris is probably similar. The countryside in the south of England, I think, used to always get snow.

Mesothermal climate plus urban micro-climate. City centre has always 2-3 C° more than the suburbs.
Climate change makes summers warmer though.

[Sheilbh]

I think London's always been a bit too warm and buildingy to get snow regularly. I think Paris is probably similar. The countryside in the south of England, I think, used to always get snow.

Mesothermal climate plus urban micro-climate. City centre has always 2-3 C° more than the suburbs.
Climate change makes summers warmer though.

Yeah.

I suppose it still snows in London most years but it's like snow shows. It's very rarely enough that it actually settles because of the heat.

[Maladict]

It's 29 degrees inside, at night. I haven't slept more than three hours a night since Friday 

[Sheilbh]

What is happening

All windows in my flat are open and there's zero breeze.

[HisMajestyBOB]

We still haven't hit 100 since 2012, but we have had nearly non-stop 90 degree days with heat indices of 100+. Overnight lows have been consistently in the 70s, with some nights not even getting below 80. The scattered thunderstorms have Florida-like downpours, which is not something I remember from the 1990s, but has become much more frequent.