Weather WTF

[Jacob]

Yeah I'm cancelling meetings at work and telling people to take time off if they need it.

[Caliga]

*does conversion to F* uh, wow.  It doesn't even get that hot in Kentucky most summers.

[Grey Fox]

Time to buy heatpumps, BC.

[Barrister]

In Edmonton it's supposed to hit 34c today, and 39c by Wednesday.

For Caliga, that's 93f and 102f respectively.

What sucks about those temperatures in Canada is that most houses do not have air conditioning (ours doesn't) and they're more designed to keep heat in for winter.  Our boys went and slept in the basement last night, and they might just stay down there for a few days.

[crazy canuck]

Time to buy heatpumps, BC.

Yeah, that is the thing that makes this really bad for Vancouver - this is supposed to be a TEMPERATE rain forest zone.  So you can add heat, along with snow, to the things we are completely unprepared for.

[Syt]

Vienna is building infrastructure to remotely cool large office buildings, parliament etc. to avoid having local a/c units that add to the outside heat (I think?).

[Duque de Bragança]

Vienna is building infrastructure to remotely cool large office buildings, parliament etc. to avoid having local a/c units that add to the outside heat (I think?).

Yep, think of a fridge, which also produces heat.

Better bet on insulation and cooling architecture.

[Valmy]

Vienna is building infrastructure to remotely cool large office buildings, parliament etc. to avoid having local a/c units that add to the outside heat (I think?).

Yep, think of a fridge, which also produces heat.

Better bet on insulation and cooling architecture.

So the better bet is to rip the buildings down and rebuild them all with more insulation and better architecture? I don't know man. Simply installing air conditioners seems like a better bet to me.

Also at least in my part of the world no air conditioner+insulation = eventually it will be hotter inside than outside.

[Syt]

We have so many heat spots in the city that it's not really feasible. The inner districts barely cool off over night during heat spells. So remotely pumping in cold air is more helpful in A/Cs. At the moment this is only for large buildings with centralized heating/cooling systems. And Vienna has a lot of experience with remote heating. It will be a long time till it will become available in apartments, and certainly not in places like I live in.

[Duque de Bragança]

Vienna is building infrastructure to remotely cool large office buildings, parliament etc. to avoid having local a/c units that add to the outside heat (I think?).

Yep, think of a fridge, which also produces heat.

Better bet on insulation and cooling architecture.

So the better bet is to rip the buildings down and rebuild them all with more insulation and better architecture? I don't know man. Simply installing air conditioners seems like a better bet to me.

Also at least in my part of the world no air conditioner+insulation = eventually it will be hotter inside than outside.

Air conditioning is also quite good at transmitting respiratory diseases, drying the air, sore throats and the like. People don't know how to use a/c in Germany and (North) France.
In my part of the world, insulation and no stupid architectural choices, which may be fine in Scandinavia, but not here as in let's have all the sunlight we can get with lots of glass and no blinds or shutters.

[Valmy]

Air conditioning is also quite good at transmitting respiratory diseases, drying the air, sore throats and the like. People don't know how to use a/c in Germany and (North) France.

Well fortunately I live in a region with brutal humidity so those aren't really a problem.

[Grey Fox]

It is a cool 22c in my house right now.

[crazy canuck]

It is a cool 22c in my house right now.

Currently 32 in our house and 39 in the shade of our deck.  Just entering the hottest part of the day as the sun makes its way around the Cedars which have been blocking it for most of the day.

We will be lucky to get down to 22 for a low tonight.

[Grey Fox]

I have A/C. Late 60s house were designed before our summers got crazy hot. They don't ventilate well.

Good luck, CC.

[Barrister]

It's midnight, and the outside air temperature has dropped to... -29c.

Fuck.

(and look I know it gets hotter in other parts of the world.  But our houses were not designed for this heat / most have no A/C.  I did not laugh at Texas who struggled with freezing temps earlier this year)