[vincentmarle]

looks at weather report for southern france for this week

That’s a very mild summer, I’m located in Southern California where my nights are warmer than your peak day temperatures. During daytime it can be over 45 degrees Celsius. But ACs are everywhere so it makes it livable. I’m guessing most homes in Europe don’t have that.

[tokai]

>ACs are everywhere so it makes it livable

Except for outside. Also what do you hope to achieve with playing misery poker over this.

[_ph_]

Indeed, AC in private homes is still relatively rare. Of course, in recent years it became more fashionable. Also, a lot of houses in the traditional hot regions of Europe are built to be livable without air conditioning. In my eyes, he biggest impact in recent years has been to the traditionally more moderate regions, where there is no AC and houses or clothing and social habits are not tuned for hot temperatures. In Germany, it was almost welcomed to feel to hot for the very few hot days (if any) it had through the year. Nowadays, we definitely have hotter and more intense summers.

[Aeolun]

I also imagine California is very dry?

Edit: Never mind, seems to be very humid North, and fairly average South.

[hollerith]

The parts separated from the coast by mountains are very dry.

Also because the water off the coast is cold, it never gets very hot and humid at the same time anywhere in the western US. For that you need to be near a large body of very warm water.

Specifically, in all of the west coast of the US except the bottom quarter of CA (where the ocean is a little warmer) the weather is cool and humid when the wind is blowing from the west (which it is most of the time) and dry and potentially very hot when it is blowing from the east.

Well, it is a little more complicated than that because every morning the sun heats the land, but not the ocean, which causes wind to flow from ocean to land, then every evening that flow is reversed, so my previous statement refers to the general flow of air masses in the absence of this diurnal coastal wind.

[kergonath]

> That’s a very mild summer, I’m located in Southern California where my nights are warmer than your peak day temperatures.

It is not a competition, you know? There’s nothing to win if you have the worst climate.

> I’m guessing most homes in Europe don’t have that

No, and that is a good thing because AC for whole cities in arid regions is a big part of why we are in this situation in the first place. California is pretty much the illustration of how not to build a country.