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DeusXM · #16 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006, 08:03 AM

Main thing is though that Europe doesn't have the temperature extremes that the US does. AC is usually of the most help in areas with really high humidity - most people can cope with it being very hot and dry but once it's hot and the air's moist, it's like an oppressive blanket and only AC can really clear it. And it never gets particularly swamplike in Europe, and the temperature doesn't really go much above 30 anywhere. Even in the south, such as Greece or Spain, 35 is pretty much the upper limit.

HelenM · #17 (**permalink**) 07-08-2006, 12:22 AM

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the temperature doesn't really go much above 30 anywhere

I'm not so sure about that. This summer the temp here has already been frequently been in the high 30's. I'm concerned that there will be another year like the 2003 where the cannicule contributed to the deaths of thousands of elderly people. Most of the deaths were in the North of France and Paris is not so far from the UK.
Here in the SW traditional local houses are built for heat with thick stone walls, and shutters which are normally shut all day during hot weather. More modern (except very recent) houses are not really built for high temperatures and the further North you go the less well protected they become.

Belinda · #18 (**permalink**) 07-08-2006, 07:11 AM

I say it is an effect of global warming so you might want to get an AC....like here it use to snow at least one a year where the ground was blanketed and you could sled....last good snowfall was in like 95........

Gunnie · #19 (**permalink**) 07-08-2006, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by DeusXM

Main thing is though that Europe doesn't have the temperature extremes that the US does. AC is usually of the most help in areas with really high humidity - most people can cope with it being very hot and dry but once it's hot and the air's moist, it's like an oppressive blanket and only AC can really clear it. And it never gets particularly swamplike in Europe, and the temperature doesn't really go much above 30 anywhere. Even in the south, such as Greece or Spain, 35 is pretty much the upper limit.

I think you are right. I don't know that we could live here in Florida without AC. We rarely ever use the heat in the winter! My hubby saw one of those temperature marquis one day last week, and the temp. was 104 (I think that's 40 degrees celcius)!

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I say it is an effect of global warming so you might want to get an AC....like here it use to snow at least one a year where the ground was blanketed and you could sled....last good snowfall was in like 95........

Belinda, that is wild that you said that. We were up just a little north of Chattanooga in January for a long weekend, and there was snow on the ground for 2 days!

Belinda · #20 (**permalink**) 07-08-2006, 07:17 PM

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Belinda, that is wild that you said that. We were up just a little north of Chattanooga in January for a long weekend, and there was snow on the ground for 2 days!

I live North of Chattanooga in the middle of VOL country and we have gotten NOTHING......did not miss the first day of school for snow...my sister did in Crossville and Sweetwater but us ......nothing......I think Knoxville is immune to it or it just blows right over us...

rzrbks · #21 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 02:08 PM

Sweating just means that your body is compensating for the heat better than most folks.

I love hot weather, but then I sweat like a pig so staying comfortable when it's hot isn't that difficult for me.

Wifey, on the other hand, comes from NOrth like mg 2204 and AC goes on when temp is above 80 F/26.6 C

Penny · #22 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 02:24 PM

It is hot,90* plus and very humid. There was a tornado touched down just a couple of miles from my house yesterday, and we have storm warnings right now. It's like going into a steam bath, to step outside. And I sweat (or perspire, since I am a lady) like a pig! It does not cool me off.

notme · #23 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 02:36 PM

DeusXM, Welcome to the world of "HOT FLASHES". I have been doing this for almost two years. Add that to living in Central California where the temps hit 100 degrees right now daily...... I am soggy more often than not.

Learning to live like a frog.

jen_slc · #24 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 02:39 PM

Looks like the entire country is going to be baked this weekend, we're going to be sitting in the low 100s. Oh yeah, I live in a desert. And my car's A/C isn't flowing like it used to. I hate coming in to work covered in sweat stains!

lgvincent · #25 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 02:44 PM

It's so hot here, the air I exhale is colder than the air I inhale.

Keezheekoni · #26 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 03:29 PM

It was hot here last week...it's been raining for the last few days, just miserable. Today, it's temperate and getting hotter...we do have a nice breeze though.

I don't like it when it's raining, I don't like it when it's hot. I'm just miserable everwhere!

I don't get hot flashes yet...I think I still have another 20 years before that starts to kick in. By looking at my mother, ugh...not looking forward to it! They live in the bay area of CA and last year she *forced* my dad to get AC in the house...

Rikki

lgvincent · #27 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 03:42 PM

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It was hot here last week...it's been raining for the last few days, just miserable. Today, it's temperate and getting hotter...we do have a nice breeze though.

I don't like it when it's raining, I don't like it when it's hot. I'm just miserable everwhere!

I don't get hot flashes yet...I think I still have another 20 years before that starts to kick in. By looking at my mother, ugh...not looking forward to it! They live in the bay area of CA and last year she *forced* my dad to get AC in the house...

Rikki

Don't like rain?!? How could you not like rain? We've had drought here for many summers. We've gotten some rain the last two summers when hurricanes have passed through but that's about it. I'd sell my soul to the devil for rain but I'm already bound for **** so I have nothing to bargin with.

Keezheekoni · #28 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 05:40 PM

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Don't like rain?!? How could you not like rain? We've had drought here for many summers.

Well, mainly I don't like rain because I was born and raised in California (the bay area) and I am my mother's child...we both would like to live somewhere that is a constant 78 deg F., doesn't rain and has a slight warm breeze.

Unfortunately, you go where the work is, and my husband's company moved us up here. About three years after being here, they shut the office down that was here and so now he works from home. We could, technically, move anywhere now...but selling the house and things like that are not something that I want to even come close to dealing with right now! LOL

I would really like to change our heating from baseboard to central, then we could have AC too! No one seems to have central up here unless your house is less than 10 years old, for some reason...

Rikki