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37-40 C is hot, granted. But, isn't this the temperature that places like Bagdad, Northern India etc. endure every year for weeks?
by baxtr 7y ago
37-40 C is hot, granted. But, isn't this the temperature that places like Bagdad, Northern India etc. endure every year for weeks?
- polotics 7y agoDelhi & Baghdad have got dry heat. Italy with 37 is going to feel a lot more like black-flag weather.
- J_cst 7y agoIn Italy... Where? Milan is totally different from Rome, which is very different from Rimini or Catania. Generalizations are usually misleading.
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- mft_ 7y agoSure... but in hotter climates, clothing and buildings are better geared for it - white for reflectivity, through-draughts, hard floors, etc. In northern Europe housing is generally set up to cope with cold winters.
- antisthenes 7y agoThere are design patterns that are beneficial regardless of temperatures - high thermal mass (smooth out the extremes), reversible blinds (black/white) - control extra solar power coming into your home. Besides, Europe is not such a small place either. Many houses in the South are geared towards hotter weather and have the the features you described. They also get notoriously cold in case there's a cold snap, since they aren't insulated very well.
- AstralStorm 7y agoThese things are not free, you know. Especially thermal mass which requires thick walls or essentially heat exchangers. And solar is kind of hard to put on walls of a building you do not own.
- antisthenes 7y agoI don't think I ever made the claim they were free. There's nothing free in life, so making a statement like that is not really productive.
- dean177 7y agoImagine if the temperature dropped to -5c for a week in Bagdad. The people who live in these areas aren’t used to this kind of consistent extreme heat, especially considering how humid it will be. Northern India is actually experiencing a heat wave too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Indian_heat_wave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Indian_heat_wave