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I know the average temps have gone up and there have been more extremes, but it's not like it moved 20˚F. They really don't have that level of tolerance in thes
by frollogaston 4mo ago
I know the average temps have gone up and there have been more extremes, but it's not like it moved 20˚F. They really don't have that level of tolerance in these systems? USA and other countries have been dealing with global warming too, the A/C still works.
https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/be/brussels/EBB https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/be/brussels/EBB... shows lately it was 97˚ in Brussels. In 2005 it was 93˚ around the same time.
- SiempreViernes 4mo agoThe affected building was last renovated in the early 1990s, where average max temperature was around 18 degrees. But even now "normal" average max temperature is only 21.7 degrees[1] and on the 23 of June temperatures reached 36.6 degrees, which is indeed over 20 deg F hotter than the normal maximum temperature for June. [1]: https://opendata.meteo.be/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/RMI_DATASET_CLIMATE_STATISTICS https://opendata.meteo.be/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#... see INS 21004
- frollogaston 4mo agoI get what you mean with the normal max temp being 21.7C, but would expect the AC to be able to handle the peaks, and 33.5C wasn't unheard of ~20 years ago. Not sure what the situation was in the early 1990s, but they had 30 years to figure it out.