Glad I'm not in France.

[Pyrate Jim]

Apparently, the hottest it's ever been.
France records hottest day ever

In Fahrenheit, that would be 85.6 degrees.

[Calvin]

Thats a nice day in the summer here. Toughen up!

[ramagupa]

Already gonna be 90 today for me and that's pretty
lucky this time of year

[evilfishsticks]

My 15 yo son has been in France all week on a trip with with his French class and will be for several more days. It's been very hot the whole time so far. Meanwhile here at home it's been unseasonably cool barely in the 70s.

[Glovebox Operator]

It was 95+ in ABQ when I was out playing Sunday. They don't really have air conditioning out there though.

[JohnB]

107 in Phx today, we melting

[JohnB]

lol, nice. Glad someone gets a benefit. I use mental tricks, like “it is just warm out” and “no I am not dehydrated, just happily lightheaded”

[Glovebox Operator]

When it gets to hot for planes to fly it seems like its not a places for humans, at least not during the day.

[JohnB]

The planes couldn’t fly that one day due to the airlines and regulators not going past certain temps for take off procedures; it wasn’t that it was too hot for the mechanics of the plane. I think they updated it and we haven’t had something like that from then on. Now we do have our fair share of carBQS on the side of the road (car fires). We can also make cookies and eggs in the car in the summer, so that is fun. Phx really isn’t suitable for mammal life in the summer during the day though, you are right. Water, sweat, and a little (or a lot) of AC get us by.

[flyweightnate]

High 90s in Tirana right now and my kids are not enjoying it. A/C has gotten a lot more common but it's still an outdoor, walk everywhere sort of city if you're not at a restaurant, and we're being tourists. But seriously, kids... you live in Dallas. 97 is pretty kind for mid June.

Weird to realize how scarce AC is, and how little water Europeans drink, on average. Europeans model excess deaths based on heat waves (including both direct heat sickness and compounding effects like pneumonia) and find 50k-60k per year. College dorms often don't have any AC and this is exams week. (Yuck.) Electricity is so expensive, many people don't even bother to install it at home, either. Reminds me of being a kid and going into town to hang out at the mall if it got above 95.

[autococker04]

Ive been seeing a lot of short videos of Europeans reviewing their time in the USA for the world cup and the top 3 topics have been:

Dunkin' Donuts isnt that good.
Barbeque is amazing.
Air conditioning is the greatest invention of all time.

[flyweightnate]

No lies detected

[cougar20th]

Pretty sure 42 degrees Celsius equal 107 degrees Fahrenheit or very close.

[flyweightnate]

This is a temperature far more likely to compel me to drown in a river.

[Pyrate Jim]

I remember Pump Pandemonium 2 at EMR in 2003. 102 degrees, with a heat index of 110.
You could say it's burned into my memory.

[Siress]

And yet, 6ft beneath the surface it's ~55deg F. We really need to get cracking on geothermal heating and cooling. The azteks had it nearly perfect, just need to use heat exchangers to avoid the moisture and radon type issues.

Also, I'm going to be in Paris in a few weeks... I hope this means that AC will be more common place...

[Spider!]

Lol, they fight AC. Most hotels that have AC have thermostats that are set at ~24C, +/- 3C. 21C should be ok, but they don't maintain them either. When you walk into a hotel in Europe, check the AC first. They often work half-assed making you think they will get better but they don't. I'm Milan, two desk guys and the weekend maintenance guy all clearly did not understand air conditioning. I had to set up a portable until the Monday guy fixed the main unit.