Asklemmy

43945 readers

638 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

280

People from the "hotter" regions, how do you deal with the heat? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by moreeni@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

223 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I am from Eastern Europe and this is the hottest summer on my memory. For at least 3 consecutive years the heat is breaking all records.

This stuff is unbearable, I can't even play video games on my laptop, because it warms up very fast and the keyboard becomes uncomfortable for me to use.

So, could you please share any useful tips on how do you survive the summer?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a European, what is this AC you're talking about.

Houses in Europe usually don't have AC, but more and more people are getting one now.

[–] kale@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the American southeast, especially in a river Delta, you can't live in a house long without AC or a dehumidifier. Mold will grow to toxic levels quickly in a house that's left without electricity for very long in areas around me.

We have trouble opening our front door in the summer when the temp gets above 38 due to the humidity causing the wood door to swell. The heat index reached 47 last week due to the high humidity so there's a ton of water in the air.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

This is what killed around 700 people during one heat dome event in Canada a few years back. So much humidity in the air that sweating wasn't helping cool people. You body can't cool so you overheat and die. Not all people died from that but they were attributed to heat causes.