How hot has it been for our Euro members? Living in Hades..... or media beatup?

[El Presidente]

How hot has it been for our Euro members? Living in Hades...or media beatup?  

You guys coping ok? Serious implications for your day to day lives...or mostly clickbait? 

I recall being in Athens last year when it was 40 degrees Celsius and it was certainly a hot few days but the touristy things were still doable. I have been in Brisbane when it has been 40/41 C + 90% humidity and it is a whole other conversation. 

Let us know how you are coping 

[Garand]

The issue here is that there is almost no air conditioning in private apartments. My coping mechanism is going to a hotel and smoking in the cool cigar lounge.

[ha_banos]

It's been 70%+ humidity and up to 37C over here! I'm actually looking for an air conditioning unit for the next wave! We're back into the mid twenties for a week or so but worried. We're just not used to it. The only benefit is the roads melting might actually make the potholes better. The local councils are hoping! And add to this SWMBO won't have any windows open in the slightly cooler evenings because mozzies! And it's only June. If we get more of these 36+ days I think I'll lose it. I can at least go into the office for some respite. My uncle in Cyprus used to say, he prefers the cold, as there's only so many clothes you can take off in the heat. 

 

[El Presidente]

39 minutes ago, Garand said:

The issue here is that there is almost no air conditioning in private apartments. 

Looking back, I have no idea how we grew up in Oz without aircon. 

[riderpride]

I remember living in an apartment where no A/C was allowed, so I build myself an evaporative swamp cooler. It did well enough to take the edge off in a room. It took me a couple of tries to get it right (no YouTube). Has anyone else here tried one?

Good luck, and stay cool!

Cheers

[chasy]

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."
 

Lee Kuan Yew

[Fuzz AI]

1 hour ago, El Presidente said:

Looking back, I have no idea how we grew up in Oz without aircon. 

Evaporative coolers? I remember my parents and grandparents having an evaporative cooler. I remember having to fill the water reservoir on hot dry days.

[El Presidente]

5 hours ago, Fuzz AI said:

Evaporative coolers? I remember my parents and grandparents having an evaporative cooler. I remember having to fill the water reservoir on hot dry days.

Nope. 

Wet hand towel over head. We only had one and had to share it among the family of 6. 

[Çnote]

8 hours ago, ha_banos said:

My uncle in Cyprus used to say, he prefers the cold, as there's only so many clothes you can take off in the heat.

Smart guy.

[Çnote]

21 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Nope. 

Wet hand towel over head. We only had one and had to  share it among the family of 6. 

Luxury!

[Li Bai]

Schools were closed, all types of indoor and outdoors activities were shut down for the last 10 days or so here, just like Banos said, 70% humidity and up to 44°C...

Thank God we've got the AC but it's not the case for the majority unfortunately.

[JohnS]

6 hours ago, chasy said:

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."
 

Lee Kuan Yew

Ah yes, the founding father of Singapore. Look where they are now! 

[vvvendo1969]

40 or over 40 degrees Celsius with high humidity are unbelievably tough conditions, I cannot even imagine. FOH members in Europe, please take care of yourself.

I am nostalgic for the time when I lived in England where only 16-20 degrees Celsius in the middle of summer. Now how do FOH members in Europe store their cigars, especially in case without air conditioning?

[yossie]

13 hours ago, vvvendo1969 said:

40 or over 40 degrees Celsius with high humidity are unbelievably tough conditions, I cannot even imagine.

Mate, You'll experience it in the near future as you live in Tokyo.😵

[vvvendo1969]

I know.😵‍💫

[CaptainQuintero]

  It's pretty grim! The outside isn't apocalyptic by any stretch of the imagination, still it's very hot in the sun and things like railway steel is buckling near me. But there's no escape either, due to the lack of AC, so inside is just super humid and hot.

  It's a weird one for me as I love the heat, I used to be in my element going to Cyprus or Rhodes in the summer at 45c+, but I've a few health conditions now which mean I can't regulate temperature well or cope in it, so I have to treat hot weather as if I'm a disgruntled pug  so AC is going to be coming at some point. Especially as even though the heat record was broken 3 times in a single day last week, moving forwards it will have been be the coldest June that we're going to have 😬

[Joeyjojo]

13 hours ago, vvvendo1969 said:

Now how do FOH members in Europe store their cigars, especially in case without air conditioning?

Same as I always do - Tupperware, Boveda and plenty of prayer! 🙏 

[ha_banos]

I have stuff in the Cabinet to dry box it compared to the outside humidity. Was 72% in the heat last week 

[alloy]

Waaaaa...Waaaa...Waaaaa... Come live in Texas! 😜

[Christophe]

It's nothing all that new where I live. It gets hot and humid inland in North-Western Europe in summer. Usually it cools down in the night a bit, or we have god-awful thunderstorms at the end of a hot day, but when that's not the case like past week, the heat gets trapped in your house and you're ****ed. I survived 35 years of my life without AC, though I I'm happy I got it installed last year. It felt a little hotter than the usual high-temp weeks here, but on the hottest day (last Friday) the humidity came down a bit. Friday was actually better than Thursday or Saturday in my opinion. If you have a tree, go sit in the shade and smoke a cigar. I did. If you're in the concrete jungle... good luck, I guess. 

People say it was like being in Dubai. From having been there a lot of times, it was not. I made the mistake of going for a an after-lunch walk the first time I visited Dubai ... in July. Trust me, it was nothing like Dubai. 

[chasy]

I grew up in South Florida. Everyone down there relies heavily on air conditioning. It blows my mind that A/C is so uncommon in Europe...

We actually rarely got to 100+ degrees farenheit, because the humidity was so high that it would just rain. Very common to have 90+ degrees and full on humidity every day in the summer.

[bmac]

I had no idea that most European households were without air-conditioning. I’ve only been to Europe in the early spring.🙏

[Christophe]

 

13 hours ago, vvvendo1969 said:

Now how FOH members in Europe store their cigars, especially in case without air connditioning?

Easier than with air conditioning, I imagine. Where I live (the border of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, 200 km inland from the North Sea) it's pretty much over 70% humidity most of the year, which makes for a pretty damp and cold winter, and a muggy, hot summer. If I turn off the AC (or heating in winter), I can take out my cigars, sort trough my tupperware and boxes and actually see the portable hygrometers climb UP. 

E.g. End of last week, the supposed hottest days ever, the humidity dipped under 70% (65%), which is rare here, so it actually didn't feel hotter than any other summer to me. It was fairly pleasant if you could avoid direct sun.

[Christophe]

7 hours ago, ha_banos said:

I have stuff in the Cabinet to dry box it compared to the outside humidity. Was 72% in the heat last week 

It surprised me that this was uncommon in some areas of NW-Europe. That's pretty much the humidity year-round where I live. 



A few years ago, before I knew what I was doing, I had a really wonky humidor with an analogue hydrometer, which I found out later basically didn't work. I also didn't have AC yet. I've always wondered why my cigars weren't overly dry and smoking like **** in hindsight. I wonder now: they were probably pretty close to optimal RH in their virtual dry box while the ambient environment was basically a hot running humidor. 

[CaptainQuintero]

17 hours ago, bmac said:

I had no idea that most European households were without air-conditioning. I’ve only been to Europe in the early spring.🙏

I think a big issue also is that a lot of our houses are designed and built to keep the heat in, now the climate has changed it's the worst of both worlds, no AC and a heatbox 24/7.