• Why 25 degrees really is hot in the UK
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMqkuAb-HYg
Obligatory: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/242634/ce628aff-1b7c-48a7-8969-674634eb6ecc/image.png I feel like the UK is more humid too, but maybe that's wrong - I hate humidity because it means sweat cannot evaporate and is thus not as effective at cooling us down. Interestingly, the reason it gets more humid at night is because cold air can carry less water, so the relative humidity increases - that explains why we often feel kinda stuffy in evenings that were accompanied by hot/humid days.
Nah, they're clearly just weak cunts.
brits are entitled. Can't handle +25 and -10, all they are used to is rain rain and rain
Which is funny because its hardly rained at all this year.
Says somebody from the country who just told an American company to stop selling shirts with the Soviet insignia on it.
yikes dude, lets sell nazi shirts then too
Really liked the video Similar to Vox but the content is a lot better here.
Not even remotely comparable.
You're retarded.
Why does it feel like North Americans are the only people who build cities/buildings properly?
North American's and Northern European's. Damn our white stone brick house is amazingly cool in the summer and cozily warm in the winter.
I definitely get the acclimatization idea, I always hate summer temps when they start but definitely start to miss them when it gets colder, it goes from over 37c to under -34c with wind chill included. I'm definitely more of a Winter person myself though, I can't stand the humidity and it's been pretty terrible this year, but it does suck when it gets cold enough to give you frostbite in a few minutes. Better than heatstroke I guess.
No it's cool guys I edited it in with temperatures that make sense instead of those ~made up numbers~ https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/233375/244e4778-a8e7-4087-b32e-c3918f4ccf37/image.png (i'm just doing a bit and this genuinely does make more sense for me pls dont hurt me) (also why does it look like 32° is fine for Americans bc we bitch up a storm when it gets below 40)
EddieLTU is acting like an idiot? I'm truly shocked.
I know you're joking but Fahrenheit is such a shit temperature system.
I mean because you're not joking it really isn't. Fahrenheit works beautifully in relation to human body temperature/comfort. Celsius works for everything else, but Fahrenheit makes sense. It essentially works as a 0-100 scale where 0 is too cold and 100, 80 is pretty hot, 20 is pretty cold, etc. Makes sense for weather for us.
http://i.imgur.com/iDOzAa5.jpg
All I know is Kelvin and Celsius don't differ in how they go up and down. The temperature T in degrees Celsius (°C) is equal to the temperature T in Kelvin (K) minus 273.15 The temperature T in degrees Fahrenheit (°F) is equal to the temperature T in Kelvin (K) times 9/5, minus 459.67 Fuck you Fahrenheit, having to be difficult.
https://m.imgur.com/r/YUROP/MQ7LVC3
Then maybe you should consider switching permanently? We weren't always on metric you know, all it takes is a little time to learn and you're good forever. It also has the added benefit of not having the entire rest of the world constantly calling you out because you refuse to adapt.
Fluid measurement > solid measurement > mass > energy > temperature change. All correlate exactly. This is not the case with the American system.
I live in Arizona and I wasn't able to afford an window ac until a little while ago but for months I was living in an apartment that was idling at 90f because my landlords suck, luckily it would drop down to a chilling 88f at night
Obviously if you're used to a system it makes sense, but I hope you look at those numbers again and realise that those numbers are completely arbitrary. Why does it make more sense that 80 is "pretty hot" than 30? Why does it make more sense that 20 is "pretty cold" than -10 (or thereabouts)? Does it make more sense that ice starts to form below ~40 rather than zero? It only makes sense to you because you're used to it, there's nothing inherently more intuitive about it. No one in Europe is (more) confused about what a certain temperature feels like. It's not an argument in favour of fahrenheit.
Like I said, it's an out of 100 scale. On a scale of 0-100, how comfortable is the temperature outside?
So you think ~38 degrees is 'comfortable'? What sort of demon are you?!
So is 100 the most comfortable or is 0 the most comfortable? Or is 50 the most comfortable?
If 72 is room temp, and 32 is freezing, and below 32 is really freezing, and we regularly see temperatures above 100 then how useful is this scale actually? Celsius is easier and more consistent at this scale.
I always feel really bad for elderly Brits when getting hit by a heatwave since they often don't have air conditioning. Must be fucking hell. Sorry you guys gotta deal with that shit
Every one of these articles boils down to "well Britain just doesn't invest in proper technology to mitigate these things because they don't need to"....and yet, every fucking summer, we have to hear about how hot it is in Britain and how they are unable to cope with heatwaves. at what point do you realize that hey, the earth's not getting any cooler, and maybe you should invest in some proper tech to do better in the future? you don't get earthquakes or tsunamis every year and yet there are plenty of countries who still have disaster support willing, able, and ready to assist when the time comes.....why is Britain so stubborn in refusing to accept that they just plain need to start accounting for hotter temperatures? I mean Christ, you can only deflect the fucking blame so far. you have elderly people dying in these conditions for what? because of some weird egotistical snotty "well this is England, and we just don't need these things"?
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