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Wales though, isn't going to be at the heart of the heat wave. Them having oceanic climate and being pretty far north already, they won't be as hot. But I was surprised to see, that even there it's going to be more than 30°C for a bit.

Other countries like Spain, France and Italy are gonna experience the real extremes, with temperatures as high as 42°C in some places. Fortunately, AC is a bit more common there, as they are experience higher temperatures more frequently, but still.

In Germany, where I live, we're not very well prepared for the prolonged heat, and AC is still pretty rare here, especially in homes (and somehow has a bad rep).

We have a culturally ingrained technique to deal with it, by blocking out direct sunlight with our window blinds (if you haven't seen our common blinds, watch this: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KePLmie7lE) and airing out the house at night to cool down the building. This worked pretty well for the climate that used to be. But for heat waves like the one in front of us, where it doesn't cool down below 25°C we'll reach our limits.

I'm so happy to live in an appartement, that recently had split heat-pumps installed to replace it's old school electric heating system. Those can be used for cooling as well.

The windows I had in my apartment were like...they opened like a fridge door on its side. Not slide up like how it is common here in the U.S. Making it difficult to use window AC units.

Basically how all european windows work

Yeah, my house was built for extreme heat in the traditional Spanish way - it has every trick available to stay cool without needing electricity.

During heatwaves these days, however, it gets heatsoaked and becomes too hot inside. So, we've gotta put in a heat exchanger :-/

The secret is that the temperature underground is much cooler than surface temperatures. To take advantage of this, you dig a hole about 6 feet down, lie down flat, then pull the dirt back over yourself and fill the hole or have someone else do it for you.

There's this sort of little known concept known as "climate change", it was known as "global warming" a long time ago. The idea is that as we releaae greenhouse gases like CO2 into the atmosphere, more of the sun's energy gets trapped inside the atmosphere making it warmer.

As it gets warmer, stuff like this is expected to become more common. We haven't known about this for very long, and so our greenhouse gas emissions continue to speed up day by day, but if we can spread the word about this new and very important phonomenon, we might be able to avoid the worst of it in the long run.

Or maybe it will all just go away and get better one day if we just do nothing and wait and see. I don't think we know enough about this "climate change" thing yet to really make any drastic changes. I mean what if we're wrong?

For a while, and then it'll get really cold when AMOC collapses.

My german apartment is managing, but these thick walls are getting warmer day by day. I'm afraid it's going to become an oven before long

On the weekend I hat maybe 27°C in Germany but 90% humidity. It was unbearable...

40c is already beyond tolerable heat. Personally 24c is the upper limit.

Sorry, it's "Slushland" now

Good luck. The glaciers are melting faster than ever, and that's their primary source of fresh water. And nearly all the food, and really all the other goods too, are imported.