I haven't really slept for two weeks, it's so insanely warm even at night.

I'm not used to that. I grew up in a country close to the North Pole and now i am living in a country far south (Austria) plus fucking climate change … I'm dying 🥵

How do you survive 21st century European summers? And what is your strategy?

(Pic: Austrian Weather Lady showing where to send our thoughts and prayers)

by mw2lmaa

37 comments

  1. Eurochads would rather boil than install air conditioning 

  2. Close everything all day, windows and blinds. When it gets better around 6pm open everything.

    Put a fan on your legs as you sleep.

    Makes it very manageable.

  4. Come to Texel. Don’t bring Hans. Or else he’ll start singing massively inappropriate songs again.

  6. First, close your shutters during the day, then open the windows during the nights. But remember to wake up at 6am to shut the shutters again.

    Finally, just give up and go buy some AC

  7. 40 degrees, that is a bit much. Up here, this June has been 15 to 20 the whole month.

  10. A basic Hans trick:

    Find a job where they have air conditioning.

    Come in early while it is moderatly warm, leave late so it is moderately warm.

    As a result wörk more than 8 hours per day.

    Utilize climate change for increased productivity.

    Still don’t have enough money to buy your own home due to housing prices preventing any social upward mobility.

    Watch your peers from middle class families inherit all the houses you can’t afford.

    Make daddy Merz proud by wörking hard, so the boomer parents owning everything can have their inflated pensions despite owning things you will never have.

    Enjoy air conditioning in office.

  11. You’re literally in Austria just go up a mountain until it’s a comfortable temperature? Why else would somebody be in Austria?

  12. Pablo does siesta. Germans do Querlüften. The brits just sit in a puddle and drink booze.

  15. lower your shutters down during the day, especially on windows that the sun hits for long periods of time. you can keep your windows open if the air doesn’t feel too warm, if it does, close the windows. once the sun is no longer hitting those windows, you can open the window and the shutters. at night, if it’s not too noise where you live, keep the window open with the shutters fully closed. if needed, get one of those €20 fans and put it in your bedroom to help it cool down more

  18. Live in Sweden. Now that you all experience desert weather you will probably move here anyways.

    Embrace the north!

  25. I’m melting rn.

    4 showers today.

    Thanksfully here it seems like it will gradually get cooler as the week goes

  26. We’ve got a yearly average temp of 10C where I live. Was 15C today. But I think I’ll be able to manage.

    It’s all about adapting, you know?

  27. We Just change the limits of the colormap so it doesn’t look so hot. AC retailers hate this trick.

  28. Honestly we should think about AC, living under the roof of an old city center in Southern France is unbearable nowadays

  29. I don’t think you want our advice about hot weather. We usually get drunk and fall off balconies.

    But if you do, plenty of water with electrolytes, sunglasses, wetted hat and walk slowly. 

    Regarding sleeping at night, have a shower and don’t dry off. Stand in front of a fan or air flow for a few minutes. It should lower your core temperature enough to get you to sleep. If you sleep close to the ground that also helps.

    Also cover your windows during the day! 

  30. You don’t. I’ve already been to the hospital this week and I’m still recovering from this fucking heatstroke. At least I didn’t have to pay shit.

  33. It’s 42 degrees down here, you either get into the basement (not austrian style) as early as 11 am and don’t come out until the sun is set at 22 or you buy air conditioner, it’s too hot to even take a siesta.

    You can’t live without siesta even if all you do is spreadsheets

  34. My trick is to live in north west England where all it does is fucking rain 24/7.

  35. I imagine my house is a boat and light is water, I don´t let it in. I close shutters and all the doors inside the house (because some rooms heat up more than others) and only open them all at night to let fresh air in (minimum temperatures are always before sunrise). Yeah, I live in the dark lol.

    Edit: If you have a fan, put a bottle with frozen water from the freezer in front of it.

  37. Tactical opening & closing of windows, blinds, and doors. Block as much sunlight as possible, and open windows only when you notice it’s hotter *inside* than outside. When it cools down at night, open up everything, and try to make a draft – meaning the wind blows through your house. That helps a lot. It works even better if your house is properly isolated. But installing triple-paned glass and thick roof isolation is not a short-term solution.

    If you have a powerful fan, don’t run it too long. Sure, the cool breeze feels good, but the added heat of the engine is a net positive when it comes to general temperature indoors. Instead, run it for a few minutes. And, when it cools down and you’re trying to create that aforementioned draft – aim the fan *outside* of your door/window. Let it blow the warm air *out*, instead of trying to move it around.

    And hydrate, you bastard. Hydrate.

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