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it seems crazy that the UK is only now bringing in air conditioners. I think of them as generally warmer than Canada, but I guess they rarely get hot?
I've been in -60°c in the northern Canadian prairies, and +40°c in southern prairies. that really is wild.
Canada and the US see much more considerable temperature extremes than does Europe. Water moderates temperature, and in the middle of a continent, far away from the oceans, you get wider swings. Europe's basically a bunch of peninsulas.
The largest swings are in inland Asia, where you can get a really long distance from the ocean.
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I can't find a map I've seen before that shows summer-winter temperature difference, but here's one that shows it for a country's capital which...is a very rough approximation.
https://brilliantmaps.com/capital-temp-difference/
Being close to the poles and being further away from water.
The UK is an archipelago, so it's pretty much all near the water.
EDIT: Here's a map with more resolution data for the US
shows how the summer-winter variation grows as you move away from the coasts.
https://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/08/annual-temperature-extremes.html
It hasn't made much sense to have air-conditioning for the week a year where it'd make life a bit more comfortable. Our summers aren't that hot. London is probably awful given that it's all concrete and glass but the rest of the UK isn't quite so urbanised.
Yeah, it's hellish in London, especially closer to the river and other low elevation areas. The humidity is like living in a sauna.
We have the gulf stream to help even things out here. 30°C is considered a heat wave.
Summers regularly hit the mid 30's now though. Sunday is forecast as 31c with almost a week over 30 ahead, and it's still technically spring.
I swear I remember 25c being rare and called a heatwave when I was a kid, I miss that.
A single hot day isn't a heatwave tho.
Also I was primary school aged at that time, so there is every possibility the adults around me were using hyperbole I wasn't picking up on.
I can't keep up with all the weather changes this year.
Here in London, heatwave weather is more when you get to the 30s. Are you further up north, by any chance?
I know, this year is crazy. We had hot spells back in, was it March? I can't keep up with all the changes, even in the same day. Yesterday went from chilly to sunny to rainy, to hot and sunny again. This is Britain, we should get 5 days of sunshine a year and rain or overcast for the rest.
I feel like you've been out of the country for the last decade. We regularly get multiple weeks over 30c in London every summer now and the seasons have been messed up for much longer than that.
The 25c being called a heatwave thing is something I remember from the early 90's.
Umm, no I haven't?
I was a kid in the 90s, I don't remember 25 being considered a heatwave here. It was only once we got close to 30. Otherwise it was just hot.
My last comment was tongue in cheek, like this kind of thing.