Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland

Re:Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland by GordonS on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:10PM (#20538794)

I live in Scotland, where the winters are long, and at worst we get a couple of weeks a year of a truely horrible heat/humidity combination.

I'm also well travelled, so well used to experiencing the joys of AC in hot countries.

Yet for some reason the thought of buying an AC unit (or even a fan!) has never once crossed my mind!

If I had thought of it though, I would expect the units to be expensive, and installation to be a pretty specialised (and therefore expensive) thing - the number of homes with AC in Scotland could probably be counted on one hand!

It's absolutely fucking horrible just now though, so I might at least look into it...

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Re:Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland by rys on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:18PM (#20538852)

Brit here, and in 2017 I bought a window venting small ish unit made by Amcor. £199 or so, and worth every penny these last few years. When I don’t use it, it lives in my spare room tucked away and I wheel it to my office for the hot spells.

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