Re:The first ever Red Extreme heat warning issued in UK
by zarzavat on Friday July 15, 2022 @04:27PM
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Many homes in UK are well insulated, at least compared to the wooden barns popular in the US. One day of extreme heat can be well tolerated, just by closing the windows in the morning. The problem is that it is very hard to expel the excess heat overnight, so a long series of merely moderately hot days can quickly render homes unbearable to live in.
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Re:The first ever Red Extreme heat warning issued in UK
by idiotsecant on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:19PM
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You seem confused about U.S. building practices, the US is quite large and has varied climates and building codes on account of covering a good portion of a continent. The UK latitude would be most equivalent to US building code zone 6 or 7, which has building codes well exceeding the UK in terms of insulation and airtightness.
Re:The first ever Red Extreme heat warning issued in UK
by ben_w on Saturday July 16, 2022 @09:06AM
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The UK latitude mostly doesn't overlap with the USA, with only Scotland just about lining up with the southern tip of Alaska and everything else only overlapping with Canada.
The UK climate is more like Seattle.
Is this map right? If so, that would be a zone 4? https://www.ecohome.net/guides/3521/climate-zones-map-usa-ca...
I have no idea if that makes any difference to your core point.