I'm happy it's been cooler this year, summers have been getting too warm, my flat does not keep cool well. I always liked the summer storms here though, especially if you have a good vantage point to watch them roll in.

I've lived in roof apartments all my life (my bedroom in my parents house was a loft conversion), but for the first time moved into an apartment on the second floor.

The difference is night and day. No longer do I sweat in summer, freeze in winter, and stay up all night listening to the rain (albeit I do sometimes miss the soothing quality it had). I think roof apartments are going to get a lot less popular in the next decade

I think most of Europe above (and in) the alps was cool and wet this summer.

Except the northern parts of Sweden (and Norway?) which had a really nice summer.

Same for the Baltic side of Poland, though heat is rising.

Northern Sweden hasn´t really had that great a summer, colder July than normal, the far north of Norway seems to have had a good summer though.

Same here in South England.

July and August haven't been great, but June was the hottest June on record

July wasn't record setting in Switzerland, but still 1-2C hotter than the long term average 1990-2020. So no, not cold.

https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/ueber-uns/meteoschweiz-blo...

People are downvoting me for pointing out facts that I have observed that are contradicting the NPR narrative? I thought hacker news was better than this. Very disappointing.

Well, the article is about Europe, and Switzerland is one of the smaller countries in Europe, to say you're contradicting the narrative is a bit of a stretch.

There are other people from different parts of Europe saying they didn't have a very hot summer.

I'm pretty sure you could plot them out across all of europe and with your brilliant detective skills work out which parts were cooler and which were warmer and then make an average, and plot it out over time

You gave an anecdote about how you personally felt as if it was a valid counter point for scientifically measured continent wide record breaking temps

Of cours HN will trash you... what did you expect

There are plenty of other people from different parts of Europe confirm my anecdote of having a cooler summer. We should not fall for the fallacy of appealing to authority when we can easily collect data ourselves and confirm the findings.

I thought hacker news immune to such fallacies but it seems I was wrong. Very disappointing.

"It's so disappointing that hacker news doesn't believe my conspiracy theory!"

> There are plenty of other people from different parts of Europe confirm my anecdote of having a cooler summer.

And plenty who say it's warmer than usual, so what now ?

> We should not fall for the fallacy of appealing to authority

The data is out there, you're free to look at it, most countries publish historical weather data from as far as they have been recording it

> when we can easily collect data ourselves and confirm the findings.

Can you ? I personally don't own a continent wide array of weather stations, but if you do please publish your findings

Yeah, we're better than weighting in anecdotal data when there's plenty of high quality measurements from multiple sources readily available.

Considering the top comment is also an anecdote about 3rd world polluters being the least guilty or "being mad at climate change deniers" are you really surprised?

I am disappointed.

You had hopes for HN? This place shouldn't be taken seriously. Both the upvoting/downvoting system and the majority of users are dumb.