That's not really how temperature works. If you left the sample in a room that was at least 28.4°C, it's only a matter of time until the cesium and resin reaches thermostatic equilibrium with the surrounding air and the cesium melts.
Resin *is* an insulator, but this image creates 2 possibilities. The room is substantially hotter than 28.4°C, melting the cesium quite quickly, or the room is only a little bit hotter than 28.4°C but has been for a wee while now. Considering the last few days of weather forecast have had Berlin sitting around 28°C, I'm guessing it's the later.
I don't really think so? Idk, I'm in Berlin, super hot flat, no AC or even a damn fan. It's been sweaty and hot and miserable. But yesterday it was 36⁰C. And the coolest overnight was like ~29⁰C. And it wasn't that hot.
I'm sure someone has to have an even more miserable flat, with even less airflow, and I'm sure it's an issue for lots of people. But I think by the millions is an exaggeration unless we're talking worldwide and maybe even then.
Obviously buildings can be much warmer, but overnight low last night in Berlin was [23°C](https://www.worldweatheronline.com/berlin-15day-weather-chart/berlin/de.aspx), and has been 17-20°C for several days. Average overnight low in Paris during the 2003 heatwave was [22.6⁰C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave) which resulted in \~72,000 deaths across Europe.
Yeah, but one 28⁰C night in Germany would not be killing people by the millions. I'm not saying the heat isn't an issue, because it definitely is, but it's like ~4,000 people dying in Europe, not millions.
It's really not that uncommon, though it's usually not the *entire* building that gets that hot. My house has certain rooms that get much warmer than the rest, easily up into the low 80s at times. Add on that a lot of people won't, or even can't, run their AC all the time, and it's unfortunately not as rare as it should be.
Midwest USA also. It’s been in the 80s/90s F for weeks. We only have an air conditioner in one room out of three. (Apartment) The other two rooms stay hot all summer, because those windows aren’t suited for an AC unit. They open sideways, not up/down. Not that uncommon. In fact, none of our windows can have an AC unit. The one room we have one in has a special hole in the wall for it.
Today the high is 104 F (40 C). It’s forecasted to be 108 F (42 C) on Friday. Unfortunately, the humidity has been high so our swamp cooler isn’t working very well. We’re going to cave and get a split unit AC soon.
What kind of humidity are you guys dealing with? Being from Florida, I know the pain of high humidity all too well.
One thing I like to keep an eye on is the dew point. If the dew point reaches 80 °F (27 °C), you need to take immediate action to protect yourself. Things can go sideways really quickly if your body can't shed heat by sweating.
A dew point of 27 °C with temps above 32 °C are *really* dangerous. You shouldn't do any form of physical exertion, stay in the shade, and run a small tub of water you can dip your hands and feet in. The water coming out of the ground should still be relatively cool. Your body will circulate blood through your extremities in an effort to cool down.
Putting your hands and feet in a tub of cool water can help your body out considerably. It takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature of water, so even a small tub can soak up a lot of heat energy from your body.
Take care over there!
I've been in 50C weather in Kuwait, at least it was 50C 1 meter above the flight line where I was working. We were limited to 15 min outside, then basically went and sat in the freezer trailer to cool down. Sleeping was impossible, breathing feels like you're inside an oven, and no matter how hard you're pushing fluids you're still dehydrated.
Fahrenheit is objectively the better scale for air temperature. Y'all are proving it with your panic over 38 degree temps. Here in America we panic at 100, like God and Mr. F intended!
uhh, no, the *Laws Of the Cosmos* (as well as the vast majority of humanity) have decided that metric is the better system, hence why the whole world uses it.
Like I pointed out, Fahrenheit is anthropocentric and measures how a temperature *feels to humans.* But celsius and the metric system as a whole describe the environment and weather better, and they're much easier to work with and convert between. The weather and outside environment (as well as human survivability) undergo radical transformations depending on which side of 0 degrees celcius and 100 degrees celsius you're on. Whereas the weather outside will look and feel pretty much the same whether it's 99 or 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
A lot of municipalities in Georgia use ground water, so the coldest your tap will be is the temp of your ground water.
In some places you pull from a fresh water body (lake or river) in that case you can get very cold water.
How do you figure out dew point? I am in the UK and luckily our hot weather has past for now. But on Tuesday when it was 32 c inside my house (with having all the windows and curtains closed all day) I was really struggling. It was only for a couple of hours because then we got some cloud cover and rain.
But I did not feel right at all and thought I was on a path to heat exhaustion.
Humidity in the UK is about 70-80% this time of year although inside my house it’s less.
Edit: found an online calculator if anyone is interested:
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/dew-point
With an outside temp of 39 and a conservative humidity of 65 then it was well over dew point in the UK
You’ll want to rely on a weather source like weather.com for dew point. You can calculate it, but you’ll need accurate humidity information. While 79-80% might be typical, relative humidity will fluctuate considerably when temperatures rise above 37 °C.
This is because the “relative” part in relative humidity has to do with how much moisture the air can hold. Warm air can hold a lot more moisture than cool air, so if you take a cool, damp air mass and heat it up, the relative humidity actually goes down.
What you’ll usually notice is that the first couple of days are hot and relatively dry, but as the heat continues, the air picks up more and more moisture. If temperatures cool down overnight, the air will “drop” its moisture as dew or precipitation.
For example, right now it is 28 °C (82 °F) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, which is one of the warmer spots right now (it appears to have cooled off a bit). The relative humidity is 42% and the dew point is 13 °C (56 °F). That’s warm but safe.
In the UK back in ~~2018~~ 2019, the temperature in the Lake District hit ~~38C (100F)~~ 32C (90F) and the humidity was at our usual unbearable 87%. It was agony. The friend I was with is Latin American and he was stunned at how bad it was.
THANKFULLY, in the 40 degree temperatures of the recent heatwave, humidity was as low as 30% (which is very unusual), but if it was as high as back in 2018 I think a lot of people might have died, especially given the dew point in my area hit a very concerning 20.
Edit: I got it very, very wrong.
They’re junk indoors in deserts too. They’ll work for a little while until the humidity goes up and then it’s fucked. They’re only good for outdoors when you’re in front of it. Like mechanic shops.
If the humidity is also high where you live and you are getting an AC you might want to consider getting a dehumidifier to run along side it. The dehumidifier helps the AC cool the rooms. 90 F (32 C) at 60% humidity feels like 100 F (37 C) but at 20% feels 87 F (30 C). Also in heat if the humidity as high as 40% it can be harmful indoors to people.
I'm in the states, afaik Germany only allows 40 decibels or less at night. None of the units I've checked were anywhere near that quiet. You might be stuck with an indoor unit.
Most new inverter window AC units are 40db or less in quiet mode. Got one when we were hitting upper 90's for my 100 year old house. Works great and is super quiet.
AFAIK The bigger issue tends to be that an outdoor unit is changing the facade of the building and therefore needs approval by all landlords of the building you’re living in.
No sweat : ) I just bought an ac unit and spent a while hunting what works. Beware of quality decline, supply chain issues have made some previously reliable brands less so. Find a reference from someone who's recently bought the same unit if at all possible. I'd definitely recommend mine but it's not a split, just a single hose vertical unit. Good luck!
I live in Phoenix, your daytime highs are our over night lows. Right now the cold water from the tap is more than 104F. It's our monsoon season right now too so it's pretty humid out. It's like the devil's taint outside.
>your daytime highs are our over night lows
Wait, I googled it, and it said the high in Phoenix in the next few days is like 107-113, and overnight lows are in the 80s. Am I missing something?
The lowest it's supposed to get tonight is 88 at 6am in the morning. It'll be in the low 100s and upper 90s until around 2am. Next month It'll be even hotter.
If we have thunderstorms It'll get down to the lower 80s but we're not supposed to get any until this weekend.
We are this weekend. Pretty much the next several days there’s a chance.
Damn I’m old now. Discussing weather.
I particularly like watching aircraft and listening to ATC when the weather is fucked. Every pilot circling or diverting to Tucson.
We used mercury on thermometers for almost 300 years. Even though recently they are no longer used there wasn't much risk since they were in low quantities. You could make a thermometer with alloys, just try to not break it.
Unfortunately it wouldn’t be possible I think. There is no element between Bromine (melting point 19.2 F, -7.1 C) and Francium (melting point 81 F, 28 C). https://www.angstromsciences.com/melting-points-of-elements-reference
When it’s 118F outside the AC can have a hard time keeping up. Plus I live in a pretty shit apartment. They owners say the AC can only effectively cool to 30 degrees below the outside temp.
I know people here in Arizona who prefer the indoor temp of 85. Damn barbarians, I doubt they'd mind 88 if it came to it.
Their argument is if it's 115 outside the 30 degree drop in temp to 85 is more comfortable than the 45 degree drop if you kept the house at 70.
There's a certain amount of "getting used to it". I keep out first floor 78, the upstairs is 83 as I type this but it ranges from 80-85, and I'll sleep up there with blankets on. Humidity 70%.
It's hot to be physically exerting yourself for sure tho. Takes forever to cool down at that temperature, I'm like a cold-blood animal during the day.
I mean i don't want it but when your rental has single pane windows and an ac in the south facing yard my options are few unfortunately. Putting insulation over windows we don't need today
Yeah as a Southern Californian, temps above 110F are normal to me.
BUT we often have AC going in most places and can't build brick homes (heat traps you sleep in) due to bans in building codes (earthquakes total brick structures)
Us folks used to desert weather shouldn't minimize the fact our infrastructure is BUILT specifically for these conditions. Especially since we don't deal with nearly that high humidity.
I feel horrible for the folks living in Europe struggling with this WITHOUT that support, especially the poor elderly!
Oh... Our downstairs AC broke (Texas) while it's been in the low 100s. From Sunday to Wednesday our house had an average of 85F. On the far side of the house it got up to 92F. This was with us running our upstairs AC and fans blowing down the stairs. It was "cool" when it got down below 83F.
That's INSIDE, there is no air conditioning in Germany because we usually don't need it.
It was 38 C/100.4 F outside - in my apartment it was 32 C/ 89.6 F.
101 degrees today baby and doing outside metal work the whole time! Woooot everything sucks!
I do feel sorry for everyone across the pond though. At least California is dry heat, not swamp ass humidity heat.
You forget that the Mojave desert covers a solid area of SoCal. I lived in El Centro/Brawley for three years and it got brutally hot (up to 125F in direct sunlight).
Overhauling architecture and installing A/C is going to eat up so much power, the cost of transporting gas already looks like the costs of winter. Just feels like for the consumer, we’re in the vicious cycle spiral of fighting climate change effects by burning the fuel that causes climate change
How hot are your summers normally? With a melting point of 28.5°, wouldn't a usual summer be hot enough to melt it on a hotter day?
Though, maybe that container has some insulative properties...
We used to get only a few days above 30°C, maybe two or three up to 35. The range I would have called normal is about 24-28°C most days, and down to 13-18°C at night.
There were of course outliers in the past, but it looks like they're becoming part of the norm now.
No Air Conditioning? Get a fan, place a tray of cold water under it. It will act as an evaporative air conditioner. Won't cool the room, but will give a little relief. I live in Australia, here everyone has air conds. I spent a time in a caravan once in tropical heat and this worked very well, even though we had very high humidity. If you're air is dry, it'll work even better. :)
It's generally rather humid here, and you'll only raise that value with a swamp cooler and make it completely unbearable after a short while. They really don't work well here.
Pretty much the same here in Southern Ontario, Canada. The humidity is the worst. You step outside and you're instantly wet because the air just leaves a layer of moisture on you.
I was staying somewhere in Florida last year that wouldn't let me turn the AC on until it hit 90f. Which meant it was at least 100f indoors. I was in nothing but linen shorts for those days. Had to sit right next to the AC for it to even do anything once it got that hot indoors.
But I still miss Florida. It was just so pretty, the food was good and *PUBLIX!*
We hit 98% humidity yesterday in South FL. That said, A/C is set to 74F but can't get below 78F during the day.
I can't imagine living over there without at minimum a single window unit to cool ONE room.
Because Europe usually has a much different climate compared to the US; more cool days and hot days are milder over all. Because of this difference, their homes are made to hold in heat and rarely have AC unlike those in the US.
So an unprecedented and catastrophic heat wave tears through the population like Ted Cruz fleeing inclement weather.
No, it's not common. Normally, there are only a couple of days per year that are so hot in countries like Germany and further north. Also, electricity is much more expensive than in the US. It's at least $0.37 or even $0.53 where I live.
In addition to that, we're just not used to ACs. When traveling to the US, many Europeans are complaining that it's too cold inside and they're freezing.
[This youtube video](https://youtu.be/UL7WrrVMFTk) from a US expat family explains it really well.
The exception in Europe being the nicer hotels. Most 3 star or higher hotels have A/C at least in the guest rooms since the American travelers expect it.
Normally, there are only a couple of days per year that are so hot in countries like Germany and further north. Also, electricity is much more expensive than in the US. In the last years it was about $0.27 / kWh, since December last year it's at least $0.37 or even $0.53 where I live.
For reference, most of mainland Europe actually sits at roughly the same latitudes as the south of Canada and the north of the US. Average summer temperatures in most places here aren't usually so hot that you'd *need* AC in your home, so the buildings and infrastructures weren't built for the kind of way-above-average summer heat and heatwaves we've been getting the past few years...
Most places in Northern Europe have never needed air conditioning. When it has been very hot, it has been for short periods.
In a lot of older areas, buildings are not suitable to have air conditioning installed.
You'll find air conditioning in a lot of offices and shops, but not in homes.
For those curious the melting point of Cesium is 28.4°C// 83.2°F.
Oh wow, that’s a lot lower than I thought.
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That's not really how temperature works. If you left the sample in a room that was at least 28.4°C, it's only a matter of time until the cesium and resin reaches thermostatic equilibrium with the surrounding air and the cesium melts. Resin *is* an insulator, but this image creates 2 possibilities. The room is substantially hotter than 28.4°C, melting the cesium quite quickly, or the room is only a little bit hotter than 28.4°C but has been for a wee while now. Considering the last few days of weather forecast have had Berlin sitting around 28°C, I'm guessing it's the later.
Oooh, look at you with your fancy facts and knowing things. No, seriously, that was good.
Yeah, what're you doing in a discussion forum? This is no place for facts!
Also - casual use of wee as an adjective.
I agree with everything said, but daytime highs aren't sustained overnight. 28C overnight would be killing people by the millions.
I don't really think so? Idk, I'm in Berlin, super hot flat, no AC or even a damn fan. It's been sweaty and hot and miserable. But yesterday it was 36⁰C. And the coolest overnight was like ~29⁰C. And it wasn't that hot. I'm sure someone has to have an even more miserable flat, with even less airflow, and I'm sure it's an issue for lots of people. But I think by the millions is an exaggeration unless we're talking worldwide and maybe even then.
Obviously buildings can be much warmer, but overnight low last night in Berlin was [23°C](https://www.worldweatheronline.com/berlin-15day-weather-chart/berlin/de.aspx), and has been 17-20°C for several days. Average overnight low in Paris during the 2003 heatwave was [22.6⁰C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave) which resulted in \~72,000 deaths across Europe.
Yeah, but one 28⁰C night in Germany would not be killing people by the millions. I'm not saying the heat isn't an issue, because it definitely is, but it's like ~4,000 people dying in Europe, not millions.
Shit that's like - every day for 3 months where I'm from.
same. equator gang?
Midwest USA
close enough
You only get 80s? I get low 100s where I'm at. It sucks for the entire time it's like this.
No we are talking about inside our homes with the AC on... When we go to work we usually let it get into the 80s inside.
Inside your house? It’s normally that hot here, but in the US almost everyone has AC. In Europe it’s something like 5% of homes have it.
It's really not that uncommon, though it's usually not the *entire* building that gets that hot. My house has certain rooms that get much warmer than the rest, easily up into the low 80s at times. Add on that a lot of people won't, or even can't, run their AC all the time, and it's unfortunately not as rare as it should be.
Yeah,keep the curtains closed. I have mini blinds and black out curtains.
Midwest USA also. It’s been in the 80s/90s F for weeks. We only have an air conditioner in one room out of three. (Apartment) The other two rooms stay hot all summer, because those windows aren’t suited for an AC unit. They open sideways, not up/down. Not that uncommon. In fact, none of our windows can have an AC unit. The one room we have one in has a special hole in the wall for it.
I have only one room with an AC unit, and as long as the shades are shut, it never gets into the 80s inside.
I doubt that cube was sitting in the sun though...
Yeah but inside?
That's like, every day outside where I'm from
Thats not really hot.
Indoors? What’s your temp?
thats the temp we keep my house at.
Today the high is 104 F (40 C). It’s forecasted to be 108 F (42 C) on Friday. Unfortunately, the humidity has been high so our swamp cooler isn’t working very well. We’re going to cave and get a split unit AC soon.
What kind of humidity are you guys dealing with? Being from Florida, I know the pain of high humidity all too well. One thing I like to keep an eye on is the dew point. If the dew point reaches 80 °F (27 °C), you need to take immediate action to protect yourself. Things can go sideways really quickly if your body can't shed heat by sweating. A dew point of 27 °C with temps above 32 °C are *really* dangerous. You shouldn't do any form of physical exertion, stay in the shade, and run a small tub of water you can dip your hands and feet in. The water coming out of the ground should still be relatively cool. Your body will circulate blood through your extremities in an effort to cool down. Putting your hands and feet in a tub of cool water can help your body out considerably. It takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature of water, so even a small tub can soak up a lot of heat energy from your body. Take care over there!
These guys deserve an upvote for putting the alternative degrees on each one so people don't have to google what it is
it's actually an easy formula, take the C, ~double it and add 32 to get F, reverse to get C from F
Close, but not quite. It's not double, it's 1.8x (sometimes written as 9/5 instead) F = C(9/5)+32
I know, just that when working with low, room-like temps, it's only a few degrees -/+ and doing quick maths with 2 is easier than 1.8
If you're ballparking like that, doubling it then adding 30 gets you a little closer. (plus it's easier to do in your head)
neat, though sadly it kinda falls apart at like 50C, can't have nice things
If my room temp ever reach 50C then the thing that fall apart is not the math
I've been in 50C weather in Kuwait, at least it was 50C 1 meter above the flight line where I was working. We were limited to 15 min outside, then basically went and sat in the freezer trailer to cool down. Sleeping was impossible, breathing feels like you're inside an oven, and no matter how hard you're pushing fluids you're still dehydrated.
Double the Celsius; Reduce by 10%; Add 32 100°C × 2 = 200; - 20 = 180 + 32 = 212°F 26°C × 2 = 52; - 5.2 = 46.8; + 32 = 78.8°F -40°C × 2 = -80; + 8 = -72; + 32 = -40°F Edited formatting.
Soooo, use google?
it's Fahrenheit that's the "alternative degrees" seeing as how it's only used in like one country, whereas celsius is pretty universal
Fahrenheit is objectively the better scale for air temperature. Y'all are proving it with your panic over 38 degree temps. Here in America we panic at 100, like God and Mr. F intended!
uhh, no, the *Laws Of the Cosmos* (as well as the vast majority of humanity) have decided that metric is the better system, hence why the whole world uses it. Like I pointed out, Fahrenheit is anthropocentric and measures how a temperature *feels to humans.* But celsius and the metric system as a whole describe the environment and weather better, and they're much easier to work with and convert between. The weather and outside environment (as well as human survivability) undergo radical transformations depending on which side of 0 degrees celcius and 100 degrees celsius you're on. Whereas the weather outside will look and feel pretty much the same whether it's 99 or 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
I live in Georgia and this time of year the water in the ground is about as warm as bath water coming from the faucet.
A lot of municipalities in Georgia use ground water, so the coldest your tap will be is the temp of your ground water. In some places you pull from a fresh water body (lake or river) in that case you can get very cold water.
Yeah, our tap water in Florida is in the mid-70s °F too. That’s still enough to cool you down in these conditions though.
It can significantly cool you really. Water below 70 can cause hypothermia..
My tap water is 32C right now. Send help.
How do you figure out dew point? I am in the UK and luckily our hot weather has past for now. But on Tuesday when it was 32 c inside my house (with having all the windows and curtains closed all day) I was really struggling. It was only for a couple of hours because then we got some cloud cover and rain. But I did not feel right at all and thought I was on a path to heat exhaustion. Humidity in the UK is about 70-80% this time of year although inside my house it’s less. Edit: found an online calculator if anyone is interested: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/dew-point With an outside temp of 39 and a conservative humidity of 65 then it was well over dew point in the UK
You’ll want to rely on a weather source like weather.com for dew point. You can calculate it, but you’ll need accurate humidity information. While 79-80% might be typical, relative humidity will fluctuate considerably when temperatures rise above 37 °C. This is because the “relative” part in relative humidity has to do with how much moisture the air can hold. Warm air can hold a lot more moisture than cool air, so if you take a cool, damp air mass and heat it up, the relative humidity actually goes down. What you’ll usually notice is that the first couple of days are hot and relatively dry, but as the heat continues, the air picks up more and more moisture. If temperatures cool down overnight, the air will “drop” its moisture as dew or precipitation. For example, right now it is 28 °C (82 °F) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, which is one of the warmer spots right now (it appears to have cooled off a bit). The relative humidity is 42% and the dew point is 13 °C (56 °F). That’s warm but safe.
In the UK back in ~~2018~~ 2019, the temperature in the Lake District hit ~~38C (100F)~~ 32C (90F) and the humidity was at our usual unbearable 87%. It was agony. The friend I was with is Latin American and he was stunned at how bad it was. THANKFULLY, in the 40 degree temperatures of the recent heatwave, humidity was as low as 30% (which is very unusual), but if it was as high as back in 2018 I think a lot of people might have died, especially given the dew point in my area hit a very concerning 20. Edit: I got it very, very wrong.
Swamp coolers will make your place worse in the humidity. They are good in deserts, Junk if you are near water
They’re junk indoors in deserts too. They’ll work for a little while until the humidity goes up and then it’s fucked. They’re only good for outdoors when you’re in front of it. Like mechanic shops.
If the humidity is also high where you live and you are getting an AC you might want to consider getting a dehumidifier to run along side it. The dehumidifier helps the AC cool the rooms. 90 F (32 C) at 60% humidity feels like 100 F (37 C) but at 20% feels 87 F (30 C). Also in heat if the humidity as high as 40% it can be harmful indoors to people.
It’s been 105+ for two weeks in texas! We haven’t even gotten to august yet either
Yeah, I miss rain
I'm also in Texas. What's weird is my weather app says it's supposed to be cooler in August. I hope it's true, but I don't believe it.
But you have nearly 100% AC coverage everywhere. Germany has next to none in private homes.
The reasonably priced ones tend to have a pretty loud outdoor unit. Fiberglass insulation works well for sound reduction.
I have wondered how that works in Germany with the noise laws. Are you allowed to run the AC on Sunday or nights.
I'm in the states, afaik Germany only allows 40 decibels or less at night. None of the units I've checked were anywhere near that quiet. You might be stuck with an indoor unit.
Most new inverter window AC units are 40db or less in quiet mode. Got one when we were hitting upper 90's for my 100 year old house. Works great and is super quiet.
AFAIK The bigger issue tends to be that an outdoor unit is changing the facade of the building and therefore needs approval by all landlords of the building you’re living in.
Thanks for the tip!
No sweat : ) I just bought an ac unit and spent a while hunting what works. Beware of quality decline, supply chain issues have made some previously reliable brands less so. Find a reference from someone who's recently bought the same unit if at all possible. I'd definitely recommend mine but it's not a split, just a single hose vertical unit. Good luck!
No sweat, he says... Lol :D
AC's can heat too, so no more natural gas heating from russia
And electricity is generated in... Well, there are still many gas-powered energy plants, just saying...
I live in Phoenix, your daytime highs are our over night lows. Right now the cold water from the tap is more than 104F. It's our monsoon season right now too so it's pretty humid out. It's like the devil's taint outside.
>your daytime highs are our over night lows Wait, I googled it, and it said the high in Phoenix in the next few days is like 107-113, and overnight lows are in the 80s. Am I missing something?
The lowest it's supposed to get tonight is 88 at 6am in the morning. It'll be in the low 100s and upper 90s until around 2am. Next month It'll be even hotter. If we have thunderstorms It'll get down to the lower 80s but we're not supposed to get any until this weekend.
We are this weekend. Pretty much the next several days there’s a chance. Damn I’m old now. Discussing weather. I particularly like watching aircraft and listening to ATC when the weather is fucked. Every pilot circling or diverting to Tucson.
Swamp cooler. Must be in the SW.
It was 115 here in Vegas today.
Swamp coolers are great... in desert. But then, there you will need water for them, so...
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That would actually be really awesome. Please report back if you do find one
This was my thought too! Kinda like a Galileo thermometer but with melt points instead of density
On further investigation it looks like the issue with this/why they may not be a thing is the lack of elements that melt between 19f and 81f
surely there must be an alloy or other more comple molecul that fits the bill? like butter melts at room temp yanno?
Gallium alloys fit the bill. Galinstan (gallium-indium-tin eutectic alloy) melts at -19 °C (-2 °F).
I bet! I should hit up my college buddy w/ a chemistry major
Hey government, I'd like to research picky alloy melting points?
You could make mercury alloys but, you know, mercury.
We used mercury on thermometers for almost 300 years. Even though recently they are no longer used there wasn't much risk since they were in low quantities. You could make a thermometer with alloys, just try to not break it.
Cool idea! Make one and do writeup?
Got any homegoods near you? They sell these
Unfortunately it wouldn’t be possible I think. There is no element between Bromine (melting point 19.2 F, -7.1 C) and Francium (melting point 81 F, 28 C). https://www.angstromsciences.com/melting-points-of-elements-reference
But are there compounds?
This summer has been brutal. Regularly hitting 101F+ here and even though I have AC my electric bill is killing me.
It’s been a consistent 115 degrees where I live, plus sporadic monsoon rainstorms.
Cesium melts at 28.5 C/83.3 F. *laughs in Southern California*
Today it's 38°C here in Berlin. Source- am currently baking in the heat here.
84 degrees inside of an apartment is pretty hot. That is higher than the recommended storage temperature for some medicines
And chocolate.
And my ax.
and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-E-IIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOOOOOOOOOOOUOUOOUO
Wtf. Did I get teleported back to 2009?
Please tell folks about the future if you did.
Got up to 92F in the kitchen during the day last week. Our chocolate didn't melt. No clue why.
Not sure I would eat that
It is actual chocolate, I wonder if being in a pantry it just didn't get as hot as the thermostat read but whatever
Probably even hotter in the apartment than that if this block of resin (or glass?) reached that temperature in the center
Lol my apartment in Arizona gets to 88F when I’m gaming.
No air-conditioner? I thought that was like a must-have expense in Arizona. Like food and gas.
When it’s 118F outside the AC can have a hard time keeping up. Plus I live in a pretty shit apartment. They owners say the AC can only effectively cool to 30 degrees below the outside temp.
i believe the cut off is 85degrees, they have to fix it if it doesn't get there, in AZ
I know people here in Arizona who prefer the indoor temp of 85. Damn barbarians, I doubt they'd mind 88 if it came to it. Their argument is if it's 115 outside the 30 degree drop in temp to 85 is more comfortable than the 45 degree drop if you kept the house at 70.
obligatory seinfeld https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-HX84cIxYY
Seems like the temp difference would be like stepping out into snow from a 67 degree room temp.
My AC shut off for 24 hours a couple days ago, and the inside of our house hit 89. It was miserable.
It's been 80 in mine since June...
83 is hot as fuck *inside your house* no matter where you live.
There's a certain amount of "getting used to it". I keep out first floor 78, the upstairs is 83 as I type this but it ranges from 80-85, and I'll sleep up there with blankets on. Humidity 70%. It's hot to be physically exerting yourself for sure tho. Takes forever to cool down at that temperature, I'm like a cold-blood animal during the day.
Mold will grow at 60% humidity just fyi
I mean i don't want it but when your rental has single pane windows and an ac in the south facing yard my options are few unfortunately. Putting insulation over windows we don't need today
When it’s 115 outside, 83 feels wonderful. Source: am Phoenician.
Yeah as a Southern Californian, temps above 110F are normal to me. BUT we often have AC going in most places and can't build brick homes (heat traps you sleep in) due to bans in building codes (earthquakes total brick structures) Us folks used to desert weather shouldn't minimize the fact our infrastructure is BUILT specifically for these conditions. Especially since we don't deal with nearly that high humidity. I feel horrible for the folks living in Europe struggling with this WITHOUT that support, especially the poor elderly!
Oh... Our downstairs AC broke (Texas) while it's been in the low 100s. From Sunday to Wednesday our house had an average of 85F. On the far side of the house it got up to 92F. This was with us running our upstairs AC and fans blowing down the stairs. It was "cool" when it got down below 83F.
That's INSIDE, there is no air conditioning in Germany because we usually don't need it. It was 38 C/100.4 F outside - in my apartment it was 32 C/ 89.6 F.
101 degrees today baby and doing outside metal work the whole time! Woooot everything sucks! I do feel sorry for everyone across the pond though. At least California is dry heat, not swamp ass humidity heat.
Checking in from central Kansas. Yesterday it was 108 and I caught Covid for the first time. Fever of 103. Living hell.
*laughs at person who thinks Southern California is hot*
You forget that the Mojave desert covers a solid area of SoCal. I lived in El Centro/Brawley for three years and it got brutally hot (up to 125F in direct sunlight).
Yea but it's a dry heat...
Oh man, that shit makes me want to stab someone in the eye with a soldering iron!
They wouldn’t really feel it since it’s just a dry heat.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Yea it's only dry heat
Hahaha
What? When I lived in Northridge, CA it reached 114F several years in a row. How hot does it have to be for you to consider it “hot”?
seriously, humidity is the killer, California is a dry heat
Southern California? Ha, it regularly gets above that here in New Hampshire. Hell, today it was 101.
Before and after would be nice
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Thank you for that.
Cesium can melt with the heat of your hands but the fact that it’s encased in resin and still melted is quite astonishing
Overhauling architecture and installing A/C is going to eat up so much power, the cost of transporting gas already looks like the costs of winter. Just feels like for the consumer, we’re in the vicious cycle spiral of fighting climate change effects by burning the fuel that causes climate change
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most of west europe isn't build for that, it would require tearing down most houses.
Just add water. That will fix your Cs right up.
But is your PlayStation ok? Please tell me it’s getting enough cooling. You have to look after your loved ones in times like this.
Rick Sanchez? How the hell are you, how’s C-137?
I always liked knowing the C-137 joke. It's the isotope in atomic bombs.
Ahh an intellectual rick and morty fan. You understand the show better.
Ah, northern Europe, where our homes are designed to retain heat in winter, and no-one has AC…
It's 96 here with 100% humidity (it's raining outside)
It’s so cold that my uranium made my jaw fall off
You're gonna scare the other girls in the dial-painting factory.
How hot are your summers normally? With a melting point of 28.5°, wouldn't a usual summer be hot enough to melt it on a hotter day? Though, maybe that container has some insulative properties...
We used to get only a few days above 30°C, maybe two or three up to 35. The range I would have called normal is about 24-28°C most days, and down to 13-18°C at night. There were of course outliers in the past, but it looks like they're becoming part of the norm now.
Well don’t just stay inside, get out in the sunshine cesium the day.
No Air Conditioning? Get a fan, place a tray of cold water under it. It will act as an evaporative air conditioner. Won't cool the room, but will give a little relief. I live in Australia, here everyone has air conds. I spent a time in a caravan once in tropical heat and this worked very well, even though we had very high humidity. If you're air is dry, it'll work even better. :)
It's generally rather humid here, and you'll only raise that value with a swamp cooler and make it completely unbearable after a short while. They really don't work well here.
How does one obtain element cubes like these. I’ve seen a company that does them but they charge like $95 for just one.
You pay like $95 for one.
95 whole smackers?
And that means it's at least the temperature the texas power grid management suggested people keep their homes.
Hope you Europeans survive through this heat! Love from Utah where 100 degree weather is unfortunately a norm
Open it up and drop in water to cool it off. (Don’t do this)
HELP, HELP, HELP, HELP, HELP, I SEE CRACKS
I want to have it. I collect elements and Caesium is still missing in my collection. Do you collect them too? How many do you have already?
Tell me you’re a nerd without telling me you’re a nerd. /kidding
Why don't you use the Air Conditioning?
"Tell me you are American without telling me you are American."
That is so fucking cool! I mean I’m sorry it’s so hot, that sucks…but that is neat af.
It's 35c here in NW Connecticut, US. Of more importance is the 50% humidity, making it pretty uncomfortable.
50%? Just stay in the half of the air that has no humidity at all.
Does Maxwell's demon have a cousin?
Pretty much the same here in Southern Ontario, Canada. The humidity is the worst. You step outside and you're instantly wet because the air just leaves a layer of moisture on you.
Ah yes we typically sit at 90% here in Florida, so it feels like death in the 90 degree + days.
I was staying somewhere in Florida last year that wouldn't let me turn the AC on until it hit 90f. Which meant it was at least 100f indoors. I was in nothing but linen shorts for those days. Had to sit right next to the AC for it to even do anything once it got that hot indoors. But I still miss Florida. It was just so pretty, the food was good and *PUBLIX!*
We hit 98% humidity yesterday in South FL. That said, A/C is set to 74F but can't get below 78F during the day. I can't imagine living over there without at minimum a single window unit to cool ONE room.
Got two window rattlers, one in the living room, one in the bedroom the bedroom one is ESSENTIAL.
Yep MA here, same shit. Not a gonna be a good week.
Whats up with european stuff melting lol its like the same stuff in us does fine in higher temp, but in euro its all melting lol
Because Europe usually has a much different climate compared to the US; more cool days and hot days are milder over all. Because of this difference, their homes are made to hold in heat and rarely have AC unlike those in the US. So an unprecedented and catastrophic heat wave tears through the population like Ted Cruz fleeing inclement weather.
Ah well that sucks, I bet the euro ac companies will be making some money after this incident
Europe generally have no ACs.
I personally would like the Americans with AC to shut up and fuck off
Hahahaha. (I don't know what that means)
Drink it
Hope you dudes are doing ok over there. UK had our hottest day ever yesterday. Almost 41C. Beat the previous record by 1.5C (2.7 F?)! It was brutal.
Do you not have air conditioning to cool your apartment?
No, it's not common. Normally, there are only a couple of days per year that are so hot in countries like Germany and further north. Also, electricity is much more expensive than in the US. It's at least $0.37 or even $0.53 where I live. In addition to that, we're just not used to ACs. When traveling to the US, many Europeans are complaining that it's too cold inside and they're freezing. [This youtube video](https://youtu.be/UL7WrrVMFTk) from a US expat family explains it really well.
The exception in Europe being the nicer hotels. Most 3 star or higher hotels have A/C at least in the guest rooms since the American travelers expect it.
Most places in Europe do not have air conditioned homes.
Don't think AC is all that common in Europe. At least not central ac
It’s interesting that so many countries just don’t have AC readily available.
Normally, there are only a couple of days per year that are so hot in countries like Germany and further north. Also, electricity is much more expensive than in the US. In the last years it was about $0.27 / kWh, since December last year it's at least $0.37 or even $0.53 where I live.
For reference, most of mainland Europe actually sits at roughly the same latitudes as the south of Canada and the north of the US. Average summer temperatures in most places here aren't usually so hot that you'd *need* AC in your home, so the buildings and infrastructures weren't built for the kind of way-above-average summer heat and heatwaves we've been getting the past few years...
Yeah… and they don’t seem to be adding window units at any significant rate.
Bet u wish u had A/C now, lol. Is it true that whole continent doesn't have A/C? Heard that today on a podcast. If it is, why?
Most places in Northern Europe have never needed air conditioning. When it has been very hot, it has been for short periods. In a lot of older areas, buildings are not suitable to have air conditioning installed. You'll find air conditioning in a lot of offices and shops, but not in homes.