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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Simple way to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit in your head:

  1. Take the Celsius value and double it

40 * 2 = 80

  1. Subtract 10%

80 - 8 = 72

  1. Add 32

72 + 32 = 104

40 C = 104 F

This is still hot but a far cry from 118F

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

That was a typo by OP. The temp in Italy is 48C/118F

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I guess the op added it to the title, but on the article the conversion is from 48°C to 118F

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the formula! Never knew how to do this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here in Canada we just double it and add 30, because it's close enough generally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, 104 a spring day in bakersfield California. But we have AC and stuff. if they’re not used to those temps they might not be prepared for it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We usually do not have AC here (for example in Germany). Not even in hospitals, schools, elderly care, etc. The solution of our government, after many people already died because of heat, is to make shelter rooms somewhere in the city where you can go when it's getting too hot. That's how "prepared" we are.

Also, the majority of people here do not own a home but instead are dependable on their landlord to do something against the heat. Which is obviously not happening. So instead those people who have the money for it start buying free standing AC units. Which need a pipe to hang out of the window and are highly inefficient.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that’s what I figured. I’d heard that a lot of europe lacks warm weather infrastructure and most homes lack the basic air conditioning that is ubiquitous here in the US. I don’t see a lot of fixes for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The solution is the for the rich landowners to spend their fucking money and retrofit building with central air.

The solution is as simple as always: the rich must spend money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure if you never plan to leave the house this is fine. The energy for all those ac have to come from somewhere so let's burn some more CO2, I'm sure that won't make it worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree but they will just shift the costs onto the renters. That's how we do gentrification

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use an evaporative cooler! All you do is chuck ice in it. Cheaper to run, easier to recycle and arguably more effective for small home/apartment living.

Source: Australia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thank you! I've never heard of these before. Households here usually do not have ice, but I see it also works with cold packs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cold packs are FAR superior, I just can’t fit enough in my freezer while still having room to make ice cubes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I actually appreciate the simple guide on how to convert celsius to freedom units. I guess to convert F to C, we'd do the opposite (subtract 32, add 10%, then halve.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's my normal summer to cool summer.