In 2003 I was in the UK just as Europe was going through the hottest Summer in Europe since 1540, then it was literally enjoy a gas furnace, not only did it get about as hot as it can in the hotter parts of the US, however because much of Europe isn’t used to that kind of heat while in summer, they usually don’t have air-conditioning, or any Heating plus Air Conditioning systems to speak about… They usually just had radiators for Winter time heating.
- I can genuinely say no modern home or building in The UK seemed to have cooling systems… So there was nowhere to go for any relief, but meanwhile the British people, who were not at all used to such heat, were dying.
Literally! All over the news in The UK were stories of older people dying in their houses from the heat: literally, lack of a/c. Meanwhile, the same thing was happening all over Europe that summer. The UK news would also have stories about France, Germany plus the Netherlands. They also were countries that had never gotten hot enough to ever need air-conditioning before, plus the elderly were dying in record numbers in these plus other countries too.I can’t imagine the modern supplier that Heating plus Air Conditioning businesses, Heating plus Air Conditioning specialists, air-conditioner services, plus so on in that part of the world gained after that summer. Apparently there have been a few more similar heat-waves since, although none as drastic as 2003. It seems difficult to believe several of those countries had never needed widespread cooling systems before.