# 100F in London! 79F in Houston!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579 "2003-08-12T04:09:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/21 "2003-08-13T15:08:24Z")
Why don’t you have air conditioning? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/22 "2003-08-13T15:21:15Z")
BECAUSE IT IS NEVER EVER EVER EVER THIS HOT!!! Honestly; the temperatures this week have been the highest since records began (and they began a long time ago) In a normal year we would only use AC on a few days. Central heating is much more necessary. (we also pay more for electricity than you do) ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/23 "2003-08-13T15:24:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackeyes \* > \*\*Why don’t you have air conditioning? 😕 \*\* Because real men don’t need it 😉 Nah - its what **Owl** said. It would be a waste of time/power since this weather is HIGHLY unusual. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/24 "2003-08-13T15:25:48Z")
Strange, where are all the people who were in the other thread laughing at us because the temperature wen’t over 110F? _cough_Astro_cough_ ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/25 "2003-08-13T15:36:22Z")
I’m in California & its about 59 right now. I have a question about england. It’s usually very cold there so they make their houses to keep heat & stay warm, right? So, if its hot there do the houses keep that heat? One lady I know there said her one bedroom house has 9 heaters. ---
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/26 "2003-08-13T15:39:33Z")
Pardon me, my ignorance is showing. Or at least, it was going to, until I opened this thread. I honestly didn’t understand why Europe was being so whiny about the heat…I mean, really, if it’s so hot, then just stay inside! With your nice, cool, central AC coming out of the multiple vents in every room! I mean, come on! DUH! Oh…umm…nevermind. Sorry, you’ll really have to pardon the Southern US dopers who can’t visualize a world without central AC. I can relate a little; there has been a summer or two where my AC kicked the bucket for a few days. My apologies ☹ I suppose now is a bad time to mention that it’s a lovely 73 degrees F here? And that I was cold this morning walking to work in capris and sandals? I thought so. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/27 "2003-08-13T16:08:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*I’m in California & its about 59 right now. > > I have a question about england. It’s usually very cold there so they make their houses to keep heat & stay warm, right? So, if its hot there do the houses keep that heat? > > One lady I know there said her one bedroom house has 9 heaters. \*\* Well it rarely gets _that_ cold, but yes - our houses are designed to heat and retain heat. Which is a curse in temperatures like this. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/28 "2003-08-13T16:13:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackeyes \* > \*\*Why don’t you have air conditioning? 😕 \*\* [Please read this](http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1016664,00.html), and then look at an atlas or something. ---
**Author:** ![Planet\_of\_the\_Shapes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Planet\_of\_the\_Shapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Planet_of_the_Shapes)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/29 "2003-08-13T16:22:39Z")
Its not too bad today i think. My office hasn’t got air con, but i haven’t really sweated much if at all today. Unfortunately i’m going home in a few minutes and my flat, and particularly my bedroom seems to extremely good at retaining heat. The only way i’ve found to try and survive at home is to open the windows as much as possible, and go sit right right next to them desperately hoping for the smallest waft of a breeze. Either that or go down my local pub which has a beer garden! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/30 "2003-08-13T16:26:35Z")
It’s 73 in Houston this morning. It’s usually blistering hot here this time of year. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/31 "2003-08-13T16:27:02Z")
Be carfeful with the AC in your car, especially if you drive a [Jaguar](http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/content_objectid=13286737_method=full_siteid=50061_headline=-I-had-frostbite-when-the-UK-reached-91F-name_page.html). ---
**Author:** ![Fortis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8797f3/32.png) [@Fortis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fortis)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579/32 "2003-08-13T16:50:20Z")
Heh. The weather map shows the high for Houston as 86 today. It shows the high for London as 90. Yikes. We haven’t had much of a genuine mid-to-high 90s Houston summer this year. The closest it got to a real Houston summer was last week, when the temperatures cracked 100 (for the first time all summer). The weather is very pleasant. I was in London in June, and the temperatures were around 77. I must say that the hotel did not have air conditioning. We had to keep the windows and door open during the day for the temperature to grow tolerable. And the Underground wasn’t so cool to ride on, either. (Other than that, London was very nice.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100f-in-london-79f-in-houston/194579.md?page=1)