• Calavera@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Yep, but a house doesn’t move from south to north to west, it’s stationary so if a house is on the south, the temperatures in the north of the country are irrelevant

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      What? I don’t think you understood what I said. There are millions of homes in the United States that are subject to extreme temperature changes, the North East and North Midwest commonly go from -20C in the winter to 40C in the summer. The Great Lakes region like Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Eire, and so on can easily go to -40C because of the water chill.

      Plus the Central US is subject to the “desert” effect, where the daytime ground temperature is extremely high due to it being wide open plains, but then then nighttime temperature is extremely low because the ground does not hold the heat.

      The Pacific Northwest can go from extremely hot summers to extremely cold and snowy winters. The climate of the US is extremely varied.

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        Ok, so I checked the 3 cities you mentioned on weatherspark.com and none of them comes close to that variation, Chicago for example typically goes from -6°C to 28°C, which is not extraordinary at all.

        So as I said before there are probably not many places with so big variations. You maybe find some place, but as your own example showed, it’s not the rule

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          Granted that’s the true air temperature, it doesn’t take into account wind chill, water chill, humidity, or the city heat island effect.

          Also that’s the average typical temperature per month and averages are a bit poor at showing the typical daily temperatures and the fluctuations throughout even the day.

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            9 months ago

            I mean, the facts doesn’t hold much true

            This also made me think of all concrete houses built in URSS on places that do get a high variation(Specially on the Stan countries). And we still can see today, houses built more than 70 years ago even with very few upkeeping

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              Not at all, having lived in such housing I can tell you for a fact they require very diligent maintenance. Especially in areas that have high temperature variation such as Moscow, Minsk, or St Petersburg.

              Look even at Ukraine or poorer parts of the Baltic and Belarus. Or even Russia back in the 90’s, those buildings crumbled quickly and looked like bombed out wrecks in just a few years.

              Concrete is a good building material, but you can’t just leave it without maintenance, especially for buildings.

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              I bet they have less maintenance than houses in the west, specially after the fall of USSR