[mtg]

I have to wonder why it is that every time there is a cold spell or a hot spell in Europe, hundreds of people die. When we have hot or cold spells in the U.S., there may a couple deaths here or there, but nothing like the death tolls in Europe. Makes me think there is something besides just the temperature causing so many deaths.

[PapaBear3625]

I have to wonder why it is that every time there is a cold spell or a hot spell in Europe, hundreds of people die. When we have hot or cold spells in the U.S., there may a couple deaths here or there, but nothing like the death tolls in Europe.

A few hundred deaths is not a big deal in a place with several hundred million people. It might just be that the reason we don't hear anything similar here is that we don't have nationwide reporting. A few homeless dead of cold in NYC, a few more in Detroit, I could see it adding up to a couple hundred nationwide.

[Hoffer Rand]

A lot of houses in Europe do not have central air and heat, because the climate is usually more moderate and doesn’t vary so drastically in termperature. That makes it more difficult to control internal temps during periods when the external temps do spike drastically in either direction.