Hold on to your butts, comrades. We’re about to get a preview of 2050. I just checked the live data, and the area off the coast of South America that is the index water for ENSO is 9° F above average in places. This is going to be a wild year.

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    19 hours ago

    prices do typically drop in colder months, at least in my area (midwest usa). I would suggest being open to traditional window units as well as they’re typically cheaper than the kind you’re describing (and equally effective iirc). You do need to drill a couple holes into the window frame but the holes won’t even be visible when the windows closed.

    Idk what landlord/rental rules are like where you live but personally I’d tell a landlord to go fuck themselves if two holes at the bottom of a window was a major issue.

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      18 hours ago

      traditional window units

      I am aware these exist thanks to reading US comments on the web, but I have never ever seen one in the EU. Then again I very very rarely see windows that open like these here either.

      If you can’t drill / install an actual unit (with external condenser) we either have those, which are extremely inefficient energy-wise, don’t work that well, and require you to have a large tube connected to the outside (so window opened with an isolation kit), or stuff like these where it’s an actual AC unit with an external block - the condenser - but transportable, and you still need a cable to the outside but a much smaller one (along with an isolation kit).