Is 30C, 32C, 34C, or 36C The Official 'Hot' Point of Germany?

 Over the past year, I've heard this conversation via public TV a good bit in Germany...probably more than usual.

For the record: 30C is 86F, 32C is 89.6F, 34C is 93.2F, and 36C is 96.8F. (for Americans).

This is my prospective, as an American who grew up in the south, and actually spent four years living in Arizona.

First, you don't know what 'hot' is until you've been in a 47C (117F) situation.

Second, a great deal of this discussion is based upon the fact that fronts come and go.  When you have a heat front that 'lounges' around for five days (delivering 34C daily)....your miserable index 'rages'.  If you had a front which tipped at 34C for one hour in the late afternoon....for just two days....it's just not that big of a deal.

Third, concrete buildings absorb heat and hold it....for days.  So you could live in an apartment building where the temperature does hit 35C for six days straight, and the building still holds the heat for another three days before it starts drifting down.

Fourth, if you take the strategy of closing your windows at 10AM, and putting the roladen down and blocking the sun from your bigger windows on the house (use of umbrellas/tarp).....the full effect of 34C is diminished.  Throw up three or four fans around the house to circulate air, and the temp inside of the place isn't that bad.  

Fifth, is heat one single temperature across Germany?  No....it's never been that way.  You could sit there in mid-July and find some temperature along the north coast to be a max of 23C, while in Stuttgart around 32C, and over in Dresden to be 37C.  

Sixth, some Germans will openly say that they 'approve' of 36C because it's better for their joints.  These are the people who spend four hours a day under an umbrella on the beach, or on their balcony.  They might even complain when the temp drops to 30C the next day.  

Seventh, I went on a vacation twenty-five years ago to the Canary Islands....where the day temperature was a minimum of 34C every single day of the two-week period.  Upon returning to the Frankfurt Airport and a temp of 22C, I felt absolutely chilled to the bone.  

So I don't really buy into this conversation or implications.  Everyone has their own 'index' and 'miserable feeling'.  Personally, I'd like for the temperature to never rise above 24C.