cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49615248

Alt: bluesky screenshot. The text of the post reads: "Someone please pay me to cover nothing but rural festivals I'm having THE TIME OF MY LIFE at the Elkhorn Rib Festival".

The post includes a photo of a woman with glasses wearing a pink t-shirt that says "Anal Bead Tug o' War Champion". She is standing outdoors under a canopy or tent, tilting her head back and drinking out of a large glass bottle of Evan Williams. In the background, other festival attendees and camping equipment are partially visible.

The 5,120 heat-related deaths in Germany in 2026 through June 28, published by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), is therefore an estimate. But that does not mean the figure is pulled out of thin air. "It is based on a statistical correlation," says Alexandra Schneider, a meteorologist, epidemiologist and deputy director of the Institute of Epidemiology at Helmholtz Munich.

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There are three large wildfires in the interior that may be contributing, but I'm not too sure why it's suddenly so bad for the week. Usually you'd see that the wind is blowing all the smoke south and west towards us, but I don't see anything like that on the map. Probably just the good ol' heat dome. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Windy doesn't have a graph but most other services with an air quality index either don't have a forecast or don't use the World Health Organizations guidelines, apparently relying on national guidelines (Canada doesn't seem to weigh pm2.5 as heavily in their forecasts). Check out Breezy Weather and compare with government forecasts to see what I'm talking about.

Try to reduce outdoor activities, and wear a K/N95 or P100 mask if you have to go outside and look into purchasing an active air filter for you home if you are able. So far, Tuesday night will be the worst, getting up to 156 by 11pm. Will update this post with the forecast. o7

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“Both came back as female as well, so that essentially confirms that the skeleton was female, and this was probably a female metalworker, and specifically a gold worker, who had some kind of special status within their community in order to be not only afforded a burial underneath one of these round barrows, but also to be buried with this huge, unique diversity of grave goods as well,” Booth said.

“This subverts the idea that women or females in these societies couldn’t be powerful in their own right and special in their own right,” he added.

Bronze Age has gone woke, smh.