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Is everything ok?
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Remember, fellow Americans, everything in Europe is about a thousand miles more north than you think. 37°C in London is like 100°F in northern Maine.
A better comparison is Seattle, which is farther north than Maine and has a warm western wind like England. The pacific northwest actually had a similar heat dome a couple years ago.
there was an interesting thing done during that about how the amount of green space reduced temperature by up to 17°F if I recall correctly
Nah, that’s still way off. London is 51.5 degrees north, which would put it well inside Canada. On the west coast that’s about half way between Seattle and the southern border of Alaska, way up the coast of British Columbia past the northern tip of Vancouver island.
I think that area got some heat dome too
Over 600 confirmed deaths in Canada from that heat wave. 200 confirmed in the US. Likely hundreds more died.
I lived through it, it felt like Phoenix in Portland
It was about ten degrees warmer at sea level at the peak of that heat dome. It was 37C on the mountaintops, about 1800m above sea level