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[–] 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I blame the scientists who predicted this 50 years ago.

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  • Exactly. If they predicted it why didn't they say anything? If they did, why didn't they say it louder? If they did, why didn't they fix it themselves? If they couldn't, why didn't they make us? If they tried, why did they let us globally react against it? Oh...

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    Record for now

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    111 is sweltering with humidity. I have only seen it a handful of times in the Midwest US. You MUST drink water, but there is nowhere for your sweat to go.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Wait is Europe generally that humid? I can't even imagine 40C+ degree weather with high humidity.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    I mean, apart from the places that aren't...

    These are completely unremarkable temperatures for quite a lot of Europe, and quite a lot of Europe isn't particularly humid.

    "North-West Europe" != "Europe" (however much they think it to be true...)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I'm from the UK. When I was out in Dubai, I worked through a 40-45Β°C midday without slowing down much, with plenty of water.

    In the UK, the humidity and buildings mean I start slowing down around 25Β°C, 35Β°C has me basically a lost cause, in less I push myself hard. 40+ is hellish.

    Northern Europe isn't built for heat. It's built to trap heat.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    With high temperatures, humidity is normally low in much of Europe (compared to humid climates). But somewhat higher in the Rhine valley.

    It is this time more humid than normal, too.

    Here is a table on the combined effect of heat and humidity:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index

    Heat becomes much more dangerous with high humidity. Which is why metereologists make charts with the wet bulb temperature or the dew point tenperature .

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    It's forecast to be 39c with nearly 80% humidity on wednesday in my area, and 38c on thursday with probably worse humidity. So my flat, baking in the sun all day with no insulation or ability to generate through breeze, will be close to 50c with likely higher than 80% humidity, for two days.

    I might actually die to this.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    That's way too hot. You really need to go somewhere else. I'd sleep in a church building or underground station in that situation, if I had no other safe place. Keep in mind that heat also infers significantly with the ability to react appropriately to such a situation, so don't wait too long.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Lmao, there is nowhere else to go. I've made my peace anyway, at best I die and at worst it's basically a free lobotomy.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Lmao, there is nowhere else to go.

    You can go outside and try to find some shade. It's better than getting a heatstroke. I lived at the top floor of a soviet flat for a few years and all of my neighbors without aircon did that in the summer.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Coldest summer of our future everybody, plan accordingly.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    37Β° forecast for Wednesday... Near the coast in the Netherlands...

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Don't forget these are geological changes. Normally, they happen in tens of thousands of years. It is bone-shaking to witness how fast they happen.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    We'll be here in a year again. Maybe not the year after, but probably the next after that one too. This is humanity and what it's turning to. We got to finally face it.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    What's even more concerning is that it doesn't really cool down at night. For end of the week night temperatures are forecast to be 26Β°C at their lowest here in Berlin, which must be a new record.

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  • [+] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
    [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Hope ecosystems are weathering this okay. Imagine how this is stressing species that is not at all adapted to this.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Heat or no heat, if you leave your kids at age 2 and 4 alone in your car, you're clearly a stupid idiot who lacks all form of intelligence.

    It really angers me when their stupid actions affect innocent and helpless people like these two poor kids.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is only the beginning. It will get much worse.

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