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    Nice. It’s good when it hits the global north. Maybe some people wake up that this is an emergency

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    Oof I thought that the 40s we were getting here in the balkans were bad… I didnt even know temps went that high in france.

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    I’m still getting used to Celsius and hadn’t come across this temperature range. Had to check. It’s 113°F.

    I’ve never been anywhere that warm outside a sauna.

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      That’s fair enough. It was only invented in 1742 so that’s barely enough time to start getting used to it.

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      I moved to a tourist trap area with lots of lakes around and zero breeze. My car thermometer would regularly hit 110°F all last summer and this. I think that may be it’s top out. But with the constant 99% humidity, I got a good thirty seconds of blindness every time I exit my car.

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        There was a day last year where it got up to like 130°F(54°C) in honk Kong or something like that. It was damn near 120°F(49°C) in the states that day iirc. Also apparently death valley California has the highest temp ever recorded at 134°F(57°C)

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      Living in Louisiana, these past few years the heat index has gotten around that and it is legitimately miserable to exist in. Considering our humidity, we were pushing wet bulb temperatures some days.

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    Meanwhile in Denmark it has been 19-25 celsius all summer, with only a handful of warmer days. All these heatwaves have stopped basically at the southern border with Germany.

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      Didn’t northern Scandinavian countries have some kind of heatwave too (around 30-32°C) ? Is that the handful of warmer days, or is Denmark dodging through heatwave like a ninja ?

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        Sweden has had a few hot days but not that many. It feels like we’re plunging back into winter now, which is pretty much expected. I assume it’ll be consistently below 18° by the end of the month.

        Thursday it’s supposed to be 27, then back to low twenties, high teens.

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      The Netherlands gets some warm days too, it’ll be 33°C today and 34°C tomorrow.

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        From my own experience living there, temperatures in the mid 30Cs in The Netherlands is a lot harder than 40C in Portugal and Spain, because The Netherlands is more humid.

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          That’s right, the sensation is very different. I hate it. I’m already prone to sweating, and now I go through 3 shirts a day just sitting at my desk ml.

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          I don’t think its the humidity, it must have to do something with latitudes. I moved from Italy to Northern Europe and 27-28ish here is as unbearable as 33-35 back home.

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            It’s also possible that it’s to do with habit.

            Having lived for many years in various countries, I noticed how after about one year living somewhere my body had adjusted to the local temperature average and my idea of “too hot” or “too cold” had changed, as reflected in my choice of clothing when I went back to a different country were the average temperature is different (like going back to Lisbon in Winter and being comfortable wearing just a t-shirt whilst everybody else had coats on and though it was “cold”),

            The average temperature in, for example, Amsterdam, is around 5C lower than Lisbon, so it makes sense that one’s perception of “too hot” and “too cold” is at a lower temperatures for those living in the former than those living in the latter.

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              I think the body mostly takes about two weeks to adjust. Most folks I’ve talked to have stories about sitting around for that amount of time “completely fucked” while doing everything they could to stay comfortable. My favorite so far has been the military chick who, and I’m totally quoting here, when transferred to the swamp “wrapped [her] legs around the chilled propane tank and put iced cans of bud between [her] bosoms while sitting underneath a fan for half [her] cycle and still drenched the floor with more sweat than that wap song.” Which, really, puts all my complaints of the cold in perspective.

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              Yeah, this is also an option, but I have to say that I had friends over just a few weeks ago who brought sweaters when they saw the forecast at around 20C (against my recommendations), and they all were surprised by how warm it was despite the temperature (which in Italy is spring-like).

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    Guess it’s just gonna become more common to have central air in Europe. Good time to be in that industry if you’re looking for a career.

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        There’s a lot of renewables in Europe, so some places it’s reasonably sustainable.

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          This is called misadaptation and our electricity needs will increase so much, that even the renewables won’t be enough (electric cars, tractors, Datacenter, etc).

          We should conceive cities with more trees, shadows, possibility to let the water flow through, etc.

          Air conditioning should be reserved for places such as hospitals.

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      good time to go into radiation protection and para Military equipment 🙄

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    fucking hell… you know it’s bad when they gotta introduce a new colour to the gradient after red to indicate hotter than hot

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      You forgot the /s

      For those who do not know, conspiracy theorists/“anti” global warning people says that phrase when it’s abnormally hot: “it’s summer” like “it’s normal that it’s hot because it’s summer”.

      Edit warming not warning 😱

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    I spend my summers on the north west part of Spain. Every summer I bring my winter pajama and a jacket because of how cold summers are here, specially mornings and late evening.

    This year it’s crazy hot in comparison.

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    I’m happy I escaped to southern Sweden just as the heat spell was starting again.