Europe suffers under record heatwave as temperatures forecast to reach 44C
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This is only the beginning. It will get much worse.
I blame the scientists who predicted this 50 years ago.
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...
They jinxed us!
Record for now
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.
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.
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.
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.
Go to shopping malls, Museums, libraries etc. Everything withairconditioningn.
Keep the windows open at night if you can, and the shades down during the day. And if you have a fan or can procure one that will help circulate the air in from the outside. Drink lots of water and good luck!
Coldest summer of our future everybody, plan accordingly.
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.
Wait is Europe generally that humid? I can't even imagine 40C+ degree weather with high humidity.
Yes, very humid.
In German, we use to call it Waschküchenwetter (Laundry room weather) as in the old days washing involved a lot of boiling water.
Funny how the terms have changed their meaning, when I was young it meant cold very foggy days in the Rhine area.
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...)
I'm from the UK. When I was out in Dubai, I worked through a 40-45°C midday without slowing down much, with plenty of water.
In the UK, the humidity and buildings mean I start slowing down around 25°C, 35°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.
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 .
Europe also has additional problems having next to no AC industry too.
Those are deadly temperatures with the high humidity they have.
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.
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 26°C at their lowest here in Berlin, which must be a new record.
37° forecast for Wednesday... Near the coast in the Netherlands...
Jfc that's insane
John Fitzgerald Cennedy? Jentucky Fried Chicken?
::: spoiler nsfw explanation of the acronym :::
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.
Yay for climate change! Surely more ai will fix it??
Hope ecosystems are weathering this okay. Imagine how this is stressing species that is not at all adapted to this.
like humans, or example?
https://themorningnews.com/news/2023/07/19/tourists-visit-death-valley-as-temperature-reaches-56c/
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.