• Beaver@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Scotland and Scandinavia have always looked appealing in recent times.

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      As someone living in northern Scandinavia it has gotten so warm in the summer here that I don’t find it appealing anymore 🙁

      Can’t imagine how terrible people in the properly affected areas have it

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      Harsh winters, though.

      I considered moving there at some point in my life, those long months with 6 hours of light dissuaded me.

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    Good luck to everyone living in the Western side of our continent. Here in Romania, we’ve just come out of this whole thing this week, with temperatures over 40 degrees. I got no AC, and my whole apartment felt like an oven of some sort (in a literal way). Everything was truly unbearable. Hope you’ll all get through just fine as well.

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    I’ve heard air conditioning is not very common in Europe, is that the case for much of the heat wave area? Would Spain and Portugal at least typically have air conditioning?

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      Am Greek, most buildings and almost all businesses are air conditioned. I would expect any country neighboring Africa directly across the Mediterranean to be the same, at least in their southernmost regions

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    This map is pretty innaccurate in hungary its bout 35 and in croatia its 30+. Even in sweden(where i live at least) its 20+. Tho in iceland it is like 8-10. Ive been bouncing arround europe a lot this summer so ive literally felt the heat.

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    Honestly it feels like a miracle temperatures are as low as they are. It was way hotter last year

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    How is this a heatwave? Just two areas are hitting 37. The rest are straddling 30. You’re in paradise compared to other places that are tipping over 40 in mass areas. It’s not even a dome there. It’s a few air bubbles.

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    The highest temperature on this map is 37 degrees (south of Spain). Other places barely reach 30. This is definitely not a heat wave. Where I live the summer has been extremely cold so far.

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    40°C here in my corner of the US. I have to walk an hour in that surrounded by asphalt most days because of our shit infrastructure 😐

    Edit – Heat index, 100°F is about 38°C and 112°F is about 44°C (they didn’t have it in celsius for some reason):

    Temperature:

    pain

    This will be Europe during spring and autumn in a few years. In 2070 I bet we’ll be missing the good ol times when summers were only 40°C. And we’ll miss when most of Africa still existed

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        We get record heatwaves till the ocean currents change and we lose the warm water coming in. Then we’ll get snow in July and complain about -40 in the winters instead of +40 in the summers.

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        Climate change sucks, but 34c is hardly anything to get excited about. People in the US frequently live in temps like that as the norm. Now regular 50c would be concerning.

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          We don’t care about regular US temperature. Climate change is all about constant change, that brings damage to people, cities and agirculyures that developed 5°C colder. Every year is the hottest summer ever, all of this is not normal and is pretty worrying.

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              If your climate never got up to 29, it does. It’s the same as people and infrastructure freaking out in Texas because they had a couple of cold years. They got some weeks under -10°C and electricity got cut-off, water pipe burst and people died. Are people dying in Norway when you get to -10°C? Absolutely not.

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                That sounds like that infrastructure was cost-cut shit outsourced to private profiteers.

                The reason Texas’s electricity collapsed is due to that exact reason. Their power grid is separate from the rest of the country.

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              34°C is at best 3 degrees away from regular body temperature which, and this might come as a shock to you, means that the body’s built-in ability to regulate its temperature is already severely degraded. That is also not taking into account that, as other commenters mentioned, the temperatures in the sun can easily reach 40°C, which also BTW, is when cell lifespans in the body start plummeting.

              All that to say: the mortality rates during summer aligning with the temperature disagree with your take.

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                Winter lovers are never satisfied with how cold it is honestly, at least a few days of warm weather are nice on this sad sad cold continent.

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                  I’ll take -30 over 30 any day of the week and that is also the exact same thing you’ll hear from me in winter. I can warm up relatively easily when it’s cold but there is fuck all I can do about 34°C in the shade (aside from staying indoors all day)

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          I don’t know where those numbers where pulled from, but that is for sure not the maximum temperature reached. Where you see that wonderful 27 in Italy the daily maximum temperature is already around 40 right now.