Europe suffers under record heatwave as temperatures forecast to reach 44C
(www.theguardian.com)
EuropeColdest summer of our future everybody, plan accordingly.
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.
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.
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.
I blame the scientists who predicted this 50 years 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.
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.
Record for now
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.
Those are deadly temperatures with the high humidity they have.
Wait is Europe generally that humid? I can't even imagine 40C+ degree weather with high humidity.
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 .
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.
