Omg what's happening! - Thread about the ongoing heat

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Last week was terrible, this week is even worse. Germany here. Constant 32 degree Celsius here. I'm incapable of doing anything, can't even play games or watch series. Just hiding in front of my ventilator and drinking cold drinks, eating ice.

Beyond personal inconvenience, many pet have died in fires in Greece. There are dead people in the USA, too. And german farmers are debating with politicians to receive help because of dying crops.

Stahp, sun!

How's weather where you are and how do you cope with it?
 
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Hot and humid here in DC just like it is every summer. Hasn't been too bad overall though. I remember two years ago being almost unbearable. We have AC though...so yeah. That does wonders.
 
This morning on my walk to the train (about a half mile, near Philly), I'm in my work jacket and jeans...and it's just gross outside. Super muggy. Everything smelled like feet everywhere I walked.

Getting onto the train with full AC and no more smell was a godsend to my life.

Totally good with the fall coming any day now...
 
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In the NE of US, I think we have been relatively lucky up to this point. A few +90F days, but 80s mostly.

I'm mostly an indoors person (work and home on weekends) so yeah. Stay hydrated, don't move around too much and save up for that incoming energy bill. I also find that eating lighter helps.

I cannot imagine what the people in fire danger areas are going through. Life changing events.
 
Man it sure is a good thing global warming isn't real right guys?!?! Otherwise this worldwide record breaking heat would be really worrying........
 
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I am basically being cooked alive in my roof-top apartment here in germany.
The worst part is that I have such a hard time sleeping.

I envy everybody with an AC. It's just not a thing here (yet).
 
Help is on the way, first we have to remove our President so we can have a proper coming together of nations to solve this problem. The meat industry needs to change and that is not going to happen without multiple gov'ts leaning on them. Hurricane and Tsunami season is coming unfortunately people are going to get another reminder.
 
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Skyr said:
I am basically being cooked alive in my roof-top apartment here in germany.
The worst part is that I have such a hard time sleeping.

I envy everybody with an AC. It's just not a thing here (yet).
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I had an awful time without AC when I first moved. Couldn't sleep either. Couldn't eat. Everywhere I sat there was a circle of sweat. I remember taking cold showers and sticking my head in the freezer for relief. I hope you have a couple of fans and a place where 2 windows face each other.

But nothing is worse than subway heat. It is not rare to sit and have some guy standing next to you holding the bar and drips of pit sweat falling on your arm or leg. ewgh.
 
Can't do much about it apart from staying out of the sun.
I recently read that these heatwaves will become more frequent in future.
Spain and Portugal may hit 50°C in the coming week. It's quite disturbing.
 
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I love it.

I basically go out in public practically naked.

Underwear? Nope. The shortest jean shorts with an unbuttoned short sleeve shirt and ray bans is all I care to wear these days.



Just let that shit out man, AC is hard on the energy grid. Don't stay indoors on hot days. Leave the indoor activities for the cold.
 
Personally love it. All I have to remember is that in 3 months it will be colder than - 20 degC and I'll be cooped up inside because I hate feeling cold.

Besides, when it's warm all the pretty people will be wearing less clothes which is always a good thing
 
pr0cs said:
Personally love it. All I have to remember is that in 3 months it will be colder than - 20 degC and I'll be cooped up inside because I hate feeling cold.

Besides, when it's warm all the pretty people will be wearing less clothes which is always a good thing
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and so does all the big people. And dudes wearing sandals.
 
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Czechia here. Very hot outside. Usually 34+°C . It's killing me. I know it's summer, but man, this is too much. Rivers and lakes are basically "out of water". And it doesn't seem like it's going to get better soon.
 
It was 39°C (102°F) yesterday. It apparently hasn't gotten this hot here in a hundred years or so.
 
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Coming off the second hottest July on record here in the city, at least 93 deaths in the province attributed to a heat wave. It was quite cool and comfortable here last year by comparison where 86F was the hottest day of the month and it hovered around the 75-80F mark on most days.

Starting to look like August might be another month with warmer than usual temps and elevated humidity to match, not that it bothers me much. My Italian blood can take it. If it gets a little stuffy when at home I just flip on the AC and/or the fan. The wait at subway platforms can be torture, but thankfully they recently replaced the 50 year old trains with models that have better ventilation.
 
Pfft. Around here we can have a week of +40°C.

Doesn't stop us from gathering around a sweltering BBQ with a few tinnies.

Amateurs.
 
KevinKeene said:
How's weather where you are and how do you cope with it?
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Been a cool 23-24 C all week. It is in the middle of winter though so it will get warmer and nicer in a few months. Nice when the ocean is warmer than the air though.
 
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Exactly the same as the last year and the year before that. Around 30C for a week or two and then back to 20C for the rest of the summer.
 
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Am in London its been great few months , for the first time in a long time that we have had two months of constant sunshine. you see people are hypocrites in the winter they say "ohh is to cold i wish it was summer " then the sun turns up and " oh its to hot i wish it was colder " .

i wish people could make up there minds.
 
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KevinKeene said:
Last week was terrible, this week is even worse. Germany here. Constant 32 degree Celsius here. I'm incapable of doing anything, can't even play games or watch series. Just hiding in front of my ventilator and drinking cold drinks, eating ice.

Beyond personal inconvenience, many pet have died in fires in Greece. There are dead people in the USA, too. And german farmers are debating with politicians to receive help because of dying crops.

Stahp, sun!

How's weather where you are and how do you cope with it?
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Greece has lower humidity than Germany and this makes higher temperatures more tolerable
 
It has been around 30C for a few weeks here in Finland. I don't mind the heat outside, it just bugs me that my apartment has no air conditioning, so it's burning hot inside too. Thankfully I can visit my dad whenever I like, as his house is always cooler.
 
Your body temperature rises to get rid of viruses...looks like the earth is doing the same. :)
 
Here in Switzerland we're having around 34 -35 celsius for a few days. July wasn't as bad as last year, until the very last few days at least. AC is not a thing in this country either, but at least there are a few rivers and lakes where we can go and cool ourselves, usually with several bars right on the river, usually overcrowded unfortunately. At least I feel motivated to go out and " mingle " in some cool spot, instead of unsuccessfully try to cool myself with a few cold showers a day. The ventilator doesn't help much while gaming, so I guess video games can wait a few days for now, and maybr go out more? Is that a good or a bad thing actually ?
 
I love summer no matter how hot it gets, love being outside, hot sweaty I don't care...I love it.
Maybe because I work in the food industry and get used to the heat but living in NE and it's crappy long winters I really look forward to the summer months and the heat.
What bothers me more is high humidity but I'll take that too as long as the sun is shining.:messenger_sun:
 
Breakage said:
Can't do much about it apart from staying out of the sun.
I recently read that these heatwaves will become more frequent in future.
Spain and Portugal may hit 50°C in the coming week. It's quite disturbing.
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50C? This is unheard of! Be safe.
 
klosos said:
Am in London its been great few months , for the first time in a long time that we have had two months of constant sunshine. you see people are hypocrites in the winter they say "ohh is to cold i wish it was summer " then the sun turns up and " oh its to hot i wish it was colder " .

i wish people could make up there minds.
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This is the truth. At work, I have people that complain each day about it's too hot or cold. Like what friggin degree do you want +/-
 
Andyliini said:
It has been around 30C for a few weeks here in Finland.
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Reading about places having 40-50C heat makes me a bit ashamed of whining about these 30-33C heats in Finland, but damn it's been rough. Nights are way too hot. I'm so glad I have my trusty fan blowing on my face 24/7. I'd keep all windows open but the damn bees and wasps are stalking me.

Just today I went to a store, came back, climbed the huge-ass hill to get back to home, climbed the stairs up (no elevator here), was sweaty as hell, took a shower and while I was toweling myself sweat was already starting to form again and when I was back on the couch the situation was nearly the same it was before I took the shower.

For me the ideal temperature would be 18-22C. My father loves this type of over 30C weather. He loves when it's hot. Apparently I didn't inherit that trait.
 
Past couple of days have been a nice reprieve in Atlanta--rainy/story as hell, but highs in the 70s.

Otherwise the summer has been rough, tons of days in the 90s with high humidity and triple digit heat index. Mosquitoes seem extra brutal this year too (probably because it's been so stormy/wet). I loathe the summer here, having grown up further north and moved here for work 9 years ago. I don't think I'll ever get used to heat/humidity. Most get seasonal affective disorder in the winter, I get it in summer here as I get tired of being either stuck indoors in the A/C, or going out and sweating my ass off and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.
 
As with every major politicized topic, I sure wish there was a third way that could avoid the current damned-either-way choice. I look to the progressive-Left, and I see a group that elevates global warming above all other critical ecological matters, essentially believing full-heartedly that our consumerist and consumption-oriented way of life, as well as the bio- and reproductive technologies supporting it, are a good thing rather than inherent evil, and so global warming is mostly a convenient proof that we just need more of the Good Educated People to have tight managerial power to set the rules of the game & keep the consumption of the masses sanitary & non-toxic in various ways. Then I look to the market-obsessed portion of the Right and see another face of the same consumerist liberalism, just one that idolizes another side of the same equation, with a few nods to national sovereignty and older moral systems along the way but basically little problem with our way of life as a whole.

I mean, the only coherent position is something like Pope Francis's take, which you can read in his encyclical on the topic, and which closely unites the problem of ecological destruction of the environment to the restoration of our human ecology of family & children. If you push for various surgical and chemical technologies to remake human sexuality as a pure consumer game, and have no problem with the torrent of porn that props it up alongside the necessity of abortions and other practices, it's not possible for me to take your concern for the natural foundations of the planet seriously on any level.

If you want to take seriously the question of technology's destruction of nature around us, you'll have to start with its destruction of nature within us.
 
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Is Germany another country (like the UK) that doesn't generally have air conditioning inside homes?

Because here in the eastern US it's always miserably hot and humid in the summer, but my house stays a cool 70F. So the heat doesn't affect my ability to function.
 
haxan7 said:
Is Germany another country (like the UK) that doesn't generally have air conditioning inside homes?

Because here in the eastern US it's always miserably hot and humid in the summer, but my house stays a cool 70F. So the heat doesn't affect my ability to function.
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A/C is very uncommon in Europe outside of the southern most countries/parts of countries. It's just not hot enough days of the year (unlike most of the US which is further south) to justify central air so it just gets left to people to buy window units or get wall units installed if they want them for those few weeks. That could change if things keep warming of course.
 
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Past couple of days have been a nice reprieve in Atlanta--rainy/story as hell, but highs in the 70s.

Otherwise the summer has been rough, tons of days in the 90s with high humidity and triple digit heat index. Mosquitoes seem extra brutal this year too (probably because it's been so stormy/wet). I loathe the summer here, having grown up further north and moved here for work 9 years ago. I don't think I'll ever get used to heat/humidity. Most get seasonal affective disorder in the winter, I get it in summer here as I get tired of being either stuck indoors in the A/C, or going out and sweating my ass off and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.
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Did you hear about what they did in a city in Australia?

Apparently, they released a controlled strain of mosquitos out to have sex with the current diseased mosquitos. Which, I guess, killed the harmful bacteria from the entire crop. They have no reports of any disease so far in that city.
 
lil puff said:
Did you hear about what they did in a city in Australia?

Apparently, they released a controlled strain of mosquitos out to have sex with the current diseased mosquitos. Which, I guess, killed the harmful bacteria from the entire crop. They have no reports of any disease so far in that city.
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I did. I'm not really worried about diseases as those aren't widespread in this area. It just sucks not being able to sit in the yard/porch without bug spray on, needing bug spray for outdoor concerts etc. to not get eaten up and be itchy for days. I'm one of those people they're just drawn too, and I seem more allergic than most as I get bigger and itchier bumps that last longer.
 
dmaul1114 said:
I did. I'm not really worried about diseases as those aren't widespread in this area. It just sucks not being able to sit in the yard/porch without bug spray on, needing bug spray for outdoor concerts etc. to not get eaten up and be itchy for days. I'm one of those people they're just drawn too, and I seem more allergic than most as I get bigger and itchier bumps that last longer.
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Yep I hear ya. I don't miss getting bitten by bugs, now that I am in a city. I've always felt they were coming after me, while no one else seemed to be bothered. Maybe we have a particular pheromone.
 
haxan7 said:
Is Germany another country (like the UK) that doesn't generally have air conditioning inside homes?

Because here in the eastern US it's always miserably hot and humid in the summer, but my house stays a cool 70F. So the heat doesn't affect my ability to function.
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Germany here and it's not common at all for homes to have AC.
And during regular summers it's really not necassary. But this year ain't regular..
Insulation standard of buildings is usually very good (I would say better than in the US) and it takes a few days of excessive heat to get through.
Well that is if you don't live in a roof top apartment like me..
 
RubxQub said:
This morning on my walk to the train (about a half mile, near Philly), I'm in my work jacket and jeans...and it's just gross outside. Super muggy. Everything smelled like feet everywhere I walked.

Getting onto the train with full AC and no more smell was a godsend to my life.

Totally good with the fall coming any day now...
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I'm about 30min from you give or take.

Feel like we've had 2 weeks total of "good summer" The rest has been rain, cool weather, or humidity.

I got a pool and have only had 1 week where the temp went about 75-80 and it was warm. So much rain I've had to drain some off.

Sitting here today awaiting another storm in a few hours.
 
PKM said:
I'm about 30min from you give or take.

Feel like we've had 2 weeks total of "good summer" The rest has been rain, cool weather, or humidity.

I got a pool and have only had 1 week where the temp went about 75-80 and it was warm. So much rain I've had to drain some off.

Sitting here today awaiting another storm in a few hours.
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Literally the same scenario. We just got a pool setup and used it for a couple weeks before it's all be shocking and draining for the past 2-3 weeks. I actually had my GF drive me to the train this AM because the gross ass humidity was making me want to die.
 
lil puff said:
Yep I hear ya. I don't miss getting bitten by bugs, now that I am in a city. I've always felt they were coming after me, while no one else seemed to be bothered. Maybe we have a particular pheromone.
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Worst thing is that I'm in a city! Atlanta is built in a forest though and has way more trees etc. than most cities so the bugs are extra bad. It does vary by area though as I didn't get bothered as much when living in midtown (in a highrise, and that's most of what's around there) as now in a neighborhood of single-family homes with tons of yards, trees etc.
 
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