by NKosmatos on 7/14/23, 4:53 PM
The climate zones in Europe are being shifted northwards. Mediterranean/southern countries like Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy are experiencing conditions like the ones from Northern Africa. Central European countries are having a milder climate, with more extreme “bursts”.
Records are going to be broken over and over, especially next summer when the currently ongoing El Niño is going to “hit” us.
Our planet is not happy with what we’ve done all these decades and we’re going to pay for it :-(
by lakomen on 7/14/23, 5:08 PM
I'm nagging my cities Facebook page , or have been nagging them for over a decade and they just aren't doing anything. Instead the destroy more green, build more fully concrete areas without trees.
I can only stand by and watch how everything goes to shit, powerless to do anything, because the local governments just are corrupt and do what they want.
Then, look at this place in Croatia. How is that acceptable in this day and age? A little green. It should be trees everywhere. But at least they use solar panels.
I blame the super rich, the oil industry and car industry. They are murderers.
by 76SlashDolphin on 7/14/23, 5:14 PM
Just came back from Bulgaria to visit friends and family and I kid you not when that I was very happy to be back in <20C rainy UK weather. I probably will still be miserable when it inevitably gets >30C here but at least it will be for a shorter period than half the summer in BG. And people find it funny when I tell them one of the reasons I moved to the UK was the weather...
by downWidOutaFite on 7/14/23, 4:52 PM
by rahmeero on 7/14/23, 5:01 PM
It's all a hoax, said the frog in the saucepan.
by lnsru on 7/14/23, 5:10 PM
I might be cynical, but the heat and climate problem isn’t that important since after corona working is only allowed from the office by my superiors. If it would be a real problem imho, the home office would be the solution on government level. My yearly mileage would drop from 15000 miles to 1000 miles.
by ThalesX on 7/14/23, 4:43 PM
I've registered 47 on my temp sensor two days ago. This is in Eastern Europe.
by haunter on 7/14/23, 5:14 PM
The salty wind from the sea make it much more tolerable imo. I’m in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin must be the worst. It’s like a big bowl, no wind, heat just stuck here, and not enough water surface.
by 2-718-281-828 on 7/14/23, 8:02 PM
> The ESA monitors land and sea temperatures via its satellites.
> The hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C in Sicily in August 2021.
this is based on land-surface temperature!
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Coperni...
not sure how this is translating to air temperature physically.
by bsaul on 7/14/23, 4:49 PM
40 in greece in summer doesn't seem that extraordinary... Don't want to downplay the news, but i don't think it makes a lot of sense to call "extreme heat record" something that's half a degree above what we're used to ( i mean sure, it's probably a record, but calling it "an effect of climate warming" sounds a bit too much)
by pmarreck on 7/14/23, 4:59 PM
I wonder how long Europe will continue to maintain the attitude that "air conditioning is a United States thing"
by kyriakos on 7/14/23, 6:52 PM
My car hit 43c today (Cyprus). Hard to stay productive unless you are in air-conditioning.
by FrustratedMonky on 7/14/23, 4:55 PM
Everything is fine.
by bottlepalm on 7/14/23, 5:06 PM
Is anyone else secretly holding out for AGI to solve all of this and/or turn us all into paperclips?
by carabiner on 7/14/23, 4:43 PM
Celsius was and is lying.