Extreme Weather Watch

[ska invita]

that sounds impossibly high...
yeah supposedly "The hottest temperature ever recorded was 134 degrees (56.67 degrees Celsius) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, said Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records."

they must be using some other way of calculating that..."heat index"??

 

[pbsmooth]

"The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature."

 

[jontz01]

I've been through Qatar in the high 40's. That was more than enough. Lip tinglingly hot. The humidity is ridiculous over there.

 

[LDC]

What's it going to take for a dramatic shift in how governments deal with this? Thousands of people dying due to this wave of heat and extreme weather events across the world and all we get is pathetic attempts to show something is happening without any real measures being put in place.

Also really concerned we're going to get a backlash to any mandated changes, cultural and societal resistance to change is huge plus add in a co-ordinated right wing push to weaponise this and it's really worrying.

 

[Flavour]

What's it going to take for a dramatic shift in how governments deal with this?

Catastrophic failures of electricity grids in rich, densely-populated cities that are only able to survive the heat thanks to massive use of air conditioning in homes, offices, etc.

Power outages lasting more than a day in cities with temperatures over 30 degrees like Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Rome, Xi'an, Madrid will lead to social breakdown.

 

[LDC]

Catastrophic failures of electricity grids in rich, densely-populated cities that are only able to survive the heat thanks to massive use of air conditioning in homes, offices, etc.

Power outages lasting more than a day in cities with temperatures over 30 degrees like Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Rome, Xi'an, Madrid will lead to social breakdown.

Can't be that far off something like that the way things are tbh Flavour.

 

[Orang Utan]

that sounds impossibly high...
yeah supposedly "The hottest temperature ever recorded was 134 degrees (56.67 degrees Celsius) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, said Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records."

they must be using some other way of calculating that..."heat index"??

Isn’t there the ‘wet bulb’ thing in which people can’t get cooler and die?

(better look it up, just remembering it from a book I read about climate catastrophe)

 

[Flavour]

Can't be that far off something like that the way things are tbh Flavour.

It's all happening a lot faster than anyone imagined it would, that's for sure. But at the same time I remember hearing stark warnings of what the world might look like in 2030 back in the 90s and now here we are.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Tornado hits Milan, not what you expect in Italy

 

[pbsmooth]

Too many people making pizza dough at the same time.

 

[teqniq]

,

 

[Aquamarine]

From a week ago.

Land temperatures in Spain surpass 60C as deadly heatwave sweeps Europe - Saving our planet with chris

During the catastrophic heatwave that is sweeping Europe, the ground temperature in some places of Spain has reached more than 60C, satellite data have revealed. A heat map that normally depicts sweltering temperatures in red instead turned black due to the extreme heat. On most of the...

savingourplanetwithchris.com

 

[bimble]

bloody hell.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Greece fires: Warning Rhodes fires could worsen as thousands flee homes and hotels

Greece's fire service apologised for "a mess", but said the situation could worsen due to the weather.

www.bbc.co.uk

Latest BBC news saying 90,000 now evacuated & many hotels burnt. How many local people left homeless after this, god knows

 

[SpookyFrank]

Isn’t there the ‘wet bulb’ thing in which people can’t get cooler and die?

(better look it up, just remembering it from a book I read about climate catastrophe)

Wet bulb temperature is the coolest temperature you can get to via evaporation, which is how humans keep cool. The higher the humidity, the less evaporation is possible. Wet bulb temperatures of 35 and up can be fatal within hours.

 

[Flavour]

Too many people making pizza dough at the same time.

This is not funny. It's casual racism.

 

[bcuster]

Global warming crisis in Greece

Spoiler: airplane crash

 

[Elpenor]

Please can you spoiler that post bcuster due to its content

 

[zahir]

Fires reach an air force base near Volos.

Wildfire in Greece reaches military depot, triggering explosions; F-16s evacuate (videos) - Keep Talking Greece

The raging wildfire in Central Greece has reached a depot of the Air Base in Nea Aghialos, triggerin

www.keeptalkinggreece.com

Greek wildfires trigger blasts at ammunition dump | eKathimerini.com

Wildfires whipped on by strong winds triggered a series of major explosions Thursday at an air force ammunition dump in central Greece, but no injuries were reported as the site had been safely evacuated in advance, officials said.

www.ekathimerini.com

 

[bcuster]

 

[teqniq]

Fuck:

 

[Artaxerxes]

I would simply not be going anywhere near that hole while it expanded

 

[Artaxerxes]

I thought this was the bandwidth thread from those last two posts, can we try and limit the use of the Twitter as

a) it’s going to die
b) it’s run by a lunatic and
c) they often have limited depth (and now you have to login to view threads when they are useful)

 

[teqniq]

A very comprehensive collection of photos:

Extraordinary photos of July's extreme weather - BBC News

It is a summer of extremes. Burning temperatures followed by raging fires. Wild storms and torrential rain. And a run of broken climate records.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Aladdin]

Not extreme .. but...

Autumn has commenced here...

 

[ska invita]

 

[yield]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/02/southamerica-record-winter-heat-argentina-chile/

In Buenos Aires, where the average high on Aug. 1 is 58 degrees (14 Celsius), it surpassed 86 (30 Celsius) on Tuesday.

 

[Flavour]

Yeah guardian running it too now
‘Winter is disappearing’: South America hit by ‘brutal’ unseasonal heatwave

This is going to send food prices skyrocketing.

 

[Aquamarine]

Australia’s Climate has warmed by 1.47C #GlobalBoiling Bureau of Meteorology

Anomalies in annual mean sea surface temperature, and temperature over land, in the Australian region. Anomalies are the departures from the 1961–90 standard averaging period. Sea surface temperatu…

climateactionaustralia.wordpress.com

 

[Dystopiary]

Global average sea surface temperature has surpassed its 2016 record.

The surface temperature of the world’s oceans has hit its highest ever level as climate breakdown from burning fossil fuels causes the oceans to heat.

Global average daily sea surface temperatures (SST) hit 20.96C this week, breaking the record of 20.95C reached in 2016, according to the Copernicus climate modelling service.

Scientists say it is likely the record will continue to be broken, as usually oceans are at their hottest globally in March, not August.

"The fact that we've seen the record now makes me nervous about how much warmer the ocean may get between now and next March," [said climate scientist Dr Samantha Burgess.]

Meanwhile, Sunak was saying "What we are doing is investing in [mythical] sustainable aviation fuel."

Ocean surface hits highest ever recorded temperature and set to rise further

Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet