this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Scotland and Scandinavia have always looked appealing in recent times.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

As someone living in northern Scandinavia it has gotten so warm in the summer here that I don't find it appealing anymore πŸ™

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are the effects of Brexit not as bad in Scotland?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

United kingdom will come to its doom eventually

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Harsh winters, though.

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rich Swedes adopt the strategy of buying a second home in southern Spain and spending winters there.

A good life if you can afford it, to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Europe is in for a nasty surprise when the jet stream keeping their climate relatively mild collapses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It won't be a surprise but yes. Might save the wine though, we can't go through summers like that anymore. Here are grapes destroyed by the weather yesterday

[–] Reddfugee42 2 points 2 months ago

Things happening that have been warned about for decades are somehow always a surprise to a great many

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh thank god, where would we be without wine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You'll have to switch to ice wine only haha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] jqubed 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Zer0_F0x 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can only speak for Germany, where it's not common at all. I wish it was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Speedrunning climate change with more ac

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Feel free to report to Accuweather

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It should be quite pleasant on the beach in Cleethorpes.

[–] murray_TAPEDTS 1 points 2 months ago

I was just a little north of there yesterday. It was indeed lovely!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's nice knowing I won't die of heatstroke. Jokes aside, Norway does do a lot of "coolcation" advertisements for Europeans stuck in sweltering heat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting, thanks

[–] Smoogs 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

High of 45 today for me. This looks divine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I wish it was only 37 lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Y'all making fun of Europeans for complaining about some heat, yet when they're not even at the 90s or 100s, can you truly roast them?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Reddfugee42 2 points 2 months ago

This one needs liberating, boys

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh how I long to be in Belarus right now...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A sentence no one said before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Perfect here in UK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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, 100Β°F is about 38Β°C and 112Β°F is about 44Β°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 40Β°C. And we'll miss when most of Africa still existed

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