Europe faces extreme late-May heatwave with temperature anomalies up to +15°C and 40°C forecast in France
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Morgentau7@reddit
It‘s 30 degrees in Germany and I don’t feel like I want to be productive outside anymore
Sputnik-overdrive@reddit
Hottest day in May ever for the UK 🫠🫠 plz send help
Equinox4u@reddit
Hottest day in May....so far!
Sputnik-overdrive@reddit
I honestly hate it 😅
sixxtynoine@reddit
Yeah but if you look on the bright side this is the coolest May you’ll ever experience for the rest of your life
goharvorgohome@reddit
Naw the AMOC current will collapse soon
No_Foundation16@reddit
Yeah then winter is coming for the UK and Northern Europe.
YourDentist@reddit
Nah, i bet it'll barely put a drag on the runaway global warming (and its arctic amplification core feature)
No_Foundation16@reddit
I dunno....
Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming
BigHeadDeadass@reddit
What will happen for the summer?
billcube@reddit
Oh now it checks out with the King in the North and the evil red Queen in the blue starred keep.
bb79@reddit
Like that Maggie Gee book. London becomes tropical for a few years and then we enter a new ice age.
Due-Dot6450@reddit
I've installed "shutters" on the outside of the windows. From midday till sunset the Sun is blasting through these windows and it was like in oven before. Now it's quite bearable.
djuna_moon@reddit
Nice, what material did you use?
Due-Dot6450@reddit
Aluminium foil from kitchen on the upper part and sheet of old blind on the bottom. Fixed with sticky tape.
I found out that aluminum foil degrades quickly when exposed to outside conditions, hence all the tiny holes in it.
hera-fawcett@reddit
if u put some newspaper underneath, the aluminum foil lasts a bit longer.
kingtacticool@reddit
European needs to install AC as fast as possible.
We will be seeing wet bulb temps within the next couple years and they won't be going away
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
Ironcially AC boosts emissions. There isn't a way out.
kingtacticool@reddit
At this point, unless we reduce emissions globally and by a factor that will be unacceptable to developed nations there is no stopping what is in motion. We hath fucked around and now we find out.
No_Foundation16@reddit
I mean people were murdering store workers in America during covid because they told them to put on a mask ffs! Trumpistan will never allow lower emissions at all. It's full speed ahead to damnation around here! The regime forced a coal powered plant to stay open in Michigan! I shit you not!
A coal-fired plant in Michigan was to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1m a day
billcube@reddit
I mean it's not the first time in history than an evil villain with his clique deserves a bad ending - see any kids hero/knight storybook. Where is Robin Hood? We have all the others!
kingtacticool@reddit
Pretty hard to organize any kind of resistance inside a supercharged surveillance state.
Nokam@reddit
My electricity come from nuclear, I have AC all over my house (and for the past 15 years) and I don't feel a shame about it. People should have listened to France example instead of Greenpeace.
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
Nuclear is not a solution. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/04/mv-ramana-why-nuclear-power-not-solution-energy-needs
kfish5050@reddit
Nuclear is the best available medium-term solution as it can help us stop actively choking ourselves out by burning fossil fuels while giving us the time we need to make true renewable sources of energy viable. It's not actually dangerous and a little uranium can go a long way, so many of the concerns are over exaggerated or straight up false. France has even brought the technology far enough along that it now produces virtually no waste, eliminating yet another widespread concern involving nuclear power.
Sarchee@reddit
It can provide the base load capacity from which you plan the shifting solar/wind output around. As more and more batteries come on the grid it becomes far easier to simply keep expanding renewable capacity while maintaining your existing nuclear output (or throttling it down in times of drought).
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
The point you're not getting is that there are no solutions. We've burned 500 million years of Earth history in a few decades. Tipping points have been passed. There are no solutions. Keep bargaining all you like, physics will not negotiate.
billcube@reddit
If we could at least have one source of electricity once gas/oil is too expensive/dangerous to carry around the world, that'd be wise.
Nokam@reddit
You can bet that at some point in the distant future, oil and gas will be so pricey, that it will be economically avantageous to return to using synthetic oil from coal, whale fat, and maybe animal fat as transportable energy source.
Nokam@reddit
There is no solution, but at least if people listened to what France was doing in the 90s with the superphenix program there would be less burnt fossil fuel. Now let me die in my cool home while having little to no influence whatsoever on the climate. Once germans start putting AC everywhere you should start worrying.
CatfishGG@reddit
Nuclear ‘is’ a solution, just not the “end all be all” solution some people claim it to be.
NuclearByNoon@reddit
It would be nice if we at least started being honest within scientific analysis itself. Studies concerning the economic viability and emissions of different energy sources are a hot mess depending on who they're funded by.
If you consider the entire cycle from Uranium mining up to the eventual long term storage and plant decomission, fission power can likely never be competitive economically. And that isn't even necessarily a bad thing because it opens up a different argument: energy production should not be measured by economic factors if the cheapest energy sources are destroying our environment.
Sarchee@reddit
You nailed it, the narrow focus on economic viability/competitiveness is how the grid in the US has ended up in a dismal state. It’s a public good and public service and should be seen through that lens
chickey23@reddit
That man is selling a book. Most of the article is a waste of time. His arguments do not rely on data and are grounded in assumptions. Nuclear is a good solution for base load supplemented with renewables and durable battery technology.
WombatusMighty@reddit
If you support nuclear energy, you support global warming.
Nuclear is NOT carbon-neutral: When the entire life cycle of nuclear power is taken into account, you have a cost of 68 to 180 grams of CO2/kW (far higher than renewables): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421521002330
And nuclear energy actively harms the construction of renewable energy, which we need to have a chance of surviving the climate crisis: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=53376
Furthermore, nuclear energy is a non-solution for climate change: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nuclear-energy-too-slow-too-expensive-to-save-climate-report-idUSKBN1W909J & https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2021-07-08/nuclear-energy-will-not-be-solution-climate-change.
Nokam@reddit
Would the world be better right now if in the last 50 years we built more nuclear powerplant than coal powerplant ?
Would the world be better if all the new nuclear reactor built since 1990 where superphenix style reactor ?
Wanting clean energy is easy to say, but the transition period is a nightmare look at germany. There is no easy solution when you need more energy for industry application (such as decarbonation industries). And not building powerplant isn't a solution when there is a lot of migration to europe, look at the UK.
There are no magic wand in the thermodynamic hell that is this universe, but there is a good energy that could have buy us a lot of times.
loose_the-goose@reddit
Except during heatwaves like this one France has to shut down its nuclear powerplants because the rivers are so hot, the cooling water aint coolin no more
Nuclear cant save us from climate change
Nokam@reddit
First, the water being 30 degrees can still cool 100 degrees celsius from the reactor, and still generate a lot of electricity (the rate will just be reduced). The reason they were shut down in July 2025 was for the fauna, we don't want the water reaching some temperature for their health. But for example, some places with no protected fauna didn't shutdown.
This is still nowhere near as impactful, we just reduced the amount of energy we exported to other countries (they suffered).
Moreover, right now if France was fully equipped with AC, the electricity peak of heating in winter (which is the biggest of the year) would be drastically reduced, thanks to the efficacy of heat pumps.
kfish5050@reddit
Coming from Phoenix, AZ: it may boost emissions outside but you learn to stay inside as much as possible in the summer months. Not having A/C or relying on swamp cooling when it's already humid is how hundreds of people die from heat related deaths every year
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
Your point being? Let's lock in an even faster mass extinction event?
kfish5050@reddit
Well what is your point? We die regardless? Are you just peddling doom for the sake of it, or do you actually care about humanity? If people are dead regardless, why can't they install a little A/C to make what time they have just a little less shitty?
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
My point is that comfort locks in more suffering. The name of the game should be accepting limits now and reducing harm as much as possible now. I'm under no illusion that that will not happen. I'm not peddling doom I'm highlighting the reality. Take it any way you want.
kfish5050@reddit
Dude you come off like an asshole practically begging everyone to kill themselves for the sake of maybe potentially reversing course but being jaded about it not gonna happen. Maybe go outside and touch grass. The world is gonna do what it's gonna do bo matter how bleak you think the future is.
absurdlifex@reddit
It's really a cycle that can't be solved. I think op is saying to reduce emissions drastically now, which does incur more suffering in the immediate presence, but it at least gives a chance for a future to exist. If we double down on comfortable measures now which we already know increase emissions we are accelerating climate changes eventual destruction of humanity.
kfish5050@reddit
Are we past the point of no return? Is the future already fucked anyways? Then why does it matter
absurdlifex@reddit
That's the exact mentality that will cause our species to go extinct. There is a roadmap to counter reversing climate change but it involves deconstructing capitalism and being uncomfortable. We saw it during COVID.
kfish5050@reddit
I'm all well and good with working towards a solution if there is time/a valid one. You can't say we're past that and also that we should still work towards it. It's like having your cake and eating it too. If it's already too late? Who cares.
Bjork__@reddit
Too late for what? It's never too late to reduce suffering. Too late to preserve your lifestyle? Yes. You're the one coming off like a selfish asshole now.
absurdlifex@reddit
He sounds like myself when I was a dumb nihilistic teenager with nothing to live for.
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
Don't care how I come off, it's physics. It's incontrovertible.
billcube@reddit
Meanwhile, we cannot use all the electricity we generate during peak sun hours... There must be a way...
RainbowAussie@reddit
Not if you run them on wind and solar they don't
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
You need fossil fuels to create wind and solar. There isn't a way out.
sp0rkify@reddit
Heat pumps! I cannot say enough good things about them!
I'm in Canada, and we just installed one in my parents 100-year-old farmhouse, and one in the new 2-bedroom attached to said house.. and they're amazing! Worked perfectly all through the winter (which saw -30⁰ temperatures..) without a back-up heat source needing to be used in our addition.. my parents did need to use their furnace as a back up, because the old farmhouse isn't nearly as well insulated as the addition.. and then we've already had a few 30⁰+ days here, and the air conditioning kept everything perfectly cool, in both houses.. (the farmhouse only being slightly warmer, again, because it isn't insulated as well..)
But, it was super easy to install it into the existing HVAC system, so, it could be a great alternative for those in Europe that may not be able to install traditional air conditioning.. something for them to look into!
blackcatwizard@reddit
Same, and 100% - they're awesome
MDCCCLV@reddit
Solar panels and heat pumps is an easy win solution, the problem is time. There's not enough time to build solar and heat pumps for everyone.
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
Also not a solution. They require more materials and more energy. What are you solving for? We are so deep in overshoot it isn't funny. None of what you mentioned will prevent a catastrophic collapse.
TernarySquare0123@reddit
mole people
Turbulent_Table3917@reddit
Sorry Old England. In New England we had to turn the heat on this weekend because it was so chilly.
tovarish22@reddit
Hottest day in May ever for the UK…so far!
xblackk@reddit
My wife and i booked a week of London as a short getaway for exactly this week back in february expecting maybe 21° and a few clouds, fuck that decision haha
Round-Medicine2507@reddit
April was a nice month to tour the UK and Nederland.
Own_Appointment_8410@reddit
I don't know how you can complain about the cold after spending 7 months in depressing weather. Here where I live, yesterday and today it was cloudy with temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees and I think it sucks.
ISuckAtJavaScript12@reddit
Hottest day so far
Contagious_Zombie@reddit
Probably the coolest summer we’ll see going forward..
nickiter@reddit
When "man, it's never this hot this time of year!" is literally accurate.
Someones_Dream_Guy@reddit
calmly enjoys deep fried brits There is no helping you.
Own_Appointment_8410@reddit
I don't know how you can complain about the cold after spending 7 months in depressing weather. Here where I live, yesterday and today it was cloudy with temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees and I think it sucks.
jeremiasalmeida@reddit
"Hottest daí in May for the UK SO FAR..."
FTFY
The_Nude_Mocracy@reddit
My town exceeded its June temperature record. Bonkers
daviddjg0033@reddit
the magnitude a May high in 2026 surpassing June highs from antiquity to 2025 with a longer data set in France and UK
NyriasNeo@reddit
Time to invest in the AC business. More warming. More blasting AC. More emissions. More warming. You cannot ask for a better business model.
fxcker@reddit
Legit trying to figure out who to best stocks into from an AC standpoint lol
Elegant_Schedule4250@reddit
Fossile Fuels maybe? Crack Cocaine?
sebnukem@reddit
You know it's bad when you're running out of colors for the scale.
SquirrelAkl@reddit
Australia’s heat scale goes to purple and black now
Projectflintlock@reddit
icorrectotherpeople@reddit
Fixed it
Buzzkill_13@reddit
Yeah, what even is this greyish white there - ash??
Old_Mousse_5673@reddit
And this my even summer yet
Critical_Wrap5617@reddit
'guys, how about cyan?'
NotTodayGlowies@reddit
Nah, let's just keep looping through the reds.
64-17-5@reddit
"Then how about infrared?"
Critical_Wrap5617@reddit
'vantablack?'
morphemass@reddit
I'm tempted to mention that it needs more whites but in todays political climate that risks being misinterpreted more than the colour coding on this chart!
SeVenMadRaBBits@reddit
They'll have to start going blood red and then black
TheRaido@reddit
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Ba-ja-ja@reddit
icorrectotherpeople@reddit
Fixed it
KirbyWarrior12@reddit
that's fucking metal
No-Cost-1764@reddit
Skeletor vibes
mooky1977@reddit
"What's going on?"
LiliVonSchtupp@reddit
That’s exactly how it feels here.
Ilikeyellowjackets@reddit
The earth doesn't even try to keep up normal climate, it just looks at you like this
Reasonable_Swan9983@reddit
icorrectotherpeople@reddit
Fixed it
humanoidtyphoon88@reddit
40c is 104f. They won't boil alive. That's a typical summer in the SouthWest US
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
Apart from the fact that this isn't even summer and the infrastructure is not designed for these temperatures and it does kill a lot of people.
Why are Americans so aggressively ignorant.Heat-related mortality in Europe during 2024 and health emergency forecasting to reduce preventable death
uhmyeahwellok@reddit
I see the US as the angry adolescent nation: strong, insecure, emotional, dramatic, arrogant while pretty oblivious, minding everyone else’s matters while neglecting its own, eating fastfood while enjoying shooting guns. That said there are also a lot of lovely Americans.
littleredwoodowl@reddit
As an American this is absolutely true, but we are also so divided that it’s honestly one large subset of the population, while another segment of us are living in a different reality. We feel held hostage by the sociopathic oligarchs and corporations, and their ignorant followers.
TheIrishWanderer@reddit
"They won't immediately die, so these abnormal temperatures are not a problem."
Shit-tier ragebait.
icorrectotherpeople@reddit
Worlds worst color scale
TheDogeITA@reddit
Italy too, i've never seen a hotter day in may so far, i live in the mountains and it's 30°C, when it's usually 22/24
Karambamamba@reddit
Germany too, we’re about six weeks early for this kind of heat. But its record after record, every year. So who cares.
artisanrox@reddit
In Eastern PA, USA we just had a week of going from 5C, to 30 for a few days, back down to 5. It was horrible, the suddenness of it.
It's been unusually cold. Furnaces still kicking in at night. This is due to not having a solid jet stream anymore, which is also a result of climate change/warming.
SquirrelAkl@reddit
That’s insane fluctuations. Is it northerly vs southerly wind or something?
artisanrox@reddit
IMHO it's more that the State sat riiiight on the dividing line of hot and humid Southern air and cooler Northern air and the line gets pushed back and forth depending on a million other factors.
30C is more like late July temps for us. That should NEVER happen in mid-May. I'm glad it was only for maybe two days.
But it's defintiely getting slowly warmer overall, to the point that the USDA gardening zones have even shifted.
thereluctantpoet@reddit
Lived on Monte Rosa for a number of years (only just moved). It's the same there. The Sesia is drying up, the glaciers are shrinking, and the alps provide Europe with 40% of its fresh water. Go down towards Vercelli and the fields are turning to dust. È un incubo.
SirFrancisDrakesails@reddit
When Manchester feels more like Marrakesh in May, you know the chickens are coming home to roost.
keket_ing_Dvipantara@reddit
In case anyone missed the news for India, they recorded 48c several days ago. Activities in that particular town had to stop between 10 to 5.
Until this mind destroying heat r felt by the wealthiest, they'll prevent energy transition and global warming mitigation.
chesi32@reddit
literally impossible to sleep at night without AC
Current-Code@reddit
I don't think it's that bad honestly, we are still in the enjoyable zone if your home is not built like an oven.
It is exceptional for the period, but I expect 5 to 10 more degrees this summer.
Glad I moved in the north and left paris
TheIrishWanderer@reddit
I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, but homes here in Ireland are built with double glazing windows and are generally designed to keep heat trapped inside because of our cooler climate. We have radiators, not air conditioning units. Thankfully, the average temperatures are still bearable, but it will only get worse.
Current-Code@reddit
For sure it will, I am not arguing there.
That's more or less my point, we have "only" 30-32 degrees, this unusual for the period, but far from all time high !
TheIrishWanderer@reddit
I understand. All eyes on the next couple of months, in my opinion. I think this is going to be the start of a summer from hell.
Current-Code@reddit
I'm quite sure of it.
Ireland will be the next costa brava !
jiggjuggj0gg@reddit
Insulation works both ways, if it’s built to trap heat in, it can also keep the heat out. Probably too late now but the best thing to do is keep all windows and curtains closed while the air outside is hotter than inside, just like in we do in the winter to keep cold air out.
The bigger issue is old stone buildings where the stone itself stores the heat and acts like a radiator.
Cicadasladybirds@reddit
I'm in the southern hemisphere, so almost winter here, and we have jist started using our heating 6 weeks later than usual, it has been very warm. We haven't had any snow for the last 3 winters which is very different.
Ok_Main3273@reddit
Now three weeks of totally uninterrupted sunny weather in Auckland, NZ. Never experienced that here in 28 years, not even in the heart of our previous summers.
Only-Economics567@reddit
This heatwave is making me feel anxious about what the summer will bring.
I’m in the UK. Beginning of last week i had the heating on, now the portable air con unit. The swing in temperature feels extreme
Flimsy-Concept2531@reddit
This is so random but can you share which portable air con unit you have? Also in UK and looking to get one
TrickyProfit1369@reddit
Portable air con is overall worse than regular air conditioning. I would recommend a regular air conditioning, its a bit pricier but it actually saves energy, is quieter and more effective.
vocalfreesia@reddit
It's 10xs the price. A portable AC is around £400. But in the UK you're paying £2000 for a through wall unit, and that much again for fitting because we have brick built houses. It's expensive to install.
TrickyProfit1369@reddit
UK prices I guess. In central europe i paid like 1000 euros, which is still steep but not unreasonable, its for like 3 rooms and also through a brick wall. The regular ac felt like nobrainer after weighing the cost/benefits of portable vs normal AC.
Ivanjacob@reddit
Don't buy a portable AC. They suck (literally) because they exhaust air out of your window which causes hot air to be sucked into the room.
Only-Economics567@reddit
Sure, VonHaus Air conditioning unit 7000.
Although I bought it from B&Q and looks like they are out of stock now, would definitely recommend it if you can find one
BabadookishOnions@reddit
We had a very wet winter, the humidity is going to make summer unbearable
Single_Resolve_1465@reddit
Good. People need to learn it the hard way unfortunately.
holmes306@reddit
Saskatchewan Canada we are 33-34 Celsius all week, thankfully drop 10 degrees next week. Way too hot for late May.
mihaijulien@reddit
Eastern Europe had this heat dome 2 years ago, from May 2024 until the beginning of September 2024. Meanwhile, western Europe had a pleasant weather. Now it's the opposite. It will be a very hot summer.
Polikosaurio@reddit
Mediterranean coastal cities have the extra humidity that make this map not that representative of what hell on earth attempting to live in such places from late may till early september is.
Roman_Emperor_1st@reddit
"Climate Breakdown".
If you're being told what will happen, not what could happen, no matter the accuracy, you are being fed what someone else unknown to you decided you will eat.
justadiode@reddit
We'll all eat the same, whether you'll decide to eat it or to be force-fed the same stuff.
(Not even mentioning that "climate breakdown" isn't what will happen, it's what happening right now, just on a planetary timescale)
uhmyeahwellok@reddit
Ok boomer, whatever you say 🥱
Roman_Emperor_1st@reddit
You're so agreeable!
I think the boomers are dead now. They were supposed to start dropping early 2000's.
cliff-hunter@reddit
I live in Bordeaux where the heatwave is fucking killing us. We had 38°C all over the weekend and this week we have four days at 38-40°C.
But the town is full of tourists and those gigantic cruise ships just keep docking on the river. BAU baby.
cette-minette@reddit
Im inland from you just past Périgueux and its not much better. After having really cold days two weeks ago then suddenly this heat, the wildlife is suffering so much
cliff-hunter@reddit
Yep exactly, was thinking the same thing. I set out a deep plate of water for the birds, which I empty regularly (to keep the mosquitoes away).
Courage pour la semaine !
Successful-Try-8506@reddit
I'm on the west coast of Sweden. 14°C with a light drizzle.
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
More than 20 towns in France have already recorded their highest ever May temperatures and the UK set a national heat record amid an extreme early-summer heat event that could see the mercury climb to 40C in parts of Spain by the end of the week.
The UK’s Met Office said the country’s all-time record for May was broken when a temperature of 33.5C was recorded at Heathrow near London, with highs of up to 35C expected later on Monday and on Tuesday.
Hundreds more May records are likely to be set in France, Spain and the UK, forecasters said, in what Météo France described as a “premature, remarkable and long” heat episode expected to last several more days.
France’s national weather agency said the record temperatures were caused by a heat dome, with hot air from Morocco trapped under an area of high pressure, adding that Europe could expect such events “more and more often, more and more intense, and earlier and earlier”.
Models have already estimated that, with the effects of climate breakdown, June heatwaves are now about 10 times more likely in Europe than they were in the preindustrial era, and the same trajectory is becoming visible for May.
MaryAnn-Johanson@reddit
“[A]n extreme early-summer heat event”?
It’s not early summer. It’s late spring. 😬
Kaining@reddit
Yeah, my city made it to r/collapse. Last time it was of notice for the world, it was during the battle of Normandy.
So happy to live in exciting time !
Anyway, yeah, it's hot but it's supposed to last a couple day, not a couple week so it's still ok. Still i'm making good use of the night to cool down my home. Last year heatwave was brutal in comparison but what's worrisome is that we're still in may. Let's just hope it won't last.
Anyway, this is nothing compared to India, even if we're breaking records at 32/33° it's still 15/16° than what they went through last week.
trivetsandcolanders@reddit
I was in London on Saturday and it was hot and humid. Stiflingly so in the Underground. Crazy that it was even hotter yesterday.
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
I assumed the underground had some cooling for the trains if not for the patrons.
Ivanjacob@reddit
Some lines are hot the entire year because there's no cooling.
trivetsandcolanders@reddit
I believe it depends on the line. The Elizabeth Line (only a couple years old) was cool and pleasant, but the Jubilee Line was stiflingly hot.
BabadookishOnions@reddit
Unfortunately the underground can't really be cooled effectively without basically rebuild the entire line. The older tunnels are extremely narrow and thus the trains also have to be very small, and the tunnels and stations are surrounded by natural clay that just traps all the heat. Temperatures on the tube are effectively going to get worse continuously for the foreseeable future until it's basically unusable.
samoz83@reddit
Only certain lines, the deeper ones don't have enough space for air conditioned trains
RedIce25@reddit
Maybe the cold rainy May weather here in Norway isn't so bad after all...
Gioware@reddit
So... El nino confirmed?
JayTravers@reddit
Its. Only. Going. To. Get. Worse.
How do people deny this shit?
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
It's easier to deny than to face the horror head on.
futuriztic@reddit
Time to start my european hvac company
Pahanda@reddit
This is such a weird color scale: 3 tmes white and many similar shades of red / orange / purple...
uhmyeahwellok@reddit
Yeah looks like the false color mode on my cinema camera!
the_lastlightbulb@reddit
Why does the scale randomly go from red to black & white before continuing with red again!
stop_talking_you@reddit
who cares? you cant change temperatures
GGarriga@reddit
Fuck AI fuck billionaires fuck everything that let this happen
acesorangeandrandoms@reddit
I'm gunna be so fucking fr rn, that scale is atrocious.
FelixMumuHex@reddit
Not even that hot
HuckleberryPee@reddit
I'm annoyed as I planted some small young fruit trees a couple days ago (I'm UK) and I'm not around to go back and water them for another week or two yet. It's like the worst possible timing.
Really worried that they will have withered and dried to a crisp by the time I'm back there. Luckily I watered them in and the clay does hold moisture, so maybe there's hope? Temps drop fast from Thursday and maybe rain in a week.
Just going to be feeling anxiety for awhile until I can finally check on them :(
rcm1201@reddit
Did you know, annually, more people in Europe die because they don’t have AC than all gun deaths in America? Wild fact
aus10man@reddit
It’s happenin’ y’all.
pseudo-segfault@reddit
What’s that?
IronicHawk47@reddit
We are literally getting cooked in the UK. Hottest day ever recorded in May and it’ll likely only get worse 🙃
Jeremiahtheebullfrog@reddit
Looks like it’s time for some data centers to help keep everyone’s cool.
jonnieggg@reddit
Oh no, nice weather
BabadookishOnions@reddit
It's way hotter than most of Europe is actually built to deal with, in the 2000s the temperatures we're seeing in Britain right now we're rare and only happened briefly during summer, and that was the upper limit of what we could deal with. Now it's happening in May and is something we have no real cultural experience of, nor do we have the buildings designed for keeping a livable temperature in this situation.
x133@reddit
Imagine migrating to France just to scam tourists on the streets in Paris and its so fucking hot outside that you can't do crime all summer LOL (and the tourists aren't outside either for that matter)
TheIrishWanderer@reddit
Absolutely fucking insane. Most capital cities in the west of Europe are averaging 25-35°C this week. That might sound like a lot of variation and even rather mild in some cases (especially here in Ireland, where it's only 20-25°C), but those are not normal temperatures for May in Europe.
Let's hear the delusional wasters who don't believe in climate change try and defend this increasing trend of heatwaves as somehow "normal" and "completely unrelated to the current crisis".
Strap yourselves in for El Niño, folks. It's 45°C in New Delhi at the moment, if we look further abroad. It makes the threshold for a wet bulb event look like a fucking joke.
cartmaneric10@reddit
Oh naur
DistortedVoid@reddit
Yeah that is not good, its only end of May
Stonebeast1@reddit
Might be time to invest in some AC
chickey23@reddit
And nuclear power
R86znfq@reddit
No need to tell that to France...
HassanAchievedIt@reddit
Coldest el nino so far, next year we're reaching new levels and no I'm not happy to say this.
CremeAcrobatic1748@reddit
Yeah, this isn't even to peak el nino yet...buckle up folks.
Current-Code@reddit
El nino has little impact on Europe, it's an asian/ american phenomenon.
That hit wave is unrelated.
Well except for the root cause of climate change of course !
Stunning-Guidance852@reddit
I think el nino didn't arrive yet... isn't more around july?
InvestmentFuzzy4365@reddit
Ironically, when the AMOC collapses and temperatures plummet in Europe, this will be insane to look back on
DivaExMachina666@reddit
I lived in the UK in the middle 2000s and it rarely got that hot even in the height of summer. The houses are totally unadapted to it.
Own_Appointment_8410@reddit
Meanwhile, here in Brazil, in my city, I haven't seen any change in the last 20 years.
wanton_wonton_@reddit (OP)
Being dumb deaf and blind has it's perks I suppose.
Own_Appointment_8410@reddit
I meant to say that the summers are hellish as they always have been (actually, the last two were less so) and the winter lasts a few weeks longer.
Cicadasladybirds@reddit
So you have seen changes then?
Own_Appointment_8410@reddit
Yes. Winters are longer in my region.
JapaneseCDBonusTrack@reddit
Eastern Europe was abnormally freezing for some time, now Western Europe will abnormally cook for some time.
freesoloc2c@reddit
Like frogs in a pot.
Salty_Ad_3350@reddit
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
Are there air conditioned public buildings? Libraries are utilized where I live. I know that most there don’t have home air conditioning.
M_M_X_X_V@reddit
It literally isn't even fucking Summer yet
zaplinaki@reddit
Munich - 30C today. Germans need to get over their fear of AC and start blasting that shit everywhere.
M_M_X_X_V@reddit
But then all the cold air would leave when they do the lüften
Batbuckleyourpants@reddit
Meanwhile, On the west coast of Norway we are 4 degrees away from the coldest may in history.
randomlyme@reddit
Part of the challenge isn’t simply the raw temperature but the extreme rate of change, and the lack of acclimation by the people there. It’s going to be bad.
pagerussell@reddit
Honestly they should enjoy it while it lasts. When the AMOC collapses much of northern Europe will be very much colder. Nobody who lives in England is going to like living in England anymore.
read_it_mate@reddit
Have you paid your taxes?
AngilinaB@reddit
For some reason I'm sleeping in a tent in the back garden (my kid's idea). It's still 25 degrees and sticky af.
RevolutionaryClub530@reddit
Wow 40 degrees big deal
inlimbo70129@reddit
104 F
RevolutionaryClub530@reddit
I’m trollin
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/wanton_wonton_:
More than 20 towns in France have already recorded their highest ever May temperatures and the UK set a national heat record amid an extreme early-summer heat event that could see the mercury climb to 40C in parts of Spain by the end of the week.
The UK’s Met Office said the country’s all-time record for May was broken when a temperature of 33.5C was recorded at Heathrow near London, with highs of up to 35C expected later on Monday and on Tuesday.
Hundreds more May records are likely to be set in France, Spain and the UK, forecasters said, in what Météo France described as a “premature, remarkable and long” heat episode expected to last several more days.
France’s national weather agency said the record temperatures were caused by a heat dome, with hot air from Morocco trapped under an area of high pressure, adding that Europe could expect such events “more and more often, more and more intense, and earlier and earlier”.
Models have already estimated that, with the effects of climate breakdown, June heatwaves are now about 10 times more likely in Europe than they were in the preindustrial era, and the same trajectory is becoming visible for May.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1tnm69f/europe_faces_extreme_latemay_heatwave_with/onuwf3z/
Doridar@reddit
I'm in Belgium. We had 30C today. Tomorrow will be worse.
ven-dake@reddit
🇧🇪 belgium.is joining in the great sweat! Without air-conditioning and givernelent mandated top isolated housing designed to restrain heat ( because governement didnt get the global warming message)
DarkestNyu@reddit
🇬🇧 Welcome! May I offer you a cool, damp cloth to drape on your neck? 🇬🇧
ven-dake@reddit
Thank you ! Let's not forget humidity indeed
jadathendii@reddit
Hit 32 in Montpellier, it's insane. This is something we used to see in the end of June usually.
Ok_Instruction_2756@reddit
Thanks for letting us know, it's important everyone organise so we can comment on every news report on YouTube with "it's called summer" or "it's was hotter in 1972" or "I was once so hot when I was a child I literally burst into flames and died, this is nothing"
detreikght@reddit
Ofc when I wanted to change to lighter clothes, from all the anomalies I get the cold one
space_manatee@reddit
Its cooler here in texas right now, thats uh... concerning.
Chamouador@reddit
We had snow and one week later hear wave, gotta love this
imminentjogger5@reddit
everything is fine
Julian_Thorne@reddit
ai caramba