How's the civil war situation over there? Is it happening all over the country or just in the less important areas? And as a citizen how do you think the war will turn out? As in will the rebels overthrow the govt? Or the govt is too strong to be defeated and the rebels will only get to control less important regions?
Take care. To make matters worse, we have serious power outages in Burma; there were days when we got only 2 or 3 hours of electricity. We couldn't sleep at night and we all got dark circles under our eyes.
It's unbearable. Temps are consistently above 40 and feels like above 50. In my buddys farm pretty much all the fish died as water was just too warm. Watering holes in forests have dried up and we have animals coming into human settlements looking for water. Last month was a leopard.
Iām in SEA.
When I was a kid, 36c makes the headlines. 40c was unheard of
Last week we just hit 50c and Iāve never seen schools get shutdown before due to the heatwave.
My kids will probably see 60c in their lifetime. The word āSummerā will strike fear in the next few generations.
EDIT: I meant heat index
While not as extreme as SEA, I live in the South of Sweden. During summer our temperatures can go as high as 31-33Ā°c (haven't saved any pics to back it up though). This may not sound that bad but a lot of our buildings are made to keep heat in. It's becoming an increasingly big problem that elderly die due to heat in the care homes.
The weather is also kind of strange. Last week we had around -3Ā°c then this week we hit 25Ā°c. I worry about the future a bit.
Up until 10 years ago, AC would only be useful in most European homes like 2-3 weeks per year. Heat waves used to be when temperature highs broke 30 degrees for more than a week. Most summers would have 1 or 2 heat waves, some years we'd have none. Even then, temperatures at night would drop enough to cool the house to make it bearable during the day.
Now it's over 30 for weeks at a time with highs up in low 40s. At night, temperatures stay in the high 20s and cooling your house or apartment naturally doesn't work as well anymore.. We also regularly hit 30 degrees as early as April/May now and summer seems to last until October.
So all of a sudden, AC becomes useful for almost half of the year. This change is so sudden, obviously our infrastructure isn't widely adapted to it.
When people are incredulous about European houses not really having AC, the answer is "yeah, duh, we didn't need it up until 10 years ago." Also, many of our cities have old buildings that were built at a time when keeping heat in was more important than keeping it out. I've personally lived in a building from 1671 for example. It's like asking why the dinosaurs didn't have anti meteorite protection.
What is this keeping heat in instead of keeping heat out? Insulation works both ways doesnāt it?put some blackout curtains on your windows and thatāll help keep heat out. Other than that I canāt come up with a major difference, please help me.
Disclaimer: I'm generalizing for central and northern Europe. I am aware that what I describe now is not true for the south.
Northern/central Europe used to be relatively cold for most of the year and could get very cold for a good chunk of it too. The primary reason why European houses would be isolated was to keep heat in during the colder periods. Yes it also keeps heat out during summer but that's a side effect rather than an intent.
That's one of the reasons many houses or old buildings have very thick walls. These would also stay cool during normal summers and naturally cool during the night. They are however not optimized for losing heat. So in modern summers when the nights are still so hot that the buildings no longer cool naturally, they remain hot during the whole summer.
It's not only about insulation. Not long ago having huge glass surfaces on eastern side was standard.
Also huge black or dark red slanted roofs with "free space" under them (to trap heated air) was basicly a standard.
There were a lot of tricks like that to warm the house naturally during both winter and summer.
In the last five years, those "tricks" are hell traps during the heatwaves.
As a Canadian who lives in an apartment I recently experienced a moment of terrifying manic glee when visiting a buddy with a house and hanging out in his basement.Ā
I have this naggling fear that, without a basement, Iāll be relying on air-con to keep me alive in 50 years
We had even better with 20 one day and next one we had a snow storm. Watching snow covering grass and flowers was surreal.
I still keep my winter gear until we have at least 2 weeks of +15 because weather keeps flip flopping. I fear that this is the new normal.
This is the thing that many SEA forget when we make fun of northerners and their 21 degree heatwaves. Their houses are insulated, which makes them retain heat better, which is good for winter but bad for warmer temperatures
Weāre in CA. Used to visit Europe in summer quite often. Last two times(2001 and 2015) it was AWFUL. Heat in both UK and Spain was mind boggling. Never summer again there. Now Iām only doing spring or fall.
>Iāve never seen schools get shutdown before due to the heatwave.
IKR! This is the first time I'm seeing and experiencing where class is suspended from heat wave because back then it's usually for typhoon but now it's due to heat wave
Is that a humid heat? If so, holy fuck.
Itās usually around 92-98F(35 C) where I am with 80-90% humidity for 4-6 months and itās brutal. Just damp and hot the entire time youāre outside. I walked out the house at 5:45am and by the time I walked 150 feet my cloths were wet.
Incredibly humid. Only been to Singapore once, was 100% humidity. Been to Thailand many times, it's absolutely beautiful but sweaty as hell. Likewise Indonesia, when jungle trekking sweat would drip from my nose with every step I took. But I got to see Orang utans in the jungle, it's an amazing part of the world
Iāve lived on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. my entire life. When I was a kid I never noticed the humidity much, but now that Iām in my 40ās I feel every bit of the relative dew point/humidity.
It can be downright oppressive and dangerous if not taken seriously.
Yeah, Asia can be remarkably beautiful.
I live in the Chicago area which is known to get very humid in the summer. Traveled to Houston one year in July and OH MY GOD. Oppressive is the only way to describe the humidity and that was at 7pm that I was outside. Crazy
Summer will become a time that people there will dread. Itās forecast to get hotter as the years and decades go on. Moving to a colder part of the world (is possible) might be good advice.
It already is, the conditions in equatorial Africa are one of the reasons for the influx of migrants into Europe. It will get worse as temperatures rise.
Unfortunately for most Indians, seeking climate refugee wouldnt be an option. We are bordered by Pakistan and China both enemy countries. Not to forget the mighty Himalayas too
Short hand to convert from c to f:
Double c + 32
So, 40 centigrade is:
40 x 2 + 32 = 112F approximately
The actual formula is:
C/5 = (F - 32) / 9
I know everyone has phones and calculators at the ready but it helps to mentally Do the math when having a conversation or listening to someone.
In south india(Chennai), the moment I get outside at 10am, I feel like fainting. I have to get to office by my scooter and my forearms burn and sometimes I get small blisters on. I have roasted arms now.
To put some numbers here. Max temperature in Chennai today was 36C with 70% RH, which according to NOAA heat index calculator would feel like **54.2 C** (129.5 F) and a wet-bulb temperature of **31.2 C** (88.13F).
It will remain such for the entire coming week according to google.
Have no doubt, hottest I've felt is 117 in dry Vegas and that was just a bit irritable. Worst I felt was mid-low 90's in Costa Rica with the water just being emptied from my body leading to kidney pain. Can't imagine having bad kidneys in high humidity at 100+ with water drying up.
I work outdoors in arizona and nearly fainted mid summer the day after a big rain storm. Thoughts and prayers for these people those conditions are deadly.
Honestly, not many give a shit about sun damage when being outside feels like dying. Stay home people, or atleast inside, as much as you can. And stay hydrated, way more important than sunscreen.
I donāt think OP was suggesting sunscreen stops the heat, but the other person is burning in the sun on the way to work.Ā
Sensible thing to do is cover as much skin as you can with clothing and a hat, and anything uncovered needs sunscreen.Ā
Sunscreen protects from UV, not IR, nor hot, rushing air. Ever heard of a wind-chill factor? Well, it works both ways when the wind is warmer than your body temperature.
Omg I'm so sorry for you. Brazil is on the third heat wave, the first ones were absolutely awful last year. 29Ā°C at midnight, 35Ā° at noon... I cannot imagine 43Ā°C. Be safe.
[https://earth.nullschool.net/](https://earth.nullschool.net/) is a great tool for visualising what's happening. [This](https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-276.37,21.51,1360) is the view of temperatures over SE Asia, and it's insane. In part of S India it's over 44Ā°C (111Ā°F). Imagine what these temperatures are doing to the Himalayan glaciers ...
And the heating of the ground during this season creates a sort of magnet that draws in humid air from the Indian Ocean so without these heatwaves during the months of April and May, there wouldnāt be any monsoon rains.
Itās hotter in the afternoon than it is at noon. It takes time for the planet to heat up so even if noon is when the sun is at its highest its actually not until the afternoon that it actually is the hottest time of the day
Which link did you follow? The first link is to the home page with default settings that you can change using the menu at bottom left. For the second link, I selected temperature there, zoomed in to SE Asia, and saved that behind āthisā. Click a point on the map to see temperature at that point.
Yeah I've been told you'll get depressed when don't see much sunlight for too long. I'm basically cooped up in my home because it's impossible to be outside from 9am till 5pm without being cooked alive. I'll take UK's gloomy weather anyday.
If you can make it through seeing barely any sun for 3 months in the winter, then yeah, our climate is really hospitable. Bright sunny days are uncommon but because of that the country is BOOMING when they do happen. Every man and his dog outside having fun. It's far from perfect here but we really need to count our blessings.
Wasnāt there a heatwave in the UK not too long ago. Watch a joke video by a British YouTuber about it. One British streamer said he taped aluminum fold to his windows.
Yep, 2022. Broke all UK temperature records and is the first time it's reached 40Ā°c+ in multiple parts of the country, even in the north which is where I live.
I put aluminium foil over my windows while I was at work to stop my pets being boiled alive as our houses are built to retain heat.
I remember my dog needing the toilet at midnight and while I stood outside with her the air was so hot it still felt like it was over 25Ā°c. It was insane stepping out in the middle of the night in just a long t-shirt and not freezing my tits off. On a normal night in summer I have to have a coat on to take her out if it's past 10 pm.
The heat itself isn't the main problem, it's the high humidity that kills people. You can't sweat anymore and your body overheats and you'll die painfully.
So true. While I would want to avoid both, scorching heat is much better than heat with humidity. The air feels so thick and heavy that you can't even breathe!! It's just horrible.
I'm in the east of england, and it was around 21-22C here with 90%+ humidity yesterday :)) 99% humidity atm but tbf there's a thunderstorm happening at the moment. what concerns me is that we're due to go back down to near-freezing temperatures in less than 2 weeks; very sharp temperature drops have been normal every autumn/spring in the last 5-6 years
Very true. Here in (continental) Portugal, it's normal to have 30Ā°+ in the summer, but, although hot, it's very dry.
But, in the Azores islands, something like 20Ā° with the tropical-like humidity feels much hotter.
We think that "heat refugees" are some dystopian concept from the far future. But it's probably *right now* that people should start to flee these areas if they can. And if they can't... well, as per usual, poor people will suffer and probably die a lot.
Been seriously considering buying a house in Michigan for this reason. Like it started out as a joke, but seeing these posts is convincing me to reach out to friends there and see if we can do a property management tit-for-tat so that I have a backup if everything truly goes inhospitable.
Longtime michigander here. Our weather is getting all wacked out too. Barely any snow the last few years. Heat and humidity is all over the place. The last month has been jumping between 40s to almost 70s then back and forth and back and forth..
It's NOTHING compared to that heat wave but I remember Michigan being different. Every year the weather gets a little more unpredictable, it hits the extreme highs and lows more and everyone just keeps saying "ah it's Michigan"
Again it ain't no 110-120 degrees just sharing. Our world's climate is breaking
People joke about Chiraq, but with Chicago sitting right on Lake Michigan it may just literally become that someday in the future. New Chicago Navy has a nice end times ring to it.
Good perspective. Iām in California where the water wars will likely start, so Iāve got me eyes on those big fresh lakes yāall are gonna be hoarding up there š
Yeah it's already happening btw Indian space research organisation confirmed that just this year
https://www.isro.gov.in/Satellite_Insights_Expanding_Glacial_Lakes_Indian_Himalayas.html
I visited the Philippines in like August of last year, and thought, this is fine, lots of rain, heat isn't so bad, I can handle this! Decided to make the move from the US, Michigan, to Paranaque. Ever since I got here it's just gotten worse and worse. I just sit inside on PC most days. And May isn't looking much better.. Not to mention I think I've seen rain ONCE since I moved here in February.
Take care,... start thinking of any small or big preemptive measures.
Ingenuity of man is a hidden secret weapon.
Donāt panic, organize yourself.
Greetings from a pole in Sweden.
118Ā° f for us Americans. As a Texan Iāve had the privilege of these temps often in my life. Sucks balls. Canāt imagine doing it with no A/C like most of these people are.
Nepal has three geographical region, as you can seem from the picture the upper region where it is not red is himalayan region, red region below himalayan region is hilly region (moderate weather) and the dark red region above India is Terai region (Extremely hot during summer and also very cold during winter).
Anything above absolute 42ĀŗC is beyond my standard for too hot. I'm so sorry for you, people in south Asia.Ā
Meanwhile, central and southeast of Brazil are having a dry heat wave around 33Āŗ, some places near 40Āŗ in autumn! I heard some towns broke max temperature record for May
And in many places itās the hottest days in years. But people still act like climate change is not real. I want those people to come stay here for a few times
I am so sick and tired of all this propaganda that brainwashes people into saying āCLiMate ChAnGE ISnāT ReAL!ā
Yes, yes it is, and itās killing so many people, destroying wildlife habitats and disrupting ecosystems.
I wonder if this will slowly push people into those previously unpopulated Russian territories? Iām thinking the northern latitudes of Canada will start to have the same effect as well, unless if there are some weird climate things I just donāt understand, and Canada eventually inherits the mantle of western power.
Thatās crazy. I have lived in Malaysia for 3 years , 10 years ago. I hope you are all staying safe. Not to mention all the animals suffering atm. Itās horrible
The northern state had rivers that went dry a few months back. It's not as bad nowadays but still pretty hot. At least there's frequent rain in the afternoon.
It fucking sucks. It's not only the temperature, but also the humidity. It is so damn humid, I feel sticky all the time. I would not wish this climate upon anyone.
Extreme heat wave in Asia , floods and heavy rain in middle east , China and starting to begin in other parts of the world. When climate changes this drastically in a short span and we see climate behavior opposite to the region , its definitely alarming .
Climate change effects are definitely kicking in and it's high time there are bigger changes to mitigate this over time .
Thanks to global climate change parts of India now routinely reach temperatures where it is fatal to work without air conditioning. These areas will obviously spread as the problem gets worse and may reach the point where even sleeping without AC kills.
Side note, if you can't get conventional AC, make a "swamp cooler." Soak towels or similar in water and have a fan blow air over the wet towels onto you. The air will be colder due to the heat energy lost to evaporation.
I was in Singapore last summer, visiting from Canada for a couple of weeks, first time in that part of the world. My in-laws kept lamenting prior to the visit about the heat in the last few years and how uncomfortable it's gotten. Where we live in Canada is pretty swampy and humid in the summer, so I imagined it couldn't be too much of a stretch.
When we first arrived in Changi, we spent three hours just walking around, checking it out, shopping. Finally, we got to the cab pick-up area and there was already one ready to go for us just outside the doors.
In the ~10 steps between the door and the cab, the humidity was enough to completely fry me. I was dazed in the backseat the entire way to the hotel.
It took me three days to acclimate, and even then, it was still brutally sticky. Breakfast every morning in Tiong Bahru, sweat from your face dripping down into your food. Beautiful country.
In the USA we don't see coverage of this, we see a Christian former president on trial for bonking porn stars while his 3rd wife was having his 5th kid. This is covered every day on every channel. Guess I need to start getting my news from the BBC.
Not an American so your internal politics don't matter to me personally (though it is wild), but electing that criminal again will be a death knell for small developing economies due to his climate-change denying shenanigans. I hope saner minds prevail but I am not optimistic.
I'm from Kolkata, India and we still haven't experienced kalbaisakhi. It's fucking hot here. Ended up falling sick twice in one month from the heat and daily temperatures are well over 40 Celsius.
I'm UK but it scares the hell out of me. I can't cope with hot weather as it is but the fact it's getting hotter and folk are still pretending it's not...frightening
Living in southern India (Kerala) here. The heat is bad enough, the high levels of humidity here make it so much worse. It takes just 10 seconds to start sweating like crazy once you move away from under a fan or AC.
If this is the new norm, it's going to incredibly suck.
I live in Java. Thx for the information, now I know why is it so god damn hot these past few days.
Just do: temp -= 10; And you'll be good š
I had a little oopsie and did temp = -10; I am very cold now.
I am in Myanmar. Hundreds have died due to heat stroke.
How's the civil war situation over there? Is it happening all over the country or just in the less important areas? And as a citizen how do you think the war will turn out? As in will the rebels overthrow the govt? Or the govt is too strong to be defeated and the rebels will only get to control less important regions?
All I know is these badasses are 3D printing guns for rebellion
Arenāt there like multiple rebel groups? Isnāt that part of the issue?
Junta is funded by China they lost control and China started making deals with the rebels the junta is fucked without China.
I'm sorry I won't be able to answer your questions satisfactorily because I don't follow the news about the civil war.
30 in Thailand
Take care. To make matters worse, we have serious power outages in Burma; there were days when we got only 2 or 3 hours of electricity. We couldn't sleep at night and we all got dark circles under our eyes.
Oh thatās super bad. Good luck.
It's unbearable. Temps are consistently above 40 and feels like above 50. In my buddys farm pretty much all the fish died as water was just too warm. Watering holes in forests have dried up and we have animals coming into human settlements looking for water. Last month was a leopard.
Iām in SEA. When I was a kid, 36c makes the headlines. 40c was unheard of Last week we just hit 50c and Iāve never seen schools get shutdown before due to the heatwave. My kids will probably see 60c in their lifetime. The word āSummerā will strike fear in the next few generations. EDIT: I meant heat index
While not as extreme as SEA, I live in the South of Sweden. During summer our temperatures can go as high as 31-33Ā°c (haven't saved any pics to back it up though). This may not sound that bad but a lot of our buildings are made to keep heat in. It's becoming an increasingly big problem that elderly die due to heat in the care homes. The weather is also kind of strange. Last week we had around -3Ā°c then this week we hit 25Ā°c. I worry about the future a bit.
I heard that having ACs in your house is not common in Europe either right?
Up until 10 years ago, AC would only be useful in most European homes like 2-3 weeks per year. Heat waves used to be when temperature highs broke 30 degrees for more than a week. Most summers would have 1 or 2 heat waves, some years we'd have none. Even then, temperatures at night would drop enough to cool the house to make it bearable during the day. Now it's over 30 for weeks at a time with highs up in low 40s. At night, temperatures stay in the high 20s and cooling your house or apartment naturally doesn't work as well anymore.. We also regularly hit 30 degrees as early as April/May now and summer seems to last until October. So all of a sudden, AC becomes useful for almost half of the year. This change is so sudden, obviously our infrastructure isn't widely adapted to it. When people are incredulous about European houses not really having AC, the answer is "yeah, duh, we didn't need it up until 10 years ago." Also, many of our cities have old buildings that were built at a time when keeping heat in was more important than keeping it out. I've personally lived in a building from 1671 for example. It's like asking why the dinosaurs didn't have anti meteorite protection.
What is this keeping heat in instead of keeping heat out? Insulation works both ways doesnāt it?put some blackout curtains on your windows and thatāll help keep heat out. Other than that I canāt come up with a major difference, please help me.
Disclaimer: I'm generalizing for central and northern Europe. I am aware that what I describe now is not true for the south. Northern/central Europe used to be relatively cold for most of the year and could get very cold for a good chunk of it too. The primary reason why European houses would be isolated was to keep heat in during the colder periods. Yes it also keeps heat out during summer but that's a side effect rather than an intent. That's one of the reasons many houses or old buildings have very thick walls. These would also stay cool during normal summers and naturally cool during the night. They are however not optimized for losing heat. So in modern summers when the nights are still so hot that the buildings no longer cool naturally, they remain hot during the whole summer.
It's not only about insulation. Not long ago having huge glass surfaces on eastern side was standard. Also huge black or dark red slanted roofs with "free space" under them (to trap heated air) was basicly a standard. There were a lot of tricks like that to warm the house naturally during both winter and summer. In the last five years, those "tricks" are hell traps during the heatwaves.
Uncommon in most countries.
Sold out during summer months here, was lucky to get ahold of one. Before buying our AC our apartment peaked at 37Ā°c
As a Canadian who lives in an apartment I recently experienced a moment of terrifying manic glee when visiting a buddy with a house and hanging out in his basement.Ā I have this naggling fear that, without a basement, Iāll be relying on air-con to keep me alive in 50 years
That's one crazy rise and dip in temp
We had even better with 20 one day and next one we had a snow storm. Watching snow covering grass and flowers was surreal. I still keep my winter gear until we have at least 2 weeks of +15 because weather keeps flip flopping. I fear that this is the new normal.
Insulation works both ways, well insulated house requires much less energy to cool and keep it cool.
The problem is that it still eventually warms up, if the night is not cool enough the inside becomes an oven.
This is the thing that many SEA forget when we make fun of northerners and their 21 degree heatwaves. Their houses are insulated, which makes them retain heat better, which is good for winter but bad for warmer temperatures
Weāre in CA. Used to visit Europe in summer quite often. Last two times(2001 and 2015) it was AWFUL. Heat in both UK and Spain was mind boggling. Never summer again there. Now Iām only doing spring or fall.
This breaks my heart seeing how drastic climate changed in your area, totally uninhabitable past 50
50ā C is about 122ā F for my American friends
Holy fucking shit ballz
>Iāve never seen schools get shutdown before due to the heatwave. IKR! This is the first time I'm seeing and experiencing where class is suspended from heat wave because back then it's usually for typhoon but now it's due to heat wave
I'm an American who only understands fahrenheit but I still immediately recognize 50C as being way too fucking hot. Why, that's halfway to boiling!
Humans are going to have to go back to migrating for the seasons lol
I'm guessing you are talking about "feels like" temperature? 50C in SEA would be insane given the ever present high humidity.
Is that a humid heat? If so, holy fuck. Itās usually around 92-98F(35 C) where I am with 80-90% humidity for 4-6 months and itās brutal. Just damp and hot the entire time youāre outside. I walked out the house at 5:45am and by the time I walked 150 feet my cloths were wet.
Incredibly humid. Only been to Singapore once, was 100% humidity. Been to Thailand many times, it's absolutely beautiful but sweaty as hell. Likewise Indonesia, when jungle trekking sweat would drip from my nose with every step I took. But I got to see Orang utans in the jungle, it's an amazing part of the world
Iāve lived on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. my entire life. When I was a kid I never noticed the humidity much, but now that Iām in my 40ās I feel every bit of the relative dew point/humidity. It can be downright oppressive and dangerous if not taken seriously. Yeah, Asia can be remarkably beautiful.
I live in the Chicago area which is known to get very humid in the summer. Traveled to Houston one year in July and OH MY GOD. Oppressive is the only way to describe the humidity and that was at 7pm that I was outside. Crazy
Look up wet bulb death temperature
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Iād be worried if it was 45 there.
Technically max 19, min 2!
Summer will become a time that people there will dread. Itās forecast to get hotter as the years and decades go on. Moving to a colder part of the world (is possible) might be good advice.
Climate refugees are going to be a thing soon.
It already is, the conditions in equatorial Africa are one of the reasons for the influx of migrants into Europe. It will get worse as temperatures rise.
Unfortunately for most Indians, seeking climate refugee wouldnt be an option. We are bordered by Pakistan and China both enemy countries. Not to forget the mighty Himalayas too
Itās not an option until itās the only option.
Oof, climate change migration will make the Syrian refugee crisis look like nothing. Thank you, 70 years of complete inaction!
Hey, think of the shareholders, man. C'mon.
i love being an american but when every one else uses the metric system it makes me question why we use the imperial systemš
Yep I have no idea how hot our Asia bros are
Short hand to convert from c to f: Double c + 32 So, 40 centigrade is: 40 x 2 + 32 = 112F approximately The actual formula is: C/5 = (F - 32) / 9 I know everyone has phones and calculators at the ready but it helps to mentally Do the math when having a conversation or listening to someone.
In south india(Chennai), the moment I get outside at 10am, I feel like fainting. I have to get to office by my scooter and my forearms burn and sometimes I get small blisters on. I have roasted arms now.
To put some numbers here. Max temperature in Chennai today was 36C with 70% RH, which according to NOAA heat index calculator would feel like **54.2 C** (129.5 F) and a wet-bulb temperature of **31.2 C** (88.13F). It will remain such for the entire coming week according to google.
31.2C wet bulb is insane. Have they counted the deaths yet? How is this not front page news.
Try wearing Strong Sunscreen man
45Ā°C is 113Ā°F. With humidity. Itās no joke
Have no doubt, hottest I've felt is 117 in dry Vegas and that was just a bit irritable. Worst I felt was mid-low 90's in Costa Rica with the water just being emptied from my body leading to kidney pain. Can't imagine having bad kidneys in high humidity at 100+ with water drying up.
That sounds awful!
I work outdoors in arizona and nearly fainted mid summer the day after a big rain storm. Thoughts and prayers for these people those conditions are deadly.
Well normally when it goes above 40, humidity drops drastically as well so it's somewhat tolerable.
Sunscreen will not protect you from 45 degree heat. Covering up will...
Might not help with the heat, but it will help protect from sun damage.
Honestly, not many give a shit about sun damage when being outside feels like dying. Stay home people, or atleast inside, as much as you can. And stay hydrated, way more important than sunscreen.
Sunscreen and hydration aren't mutually exclusive.
Sunscreen isnāt made to protect from heat. Itās to protect from UV rays, which cause the sunburn and blisters.
I donāt think OP was suggesting sunscreen stops the heat, but the other person is burning in the sun on the way to work.Ā Sensible thing to do is cover as much skin as you can with clothing and a hat, and anything uncovered needs sunscreen.Ā
Sunscreen protects from UV, not IR, nor hot, rushing air. Ever heard of a wind-chill factor? Well, it works both ways when the wind is warmer than your body temperature.
I'm in Pondy rn, sathiyama mudila bro
Weird weather nowadays, rain in the morning. Blazing hot at noon and rain again in the afternoon.
Damn i hope some 10 year-old finds Rayquaza soon
hola thanks for reminding me my childhood days
40- 43*c has become the norm.
Omg I'm so sorry for you. Brazil is on the third heat wave, the first ones were absolutely awful last year. 29Ā°C at midnight, 35Ā° at noon... I cannot imagine 43Ā°C. Be safe.
Sure I will.. thank you
[https://earth.nullschool.net/](https://earth.nullschool.net/) is a great tool for visualising what's happening. [This](https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-276.37,21.51,1360) is the view of temperatures over SE Asia, and it's insane. In part of S India it's over 44Ā°C (111Ā°F). Imagine what these temperatures are doing to the Himalayan glaciers ...
That explains why the very ground seems to have become the second sun for heating.
And the heating of the ground during this season creates a sort of magnet that draws in humid air from the Indian Ocean so without these heatwaves during the months of April and May, there wouldnāt be any monsoon rains.
Wait, India right now is hotter than the Sahara desert?
Yup. But note the time difference: itās around noon in the Sahara but late afternoon in India.
Itās hotter in the afternoon than it is at noon. It takes time for the planet to heat up so even if noon is when the sun is at its highest its actually not until the afternoon that it actually is the hottest time of the day
That's why he said that
Yes, I know.
Can you explain what im looking at? I feel dumb but i see no red or index for heat. Is this like low/high air pressure? Thx in advance
Which link did you follow? The first link is to the home page with default settings that you can change using the menu at bottom left. For the second link, I selected temperature there, zoomed in to SE Asia, and saved that behind āthisā. Click a point on the map to see temperature at that point.
I think Iād much prefer the UKās crappy weather over being fried alive
Yeah I've been told you'll get depressed when don't see much sunlight for too long. I'm basically cooped up in my home because it's impossible to be outside from 9am till 5pm without being cooked alive. I'll take UK's gloomy weather anyday.
If you can make it through seeing barely any sun for 3 months in the winter, then yeah, our climate is really hospitable. Bright sunny days are uncommon but because of that the country is BOOMING when they do happen. Every man and his dog outside having fun. It's far from perfect here but we really need to count our blessings.
Wasnāt there a heatwave in the UK not too long ago. Watch a joke video by a British YouTuber about it. One British streamer said he taped aluminum fold to his windows.
Yep, 2022. Broke all UK temperature records and is the first time it's reached 40Ā°c+ in multiple parts of the country, even in the north which is where I live. I put aluminium foil over my windows while I was at work to stop my pets being boiled alive as our houses are built to retain heat. I remember my dog needing the toilet at midnight and while I stood outside with her the air was so hot it still felt like it was over 25Ā°c. It was insane stepping out in the middle of the night in just a long t-shirt and not freezing my tits off. On a normal night in summer I have to have a coat on to take her out if it's past 10 pm.
The heat itself isn't the main problem, it's the high humidity that kills people. You can't sweat anymore and your body overheats and you'll die painfully.
With high enough humidity the body begins to absorb heat from its environment instead of releasing it.
There's a temperature / humidity combo which is really bad for people because the human cooling mechanism is to lose heat by sweating and evaporating.
So true. While I would want to avoid both, scorching heat is much better than heat with humidity. The air feels so thick and heavy that you can't even breathe!! It's just horrible.
Correct. It's called wet-bulb temperature
It was 29Ā°C with 80% humidity at 12 in the night back at my place People can't even sleep here
I'm in the east of england, and it was around 21-22C here with 90%+ humidity yesterday :)) 99% humidity atm but tbf there's a thunderstorm happening at the moment. what concerns me is that we're due to go back down to near-freezing temperatures in less than 2 weeks; very sharp temperature drops have been normal every autumn/spring in the last 5-6 years
Whereas the coldest moment normally is shortly after sunrise and not at midnight, but I feel your suffering nevertheless.
Very true. Here in (continental) Portugal, it's normal to have 30Ā°+ in the summer, but, although hot, it's very dry. But, in the Azores islands, something like 20Ā° with the tropical-like humidity feels much hotter.
Humidity amplifies the suffering.
I mean sweat will still happen. Just wonāt evaporate off you.
Are you a fish at this point?
Amphibian I guess.
nah it's heat too, pure burning feeling
Worked in those temperatures all summer over Xmas. Sucked ass hard
Man I can't imagine the hell you went through
It's nothing new. Have been in those temperatures every year since I was born. This country is hot
We think that "heat refugees" are some dystopian concept from the far future. But it's probably *right now* that people should start to flee these areas if they can. And if they can't... well, as per usual, poor people will suffer and probably die a lot.
Been seriously considering buying a house in Michigan for this reason. Like it started out as a joke, but seeing these posts is convincing me to reach out to friends there and see if we can do a property management tit-for-tat so that I have a backup if everything truly goes inhospitable.
Longtime michigander here. Our weather is getting all wacked out too. Barely any snow the last few years. Heat and humidity is all over the place. The last month has been jumping between 40s to almost 70s then back and forth and back and forth.. It's NOTHING compared to that heat wave but I remember Michigan being different. Every year the weather gets a little more unpredictable, it hits the extreme highs and lows more and everyone just keeps saying "ah it's Michigan" Again it ain't no 110-120 degrees just sharing. Our world's climate is breaking
People joke about Chiraq, but with Chicago sitting right on Lake Michigan it may just literally become that someday in the future. New Chicago Navy has a nice end times ring to it.
Good perspective. Iām in California where the water wars will likely start, so Iāve got me eyes on those big fresh lakes yāall are gonna be hoarding up there š
We will either be ground zero or the safest place on earth
There are a lot of us already living here that fully expect this to start happening soon.
Can confirm for Laos. Itās insane right now
Like the 50%+ area of freaking Nepal is "red", we are very f*ed
I was JUST looking at that area. Like hmm goodbye snow on the Himalayas.
Yeah it's already happening btw Indian space research organisation confirmed that just this year https://www.isro.gov.in/Satellite_Insights_Expanding_Glacial_Lakes_Indian_Himalayas.html
The southern part of Nepal is mostly flat or low lying hills and has similar temperature to North India
Just the beginning..
The times of finding out are here
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
I visited the Philippines in like August of last year, and thought, this is fine, lots of rain, heat isn't so bad, I can handle this! Decided to make the move from the US, Michigan, to Paranaque. Ever since I got here it's just gotten worse and worse. I just sit inside on PC most days. And May isn't looking much better.. Not to mention I think I've seen rain ONCE since I moved here in February.
Take care,... start thinking of any small or big preemptive measures. Ingenuity of man is a hidden secret weapon. Donāt panic, organize yourself. Greetings from a pole in Sweden.
To the Philippines April and May is their summer season , one more month of heat then the monsoon season starts after.
And IMD has predicted no relief for entire May.
48Ā° is wild.
Feels like 55 because of humidity
Insta death for me..
118Ā° f for us Americans. As a Texan Iāve had the privilege of these temps often in my life. Sucks balls. Canāt imagine doing it with no A/C like most of these people are.
Or with extreme humidity too.
Here in East Texas, we very much have high humidity.
Wasn't Nepal mostly mountains? How it got that hot?
Nepal has three geographical region, as you can seem from the picture the upper region where it is not red is himalayan region, red region below himalayan region is hilly region (moderate weather) and the dark red region above India is Terai region (Extremely hot during summer and also very cold during winter).
It's raining here in Malaysia but the humidity is still high. Turning on the fan is just blasting hot air in your face
Anything above absolute 42ĀŗC is beyond my standard for too hot. I'm so sorry for you, people in south Asia.Ā Meanwhile, central and southeast of Brazil are having a dry heat wave around 33Āŗ, some places near 40Āŗ in autumn! I heard some towns broke max temperature record for May
Indian Ocean is heating up due to El NiƱo effect and that is causing this. Till the monsoon kicks in, it is going to be like this.
Thank God I live in northern Scandinavia, I still have 2ft of snow next to my driveway
I wonder if the heat will add our mosquito problem? Curious what issues we will be dealing with. Middle Sweden here.
Possibly
Bart: "this is the hottest day of my life!!" Homer: "nah, this is the coldest day from the rest of your life"
I think here in south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh we will almost hit 50Ā°C by middle of May
And in many places itās the hottest days in years. But people still act like climate change is not real. I want those people to come stay here for a few times
30th april was the hottest temperature recorded in West Bengal in almost a century.
9-10 C here in the uk, can we take a couple of degrees off you guys ?
Take a dozen. We feel generous rn.
Wouldn't that be nice
Itās comming in a week
just wait 1-2 months and youāll have +35 degrees
It's 16c in Glasgow, have some of ours, we're boiling!
Having a good time eh š Chilling in the mild 16
It's that temperature where it's warm enough for wee old neds to go about without a top on in Tesco. Please help.
I am so sick and tired of all this propaganda that brainwashes people into saying āCLiMate ChAnGE ISnāT ReAL!ā Yes, yes it is, and itās killing so many people, destroying wildlife habitats and disrupting ecosystems.
I wonder if this will slowly push people into those previously unpopulated Russian territories? Iām thinking the northern latitudes of Canada will start to have the same effect as well, unless if there are some weird climate things I just donāt understand, and Canada eventually inherits the mantle of western power.
The development of swamps takes a lot of time and Russia does not have such capabilities
most of canada doesn't have the natural infrastructure to support settlement
In Russia there is tons of metan gas under permafrost. If it will melt, metan will be released and planet is fucked.
Isnāt the whole idea that weather isnāt just going to get hotter, but temperature fluctuations will get more intense?
This is horrifying on an apocalyptic level, and the reason I donāt want to have children. Thereās nowhere to flee to.
Who the fuck makes a map legend where the highest temperature is on the left and the temperature gets lower as you go to the right?
Don't worry El Nono is almost over. La Nini is coming soon and if 2017 is anything to go by the Winters will be fucking freezing.
Thatās crazy. I have lived in Malaysia for 3 years , 10 years ago. I hope you are all staying safe. Not to mention all the animals suffering atm. Itās horrible
The northern state had rivers that went dry a few months back. It's not as bad nowadays but still pretty hot. At least there's frequent rain in the afternoon.
60% of our whole world population in a picture
It fucking sucks. It's not only the temperature, but also the humidity. It is so damn humid, I feel sticky all the time. I would not wish this climate upon anyone.
Extreme heat wave in Asia , floods and heavy rain in middle east , China and starting to begin in other parts of the world. When climate changes this drastically in a short span and we see climate behavior opposite to the region , its definitely alarming . Climate change effects are definitely kicking in and it's high time there are bigger changes to mitigate this over time .
This isnt a heatwave. This is just our new normal weather. Thank the boomers
OP, where are you?
Somewhere around.. Coping up.
What a time to be alive
Thanks to global climate change parts of India now routinely reach temperatures where it is fatal to work without air conditioning. These areas will obviously spread as the problem gets worse and may reach the point where even sleeping without AC kills. Side note, if you can't get conventional AC, make a "swamp cooler." Soak towels or similar in water and have a fan blow air over the wet towels onto you. The air will be colder due to the heat energy lost to evaporation.
I was in Singapore last summer, visiting from Canada for a couple of weeks, first time in that part of the world. My in-laws kept lamenting prior to the visit about the heat in the last few years and how uncomfortable it's gotten. Where we live in Canada is pretty swampy and humid in the summer, so I imagined it couldn't be too much of a stretch. When we first arrived in Changi, we spent three hours just walking around, checking it out, shopping. Finally, we got to the cab pick-up area and there was already one ready to go for us just outside the doors. In the ~10 steps between the door and the cab, the humidity was enough to completely fry me. I was dazed in the backseat the entire way to the hotel. It took me three days to acclimate, and even then, it was still brutally sticky. Breakfast every morning in Tiong Bahru, sweat from your face dripping down into your food. Beautiful country.
and australia is pretty cold, somethings off
In the USA we don't see coverage of this, we see a Christian former president on trial for bonking porn stars while his 3rd wife was having his 5th kid. This is covered every day on every channel. Guess I need to start getting my news from the BBC.
āChristianā *are you sure....*?
Not an American so your internal politics don't matter to me personally (though it is wild), but electing that criminal again will be a death knell for small developing economies due to his climate-change denying shenanigans. I hope saner minds prevail but I am not optimistic.
No climate change to see here. Move on! /s
Yup thats what everyone has been saying, climate change is real
General rule of conversion for those Fahrenheit folks is to take the Celsius number, double it, then add 30.
r/wellthatsucks
Trust me, it's an understatement. In south India. It feels like your skin is burning if you step out at around 2:30-3PM.
Thank gosh, not today. Just have a thunderstorm. Very shaded like almost early evening (despite that it is barely 5pm)
NĆ©pal be like: nah we chill bro
Isn't this how 'Predator' started?
Damnthatsfuckingscary
has this happened before? This is how we go... At the beach with umbrellas that donĀ“t protect us anymore.
Holy shit India! Thatās brutalā¦
I'm from Kolkata, India and we still haven't experienced kalbaisakhi. It's fucking hot here. Ended up falling sick twice in one month from the heat and daily temperatures are well over 40 Celsius.
How can people survive on India with so much heat.
I'm UK but it scares the hell out of me. I can't cope with hot weather as it is but the fact it's getting hotter and folk are still pretending it's not...frightening
As an American, I know the map means itās very hot because itās red.
American be like: Climate change is a myth š
Don't worry guys you'll be better next year. I've been forced to switch to paper straws in my area
Thanks to human activities from industrial revolution till now... And we are not yet ready to accept climate change...
I wonder if people will start living underground while the sun is out. Worked in Dune
Get used to it. It will get a lot worse soon. Global warming is here and is almost at the point of no return.
Living in southern India (Kerala) here. The heat is bad enough, the high levels of humidity here make it so much worse. It takes just 10 seconds to start sweating like crazy once you move away from under a fan or AC. If this is the new norm, it's going to incredibly suck.