Random afd fanboy: “that’s just summer”
The neat thing is: It’s a record high. It was literally never this hot before.
Not that these discussions are about facts at all, but now you have one to confront them with.
It may have been this hot when that asteroid hit, so I’m calling BS
i get to say this every year
but it’s the coolest summer of the rest of our lives
Locally, not necessarily true. Globally, almost definitely.
This is El Nino, so ut might be less hot next year.
Seems like every day we’re getting coolest day of the month
Great work!
Germany has laws about requiring a certain heating level in the winter for safety and comfort reasons. I hope we can vote the CDU out next opportunity and talk about requiring a certain cooling level in the summer because it’s dangerously hot in most apartments these days.
I won’t rant about landlords here but like, if there isn’t a law this change won’t happen and people will die because of it. I can’t imagine living in a Dachgeschoss right now. My last one got ~5-10 degrees hotter than outside.
There are legal limits above which you are allowed to withhold rent. I do not know them by heart since I live in a sunny but colder region of Germany.
So at some point the owner has to take measures to lower the temperature. Be it by installing better insulation or by installing AC. Also: you only have to prove it’s too warm, the owner would need to prove you yourself are causing the heat, if they want to curb paying.
There is no general legal framework for this. There have been decisions in court to allow the withholding of rent due to heat, or to force the landlord to improve the building. However, there have also been cases where the court ruled that the heat is part of “general risk of living”. It all depends on the exact situation and the decision of a judge, because most landlords will probably tell you to kick rocks when you contact them about this.
After consulting the Grüneberg, you seem to be right. That is probably just a matter of time though. The Germam High court is notorously pro renter and climate change will also make these matters only worse.
More insulation doesn’t work. At some point it actively becomes more of a problem than a solution.
You HAVE to remove the heat inside some how or you just create an oven.
Insulation also prevents heat from entering
For a certain time, once it’s consistently hot for a few days that won’t help
Damn.
God damn even.
Insane ay
That’s hot for Australia
Hot for much of the USA, not unheard of but still not to be fucked with heat.
It’s funny, you still see people having a shot about it not being that hot.
That’s a blistering day in Queensland, where I am. With our normal humidity, it kills. I’d imagine Florida would be a good comparison. Sure, I’ve routinely felt 44-45C in summer but fucking hell, in Germany that is truly insane
A comparison would be an above 45C day here.
The other issue too is UV level and how unaccustomed they are to tolerating and preventing that.
This may be a dumb question but is the UV level necessarily changed by the heat dome?
I honestly have no idea ay, it’s not my science. I should add as well, we’re currently being battered by solar activity on top of the heat in the northern hemisphere.
I do know the southern hemisphere has higher instances of UV exposure due to it facing the sun more directly in summer.
Eh… 100+ degrees is pretty common in much of the US during summer. Every state in the union has broken 100 degrees and the majority do so every year.
The bigger one, is only a handful break 100 degrees and stay there for extend periods. And only a handful break 100 AND have 90% humidity to go along with it.
The Midwest can be a real bitch and give you 100 degrees and 90% humidity one day and snow the next some times. It’s great!
It’s really not, 100+ days aren’t common except in the desert southwest and Texas.
41.5 is 106 degrees.
It’s hot, even for the USA, but the real issue is these areas don’t have universal air conditioning like we tend to in the USA.
They aren’t being wussies or just not used to it, these are dangerous temperatures regardless of where you are.
Not only is there no air conditioning, but the average house is really well insulated, which is great in winter but can make it really difficult to cool your house down in this kind of heat
The good news is a well insulated house is easier to keep cool when/if retrofitted with split zone heat pumps.
The bad news is we’re gonna throw Europe past the climate range where heat pumps do the jobby.
Also Germany: MORE COAL!
AND DATA CENTERS
Didn’t our coal numbers hit 50y lows?
41.5 C is 106.7 Freedom units. That’s too hot. Yikes.
*Eagle Cheeseburgers
We use two °° symbols because they remind us of bitchin’ truck exhaust pipes.
Nothing is quite so American as truck nuts.
Also bitchin’ tits.
Fake degrees are imaginary numbers.
All numbers are made up. Celsius is no less fake than farenheit. They are both derived from actual physical processes (an amount of energy required to change the temperature of a specific amount of water), just using different units.
Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt).[2][3] The other limit established was his best estimate of the average human body temperature, originally set at 90 °F, then 96 °F (about 2.6 °F less than the modern value due to a later redefinition of the scale).[2]
Yeah, the freezing point of a random solution, and the perceived temperature of the human body makes as much sense as the freezing and boiling point of water for reference. Kelvin is objectively better, but centigrade is immediately understandable as it uses easily understandable reference points.
Ok cool.
I’m in SWEDEN right now. YES, SWEDEN. It’s morning, cool morning air, window fully open. 30 degrees. Hits 35 peak, usually. Absolutely insane.
Enviable.
Hang in there our German brothers and sisters, the heat finally broke in NL last night.
Of course, it’s still 26C and 80% humidity, so YMMV.
just need to hang on for a bit longer and when AMOC fails the heat waves will be a much lower priority! \s
See, if that happens, it will cause extreme cold in winter which basically makes up for the heatwaves in summer! Checkmate liberals /s
The irony, reuse Ugandan refugee camps for Northern European post AMOC glacial refugees. Also /s
How much longer till we all die anyways
Every year is a goddamn record. Follow @[email protected] for more.
Apart from Global Warming, what explains the crazy high temperature? No wind? Too many mountains blocking weather? Why is it so hot?
It is a specific weather phenomenon called Heat Dome.
With what’s happening in the UK would that also be a heat dome? I only ask because that page says that it prevents precipitation but over here we’ve had hailstones 3 times and rain a whole bunch in very short bursts but once it stops it’s dried up before the end of the hour and it’s just as if not hotter than before.
If I understood correctly, the UK was hit by the edges of the dome which can bring some quite turbulent weather.
Ahh that makes sense, thanks
Not having A/C, mainly.
That’s like the daily temp in South Florida right now… And we haven’t even hit August yet.
There are only three air conditioning units in all of Germany, though.
We haven’t hit July yet
“Fun” fact: this heat wave already has a Wikipedia page that also shows of the 22 affected areas only four (Austria, Jersey, Slovakia and Slovenia) have not (yet) recorded a record high temperature.
