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Nearly 40 degrees C two days in a row last week in the Netherlands, breaking all records in history -- and the Dutch are quite unprepared for such heat, there a
by hellofunk 8y ago
Nearly 40 degrees C two days in a row last week in the Netherlands, breaking all records in history -- and the Dutch are quite unprepared for such heat, there are nearly zero air conditioners anywhere. It's a new manifestation of "unbearable" for me.
- AtlasLion 8y agoI'm originally from Morocco and living in the Netherlands, in my birth city it gets close to 50°C. I have been really enjoying the "extreme heat wave" in the Netherlands lately but also seeing how my friends and colleagues just couldn't handle it.
- kennxfl 8y ago50°C seems like an awful lot for any human to handle.
- blattimwind 8y agoAs long as the air is relatively dry you don't die just yet.
- hellofunk 8y agoAnd how common is AC in Morocco? I lived in SE Asia for many years, it is also very hot there, we were right on the equator. But the AC was very cold in every place, and the cities were often designed to allow moving about the town without ever going outside (lots of underground tunnels with AC, for example).
- griffinheart 8y agoAlso in Japan we just had record temperatures in the last 2 weeks. While summer is humid and hot in Japan I can't recall ever being this hot.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoSame in Denmark, we've had several weeks of uncommonly high temperatures, and July 2018 is officially the sunniest month on record, since we started recording sunshine hours in 1920. Given the forecasts for today and tomorrow, we're set for around 338 sunshine hours, compared to the normal average of ~200. Temperatures around 30C and locally over 33-35C may sound mild, depending on where you're from, but this is a country where summer temperatures usually hover around 20-25C. We're simply not used to it, and our houses are built to keep in the warmth, not get rid of it.