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Europe's record heat melted Swiss glaciers
- Arrezz 7y agoIs there anyone that has attempted to make an interactive map where you can see when the latest record temperature was set or something along those lines? It seems like records are being set every other day, which might not be very surprising considering the changes being done to our climate.
- acqq 7y agoI follow the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent on nsidc.org: Arctic warms the most when the climate change happens, it is expected that we'll see there the most of records most often broken. Overview: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ The interactive charting: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/ https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...
- chewz 7y agoIn Poland 1921 record of 40,2°C still holds strong. Actually top 5 are - 1921, 1921, 1959, 1921, 1994. Not denying heatwaves but the news reporting seems skewed a bit. We had heatwaves in Western Europe while fairly cold summer in Eastern Europe due to jetstream this year. But 'Heatwave in Paris' makes better headline then 'Cold summer in Minsk'. Saddly jetstream and its consequences is still poorly understood by science. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623627
- burfog 7y agoIt's an opportunity to find more people like Ötzi the iceman. Move quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
- ptah 7y agosurely 2 weeks is not a heat wave? a heat wave lasts 2-3 days
- NikkiA 7y agoIt's always meant a week upwards for me, but I guess it probably varies regionally what people expect it to mean.