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More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit
- bondarchuk 3y ago=38.88°C
- chungy 3y agoIt's probably suffice to say 39°C. It's unlikely the temperature was exactly 102°F; these measures are almost always rounded to the whole unit.
- cesarb 3y agoAccording to a recent article in Portuguese (https://g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/noticia/2023/10/01/icmbio-vai-investigar-mortes-de-mais-de-100-botos-no-am-animais-encalhados-sao-resgatados.ghtml https://g1.globo.com/am/amazonas/noticia/2023/10/01/icmbio-v...) "[...] em alguns pontos do lago a temperatura está ultrapassando a marca dos 39°" so the correct value is "above 39°C".
- chungy 3y agoAye. Anything above 39.16 °C would get translated whole-units to 103° F. Some smartphone, I think it was Apple, had an issue like this where they got weather information in whole units of celsius and translated to Fahrenheit for display at the user's option. Since Celsius is not as fine-grained of a unit, it caused skips of the nature like 68°F to 70°F. Using finer-grained measurements, it would be possible to convert to every whole-unit °F, but it wasn't being done.
- foobarian 3y agoThere was a similar report earlier this summer from the Florida coast. Wouldn't it be deadly to swim in waters that warm? (I mean clearly it was for the dolphins, wondering about human ability to cool when perspiration is not possible)
- toomuchtodo 3y agoAnything above 104F/40C will rapidly lead to heatstroke in humans, that’s why hot tubs are kept at 100-102F. Depending on human, you’ll last 10-20 minutes, but the flesh eating bacteria or brain eating amoeba might still get you. Edit: hah
- 38 3y ago> flesh eating bacteria or brain eating amoeba might still get you. Wanna add some context here?
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- mschuster91 3y ago> brain eating amoeba That one is naegleria fowleri, which just loves warm, even hot water [1]. It's incredibly rare, but incredibly deadly. > flesh eating bacteria That is vibrio vulnificus [2] or a bunch of other bacteria which love brackish water [3]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/general.html https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/general.html [2] https://www.cdc.gov/vibrio/wounds.html https://www.cdc.gov/vibrio/wounds.html [3] https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/diseases-public/necrotizing-fasciitis.html https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/diseases-public/necrotizing-...
- 5555624 3y agoFlessh eating bacteria is Necrotizing Fasciitis a bacterial infection that will quickly spread, resulting in amputation and even death.
- shwaj 3y agoAnd I have to imagine that 10-20 minutes would drop significantly if you were exerting yourself instead of relaxing.
- rojeee 3y agoAccording to NHS ophthalmologists at Moorfields eye hospital, I had acanthamoeba keratitis - a rare eye infection which… well… just Google pictures for what happens if left untreated. Theory is, I picked it up after staying in a hot tub too long and then leaving contact lenses in over night. It’s so rare that the trainees never see any patients with it. The consultant asked me if I was OK for all the doctors there that night to have a look. They were fascinated but I was in a fair amount of pain! I had to apply drops of what was effectively bleach to my eye for six months to ensure it went. Very painful. The diagnostic process was incredibly painful too. I can’t wear lenses anymore as I think my cornea is permanently damaged. Luckily my vision is back to normal but took nearly a year to recover. Don’t sleep in your lenses. Don’t wear lenses in the hot tub!
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- mcpeepants 3y agoI keep seeing this take - what do you propose? The implication seems to be that you think we should let humanity die off. > but for humans as we know them, we are done This is too nihilistic, even for me...
- DandyDev 3y agoIs that such a bad idea? It's probably better for the majority of the other species that inhabit this planet
- shadowgovt 3y agoAs a human, I care a lot more about humans than the other species on this planet. To be clear, I care about the other species on the planet also, but if I have an opportunity to save one human or five dolphins from a burning building...
- throwaway67743 3y agoA dolphin won't shoot you for your phone
- calmworm 3y agoOf course they won’t. They have no fingers, nor easy access to guns.
- shadowgovt 3y agoYep. And if we're talking dolphins specifically... They would if they could, we all know it. ;)
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- brucethemoose2 3y agoIts not even summer in Brazil yet! They're just coming out of winter, right? Are there any Brazilians on HN?
- goenning 3y agoYes, but there is no winter on that region, it’s always 30+ https://weatherspark.com/y/28814/Average-Weather-in-Manaus-Brazil-Year-Round https://weatherspark.com/y/28814/Average-Weather-in-Manaus-B...
- cesarb 3y ago> Its not even summer in Brazil yet! They're just coming out of winter, right? > Are there any Brazilians on HN? Of course! As the sibling comment indicated, the region in question is near the equator, where the "winter" versus "summer" distinction is less relevant (though AFAIK it does have "wet" versus "dry" seasons). I live much further south (this country is huge), where seasons are more relevant, and around here we're leaving an abnormal winter; last week we had summer-like temperatures, to the point that we broke the previous record in both country-wide and region-wide electricity consumption (due to all the cooling loads, hot days always consume more electricity compared to cold days).
- orwin 3y agoI have friends living in French Guyana (both work for the space program), they told me the two seasons were rather 'wet' and 'very wet' there.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThis doesn't matter much on the Amazon. I live a few thousands of kilometers south from it, it is still doesn't matter a lot here. Brazil is passing through an abnormally hot season, but those come from chaotic reasons that can happen on any time at all. Around here the summer tends to be hotter than the winter, but it's a slightly biased coin-toss. At the Amazon, it's much more random (slightly biased into being the hottest at the fall).
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- victornomad 3y agothis sounds quite sad. I'm also experiencing the hottest 1st October I had in my life, around 27° C. Everybody is outside in t-shirt when the usual thing is to wear a jacket in 15-18° C... It is quite scary :/
- vuln 3y agoHow old are you? It helps knowing due to your phrasing of _in my life_. Also geographic region is a helpful indicator.
- mschuster91 3y agoThey may be German, it's the literal translation of how one would say it in Germany, and we're still having a heatwave - the Oktoberfest vendors are happy AF, but it's far from normal.
- withinboredom 3y agoFor everyone on earth, it's the hottest October of their lives ...
- filoleg 3y agoI mean, I live in Seattle, and it is 57F today, supposed to hit max 63F. Just in my 8 years living there, i’ve experienced more than one October hotter than this. The historical average for the 1st of October is 67F during the day[0], which seems to affirm my observation. So no, your statement is just trying to dismiss a perfectly valid question in the parent comment. 0. https://weatherspark.com/m/913/10/Average-Weather-in-October-in-Seattle-Washington-United-States https://weatherspark.com/m/913/10/Average-Weather-in-October...
- withinboredom 3y agoI mean, when answering an impossible to answer question (there is only one person on earth who can answer it), you can only choose satire and sarcasm. This was a play on a fairly popular meme: https://ourplnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Simpsons-Meme-Global-Warming.jpg https://ourplnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Simpsons-... So it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
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- RyanAdamas 3y agoCNN reporting is the absolute worst, crap reporting out there. "It’s still early to determine the cause of this extreme event but according to our experts, it is certainly connected to the drought period and high temperatures in Lake Tefé, in which some points are exceeding 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit),” the institute said in comments carried by CNN affiliate CNN Brasil." It's the drought and that is causing the temperature of the water to increase, too, not just the "global warming" bearing down on a roaring Amazon, slaying dolphins left and right. Yellow journalism at its finest.
- rthomas6 3y agoWhat is causing the drought?
- Waterluvian 3y agoPerturbations in regional weather cycles, made statistically more common by climate change.
- ForestCritter 3y agoThe devastation of the rainforests. No rainforest= no rain
- deeviant 3y agoLiterally the first paragraph seems to spell out everything quite clearly, so your entire comment is a straw man. I would be very careful with your outlook on consuming news, with the amount of bias displayed in your comment, is very obvious your filter will remove a significant amount of factual information from your understanding, drastically reducing the quality and quantity of information available to you.
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- jabradoodle 3y agoThe article doesn't blame global warming directly and does mention the drought. What is your problem?
- pvaldes 3y agoThis is the problem with the trawls