In Europe temperature is measured in C, not in F. I could never understand people measuring temperature in F.
For those who are confused, 105 Fahrenheit is 313.7 Kelvin btw.
how many football fields is that?
For those who were confused by Kelvin like me, it’s equivalent to 564.67 Rankine
105 Fluorine is 40 ⁰C
Don’t you mean 40 Carbon?
No, 40 Communists.
Not that bad honestly.
Can we not start treating heatwaves as a fucking highscore to be beaten?
Yeah if u live in the Sahara desert lol (for u US-Americans: the Sahara desert is a big desert on the African continent. I hope I don’t need to show you where the African continent is as well).
You have to convert it to Celsius
Phoenix, Arizona: “first time?”
These aren’t people living somewhere unsurvivable without aircon in every building
As it turns out though, they are.
They just don’t want to believe it or plan appropriately.
I don’t even know where to begin answering this comment, so I’ll say just this: you should be ashamed of yourself.
So you’ll stick your head in the sand? You can’t ignore the climate forever. You need air conditioning now, you are no longer in a climate where you don’t need it.
Some people simply don’t have the means to do anything about it. Telling them “just deal with it” is like telling them to pull themselves by their bootstraps.
Except that those temps aren’t normal for those zones…this year, for the first time, i turned on my AC for more than 1 day because it’s just too unbearable
Yeah, and I’m from australia, where normal temps can be higher than that too. You know what? We build appropriately. We hydrate. We use air con and shade. People are accustomed to it.
I also recognise that many other countries are not used to these temperatures and that although we’ve faced them before in Australia, we are now facing them more often and with more intensity. Also, with more floods at other times. More droughts and more extreme weather events of other kinds.
People are dying due to climate change. In this case, it includes two children who died in a car.
I swear until maybe a decade ago a hot day in the U.K. was about 17/18 Celsius.
20 probably happened now and then.
The 1976 summer oldies rant about is now not even in the top ten UK hottest days.
I’m in my 40s. London is usually a few degrees warmer than ireland where I grew up. The temp was often mid 20s for a week or two every summer. 30 was not normal but is now more common.
Ah that explains it. Cars strike again.
brain dead take
Imagine taking a text-meme seriously
👌🧠🌌🤯
Imagine not taking the death of 40 people and 2 kids seriously, for the lolz.
There is having fun and making memes. And there is being callous. Read the room.
Totally normal to compare a standard temperature found in a literal desert and never seen before temperatures in a usually temperate climate.
The joke
Your head
Celsius vs Fahrenheit Use Around The World
This is the Internet. Please refrain from using inferior units of measurement which are only used by a fraction of the global population.
At least 18 people in France are dead from the heatwave; the Reuters story with that figure came out before this one, so NBC should have updated their story to avoid understating the impact.
At least they’re not including drownings in the figures this time.
Surely it’s appropriate to include drownings if more people are getting into water to cool off?
so if a crowd trampled five people to death because of a rabid dog, was the dog responsible, was it the people who trampled, or was it the rabies?
This is about France. Please use °Ré instead.
