Much of France was set to experience temperatures of around 40C on Tuesday, after records were shattered on Monday
Forty people have drowned in France over the past days as they sought to cool down to escape record heat, the prime minister said on Tuesday, as a heatwave swept across much of Europe.
Speaking ahead of an emergency meeting on the heatwave, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said: “A sad scourge when it comes to drownings, as the latest figures just reported to us show 40 deaths since June 18, most of them young people.”
Across France, people have been jumping into canals and rivers to cool off. French sports minister Marina Ferrari said she understood the urge to escape the heat but warned against swimming in unauthorized or dangerous areas.
Anyone read The Ministry For The Future? There’s a horrifying wet-bulb event that occurs in the book. It happens in India. People just dying by the hundreds, stewing in any water they can find to cool off. It’s looking very likely to occur this century. In the book, this causes some changes, some of which are implemented very aggressively. Sad to think it may be the only way people get on board with fixing this stuff.
People are already dying in droves in India while Modi stubbornly insists climate change isn’t real.
Climate change is not real but god is. Lol
Yes your god is real because he survived all those other gods from thousands of years ago
Or the gods as the case may be in India.
Amen 🙏
The part mentioning the water was no cooler than the warm air but people still jumped in believing they were getting some relief was really heavy. The only way to convince those in power of the threat global warming poses is if it happens in a place like the Hamptons or Beverly Hills.
To anyone reading, if you find yourself in this situation: water above 37 degrees will make things worse. You’re better off outside. Put water on your skin, not the other way around. Put yourself in front of a ventilator for maximum effect. It’s water evaporating from your skin that will cool you.
Where is the water ever going to be above 37 degrees celsius outside of a scummy little pond though?
The water here never gets that warm around here outside of small stagnant ponds, and any that does will get cynabacteria and kill anything that drinks from it.
In a heat dome. After a couple of days under the dome everything will have a cozy 28-30 C and then you add some sun to water and voila
You’re right, maybe my warning is for nothing.
Maybe in a small swimming pool exposed to the sun, or even a kids inflatable pool even in shade after a while?