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That's climate change for ya. Unless we do something now it's going to get much much worse.

InfectedAztec

If things escalate, we will definitely help!

I kindly remember Polish firefighters getting warm thanks from Swedish people a few years back and it's almost a tradition that we help other countries fighting fire :)

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In germany, it often has to do with ww2 and cold war ammo exploding due to the heat. It can both cause fires or make work harder for fire fighters.

otto_dicks

They occur like every year do these countries have robust system in place? as i can tell you now NEXT year there will be summer wild fires....so should come up as no surprise...

Ok_Signal4754

isimsiz6

Countries across the Mediterranean are battling fast-spreading wildfires and soaring temperatures as a heatwave sweeps through Southern Europe and parts of the Middle East, prompting evacuations and emergency alerts.

Blazes broke out in Greece, Turkiye, France and Syria on Sunday, with several other nations on high alert as forecasters warned that the scorching weather would intensify in the coming days.

  
From Spain to Italy, authorities urged residents to protect vulnerable people and avoid unnecessary travel during the region’s first severe heatwave of the summer.

Emergency teams and ambulances were stationed near popular tourist destinations, while meteorologists warned that extreme heat events – supercharged by climate change – are becoming more frequent and intense

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Pacosturgess

We had 40 degrees yesterday, its unbearable outside.
I cannot imagine how people working outside and animals feel.. its so sad, and it will only get worse.

Twofingers_

  
Α persistent heatwave will keep Greece in its grip for at least 48 more hours with temperatures expected to climb as high as 44° degrees Celsius in some parts of the country.

  
The extreme heat, driven by hot air masses from the Central Mediterranean, will be intensified by local wind conditions that trap heat in low-lying inland areas.

It was 30°C last night at 00:00 

We are getting cooked over here

Banana_Grinder

Heat has already caused fires in Cyprus with two dead unfortunately. 

Terrible heatwave across the East Mediterranean, I live in Egypt and it’s here too.

cypriotakis

Climate change isn't real though nothing to see here /s

rannonga

I live in Madrid. It feels like spring was skipped and we plunged straight into summer. Summer, with hail... 

There has been a couple of days so far of 38-40°C days that have ended in a thunderstorm and hail, believe it or not. Not regulat hail, but huge hail up to a couple of cm across...

The future is going to be wild.

Icy_Geologist2959

I live in Athens, yes it's bad and near record bad at night but not the worst we've seen.

The real concern is 

- hot nights (plus urban heat island)
- biiig drought
- huuuge wildfires with tons of wind (not yet, only in Chios and SE Crete up to now)

Sapient_Cephalopod

I was in Portugal for vacation in the recent heat wave a couple of weeks ago and even the AC was struggling! 39c/102F at midday and it was unbearable, back in the UK without AC and I’m dreading every summer from now on. Its like something has flipped and the new ‘normal’ is taking its toll on

I just drove down to Switzerland and back to see some family members. It's been years since I've been there.  
On my way home, we passed by a highway thermometer in Austria, showing +49°C

This is heavily skewed of course, it's on flat land, surrounded by blazing hot concrete and cars that all radiate heat too. The car's thermometer showed it's +36°C outside, but it's still brutal.

CorvidCorbeau

The UK set for another potentially lengthy heatwave at the end of this week too. June has already seen notable spells of prolonged warmth in the SE during June and the whole country has been largely dry since winter. It sounds like Scotland and Ireland have gone back to wet conditions since then though.

DirewaysParnuStCroix

Paris. Last week it was in the mid-high 30s. Today it was about 20° and follks were back to wearing coats---absolutely crazy temperature swings.

The pendulum's arc is getting wider and wider, and it's swinging quicker and quicker.

This is what folks, ""normy folks"", simply cannot imagine. They cannot compute that "stability" is rapidly on its way out, and that it's never to come back. The mandatory adaptation that we're going to be encountering in the face of greater instability will likely destroy many folks who just cannot comprehend, nor adjust, in order to meet the most basic survival requisites. Sadly, they're the ones most likely to go 1000% batshit and start taking out entire communities---all because they can't go to the cinema or get some Dairy Queen.

YYFlurch

Absolutely. Lately there's been a lot of extreme weather events all over the europe, the last few days being floods &amp; storms with/or heavy wind. Here in the central EU, we've had this nasty "unusual" heat to the point where grass got all dry and yellow, and now it's going to rain for several days, with risk of flooding.

It's really quite chaotic.

Reasonable_Swan9983

"People keep going on about heat waves.  We used to call that summer" - my idiot brother who thinks "climate change is all bullshit" :(

Dependent-Race-6059

Common, the oven is just on the pre-heat setting

thegreentiger0484

It’s refreshing to see other areas mentioned in this sub— for the longest time it’s felt oversaturated with the Americans news

SyndrFox

I currently live just above the arctic circle in Norway and I struggle when it's warmer than 20 degrees lol (tbf I have immune system dysregulation which has made me severely heat intolerant). 

If it gets any warmer here, I'm fleeing further north. Worst case I'll end up on Svalbard.

vicsj

Thank you for sharing this doesn’t get reported in US news

bipolarearthovershot

https://preview.redd.it/i7s6j7msspbf1.jpeg?width=2600&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=bd2802f2dc30e1c8794baeab40ee6828a58a759d

Recent roadtrip through France and Italy and several weeks of fierce heat. Many days in excess of 35%. This was what the car registered when we were in Chambery on 2nd July. Thank goodness for aircon

SuccessfulNeck942

My top floor flat in south london is now uninhabitable for large chunks of the summer.   By uninhabitable I mean over 30 degrees including at night because its in a badly done attic conversion and takes hours to cool down.  Its hotter than the tube, which was reported as hazardous to health at 31 degrees. 


It now needs air conditioning in order not to be a health hazard for an increasing proportion of june, july and August.  I dont recall this ever being the case in residential homes before in the uk, and im 52.  



I moved in in 2018 and every year there are more 'heatwaves'.  



Im moving out to live somewhere with a ground floor and garden, but I feel so bad for everyone forced to live in future Britain with the 40 degree summers that are coming.  But I guess by the time that happens there will be so much more to worry about, the cost and energy consumption of air-conditioning will be low on the list of horrors.

ClassroomLumpy5691

Meanwhile in Northern Europe, it's been basically fall temperatures the entire summer thus far. Today it was 14 degrees C and it felt kind of chilly and with lots of moisture in the air. 

Obviously two sides of the same coin.

cr0ft

I'm from the other side of the world and I'm just here to share my experiences with heat waves and how we handled it from a developing country's capacity. First is, to invest heavily in electric fans and learn how to maintain that thing. Aside from AC units, electric fans are lifesavers during hot weather. If you intend to go out in that heat, use an umbrella with UV protection. Might be silly for some, but trust me, us Asians love our umbrellas and we still carry them even in summer.

The heat in my area is humid heat, and cooling via evaporation won't be reliable, so swamp coolers are limited on how good they perform compared to dry heat. From experience, getting into shade and letting airflow do the cooling is the best. For European houses, maybe open up all windows and doors to let air flow. Also, try to sleep as low as possible with as little fabric as possible.

As with fires, do active prevention. Unplug and switch off electronics that aren't used and do maintenance on ones that get used heavily, especially electric fans. If you have a garden, trim off all dead branches and leaves. On water scarcity, have a small bucket in your shower and sink, and let the used grey water to collect there. You can use it to water your plants or cool down your area. Splashing water on hot concrete may seem like waste, but if its already used, why not. 

I wish you guys good luck over there. I hope your emergency services can handle it.

Solo_Camping_Girl

Friend in London has been reporting to me about the constant heatwave. London. Fucking London. Climate change isn't real though.... 🙄

c_e_r_u_l_e_a_n

I live in the south of Norway and today was the very first time I met tourists that said they came here to get away from the heat in Spain. It's full summer here actually too, but 25C was balmy to them.

So, coolcation might really become a thing.

LeneHansen1234

I live in france. I'm having trouble having weather forecast for the next week (i'm not exactly looking) but every person i ask and it's basicaly "well, it's over in 3 days", "great, next week ?" "i dunno".

Kaining

And remember, this is the coolest summer we'll ever have going forward.

popcorncolonel

Many reservoirs in the UK were already desperately low by early spring. Who knows what will happen after this latest prolonged dry spell.

RightsForRobots

Wow I was just reading [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/s/oFYVQ71cGI) thread on r/collapse and really can’t help but feel like greed and corruption won

modpodgeandmacabre

Global warming is an abstract classroom material until it burns your house.

I am disgusted by how big people from older generations profited by destroying the world of their kids.

Electrical_Bag_4577

"Can we talk about the ongoing European heatwave?"

Yes, we can. Nothing will be done to turn this around. So it is time to invest in the AC and back-up power business. You cannot ask for a better business model. More heatwave. More AC blasting. More emissions. More warming. More heatwave. 

When there is a buck to be made, a buck will be made, until everything collapses, of course.

NyriasNeo

Right now i feel like the uk  is in the goldilock period of warming where 

a) its fucking lush 

b) the REAL warming hasnt yet kicked in (so, we're not yet cooked)

c) AMOC is still functional (so we're dont have Norways winter climate, yet)

I wonder how long it will last?

ILikePort

Here’s another one to add to that list:

Swiss nuclear power plant shuts down reactor due to the heat
[https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-adaptation/beznau-nuclear-power-plant-shuts-down-one-of-its-reactors-due-to-the-heat/89617209](https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-adaptation/beznau-nuclear-power-plant-shuts-down-one-of-its-reactors-due-to-the-heat/89617209)

wildsoda

In America it hasn’t hit the domestic news very hard, I’ve only seen it on BBC

someofyourbeeswaxx

Im visiting family in Bermuda right now. Its as hot right now here as it normally is in late summer. Ocean is super hot.

cdrknives

It's official. June Average Europe Air and Sea temperatures were highest in the records. The sea temperatures were off the scale.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-third-warmest-june-globally-heatwaves-europe-amid-temperature-extremes-across-both

jbond23

North/Mid-Central Portugal reporting in.   
We moved here 6 months ago from near the coast of Portugal (and the UK before that, and NL before that...) so we went in knowing it would be interesting, but we did find a really water-rich location which is going to be needed. We know people in Alentejo and further South who are going to struggle much more. By the time our mountain water supply ends there really are not many places left on earth probably... 

  
Still, my eyes are constantly on [Fogos.PT](http://Fogos.PT) to keep an eye out on the wildfires, and we hear more ambulances throughout the day than previously, even though we're quite rural and only near a few small cities. The main concern for the fires is the big growth over spring.... 

'Early Spring' lasted until early May and was extremely wet, and then we dove straight into full-blown summer. There was no slow transition, went from 15 degrees Celsius to 30 in a few days. With it being so long and wet, everything has had the chance to grow exponentially, and it's now all drying out rapidly, increasing risk of fires if land is not well-maintained. My life at the moment is cutting grass, although we are quite lucky we're on a somewhat important road that the council also maintains for access for the firetrucks and for people to get out.

It's going to be interesting to see over the next few years if attitudes change. Every Portuguese weather update social media is also inundated with 'THEY CALL THIS SUMMER' and 'BACK IN 1976 WE ALSO HAD A WARM SUMMER'. 

I do think the media and weather services have a bit of a role to play and change their narrative around 'extreme' and 'lethal'. Not because I think it is not true, but because there are too many people not reading or listening beyond that. They don't grasp the danger is 15 days of 30+ degrees in a row, not 'a quite hot Summer back in the 90s when you didn't even have to use sunscreen' or something. I don't have the answers I guess, otherwise I'd be a weather commentator/journalist, but I am somewhat of a comms professional, and I do know that what they are doing is not working and achieving the opposite of what they're trying to do.

  
Sigh.

AbsolutelyAverage

Apparently, UK is in its 3rd heatwave this year and it's not even past mid-July yet [https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c9w1xpz841no](https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c9w1xpz841no)

alz3223

In the UK we haven’t had summer, we have had heatwaves broken up by days or weeks of rain.

voice-of-reason_

I live in Switzerland and we "only" got to around 34ish degrees - ig thanks to the alps to the north, but now the sudden we have 7(!) degrees celsius lol. That's a huge temperature drop out of nowhere. Granted, it's 7am, but still xD. A week ago the temp barely dipped below 20 in the night. 

It's all about extremes in recent years.

arjuna66671

You'd have thought that after the heatwave of 2003, that caused tens of thousands of deaths, that European countries might have started thinking about where this was heading. 

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003\_European\_heatwave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heatwave)

I lived in France at the time. It was brutal for much of the country. I lived in the Alps, at about 1100m, so it wasn't that bad where I lived, but for many cities temperatures around 40º lasted for a week or more.

No-Papaya-9289

It has been showing up in in the regional reports on r/collapse for a couple months.

Anecdotal but still good observations.

BigJobsBigJobs

Do not look up! You are not allow to look up!!! Keep your head down and follow the line !   
Your life is just an illusion now move along..  /S

RunYouFoulBeast

And there are still people denying climate change and always will. So unfortunate - I really wish more people were properly educated. 

Maybe once people start being a part of these natural disasters they will realize? Probably not though 😭

The fact that this is only the beginning and things are going to get sooo much worse is utterly terrifying. No way I’m bringing a child into this world. We are doomed both because of humans and also because of what we have done to this planet. 

EveningVegetable8665

Here in Pittsburgh, our last 5 winters were mild as hell. This last winter was brutally cold for 6 months. May had days in the low 40s(F). And then straight to 95 degree days. No spring, no warm up. Just straight to hell. 

Interesting_Blood242

We are currently in a fresher state after a few weeks between 30 and 36 where I live. 

Next week is back at 33° tho...

Designer_Valuable_18

We've gotten off easy in Ireland, it's roasting by our standards but that means 26 C.

Grace_Omega

I cannot confirm - texting out of Austria - we even had snow above 2000 metres and our highest temperature today was 12 degrees. Same yesterday and for tomorrow it’s apparently a tad warmer.

Coolest period of this summer by far.

joeedger

Surprisingly in India, the eastern coastal region, we din't have a harsh summer this year. One low pressure after another. It's been a few weeks since we have seen the sun.

Dull-Guarantee-9076

For all people living in colder weather that taught the global warming would make their weather better are now facing a harsh reality

jeremiasalmeida

It’s not like us scientist’s weren’t screaming from the mountain top about this happening…

HyenaJack94

I was at the acropolis this morning at 8am to beat the heat. By 9 it was getting intense, by 10 it was probably unbearable but I was gone and in the museum.

joncorbi

UK. Heavy clay soil about 40m above sea level. My corn and pumpkins are in slightly improved soil with a lot of mulch but they're wilting every day and need watering often. My well is just under 2m deep and is almost dry so that's where the ground water level is sitting. Going to try and dig down more soon and see if I can hit water again because it's just not been raining heavily enough to top up my water butts. We've had a few sporadic showers but it's such a small amount each time it just gets lost to the hot roof tiles.

So far I've managed without using mains water in the garden this year but I'm not sure I've got enough stored to get through the rest of summer unless we get at least one good storm. I think I'm going to need to increase my water storage capacity for next year.

The large pond in the local park has dried up entirely now and the river level is very low.

DeleteriousDiploid

Nothing abnormal going on in Portugal, except for the somewhat cooler summer  (it even rained a bot) but all pretty normal. 
We certainly had much wilder summers, with temperatures reaching 47 degrees in 2018 and 2022


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-04/european-heatwave-breaks-records-portugal-nears-47-degrees/10073520

Geografo_Psicotico

What's the death count so far across the continent? I've heard it's already in the thousands (excess deaths reasonably due to heat). But I haven't seen a reliable source on it

Johundhar

It’s due to far warmer than normal sea surface temperatures. It’s not that bad if they’re in the north of Europe since it causes a much more regional warming, but since it’s in the south, it moves the jet stream north and creates a self-perpetuating cycle of hot, dry weather. I expect this to become more and more common with not just general global warming, but also from Bjerknes compensation that comes as a result of a weakening, or even a collapsing AMOC  

Lucky-Opportunity395

I had NOT heard/seen about most of these, I appreciate you taking the time to share them here.

kimboosan

I literally can believe this and it's absolutely devastating. In Ontario, Canada, we're going through a week-long heat wave, and now accounted for officially a MONTH long worth of it.

I see the smokey blue hues that the far upper west and lower west fires are bringing. It's really bad and going to affect the water ten-fold.

Everchangingbeetroot

The middle of Norway is +30°C some days or places have been hotter then Ghana and Somalia. This is insane

Las-Vegar

How is 43 degrees Celsius and working in the middle of august compatible?

Ill_Refrigerator3360

Every year there's a heatwave. Climate change is real.

TheScorchedRelic

In the meantime the US is in "drill baby drill" mode.

noherczeg

Southern Europe is grappling with extreme wildfires exacerbated by unprecedented heatwaves, causing fatalities and widespread damage.

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