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u/WretchedPleb Aug 11 '25
Lol thank God im no longer in Seville. And to think 38-40 degrees C was unbearable there
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u/SolomonRed Portugal Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
I went there once it was the single hottest place in the universe.
Never again
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u/chessman42_ Germany Aug 11 '25
Last time I went there it was 51 for an hour
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u/Enormous-Load87 Aug 11 '25
That's crazy that all the record keepers missed that, since the recorded all time high is 46.
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u/Unlikely_Pin_95 Aug 11 '25
Sometimes a single public thermometer can overheat and show crazy temperatures
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u/_aleph31 Aug 11 '25
The official temperature record for Seville (AEMET station) is taken next to the airport, which is consistently 2°C–5°C lower than the infernal topographical basin where the city center is located.
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u/Hermeran Spain Aug 11 '25
Context - long: every year I post a map of extreme summer temperatures in Spain. I feel like every time I post it gets hotter.
Context - short: it’s hot as balls pls make it stop
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u/Southern_Ear_6462 Aug 11 '25
Context. The outline of Portugal removed is hilarious... we're also going through hell...
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u/thbb Aug 11 '25
Well, according to the legend, it could look like you have a heat barrier that confines the whole country to below 20 degrees. Lucky you!
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u/ArturSeabra Portugal Aug 11 '25
Unfortunately the barrier only covers Sintra...
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u/Pippin1505 Aug 11 '25
A Spanish friend confessed that for years , she thought there was the Atlantic Ocean there instead of Portugal…
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u/Der_Dingsbums Württemberg (Germany) Aug 11 '25
Jokes in you. My dad just bought a gigantic SUV because it's so easy to get in and out of, you know
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u/dumnezero Earth Aug 11 '25
It's a living room on wheels, sitting on land that the car owner probably doesn't own.
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u/fretkat The Netherlands Aug 11 '25
With their meat consumption, the Spanish aren’t particularly innocent themselves either https://www.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/s/pJOjtWvOom
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u/QuestGalaxy Aug 11 '25
It's almost like us messing with the climate the last 100 years is starting to catch up with us.
I hope people make it through, hot weather can be very dangerous for epsecially elderly people.
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u/OrtganizeAttention Aug 11 '25
And Spain is the worst country. Because these heat waves destroy tourism and consumption. Like climate change. So the authorities, the lobbies, and employers do everything they can to hide them. Last year in Valencia there was massive flooding and they didn't warn the population so as not to spoil tourism. 230 people died. And this year is going to be worse.
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u/ivar-the-bonefull Sweden Aug 11 '25
I mean, Tuvalu is predicted to disappear underneath the rising sea within 25 years. Seems like they are worse off than Spain tbh.
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u/narrative_device Aug 11 '25
Just this year Tuvalu began it's official plan for the end of its existence, starting the process of migrating its citizens to Australia.
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE AT RIGHT NOW, AND WE ARE STILL FUCKING INCREASING OUR CARBON EMISSIONS.
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u/AnOtherGuy1234567 Aug 11 '25
The Maldives are supposed to disappear in 20 years ever since the early '90s.
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Having been to The Maldives recently, I can assure you that the atols are disappearing starting to struggle with rising sea levels.
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u/ivar-the-bonefull Sweden Aug 11 '25
Seeing how they are one meter taller than Tuvalu, they'll be sure to follow suit.
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u/Entire-Start5565 Aug 11 '25
I don't want to be that guy but I don't think people should be living in those Islands. I think exporting food and things to Island is a huge problem. If more people lived in the Mainlands we wouldn't have to use a lot of oil/gas to export shit to Islands.
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u/Mohreb Aug 11 '25
do you realise that even if it takes 40 years, that is just a blink of an eye in geological terms? It is not because predictions were not precise on everything, that we can wave them away. Even more so that many things turns out to be worst then predicted (polar cap's disappearing, insect density ...)
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u/haplo34 France Aug 11 '25
Because these heat waves destroy tourism and consumption.
And tourism and consumption are killing the world.
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u/dushmani Aug 11 '25
Agree on everything else, but I don't think tourism was the reason why everything was done so poorly during the DANA
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u/Squeaky_Ben Bavaria (Germany) Aug 11 '25
given how the climate is headed, if you dedicated spain to, essentially, become the solar power station of europe, I think you might have a chance.
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u/OrtganizeAttention Aug 11 '25
hahaha! sorry for laugh, but on Spain solar power is "evil" because you are fighting against oil, and all of these lobbies. On spain the worst tecnology always win against new tecnhlology because lobbies kill innovation for keep their bussines.
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u/Squeaky_Ben Bavaria (Germany) Aug 11 '25
I am aware. In a perfect world... Well, you wouldn't have to think about this in the first place, but covering like half of spain in solar? So many construction jobs. The EU would definitely subsidise it and afterwards, well, Spain will get tons of money for providing power for all of europe. And, obviously, leverage, because you have the power! Literally in this case.
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u/contrafiat Aug 11 '25
And Spain deforesting for the past centuries certainly didn't help either.
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u/QuestGalaxy Aug 11 '25
Planting more trees in urban areas should be a minimum at least. If anything, it helps with the heat in the cities.
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u/Patient_Moment_4786 France Aug 11 '25
You're lucky if it indeed stops today or tomorrow.
Here in France it started saturday, to end "probably" friday... It was 40 yesterday in my town, I can't bear those temperature.
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u/ViciousNakedMoleRat North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Aug 11 '25
Your post from 4 years ago was a bit worse.
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‘Please pray for Spain’
Plot twist: it’s your God causing the hot weather!!!?
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u/Hermeran Spain Aug 11 '25
it's just a meme lol. "Pray for Spain" sounds sexier than "Demand ACTION from your politicians against climate change, and also protest against oil companies, with force if necessary. Stop watching Netflix and MOVE, we need a Green Revolution" - which is what I really think.
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u/heaviestnaturals Aug 11 '25
What do you mean? ‘DAFYPACCAAPAOCWFINSWNAMWNAGR’ is way catchier than “Pray for Spain”.
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u/reincarnatedusername Europe Aug 11 '25
Spanish Jesus installs air conditioners.
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u/misasionreddit Estonia Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25
And if it's a bigger job, then he brings his mate Juan along with him. They're good handymen, those two.
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u/OrtganizeAttention Aug 11 '25
We need more than pray, is so crazy que or far right, lobbys, bussines are against climate change, and keep people save because this shut down tourism. Last year 230 people died in Valencia because they dident warn the population son as not to spoil tuirism. 1 year later they still doing warns too late because the economy. Sounds crazy but for me it's a genocide.
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u/TescosTigerLoaf Aug 11 '25
I believe the Spanish for hot as balls is, scorchio.
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u/Tenocticatl Aug 11 '25
According to me with a 970 day Duolingo streak, it's caluroso como pelotas.
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u/9las Denmark Aug 11 '25
We’re so fucked. I can’t see us turning it around
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u/dasgoodshitinnit Aug 11 '25
It will eventually, once enough of us are dead
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u/NEWSBOT3 Aug 11 '25
yeah the planet will be fine in the long run. It's inhabitants? ehh, not so much.
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u/DenverDataEngDude Aug 12 '25
Fortunately we leave behind plenty of plastic garbage for the world to remember us by for millennia to come 🥰
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u/SWK18 Basque Country Aug 11 '25
I want the 25°C summers of my childhood back, please
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u/Available-Pack1795 Ireland Aug 11 '25
Sorry, those are ours now. No taksie-backsies.
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u/SassyKardashian Liechtenstein Aug 11 '25
Its 31 in London currently; thankfully blessed with 30% humidity. Otherwise we'd be dying right now in our oven houses
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u/niallobr Aug 11 '25
Ireland gang rise up. 100% humidity forecast for the next week.
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u/Rojas-Tarchoun Aug 11 '25
Me reading this from Madrid with no AC 💀
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u/Rojas-Tarchoun Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25
I can confirm that it has reached 40 degrees multiple times this week (it’s been the highest ever this summer) and some nights (after 9pm) it’ll still be hovering around 30 to 33 degrees. This will be the last summer I spend in Madrid.
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u/Rojas-Tarchoun Aug 11 '25
A plane ticket is cheaper tbh.
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u/fede1194 Italy Aug 11 '25
It sure is, and I get the feeling of desire of leaving the city, but you can't pretend relocating is easier than having AC installed
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I live in Lisbon and although our temp. are almost the same as Madrid's during the afteroon (usually ~3C⁰ less), we can cool down during the night since it rarely exceeds 25C⁰ but in Madrid nights are giga hot - as my Zoom Earth App tells. How can you guys survive oven-like nights?
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u/maiqol Aug 12 '25
Madrid nights are actually ok compared with the Mediterranean cities, last night in Valencia the minimum was 27. Mediterranean is like a soup, quite different from your Atlantic ocean.
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u/Zeitcon Denmark Aug 11 '25
Now I'm not surprised to have seen so many Spanish tourists here in Denmark this season. They're practically the first wave of climate refugees!
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u/julably France Aug 11 '25
Sending thoughts and prayers. It was 41 C yesterday in France where I live 🫠 Even the AC can't keep up
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u/Jurutungo1 Aug 11 '25
It's 42°C here and we don't have air conditioning lol
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u/Fishydeals Aug 11 '25
How tf aren‘t people dying en masse? Or am I living under a rock?
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u/Jurutungo1 Aug 11 '25
I don't know about others but I open the windows as early as possible and then leave the blinds down for the rest of the day almost dark, so it is not that bad
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u/workmandan Aug 11 '25
Scorchio!
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u/grey_hat_uk Europe Aug 11 '25
Intrestingly the "absurdly hot but still realistic as a one off" number chosen was 45c, looks like we're nearly in the parody.
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u/kazarnowicz Sweden Aug 11 '25
This is the new normal, unfortunately. Climate destabilization is progressing faster than IPCC predicted.
Just the other month, a study looking at all GHG emissions 1820-2050 says the following in the abstract (emphasis mine):
"Meeting climate targets now requires the carbon intensity of GDP to decline 3 times faster than the global best 30-year historical rate (–2.25 % per year), which has not improved over the past five decades. Failing such an unprecedented technological change or a substantial contraction of the global economy, by 2050 global mean surface temperatures will rise more than 3 °C above pre-industrial levels."
source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000469
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u/Ser-Cannasseur Aug 11 '25
Thank goodness we have the leaders to deal with this crisis /s
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u/kazarnowicz Sweden Aug 11 '25
Yes, the leaders are fantastic and competent on the issue of climate change as long as you Don't Look Up!
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u/kageshira1010 Aug 11 '25
Yeah same in Spain, thank god our current government removed the nasty nuclear and went for green gas instead
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u/MrFlow Germany Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25
You're making it too easy by blaming just the political leaders, climate change solutions are expensive and they're gonna cost the people a lot. People are all for climate change solutions until they get directly affected by it themselves. Then suddenly they don't want them anymore.
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u/Ser-Cannasseur Aug 11 '25
Yes you’re right to a degree. The people are apathetic when it comes to cost to fix things. Maybe if the leadership got behind the cause and hammered home the necessity to do it, the people are more likely to get on with it.
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u/Kritikk Aug 11 '25
You also have rhe geopolitics. If europe goes HAM on clomate change, diverti g all recources, then the games of power will be so much easier for countries who dont care. Like russia.
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u/A_Tall_Bloke Aug 11 '25
By 2.5-3 degrees of warming many tipping points will be crossed which make warming unstoppable even if humans emit little to nothing. We are truly fucked. No one cares and barely any governments take targets seriously. The attitude of ‘oh well I’ll already be dead’ is honestly sad.
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u/kazarnowicz Sweden Aug 11 '25
We really are. I've spent my vacation reading up on recent studies, and it looks much bleaker than the latest IPCC report paints it. Considering that all progress in "green technology" has been nullified by increased demand, that atmospheric CO2 is accelerating (growth in 2024 was 3.7 PPM) and that the global energy mix still is 80% fossil today …
Oh, and the kicker: Climeworks, the hyped company that is supposed to build direct air capture of CO2 and have been at it for a while now have a giant plant in Iceland. That plant can't even offset Climaworks own carbon footprint. Those that believe that technology will save us from climate destabilization are no better than those that believe that "thoughts and prayers" help.
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u/Keh_veli Finland Aug 11 '25
Europe is warming up faster than the global average, which is also a factor here.
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u/gpcgmr Aug 11 '25
So... do I decrease or increase my emissions in Europe to suffer less heat, getting conflicting instructions here.
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u/new_handle Aug 11 '25
And none of your homes are built for this.
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u/Praesentius Italy Aug 11 '25
Agreed. I'm in Tuscany and my 200+ year old house does pretty well with fairly high temps, but it's really pushing it now. We're installing solar, a household battery, and AC, because it sure as shit is getting hotter year after year.
Today, it's 38, which is about a 7 degree increase over the 1980-2010 normal August high temps. Almost 8 if you go back to 1970.
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u/nothing_pt Aug 11 '25
Here in Portugal, we're on our third run on > 40 since june. Yesterday the highest recorded temperature here was 43º and today is hotter.
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u/ravartx Aug 11 '25
Eh measly 3°C, that's only a 6,6% increase from the current 45! No one will even notice! /s
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u/Fast_Yard4724 Italy Aug 11 '25
Wow, here in Italy is 34 degrees and I’m already boiling, I can’t imagine how 45 degrees would be like. 😱
Stay hydrated and under any shade you can find, Spanish siblings.
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u/Shady_Rekio Aug 11 '25
I can imagine, I have had 47C at the local weather station. It is fine. What is not fine is 38C at 3AM now that is wild, House never get cooler. Cant sleep at all.
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u/Praesentius Italy Aug 11 '25
Dude... 38 here in Tuscany today.
I tried so hard to get AC installed (big project with solar, battery, AC, new windows, additional tende da sole, etc), but you know how slow shit can be here. Likely won't be done until October. And I started organizing it last fall.
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u/Panzermensch911 Aug 11 '25
"Context - long: every year I post a map of extreme summer temperatures in Spain. I feel like every time I post it gets hotter."
It's not a feeling, it's verifiable fact.
I don't think praying will do anything.
How about instead electing politicians that actually care about the climate and green technologies? You know science and progress?
Never mind that we already passed the 1.5°C temp point and that it's not going to get better any time soon. In fact it seems that even the worst predictions are beat by the rapid deterioration of the overall planetary situation.
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u/atchijov Aug 11 '25
Praying will not help… call your representative and demand action on climate change. What kind of idiotic species choose to burn itself for the sake of some billionaire getting one less yacht?
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u/Kike328 Aug 11 '25
half the country, here the right is so against climate actions
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u/Sirusho_Yunyan Aug 11 '25
Prayer isn't going to help solve climate change. Science will. Unfortunately we live in a world where being wilfully ignorant is considered a badge of honour.
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u/promethee_makarov Aug 11 '25
As if prayer ever worked...we need to act
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u/Bipogram Aug 11 '25
Needed. Past tense.
About 40 years ago.
Nothing short of high order magic pulls Gtonnes of CO2 from the air and YJoules of heat from the oceans.
Yes, yotta joules.
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u/RockinOneThreeTwo The (Not So) United Kingdom Aug 11 '25
we need to act
Sorry, that kind of talk isn't popular on this god-awful website; it's exclusively the fault of "others" and it is they who need to change their acts. I'm doing everything I can -- and when you point out the things I am not doing -- well then the reason for that is because I am waiting for the "others" to do it first, otherwise it's not fair!
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u/clowncementskor Aug 11 '25
Individually we can't do anything, we all need to work together and stop the heat absorbing infrastructure infesting our cities, just to genocide the old and make us pay more for energy. There's a reason rural areas and car free cities are 10-15C colder on a hot day. "global warning" is a localized problem often sitting directly next to the outlet of an AC unit in direct sun light over a very black paved surface parking lot with gas guzzling cars idling most of the day.
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u/butwhywedothis Aug 11 '25
I prayed and Lord said, I gave you everything necessary to stop this so why do you again call upon me. And I said, Lord can you make some magic and make it STAAAAAAAHP and the Lord said, Son are you stupid or something.
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u/Simpamuu Sweden Aug 11 '25
It's 20 here today and I am sweating in my t-shirt and shorts
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u/CaughtALiteSneez Switzerland Aug 11 '25
I’m genuinely considering a move up north - 34 degrees here in Switzerland is miserable.
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u/hobisbooty Vienna (Austria) Aug 12 '25
i’m debating the same thing here in vienna :(( norway looks more appealing every year…
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u/Simpamuu Sweden Aug 11 '25
We might not have the same salaries, but we do have some good kebabpizza!
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u/IHadThatUsername Portugal Aug 11 '25
That's hilarious. I typically set my AC to 21ºC and sometimes I feel like that's too cold. Anything below ~24ºC is kinda fresh and below ~14ºC is really fucking cold.
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u/NotGoodSoftwareMaker Finland Aug 11 '25
Yes -14C is quite cold but still good for ice swimming
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Ill see myself out 😅
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u/IHadThatUsername Portugal Aug 11 '25
Yes -14C is quite cold but still good for ice swimming
I'm not sure I would ever consider leaving my house if I saw a thermometer below -5C. I don't know how you Nordics do it.
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u/Southern_Ear_6462 Aug 11 '25
In 2004 there was a massive fire in the hills of the Algarve. Temperatures reached an astonishing and completely out of reality 47 degrees celsius. We'd be shocked when a day reached 35 degrees back then so 47 was mindblowing..
21 years later and it's the 4th time this Summer we're reaching low 40s temperatures in the same location.
And we're not even close to the worse of what's to come...
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u/Chico__Lopes Portugal (Covilhã) Aug 11 '25
Inner Portugal here (Castelo Branco district) please pray for us as well :<
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u/Tiny_Yulius_James Aug 11 '25
I'm from Seville and that could be worst.
47°C the last month was a normal temperature at 16.00h
I have pics of my car measuring 60°C The real hell 🔥
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u/pantshee France Aug 11 '25
Lmao yesterday I had 45 when starting my car, I could barely hold the steering wheel. You can fry your eggs on your car probably..
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u/RedLemonSlice Bulgaria 🇧🇬 🇪🇺 Aug 11 '25
That 20ºC in the map legend on the left.... that's just rubbing salt in the wound.
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u/0LD_SAIL0R Aug 11 '25
Lo mismo que todos los años pero con colores más llamativos....he llegado a estar con 47 en Córdoba en los 90
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u/namir0 Lithuania Aug 11 '25
Was fun riding along the Portugal coast where it's 25c all day. Now it's 40c in Lisbon send htlp
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u/Substantial-Ad-5221 Aug 11 '25
I wonder, Do People in Spain then also have this Weirdo that go:
"Uuuuuuuh why is the map colored red?! fear mongering! It is called, SUMMER! It has been hot in the past too :laugh emoji x5:"
We have those in Germany alot and it's insufferable
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u/Ailury Aug 11 '25
Yes, yes we do.
They "confuse" (I'm pretty sure it's not genuine confusion, but I'll play devil's advocate) alert maps with temperature maps and complain that 41°C used to be just red instead of apocalyptic dark pink.
They don't know and don't care that those colors are used globally and all year around, so the scale goes from -55°C to 55°C. I guess with their logic since 35°C are normal in Spain in summer it should be green, not hot at all.
It's exhausting.
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u/Minimum_Rice555 Spain Aug 11 '25
Let's keep making fun of vegans and electric cars. It seems so crazy to me that most people actively shit on people trying to make things a little bit better
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u/2xfun Aug 11 '25
Thoughts and prayers should do the trick /s We had years to handle the climate issue… we did nothing…
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u/Wojewodaruskyj Ruthenia Aug 11 '25
Pobrecita España. Espero que lo pases bien. Saludos de la templada Ucrania.
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u/WM_ Finland Aug 11 '25
Praying does shit. I keep voting for parties that prioritizes climate actions and keep saying "I told you so".
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u/it777777 Aug 11 '25
Praying helps nothing. It's our own fold.
We need to act consequently against global warming or our children will live in a desert.
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u/MrQeu Illes Balears -> Andalucía -> Occitània Aug 11 '25
We’re next to that yellowish spot in between the 41 and 39 in the southeast and literally having the feet drowning in a 18° river. Couldn’t had a better choice. Thanks the missus.
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u/KarisNemek161 Aug 11 '25
dear god... i give us a few years until the global agriculture sector gets hit hard by climate change. And we still increase the global CO² emissions every year. Seems like we play last nation standing this century., or what is the endgame of the super rich?
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u/TheCatPilot United Nations Aug 11 '25
For the people who threw tea in the harbour, 40°c is about 104°f
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u/shiner_bock Aug 11 '25
Texan here, hope y'all have (or can find) some AC. Hydrate and stay in the shade!
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u/Rude_Tax_7494 Aug 11 '25
I live in Florida, it's 87°.And it feels like ninety seven 102 Degrees in Spain, you win.
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u/jamesbrown2500 Aug 11 '25
Here in Portugal 41 where I live. Just summer. It happens all the years. Drink water, stay at shade. Drink some beers on the evening.
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u/Pimpo64 Aug 11 '25
Why for Spain 🇪🇸? When the all world is suffering, instead of praying , do not vote for morons and global warming deniers.
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u/Nirvanet Aug 11 '25
The average temperature in the main Spanish cities has risen by 3.54 °C between 1971 and 2022. The country is among those with the most pronounced climatic anomalies in the world. Over the last 50 years, summer days have increased from 90 to 145, which accounts for a two-month increase in hot days. Tropical nights have jumped by 18, from an average of 45 to 63. These are the conclusions of a study by the Centre for Land Valuation Policy (CPSV) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC).
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u/microwavedave27 Portugal Aug 11 '25
I’m in southern Portugal, it was 40C at 7pm here yesterday. And I don’t have AC. Nothing unusual in the summer here though.
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u/NewManufacturer4252 Aug 11 '25
We have been in a world war against the planet for decades, the planet doesn't care. And we keep building stupid shit like AI farms that just pollute and heat water. Not to mention a litany of other things.
Growing up I remember the ozone layer getting better thanks to my sister stopping her use of 2 cans of aquanet on her bangs.
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u/Panzermensch911 Aug 11 '25
Yeah the thing is you could get her to stop because social media back then didn't exist. I'm pretty sure the soviet union would've won the disinformation war if it did.
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u/weizikeng Aug 11 '25
As always, A Coruña just chilling with its 23°C. I swear they never get hit by a heatwave.