France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece are among the nations experiencing the most severe conditions, as meteorologists warn that Europe can expect more and hotter heat waves in the future because of climate change.
It’s pretty ball-sweatingly hot here in the Netherlands as well. Expecting 35c tomorrow and 36-38 on Wednesday.
Problem is, few houses and buildings are equipped to deal with heat like that. Everything’s well insulated, but built more for cold winters rather than hot summers. Every year, more people get air conditioning. Because you need to. It’s that or be miserable for two weeks straight. Anything above 20 makes me want to hit people.
The Mediterranean is 4-6°C warmer than usually around this time of year.
South-west of France here, 42°C projected ("feeling like 48°C) so we just left. But the worst isn’t the top temp if the day, it’s hot nights IMO. We got 20°-21° so okay but the east coast is 27°-30°…
There’s even a meme: “It’s summer” (“c’est l’été”) mocking idiots not thinking the climat change is real.
hot DAMN, call the police and the firemen
