It won't be a surprise but yes. Might save the wine though, we can't go through summers like that anymore. Here are grapes destroyed by the weather yesterday
Good luck to everyone living in the Western side of our continent. Here in Romania, we've just come out of this whole thing this week, with temperatures over 40 degrees. I got no AC, and my whole apartment felt like an oven of some sort (in a literal way). Everything was truly unbearable. Hope you'll all get through just fine as well.
I’ve heard air conditioning is not very common in Europe, is that the case for much of the heat wave area? Would Spain and Portugal at least typically have air conditioning?
Am Greek, most buildings and almost all businesses are air conditioned.
I would expect any country neighboring Africa directly across the Mediterranean to be the same, at least in their southernmost regions
This map is pretty innaccurate in hungary its bout 35 and in croatia its 30+. Even in sweden(where i live at least) its 20+. Tho in iceland it is like 8-10. Ive been bouncing arround europe a lot this summer so ive literally felt the heat.
How is this a heatwave? Just two areas are hitting 37. The rest are straddling 30. You’re in paradise compared to other places that are tipping over 40 in mass areas. It’s not even a dome there. It’s a few air bubbles.
The highest temperature on this map is 37 degrees (south of Spain). Other places barely reach 30. This is definitely not a heat wave. Where I live the summer has been extremely cold so far.
40°C here in my corner of the US. I have to walk an hour in that surrounded by asphalt most days because of our shit infrastructure 😐
Edit – Heat index, 100°F is about 38°C and 112°F is about 44°C (they didn't have it in celsius for some reason):
Temperature:
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This will be Europe during spring and autumn in a few years. In 2070 I bet we'll be missing the good ol times when summers were only 40°C. And we'll miss when most of Africa still existed
We get record heatwaves till the ocean currents change and we lose the warm water coming in. Then we'll get snow in July and complain about -40 in the winters instead of +40 in the summers.
Climate change sucks, but 34c is hardly anything to get excited about. People in the US frequently live in temps like that as the norm. Now regular 50c would be concerning.