‘Mind-bogglingly crazy’: Europe’s deadly, early heatwave is smashing records

[CNN reports – ](https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/mind-bogglingly-crazy-europes-deadly-early-heatwave-is-smashing-records-151825680.html?ncid=redditnewsus) Temperature records are being smashed across Europe as parts of the continent swelter in a heat wave that is bringing extreme temperatures alarmingly early in the year.

The continent is grappling with a powerful heat dome, a persistent high-pressure system which acts like a lid on a pot, trapping hot air and pushing it downward. It can remain in place for days or even weeks and is a weather phenomenon made more likely and more intense by human-caused climate change.

Too hot in France.

The media keeps calling it an “unprecedented record-smashing heatwave” every single year now. at what point do we just accept that this is the new normal and our entire infrastructure is completely unequipped to handle it.

Don’t forget to complain about “all the money we waste on green bullshit” on winter before you complain about the high temperatures on summer.

And this is just the beginning unless we get really really serious

Its crazy how fast the temperature changes. We had rains and 10-15C for a week here in romania and now instant 30C.

<Insert parkour meme>

Next summer I’m definitely getting AC.

Heat waves are getting too serious to not get one.

People in Europe need to start installing AC’s.

But over the coming days i’m sure you’ll see Americans be horrified that we do not have them, and when that happens you should show them [this map](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hLpvSSZ49ow/VZQ4fCQFQRI/AAAAAAAAgH8/xMXhhNUiveQ/s1600/Overlay%2Bof%2BEuropean%2BCities%2Bonto%2BNorth%2BAmerica.jpg), and what it means to be 31c in Paris already.

And still the science deniers claim climate change is not real

cue to all climate change deniers saying “it’s a natural process

It’s time to buy Aircon. I see it more and more in my neighbourhood

Guys I know it’s tough and that once the heat is inside the house it’s a pain to get it out again, but some tips if some of you are not aware:

– Don’t ever EVER open any window during daytime. 80%/90% closed shutters must be the only light source during the day.

– edit: absolutely of paramount importance: put external shutters. Try anything to have the light blocked outside your house. Because direct sun on them will generate heat like hell. Even a dark drape stuck by a window pane outside is better than an inside curtain.

– now, about the day: it begins BEFORE sunrise, when air is still “cool” compared to the house’s. It ends AFTER there is 2/3 degrees lees outside than inside. So daytime unfortunately is much longer than not daytime, and is not linked to sunrise/sunset.

– during not day time, open everything, favorise air flows, smash your fan 1 to 2 meters from the window and facing it to help hot air to exit during the night.

– Rince and repeat, never falter and never open anything during day time. If the heat is in the house it.will be long and hard to make it better but it will finally happen.

Applying these counsels BEFORE beginning of heatwaves ensures a cooler home temperature. Today, living in Paris (which is absolutely not designed to keep cool), I manage 24 degrees while it’s 34 outside without AC. Even if your home is shitty designed, applying this will enable you to limitate the damages.

Hope it helps.

Meanwhile it’s 2° and snowing in Murmansk.

It’ll break by Sunday, back to early summer normal.

Shame there exists no technology that can cool down human habitats. Maybe one that would even have perfect synergy with energy surpluses from solar during the middle of the day? Oh well, perhaps some day they’ll invent it and widely deploy it in the Asian nations such that we can learn from them how to deal with heat. Surely then we’d just copy their approach and simply solve the heat issue?

I love that no government cares bout that. They all sit in their air conditioning and try to hide their pedophiles instead.

Our ”leaders” greed and stupidity have led us here.

40°C where I’m from, that’s normal in the middle of the summer but not right now

I don’t know about you guys in your countries but here in France we got dumbasses threatening meteo speakers because “they’re frightening people with their maps full of red scales” and “it’s normal, it’s called summer, we got it worse in our days”

-_-

Keep on ignoring politicians who would make a difference..

So happy we decided against a sun holiday in Spain this summer. 
It was tight going last year and that was a “normal” summer of 30c. 

I couldn’t imagine spending a week in 40c+. 

Experienced a few days in Rome before when it was 41c. It ruined the trip. Unbearable. 

This is why I don’t understand how people keep having children.

In Italy just 10 days ago it snowed above 1700 metres of elevation