I’m in the UK and it’s got so hot some years it’s unfathomable. We got to 30 degrees a couple of years ago! We’re not built for it and it’s awful.
We reached 40 degrees two years ago for the first time ever in Hamburg. It was really uncomfortable.
God that’s unbearable
That’s a fun username if you’re German 😂
And happy cake day 🍰
I hope Germany doesn’t get too hot, I’m in Berlin in 9 days!
Thanks!
I like the name. It’s hard to pronounce squirrel if you’re german and it’s hard to pronounce Eichhörnchen if you’re a native english speaker :)
I have never seen that word before, never heard it spoken. Here’s my attempt:
Very good. But, you pronounced the second “ch” as “sch”. It’s pronounced the same as the first “ch”.
Listen here https://forvo.com/word/eichhörnchen/
Vielen Dank ❤️
Not 30C, but 40! I was putting the washing out on the line and the first items were practically dry by the time I’d put the last things on.
My wife was also heavily pregnant at the time so It was definitely not fun for her!
You really have my sympathy
PNW
We called June “Junuary” because it still rained quite a bit. We didn’t have “Fire Season” when I was a kid, it was still safe to have campfires in August. There might have been a few days each summer where the temperature exceeded 100F / 38C. We didn’t have air conditioning, but it wasn’t really necessary. Summer weather was over by late September, but I don’t recall it ever being very “hot” once school started. It was mostly gray and rainy November to May.
Now, summer weather seems to start in May. It’s about to be 90F / 32C the next few days and I find myself wishing for more rain every June. There are forest fires every year, fire bans go into effect early to mid July, late summer the air is hazy and smells like smoke. There’s usually a solid week that exceeds 100F / 38C. Portable AC units are necessary for survival. I’m usually still wearing shorts and a shirt into the second half of October, my partner’s birthday is on the 20th and that’s been the last “long summer night” where we stay out until 2AM the past few years. Winter’s been a lot sunnier than it used to be, we usually get a “false spring” event in March. “April Showers” feel like they’ve been missing.
Less snow. More fire.
More rain than usual in our part of NSW, Australia.
We had record breaking snow in Florida with my town getting the most at 10" over about 10 hours.
Summers are now dry, I can go a month, maybe two, without rain. Used to rain every single day.
So so much windier.
No Christmas beetles
Less rain, more sunshine, warmer weather, longer summer and shorter winter.
There’s no more spring or autnum. It stays war till December and than boom, icy roads. Same thing after winter. Sweater weather till May and then suddenly heatwave.
war till December and then boom, icy roads
Well spoken like a fresh new White House press secretary. SCNR
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Currently hazy from smoke. We have “wildfire season” now and half of Canada is either smoky or on fire. Had it bad two years ago too. I’m not that old but it didn’t happen when I was younger that I remember.
Sounds apocalyptic stay safe. How good is Canada at dealing with climate change?
It’s definitely eerie seeing the skies darken knowing that another province is burning down. Thankfully I’m not too bothered by the poor air quality. For Canada, I don’t know much. We have lots of fresh water and most of our country is difficult to enhabit due to the cold already, so we are probably in a better position than many globally central areas.
I’ll bet mate. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you
The real fun is that smoke travels. I’m far to your south, but my city is also covered in a haze. Canadian wildfire season hurts the whole North American Northeast, yet we still have politicians in both countries claiming it’s not a problem.
Something lots of older people have told me is that the sheer drop in insect numbers is what opened their eyes to climate change. Jeremy Clarkson denied climate change exists until he saw a dry river in 2019 and even now says it’s not man made. Despite all this he was concerned about how few butterflies he sees nowadays. Broken clocks and all that…
Shorter winter, much less snow, and some bird sounds I remember from when I was a kid have disappeared from the summer ambience as they’ve migrated further north.
Stink bugs in November/ December. I used to have winters without flying insects…
So much rain.
Floods are much more common now.
Also: relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1321
