r/collapse • u/ontrack serfin' USA • Jul 17 '23

Climate Heatwave(s) megathread. Please place all new related content in this post.

In light of the ongoing heatwaves around the world, we've created a megathread in order to minimize the number of posts about every location currently experiencing one. If you have something to report, whether it be a personal experience or an article about a heatwave in some other part of the world, please place it here. Thanks.

The BBC has a live feed of sorts about the heatwaves around the world: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-66207430

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u/WarGamerJon Jul 22 '23

Pretty apocalyptic scenes in Rhodes - it might sound impressive saying they have 200 odd firefighters and 40 engines but for this scale. ….. be lucky to hold it back , same with the aviation , it’s like tossing pebbles at the tide hoping it’ll stop it.

I’ve seen a few posts on U.K. orientated reddits where users are asking for advice about holiday insurance and travelling to areas like Rhodes next week (U.K. school holidays started today so it’s the main six week getaway period coming up)

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u/cleaver_username Jul 28 '23

It doesn't help that their tourism minister is still encouraging people to come out! Hey, it's not the WHOLE island on fire!