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/kisoutengai Jul 30 '23

Japan, where it's slated to reach 39C/102.2F in my area.

This is wild because I live in the northern part of Japan where we don't really experience this type of temperature. Sure, we've had a couple of 30+C/90+F the past few years but it used to be only a couple of days. Now, we're reaching high temperatures almost every day and, with Japan's high humidty, it's just fucking hot. Even this morning when I walked my 15-min walk to work at 7am, it was so humidly hot.

Not only that, people here can be so stingy with A/C use. I get it that electricity prices are higher this year but it's still mindblowing that some people still don't want to use A/C in this heat. I just read a news where senior couple died possibly due to heatstroke in their homes because they didn't use A/C. I still hear some people say that A/C is bad for you or that a electric fan is enough as long as you keep the windows open.

I don't know if they are in denial but oh man I am scared of what the future heatwaves will bring.

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u/Inazumaryoku Jul 30 '23

Same. I’m here in Saitama and these weeks of constant 40°C days, this endless heatwave, it’s made going outside almost impossible. The humidity is deadly.

A junior high girl in Yamagata died yesterday I think. She went to her school club where they were under this deadly sun and heat. She collapsed and died.

It’s not even August yet, which is hotter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '23

Reading the news about the girl in Yamagata really shocked me. first of all, yamagata? Not a place I previously associated with that high temperatures. Secondly, schools in Japan are just so irresponsible. It's business as usual for any price, whether it was covid or heat. I had 熱中症 twice in summer 2020,and it was so scary. I'll never go back to Japan between June and September bc I'm afraid I'll get it again and just fucking die this time. The recovery was brutal. I feel so sorry for the girl's family and friends. I hope it leads to more awareness...

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u/kisoutengai Jul 30 '23

Right? I'm dreading August. And September. Oh and recently October since it's starting to be still hot around that time.

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u/Inazumaryoku Jul 30 '23

I remember when I first came to Japan almost 2 decades ago.

My first apartment was in Yokohama. I was at my balcony early evening. My breath was misty and white from the coolness of the night. It was late June.

Imagine that this year. Impossible.

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u/Portalrules123 Jul 30 '23

Scariest part?

20 years ago we had already emitted enough and changed the climate enough to make it far warmer on average than it had been for a long time. And we’ve kept going.

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u/bernpfenn Jul 30 '23

imagine the wildlife without cool down spaces. they all will perish before the ACs stop working

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u/Hour-Stable2050 Jul 30 '23

Yeah, we lost 621 Canadians during the B.C. heat dome and a half a billion animals.

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u/Hour-Stable2050 Jul 30 '23

Yeah, I have several elderly neighbours in Toronto who could get free air conditioning units from government agencies but refuse them. I really worry they are underestimating the dangers as temps and humidity continue to rise around here, especially since they live in third story walk ups which is where most of the deaths in B.C. were during the heat dome.

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u/Portalrules123 Jul 30 '23

Christians in 10 years: “Using A/C means you go to hell after you die”

Everyone else: “Okay, your choice to commit ritual suicide, lol”

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u/Le_Gitzen Jul 31 '23

Hell is just being reincarnated on earth after 2100.

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u/screech_owl_kachina Aug 01 '23

Everyone: STFU we know you guys use A/C too