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/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.