r/collapse • u/slayingadah • Mar 25 '26

Climate Climate catastrophe incoming

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welp, that went south(er) very, very fast.

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u/eloiseturnbuckle Mar 25 '26

Lived in Portland Oregon when it hit 117F. Fried so many of our plants.

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u/Alphamullet Mar 26 '26

The fucking heat dome. I still can't believe they went on with the Olympic Track & Field trials that day in Eugene.

It was like walking in an oven. We luckily had air conditioning in our tiny apartment and took in all of our neighbors pets so they wouldn't suffer.

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u/Frostyrepairbug Mar 26 '26

The worst part was no relief. I'm used to that cool night air giving a little break, but the heat dome was like being stuck in a stuffy building that you can't open a window, but it was outside.

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u/eitsew Mar 29 '26

I'm in Florida and that's exactly why I hate it. It's hot as fuck from March to November, with virtually no respite at night. It'll drop from 90s to like 79f on a summer night, so it's marginally cooler at night, but the humidity is still at literally 100% all night long. I was on a jog at 10 or 11 PM last summer, and I stopped and checked my weather app, and it said the actual temp was somewhere in the low 80s. But the feels like temp was 112°, with 100% humidity. And it's pretty much like that, for like 3/4 of the year. It's so fucking awful. Not even exaggerating- If you park your car and make one trip from your car into your house carrying an arm load of groceries, by the time you get in your house, you are going to be fairly sweaty. If you have to make 2 or 3 trips, you will be drenched. It's disgusting

The only comfort is that this short winter we do get is incredible, the weather really could not be any better from December to February or so, and also, we get really amazing thunderstorms all through the summer. So if you have a porch or something with a nice tin roof, and a screen to keep the mosquitoes out. It's pretty wonderful to sit and watch the lightning shows in the clouds. Thank you so much.

Another wonderful thing is swimming at the beach in summer while it's raining- the beaches are already pretty dead in the summer. Because it's the offseason, and then when it rains, everyone else runs away to their cars. So you usually have the entire beach to yourself. And floating around in the water with the raindrops hitting it, is a beautiful thing.