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Temperatures reach 46C in Spain as Europe heatwave continues

www.bbc.com

A heatwave continues to grip large parts of Europe, with authorities in many countries issuing health warnings amid searing temperatures.

Southern Spain is the worst-affected region, with temperatures in the mid-40s Celsius recorded in Seville and neighbouring areas.

A new heat record for June of 46C was set on Saturday in the town of El Granado, according to Spain's national weather service, which also said this month is on track to be the hottest June on record.

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While it is hard to link individual extreme weather events to climate change, heatwaves are becoming more common and more intense due to climate change.
Not that hard after all.
- From a scientific point of view this is correct, the climate system is too complex to say this particular event is due to climate change. Exceptional events happened in the past too. So you can only draw conclusions from larger statistics. What's solid science is the increasing averages, increasing frequencies of extreme events etc. If it was scientifically informed, that's what this kind of sentence mean.
  
  Scientists do actually make attempts to investigate the contribution of the trends to specific events, it's called extreme event attribution, but it is a very young field and the error bars on everything are still huge. That said,
  The American Meteorological Society stated in 2016 that "the science has now advanced to the point that we can detect the effects of climate change on some events with high confidence". [12]
  But the quote from the article was strictly correct in saying "it's hard".
  
  It started out hotter than it would be and the heatwave is at least a few degrees more severe than it would be otherwise.
- “It’s hard to link changes in climate to climate change”
  Is the author stupid?
  
  No, individual extreme events are not "changes in climate". It's easy to say that the rise in heatwaves is caused by climate change but it's much harder to prove that this specific individual heatwave would never have happened were it not for climate change.
- We cant link this unusual weather to Climate change.. but its unusual weather thats never been seen before at this frequency or ferocity. Its a mystery~!
  
  man if only there was a way to link the changing climate to climate change
- That sentence perfectly states the difficulty though. The trend: easy to link. One individual event: not that easy.
114 in ‘merican
- If anyone is interested, it's X Celsius times 9/5 + 32
  
  C * dolly Parton + freezing temp in F
  
  "Double it and add thirty" is accurate enough for ambient temperatures, and easier to do in your head. If you need scientific accuracy then you wouldn't be using Fahrenheit anyway.
- Most places in Europe have hit normal summer temperatures where I am (about 35). This is ridiculous, though. It is hotter in Spain right now than it is in Phoenix.
  Let that sink in. It is hotter in Barcelona than it is in Death Valley right now.
- I would right out melt getting out of the plane.
Have they considered spending 5% of their GDP on weapons? That will surely save humanity.
- There are steps needed to slow global warming and become carbon neutral. Those don't matter much if someone shows up and machine guns your town and loots it.
- Honestly if they spend that on weapons and then use it lower the population it could help.
  Shoot maybe Thanos was right...
  
  It's an endless loop if you think about it
- When we stop voting out politicians that try to add a carbon tax.
  
  "But the greeens they want to do something!!! You have to fear them!! They want to take away your schnitzel! Force you to be vegaaaan!!!" - insert any politician you want here
- That would be inhumane, they don't have AC in prisons.
- Focus on being part of the solution: Go vegan. Then tell your friends and family to go vegan. Tell them to do the same to their friends and family members.
  Once we've gotten rid of dairy and meat production, we can toy with the CEO's and prisons.
  
  Aren't airplane flights and cars and just waste in general bigger contributors? I'm all for more people going vegan but I remember a carbon footprint analysis saying some of the worst contributors were planes cars waste and then food. Having a kid was the biggest contributor but that's a bit obvious.
  
  Vegetarian is enough to get most of the benefits for environmental reasons. But it's foolish to wait until that happens, it can't wait.
Across the Mediterranean to the south and east it is even hotter. Wearing shorts and putting on sunblock isn't the best way to deal with the heat, you need to shield yourself and make use of the chimney effect.
The Bedouin lesson: A scientific study proves robes are the best garment to wear in the desert heat
- A Bedouin outfit might not fit socially, but a loose summer dress might work just as well.
  So as a counter to the "pants for women" movement, let's start a "summer dresses for everyone" movement.
  
  Shame I'm a fat old guy now. A few decades back I looked great in a Laura Ashley summer dress.
  
  Just sell it as a modern take on (manliest of manly) Roman and Greek tunics. Alpha bros will be drooling for it in no time. That, however, will ruin the purpose by making the dress unwearable again so nah.
- I prefer using the Boyle Law effect.
Was just talking with my friend from Latvia who said it has been the coldest end of June since forever. Climate is so fucked and its just the beginning.
- Here in Finland we just might hit +20C this week. Maybe a bit over that in the south. Maybe not coldest since forever, but definetly colder than last couple of summers so far.
The last years saw up to 50°C in Northern Africa already. This will be the fate of Southern Europe, as the peak temperatures in the center and North of Europe will go to 45°C.
As the mean temperature rises roughly linear, so do the peak temperatures, but at a much faster rate. So 1,5-2°C increase in mean temperature often correspond to 5-7°C increase in peak temperatures.
- Well, that depends on whether the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation stops working or not as that's what, for example, means that Lisbon which is roughly at the same latitude as New York has a temperature which is about 5 - 10C higher.
  One of the weirdest effect of Global Warming might very well be that the westernmost parts of Europe get colder (though who knows what other side effects the stopping of the AMOC will bring beyond reducing the temperature moderating effects of the Atlantic along the Westernmost coasts of Europe).
  
  Famine for ocean animals and more hurricanes in the even hotter tropics for starters.
Maybe because of global warming.
- Nah, its because of the gay frogs
Watch them get to 50C in a few years
- Dont be so modest. 60°C
Such an excellent photo, too
- You’re going trigger boomers with that map. I love it.
  
  I have to ask, why is that?
I'm having a cool low 30s C something summer in Tx.
- We still have all of July, August and September and most of October to go...
  
  And December.
- I’m not. Today in Austin was “feels like 110 degrees Fahrenheit” according to the weather app.
- 86 in Texas right now? I'm calling bs
- same, and my apartment complex is refusing to fix the AC.
I had to convert from Common to Freedom for this one. Are y'all ok over there? I'm used to that kind of heat here in the desert but goodness I couldn't imagine 115f near the coast y'all must be dying 😬
- The south of spain usually has dry air, it's at 12% right now.
  But even in germany it's okay because it hasn't really rained that much this year (yay climate change), so it's hot but bearable. It's 31°C with "only" 45% right now.
  We will get 37°C the next days, so I might change my stance.
- Are y'all ok over there?
  No, not really, with humidity and no aircon anything over the high 90s starts to get pretty unpleasant, especially when it goes on for days and doesn't cool down properly at night, so you can't cool your house down.
  
  Cooling down at night is actually a really big deal, plants and animals both use the chill night to rest from the heat. When the night stays hot then the heat really does a lot more damage to health.
- At this temperature, emergency medical departments are guaranteed to be full. Weeks later, an uptick in mortality is registered on stats, without exception.
The Mediterranean is 4-6°C warmer than usually at this time of year
It'll help keep the tourists away.
That's 115° in human units. Absolutely bonkers.
- We have to put up with US-defaultism even in world@lemmy.world
- Would it kill you to not jokingly deny the humanity of every person outside the United States, Liberia, and the Cayman Islands? Just say Fahrenheit. Jeez, yank.
Nice n cozy
- 46 is a bit nippy. Might need a jacket.
  
  WHO touched the thermostat this time geeez you??
- Toasty enough for Jeff Bezos.
- But wouldn't flying to Mallorca be going towards the heat (from most of Europe)?
46 degrees is just a fine chilly day!
::laughs in Fahrenheit::
- ::Laughs at fahrenheit::
Here's to drinking lots of H2O. At least it's a dry heat. I lose my shit in high humid heat.
The Spanish roulette is not having a siesta.

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