Yeah it was intense. Record breaking temperatures for the last few days. Saw a man die on the street unfortunately. Roads throughout the country were bursting or outright melting. I wonder what the criteria for heat related deaths are because I cannot imagine there are only eight on the entire continent. The man I’m talking about didn’t even make the news, for example.
For now there is a good amount of rain and thunder and temperatures will reach 19 degrees soon, half of what it was the last few days. Thank God.
It seems like Europe is really not set up to deal with extreme temperature spikes, as that hasn’t been an issue until recently. If people rush to start getting air conditioning then there’s going to be an increased demand on the power grid, and that’s going to make energy supply problems Europe is now having even worse.
Saw some figures the other day about heat wave history and it was like 1 or maybe 2 per decade for decades on end and then almost yearly since 2010 or something.
We really are not prepared. Just a few days of near 40 degrees over here and roads start breaking down. Energy prices spiked. Bridges wouldn’t open anymore because the expanded from the heat. I come across multiple retirement homes on my way to work and every single one of them had an ambulance standing in front of it.
Now imagine actual 40+ days for more than a week.
It’s scary stuff, the coming years will be pretty rough I expect.
Roads throughout the country were bursting or outright melting.
As someone who lives where it hits +50C every year for no more than a week but it has been getting hotter in the past years; I’ve seen a lot of things melt but not roads. What do they make roads of where you live? Here it is asphalt concrete.
I think it’s just typical asphalt. But I was wondering that too because there are hotter places on earth than here and they don’t seem to have that problem.
