• @danc4498
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    1 year ago

    It only appears bad when you look at the data. Just don’t look!

  • arefx
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    411 year ago

    These memes are supposed to be funny (⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠)

  • @CMGX78
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    241 year ago

    Anyone want to go halfsies on some property near the arctic circle?

    • Woland
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      71 year ago

      I hear Greenland is quite balmy this time of the year

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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      51 year ago

      Seriously, at what point is the Antarctic going to be the most pleasant place on Earth to live?

  • @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    Global warming means thing will be getting worse. Of course it might be nice and cool for a bit, but slowly, these will get more common and much worse. For context, average global temperatures during an ice age are around 4° C colder than 1961-1997 average, and we are quicly going to supass 1° above.

  • @Deme
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    181 year ago

    I’ve seen the term misused a lot recently, so I’ll state that a wet-bulb is a part of a measurement instrument. Wet-bulb temperature is a measured quantity (along with dry-bulb temperature, pressure etc.) and an Extreme wet-bulb temperature event is what actually kills people.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Used for humidity measuring instruments primarily, like a psychrometer.

      Basically using a wick or wet material and forcing air over the sensor will evaporate the water and lower the temperature reading. Compared to a dry thermometer you can work out humidity.

      A very high wet bulb temperature would mean very high humidity, which is dangerous for people as sweating is less effective.

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        Correct for the most part. You can still have very high relative humidity with a low WBT if the dry-bulb temperature is equally low.

        When the WBT gets above 35°C, it’s not only dangerous, but positively lethal when sustained for even the healthiest person as sweating (or any other form of evaporative cooling for that matter) can no longer keep the body at a suitable temperature.

        WBT is also not to be confused with wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT), which is an index for heat stress that also takes into account the effect of sunshine among other things. It’s much more situational and best suited to judge the heat stress of athletic outdoor activity in sunshine.

    • @teuast
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      21 year ago

      well idk about you but my balls were really wet over the weekend and not because i spent it with my girlfriend

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        My balls got really wet on the weekend with her too. That’s called squirting.

        What we are discussing here is climate change, and how it affects us.

        Just kidding, about the above. I used an umbrella. Didn’t get wet at all.

        /S Will I get banned for this? I don’t even know the rules. Just trying to have a laugh.

    • @assa123
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      61 year ago

      Unexpected actual solution, if we all replaced meat with all types of beans.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    We got our first heat advisory of the year today. We spent the last 4th of July with a broken AC. This one was much more pleasant.

  • @Starburn
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    41 year ago

    Good luck to the firey’s this year

  • @sil3ntki11
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    21 year ago

    Man I really need to watch Simpsons…

  • @[email protected]
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    -111 year ago

    Was it? I am under some polar rainstorm right now. 12c last night. I am sure catching up on some zzzzs the last few nights.

    • @NocturnalMorning
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      151 year ago

      Local weather variance doesn’t mean climate isn’t changing.

      • @axtualdave
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        51 year ago

        But Senator Imhofe took a snowball into the Senate chambers, thus disproving global WARMING forever!! /s

          • @SomeoneElse
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            51 year ago

            Why? It’s useful for people who struggle to read the tone of replies, and let’s be honest, that’s happened all of us at some point.

            What I want to see die is the ridiculous swapping of letters for symbols in words like r@pe or su!cide. This is not TikTok or Instagram, your Reddit/lemmy posts are not monetised. You do not need to censor trigger or swear words.

            • It’s messy and dumb. People should be able to figure it out through context. Even if they can’t… who cares. Makes zero difference if people don’t get it. This isn’t reddit. You’re not collecting karma. It’s irrelevant if you get down voted.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 year ago

              If you have to explain that something is sarcasm then it’s not sarcasm.

              At that point you might as well just say what you want to say without encoding it in an additional tone or layer which requires extra thought on the part of the reader.

    • @SomeoneElse
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      11 year ago

      Are you in the UK? It’s 13C where I am at the moment but my partner and I went to watch the tennis last week and even with factor 50 on he suffered the worse sunburn I’ve ever seen irl. The extreme highs we’ve been experiencing over the last 5-10 years have made it difficult to remember that the average night time temperature in July in the UK is 11C. In June it’s 9C. It is much hotter than it should be.