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Cerberus is howling at the door. [1]
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Date: 2023-07-14
*Cerebus is the nickname, not the official name as they usually are not named [Il Meteo named it I believe] if one head doesn’t get you, the next one might.
Here in Bretagne, the weather is average for the season [22C/72F], it’s one of the last corners of France that remains so:-
Land temperatures in Spain surpass 60C as deadly heatwave sweeps Europe.
[If a child picks up a rock at 60C it will cause 3rd-degree burns]
The temperature of the ground in some areas of Spain has hit more than 60C during the deadly heatwave sweeping Europe, satellite recordings have shown. It was so hot that a heat map that highlights scorching temperatures in red turned even darker – to black. Temperature records have been broken on most of the continent, including France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, where highs of 40C were recorded again on Wednesday.
40C =104F [FYI]
48.8C = 119.8F European record [Sicily August 2021]
The whole of the Mediterranean basin is an inferno and the intensity will build into next week [nickname: Charon] after a brief respite.
The three-headed dog might be an appropriate nickname as the heat is coming in waves out of the Sahara.
The obvious worry is the risk of wildfires, this viewer will be useful/necessary in the coming days:
effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/…
An estimated 61,000 excess deaths were recorded in Europe last year due to the heat:
www.preventionweb.net/…
Am I being too doomy when I state:
It’s going to get worse with every year we do nothing.
Don’t tell me I’m exaggerating when I say do nothing is mass murder.
We can do something it is not as if we cannot but it must be a collective effort.
This is why I hate the right and the corporate center, the do-nothing par excellence if not actual deliberate harm.
Climate Crisis. Tick Tock the mouse ran up the clock...and died from heat stroke.
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