Another summer is upon us, and as sure as day follows night, our free press™ is at its best (worst) once more: a brief comparison of weather forecast colour schemes is well in order…
The important aspect to realize is that these things are emanating from a single supranational source. Colors have shifted on temperature maps across the Western Empire, perhaps even elsewhere.
In Australia some workers get a few hours off if it is above 43C and they have to work outside in the middle of the day. When I had to do that I would work at night under floodlights and it was still in the low 30s.
Europeans could never.
The hottest I ever felt was 47C. I was working outside. It was bad. Real bad. It was also flypocalypse from all the cow shit. Enjoy your Aussie beef, rest of the world!
Edit: when I walk my dog here in the city at 10pm during the summer it can be in the high-30s.
When I was in Napoli they couldn't even get the trains to work because everyone was 'resting.' We were laughing saying 'get some Germans in here ffs and get this show on the road.'
While I understand the sentiment, I'm (un)happy to report that Italy's high-speed trains are way more often on time (and super expensive) than whatever still works in Germany.
Well, can't really fool the instruments--the faking happens when the data are adjusted™.
Have you seen the reports coming out of the UK whose Met Office admitted that 'no less than 19%' of their stations don't exist, sayeth The Daily Skeptic:
I wonder how the Church of Climatology will up the ante with their water colors 5 years from now when, supposedly, we'll all look like sun-dried raisins?
Since coloring everything above 30 "bright/dark red" they effectively ran out of "warm"-attuned colors.
And now they have to resort to purple (leaning towards cold on the color wheel) or girlish-pink (heeeheeheees, it's 35 degrees!) - or even *grey* for higher than 45 (deserts or Finnish Saunas) - those were the areas reserved for the "bright/dark red" coloring 20 years ago.
It's fear mongering with color palettes - something Orwell would've loved, but he ended with NewSpeak, never thinking ideology would leak into crayon level manipulation.
I'm sure they'll do a roundtable in concerned circles (Davos?) to define the next wave of colors - I'd suggest introducing flashing effects (ie stroboscoped, not just solid colors) - now that's some climate action right there on the weather charts.
Yeah, more working parties to define this and that.
As an aside, when we watch old movies with the kids, streaming services would add hilarious 'warnings', such as 'contains depictions of tobacco and alcohol consumption' or the like to ensure no-one is offended™…
Yes, I recently had the audacity to watch a streamed older series - that now seems to be flagged with trigger warnings: "You are about to watch a story that contains potentially hateful words and topics. The story uses these slangs and speech under the historical context - all of which would be considered inappropriate if used today."...
I was constantly gasping while watching it. The audacity to depict historically accurate words & context! I truly feel like we're entering the age of "Contextualize-Think" - ie when they can't erase something (because erasing it would destroy the actual work or render it useless), they'll contextualize it for you so you don't think something depicted which was playing in the 1960's would / should be happening today.
I have so far to see an "alcohol consumption" warning - probably good since I love watching movies where the protagonists get hammered. Can't even imagine what kids-type entertainment should get flagged "Don't drink alcohol kids, it makes you craaazy!" (in which case they'd be sure to want to try some if the parents don't look).
It's probably good I do not stream much but preferred to "own" a copy of media, from when it still was possible to actually own a copy of a medium on a disc.
Also I think revisionist tendencies in entertainment are the death of creativity, such warnings are just a marker of what seems way more important vs. actually making a riveting story.
Long rant, but coincidentally you hit a spot since I just had that warning flash in on an actual adult 18+ series, no less.
I believe in censor-free environments when you're an adult and "can take it" - but seems not even those are safe anymore and need to be "trigger noticed".
Well, postmodernism did get one thing kinda correct (but it's a banal, obvious thing): thoughts shape words shape deeds. There's no special insight needed, really, to understand this.
Personally, I don't watch TV or stream stuff; it's mainly when we watch 'old movies' or the like with the kids that I noted these 'warnings'. I'm eagerly awaiting for labels, such as 'contains black humour' or 'warning, sarcasm' to appear--we can't be too far off, esp. if you'd consider, say, 1942 classics, such as Ernst Lubitsch's 'To Be or Not To Be' (or even the 1980s Mel Brooks remake, 'Springtime for Hitler') or the evergreen 'Casablanca'.
You write:
'I believe in censor-free environments when you're an adult and "can take it" - but seems not even those are safe anymore and need to be "trigger noticed".'
+30 is too hot for me, but I wouldn't mind if it'd deign to peek above +20 during the day at least.
Cooking-metaphor:
When making soup, you start with water and then you add things one at a time, always tasting to see what happens to the mix (and if it's a new ingredience you just add a little at first). You never spice it until it's ready. Anything to be eaten at the same time is served on the side, it's not just dumped into the soup.
Now apply this to politics since ca 1990. It's cooking as done by a pot-head after a two-week bong-party: everything and the kitchen s(t)ink added.
And the journos are the maître d' trying desperately to convince the guests that the soup is just fine.
The important aspect to realize is that these things are emanating from a single supranational source. Colors have shifted on temperature maps across the Western Empire, perhaps even elsewhere.
Apparently, Switzerland isn't that insane (yet, give it time).
You forgot to say the magic word: Hitzefrei!
Ah, that's a very fair point. Why don't we get a day off if it's that hot?
In Australia some workers get a few hours off if it is above 43C and they have to work outside in the middle of the day. When I had to do that I would work at night under floodlights and it was still in the low 30s.
Europeans could never.
The hottest I ever felt was 47C. I was working outside. It was bad. Real bad. It was also flypocalypse from all the cow shit. Enjoy your Aussie beef, rest of the world!
Edit: when I walk my dog here in the city at 10pm during the summer it can be in the high-30s.
Well, ask a Spaniard or Italian about mid-day breaks…
LOL
When I was in Napoli they couldn't even get the trains to work because everyone was 'resting.' We were laughing saying 'get some Germans in here ffs and get this show on the road.'
While I understand the sentiment, I'm (un)happy to report that Italy's high-speed trains are way more often on time (and super expensive) than whatever still works in Germany.
GERMANY, NO!
Interestingly the government run NOOA-NWS still has the reasonable color hues. See https://graphical.weather.gov/sectors/sectorDay.php?sector=ctp&view=public&expand=false#tabs
. whereas weather.com succumbed to BS directives. See https://weather.com/weather/radar/interactive/l/8185bc004f50cfa540984ae9b32d0eb745cfe654771bf56cb1384b02d64e511c
Temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit. ;-)
Unfortunately the second link seems to revert to radar info. You can go to layers and turn on the temperature layer.
Well, can't really fool the instruments--the faking happens when the data are adjusted™.
Have you seen the reports coming out of the UK whose Met Office admitted that 'no less than 19%' of their stations don't exist, sayeth The Daily Skeptic:
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/04/09/met-office-shock-more-non-existent-uk-weather-stations-discovered-reporting-invented-data/
No, I haven’t seen that, but I am not surprised.
Everyone in Australia rolls their eyes at this 'heat.' 25-27 in a red 'death colour.' Come on man!
That comparison of the two maps is just hilarious - thanks.
Not 'just' in Australia: to imagine that, less than 100 years ago Europeans kinda ruled the world becomes an ever-weirder idea…
I genuinely just burst out laughing.
Consider the following...I just came home from Novena. I can assure you that Rome is alive and well ;)
It's absurd as it is astounding to ponder the drastic speed of this decline, mental and otherwise.
I wonder how the Church of Climatology will up the ante with their water colors 5 years from now when, supposedly, we'll all look like sun-dried raisins?
Since coloring everything above 30 "bright/dark red" they effectively ran out of "warm"-attuned colors.
And now they have to resort to purple (leaning towards cold on the color wheel) or girlish-pink (heeeheeheees, it's 35 degrees!) - or even *grey* for higher than 45 (deserts or Finnish Saunas) - those were the areas reserved for the "bright/dark red" coloring 20 years ago.
It's fear mongering with color palettes - something Orwell would've loved, but he ended with NewSpeak, never thinking ideology would leak into crayon level manipulation.
Good question: I suppose by using brown and other colours while telling everyone that this is the new hot colour?
I'm sure they'll do a roundtable in concerned circles (Davos?) to define the next wave of colors - I'd suggest introducing flashing effects (ie stroboscoped, not just solid colors) - now that's some climate action right there on the weather charts.
Yeah, more working parties to define this and that.
As an aside, when we watch old movies with the kids, streaming services would add hilarious 'warnings', such as 'contains depictions of tobacco and alcohol consumption' or the like to ensure no-one is offended™…
Yes, I recently had the audacity to watch a streamed older series - that now seems to be flagged with trigger warnings: "You are about to watch a story that contains potentially hateful words and topics. The story uses these slangs and speech under the historical context - all of which would be considered inappropriate if used today."...
I was constantly gasping while watching it. The audacity to depict historically accurate words & context! I truly feel like we're entering the age of "Contextualize-Think" - ie when they can't erase something (because erasing it would destroy the actual work or render it useless), they'll contextualize it for you so you don't think something depicted which was playing in the 1960's would / should be happening today.
I have so far to see an "alcohol consumption" warning - probably good since I love watching movies where the protagonists get hammered. Can't even imagine what kids-type entertainment should get flagged "Don't drink alcohol kids, it makes you craaazy!" (in which case they'd be sure to want to try some if the parents don't look).
It's probably good I do not stream much but preferred to "own" a copy of media, from when it still was possible to actually own a copy of a medium on a disc.
Also I think revisionist tendencies in entertainment are the death of creativity, such warnings are just a marker of what seems way more important vs. actually making a riveting story.
Long rant, but coincidentally you hit a spot since I just had that warning flash in on an actual adult 18+ series, no less.
I believe in censor-free environments when you're an adult and "can take it" - but seems not even those are safe anymore and need to be "trigger noticed".
Well, postmodernism did get one thing kinda correct (but it's a banal, obvious thing): thoughts shape words shape deeds. There's no special insight needed, really, to understand this.
Personally, I don't watch TV or stream stuff; it's mainly when we watch 'old movies' or the like with the kids that I noted these 'warnings'. I'm eagerly awaiting for labels, such as 'contains black humour' or 'warning, sarcasm' to appear--we can't be too far off, esp. if you'd consider, say, 1942 classics, such as Ernst Lubitsch's 'To Be or Not To Be' (or even the 1980s Mel Brooks remake, 'Springtime for Hitler') or the evergreen 'Casablanca'.
You write:
'I believe in censor-free environments when you're an adult and "can take it" - but seems not even those are safe anymore and need to be "trigger noticed".'
Exactly my point of view, too.
+30 is too hot for me, but I wouldn't mind if it'd deign to peek above +20 during the day at least.
Cooking-metaphor:
When making soup, you start with water and then you add things one at a time, always tasting to see what happens to the mix (and if it's a new ingredience you just add a little at first). You never spice it until it's ready. Anything to be eaten at the same time is served on the side, it's not just dumped into the soup.
Now apply this to politics since ca 1990. It's cooking as done by a pot-head after a two-week bong-party: everything and the kitchen s(t)ink added.
And the journos are the maître d' trying desperately to convince the guests that the soup is just fine.
I share your feel-good in the low 20s attitude.
You're also spot-on regarding the metaphor: I do wonder at the idiots who actually believe this kind of absurdity--and then I'm reminded of 1984.