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Rikard's avatar

Swedes try to one-up Germans in being stupid, Norweigans one-up us, and the Danes laugh at it all.

Heat-wave was in 2014, because that year it was +30C at mid-day in the fjells, at 1200 meters altitude which is highly unusual. That's +30C for weeks, without any rain. It was so hot and dry there wasn't even any dew in the morning towards the end of the Summer.

In know this very well, since I was hiking that Summer and finding running water became increasingly difficult.

Before that, I think it was in 1994 or 1995 that had similar conditions.

In Scania in 2018, we had 92 days of Summer without rain. After a Winter with record snows - drifts topping 2-3 meters due to wind moving the snow about the plains. Last time that happened was in the late 1970s.

I'm guessing weather gonna weather, but if there's no crisis, there's no paycheck.

epimetheus's avatar

Exactly.

As to the 'help, it ain't rainin' for 2 weeks' crown, all I can do is point them to the Energy Directorate's magazine statistics: https://www.nve.no/energi/analyser-og-statistikk/magasinstatistikk/

There, one could see that Norwegian hydroelectric magazines were, starting in week 15 through week 21, were exceptionally over-full for the season; right now, they are very close to the median.

As to moisture/morning dew, well, it returned to my neck-of-the-woods a few days ago, right in the middle of this hellish heat wave™, i.e., it's a harbinger of autumn in the making, which will arrive, kinda, later this week.

York Luethje's avatar

You’ll never out-stupid the Germans. We will win this.

ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

It is currently 15C at 2pm in Perth, Western Australia and I have the central heating on. Nights have been about 5C and I am wondering if I will freeze to death. I have had the central heating on for 24hrs straight (I say it is to 'keep the cat warm' but it is really for me).

27C is a *perfect* air temperature but far, far too cold for ocean swimming. I only go into the ocean when it is above 40C, however, I will do my regular pool laps outside in the 50m pool all year because the water is heated to 27C.

In the 'winter', the 50m pool is empty - I am one of the few who will even go swimming lol. It's just me, a few Europeans, and the swim squad.

Edit: it has been opined that people in hot climates have an abundance of heat shock proteins protecting them against heat waves. If they survive repeated heat waves, they develop HSPs as a protective mechanism. Europeans who move to, say, Australia, can develop them especially if they are from southern Europe which is why the Greeks and Italians do so well here and were recruited for cutting cane in the North. They were the only ones strong enough to withstand the heat.

Sorry Norwegians and other Vikings, you will die. It initially killed a lot of Anglo-Irish too until they learned to adapt. Only Roman Empire really thrives here from the get-go.

epimetheus's avatar

I'm sorry not sorry: death by stupidity and self-induced idiocracy hardly makes for good histories, but then again, that's what we're observing.

I have no idea about proteins or such, but if it's hot, both nature and nurture play a role, albeit the respective shares may be up for debate: just look at Mediterranean (siesta) cultures vs. Nordic stances on workdays beginning around 8-ish and ending around 3-4 p.m. There's nothing a bit of rocket science won't be able to 'splain' here.

Rikard's avatar

+27C is perfect? Here, people take their shirts off when it hits +20C. Normal water temp in lakes in Summer is around +18C at the surface, +12C a meter down. +15C outdoors, I don't light the stove for.

On the other hand, I have zero problems going out in -30C to take a leak at night, wearing only slippers and a nightgown.

Maybe there is some kind of hormonal-genetic stuff going on as you reason? One of the guys at the gym I attended in the city when we lived down South was from Senegal, and he complained bitterly about the cold in mid-Summer. He dressed as if he was play-acting the Amundsen-Scott expeditions when it was +25C outside. While the Kurds don't seem to mind +30C nor -30C; living in them mountains and marrying their cousins since the Jews were polytheists might have had some evolutionary effect.

Stephen Verchinski's avatar

Following the 15 January 2022 Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai eruption, several trace gases measured by the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) displayed anomalous stratospheric values. Trajectories and radiance simulations confirm that the H2O, SO2, and HCl enhancements were injected by the eruption. In comparison with those from previous eruptions, the SO2 and HCl mass injections were unexceptional, although they reached higher altitudes. In contrast, the H2O injection was unprecedented in both magnitude (far exceeding any previous values in the 17‐year MLS record) and altitude (penetrating into the mesosphere). We estimate the mass of H2O injected into the stratosphere to be 146 ± 5 Tg, or ∼10% of the stratospheric burden. It may take several years for the H2O plume to dissipate. This eruption could impact climate not through surface cooling due to sulfate aerosols, but rather through surface warming due to the radiative forcing from the excess stratospheric H2O.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5571760/

epimetheus's avatar

Thanks for that link; the role of volcanoes is so poorly-understood in all of this, with the one other major aspect being, in my view, the role of clouds (which aren't in the IPCC's models™ either).

And then there's yet another, entirely overlooked aspect: assume for a moment that CO2 isn't the temperature (climate) control knob, what is?

Stephen Verchinski's avatar

There are cycles upon cycles and disruptions upon disruptions that we don't know or understand yet.

I ran across the information in global oxygen reduction. It's small but it could explain our changes in seasonal colds and flu. Anerobic bacteria gaining an upper hand?

Ever read Climate Change and Society by Dr. William Kellogg?

epimetheus's avatar

I agree, most of what da Science™ purports is quite poorly understood, esp. in terms of availability of data vs. large-scale deductions.

I read about oxygen levels, yet I do thin environmental poisons, such as esp. pesticides, synthetic hormones, RF exposure (since the mid-1990s), and the increasingly crappy diet of most humans play a role or two in this, too.

Thanks for the reading recommendation; I haven't, but I'll add it to my bookshelf!

Rebal's avatar

I hope this is propaganda. How strange is that?

Well, my property owner has been housing me w poison for a few days now, making me ill. She doesn't care-she mad her sons won't come mow anymore. I already took the snow removal from her. She beginning to look very stupid.