My big sis told me that they have never seen heat like this summer in Denmark, Sweden, etc

[malaise]

She says there were 63 forest fires in Sweden alone and help came from several other European countries.

Here's a link

Sweden has had the worst peak temperature in 155 years.
https://www.thelocal.se/20170828/sweden-has-worst-peak-summer-temperature-in-155-years

Oops that link is from last year. She was talking about this year.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Thats nuts!

Feels like we reached a tipping point somehow. This summer has been really unusual w the heat.

[Zoonart]

2. My cousin in Holland has been saying the same thing.

It will be close to 90F in Amsterdam this afternoon. Almost no one has A/C. They are melintg... just not used to the heat.

[malaise]

3. Here's a better link

https://www.thelocal.se/20180530/swedens-heatwave-hits-30c-and-breaks-several-records

[KitSileya]

4. I live in Norway, and I ditto that.

Now, I usually don't spend my summers in Norway (unlike this year), but I do get reports (read complaints) when I return at the start of the school year. This year? We've broken heat records left and right. It's so dry farmers are slaughtering their animals so they don't starve come winter, because the hay crops are failing everywhere. The only farmers that are happy? Two farmers who are trying out corn/maize crops somewhere on the West coast. Corn! In Norway! It's unbelievable.

No houses have built in air conditioner, but we haven't had any deaths directly related to the heat, unlike the UK and Canada. (I am sure that in hindsight, the statistics will show a bump in mortality for the elderly, worn out by the heat.) I keep most of my summer clothes in the States, because there's never really any need for them here, but the month of May was incredibly hot, and it has just continued since. Previously, around Easter, we had a severe cold period - unusually cold, in fact. That's a blessing, really, because the main worry with global climate change has been that we would get warmer winters and colder summers and more precipitation all year round (and living in a city where it's rained 255 days a year on average, that wasn't a cheerful prospect.) Our cold winters have kept a lot of pests, like insects, viruses, and bacteria, in check, and warmer winters would endanger that. The weather we've had the past couple of years has been weird.

[malaise]

8. Thanks for this

They are reaping fruit and making jams & marmalade - she says it 's been hot since spring.

[Hugin]

5. I remember talking to someone 10 or 15 years ago from Portland, OR.

They were saying exactly the same about where they were living.

Looks like the heat has moved to the higher latitudes.

But, there is no global warming, because, a Senator remembers it snowing in DC.

[malaise]

10. Of course not

No climate change at all - Inhofe told us so

[ananda]

6. It's going into the hundreds all week here.

From105 to 107 I believe.

This has been and is continuing to be a very hot summer here.

[malaise]

13. We are facing a drought this year

I turned on the shower in the early afternoon one day this week and the water from the cold side was as hot as the hot water side.

[Hortensis]

7. Brings to mind the fires springing up all over Siberia.

Huge area covered with boreal forest with little control. And continental climate with greater climate extremes than Scandinavia.

These NASA Images Show Siberia Burning Up

Siberian wildfire season is off and running with multiple blazes searing the boreal forest and tundra. It’s the latest example of the vast shifts happening to the forests that cover Siberia and the rest of the northern tier of the world as climate change alters the landscape.

Those forests are burning at a rate unheard of in at least 10,000 years due largely to rising temperatures. They contain vast reserves of carbon stored in trees and soil and when they burn, they send that carbon into the atmosphere. That creates a dangerous cycle of more severe wildfires and ever rising temperatures.





http://www.climatecentral.org/news/nasa-siberia-wildfires-21576

[malaise]

9. Scary stuff

Thanks for that

[DFW]

11. All of northern Europe is burning up this year

And most of us don't have air conditioning. My wife was able to find a temporary assisted living for mer mom, who is 91 and nearly blind, so she could come with me to the States this summer. She talks to her mom every day on the phone, and it is 35°C there. That is over 90°F, and the facility has no air conditioning.

[malaise]

12. My folks don't have air-conditioning so they went to

Their little cottage in Sweden but it was as bad or worse.
She said help for the fires in Sweden came from Denmark,Norway,France Spain Germany and Lithuania.

[VOX]

14. Also in Japan, where temperatures reached 105F earlier this week.

Japan heatwave: Warnings issued amid scorching temperatures
BBC 21 July 2018
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-44910435

[malaise]

15. Japan has also had horrific floods and landslides early this month

Extreme weather including more rain in a few hours rather than days is overwhelming people, property and infrastructure.

[VOX]

16. And in the meantime, 45 lectures us on clean coal.

Beyond the obvious last all-out gasp of fossil fuels dependency, it’s one of the more insidious effects of the current (mid)administration: lost time.

Time that could have been spent working on solutions to the big trouble that’s just warming up. (Pun in the face of global disaster, sorry.)

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. My relatives in Luxembourg are sweating out this summer, too.

It's supposed to get up to 91 there next Friday. No one has air conditioning, of course.

[malaise]

18. Many moons ago when my first nephew was born

I visited Denmark.
One of the in-laws invited me to the beach. I had on my winter cost - she wore her bikini

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. I can believe that!

On the other hand, they don't normally experience the temperature variations that we do in Chicago, except for those nations that extend north of the Arctic Circle.