I’ve been noticing little everyday escalations during this latest record-breaking heatwave.
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I’ve been noticing little everyday escalations during this latest record-breaking heatwave. I wonder how soon I’ll stop noticing them because they’ve become the new climate-collapse normal.
City parks empty by day because it’s too hot to sunbathe
Empty cold-drink fridges in shops
People draping scarves over their hats as face veils
Rows of apartments with the curtains closed all day
The café’s window table with the great view is now the last, not the first, to be occupied
Changed behaviours and heat-resistance tactics will differ, of course, depending where you live. Other everyday differences I've noticed in heated-up Denmark:
Municipal signs at outdoor events reminding people to drink water
Instead of the usual Summer tank tops & shorts, people covering up in floaty long and long-sleeved clothing.
In our walkable city, zig-zagging home, changing sides of the street with the trees, taking the route with most building shadow at that time of day
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I’ve been noticing little everyday escalations during this latest record-breaking heatwave. I wonder how soon I’ll stop noticing them because they’ve become the new climate-collapse normal.
City parks empty by day because it’s too hot to sunbathe
Empty cold-drink fridges in shops
People draping scarves over their hats as face veils
Rows of apartments with the curtains closed all day
The café’s window table with the great view is now the last, not the first, to be occupied
Lots of people walking around with umbrellas as parasols is quite new to me
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Changed behaviours and heat-resistance tactics will differ, of course, depending where you live. Other everyday differences I've noticed in heated-up Denmark:
Municipal signs at outdoor events reminding people to drink water
Instead of the usual Summer tank tops & shorts, people covering up in floaty long and long-sleeved clothing.
In our walkable city, zig-zagging home, changing sides of the street with the trees, taking the route with most building shadow at that time of day
Local newspaper headlines are a culturally-specific climate diary in themselves.
"The best six hotspots in Aarhus for having outdoor sex in a heatwave"
"Are you looking forward to Winter too?"
"How to keep a cool head at work in a heatwave"
"Fewer guests at amusement park because it's too hot to go on a safari"
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I’ve been noticing little everyday escalations during this latest record-breaking heatwave. I wonder how soon I’ll stop noticing them because they’ve become the new climate-collapse normal.
City parks empty by day because it’s too hot to sunbathe
Empty cold-drink fridges in shops
People draping scarves over their hats as face veils
Rows of apartments with the curtains closed all day
The café’s window table with the great view is now the last, not the first, to be occupied
@CiaraNi @brianjohnson We recently moved into a house that has mostly south-facing windows and garden, which any other year would make me ecstatically happy because I love being warm and I love the sun. But this year we’ve been keeping the curtains closed all day and having only the 2 north-facing windows open to try and stay cool.
We’ve even been known to sit barefoot in the tile-floored bathroom (which has 1 of those north-facing windows!) for half an hour or so when it’s been too much to bear.
We’ve got blackout curtains in the bedrooms which stay closed all day. All the windows there are south-facing and they’re partially in the roof which is well-insulated - great for winter, but like an oven right now!
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Lots of people walking around with umbrellas as parasols is quite new to me
@TheBreadmonkey @CiaraNi I will admit I've started doing that. And the zigzagging.
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@TheBreadmonkey @CiaraNi I will admit I've started doing that. And the zigzagging.
What is zigzagging (in this context) please?
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I’ve been noticing little everyday escalations during this latest record-breaking heatwave. I wonder how soon I’ll stop noticing them because they’ve become the new climate-collapse normal.
City parks empty by day because it’s too hot to sunbathe
Empty cold-drink fridges in shops
People draping scarves over their hats as face veils
Rows of apartments with the curtains closed all day
The café’s window table with the great view is now the last, not the first, to be occupied
@CiaraNi I’ve embraced the chaos while detachment from the heat induced temper or erratic behaviour dehydration brings some people in public. On more than one occasion people have commented how do you stay so calm and fresh looking in this heat?
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I’ve been noticing little everyday escalations during this latest record-breaking heatwave. I wonder how soon I’ll stop noticing them because they’ve become the new climate-collapse normal.
City parks empty by day because it’s too hot to sunbathe
Empty cold-drink fridges in shops
People draping scarves over their hats as face veils
Rows of apartments with the curtains closed all day
The café’s window table with the great view is now the last, not the first, to be occupied
@CiaraNi More and more windows and doors covered in space blankets. Very futuristic.
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What is zigzagging (in this context) please?
@TheBreadmonkey
From this very thread: "zig-zagging home, changing sides of the street with the trees, taking the route with most building shadow at that time of day". -
Local newspaper headlines are a culturally-specific climate diary in themselves.
"The best six hotspots in Aarhus for having outdoor sex in a heatwave"
"Are you looking forward to Winter too?"
"How to keep a cool head at work in a heatwave"
"Fewer guests at amusement park because it's too hot to go on a safari"
Umbrellas as parasols. Extra tap-water stations around the city. Signs reminding us to drink water. The new normal.
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Lots of people walking around with umbrellas as parasols is quite new to me
@TheBreadmonkey Yes, same here in Denmark. It seemed to get normalised overnight - rain umbrellas are now everywhere in Summer.
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@CiaraNi More and more windows and doors covered in space blankets. Very futuristic.
@ygor Another new normal. I haven't seen space blankets yet, but black-out blinds are common here (Denmark) because of the long days with short, white-light nights in Summer. Now they are commonly doing service by day too, as heat-resisting measures.
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@CiaraNi @brianjohnson We recently moved into a house that has mostly south-facing windows and garden, which any other year would make me ecstatically happy because I love being warm and I love the sun. But this year we’ve been keeping the curtains closed all day and having only the 2 north-facing windows open to try and stay cool.
We’ve even been known to sit barefoot in the tile-floored bathroom (which has 1 of those north-facing windows!) for half an hour or so when it’s been too much to bear.
We’ve got blackout curtains in the bedrooms which stay closed all day. All the windows there are south-facing and they’re partially in the roof which is well-insulated - great for winter, but like an oven right now!
@onlinegoddess @brianjohnson South-facing garden or balcony used to be a des-res feature. And lots of window-light. Now we're seeking the opposite. The black-out blinds staying closed are increasingly common here too now.
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