is it a good sign when the national weather service runs out of pre-assigned colors to depict temperature?

[ikket@mementomori.social]

@dirkhh right, I never do, but should've

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@amro
my understanding is that it will start cooling off this weekend - but I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just someone who used to live in Germany and remembers that temperatures 10C lower than today were considered HOT when I was a kid...

[lnr@sunny.garden]

@dirkhh Also - that is kinda funny Our back garden patio is a little sun trap - the black plastic garden chairs were just reading over 60 degrees (in C! not F!)

[amro@todon.nl]

@dirkhh I know and you're right. I'm just being sarcastic. In all probability and these heatwaves continue for the next decades, the warm gulfstream will collapse due to melting glaciers on Greenland adding to much fresh water to the AMOC.
In that case Western Europe will get the same climate as Canada. Much dryer and colder...

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@lnr
🤯
that would be seriously painful to sit on.
Actually () a quick kagi search reveals... human pain threshold is somewhere around 44C, injuries can start below 50C and 60C will definitely give you burns!!!
Wowza.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@dirkhh

Well they got the colour of West Wales about right. Quite toasted today 🥵

[schubertsworld@mastodon.ie]

@dirkhh
.....the cheese is melting....

[lnr@sunny.garden]

@dirkhh Do not sit on the danger chairs!

[xri@kolektiva.social]

@dirkhh yes, it means it will turn around so tomorrow will be -36

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@simonzerafa @dirkhh *winks from halfway across the ash zone*

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@dirkhh I've noticed some of the heat maps just wrap the color scale around at some point of horridness.

[helenaviking@social.spejset.org]

@dirkhh It's the void!

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@mirabilos @dirkhh

I told someone to watch out for the ash hole earlier and they got quite upset

[s10n@mastodon.social]

@dirkhh
Don't worry, it's just a fever. It will go down, once the infection plaguing earth is killed off.

#climatechangeistnotaboutsavingearthitsaboutsavinganearthhumanscanliveon
(Maybe I should put some work into that hashtag...)

[elala@nrw.social]

@dirkhh
Ist es gut mitten drin statt nur dabei zu sein?

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@elala
meistens: NEIN
hier: absolutely definitely 100% NOT

[elala@nrw.social]

@dirkhh
Ich hatte schon so eine Vorahnung.

Aus der Nähe von Köln gesendet.🫠

[docalm@mastodon.social]

@dirkhh most probably they predict a vulcanic eruption tomorrow …

[etchedpixels@mastodon.social]

@simonzerafa @dirkhh yeah. Nothing on but the aircon and it's still really hot

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@etchedpixels

I hear you. As I said, there are fairly simple limits to what A/C can do.

But with the difficult choice of "promote the essential-to-humanity unlimited growth of AI data centers" and "do the absolute bare minimum to try and slow down climate change", it's obvious that a well bought politician needs to accept option 1...