Pale Rider Coming for Europe

Jun 28, 2019 7:41 PM

MadMacandCheese

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First it was the Nazis, now it's the Kool-Aid man

Are you melting yet?

Meanwhile in Norway

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

When a Chinese hoax goes too far.

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

OOOHHHHH YEEEEAAAAHHHH!

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Climate change is a hoax made up by the Chinese to make American businesses noncompetitive" -an idiot

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

This is a message for the sunny weather. Meet me in glasgow for a fight. Don’t bring clouds or everybody will know how scared you are.

6 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

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v

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Climate change is a hell of a drug

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Starting the war early this year, are we?

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

30°C=86°F and it’s currently *checks notes* 92° and feels like 100° where I am in southern NJ right now. This is our normal.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

These are not the highest temps, the map is just fun. There's reports of 46+ degrees celcius in France.

6 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

New national record, in fact.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

why tf do you people complain about winter then? this sounds fucking awful

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because in winter it can get extremely cold, neither extreme is very enjoyable.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Even French weather is overly dramatic. We get it france, you like art.

6 years ago | Likes 226 Dislikes 4

Sounds like they're having Dali weather

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

HuricaneSkull.jpg

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Kool-aid man, anyone?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I confirm, 32°c today (?? here)

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sorry but 32°c is just summer. It's not a heatwave. 40°c+ for two weeks straight is a heatwave.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I live in Phoenix. We typically keep our homes at 80f (27C). The high for today is 111 which is 44C. It’ll be this way for the next 4 months

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Checking in from PHX, my AC is running all day to keep 85F. 3rd floor and high ceilings

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The highest we ever had was 44°C in France. It has been broken yesterday (45,9°C) https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/06/28/le-recor

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

After reading the other comments you guys definitely don’t have it easy. I thought 29C was a record and people were freaking out. 45 is hot!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Currently in the mouth of the skull, my body sticks to every surface it comes in contact with. Send help

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If it were record cold temperatures Trump would be tweeting about it.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's 84 F? No wonder they consider Texas to be part of Hell.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

france had 113F today

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

In tucson arizona, we had 111F with 15% humidity today. This entire month it won't be dropping below 100F during the day.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Madison with the heat index gets to like 120s with 80% humidity.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

yes but i guess people have AC over there and are used to it. i dont know anyone who has AC at their home.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You don't really get used to that kind of heat. I work in a shop and it's miserable all day.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

is 120f a lot for madison or just nomal what you get every year? yes working in this heat sucks.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

People act like all of France is on fire. The heat in Villevieille is due to a wildfire in Spain. Fire makes the air really hot.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

i just know that bark beetles fuck up the forest near me because the lack of rain, no idea what else going on in other places

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

we still had 40C and more (104f) all over europe and most people have no AC and it prob messes with the ecosystem.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There are places in the US without AC so I feel ya. I know it’s hot but a wildfire in Spain has jacked stuff up.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, no. That wouldn't reach that far. What europe is getting is sahara heat.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

28 degrees in my room atm, and I can hear glastonbury going on down the road.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Um. Yesterday, the temp *inside* my apt. was 86. No AC here. Didn't get tolerable til about 3am when the temp outside was 51 F.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Try using fans to improve the circulation; open windows & doors. Inside should cool much faster with outside temp of 51°

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Can't open doors: Meth-head neighbors would take all my shit. Major problem is I have a west-facing, 2nd floor brick wall. (1/2)

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(2/2) Sucks up ALL the late afternoon sunshine, then does a "pizza oven" impression for the next 4+ hours. *shrug* used to it after 6 years.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Unfortunate.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don’t worry it’s just the end to the @lukehumphris story

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

is this global warming?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Probably

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That's the Koolaid Man.

6 years ago | Likes 97 Dislikes 3

So it will be refreshing.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OH YEAH!

6 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

OH NOOOOOoooooo

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

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Jim Jones?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Koolaid man failed to break through bulletproof glass

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And now I can’t unsee it

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

29 degrees is a bit chilly

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

The temps are in °C. 29 & 30 are not hot. It’s just the scale of colours used that makes it seem so.

6 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 17

These are not the hottest anyway, it just looks cool.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It's proportional to what they usually get/are prepared for. If none of them are prepared for this, it sucks. A lot.

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

yes but we had 40C+ two days ago, thats 104F and we have mostly no AC and no dry heat in europe.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The point is they aren’t prepared for this heat, other places are. So tired of this retarded sentiment, the heat wave’s deadly in Europe.

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 4

Acclimation is real for sure, I don't use air condition and the temps in southwest Missouri regularly get 100 plus, but I hate the cold!

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

*Acclimatization

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You don't get it, it's 30°c with more than 60% relative humdity. You can't sweat

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I’m Australian. I get it more than most.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah! I mean 29c is 84 only freedom degrees, bunch of pansy ass euros!!

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 6

yes but we had 40C+ two days ago, thats 104F and we have mostly no AC and no dry heat in europe.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

You mean Frankenstein units. And just because where you live gets hotter, doesn't take away that it's not normal to be that warm there.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Sorry is that 29 degrees Celsius in the darkest spots?

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

This is a map of minimal temp at night. 29 C° (84.2 F°) at the coolest at night.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thanks!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hottest parts of France hit 45C today

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

And then in the hundreds for other places? Europe must be on fire.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

The hundreds should be barometric pressure rather than temperature I think. You appreciate of course that water boils at 100°C yeah.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

91°F here. Humidity is a tolerable 61%.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

60% humidity your lucky!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

Yea, been pretty mild so far. Definitely not the norm

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's 84f, gimme a break! It's 86 outside here now, we call it Summer!

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Ah, sorry. I am but one pasty Canadian. Anything past plus 15C is too much.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Maritimes? It gets up to +35'C for a few days each summer here in Southern Ontario.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sadly no, subartic circle in Northern Alberta. Rare times we've had plus forty but I'm still melting. Happily summer lasts like 2 months

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I survived 50°C in India

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ok but what is that temperature in centimeters

6 years ago | Likes 296 Dislikes 9

about thirty hot

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You spelled kilograms wrong

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

666

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I think that's temperatures at the 850 hpa level (1.5 km ASL).

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

THANK YOU!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

45

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Depends on the size of your thermometer. Ha! You were joking, but I have a serious answer. I win.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

It’s probably around 240 ftlb/in

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Error, that doesn't compute

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

One Kilopascal. Now convert that over to Megajoules, and you'll have 13 Liters of metric Kelvin Celcius temperatures

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Dozen gallons

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

5/7

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

I can convert it to roentgens, 3.6.

6 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 1

Not terrible, not great

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

Not much worse than a couple of chest x-rays

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Not great, not terrible.

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Some Australians would wear thongs in those tempatures... some.

6 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 1

I’m lost, how does heat have anything to do with underwear?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thongs are flip flops, by and equally dumb name

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Too cold for thongs mate

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

The hottest part is only 29°c? That's not even mildly hot, that's nice weather.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

it's more, I don't know where you got those numbers. In Switzerland, we had 36°C (97F). The south of France has it far worse, so >36°C ...

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I guess they took a screenshot when the temperature was not so extreme, but had a cool skull...

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I got the numbers from the pic?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The hottest part is almost 90F. (stares in Texan)

6 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 2

I'd wager it's fairly humid there too.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What are you on about? Temps peaked at 113F in France today

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Oh, I thought it was actually hot

6 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 3

The map doesn't have color gradations for higher than that.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It got over 110 freedom units.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yeah but we don't like in little wooden houses. Dual layer brick with shit tons of insulation. No air con. Double glazed windows.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Also it was 46c in France today.. That's hot. Don't care where you are from. Even more so when the houses are designed to stay warm in winte

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

As a hardened Aussie, that's hot. Mum woulda been upset at me being outside in that temperature.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well technically insulation works both ways right, keeps heat or cold in.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Then again if you don't have AC it's worse to be insulated if your trying to keep cool.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's it our houses are built to retain heat as its colder more than its hot. So when it hot, there is no escaping it

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What makes it so much worse is 80% of European buildings (including houses and apartments) don’t have AC. So no relief from the heat.

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Never visit Paris in middle of summer.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Never visit Paris

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Having no AC is bettet, other wise it would get even hotter in big cities

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Literally thousands of people died during that mega heatwave in the 2000s. You'd think people would learn - get a little window AC, put it->

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

in your closet until you need it for extreme weather like this. Lives would be saved.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah that's why we always complain in the UK heatwave. Our houses are insulated to death for the cold. When it hits 30c it stays 30c

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

In Montreal on the 3rd floor with all the windows open and fans, atm

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

sounds like an incredibly lucrative business opportunity to me

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Haha,naive Central/Northern Europeans.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fuck AC, except for hospital

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

at least they have shutters! the Uk does not ! D:

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I live in Sweden & have all my windows open all summer long. Well isolated house so my body heat and electronics do all the heating

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

also this map only shows temperatures up to 29C. they had 45C today (thats 113F)

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Same here in Phoenix. We've had a mild spring.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yeah most are also made of clay and brick so they don't exactly heat up like US houses either...

6 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

Clay? You mean mortar?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

the brick is clay.

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I'm going down with my ship

6 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

What kind of backwards SHIT is that. I'd kill without AC. They hate their people. BARBARIANS.

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I'm just ribbin btw.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Because we don't build houses with 30cm wall of wood and drywall. Half a meter stone and brick and really there's not much need for an ac

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why would we have AC when for most of our history the temperatures never required it?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Always have a backup brotha

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 7

We’re just used to 20-30 degree summers and -10 to 15 the rest of the year pretty much, AC’s are just a giant waste of energy for most of us

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

HERESY

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 9

I mean clearly The Back-up Plan is needed, as for the Post above. I wouldn't take chances

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Absolutely. I've got an AC in my damn bedroom and I make up literally 100% of everyone I know that has an AC anywhere.

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That's such a weird way to put it

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

It is. Because it is weird.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yeah fuck that. Time to start booking trips to Europe during the fall.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My boss thought it a good idea to order an AC two weeks ago. Last week he canceled the order because they couldn't meet demand. no shit.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Also what people are acclimated to, harder on people outside their norm. 83F in (28C) in southcentral Alaska right now and I'm slowly dying.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Is that normal in Alaska‽

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It does normally happen every year for a few days but a typical hot day would be 70-75s (about 22C) and june average is closer to 62F (17C)

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Keep in mind Alaska is huge and different areas have different climates.The interior is hotter and can get over 90 (32C.)

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

meanwhile thats a normal autumn day in north east coast of Australia. We freeze into little popsicles the temp drops below 42F (6C)

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Where tf did you get that percentage?

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

i wish there was a "Sauce" badge here on Imgur

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Besides NG wrote it, I still can't find real analysis. This just sound impossible to me... I must be some sort of elite then :)

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So buy one, capitalism at its best. Or brick of ice + fan = cool days

6 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 10

But there needs to be one there to buy. The supply will lag behind the demand for now, and in the mean time people don't know how to cope.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Capitalism at it's best. Mark up when people are fucked. Super cool.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

why does buying things = capitalism?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Part of the problem is that EU just isn’t used to this kind of heat. Although AC window units are for sale, office buildings and

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

schools don’t have central AC, so not easy to cool down. France canceled school today because of this. EU culture will need to adapt.

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

That's a tall order for a culture that doesn't handle change very well.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

What even makes you think that? You have probably never picked up a history book in your life.. :\

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Ope... wait 45.9c = 114 F, well fuck that’s hot!

6 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 1

Jesus, that's like Texas heat...those poor fuckers.

6 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I’d imagine not as Europe sounds humid with all the rain they get. 114 Texas is like 80 here on the east coast where I live now

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Indiana gets above 100°F most Summers and it's almost always humid here too. Welcome to my hell.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bro, you think Texas ain't humid? It's been raining and twistering for the past two weeks. My ballsack looks like a petri dish my guy!

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Closing all shutters and blinds during the day ans opening Doors and Windows during the night is efficient sometimes :)

6 years ago | Likes 147 Dislikes 9

Do you know mosquito ? There are really hungry here in France. We only open on Sunrise for fresh air ?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes i have those tiger mosquitos bitches, living in south of France! I have reached the point of giving up the fight and ... 1/2

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And willfully offer them my Blood in exchange of an opened window. Choisir entre la peste et le choléra!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Living in Phoenix, this does help. And make your own homemade swamp fan can give a little bit of help

6 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 0

Not so much with big single-level houses/buildings. With 2+ levels convection sucks cool air in, unless it's also hot at night.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

At night you can wear an “Egyptian blanket” basically a cold wet towel as a blanket. As it dries it will wick heat. I do this camping in fla

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Yes It World very well! Or taking a shower without drying yourself before going to bed, but the effect last less

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No offense to the suggestion. But that sounds just miserable. Live in SC Hurricane country, so duly noted. Not even July, and we've (1)

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

already had one heat wave. No AC in the car. Blech. (/2)

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah I’m in southern fla and my gfs car doesn’t have ac

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Another tactic in fla when you lose power is to sleep in the bathtub. Coolest spot in the house

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

When we lost power for a week in September after a hurricane, we just moved into a friend's spare bedroom for a week.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You’re a lucky man. The last hurricane that came through fucked me and all my friends. You know it’s bad when you go to Walmart just for ac

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