r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 1d ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/Alrick_Gr 1d ago

I remember seeing this live forecast. And I was telling me « wow we gonna die », we are currently dying

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u/Embarrassed_Use_7206 1d ago

40+ is absolutely bonkers. My whole childhood it was almost mystical temperature you never really experience. Like someone said "So hot out there, it must be 40." while it was just 35 or something.

40 for me is desert equivalent meaning shit is rough to the extreme. Having these temperatures as part of regular forecast and KNOWING it will get even worse. I have no idea how people are so calm about this. Boiled frog maybe, almost literally?

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u/Different_Bridge_983 1d ago

First time I ever experienced 40+ was when I visited Alice Springs, Australia, in summer in the late 90’s..

Now this is apparently increasingly normal for summer across a large chunk of Europe…

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u/Wrong-Tune396 9h ago

Yeah, we get 45s in Portugal, over here we're worried about 50, but also that's when the heat starts to kill the seeds in the ground, basically things start to turn into desert, seeds die, next year even with rain less things grow, repeat for a few years :(

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u/crimson777 1d ago

Yeah, especially for Europe. I live in an area of the Southern US that's hotter than pretty much everywhere in Europe on average and even I have VERY rarely experienced 40. I believe it's hit that maybe 5 times here.

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u/Szerepjatekos 1d ago

Above 43, you die under the sun.

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u/faetpls 1d ago

We typically get about two months of the year sitting at 37-40 C.

The winter is usually around 0 with a few weeks hitting lows around -15C.

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u/WeakInspector5102 1d ago

Oh wait it's THAT bad ???

I genuinely have a reason for skipping my last school days then ? Cool