I swear, if those lizard lovers get their state destroyed and leave Georgia more vulnerable I’m gonna be pissed.
I believe it. I’m not even in Florida (thank God), but my pool temp is 95F today. It’s literally too hot to swim.
I live in this shit hole state and it js miserable how hot it is. Our inside temperature for my house is like 84 during the day…
Could you toss some ice cubes in there?
Warmer waters means stronger storms.
Florida is going to go through some things.
Warmer waters means more sea weed, red tides, algael blooms, mosquitoes, snakes, fish kills.
Florida is killing itself and us.
And much of the US Southeast in general. And probably the Northeast as well. But many people in the US can evacuate inland. Countries around the Caribbean Sea… not so much
Low-income households in the US are also disproportionately affected; cause it’s hard to evacuate your family without a car, or to rebuild your life after it’s been hurricaned away.
This is why insurance companies are dropping out of the State, and yet I’d wager a good chunk of the population deny climate change exist.
They’ll blame the democrats. Somehow.
of course the water temp is the highest, the ocean currents slowly stopping https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocean-currents-system-possible-collapse_n_64c075eee4b08cd259dddeb4, the magnetic poles are shifting and weakening (-15% in last 200y.), and seems like we are overdue for a next milankovitch cycle https://www.thoughtco.com/milankovitch-cycles-overview-1435096 only that it has little to do with our actual orbit/precipitation and have a lots to do with the magnetic field of the earth…
https://www.livescience.com/46694-magnetic-field-weakens.html
Just a reminder that warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic = hurricane fuel. We are lucky El Niño is causing some wind shear in the upper atmosphere to break up the storms… so far. I recommend looking it up if you’re interested. Hurricane season has the potential to be devastating this year if the El Niño cycle weakens.
I wonder how much longer Florida lasts before being wiped clean off the map like New Orleans…
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TDIL El Niño was not just a one time thing
Does TDIL stand for To Day I Learned?
LOL we’ll cut them some slack and say it means This Day I Learned
Yeah I did I triple take lol
2DIL
At least the ocean will be nice and warm when it floods their houses
Pee in it! Cool it down!
Pee is still body temp, so it’d only cool the water down by like 2 degrees.
So it will cool it down.
WHO MADE THE COLD SPOT
Meanwhile it’s summer in the UK and we’re off to a water park today and we’re taking full wetsuits because it’s so cold. July has been awful in the UK with so much rain.
Water in the UK has never been warm though. We might have hit 40C for a day last year, but it takes a long time to get water to that temp.
13°C in Berlin right now, tops out at 20°C today, and it’s near August. I mean, I’ll take that any day over the scorching earth that other countries have, but it is weird.
What’s the weather been like throughout July? We had a plesent June but July has been the worst.
It’s 13°C here too right now topping out at 18°C today.
We were spoilt last year, the weather was very warm and space photos had the UK looking very brown for a change.
All the wildlife and grass died. That’s not exactly a good thing…
that is just relatively normal? It only feels weird now, after the last 5 years being exceptionally scorching.
Usually there is a colder week or two in july followed by another heatwave in august. Last year that august wave brought 37°C and just twobweeks ago we were at 35°C.
Take the relief while you can.
In my part of Canada have gone from mid 30s to low teens. It is very weird as xhorxhing one day cold by comparison the next.
That’s the difference between weather (what you’re experiencing in a localized environment) and climate (what the wild world is experiencing).
This is Fahrenheit, right? So ~38.3º Celsius.
If it was Celsius the sea would be boiling.
Nothing to see here, just making a stew in the ocean.
That’s in fact the brain of RDS in the ocean of idiocy.
USA and their fixation with imperial 😂
US Customary. Temperature is the same as in Imperial, but fluid volume isn’t and the survey foot was different up until January 1st 2023 when the government changed to use the international foot.
TIL there’s an international foot. Which is probably only used by the US, I suppose?
Yeah, and muricans wont admit their own issues
To be fair it is an American news story about something happening in the US. But it should be proper procedure to write “100 degrees F” or something similar, just to denote the unit being used (adding a parenthesis with the converted C units after the F is too much to ask, I know).
I really wish the US would put Metric numbers in parentheses next to any Imperial numbers. I really want to have a better grasp on metric in my head.
As a nurse in the US, it’s a bit silly that we measure in Imperial and then have it converted to Metric for things like drug calculations. We have this awkward mix where we speak about mL in the same sentence as inches and feet.
I now can visualize about how much a few liters is, but still struggle with about how long a few centimeters is. I know Celsius only in reference to body temperature, but STILL have to convert to Fahrenheit if the Celsius reading is abnormal. Anything really above 38°C or below 36°C, and I start looking at Fahrenheit because I want a better understanding of how much trouble my patient is in. It’s rather silly and inefficient
still hotter than my average bathtub(37.5)
What… … … … Why is it soo warm? Iirc sea animals can’t live with temperatures like that!?
I don’t think humans can live in that very long either. 38 degrees is the temperature you have when you have a fever. I’m pretty sure if you expose yourself to that for a while you will die. Maybe a doctor can verify this, but it doesn’t sound good at all.
I don’t think humans can live in that very long either.
Humans have been living in places like the Sahara, which is even hotter, for millennia. It’s uncomfortable and requires adaptation but it’s perfectly doable.
You won’t survive even 24 hours in a 100°F hot tub 🤣.
I think I misunderstood the comment that I replied to. Sorry about that. 🤷
You can survive in a hot tub at much higher temperatures for hours, and people do it because they enjoy it.
?? Are you sure about that? I’m pretty certain that every hot tub at a public facility I’ve been to says to not exceed staying in for more than 20 minutes, and specially mentions to keep it lower if you’re old, have high blood pressure, are pregnant, or under the age of 16.
Isn’t part of the reason also because it’s easy to get light headed or dizzy and just pass out and drown?
I’m certain that even the most feeble visitors can withstand 20 minutes and the rest of us for quite some time longer, yes.
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So, all of them in that area were malfunctioning at the same time?
You’re literally one of the people in The Day After Tomorrow scoffing at the doomsday rolling down the street.
Maybe read the article before being a total shitass.
While the readings would’ve been considered a possible outlier or sensor error, surrounding buoys recorded similarly high temperatures, with 99.3 F at Murray Key and 98.4 F at Johnson Key.
It must be hard going through life being this big of a fucking idiot.
If you stick those fingers any farther into your ears they’re going to touch.
You know what would really help? Not showing a nice happy vacation beach image with that headline. How about some dead fish, people sweating while doing manual laboue or bleached corals? For fucks sake.
(I know NBC doesn’t read Lemmy, just frustrated)
Fuck now ima have to update some wiki articles again. It’s like updating a clock to doomsday.
Americans reading this: * kalm *
Europeans reading this: * panik *
American temperatures really never do stop sounding ridiculous.
The Fahrenheit scale actually makes a lot of sense, unlike some other us units
How does it make sense?
It’s about as equally arbitrary as describing Celsius in terms of 101325 Pa (“standard pressure” boiling point).
Americans are more used to switching units and scales as they relate to the topic at hand. Describing distance between cities in inches is dumb. Using Celsius for the weather is equally unwieldy as the units are not fine grained and despite the headline, we’re not even halfway to the boiling point of water on the Celsius scale. And likewise, if you live in a cold climate, even 0C isn’t super relevant as a floor. Things don’t even get uncomfortable until -10C anyway.
Speaking of Pascals, I feel “conversational” in Celsius and it kinda works but Pascals are even more irrelevant to daily tasks. Things don’t even get interesting until you get to 200 kPa and jumps of less than 100kPa aren’t very noteworthy. It’s like currency after massive inflation.
Because we have used it all our lives, that’s really it. We know water freezes at 32f and our body temp is around 98.6. The weather channel says it’s 70,80,90 every day and we know what that feels like. In a day to day contact we don’t have to covert to Kelvin or anything so the standard Fahrenheit scale works fine
You can do that with every unit though. How does that make any more sense than inches or ounces?
Meters and grams are a decimal system which makes more sense than non decimal systems.
The difference in temperature units is just the somewhat arbitrary starting points. And there are valid arguments for both.
There are more degrees of lived temperatures, and the difference between 68 and 73 is whether or not you need a jacket.
Inches and ounces are different forms of measurement so I’m not quite sure of the comparison.
I have been and lived in both the FREEDOM land and the rest of the world for a significant period of time 10y+, the “it has more marks on the thermometer” isn’t really a good argument, turns out there is no “71° time for a slightly warmer jacket” in reality.
there is no “71 time for a warmer jacket” in reality.
As an ohioan I strongly disagree with this statement
It doesn’t “make sense” in a day to day sense. It made sense to researchers first investigating the properties of heat and temperature. 0F is a benchmark temperature that can be reliably produced with a mixture of water, ice and salt. The mixture will moderate itself by melting the ice such that the temperature stays at exactly 0F until the ice all melts. Why 1/180 the interval between freezing and boiling was chosen for the value of one degree, I dunno, but it’s probably similar to the reasons we use 360 degrees.
Celsius is the same, except with just water and ice - you don’t need to get some salt concentration right to reliably reproduce the zero, eliminating that as a variable. “Moderating itself until ice melts” is just something water does, no salt required.
Yeah, I’ve always wondered why they didn’t want to just use a frigorific slush without salt. I’m guessing that the salt version is more robust about maintaining its temperature, or it lasts longer, or something like that.
You can’t have water reliably below freezing without something like salt to keep it liquid? 0F is not serving the same purpose as 0C is. Not making an argument, just pointing out that they’re specifically after a liquid mixture that is below freezing for cooling things down to below freezing in times before refrigeration.
Why don’t we just ditch both and use Kelvin instead
Nah let’s combine Freedom and Kelvin and use Rankine for even further confusion.
Say what?
Fahrenheit, but measured instead from absolute zero. Maximum confusion, but also maximum Freedom™ 🇺🇲 🦅 🇺🇲
