It’s official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There’s already reports of power outages. People can’t work. They can’t run errands. They can barely sleep. It’s not even summer there yet.

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Still uses F first

Wat

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Royal Society fellow Daniel Fahrenheit consents to the use of his preluding temperature scale.

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Fucking Murika making shit harder for everyone

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Yeah like I don’t know how many swimming pools worth of heat it is

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