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.

27 points

That can be as low as 34C, with 90% humidity. I’m not trying to make it less of a problem, just trying to tune the clickbait down from 11.

Fuck humidity though. I can’t stand it.

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Coming from a place that sees -40c to +40c almost every year, I can confirm this is not clickbait

Shit I worked with a guy from Oklahoma and mid August we were working near Toronto (Ontario) and he couldn’t take the heat and it was only 30 without the humidity.

That shit ain’t no joke

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It was 42.5 degrees.

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Ok, 42.5 I wouldn’t personally survive in any humidity. My suffering season starts when it hits 28 outside.

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As someone who feels 34 is as hot as I can handle it and it only qualifies if there is a fuckton of humidity Ill take the bait.

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Brazil

Still uses F first

Wat

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

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Seems like a load of bullshit. This is the only article about it, and it’s from… okdoomer.io?

Lol. Where are the mods?

Oh. This is the smaller world news. My bad.

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Also on the shittiest large instance, lemmy.ml

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It’s November tho…Does Brazil not have a winter?

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Winter in Brazil if from june to september, but honestly though it feels like there is one or two weeks of cold and the rest is just as hot as any day. I remember a year where I didn’t wear long sleeved shirts or coats at all.

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A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

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Hmm, interesting 🤔

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Southern Hemisphere. It’s late spring there.

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All hail market capitalism!

Turns out muh free market IS the solution to all human crises.

Can’t have human crises without humans, after all.

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Thanks for the comment. It said everything I think and I won’t have to rewrite the same thing.

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