Anon 07/20/2022 (Wed) 12:14:41 No.8366 del
>>8365

>Carrots? You doing okay over there? Just read a headline Portugal+Spain lost 1,100 people to the heatwave

Well, thanks for getting worried about me.We are sort of getting by in the best way that we can.
How do I say this? The problems with this heatwave don't stem from the fact of getting around 40°C for the maximums. The greatest annoyance that makes this whole period absolutely unbearable are the minimum ones, reaching numbers of 25-27°C. Those numbers make the whole thing more suffocating because there isn't a single clear period in which you can open up the window in order to cool down the house or even notice any breeze that alleviates the feeling.

Therefore,there is a sense of imbalance that doesn't allow people to even sleep properly and we have had to sleep with a few cuts in our sleep. I have to roll down the shutters at 7AM as soon as the sunrise occurrs so the house doesn't get hotter early in the morning. The heatwave was at its worst last week and several parts of the Iberian peninsula (namely the South and the Southwest) have faced insane records of 45-46°C.

In Madrid, fortunately enough, everything has been more or less stable in comparison with other years but the lack of nights that cool down the environment just makes things difficult. I only hang out at nights. That or going for a walk very early in the morning or during the sunset. Any activity between midday and 6-7 PM has to be avoided unless that it's absolutely necessary. Even while one is doing absolutely nothing,just lying down makes one sweat a lot.

People from the North wonder why Southerners are lazy. I suggest them to come over here and work in a construction site or in pavings. Any work that isn't done with AC should be seen as menacing for public health and those people have to work either at night or very early in the morning until midday (or they simply get a free day in extreme cases). Whilst Southern Europe is prepared for this, we haven't been able to prevent these deaths unfortunately. We are adapted to this climate and reaching 40°C for a few hours doesn't come off as new for any of us. However, don't just simply look at us because Northern Europe doesn't have many houses that are suitable for 40°C nor their bodies are adapted to this. The worst part of this is that the greatest tragedy may not come from here. We expected these temperatures to show up and even then, we have faced more deaths than ever.

The problems lies on the fact that the heat never goes away,nights don't manage to improve anything that could make things easier for the following day. Thankfully enough, we have been able to sleep better this week because temperatures have gone down a little bit and the difference shows a lot.

>I'd make jokes >>8337 about dye wrecked NRG effects, but it wouldn't be funny if you were among those stuffed into an inside out microwave that was set to "sandwich"

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