• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Yes. It’s called “climate change”.

    Sorry to be blunt, but it’s only going to get worse.

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    14 hours ago

    Both heat and humidity. It feels like I went directly from heat to air conditioning with less than a week in between. Today is finally decent weather to turn it off and open windows but it might be only the second time this summer.

    It doesn’t seem all that many years ago that I objected to air conditioning on the grounds that it is expensive and you only need it a couple weeks of the year. But now it’s hard to see living without it where I am

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    For Toronto and GTA I feel it has been opposite for us. We had 5-6 super humid days. But this summer, there’s been less humidity even though it’s been really super hot. Weird times.

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    15 hours ago

    I’ve been keeping track of the heat index because I work in a factory with no AC, with the high humidity we’ve had 7 days already over 100°F… 109°F being the highest. Consistently over 90°F though pretty much every day…

    Thankfully this week the humidity finally dropped a bit!

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      24 hours ago

      South Western Germany (which usually is the sunniest and driest part of Germany): one heatwave, muggy as hell.

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    13 hours ago

    Idk if op is in the us or not but there was a hurricane in Texas recently and apparently hurricanes will suck water from clear across the country so this summer was uncharacteristically hot, idk about the humidity, maybe the hurricane is pushing water back this way too.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 hours ago

    If temperatures are higher globally, i guess this implies they’re also higher above the ocean, which makes more water evaporate, so there’s more rainfall on the land-side. it is logical that there’s more rain then, and also more humid air, above the land.

    i guess droughts are not so much caused by climate change, but by the rectification of rivers, which makes water flow faster towards the sea, which acts like a drainage system. so, it’s a domestic problem (rectification of rivers), not a global problem (climate change).

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    24 hours ago

    I live in a mountainous region.

    The other day it was hot and humid.

    So humid I couldn’t see the mountains through the haze.

    No clouds. Just an actual sea in the sky obscuring the mountains less than 20 miles away.

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    Mid-Atlantic US here and idk if its really been more humid this year than it has historically, but I’ve definitely felt its been uncharacteristically humid recently

  • Let's Go 2 the Mall! ❌👑@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Im in east TN. It’s always humid here but this year seems worse. And we’ve had lots of heat warnings. Hottest year on record, just like last year, and the year before that. etc…