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#heatwave

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If you are local:

I'm seeing 98°F forecasted.

Drink more water than you normally do tomorrow. Twice as much even. As someone who lived in a desert for about 25 years, trust me on that. Heat stroke will sneak up on you. And it sucks. A lot.

Be safe around water. Wear a life vest if you are going in the rivers or lakes.

Take care, be safe, be well.

Hundreds of #wildfires are burning across the Western #states, #Alaska & #Canada as fire season perks up amid a sprawling #HeatWave & widespread dry conditions.

>100 of the blazes are in the #US, including 3 dozen uncontained large fires, acc/to the National Interagency Fire Center. At least 14 major fires began over the weekend.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #AirQuality #PublicHealth #wildlife #habitats
washingtonpost.com/weather/202

The Washington Post · What to know about the fires dotting the western U.S. and CanadaBy Ian Livingston

FMI issues heat warning for this week

‘Hot weather’ is when the daily high exceeds 27 degrees Celsius with an average temperature of at least 20 degrees, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

yle.fi/a/74-20172674

News · FMI issues heat warning for this week‘Hot weather’ is when the daily high exceeds 27 degrees Celsius with an average temperature of at least 20 degrees, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
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@markhburton @GeofCox

Another cooling type of architecture is a form of wind channel. Maybe what Mark calls a solar chimney, but part of the centre of the construction, not a metal add-on.

I wonder whether either of them can also be used as water collector by adding a fine wire mesh where moisture can condensate and drops into a basin for household use.
Such wire mesh water collectors have test installations on Portugals islands and somewhere in Tunesia or Morocco, places where fog or at least moisture in the air is a typical landscape feature.
It's very low-tech if the installation stands higher than where the water will be piped to.

Cooking and sweating also creates fog 😁 precious water.
But let's also remember: we in the rich countries don't have a budget left at all for built infrastructure. For fighting poverty, only poorer countries can still add built infrastructure.
By rights, we actually need to dismantle our office towers (full of workers in bullshit jobs, according to David Graeber) , univs, roads and hospitals, and send the material to G-South in order to give their populations a chance to come level with our wealth.

How Hot Can It Get? #Scientists Are Struggling to Find an Answer
Figuring out how anomalously high #temperatures can rise is taking on added importance as planet warms.
Answer has grave implications for #humanity, from those living in places where high temperatures are currently rare to those in places increasingly on the edge of habitability as #climatechange makes heat more intense and frequent. Everyone, everywhere, needs to know risks about where they live.
financialpost.com/pmn/business #heatwave

Financial Post · How Hot Can It Get? Scientists Are Struggling to Find an AnswerBy Bloomberg News

This is the highest temperature I ever experienced in Norway. Although the forecast suggests it will only last for an hour or so, the past week has been in similar conditions and it will continue for a few more days. This is certainly the hottest summer in the last five years.