Happy sweating

Skybird · 07-25-19, 07:51 AM

Heat currently breakes records over here in Europe. In Germany, the all time record has been broken two days ago with a temp of 40.5°C measured in Geilenkirchen, Northrhine-Westphalia.In my place and in the sun, it gets much hotter already. Paris today reports 40.6°C. Practically all German forests are at high risk of getting seriously damaged, due to the heat last year, low ground water lewvels not replrenished since then, dryness, and the heat wave now all stressing trees and thretaneing to wipe out whole forests. Spruces and beeches are at risk of dissapering form germany, forest rangers say, they are seriously weakned and cannot resit additonal bug plagues we have here. Farmers again will suffer huge losses this year. Riversd are already low, we had first areas in Germany where drinking water was rationed and the waste a punishable offence.

Myself, I live in a darkened cave during the day. Heat is tough to bear. Power grid has become unstable, so has internet links. Micro blackouts of the first and longer breakdowns of the latter has become daily norm over here. This is Germany, Münster, district capital with 370 thousand people, anno domini 2019. The more power gets produced by the sun and wind, the more expensive it gets for the consumer while the prices drop at the central energy market at the same time. German ways and German logic, again 2019 a.d.

I took over a habit of the mediterranean people: siesta from 12 am to 15 pm.

I read that if mankind would perish over night, tempertures in big cities would immediately drop by 3-4 degrees: human bodies in masses produces such ammount of warmth indeed. That launches some queer thoughts in mm mind.

Skybird · 07-25-19, 07:58 AM

The first nuclear powerplant, Grohnde (Lower Saxony), was shut down. The river Weser that provides the cooling water, is too warm.

They expect temperatures in Bonn up to 42°C, maybe even 43°C. The German railway has started to offer refunds for tickets of travellers choosing to not do the voyage they bought tickets for. National as well as regional trains in the past three days already have broken down due to the engines breaking down from heat damage. A regional railtrack over here at Münster currently is shut down due to a train lying still on it. 200 m away from where I live, a major waterlline blew up on Monday, flushing away the mainstreet'S underground basis that in form of a ring is THE major traffic line around the city centre. The street is shut down and will remain closed until next Monday.

Jimbuna · 07-25-19, 08:52 AM

You sure Germany hasn't suddenly become a third world country Sky?

Skybird · 07-25-19, 09:00 AM

The jetsream is slow this year and so any weather, cold or hot, dry or wet, stays longer in one place before it has moved away again. Germany currently gets a Sahara blaze via Spain, France.

the national temperature record from yesterday already has been broken just these minutes: Bonn-Rohde reports 40.6°C, climbing.

The thermometer sensor on my loggia has broken down, I just found out, the digital memory of the central weather station last logged 47.7 °C (the loggia gets the full sun treatment from 11 am on, until sunset) . The sensor was located in a small corner of shadow, evading direct sunlight, but still the area heats up incredibly.

Thing was over ten years old, I doubt I get just a sensor for it anymore.

Catfish · 07-25-19, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

The jetstream is slow this year and so any weather, cold or hot, dry or wet, stays longer in one place before it has moved away again. Germany currently gets a Sahara blaze via Spain, France. […]

I just heard in the TV the jetstreams have changed following a trend of the last five years, and will not "switch back" or whatever you would call that.
Major Problem i see is the russian permafrost soils are beginning to thaw. If this is true will really be in trouble.

Very nice video "b.t.w."

kraznyi_oktjabr · 07-25-19, 02:40 PM

Here in Central Finland temperatures have not gone so extreme: only +29 this week and forecasted upto +32. We also have good fresh water reserves in our lakes, but at some locations ground water is depleting. In my parent's place this is big problem as last year was extremely dry (only three days of limited precipitation from early May to late August) and this spring snow melted so rapidly that most of the water went to rivers and lakes instead of absorbing into ground.

I usually prefer dry weather but this time I'm hoping for really wet autumn.

Skybird · 07-25-19, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

I just heard in the TV the jetstreams have changed following a trend of the last five years, and will not "switch back" or whatever you would call that.
Major Problem i see is the russian permafrost soils are beginning to thaw. If this is true will really be in trouble.

The thawing of the Canadian permafrost region is 70 years ahead of the projected timetable, they recently found. There and in Russia, immense volumes of methan gets released which is 23 times as potent as CO2. In certain regions of the deep ocean floors, there is more frozen methan hydrate that likely has started to unfreeze as well. THIS is our real problem, not this silly war on CO2, that is children'S play, and ideology war.

Thank God we now have the Fridays For Future movement making our future safe again. Its a revolución.

And so romantic.

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Very nice video "b.t.w."

Thanks. I fear it just is not the right length to be watched during lunchtime break at work.

Its a nice, well supported, great bicycle tour, this Emsradweg. The video depicts quite exactly the middle third of it.

Skybird · 07-25-19, 09:10 AM

Lingen an der Ems: 41.5 °C.

They have a nuclear powerplant there as well, I was there eight weeks ago during my 170km bicycle tour. The powerplant gets cooled from an artificial water reservoir build beside the nearby Dortmund-Ems-Channel, the biggest of its kind in whole Eurpope, a little ocean.

Last year, pedestrians told me, it already was dried down to less than half of its content, and since the basis is all concrete, it must heat up quickly as well. Possible that Lingen gets switched off as well.

I even filmed the reservoir during the tour. From 00:40:30 on:

Related map for that tour leg at 00:27:35

Skybird · 07-25-19, 09:51 AM

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49108847

Skybird · 07-25-19, 11:28 AM

42.6°C in Lingen, Emsland, NDS.

07-25-19, 07:51 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Happy sweating Heat currently breakes records over here in Europe. In Germany, the all time record has been broken two days ago with a temp of 40.5°C measured in Geilenkirchen, Northrhine-Westphalia.In my place and in the sun, it gets much hotter already. Paris today reports 40.6°C. Practically all German forests are at high risk of getting seriously damaged, due to the heat last year, low ground water lewvels not replrenished since then, dryness, and the heat wave now all stressing trees and thretaneing to wipe out whole forests. Spruces and beeches are at risk of dissapering form germany, forest rangers say, they are seriously weakned and cannot resit additonal bug plagues we have here. Farmers again will suffer huge losses this year. Riversd are already low, we had first areas in Germany where drinking water was rationed and the waste a punishable offence. Myself, I live in a darkened cave during the day. Heat is tough to bear. Power grid has become unstable, so has internet links. Micro blackouts of the first and longer breakdowns of the latter has become daily norm over here. This is Germany, Münster, district capital with 370 thousand people, anno domini 2019. The more power gets produced by the sun and wind, the more expensive it gets for the consumer while the prices drop at the central energy market at the same time. German ways and German logic, again 2019 a.d. I took over a habit of the mediterranean people: siesta from 12 am to 15 pm. I read that if mankind would perish over night, tempertures in big cities would immediately drop by 3-4 degrees: human bodies in masses produces such ammount of warmth indeed. That launches some queer thoughts in mm mind. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

07-25-19, 07:58 AM	#2
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The first nuclear powerplant, Grohnde (Lower Saxony), was shut down. The river Weser that provides the cooling water, is too warm. They expect temperatures in Bonn up to 42°C, maybe even 43°C. The German railway has started to offer refunds for tickets of travellers choosing to not do the voyage they bought tickets for. National as well as regional trains in the past three days already have broken down due to the engines breaking down from heat damage. A regional railtrack over here at Münster currently is shut down due to a train lying still on it. 200 m away from where I live, a major waterlline blew up on Monday, flushing away the mainstreet'S underground basis that in form of a ring is THE major traffic line around the city centre. The street is shut down and will remain closed until next Monday. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

07-25-19, 08:52 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You sure Germany hasn't suddenly become a third world country Sky? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

07-25-19, 09:00 AM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The jetsream is slow this year and so any weather, cold or hot, dry or wet, stays longer in one place before it has moved away again. Germany currently gets a Sahara blaze via Spain, France. the national temperature record from yesterday already has been broken just these minutes: Bonn-Rohde reports 40.6°C, climbing. The thermometer sensor on my loggia has broken down, I just found out, the digital memory of the central weather station last logged 47.7 °C (the loggia gets the full sun treatment from 11 am on, until sunset) . The sensor was located in a small corner of shadow, evading direct sunlight, but still the area heats up incredibly. Thing was over ten years old, I doubt I get just a sensor for it anymore. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

07-25-19, 02:40 PM	#6
kraznyi_oktjabr Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Republiken Finland Posts: 1,803 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Here in Central Finland temperatures have not gone so extreme: only +29 this week and forecasted upto +32. We also have good fresh water reserves in our lakes, but at some locations ground water is depleting. In my parent's place this is big problem as last year was extremely dry (only three days of limited precipitation from early May to late August) and this spring snow melted so rapidly that most of the water went to rivers and lakes instead of absorbing into ground. I usually prefer dry weather but this time I'm hoping for really wet autumn. __________________ You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. - Dr. House

07-25-19, 09:10 AM	#8
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Lingen an der Ems: 41.5 °C. They have a nuclear powerplant there as well, I was there eight weeks ago during my 170km bicycle tour. The powerplant gets cooled from an artificial water reservoir build beside the nearby Dortmund-Ems-Channel, the biggest of its kind in whole Eurpope, a little ocean. Last year, pedestrians told me, it already was dried down to less than half of its content, and since the basis is all concrete, it must heat up quickly as well. Possible that Lingen gets switched off as well. I even filmed the reservoir during the tour. From 00:40:30 on: Related map for that tour leg at 00:27:35 __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 07-25-19 at 09:18 AM.

07-25-19, 09:51 AM	#9
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49108847 __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

07-25-19, 11:28 AM	#10
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	42.6°C in Lingen, Emsland, NDS. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.