An anticyclone – a high-pressure area – named Cerberus (named after the monster from Dante’s Inferno) coming from the south will cause temperatures to rise above 40°C across much of Italy. This comes after a spring and early summer full of storms and floods.

The highest temperature in European history was broken on 11 August 2021, when a temperature of 48.8°C was recorded in Floridia, an Italian town in the Sicilian province of Syracuse. That record may be broken again in the coming days.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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    Heat exhaustion means you’ve probably been trying to sweat and thus lost minerals. If you drink too much normal water, you can dilute the minerals even more and thus aggravate a condition known as: Hyponatremia (salt insufficiency) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia#True_hyponatremia

    The thing with hyponatremia is that it’s very similar to heat stroke in terms of symptoms, but drinking water makes it worse. See: Dehydration, Heat Stroke, or Hyponatremia? The Recognition, Treatment, and Prevention of Hyponatremia Caused by High Exercise Outdoor Activities. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED443633

    So figuring it out requires knowing some context, what went on before. Or you can hydrate slowly with an ORS like the ones mentioned around here (ending with -lyte) or make your own ORS. Or you can eat some stuff, get some salty nuts, eat some fruits, as a way to stock up when the day looks risky.

    I’m not certain, but I think I did get hyponatremia once while hiking in the mountains in summer heat. I drank a lot of spring water in a day, like… 10-20% of my body weight and was still thirsty, and didn’t even really need to urinate, since I was losing so much water through sweat. It was very exhausting. I only felt better at the end of the day when I downed a large bottle of cheap green soda. And later, at home, when I drank A LOT of cold soup straight out of the pot. It just felt necessary, so I’m just figuring it out in hindsight.