Brazil hits nearly 60°C | Voice of Europe
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  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    1 year ago

    For reference, this is the temperature inside a cup of tea. It is hotter than it gets in a washing machine

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    1 year ago

    😯 Scary time to be alive. I’m told that trees stop photosynthesis at a certain temperature and there are a lot of fairly important trees in Brazil.

  • SILLY BEAN@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    1 year ago

    the article is a bit misleading, actual temp was 42.5C, 58C was the felt temperature. which is still absurdly hot, but that is quite a difference

    • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      12·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, still, 58C for felt temperature is a living hell, a girl died in Taylor Swift’s concert and I don’t think you can do much except exist on the floor with that temperature.

      • FlightSimEnjoyer@lemmygrad.mlPortuguês
        2·
        1 year ago

        I heard that about 1000 people fainted in that concert because they didn’t allow people to bring water bottles so they would buy overpriced water bottles in the venue (which is against the Consumer Defence Code in Brazil).

        edit: and people did not buy the water bottles because nobody wants to pay, like, more than R$10,00 in a water bottle that costs a few cents if you just bring tap water from home (incredibly, in most of the state of São Paulo, where the show happened, tap water is completely safe as long as it is coming directly from the grid, and not from your home reservoir)

        edit: also, in Santos (a coastal city near São Paulo), some street thermometers measured 50°C on saturday, as shown in the local news channel “A Tribuna” (The Tribune). The increase in temperature is probably due to the boiling hot asphalt of the streets.