We have been in the high 90s everyday with a heat index of over 105. It’s brutal.

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

The obvious issue is that unsurprisingly most homes don't have access to AC

It will be the old, vulnerable and those in hospitals and care homes as well as babies most at risk

My son says it is 120 in the shade in Iraq.

He should move to a better climate.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

A friend sent me video from Kuwait. The dashboard in the car said 61

The hottest I had when I was there was 57 in the car. The car shut down to preserve its electrical systems

The US should invade nicer places, like Iceland or Norway.

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Remember - It's important to be comfortable in your own skin... because it turns out society frowns on wearing other people's

He will. Just as soon as his deployment is up.

That will suck for the USWNT game this Friday in the World Cup.

If it sticks around could make the Tour De France a little harder this year too.

Yeah. It is 97 on my thermometer with 40% humidity (which is actually low for here). My wife said the heat index was 104 or something like that.

Last week I was freezing my butt off while riding on Lake Superior. It was 62 there for several days. It made it difficult to return to 95 and humid.

49 degrees in Bend right now. Its just hailed, too.

We've been lucky. Temperatures at or below historic norms with higher than normal amounts of rain. It's like a rain forest around here.

Seriously, though, I don't get your point ~ you are somehow questioning that this is a legitimate threat? Believe it or not, not everyone lives in a modern climate-controlled dwelling. Poor people freeze to death in the winter, too. Yes, even in 2019, even in generally affluent nations. Is that really hard to believe?

How the hell do 15,000 people die when a heat wave hits? I certainly understand the concept and can understand 1,000, but 15,000? How does that even happen?

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Where do you live because 90° is a normal summer day in Tennessee.

In 2003 I went to the Tour de France for the first time and that was a summer of very high temperatures and a lot of deaths throughout Europe. Like someone mentioned, many places don’t have air-conditioning so I can be really bad for the elderly and other populations.

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Nashville, TN
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Holy shit...

And I'm complaining cause it's supposed to get to 31 today and be the hottest day so far this year!

Could be worse, it's been in the 120s (48-50) in northern India over the last month, where the average humidity for most the region is about 75%. Over 200 people have died, Chennai has run out of water.

Best estimates for the continent puts the death total for the 2003 heat wave at 50,000 to 70,000!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...107003770?via%3Dihub