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8. Remember when 70,000 people died in a heat wave in Europe?

Thu Jul 8, 2021, 09:02 AM

Jul 2021

It was 2003, seems like everyone has forgotten it.

From Wikipedia:

"The 2003 European heat wave led to the hottest summer on record in Europe since at least 1540. ... The heat wave led to health crises in several countries and combined with drought to create a crop shortfall in parts of Southern Europe. Peer-reviewed analysis places the European death toll at more than 70,000."

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It wasn't all peaches and cream 50ish years ago Ferrets are Cool Jul 2021 #13

Accept what you can't change & change what you have an effect on Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2021 #17

Yikes! It only takes 95% humidity at 88F quaint Jul 2021 #2

Allow me to present Houston, Texas. Blowing that metric away routinely. Comfortably_Numb Jul 2021 #10

Ditto in my part of Florida during the summer months. Native Jul 2021 #25

That seems weird... róisín_dubh Jul 2021 #20

The next paragraph is even more alarming: Native Jul 2021 #21

With this, cilla4progress Jul 2021 #3

The data really isn't there to support that. Loki Liesmith Jul 2021 #12

Umm. . . merrifield Jul 2021 #14

Well, that's fucking cilla4progress Jul 2021 #30

That is a study you wouldn't want to participate in. Chainfire Jul 2021 #4

Here's the map referred to: eppur_se_muova Jul 2021 #5

Everyone to the British Isles ASAP! Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2021 #9

Thank you. ancianita Jul 2021 #24

Faster than expected. Again Random Boomer Jul 2021 #6

95% humidity? Rain in the forecast, no? bucolic_frolic Jul 2021 #7

Remember when 70,000 people died in a heat wave in Europe? CaptainTruth Jul 2021 #8

I've spent a good deal of time in some of the world's cauldrons Aviation Pro Jul 2021 #11

Alarming. (Commenting so I can find this thread later) n/t NH Ethylene Jul 2021 #15

Dramatization Marcuse Jul 2021 #16

Cooled clothing is probably needed Klaralven Jul 2021 #19

Dune... Javaman Jul 2021 #27

I grew up in Texas mostly and have had many 110* summer jobs outside. rickyhall Jul 2021 #22

Anti vac people, Corgigal Jul 2021 #23

Bad Meteorology modrepub Jul 2021 #28

Yup, I was moving in August in Austin TexasBushwhacker Jul 2021 #29