It feels like 38 degrees in the room 🌵

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Yesterday at 12:02 PM

Hi, everyone! I’m sitting here right now in a room that feels like 38 degrees, and the fan is just blowing warm air around. Outside, the lawn is already brown again, even though it’s only June. And the weather forecast... it’s going to stay this way for now—a heat wave lasting into July, with hardly any rain.

I just caught myself having a thought that I would have laughed off ten years ago… is this place actually going to turn into a desert someday? 🐫 🌵 🏜️ Not the Sahara… But this pattern—hotter earlier every year, dry soil, etc.—it doesn’t feel like an outlier anymore, but like the new normal. Experts tend to talk about more frequent droughts and heat rather than an actual desert climate, but to me, that hardly makes a difference right now.

How are you guys holding up? I can’t even bring myself to touch wool in this heat. Best regards.

veronika-t15

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Yesterday at 9:32 PM

My apartment doesn’t get that hot, so it’s still manageable, and here in Cologne, spring was more than cool and wet—that’s not quite enough to turn it into a desert just yet—but it’s clear that in the future, it’ll get very warm more often and for longer periods.

What annoys me a little is how people are dealing with it. There have always been heat waves, and major droughts too, even if perhaps a bit less frequently. But a weather report from the ’70s or ’80s would talk about “high summer is finally here”—head to the outdoor pool, eat more ice cream, and have fun barbecuing. Today, there’s immediately this “we’re all going to die” vibe.

rusalki01

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Yesterday at 10:19 PM

True, it’s hot, but we’ve always had heat waves like this. I feel like the seasons are “shifting” a bit—spring and summer are coming earlier, as are fall and winter. When I was a kid, winter lasted from December to February; that’s shifted way “forward,” and so have the other seasons. We have to live with it, whether we like it or not. The only real problem is the dryness; we need more of the usual steady rain, not these “torrential downpours” that the dry ground can’t absorb.