We have only had 3 heat waves. Barely even June. Let’s start the real thing now.
40 degrees is hot? Jesus it’s cold in europe. /s
Simple solution to all the heat waves…
Measure in Kelvin. It will now reach a brisk -233 degrees.
No more worry about heat! The temperature is so much lower!!
I’m afraid that if you ever have a temperature of negative Kelvins, you have somehow invented new physics
C > K
40 C is actually 313 K
Does antimatter have antitemperature?
With the disclaimer that antimatter stuff is way beyond my proper physics knowledge, my understanding is that it does not. In fact, antimatter seems to behave pretty much exactly the same as regular matter in every way we’ve tested, it’s just that when it touches regular matter the two violently delete each other from the universe
Oh fuck… The entire of Europe is now on fire, the Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean ocean is now boiling… Sorry
Depending on what you deem “temperature”, that is actually possible :) The physical definition of temperature is the derivative of energy with respect to the entropy. With most physical systems, like gases, if you put in energy, the entropy increases. This happens because if the energy is not bounded from above, the amount of individual states the matter can take always just increases. So the temperature is positive. If the system has a maximum energy, as it can be constructed in some nanophysical systems, the number of reachable states may decrease towards the maximum. So, if you’re in this area, your system technically has negative temperature.
Huh, neat. I was never very good at thermodynamics
Don’t worry about it the Universe takes care of it for you.
Someone needs to re-take high school physics
Btw the Nobel prize can be mailed to 7 main street for this revolutionary idea
This time for real or is it the same imaginary heat wave we are talking about for two weeks now and that would have totally roasted us already last weekend… when in reality it was 16°C and raining in mid-June?
Were you not here for May?
This year’s May? The totally normal one with temperatures ~0.4° above average for that month? The one with 93% of the May-average precipitation. The only thing not average about May were the elevated numbers of sunny hours [~+27%) in between the rain. Yet everyone went crazy when there were three warm days of 28° and 29°?
And now we see the same bullshit. That’s what climate change does. A minor uptick in global temperatures already fucks up weather patterns and lead to more extremes. Yes, that’s bad. But you don’t need to hallucinate getting backed in an oven while it’s cold and you got soaked by rain for the 10th day in a row. People don’t need to make up stuff and totally exaggerate to justify climate change, it’s already very real.
But May only was average because of extreme weather. In both directions. The heat wave in May was abnormally hot, followed by the cold front you were describing, which was abnormally cold for May. And it doesn’t help the people at risk during heat, that there’s some cold and wet afterwards which cancels out the heat wave oN aVeRaGe.
And that is the point.
No, the point is that media is talking about an extreme heat wave while I’m freezing my ass off without several layers of clothing. The point is that global warming is not some magical “you are all dying from heat stroke”-event but just a small increase in avarage temperatures wreaking havoc with established weather patterns.
Yet that is not what is reported. We don’t talk about rain, rain and more rain and low temperatures that are only averaged out by 3 very hot days. We are not talking about extreme weather with regular shifts of +/- 15° from one day to the next. We are instead talking about every single hot day as if it’s the end of the world. And then we are somehow surprised when idiots claim it’s all made up bullshit. Because it is. Start talking about the actual issues, not about some imaginary hot month because there were also a few hot days in that cold period.
You can’t simplify your argument as absurdum and still think it’s concinving. After the 5th “insane heatwave” report that ended up in just two day of warm weather or none at all, you need to understand that your style of reporting is actually hurting as it gives lunatics valid arguments.
