In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
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Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#2Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues. Karachi has had 44 C before like many other places.
In fact, mean temp of Karachi is 32 C in June - which is not Low at all.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/pakistan/karachi/climate
and 68% percentile high temp is 35 C.
The highest temp on record for Karachi was nearly 48 C - in 1938.
For sure 44 C is not Cool - but also not worth a Guardian article for a place that has a mean temperature of 32 and many days a year above 40 C.
From a personal note - I am writing this as I sit @ 42C and I am not dying. Heck - my laptop probably does though...
Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#3Unfortunately, this seems to be the new norm.
Even in Canada, we are breaking records for heat. Temperatures have reached 49 C / 120 F
Despite that, I believe Canada will be a major recipient of these climate refugees when places just get too hot to live in.
That'll also be an option reserved for the privileged.
Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#4That's 111 degrees Fahrenheit for the Imperialists.
Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#5No matter how bearable the current climate is, it will only get less bearable.
Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#6Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues. Karachi has had 44 C before like many other places. In fact, mean temp of Karachi is 32 C in June - which is not Low at all. https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/pakistan/karachi/climate and 68% percentile high temp is 35 C. The highest temp on record for Karachi was nearly 48 C - in 1938. For sure 44 C is not Cool - but also not w…
This comment was dead, and I expect it to be unpopular (the sentiment always is) - but I'm vouching for it because by linking some data it's at least as substantive as the submission, regardless of whether it's right or wrong.
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Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#8Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues. Karachi has had 44 C before like many other places. In fact, mean temp of Karachi is 32 C in June - which is not Low at all. https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/pakistan/karachi/climate and 68% percentile high temp is 35 C. The highest temp on record for Karachi was nearly 48 C - in 1938. For sure 44 C is not Cool - but also not w…
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Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#9Unfortunately, this seems to be the new norm. Even in Canada, we are breaking records for heat. Temperatures have reached 49 C / 120 F Despite that, I believe Canada will be a major recipient of these climate refugees when places just get too hot to live in. That'll also be an option reserved for the privileged.
The problem is that you can't easily move hundreds of millions of people.
When the weather becomes lethal, these people are going to die.
The only realistic solution is building infrastructure to let people live through the worst of the weather.
If it is as bad as it is described in the article, I worry about long term prospects of stable economy and progress, what with people occupied mostly with trying to survive another hellish day.
Re: In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die
#10Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues. Karachi has had 44 C before like many other places. In fact, mean temp of Karachi is 32 C in June - which is not Low at all. https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/pakistan/karachi/climate and 68% percentile high temp is 35 C. The highest temp on record for Karachi was nearly 48 C - in 1938. For sure 44 C is not Cool - but also not w…
This article isn’t about the temperature reaching 44 C for a single day.
Where you are sitting in 42 C weather, do you still have electricity? Because that’s mostly what the article is mostly about.