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It's official, red alerts have gone out across the entire country of Brazil as the heat index hits 137F. The high temperature combined with humidity has made it impossible for most people to carry out their normal lives. There's already reports of power outages. People can't work. They can't run errands. They can barely sleep. It's not even summer there yet.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

World News

Brazil

Still uses F first

Wat

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Fucking Murika making shit harder for everyone

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Royal Society fellow Daniel Fahrenheit consents to the use of his preluding temperature scale.

[–] mihies@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, let's burn some more rain forest and see whether it helps.

[–] Xyloph@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Burn forest, plant fields, too hot for fields, .. ., no profits!

[–] mino@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

How the fuck did this article go from heat in Brazil to long covid research without any fucking bridge 🥲

I mean, I somewhat agree with the points its making and I'm heavily doubting the validity. When someone is not willing to further their own confirmation bias you really need to start asking questions.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's November tho...Does Brazil not have a winter?

[–] swope@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm, interesting 🤔

[–] Linnce 3 points 1 year ago

Winter in Brazil if from june to september, but honestly though it feels like there is one or two weeks of cold and the rest is just as hot as any day. I remember a year where I didn't wear long sleeved shirts or coats at all.