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Posted June 30, 2015
In the Netherlands the temperature has been agreeably cool so far thus summer, but from tomorrow until Saturday, a heatwave is predicted to strike, with temperature predicted to rise to 42 degrees Celsius where I live on Saturday. A surreal temperature, that I've never experienced in my life and seems more befitting to the Sahara desert in North Africa or the barren highlands of Spain at the least (who suffered that heat this weekend, while area of high pressure was there this weekend, it's travelling north now).

Who has experienced similar extremes of temperature lately?
Posted June 30, 2015
wait wait wait
42 C ?!

i heard it was going to be 37 C max

...i hear iceland is nice this time of the year
Posted June 30, 2015
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DubConqueror: In the Netherlands the temperature has been agreeably cool so far thus summer, but from tomorrow until Saturday, a heatwave is predicted to strike, with temperature predicted to rise to 42 degrees Celsius where I live on Saturday. A surreal temperature, that I've never experienced in my life and seems more befitting to the Sahara desert in North Africa or the barren highlands of Spain at the least (who suffered that heat this weekend, while area of high pressure was there this weekend, it's travelling north now).

Who has experienced similar extremes of temperature lately?
That doesn't impress me as during the previous big heat wave (summer 2003), I was doing labour work outside (making the streets pavements) so if I survived this, I won't mind a few days of heat ^o^
Posted June 30, 2015
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DubConqueror: In the Netherlands the temperature has been agreeably cool so far thus summer, but from tomorrow until Saturday, a heatwave is predicted to strike, with temperature predicted to rise to 42 degrees Celsius where I live on Saturday. A surreal temperature, that I've never experienced in my life and seems more befitting to the Sahara desert in North Africa or the barren highlands of Spain at the least (who suffered that heat this weekend, while area of high pressure was there this weekend, it's travelling north now).

Who has experienced similar extremes of temperature lately?
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catpower1980: That doesn't impress me as during the previous big heat wave (summer 2003), I was doing labour work outside (making the streets pavements) so if I survived this, I won't mind a few days of heat ^o^
Indeed, its about that in Belgium and Germany (am travelling this week). Too hot, want the empty cold snowscape of an iceage!
Posted June 30, 2015
42 doesn't sound too high. And remember no one is gonna heatstroke without prolonged exposure. Just douse yourself in water and stand under a ceiling fan.
Posted June 30, 2015
The same heat wave is predicted to roll across Denmark, although the maximum temperature predicted here is a "mere" 35 degrees. That's still very hot for our climate, though not unheard of, but the temperature very rarely gets that high here.
Posted June 30, 2015
42 celsius? The last time we had such temperatures was back in the 80s. Good to see that normal summer temperatures return this year. The last few years it was definitely too cold to call it a summer.
Posted June 30, 2015
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Shadowstalker16: 42 doesn't sound too high. And remember no one is gonna heatstroke without prolonged exposure. Just douse yourself in water and stand under a ceiling fan.
Hehe, it's a matter of what you're used to I suppose. I do find it slightly humorous to see a guy from India tell a Dutch guy that 42 degrees isn't too bad ;-)
Posted June 30, 2015
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Shadowstalker16: 42 doesn't sound too high. And remember no one is gonna heatstroke without prolonged exposure. Just douse yourself in water and stand under a ceiling fan.
for you maybe
42C is not the norm here especially because its usually a foul humid heat
Posted June 30, 2015
I think something like 1.5k people in Pakistan died last week from heat stroke :(
Posted June 30, 2015
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snowkatt: wait wait wait
42 C ?!

i heard it was going to be 37 C max

...i hear iceland is nice this time of the year
37 C in De Bilt, temperatures usually get more extreme in the south-east than in De Bilt (we got a land-climate here ;-) ).
Posted June 30, 2015
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Shadowstalker16: 42 doesn't sound too high. And remember no one is gonna heatstroke without prolonged exposure. Just douse yourself in water and stand under a ceiling fan.
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Wishbone: Hehe, it's a matter of what you're used to I suppose. I do find it slightly humorous to see a guy from India tell a Dutch guy that 42 degrees isn't too bad ;-)
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snowkatt: for you maybe
42C is not the norm here especially because its usually a foul humid heat
I've experienced around 38 while out in town so 42 at home will probably be quite similar :P I still wonder how people survive in the Sahara though. High 30s are taxing enough.....
Posted June 30, 2015
I use to live in the east of Spain, and many years ago use to rain a lot, in the last decade rainfall was reduced drastically.
Posted June 30, 2015
42C? Cake. Get back to me once you've experienced an Australian heatwave. ;)

We hit 48C here in Adelaide last year (A few years ago we had a straight week of 47+), and in some part of WA it got to 50.
Posted June 30, 2015
Yay.
My optimal working/living temperature is about 16C...
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