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ALifeWellLift 18 hr ago +158

Unfortunately, I can see this getting a lot of use going forward.

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OhDudeTotally 18 hr ago +71

In Canada we now have "smoke" weather icons on the weather networks. Cause seasonal forest fires in the west blowing large amounts of smoke east are becoming all too common.

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Donnicton 17 hr ago +25

"Seasonal" fires is more true than you know. If you haven't already, look up "zombie fires" in Canada, where previous years' forest fires can continue to smoulder underground over the winter in peat rich lands and reignite on the surface when the weather gets warmer again. This is the new normal.

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CipherWeaver 15 hr ago +8

Fires in peat bog will just smolder forever unless they get a huge rain.

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Nebresto 10 hr ago +1

Need more beavers

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ALifeWellLift 17 hr ago +7

Thats such a shame. When I imagine the true idyllic wilderness I always picture the endless forests and lakes and mountains of Canada. If there's anywhere in the world that should be free of human influence, it's there.

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ZenoxDemin 17 hr ago +8

Don't need humans to catch a forest on fire. Although humans can help a lot to start them.

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Duideka 14 hr ago +3

Australia uses “Catastrophic” although the lowest point of the scale is “Moderate”

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reformedMedas 17 hr ago +5

Yep, would have seen heavy use last 2 summers for sure, especially in cities.

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redmusic1 18 hr ago +82

In Australia they had to invent a new colour for the weather maps for over 50c. In western Sydney we had over 40 days over 41C this last summer. Summer in Sydney now lasts an extra 50 days a year, and the modelling shows that by 2045 it will last 6 months a year.

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Meta2048 17 hr ago +18

I think it was last year or the year before, Phoenix, Arizona had like 3+ months straight of over 100f+ weather. That's 38c. I think most days were actually above 105f, or 40c.

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SpicyRice99 8 hr ago +1

Having just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, this is disquieting...

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gearstars 16 hr ago +10

Better get your V8 Interceptor soon, supplies might become limited

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Mundane_Existence0 14 hr ago +2

Since that was [13yrs ago](https://xcancel.com/Aus_ScienceWeek/status/288452720019517441) I'm sure they'll have to add at least one new color before 2030.

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GeorgeWardlawsmum 14 hr ago +2

Send some heat to Melbourne please.

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SanDiedo 16 hr ago +2

They should use standart Kelvin scheme, to show which zones are "Sirius blue" hot.

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redmusic1 16 hr ago -5

Sorry dude, at this point in time Americans are not allowed to suggest the rest of the world do anything. We like our violent purple weather charts, and we will stick to them.

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Logitech4873 14 hr ago +5

Kelvin is British though?

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redmusic1 14 hr ago -1

Never met a Kelvin I liked, though I have only met one. If I was a fridge, I would be a Kelvinhater.

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Logitech4873 14 hr ago +4

So why are you assuming that people are American for no reason? The Kelvin scale is famously part of the SI metric units. Edit. Yeah immediately block me after I point out your weird usdefaultism.

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redmusic1 14 hr ago -3

You don't understand sarcasm ( but u/n SanDiedo is a good clue ) Goodbye.

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kalvin689 14 hr ago -2

They didnt say kelvin is american, they just said that americans shouldnt suggest anything.

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Logitech4873 14 hr ago +4

That user isn't American.

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Waste_Jello9947 15 hr ago -1

Australia finally joins south east Asia summer

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redmusic1 15 hr ago +4

Yeah except Sydney is literally 6500km from South East Asia.

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thewavefixation 11 hr ago +2

To be fair Cairns is closer to Bali than it is to Sydney

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Many-Waters 18 hr ago +20

As someone who works outside... Yeah. I wish I could send this to my boss. For now, I simply drink many waters.

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Waste_Jello9947 18 hr ago +32

They should call it new norm

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Fox_Kurama 9 hr ago +1

Nah, you see, that is too... acknowledging of it.

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Spudtron98 17 hr ago +7

Forty degrees at that latitude is pretty bloody cruel, yeah. The humidity is already a killer as it is.

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Tucancancan 17 hr ago +9

I mean they ain't wrong. I remember a day that was 42c last summer and taking (unairconditioned) métro. That shit was cruel.

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Substantial_Milk8170 17 hr ago +17

You know the situation is dire when official government agencies drop the scientific jargon and just start calling the weather 'cruel'. We are quite literally cooked.

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Nepridiprav16 15 hr ago +26

Cruel isn't really good translation here because it implies moral agent. 酷 in compounds like 酷暑日 operates more as a pure intensifier of severity. 酷暑 severe + heat = extreme heat 酷寒 severe + cold = extreme cold These are all semi-technical terms.

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Logitech4873 14 hr ago +7

When I read the headline, I immediately assumed that the vibe of the word is probably not translated well.

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Fox_Kurama 9 hr ago +1

Does not matter. Nakama, friends or comrades, whatever you translate a term as, it does. Not. Matter. The point is they never needed whatever term they are using before. They could be calling it "nice boat day" and it would not matter (it WOULD be something to make fun of them for if they called it that specific thing but...). One way or another, they are needing to come up with a new term to describe something that did not happen before often enough to require a new designation of ANY kind.

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pepehandreee 12 hr ago +6

Except 酷暑 is not something new, the term has existed for a very long time lol and it 酷 doesn’t even meant for cruel in this context. Not sure wut is this article up about. People love to made shit up about Chinese characters, but it is extra weird when a Japanese media’s English outlet is doing it.

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FixedFun1 11 hr ago +1

Well 暑 means Midsummer and 酷 means Strict. Clearly this is about Midsummer Exams at school.

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invincibl_ 13 hr ago +3

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology uses the word "oppressive" in their standard descriptions these days.

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Fox_Kurama 9 hr ago +1

A term no doubt getting much more frequent use by them. When 40+ years ago they never needed such a term at all.

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instanoodles84 15 hr ago +4

Im not built for this c***, 30c is cruelly hot for me.

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Maplecook 10 hr ago +1

27 is precisely where I start getting uncomfortable. Whenever my body first says, "Geez, I don't like THIS," I glance at the thermometer, and sure enough, "27 degrees."

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koolforkatskatskats 18 hr ago +23

Because we don't care about the planet it shouldn't be called cruelly hot days anymore, it should be called justly hot days. This is what we've caused. We are the cruel ones

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Larkson9999 18 hr ago +22

Punishment days

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IntelArtiGen 18 hr ago +5

That's a good name.

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manachar 17 hr ago +5

Gaia Justice Temps

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lawpoop 17 hr ago +4

Days of Perdition

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Bipogram 16 hr ago +1

Vengence days.

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radicalelation 17 hr ago +1

End of Days

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fishscaleSF5 16 hr ago +3

I’m surprised they didn’t use the evil sun from super Mario bros 3

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T_RAYRAY 17 hr ago +4

40°C = 104°F I had to look it up because even though us public education teaches it, that relative value/ conversion factor never comes up in 4+ decades of my sheltered American life. I’ve tried to remember over the years… but the most I can retain is “mid to upper 30°C is hot!”

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Starfox-sf 14 hr ago +2

37°C = Body temp

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razor1n 11 hr ago +1

0 = freeze 10 = cold 20= room 30 = summer 40 = humans start dying from wet bulb

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macross1984 10 hr ago +2

Anything above 40 degree Celsius which is bad enough but bonus of high humidity of Japan make it brutally miserable and deadly to elderly and households without AC.

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PassionInitial7487 10 hr ago +3

I've been to Japan in the summer, it's so brutally hot and humid that you step outside your hotel for 5 minutes and you're already completely soaked in sweat.

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Lowskillbookreviews 17 hr ago +2

Is this a move to make people take the heat more seriously? Every summer there’s people that die from heat injuries because they underestimate how quickly the heat will kill you.

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zydexx 14 hr ago +2

Cruel Summer coming.

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SeasonElectrical3173 14 hr ago

Wet Hot Japanese Summer

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ElApple 13 hr ago +1

*Yamete kudasai*

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turb0_encapsulator 18 hr ago +3

seems unnecessary since Trump says the world is cooling.

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Fox_Kurama 9 hr ago +1

This would be a thing I crosspost if I ever knew how to make sure I did that normally. Specifically to the collapse sub.

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LeanUntilBlue 13 hr ago +1

That’s 104°F in freedom units.

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Dry_Chipmunk2140 11 hr ago -3

deserved it because they support israel and usa illegal war.

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Brief_Original 12 hr ago -2

Calling it a cruelly hot day is the most Japanese way possible to describe climate change. Direct and poetic at the same time.

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Jingtseng 16 hr ago -6

This is “news”? Whoopee.

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SeasonElectrical3173 14 hr ago +6

It is. And the fact that people like you are trying to be dismissive of it proves even more it's important that this stuff be communicated out there. It's not 2002 anymore, these old tactics you guys use to trick people online to support the oligarchs you simp for don't work anymore.

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Japan weather agency adopts 'cruelly hot day' as new term for temps upwards of 40 C

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