Major updates.

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.

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
    231·
    1 year ago

    Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave.

    Rio de Janeiro recorded 42.5C on Sunday - a record for November - and high humidity on Tuesday meant that it felt like 58.5C, municipal authorities said.

    More than a hundred million people have been affected by the heat, which is expected to last until at least Friday.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67422663?ref=okdoomer.io

    • alternative_factor@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      I think what matters here is that the humidity makes this a wet bulb or something similar to a wet bulb instead of actually an oven. It’s super doom but it’s a slightly different and honestly worse kind.