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Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 6 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

144º 🍔 heat index

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Jesus Christ

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 months ago

thisisfine

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

How do people even cope with that? I feel like dying when it gets over ~23 °C

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

I would literally die

[–] DPRK_Chopra@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We've got to go underground folks.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

our future living as mole people https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230803-the-town-where-people-live-underground

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

We can use their spaceship to film our own Pitch Black Mad Max crossover

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

How do people even live with these temepratures??? its only like 40 degrees celcius here in the philippines yet it feels like i need to drink water every 5 minutes

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Just keep cutting down trees, building more houses, pouring more concrete and consuming more media and everything will be JUST FINE

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I wonder if cutting down the rain forest has anything at all to do with this?