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Eugene

(62,627 posts) Wed Nov 15, 2023, 05:37 AM Nov 2023

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Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by 'unbearable' heatwave

Source: BBC

Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by 'unbearable' heatwave

15 November 2023

By Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News

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.

Officials have attributed it to the El Niño phenomenon and climate change.

The city of São Paulo saw average temperatures of 37.3C on Tuesday afternoon, the National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) reported.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67422663

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Brazil: Health warnings as country gripped by 'unbearable' heatwave (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2023 OP

Fahrenheit: 99.14 degrees no_hypocrisy Nov 2023 #1

And that's the lowest of the 3 temperatures mentioned. sl8 Nov 2023 #3

Just the beginning. Think. Again. Nov 2023 #2

They keep mowing down the rainforests. They're killing themselves. CousinIT Nov 2023 #4

I think President Lula is trying to stop the deforestation area51 Nov 2023 #5

True, but humanity is killing itself, across the board. Magoo48 Nov 2023 #7

True. n/t CousinIT Nov 2023 #8

Coming to a continent near U2! czarjak Nov 2023 #6

no_hypocrisy

(48,677 posts)

1. Fahrenheit: 99.14 degrees

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 05:52 AM

Nov 2023

sl8

(16,245 posts)

3. And that's the lowest of the 3 temperatures mentioned.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 07:15 AM

Nov 2023

42.5 °Celsius = 108.5 °Fahrenheit

58.5 °Celsius = 137.3 °Fahrenheit

Think. Again.

(17,418 posts)

2. Just the beginning.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 07:06 AM

Nov 2023

CousinIT

(10,080 posts)

4. They keep mowing down the rainforests. They're killing themselves.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 07:19 AM

Nov 2023

AND the rest of us.

Idiots.

area51

(12,131 posts)

5. I think President Lula is trying to stop the deforestation

Reply to CousinIT (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 07:49 AM

Nov 2023

of the Amazon, unlike Bolsonaro who wanted to accelerate it.

Magoo48

(5,270 posts)

7. True, but humanity is killing itself, across the board.

Reply to CousinIT (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 08:34 AM

Nov 2023

Greed, first world’s unwillingness to be inconvenienced, poverty and ignorance.

CousinIT

(10,080 posts)

8. True. n/t

Reply to Magoo48 (Reply #7)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 11:33 AM

Nov 2023

czarjak

(12,394 posts)

6. Coming to a continent near U2!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 08:07 AM

Nov 2023

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