Insane heatwave grips southern Europe. Land surface temperature in some areas of Extremadura in Spain reached 60° Celsius!!

www.copernicus.eu Scorching heatwave hits Spain | Copernicus

A severe heatwave is ongoing in Europe. Temperature records broken in France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain.

On 11 July 2023, the Land Surface Temperature (LST) in some areas of Extremadura (Spain) exceeded 60°C, as highlighted in this data visualisation derived from measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) instrument. The ongoing heatwave in Spain this week is resulting in a total of 13 autonomous communities, being at extreme risk (red alert), significant risk (orange alert), and risk (yellow alert) due to maximum temperatures that, in some cases, will exceed 40°C and reach a maximum of 43°C.

For reference, "in areas where vegetation is dense, the land surface temperature never rises above 35°C. The hottest land surface temperatures on Earth are in plant-free desert landscapes."

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Collapse @lemmy.ml Insane heatwave hits southern Europe with temperatures in Spain as high as 60°C

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The world is burning but no one gives a shit.. i don't think anyone will until literally their house is on fire.

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When the crops are dead and the water dried up. Then people will start to take notice. But by then, it's already too late.

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I know this is a world community but I'm just going to throw the conversion out there for anyone who needs it to understand how hot that is, that is 140F.

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Talking about surface temperature is pretty misleading.

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Get ready for new eco bans, we will have to stop using plastic milk containers and factories will produce more junk to put the milk in to. Like with the plastic straws and bags, good idea on papper, poor execution irl.

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I'm on vacation in a place that is regularly 20c on summer, it's 35c right now. Real sad since I wanted to escape the 40c city

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It's only gonna get worse as global warming takes hold.

Soon, Britain, Ireland and the Nordics are going to be prime summer holiday destinations because Southern Europe will be too damn hot to even inhabit.

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Smoke em if you got em.

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If we are starting to get alarmed over surface temps, here's my patio furniture temp right now in Arizona

Air temp is currently 43.8C

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That's devastatingly hot.

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Climate change deniers are like

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Man, that's intense.

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