Post #3392144
2026-06-23 11:38 UTC
Replies (3)
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@alicetragedy@mastodon.social 2026-06-23 11:48
@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social sure. I’m Italian, and in my childhood it still wasn’t common to have 40 degrees in the middle of June though, even in Rome, where my family has lived all their life. ✌️
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@Robotistry@fediscience.org 2026-06-23 12:06
@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social @alicetragedy@mastodon.social It depends on local conditions. When we lived along the Florida coast, 35C (95F) was hot but workable if we were hydrated, shaded/hatted, and taking adequate breaks. However, if we were indoors in a building that wasn't designed for airflow and that didn't have air conditioning, conditions degraded quickly. My employer routinely found alternative air conditioned workspaces or sent people home in outdoor temperatures well below 35 when the inside of the building became too hot because the AC was off. Here in the Canadian Maritimes, 30C (86F) is sticky and unpleasant and worse than 35C in Florida. It feels like a reasonable local threshold since cooling here is still a patchwork of open windows and AC systems, and people here don't cool their buildings to frigid temperatures in the summer like they do in Florida. Maybe base a threshold on the "feels like" heat index?
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@nini@oldbytes.space 2026-06-24 08:53
@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social @alicetragedy@mastodon.social Strange irony of telling others not to act like their normal isn't everyone else's normal though doing exactly that in the next sentence.