Submitted 1 week ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250524-uae-breaks-may-heat-record-with-scorching-51-6c
The United Arab Emirates breached its May temperature record for the second day in a row, hitting 51.6 degrees Celsius on Saturday, according to the National Center of Meteorology.
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We’ll be reading headlines like this every year for decades, until enough people die that governments finally rebel against their owners and stop the corporations, or we all die in nuclear war over who gets the last bit of water and food.
I survived 40-45c, but damn…
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I can’t even contemplate how that feels
Pyro@programming.dev 1 week ago
Outside feels like being in an oven. Air conditioning is basically a necessity at those temps.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
That kind of temperature can literally be deadly, depending on humidity (wet bulb temperature).