(Way OT) How bad is the heat wave in Europe?

[Edena_of_Neith]

DO NOT BRING POLITICS INTO THIS THREAD. THANK YOU.

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I am simply curious as to how bad the heat wave is in Europe.
Are major rivers truly drying up totally?
Are the minor rivers running dry?
How are the temperate trees holding up against the heat?
How are the crops holding up against the heat?

I have looked at the weather maps.
There is no high pressure over the Sahara Desert currently, but instead there is low pressure stretching east-west across the central part of the desert.
There is a very large and strong high pressure system over western and central Europe, stretching up into Scandinavia.
The prevailing westerlies have been diverted around western and central Europe, and are flowing over the sea south of Iceland, through northern Scandanavia, and down into Russia.
There are no strong high altitude winds over western, central, or southern Europe at all.

I have confirmed reports London has broken it's all time record high.
I hear England, Germany, and Switzerland are ready to break their all time record highs, within recorded history.

I am curious as to what is going on.
Some of you may know that I have posted climatic-related posts before, on the ENBoards.

Edena_of_Neith

 

[Zogg]

Population control is the answer.

 

[Wippit Guud]

Not that I'm there, but I've seen pictures of rivers that are so low, you can see German ships sunk in WW2 to stop the Russians from coming at them straight on.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

NO POLITICS

Posted above:

Population control is the answer.

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NO POLITICS, PLEASE.

 

[AGGEMAM]

In Denmark we are supposed to get the all time high in recorded history (since 1877) tomorrow and saturday. Around 37/101 degrees C/F.

Considering that normally temperatures rarely (in that it doesn't happen every year) hit 30/86 degrees C/F in the summer, that's is pretty bad.

The lakes here in Copenhagen is starting to get to a critical water level.

 

[Morrus]

It's friggin' hot here, but not as hot as it is further south.

We're apparently about to have the hottest day ever recorded; I'm uncomfortably hot now and am trying to avoid going outside.

I don't know if this really compares to, say, the southern part of the US though. I imagine temperatures get this high on an average day there.

 

[med stud]

Denmark was absolutely horrible during the Roskilde festival, I bet it was at least 30 degrees C in the shadow, just that there werent any shadow anywhere in the ****** festival ^^

Oh, when talking about Roskilde; it was too weak on the Danish! They should have given us Fyn too so we could build some more nuclear plants!

 

[Zogg]

It's friggin' hot here, but not as hot as it is further south.

We're apparently about to have the hottest day ever recorded; I'm uncomfortably hot now and am trying to avoid going outside.

I don't know if this really compares to, say, the southern part of the US though. I imagine temperatures get this high on an average day there.

Uh, yea. Yesterday it was 109 here in Dallas. Today it's supposed to get up to 106. But I won't even pretend to compete with places like Phoenix and Las Vegas, where numbers are consistently above 110.

But enough about us - back to Europe.

 

[Darkness]

Hey there Edena.

It's pretty bad here in Austria but I think I've seen worse. Only slightly worse, though.

 

[Rashak Mani]

Well if it might interest someone... we are in Winter/Dry season in Brazil... but the temperatures have been 5-7 C degrees higher than normal for this time of the year. (No rain thou...)

FUBAR for the global climate ?