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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Madfox" data-source="post: 1057208" data-attributes="member: 1714">At this moment I am looking at a temperature bar of the last 100 years of the Netherlands. This year is not a record year at the moment, though it certainly can become one if these temperatures do not change for the coming month. Chances that it will be the hottest summer since temperatures have been measured though are unlikely, unless summer remain hot for the coming 70 days or so that is. For the curious, the Dutch record year was 1947 with 4 heat waves and over 80 days with temperatures above 25 C and another 100 or so with temperatures between 20 C and 25 C (which only shows how are normal temperature ranges are - to us it is a warm summer day when the temperature rises above 20 C).As for effects on society - 25 to 30 C are not nearly as hot as in some other areas. I also live about 3 km from the coast, so there is always a pleasent refreshing wind. The trees are still green and the farmers of grain are cheering (the only ones in Europe probably). The harvests are record high and they already harvested the grain (which apparently is very early for this region), added to the fact that the grain harvests in Southern Europe are incredilby low they are looking at some very good profits. Other farmers are less lucky. The trees are still green, but if in the next two weeks there will be no rain, trouble starts to arise. Our main problem are algea who are poisoning the water and the longer this weather continues how higher the chance from them ruining swimming water as well as drinking water and water for irrigation.I am glad though that my house lies in the shadows during summer and that we have a very good air conditioning at work <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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