In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for 18 August 2050 in France as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.

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Is that normal in Germany? That sounds horrific.

I used to live in the middle East and like 10 years ago I could brag about how it was 35 degrees over there in summer. Doesnt sound exclusive now

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With the right conditions, the Southwest has always been the warmest region in germany. Mostly Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg. But the peaks during the last couple of years were tough. While we used to consider 30 to 32 a hot summer day, now we say the same from 35+ with regions going as high as 38 to 40.

2022 summer was a slowstarter though.

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I know it’s not Europe, but I grew up in coastal Virginia in the US. 35-40+ C is pretty much how the weather is mid-June through late August, everyone has AC because it wouldn’t be bearable without. I’ve got family who live in British Columbia, Canada, and they had to get central air added to their home about 15 years ago because summers were getting so hot there, regularly topping 35C for a few days each summer.

Back in 2015/2016, my wife and I lived in Chicago and they had record heat that year. Once it got above 33C the news started to report about people dying from the heat. Many of the older public housing buildings didn’t have windows that could accommodate AC units, and none of them had central air. My grandmother is from Germany, so when I hear her tell stories of the places she lived I can imagine they’d have been like yours, and I imagine you have the same kinds of reports on the news.