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If temperatures are higher globally, i guess this implies they're also higher above the ocean, which makes more water evaporate, so there's more rainfall on the land-side. it is logical that there's more rain then, and also more humid air, above the land.

i guess droughts are not so much caused by climate change, but by the rectification of rivers, which makes water flow faster towards the sea, which acts like a drainage system. so, it's a domestic problem (rectification of rivers), not a global problem (climate change).

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    UK: Had 3 heatwaves this year so far. And it's always humid :-(

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Australia here. Not summer yet.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes. It’s called “climate change”.

    Sorry to be blunt, but it’s only going to get worse.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I live in a mountainous region.

    The other day it was hot and humid.

    So humid I couldn't see the mountains through the haze.

    No clouds. Just an actual sea in the sky obscuring the mountains less than 20 miles away.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Norway, here. Normal humidity but extremely hot.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How many degrees higher than usual on average would you guess?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    5ish C. It's normally in the 20s.30+ is rare. It's been 30+ for over a week now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's actually been dry, especially in Mid-Norway.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mid-Atlantic US here and idk if its really been more humid this year than it has historically, but I've definitely felt its been uncharacteristically humid recently

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Icelandic here. Still no summer.

    Just kidding, it was Tuesday last week.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    UK here it's not raining but it's 100% wetter this year

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Both heat and humidity. It feels like I went directly from heat to air conditioning with less than a week in between. Today is finally decent weather to turn it off and open windows but it might be only the second time this summer.

    It doesn’t seem all that many years ago that I objected to air conditioning on the grounds that it is expensive and you only need it a couple weeks of the year. But now it’s hard to see living without it where I am

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was 81 degrees (27 for the rest of the world) out this morning on my drive to work before 0700. I didn't have air conditioning growing up so maybe my memories are skewed but it seems way hotter now than it was in the 80s/90s (Captain Planet warned me about this).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    North Carolina here, there's definitely been a fuckton of rain thusfar, and humidity to go with it

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  • Extremely humid in the Midwest right now

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Im in east TN. It's always humid here but this year seems worse. And we've had lots of heat warnings. Hottest year on record, just like last year, and the year before that. etc...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oregon here, it has seemed oddly humid feeling to me personally. I'm super sensitive to humidity and heat though.

    It isn't like the south, but definitely more than I recall historically.

    It rained today randomly so that doesn't help either.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Consistently much more humid where I am, yeah. Also milder so far, which is nice after last year's multi-100+ heatwaves. (I've probably just jinxed my weather, great.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I've been keeping track of the heat index because I work in a factory with no AC, with the high humidity we've had 7 days already over 100°F... 109°F being the highest. Consistently over 90°F though pretty much every day...

    Thankfully this week the humidity finally dropped a bit!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    No, about normal summer assuming this is the last week of hot weather (forecast says so).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm in the desert so I can't comment because my environment is biased towards being dry anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Not here in Sweden. We have warnings and drought in several areas of the country because there has been less sky water than usual this entire year.

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  • Here for sure yeah. But that's cause fire season is getting a late start

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  • I live in the UK, so summers being humid are just the default here lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    For Toronto and GTA I feel it has been opposite for us. We had 5-6 super humid days. But this summer, there’s been less humidity even though it’s been really super hot. Weird times.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Switzerland: I don't have any data but it seems way more humid than normal.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Polish here and yeah. A lot of soft rain coupled with high temperatures.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    korea here. has rained like crazy for the last few weeks

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Idk if op is in the us or not but there was a hurricane in Texas recently and apparently hurricanes will suck water from clear across the country so this summer was uncharacteristically hot, idk about the humidity, maybe the hurricane is pushing water back this way too.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago

    No different then usual. Summer will be summer and people forget how terrible summer is every year.

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