Our winter this year in Southern California was the hottest in recorded history.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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And the coldest winter going forward.
Pretty sure the warnings were back in at least the 70s
A city hotter than parts of the Sahara becomes a headline for a day, then disappears under sport, politics and celebrity gossip.
It really feels like this so much! There were quite some sad climate news this year already, but except the heatwave in Europe, they all got buried by Hormuz strait news, like:
- collapse of AMOC now likely
- collapse of Thwaites now likely
- ~~acceleration~~ rate of warming almost doubled in the past decade to about 0.3 °C/decade
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hotter than the sahara normally, or hotter than the sahara right now?
the media focus is on europe, but other regions of the world are experiencing heat waves too and north africa seems to be particularly affected as well, which i see almost no one talk about…
I don’t thing France is normally hotter than Sahara.
i meant it in the sense of "is france right now hotter than what the sahara typically is, or hotter than the sahara is at this moment?"
my point being that the sahara is also going through a heat wave
sorry for the confusion there 😅
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260509210639.htm
..the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is losing strength.
This is probably affecting this European summer more than anticipated.
Oh no!
:( I'm gonna miss the amphibians
