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More climate breakdown predictions:
Weighted net-like blankets,
Headboard extenders for bed or sleeping area.

Previous ideas:
Siestas,
Nocturnal cooking and eating patterns (a bit like Ramadan but) in summer,

Biphasic work patterns or maybe crepuscular (dawn and dusk, like cats' hunting times),
Shorter work week like 20 hours becomes full time -- since multiple rounds of neurodegenerative covid and unacknowledged Long Covid,

Dehumidifier to survive wet bulb humidity,
Cotton and linen skimpy clothing covered by loose flowy plastic crap instead of just using sunblock.

#climate #ClimateCrisis #weather #ClimateEmergency #ClimateSolutions #Heat #Hot #HeatSickness #HeatStroke #Temperature #WetBulbTemperature #adaptation #mitigation #risk

#FYI #heat #heatwawe #wetbulbtemperature (contd 3/3)

If you live in a climate with at least 85% humidity on average days, get a dehumidifier (a „real“ one, 5-10L/day water extraction), additionally produces water you can use for whatever except drinking. For drinking purposes you need to cook/filter the extracted water, since it is not germ-free.
Lots of mobile ACs are also two in one combination devices. Prices begin at ~$/€100-150 new.

More ideas in the manual here: https://mastodon.online/@IviChoc/113311498685006611

#FYI #heat #heatwawe #wetbulbtemperature (contd.2/3)
...Keep in mind you need to have at least a ventilation opening to lead the hot air exhaust pipe outside (e.g. a cat flap).

There are much cheaper evaporation coolers, which may be useful in extremely arid regions, but in normal humidity conditions may quickly cause mold.

A no-cost alternative in dry heat could be to hang a water soaked bed sheet in the room, in front of a ventilator if available. (contd.)
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#FYI #heat #heatwawe #wetbulbtemperature

If possible: #Insulate your house/apartment from the outside, paint your roof white, green your walls with climbing plants, stick tin foil to the windows

Regardless where you live, if nothing else, just get a mobile AC which you can use in the smallest room in your apartment during prolonged heat domes, to get some ZZZs at night.

The cool room should be a basement, facing North, or one in the middle of the house with no outside walls. (contd. 1/3)

@tagesschau@ard.social - Vielleicht wollt ihr in eurer Redaktion mal den Begriff Kühlgrenztemperatur (wet-bulb temperature) recherchieren? Das dürfte für die Wahl vielleicht etwas passenderer Open-Graph-Bilder sinnvoll sein.
Zum Beispiel hier: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00738.2021

#WetBulb #WetBulbTemperature #Kühlgrenztemperatur #HitzeTötet

@DeutscherWetterdienst