Tim 🎮20h ago

France: A nuclear power reactor had to shut down because the river that cools it is too hot (28C!), the Louvre shuts early because its climate control can't handle the afternoon heat from its patrons, and people are drowning in rivers trying desperately to cool off.

I wish I was reading these things in a Michael Crichton novel, not the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/heatwave-france-spain-italy-europe

France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country

National weather service, MÊtÊo-France, says Tuesday was the hottest day since measurements began in 1947

The Guardian
Show threadJungYulKim Dotcom Free Press18h ago

@timixretroplays

I live in Canada and I hate hot weather, and by hot weather I mean 25C.

This is absolutely awful heat that you have there.

Show threadAnna 🖖đŸŧ18h ago
@NathanMurdock and some people are trying to gaslight us on the tune of "of course it's hot, it's summer. Would you prefer RAIN?" Yes, actually, I would. 😭😭😭 @timixretroplays
Show threadBeeCycling15h ago
@AnnaBaguenaude
If someone said that to me in person I'd find it hard not to grab their shirt front and scream in their face that this is not normal. Do they need their taps to run dry and the crops to start failing before they wake to the fuck up and stop being dupes for companies who don't care if they die?
@NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadBeeCycling15h ago
@AnnaBaguenaude
They always bring up 1976 too, like that makes a good point. I remember 1976. It sucked. I don't want that every damn year
@NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadAnna 🖖đŸŧ14h ago
@beecycling if you speak French, I can show you a video that shows 1976 would be a cool summer, for the 2020's. 😭😭😭 @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadBeeCycling12h ago

@AnnaBaguenaude Thanks, but my French probably wouldn't cut it. 😁

@NathanMurdock @timixretroplays

Show threadAnna 🖖đŸŧ12h ago
@beecycling should you need it, this screenshot should be clear, French notwithstanding. Summer 1976 is the green line, the other lines are summers 2020 to 2025. @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadBeeCycling12h ago
@AnnaBaguenaude It's like a climate version of the Overton Window. Extremes becoming norms. @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadAnna 🖖đŸŧ12h ago
@beecycling yes! People misremember how hot 1976 actually was because what they remember is 'unusually' hot, which means something quite different in the 1970's and in the 2020's. @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadBeeCycling12h ago
@AnnaBaguenaude And the prolonged drought was a big part of what made it so unprecedented, not just the temperature. It didn't rain for weeks! @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadAnna 🖖đŸŧ
@beecycling absolutely, but even in that some people are in denial. They will mention a 10 minutes rain episode in a canicular day as if it made the canicule not exist somehow. @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
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Show threadAnna 🖖đŸŧ11h ago
@beecycling I live in Northern France. I used to think 25°C was Really Hot. Now if that's what we get next week I'll bless my stars, and it's only the beginning of the summer... @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadBeeCycling11h ago
@AnnaBaguenaude
That's the scary part - it's only June! Okay, hot spells don't usually last long in the UK, and the forecast for next week looks more reasonable. And maybe it will then stay they way until Autumn. But who knows whether more waves, hotter still, will come in July or August?
@NathanMurdock @timixretroplays
Show threadAnna 🖖đŸŧ11h ago
@beecycling I'm really scared this summer will be hellish. @NathanMurdock @timixretroplays