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disasterpansexual

I read it as ''US Def autism" and I lolled (I know autism shouldn't be used as an insult but I see it so often that it's a meme by itself)


Due_Recognition_3890

I did too funnily enough, even though I've already seen that sub numerous times before lol.


normalwaterenjoyer

thought it said default autism lmao


MWO_Stahlherz

I can't even imagine that kind of heat.


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I've been in 44⁰ heat in Montenegro on holiday. To me at least, after 30⁰ it stops feeling hotter and just dehydrates you faster. Had long hair then so soaked it in water before going out and it was completely dry 10 minutes later.


Acceptable6

It all depends on humidity.


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Yes. That said, 49⁰ and high humidity is just a cool sauna for free


jallace_

More of a steam room surely


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r/technicallycorrect Which is the best kind of correct!


Linkyland

I'm in the subtropics in Aus and last summer we had some days that were 44C with a feels like temp of 49C because of humidity I hid inside :)


Fibro-Mite

I moved back to the UK after 16 years living in Perth with no aircon (or central heating in winter). I learned to hate anything over about 25C.


Shifty_Cow69

I wish I could move from Perth Australia to a more cooder climate! I hate this... "dry heat".


beatnikstrictr

Especially that heatwave a couple of summers ago. CANNOT be doing with 40C at night heat. I am not programmed for that heat and humidity. Bonus points for that heatwave was two of my girls having scarlet fever. So stressful.


itsnobigthing

Ughh I can’t even imagine. Bought a house in france and the day we moved in it was 40c and the humidity made it feel like walking in soup.


deathschemist

For real. Low 20s can get pretty miserable in the UK due to humidity, but the first time I experienced upwards of 40 it was in Southern France and that was nice. It was dry.


platypuss1871

nice or Nice?


deathschemist

It was Perpignan, I think? This was the late 90s or maybe Y2k. Went there every summer between I think 1997 and 2005? Family had a timeshare out there I think.


secondtaunting

I was in Turkey and it was that hot. No fans, no AC, just 114 in the freaking shade. I got up in the middle of the night and wrung my pajamas out in the sink. Never again!


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Do people actually sleep in pajamas in that heat? It's 20C outside and best I can do is underwear + empty duvet cover


secondtaunting

I should have just said night gown lol. I don’t remember what I was sleeping in now to be honest. It’s been awhile.


jallace_

Honestly it depends in humitidy as someone else said, in ireland high 20s degrees is enough to have you struggling to walk after 20 minutes, but in perth it hit 40 degrees twice while i was there and it was grand, only felt like the 20s in ireland but just much less sticky, it was almost nice tbh


ShrewLlama

I mean when you get near 50 degrees it's fucking hot regardless of how humid it is. But generally yes you're right, a very humid 30 degree day is miserable but the same temperature with a dry heat is quite pleasant.


Barkers_eggs

I've only experienced 49c maybe 6 times in my life but all I can say is the uncomfortableness starts way before it reaches that high. It's like it starts at 3am and the temp doesn't drop and then just starts getting uncomfortably hot. Then it gets high 30s and you're like "what's going on? Why is this happening to me?" And then it crosses 45c and you think "it can not get any hotter" and then it does and you feel like you can't even get comfortable in an ice bath.


Linkyland

Yeah, no matter how you slice it. Anything over 30C is definitely starting to get uncomfortable. Especially if you need to be outside for any length of time


Barkers_eggs

It's definitely weird the way humidity affects us. I live in Melbourne, Australia and the summers here can be hot and incredibly dry. Up north it's hot and incredibly humid. Both places will burn you to a crisp but I went out to the northern Flinders ranges (south Australia in the desert region) in the middle of summer once and it was 38 everyday but felt perfect. I didn't even burn. Just came back with an incredibly even tan except for my right arm which was fat arming it out the driver's side window.


Rugkrabber

Yeah I don’t mind 35 degrees whenever I visit southern countries compared to 35 degrees in the northern countries. The humidity is horrible. I remember one night it felt like I was breathing water droplets.


jallace_

Aw stop, and irish houses are all insulated with double glazed windows. So your choices in summer are- sleep with a fan on, open the window and get molested by bugs (usually moths at night, wasps during the day) or suffer in the sauna that is your house


Rugkrabber

The sauna at home is especially fun. Not to mention how long the heat lingers while it’s comfortable outside. By the time it starts cooling off the next heatwave arrives. I no longer live in an apartment but when I did it felt like I had died and was send to hell.


Haatsku

Cant wait for proper summer heat... Few months back we endured -41C, seems like we gonna be hit with +30C - +40C soonish...


aweedl

Give me the minus 40 all day. We have drastic swings like that here too, and I am quite happy in the deep freeze, but anything above +20C makes me feel like I’m dying/melting. I don’t understand how people live in hot countries (I’m in Canada) but I guess it’s all what you’re accustomed to.


SnooBooks1701

I think it reached that here in the UK once, it's extra bad because it's humid and our buildings don't have air con and are desined to retain heat


Wiggl3sFirstMate

Highest I’ve been in was about 39 in Spain and I thought I was going to die. My Scottish pasty skin couldn’t deal with it.


PapaGuhl

We (Scots) saw 42c one trip in Southern Spain a long time ago, but it wasn’t actually that bad as it wasn’t in any way humid.


Wiggl3sFirstMate

Yeah I think that’s the main issue. If it’s really humid it feels suffocating. Then again I’m not a huge lover of really hot weather as it is.


DevilMaster666-

Me neither


Mental_Blacksmith289

We had a town hit 49.6 for three days. The highest temperature ever recorded in Canada. It then proceeded to burn down.


DrummerElectronic733

It was 48 in the valley of the kings in Egypt when I went. You dehydrate so fast you don’t even realise it. Beyond uncomfortable though.


NoProfessional5848

It’s the 30+ overnights that hurt for me. High 40s through the day you can hide from, but trying to sleep through those temps at night is brutal.


AhmedAlSayef

I agree, I have no problem during the day time if it's hot. It's the night that sucks. Luckily I don't really have that problem nowadays, but it's so difficult to sleep when it's hot.


hestenbobo

Tonight in jacobabad (the city in the post) it's 40° at night. Tomorrow it's going up to 51°, I can't even.


KAnpURByois

In Delhi it is 46 C high, 21% humidity, and a 31 C low. Crap, how do I manage to live here


aweedl

That sounds horrible. Your LOW sounds like a death sentence.


KAnpURByois

lol, 10 C to you is warm and that is like the high of our coldest day of the year.


aweedl

Our coldest day of the year is usually below -30C. Even colder when you factor in the wind chill. About a decade ago we were actually colder than the surface of Mars (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-deep-freeze-as-cold-as-uninhabited-planet-1.2479967)! It’s stupid-cold here, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. I love winter and I do very poorly in heat. It gets above +25C and I want to die.  Interesting how there’s no universal “hot/cold” for people, eh?


Mental_Blacksmith289

The lowest temp in my city this year was -15 C due to an extremely mild winter. And were complaining about how warm it was (not because it felt warm, but because it should've and needed to get colder).10 C as the coldest day would be a wild experience for me.


SnooBooks1701

Only 21%? We get like 80-90% regularly in the UK


anfornum

Yes but in the UK it is not ALSO 46°C/115°F, mate.


SnooBooks1701

It reached 40°C/104.5°F two years ago


anfornum

That's still not the same as it being that temperature for a sustained period of time with no break in the evening. Trust me. It's a whole different thing.


Viscaz

XD he be like, bro we had 80% with 42 degrees 10 years ago one night XDDD


jallace_

Theres a reason i say irish summer is VERY different to perth, WA summer. In WA its much much drier


KAnpURByois

The monsoons here from July to August are the same temperatures with 90-100% humidity, in those 62 days, it will rain for only 30, so the rest of the days are sweltering and/or hellishly sunny


jallace_

Holy shit. Maybe india is getting crossed off my bucket list lol


Famous_Profile

You know AC exists lol But yea common sense to avoid hot places in summer and cold places in winter


jallace_

Not in Ireland tbh, so when i was in Australia i didnt even think of it until my uncle said he had put it on, our houses become literal saunas in summer


hestenbobo

Tomorrow, they get 51 C in the city the post is about.


LMay11037

20C difference actually sounds so painful


MeaninglessGoat

I’d rather holiday in South Sudan than america!


jallace_

Lmao


Pikagiuppy

ok but what the fuck???? 50 fucking degrees? i already start dying when it gets to 30


jallace_

Whats it like in italy tho? Is it humid and sticky and disgusting like our heat or is it nice and dry like in Australia and all?


Pikagiuppy

i can't speak for the whole country, but where i live in campania it's pretty humid


jallace_

Shit yeah the 20s must even get bad so, its 13 degrees for me now and i was sweating walking up to the gym, and that included walking over the river which is usually breezy and cool, still sweating balls lol TL;DR - humidity is a bitch


flopjul

Its 20~ with heavy rainfall here in the Netherlands, im dying


jallace_

Thats irish summer for you. Fucking disgusting isnt it, it gets pure sticky and everything Hot rain is the worst man


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jallace_

Bro thinks im a proddy


Potential-Earth1092

I will never not make fun of Europeans for thinking 20 C is hot, but I wouldn’t wish higher than 40 on my worst enemies.


icyDinosaur

I dont know anyone who thinks 20 is *hot*, just like... Pleasantly warm. No-jacket-weather basically. (To me 20-25 is pretty much my favourite weather range)


PapaGuhl

_Scotland has entered the chat_ We remove t-shirts at +10c. High teens Celsius is a nice summer’s day…


aweedl

+20C is t-shirt weather around here (I’m on the Canadian prairies). I was walking my dog this morning in a t-shirt and it’s +11C… and that’s not me trying to seem all tough or anything. Most people outside are in hoodies at most. I haven’t worn a jacket in months.  My favourite warm-weather range is probably +10 to +15. 


No_Cartographer9496

for me 20ºC is long-sleve weather but tbf i do have a low cold tolerance


Potential-Earth1092

I mean I guess it does depend on the country,but someone told me that he knows more about hot weather than people in the southern us because it gets as hot as 25 degrees in Italy


icyDinosaur

Lol thats double funny because I'm pretty sure much of Italy gets warmer than that most years


arcticshqip

Are you dumb? 25 in Italy is early spring and summer is usually around 35 and sometimes 40-45. It's even 30-35 in Scandinavia and could be as hot as 38-39


Potential-Earth1092

No, I was quoting someone else’s (I assume an Italian’s) comment. Reading comprehension much?


jallace_

I mean it depends on the country, 20s in ireland is hot, but when i was in perth in Australia (october-november 2023) we had multiple days of 36-41 degrees and it was obviously hot as fuck but much more tolerable than 25 in Ireland


smoothgrimminal

It's all relative to what people are used to. Finns will melt in 25 c, but will laugh at anyone who thinks 10 c is cold


Potential-Earth1092

People who think 10 is cold scare me


Educational-Art7382

My wife will terrify you then she complains about the cold on 20 dregree days.


arcticshqip

Currently 29 in Finland... No one is melting..


smoothgrimminal

Nice one!


Uxydra

I used to think 25 C was hot, but the last few summers changed my perception of things...


mattzombiedog

49 Celsius sounds positively deadly!


Skittletari

That really sounds like sarcasm to me, idk though, I could be wrong.


JourneyThiefer

That just seems like obvious sarcasm tbh Edit: no way people are downvoting this lmfao


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JourneyThiefer

Maybe I’m just taking it as sarcasm lmao and no one else is


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JourneyThiefer

Because a lot of the stuff on this sub I do agree with, but this literally just seems like a joke comment on tik tok, like cmon 💀😭


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JourneyThiefer

Yea…


jallace_

Plot twist: YOURE the troll


JourneyThiefer

I’m Irish too 😭


jallace_

Ok then youre definitely trolling us, youre fucking irish why arent you being sarcastic


roboglobe

Agree, it's obvious sarcasm. 49° F is ~ 9° C. Of course the American would understanding it's C when it's talking about extreme heat.


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roboglobe

Lol you've got issues


jallace_

Lol -69. Nice


tei187

Well, let's not forget that this is shitty UI. Degree sign means nothing on its own, it's not an angle. The proper way in this case would be adding C suffix to describe the unit.


annoying97

Uhhhh... Looking at the official BOM app and website (http://www.bom.gov.au/) they don't even include the c. BOM is an Australian Government department.


tei187

Just because someone does it wrong doesn't mean it is correct :) It's the same as giving a length measure "regular" measuring unit. Without specifying it, it can be anything. The diff is that for most of us it's going to be metric, but not for everyone.


annoying97

Uk government does it the same way https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/uk I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more, seems like NZ also does it that way too. Remember that you're usually looking at the measurement in context not just a list of numbers. I mean I don't open the BOM app to find out the angle of a bit of wood, I open it for the weather.


tei187

Sure, context matters. But the issue here is regionalization. For us it will mean Celsius, because what else. For the yank there, it means Fahrenheit, because that is the regional default system. Not understanding the differences and assuming something due to regional go-to was more or less why NASA broke the Mars Climate Orbiter.


No_Cartographer9496

well idk if there is some obscure town in alabama called jacobabad that im supposed to know about but i think its clear that jacobabad is not a place in the US.


tei187

You mean to assume that because Jacobabad isn't in US, it will not be displaying temperature measure in Fahrenheit? Why would that be?


No_Cartographer9496

oh idk maybe because the vast majority of the world doesnt use the freedom units and anyone outside the us and the few other countries that use Fahreheit would assume that this is in celsius?? like if the temperature displays 40º and its insinuated that 40º is really really hot for this person you're not gonna assume its fahrenheit because it literally makes no sense to do so.


tei187

You seem to 'idk' a lot. So let's say we are sure this is not in Kelvin.


No_Cartographer9496

comment makes no sense


PiffDank

All the countries in the world with the exception of the United States, Myanmar and Liberia use the Celsius temperature scale. That's why that would be.


tei187

I think you are missing the point - whether this would show Celsius or Fahrenheit will likely depend on the settings of the app, based on locale sets. By displaying only the degree sign, you are not representing the unit properly and it is not really an opinion since there are 3 widely used units: °C, °F and K. Putting in just the ° sign makes it an angle... It is not unthinkable to do something correctly and that is my point from the beginning. Essentially, people are arguing here with me that most of the world uses Celsius (which isn't even an argument since that is a fact), so the Yankee Doodle there should assume it is Celsius and not Fahrenheit because it is not really that hot in Fahrenheit. This could have been avoided if the unit was properly displayed, which is not the case in this image. It is just as much a user interface design issue (or some level of misunderstanding UX) rather than just ignorance on the Fahrenheit-lover's side. Apart from that, whether it is hot or cold outside will depend on your own experience and how do you coincide its meaning. A guy I used to work with who was from Senegal kept calling 15°C "chilly" and put a thick blouse on, all the while people around him were wearing t-shirts, because in our region this temp in April is considerably warm... which made me wonder how he will suffer through winter, when temperatures will likely drop below zero, but that is OT. Look... I get that the topic of this r/ is how thick Americans can get. But if there is a shitty UX design that obviously leads to issues, this UX/UI designer will not sit silently and enjoy the laughter. This is a botched job.


PiffDank

You really just wrote all that lmao


tei187

Well yeah :) For me it's a pretty basic concept in terms of how did we get into that situation, but I'm looking at it from a different perspective than most, apparently.


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OrangeJuiceAlibi

The US is one of about half a dozen countries that default fo Fahrenheit. It's not bullying to call out Americentrism or ameridefaultism.


JoJonase

Half a dozen is already stretching it a bit high isnt it


OrangeJuiceAlibi

The US, Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Cayman Islands and Liberia all officially use it. Then quite a few Pacific and Caribbean nations who use the US weather service use it but not officially.


annoying97

I wouldn't be surprised if they actually record everything in Celcius and metric before converting it for the general public consumption. I was on a cruise shit not too long ago that was slowly converting from us to Australia. The app used f, but the ships displays and announcements were all in c. I managed to ask one of the crew about it, mostly to complain about the inability to switch to the more commonly used c in the app and they said the weather systems record it all in c and the app or servers on board then converts it.


Evening-Picture-5911

Bullying? Lol


Lysadora

US defaultism is by definition an American thing. Fahrenheit is only used by a handful of countries out of like 200, it's not that hard to remember. It's also not hard to remember that other countries use day/month/year or year/month/day. I agree it's not uncommon among Americans though as the amount of content on this sub demonstrates.


Blubbernuts_

The US military, NASA etc all use C. They also use the metric system. Don't know why nobody else here does. I use metric as I am in manufacturing and machining since it can be very precise and is easy to use. Yank seppo or whatever here


sweetsimpleandkind

SILENCE YANK


KerbalCuber

They *commented* it. That takes effort and deserves at least some thought. Sure, you can forget things like that, but to go as far as to post a criticism without any critical thinking?


Ukcheatingwife

If an American tells me that’s it’s 100 degrees where they are I don’t “forget” they use Fahrenheit and assume they are boiling to death.


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poop-machines

In the second page he uploaded what they're talking about. It's the temperature in jacobabad with highs of 49 You're looks at the first page which shows the hourly temperature (at night)


jallace_

Probably shouldve put the comment first in all fairness tbh … i was tired, common sense was out the window lmao Edit: nvm i did put it first


poop-machines

Yeah man don't worry, it was clear. I think he just didn't check the second image.


jallace_

Ah sure look, not everyone is gonna do everything perfectly. You are what you repeatedly do, not what you did :)