The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone
☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.
Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.
It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.
The extreme day lengths are a really big issue, in the UK rn we don't have astronomical night, that doesn't mean we have daylight all day obviously, but I believe today we have more than 17 hours of sunlight. Direct sunlight, so with the stages of night (civil twilight, nautical twilight, astronomical twilight and then night) there is no point it reaches "night". This is the times for my local town. It never stays dark long enough for the temperature to really drop.
So this weather is rough in Europe and I hope everyone is coping as best they can.
