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Bangladesh suffers long power cuts amid worst heatwave in decades (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This kind of perfect-storm disaster may sadly become more common.

Climate is warming of course. It's stressing the power systems in different ways (eg wire expand with temperature and hang lower). When there's a power outage, there's no AC nor ventilation to mitigate the hot temperature. Also without refrigeration food rots quicker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Holy shit. The wet bulb temperature in some coastel parts of India reached over 34 degrees. This is live threatening. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/sotp-foundation/dataviz/heat-humidity-map/