To me personally heat is no problem – be it +40°C or whatever, I feel okay – just view it as an excuse to buy yet another top – the kind that leaves as much of one’s body uncovered as possible – or a hat. But that’s just me – the rest of my extended family and most of my colleagues go very grumpy about it. Mum cools herself using wet handkerchiefs; Janna refuses to go for a walk, and who could blame her? The forecast for the next week is over 40 every day, and nobody promises that it will ease up after that.
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You think so? Well, here’s the proof that it’s not quite so – the screenshot of our current weather forecast. I know it’s all in Russian, but I’ve circled the important numbers – the day-time temperatures for today, tomorrow and Monday. I’ll even spare you the trouble of converting Celsius to Fahrenheit. +33°C is equal to 91.4F, and +37°C is 98.6F. And it’s been like this most of this summer, starting as early as mid-May. Even the strictest global warming non-believers will have their beliefs shaken, perhaps, after such a summer.
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We all know when the news programmes on TV and the articles on news websites become the most interesting and grab our attention: it’s when something terrible, if not catastrophic, is happening. We also know when they become dull and uninteresting: it’s when nothing extremely bad is happening, and relative stability sets in.
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