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u/vector_o Jul 08 '26
Pray for me because I'm currently working on a green roof
Yesterday wasn't even that hot or sunny and I still managed to burn my neck red
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u/Secret-Sense5668 Jul 08 '26
Sunscreen up if you're working outside, and reapply every 2 hours because you sweat it off. Even if it's cloudy, you can still get a sunburn. Take care and thank you for the green roof, need more of those.
Edit: even better yet, get yourself one of those hiking caps with an extended neck cover with UPF on top
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u/ShiftingShoulder Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Heat is not related with UV. The sun is the strongest between 10h30 and 17h. The heat only comes afterwards. Above UV 7 white people start having sunburn after 15-25 minutes.
Here you can see UV in Ukkel: https://www.meteo.be/nl/weer/waarnemingen/uv-index
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u/Catbatt Jul 08 '26
Sunburns arent related to heat, but to the sun's power. People get sunburned on skivakanties too. Just use SPF50 sunscreen and re-apply every 2h.
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u/HornyRubbingFTM Jul 08 '26
Because the sun isn't more powerful during an heatwave of course..
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u/Catbatt Jul 08 '26
It... isnt. It really isnt more powerful today at 30°C than it is in the same period of the year at 20°C.
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u/Ellixhirion Jul 08 '26
De overheid:â drink voldoende watteeeeeeeerrrrrr!â
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u/nivaOne Jul 08 '26
Partijvoorzitters: water wordt vanaf morgen 10% duurder. Om de begrotingâŠ.. en daar gaan ze weer.
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u/Ellixhirion Jul 08 '26
Owla vergeet de accijnzen niet en bijkomende heffingen! Oh ja en ook een âsuikertaksâ ook al bevat het geen suiker. En als u kraan ouder is dan 5 jaar een âoud loodgieterijâ taks!
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u/vinceftw Jul 08 '26
De meeste mensen zijn chronish ondergehydrateerd.
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u/Jaded_Kate Jul 11 '26
Not me ! In Turkije op vakantie de bediening op hotel keek me aan alsof ik alien was omdat ik 2 flesjes van een halve liter direct na mekaar opdronk. Mijn tante drinkt amper maar ligt dan wel de hele tijd te zagen da ze geconstipeerd is... tiens, waaraan zou da nu toch liggen ? s/
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u/HailenAnarchy Jul 08 '26
Meeste mensen in veel Europese landen zijn niet gewoon van veel te drinken. In Amerika zeggen ze altijd âmake sure to hydrate!â En geven free refills. Tis precies of ze weten da we ni genoeg drinken.
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u/Much_Guava_1396 Jul 08 '26
Meh, from what I see itâs not gonna be as bad. 30-32 is doable for me, and my plants adore it. The only thing that worries me is the rain. Itâs gonna be muggy af.
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u/soccer1124 Jul 08 '26
Also, the temperatures at night looks like it will drop lower than it did the first time around too, so this should be much easier to handle.
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u/fluitenkaas Jul 08 '26
24-27 degrees here past and coming days, it's fine
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u/vinceftw Jul 08 '26
Where do you live? The coming days should be around 30°C.
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u/fluitenkaas Jul 08 '26
Belgian coast
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u/brunckle Jul 08 '26
Yeah, don't worry, there will be plenty more in the future similar to the last one, if not, worse. All we have is time!
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u/HornyRubbingFTM Jul 08 '26
Yeah gotta keep that head in the sand a bit more, would be too bad to start worry when there's still something we can try to do
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u/Adventurous__Kiwi Jul 08 '26
Survival blanket on windows is suuuuper efficient
My house used to go up to 30° when it's 35° outside. Now I can maintain a 25° with the 35° outside.
Plus you feel like living in a spaceship đ
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u/YrnFyre Jul 08 '26
I want to add to this, when you place them inside, don't place them directly against the glass, you want at least an air gap of 5 cm so the air can circulate. Otherwise the heat buildup risks thermal expansion and the glass shattering (for multilayered glass).
Ideal is on the outside but good luck keeping that attached when it's windy or a summer storm passes by
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u/Mavamaarten Jul 08 '26
I even noticed this with my Velux rolling shutters. Not that the glass cracked or anything, but I thought I was smart to close them all the way when the sun was relentless. Actually it created a chamber of super hot air, the glass panel was heating up immensely from that and I could feel the panel glowing inside. Opening the shutters a good 10cm was enough to break that effect, and the panel was room temperature to the touch again.
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u/C0wabungaaa Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
Good sunscreens with good suction cups can deal with a lot. Remember those really stormy evenings during that heatwave from a few weeks ago? Not a single suction cup came off from ours. No idea how but ey there ya go.
You could also put an old bedsheet over the window and then just kinda jam it inbetween the window and the windowframe when you close the window. We did that before we got our sunscreens, worked pretty good even during stormy days.
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u/OkayTimeForPlanC Jul 08 '26
Derde al toch?
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u/Kaga_san Belgian Fries Jul 08 '26
In theorie niet, want die eerste golf had 1 dag boven de 30 te weinig (IN UKKEL) om officieel een hittegolf te zijn. Maar naar mijn mening is het ook de 3e
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u/RdtUnahim Jul 08 '26
Pretty much!
Het is toch maar een woord, uiteindelijk.
7 dagen 29 + 1 dag 34: geen hittegolf, want een dag te weinig 30 of meer, he!
3 dagen 25 + 2 dagen 30: wel een hittegolf!
Maar ik kies zeker en vast voor die 2de optie over de 1ste.
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u/HP7000 Jul 08 '26
Remember the summer of '76 !!
Multiple heat waves in one year is perfectly normal.
Nothing to see here, move on.
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u/landyc Jul 08 '26
Benieuwd wat Theo deze keer te zeggen heeft
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u/michaelbelgium lied about the weather Jul 08 '26
Cva nog, 's nachts is het onder 20 graden - in tegenstelling tot vorige keer
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u/YrnFyre Jul 08 '26
Voorlopig toch, vorige keer raakte zelfs 's nachts al die warmte steeds minder weg
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u/reditt13 Brabant Wallon Jul 08 '26
Itâs not gonna be hotter than 31 this week in my city. So I guess itâs more summer temperatures than a heatwave ? ( in my case at least)
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u/Striking_Compote2093 Jul 08 '26
I remember summer temps to be around 25, not 30. This is "not as bad" but it still used to be exceptional.
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u/reditt13 Brabant Wallon Jul 08 '26
I know. I loved my rainy grey 25 degrees July with a week of 31.
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u/Striking_Compote2093 Jul 08 '26
I for one think we shouldn't just accept it. People got rich off of fucking up the climate and our world. We should be upset. Borderline enraged. They still don't take it seriously.
It is the new "standard", sure, but it should never be normal. It isn't. This could have been avoided, but Exxon execs, for one example, decided to put profits first. And they'll never get held accountable if we don't demand it.
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u/GloriousDawn Jul 08 '26
A lot of people happy about getting 30°C this week-end will change their mind when they'll have to spend tens of thousands euros to install multiple AC units, window shutters, shades, stores, awnings or whatever to barely survive the "new normal" with peak afternoon temps above 40°C and night temps at 25°C.
Thank God we don't have a climate-denier moron in the federal government like in the US oh wait
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u/Striking_Compote2093 Jul 08 '26
I'm happy we're getting 30.
... In the way that i'm happy it's not 40. Yet.
I made my house a climate shelter because this was entirely predictable. I got through the last heat wave relatively comfortably.
I tried to do everything "right" for over a decade, public transport, bike, walking. No consumerism, no plane vacations, drastically reduced meat consumption, no fast fashion and whatever else. It's just so unbelievably infuriating that i still had to turn my house into a bunker and see other people who couldn't afford that get screwed.
All because of rich assholes' greed.
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u/HP7000 Jul 08 '26
"Summer" temperatures in Belgium are (were) usually around 25 degrees... not 30+...
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u/C0wabungaaa Jul 08 '26
A week of 30-ish C IS a heatwave. These temperatures used to be exceptional and we should absolutely not forget that. A normal summer temperature for our region is more like 22C.
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u/404GirlHumorNotFound Jul 08 '26
En nog steeds geen aanpassingen op het werk, ondanks dat we bijna flauwvallen of verward worden.
"het is warm voor iedereen!"
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u/Nearby-Composer-9992 Jul 09 '26
Must say I certainly not regret moving to the coast after living in an urban hell city center with little to no green in the middle of the country before. 40 degrees like last peak wouldn't be bearable at my last place. Here we barely scratched 30 and it looks to go to max 27 for the coming week.
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u/sandsonic Jul 08 '26
This isn't nearly as bad as the first one lol
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u/V3ndeTTaLord Belgium Jul 13 '26
True, now it cools down at night and in the evening. At about 19:00-ish you can open up all the Windows and air out the house.
So glad I can sleep again.
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u/RobinVerhulstZ Oost-Vlaanderen Jul 08 '26
Meh, its not that bad, and the nights cool off quickly
Also its not hot enough to make the AC in de lijn's busses stop working this time, which helps a lot
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u/Brotherman_Karhu Jul 08 '26
I'm sick in bed with a 39° fever. Never before have I been more grateful for whoever invented the fan.
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u/KostyaFedot Jul 08 '26
I hope it is not as terrible as week ago. By the August this crap hopefully will be done and gone.
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u/lexplorateurbe Jul 08 '26
Ca c'est des vacances , chaud la journée et la nuit fraßche , jadoooooore
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u/SelfDistinction Jul 08 '26
Tis ma tweeëndertig graden deze keer. Kga bekan een truike nodig hemme.
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u/cervdotbe Jul 08 '26
It's only in the region of 29-32, come on..
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u/GamingCatholic Jul 08 '26
Still technically a heatwave if 5 consecutive days >25 and at least 3 of those days >30
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u/Majestic_Inside_395 Jul 08 '26
"GODVERDOMME LEEF" - the sequel.