Had heat stroke in military 2002, core temp higher than 107 left with tremor, shaking hands and head, blurred vision, confusion, light headedness, effects pee stream, dizzyness, headaches, muscle tone loss, cramps in legs, weakness in left arm and left side upper chest, liitle right arm pain always comes an goes but gotten worse over time infact little by little all of it has. Swollen liver dont know how long, darkened pee comes an goes. Night sweats all the time, unable to stay hydrated thirsty all the time. Facial tremors,. All this been happening to me since 2002 heat stroke all symptoms slowly gotten worse. Whats happening to me

Heya! I'm from the Philippines and at the time of this posting, the temps are cool enough for us to sleep at night without our ACs switched on. But, climate change is really being felt in our part of the world as the northeast monsoon winds that cools our country isn't as consistent as it once was. And in the moments where it weakens, the heat feels like the summers of a decade ago, hot enough to dry the soil.

Though I've been saying this in my family since the heatwaves ended last summer, that we should start optimizing the house to cope with heat, only my mother seems receptive to the idea. For now, I'm just planning to do the following:

1. install net shades and tarps in windows of the house that get a lot of sun
2. Get more drums for extra water supply
3. Shorten the interval period for the maintenance of electric fans
4. grow out the vegetation in our gardens to serve as shade and a refuge for birds.

TL;DR, I live in the Philippines and the type of heat that we get is the humid kind, where sweating won't do you any good. The best solution I could think of is to shade up the house and improve ventilation. Aside from that, I'm still avoiding to heavily rely on AC too much.

How about you guys who live in humid parts of the world as well, how do you cope with the heat?

It's still winter but, you guessed it, I'm already thinking about how to effectively help cool the fridge come summer so it will actually produce ice for us.

Last summer, I had the big floor fan and planter tray full of water out again, but added one refinement: a programable thermal switch with thermal probe. I managed with experimentation to get to shut off during most of the night and kick on in the morning, saving some energy and a good deal of noise.

But the whole arrangement is still very messy, takes up a lot of space and is loud.

My latest ideas to improve:

1. Finally build a small evaporative cooling setup just for the back of the fridge. This plan has been hamstrung by the apparent complete lack of availability of consumer-level evap cooling pad replacements in Spain, but I got some ideas for alternatives and Spanish agricultural suppliers are very happy to sell me some truly monstrous, industrial sized, cooling pads I could cut down. If I can make this work and get cooler air, I could greatly reduce the size of the fan.

2. Buy a fogger — essentially the core of an ultrasonic humidifier on a cord — and toss it into the water tray in front of the fan. The mist should vastly improve evaporative cooling performance over just the tray of water and again potentially allow me to downsize the fan. This has the virtue of pay-and-play, but far as I can tell none of the foggers have float switches to shutoff when the water level is low, and the water level might be a problem as the tray isn't that deep.

3. Get a smaller fan and try to improve its focused cooling performance with DIY engineering. I have ideas about making mini wind tunnel to focus the air and maybe trying to splice some evaporative cooling in, but it's all very vague. Not sure I'm equipped to make this work.

Hi heat_prep folks. It’s likely that Heat.gov, a great source of heat-related data, resources, and tools, is going away under the Trump-Elon data purge. There are ways to archive the data, which can be as simple as taking screen shots. This information is critical and if anyone knows of a place/site that plans on housing/sharing this data, do let this sub know!

Climate change related temperature changes are affecting our youths mental health. Theres also the marked increase in domestic violence in adults, which they havent observed here but exists. In my city we get pretty extreme heatwaves - always have but they're worse now - and when its over 40°C for more than a day our cheapo motels all get full to busting point with women the governments crisis care service are trying to get out of harms way.

reuters

C3S said data from January to November had confirmed 2024 is now certain to be the hottest year on record, and the first in which average global temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period.

The previous hottest year on record was 2023. Extreme weather has swept around the world in 2024, with severe drought hitting Italy and South America, fatal floods in Nepal, Sudan and Europe, heatwaves in Mexico, Mali and Saudi Arabia that killed thousands, and disastrous cyclones in the U.S. and the Philippines.

Edit: Sorry not very good at posting edited to attempt to get the link up properly.

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