Hey Sarah. We don't know each other (except that I'm a reader). Your apartment sounds like hell. I happened to have landed an apartment in the city center (75004) that has AC, plus it's an old stone building that itself is on the cooler side. Friends have come over at times to work during the day. I have a guest room (though only one bath) that won't be used til July 3, though also two cats so visitors can't be allergic (also can't be smokers). I'm in an intense work period (working from home) with lots of life logistics underway so not in a space to socialize a lot, but if you're stuck, reach out!
And let's get together next time you're here! I'm in berkeley July 7 through late August then back in Paris. Email is my full name, no periods or underscores, at gmail.
Thanks you Sarah for sharing what life has been like in Paris during the heat wave, and what citizens are doing to band together and help each other out. It feels like a precursor of what is to come, but your observations remind us of the humanity thats needed to also survive it all 🙏🏼
I'm in the centre-ouest, the part of France that was first affected, where the heat bowl began, and this is now the third week of +35 degree temperatures plus this entire week has been 40+. I have never experienced anything like this outside of Mali and Senegal, never in Australia. My garden is shrivelling before my eyes. I can't work, my studio is on the second floor where the accumulated heat of three weeks now makes it impossible to be for any length of time except early in the morning. My son is home from school. I had already started thinking about forming a group in my village to discuss rainwater collection techniques and materials. Everything in France happens via committees, so if you want change, you need to first organise a committee and have some meetings with stated objectives. But the way to push our elected representatives is like this. And also if I can make my garden bloom using rainwater, I have something to show my neighbours to convince them. I have already converted my mason and my neighbour who can both see how many birds are in my gardn, to putting out shallow bowsl of water for the birds and the insects. But the water thing is really serious. If ever there was a time to start thinking collectively and to try to drop our differences it's now.
You have to be in it to really comprehend the ripple effects. I have not been able to get work done. My brain isn't working properly. My phone keeps overheating- just walking down the street. So I can't use it to hire bikes. So I;v had to walk everywhere (without a map). Everything is affected. The committee system is tedious...but at times like this you can see how it actually works.
My friend went to Darty to get a fan, all sold out, and told to come back first thing in the morning. She returned next morning before the shop opened to find 50 others in a queue outside who'd been told to do the same thing. Reminded me of the covid toilet paper situation.
Asia has always lived and thrived in these hot temperatures. Scientists have urgently been raising alarms about the temperature rising for countries along the equator for decades now.But these were brown and black countries so it was always just a news bite.But now that that heat is turning up in Europe, the conversation about climate change and world getting hotter is again in the zeitgeist.
As an Indian, I can’t help but kinda rejoice in the “now you get it!” moment in all this. 40 degree summers have ALWAYS been our reality. The death toll from heat strokes in our capital, Delhi increases every year. And the income disparity here means the working class is always left to fend for themselves under the scorching sun.
Now that Europe’s in the hot seat(pun intended) maybe we can all collectively start demanding climate solutions for these inhumane temperatures around the globe.
I've been taking 1-2hr walks in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont every morning before the heat is too much. It's making the heatwave bearable
Our Paris flat has no aircon, so we close the shutters, draw the curtains, put the fan on and just sweated out the 4 worst days, in an uncomfortable 31° torpor, just relieved not to be in 41° outside.
I am simultaneously reading The Ministry for the Future, where a heatwave kills 20 million in a week. Perhaps not the best reading material given the circumstances, but the parallel feels visceral.
It is not just the physical discomfort, add the layer of psychological disquiet and this new normal is quite dystopic and unsettling...
Ah yes, at least there's no humidity - that wet bulb stuff hurt my sensitibilities. I saw your tea ceremony details...I will try to make it to one soon!
I've referred friends to The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson for his evocation of that heat bomb that killed so many people because the heat never let up and people couldn't cool off at night. (I also featured him and that book in a book festival I founded and led in Berkeley, CA - where also no one has AC - before moving to Paris in 2023!)
Being in Paris this past week has been a tiny taste of that heat bomb for the "developed world," which mostly has widespread air-conditioning available, in public spaces if not in private homes, in very hot areas. What we are experiencing in Paris is a bit of what the less developed world has been experiencing and will get worse. It's a horrible experience but honestly a good wake up call.
Too late, of course, to substantially change the climate trajectory but not too late to develop approaches collectively to managing the reality as much as we can.
Ministry of the Future - read it about 5 years ago and that first chapter never leaves you. It is seared into my brain. There are places in India where it's in the 50s. WTF?
I have been wondering how you and others are surviving. I am weeping while I read this: weeping for the planet, weeping for everyone suffering, and weeping that people are remembering to be tender with one another and that a kind of humanity that so often gets sideswept in our collective life is being shared. Here where I am we have had record rains that are unlike anything I have seen. There was lots of flooding in my city last week and we had to ration water use and not use washers and dishwashers, and not bathe, as the overland storm catchment ponds overflowed and sewers were backing up. Some people's gardens washed away. We've had a few days of respite but tomorrow we are supposed to get more rain and to expect flooding and rationing again.
Alberta, Canada. My husband was telling he he'd read an explanation of how this record rainfall is how our part of the world is experiencing this particular stage of the El Nino that will hit harder later this year.
Sarah, I recently completed your excellent book this week. It is a prescient labor of love meant for just this fraught moment in human history. I hope very much to give it a second reading. Your book deserves as wide an audience as possible.
How is the political landscape playing this out in France and Paris? Here in the UK where it’s been similar record breaking temps, the reform led councils are all tearing up their climate pledges and net zero plans etc and going to far as to say there is no climate emergency, it’s all a hoax… sometimes you hope that these events at least serve as a wake up call to bring people together in their policies to at least admit we need mitigation and to adapt etc even if net zero 2050 is a fallacy in many ways, but nope, it just brings more division and lunatic thinking…
… then you listen to the pop radio stations and many are still in a celebratory mood over the heat and saying how great it is, like holiday mode etc, nobody describing it as any kind of suffering, just all about how to enjoy it and isn’t it all so great etc. the UK obsession with sunshine and heat and being out in it as much as possible still makes me wonder when it’s going to change… its such a cultural thing. When I visiting OZ it was totally different over there.
A good question, Mark. The argument is happening over AC. The Far Right is using the moment to push for AC requirements etc. The Left (and a lot of French) see AC as a selfish choice. I was just listening to a news radio conversation (with my basic French ) - the hosts were discussing how inside your home it might be cool, but it makes it horrible for everyone outside - the noise and the added heat to the city. A very French mentality.
Yes, AC exacerbates the problem, but I feel it’s only going to go one way… because AC can be sold and feeds growth. And all of the trendy ‘new’ cities, like Dubai live like this.
Trees and natural shading do not generate growth and nobody can make money from them. I saw a thing about how the italians wet their front steps as it draws in cooler air etc and there are so many other clever techniques for cooling that don’t require tech but do not generate money in a market so will not be pushed upon us.
How do you feel about it in the immediate moment Sarah? Like when you’re in your apartment and its so so hot is there any sense of ‘I wish I could just turn some AC on for some immediate relief?’ Because heat does crazy things to our minds in the moment, it becomes survival doesn’t it.
In the UK there’s been these huge queues for people trying to buy standalone AC units and it naturally becomes individualised… unless it can be designed as you described, where you have neighbourhood ‘cool spaces’ that can be shared, similar to winter where you have communal warm spaces instead of everyone using individual heating.
I also wonder how many people end up sitting in their cars with the engine idling to run the AC from the car to keep cool too… adding to the emissions and so on…
I have vivid memories of holidaying in the Dordogne in 2003. We literally spent all day in the pool, at least that was an option for us. What scares me about this is I thought the French had made progress in heatwave preparation since that caught everyone out. Are vulnerable people traced, for example? It is so clear from a map that southern England and France are facing very similar challenges now and I wish dialogue with our European neighbours wasn't still so toxic.
My 3 cents on the political mood in France, from very international super woke frenchie : a lot of urban youth, poorer folk are showing signs of seeing through Macron/politician’s BS about how a lot of work was done for climate change adaptation.
When just past week the prime minister (a certain Lecornu muppet) acted to once again slash climate action funds.
I hope people remember that by next May when electing the next president
I glanced at the newspapers in the supermarket today, should have taken a photo of the headlines making light/fun of the heat 'too cool for school' was one. Pictures of kids splashing about. Fuck.
You have been talking and writing about this for so long. You told us so and now here it is.
I fly in to Paris to tomorrow for two nights. Feel like I’m heading towards a Cauldron. Thank you for all you share Sarah and please stay as Cool as you can (and are) 🩵.
Arrived in Paris, from Marrakech this afternoon to our 5th floor 5 arrondissement Airbnb. After a cool shower spent the last few hours wetting my towel and dozing. 37 degrees was no breeze for me but we all know you are a tougher cookie than most.
Sitting in bed now with ice cream for dinner watching the lightening show that I’m hoping will bring rain and a cooler day for all tomorrow. I feel grateful 🥹
Thanks, this is such a vivid account (and the photographs help). Up here in Manchester we've escaped the worst but the nights have still been brutal. London is in a similar state to Paris. I was reading this morning that people with newborns are checking into hotels to keep them safe. And I thought, what happens to the ones whose parents can't do that? It haunts me.
I just read about people in hotter climates packing it up by 11am and staying in dark homes with their feet in a basin full of water. It's been hot here in Italy but I think it's more manageable because our houses are built to keep heat out. My house is cool if I close it then it heats up from 4 to 7pm and then cools down again. It's been a out 36-38° unfortunately my dogs are suffering and I can't help but think of all the animals. I've been leaving basins of water with broken ceramics for insects and birds
For those who will be in Paris on July 4, I can share a wonderful idea for a FREE, COOL, and stimulating afternoon and evening, 1pm to midnight, with like-minded friends. There's a new literary péniche, called Nanna, parked on the Seine at the foot of Notre Dame, holding a big, open Fourth of July party that has air conditioning! As a labor of love for Nanna I've programmed a mini-literary festival on the book-lined bottom deck: a panel at 3pm on "American women writing the world" with four extraordinary authors (none of us Trump fans, to say the least), followed by a poetry reading, followed by another panel at 5pm with four rock star journalists on "250 Years of Writing in America: What's Next?", followed by an Open Mic at night... along with American-style nibbles, cocktails, and music. It's all free except for food and drinks you buy.
The party is open to everyone and will be filled with authors, journalists, lots of activists, and creatives of all sorts... including maybe you! No RSVP needed, just come, and if you do, find me to say hello -- I'll be in a red dress introducing the events. As for celebrating America's 250th anniversary that day, I for one will be celebrating not being in Trump-land on the big day!
I am in Ireland at the moment. Four of us travelling from Australia to visit my partner’s family.
This is my young adult children’s first international experience and one of them is heading to Paris later this month.
There are so many things I’m sad, furious & worried about in this collapsing mess… I know we are privileged to have flown here (burning fossil fuels) to be together as a family having this holiday, but at this moment, watching the news of record breaking heat, I’m distressed that my kids don’t get to have the mindset I had when I first set off travelling in my early twenties.
Aggh, and then I know that mindset is what got us here - at the expense of so much 🤯😩
Hey Sarah. We don't know each other (except that I'm a reader). Your apartment sounds like hell. I happened to have landed an apartment in the city center (75004) that has AC, plus it's an old stone building that itself is on the cooler side. Friends have come over at times to work during the day. I have a guest room (though only one bath) that won't be used til July 3, though also two cats so visitors can't be allergic (also can't be smokers). I'm in an intense work period (working from home) with lots of life logistics underway so not in a space to socialize a lot, but if you're stuck, reach out!
Oh, bless you. If i'm stuck I'll certainly sing out. I have a few options to carry me through until I leave July 10.
And let's get together next time you're here! I'm in berkeley July 7 through late August then back in Paris. Email is my full name, no periods or underscores, at gmail.
reach out when you're back late August. I'm away roughly the same period. I used to live in the Bay Area - I went to UCSC.
Thanks you Sarah for sharing what life has been like in Paris during the heat wave, and what citizens are doing to band together and help each other out. It feels like a precursor of what is to come, but your observations remind us of the humanity thats needed to also survive it all 🙏🏼
I am really heartened by how calm Paris has stayed.
Excellent point ! We you know my country people’s disposition for rambunctiousness, it’s amazing !
But it’s not in the sense that when everyone is suffering the same way, it’s a strong unifier.
Except if you’re Yann Barthes and his blatant classist contempt…
I'm in the centre-ouest, the part of France that was first affected, where the heat bowl began, and this is now the third week of +35 degree temperatures plus this entire week has been 40+. I have never experienced anything like this outside of Mali and Senegal, never in Australia. My garden is shrivelling before my eyes. I can't work, my studio is on the second floor where the accumulated heat of three weeks now makes it impossible to be for any length of time except early in the morning. My son is home from school. I had already started thinking about forming a group in my village to discuss rainwater collection techniques and materials. Everything in France happens via committees, so if you want change, you need to first organise a committee and have some meetings with stated objectives. But the way to push our elected representatives is like this. And also if I can make my garden bloom using rainwater, I have something to show my neighbours to convince them. I have already converted my mason and my neighbour who can both see how many birds are in my gardn, to putting out shallow bowsl of water for the birds and the insects. But the water thing is really serious. If ever there was a time to start thinking collectively and to try to drop our differences it's now.
You have to be in it to really comprehend the ripple effects. I have not been able to get work done. My brain isn't working properly. My phone keeps overheating- just walking down the street. So I can't use it to hire bikes. So I;v had to walk everywhere (without a map). Everything is affected. The committee system is tedious...but at times like this you can see how it actually works.
My friend went to Darty to get a fan, all sold out, and told to come back first thing in the morning. She returned next morning before the shop opened to find 50 others in a queue outside who'd been told to do the same thing. Reminded me of the covid toilet paper situation.
Hope you got a fan in the end..
I was glad when my centre rural France neighbors conceded to cancel the fête des voisins and it’s stupid bonfire…
SUGGEST
== solar panels on any available exterior surface to power your own personal fan
== convincing everyone else to do the same
== promoting training in first aid specific to heat-related illnesses
== tracking tricks-tweaks-fixes from other more miserable cities... New York City, Phoenix, Los Angeles, etc
starting here https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02663
== bitter joke? "Phoenix in 2026 is NYC in 2046"
== a new bitter joke? "NYC in 2026 is Paris in 2046"
Asia has always lived and thrived in these hot temperatures. Scientists have urgently been raising alarms about the temperature rising for countries along the equator for decades now.But these were brown and black countries so it was always just a news bite.But now that that heat is turning up in Europe, the conversation about climate change and world getting hotter is again in the zeitgeist.
As an Indian, I can’t help but kinda rejoice in the “now you get it!” moment in all this. 40 degree summers have ALWAYS been our reality. The death toll from heat strokes in our capital, Delhi increases every year. And the income disparity here means the working class is always left to fend for themselves under the scorching sun.
Now that Europe’s in the hot seat(pun intended) maybe we can all collectively start demanding climate solutions for these inhumane temperatures around the globe.
after the ugly shit that ICE inflicted upon white, Christian Americans recently, one of those snarky things I started posting:
"mazel tov you are now Jews like me"
it was shocking for them to grasp how quickly a shitstorm can form up
you get to do the same, eh?
I've been taking 1-2hr walks in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont every morning before the heat is too much. It's making the heatwave bearable
Our Paris flat has no aircon, so we close the shutters, draw the curtains, put the fan on and just sweated out the 4 worst days, in an uncomfortable 31° torpor, just relieved not to be in 41° outside.
I am simultaneously reading The Ministry for the Future, where a heatwave kills 20 million in a week. Perhaps not the best reading material given the circumstances, but the parallel feels visceral.
It is not just the physical discomfort, add the layer of psychological disquiet and this new normal is quite dystopic and unsettling...
Ah yes, at least there's no humidity - that wet bulb stuff hurt my sensitibilities. I saw your tea ceremony details...I will try to make it to one soon!
I've referred friends to The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson for his evocation of that heat bomb that killed so many people because the heat never let up and people couldn't cool off at night. (I also featured him and that book in a book festival I founded and led in Berkeley, CA - where also no one has AC - before moving to Paris in 2023!)
Being in Paris this past week has been a tiny taste of that heat bomb for the "developed world," which mostly has widespread air-conditioning available, in public spaces if not in private homes, in very hot areas. What we are experiencing in Paris is a bit of what the less developed world has been experiencing and will get worse. It's a horrible experience but honestly a good wake up call.
Too late, of course, to substantially change the climate trajectory but not too late to develop approaches collectively to managing the reality as much as we can.
Ministry of the Future - read it about 5 years ago and that first chapter never leaves you. It is seared into my brain. There are places in India where it's in the 50s. WTF?
Great book, though! :)
I have been wondering how you and others are surviving. I am weeping while I read this: weeping for the planet, weeping for everyone suffering, and weeping that people are remembering to be tender with one another and that a kind of humanity that so often gets sideswept in our collective life is being shared. Here where I am we have had record rains that are unlike anything I have seen. There was lots of flooding in my city last week and we had to ration water use and not use washers and dishwashers, and not bathe, as the overland storm catchment ponds overflowed and sewers were backing up. Some people's gardens washed away. We've had a few days of respite but tomorrow we are supposed to get more rain and to expect flooding and rationing again.
Thanks for thinking of the people here. The calm and tolerance is actually a marvel.
you gotta be specific
what city? which storm? how deep the flooding?
been a lot of flooding and shitstorms
not all being mentioned on CBS-NBC-CNN here in USA
Where are you located?
Alberta, Canada. My husband was telling he he'd read an explanation of how this record rainfall is how our part of the world is experiencing this particular stage of the El Nino that will hit harder later this year.
Sarah, I recently completed your excellent book this week. It is a prescient labor of love meant for just this fraught moment in human history. I hope very much to give it a second reading. Your book deserves as wide an audience as possible.
Thank you!
How is the political landscape playing this out in France and Paris? Here in the UK where it’s been similar record breaking temps, the reform led councils are all tearing up their climate pledges and net zero plans etc and going to far as to say there is no climate emergency, it’s all a hoax… sometimes you hope that these events at least serve as a wake up call to bring people together in their policies to at least admit we need mitigation and to adapt etc even if net zero 2050 is a fallacy in many ways, but nope, it just brings more division and lunatic thinking…
… then you listen to the pop radio stations and many are still in a celebratory mood over the heat and saying how great it is, like holiday mode etc, nobody describing it as any kind of suffering, just all about how to enjoy it and isn’t it all so great etc. the UK obsession with sunshine and heat and being out in it as much as possible still makes me wonder when it’s going to change… its such a cultural thing. When I visiting OZ it was totally different over there.
A good question, Mark. The argument is happening over AC. The Far Right is using the moment to push for AC requirements etc. The Left (and a lot of French) see AC as a selfish choice. I was just listening to a news radio conversation (with my basic French ) - the hosts were discussing how inside your home it might be cool, but it makes it horrible for everyone outside - the noise and the added heat to the city. A very French mentality.
Yes, AC exacerbates the problem, but I feel it’s only going to go one way… because AC can be sold and feeds growth. And all of the trendy ‘new’ cities, like Dubai live like this.
Trees and natural shading do not generate growth and nobody can make money from them. I saw a thing about how the italians wet their front steps as it draws in cooler air etc and there are so many other clever techniques for cooling that don’t require tech but do not generate money in a market so will not be pushed upon us.
How do you feel about it in the immediate moment Sarah? Like when you’re in your apartment and its so so hot is there any sense of ‘I wish I could just turn some AC on for some immediate relief?’ Because heat does crazy things to our minds in the moment, it becomes survival doesn’t it.
In the UK there’s been these huge queues for people trying to buy standalone AC units and it naturally becomes individualised… unless it can be designed as you described, where you have neighbourhood ‘cool spaces’ that can be shared, similar to winter where you have communal warm spaces instead of everyone using individual heating.
I also wonder how many people end up sitting in their cars with the engine idling to run the AC from the car to keep cool too… adding to the emissions and so on…
Have you seen the footage of outdoor cafes in Dubai where each table has its own AC unit blasting onto it?
I have vivid memories of holidaying in the Dordogne in 2003. We literally spent all day in the pool, at least that was an option for us. What scares me about this is I thought the French had made progress in heatwave preparation since that caught everyone out. Are vulnerable people traced, for example? It is so clear from a map that southern England and France are facing very similar challenges now and I wish dialogue with our European neighbours wasn't still so toxic.
100% opposite of American individualism and one reason I love France.
Me too
My 3 cents on the political mood in France, from very international super woke frenchie : a lot of urban youth, poorer folk are showing signs of seeing through Macron/politician’s BS about how a lot of work was done for climate change adaptation.
When just past week the prime minister (a certain Lecornu muppet) acted to once again slash climate action funds.
I hope people remember that by next May when electing the next president
Hang tight everyone, it’s gonna sting
Yes, I remember the heat wave from a few years ago where morning TV was celebrating being able to sunbake in London.
It’s nuts. I’ll never understand it.
I glanced at the newspapers in the supermarket today, should have taken a photo of the headlines making light/fun of the heat 'too cool for school' was one. Pictures of kids splashing about. Fuck.
You have been talking and writing about this for so long. You told us so and now here it is.
I fly in to Paris to tomorrow for two nights. Feel like I’m heading towards a Cauldron. Thank you for all you share Sarah and please stay as Cool as you can (and are) 🩵.
Today it is significantly cooler - a breeze! You should be fine. Just join us in the human soup. It's an interesting experience.
Arrived in Paris, from Marrakech this afternoon to our 5th floor 5 arrondissement Airbnb. After a cool shower spent the last few hours wetting my towel and dozing. 37 degrees was no breeze for me but we all know you are a tougher cookie than most.
Sitting in bed now with ice cream for dinner watching the lightening show that I’m hoping will bring rain and a cooler day for all tomorrow. I feel grateful 🥹
Thanks, this is such a vivid account (and the photographs help). Up here in Manchester we've escaped the worst but the nights have still been brutal. London is in a similar state to Paris. I was reading this morning that people with newborns are checking into hotels to keep them safe. And I thought, what happens to the ones whose parents can't do that? It haunts me.
Am down south in UK - visiting from Oz - and it’s been record temps for Jun in UK but not as severe as Paris.
Also had record heat in UK in May.
It’s a new normal and like Paris, not a lot of aircon.
I have been introducing people here to cooling blankets. Something I bought when I moved into my motorhome in Oz to help with summer heat.
I ordered one as soon as I arrived in the UK as I am in a loft bedroom with no aircon.
And then ordered for my parents, sister and niece.
They really work at removing heat off the body.
Unfortunately the only place I know to get them is Amazon but I considered it an emergency.
A cooling blanket!! I'll need to look into this
I just read about people in hotter climates packing it up by 11am and staying in dark homes with their feet in a basin full of water. It's been hot here in Italy but I think it's more manageable because our houses are built to keep heat out. My house is cool if I close it then it heats up from 4 to 7pm and then cools down again. It's been a out 36-38° unfortunately my dogs are suffering and I can't help but think of all the animals. I've been leaving basins of water with broken ceramics for insects and birds
For those who will be in Paris on July 4, I can share a wonderful idea for a FREE, COOL, and stimulating afternoon and evening, 1pm to midnight, with like-minded friends. There's a new literary péniche, called Nanna, parked on the Seine at the foot of Notre Dame, holding a big, open Fourth of July party that has air conditioning! As a labor of love for Nanna I've programmed a mini-literary festival on the book-lined bottom deck: a panel at 3pm on "American women writing the world" with four extraordinary authors (none of us Trump fans, to say the least), followed by a poetry reading, followed by another panel at 5pm with four rock star journalists on "250 Years of Writing in America: What's Next?", followed by an Open Mic at night... along with American-style nibbles, cocktails, and music. It's all free except for food and drinks you buy.
The party is open to everyone and will be filled with authors, journalists, lots of activists, and creatives of all sorts... including maybe you! No RSVP needed, just come, and if you do, find me to say hello -- I'll be in a red dress introducing the events. As for celebrating America's 250th anniversary that day, I for one will be celebrating not being in Trump-land on the big day!
More info if you're interested: https://nanna-paris.fr/event/july-4-celebration-celebration-du-4-juillet/
I am in Ireland at the moment. Four of us travelling from Australia to visit my partner’s family.
This is my young adult children’s first international experience and one of them is heading to Paris later this month.
There are so many things I’m sad, furious & worried about in this collapsing mess… I know we are privileged to have flown here (burning fossil fuels) to be together as a family having this holiday, but at this moment, watching the news of record breaking heat, I’m distressed that my kids don’t get to have the mindset I had when I first set off travelling in my early twenties.
Aggh, and then I know that mindset is what got us here - at the expense of so much 🤯😩
The powers that shouldn't be are terraforming the earth
The "chem trails", the DEW aircraft starting fires, and HAARP, and whatever else....is NOT natural. All human caused.
I went to a HAARP website years ago
They said they were pretty much able to put weather wherever they wanted.
They said their tech can push the atmosphere away from the earth.
Don't fall for the government lies that this is all natural.
It isn't.
It's more like genocide.
Lol no
Living in Australian Perth, I thought I knew what being hot was but what you describing there Sarah, sounds like hell.