Our wannabe masters over at the UN and their loyal followers in the press are continuing their hyperbolic push and outright falsehoods with the hot/dry/wet/cold (depending on the day) crisis.
Even I have to admit that at 143 degrees something is afoot. I surfed over to the article and sure enough the words seemed to indicate that the world was certainly ending. . . toppled by mans inhumane treatment of the skies.
A quick check online showed that 62C was indeed 143F. I almost moved on and then I glanced at the words in the article:
WTF? If the weather has gone to shit then why must the reporting be deceptive? If it was a real problem then a simple reporting of the facts would have more impact (albeit not a ‘sky falling in’ type impact) than an obvious falsehood.
With a press like this no wonder every attempt at implementing AI in the newsrooms has failed; the AI is trying it’s damnedest to mime the deceit it’s found, but it’s just not that adept at lying outright. . . yet.
I’m not a very sharp guy, but it seems to me that heat builds during the day. How was it possible for the high temp (42C ) and outlandish heat index (62.3C) to occur at 10 in the morning? The 143 F number (62.3 C) comes from a temp of 107 F and 52 percent humidity. You’ll get the same number (143F and 62.3C) at 100 degrees F and 70 percent humidity.
Given that Rio sits in the tropics (heat) and smack dab on the Atlantic coast (humidity) numbers like these shouldn’t be all that uncommon (although I guess they must be or we would have heard about it before). So then, if like the article points out that it was ‘recorded in western Rio’, what was it like in the rest of Rio, or is that classified?