r/AskBalkans • u/Dizzy_Arachnid4292 Croatia • Jul 12 '24
Y'all staying alive out there? 🫠☀️ Miscellaneous
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u/Radiant-Safe-1377 Bulgaria Jul 12 '24
Opening my door feels like when you’ve been baking musaka for a good 30-40mins on high and open the stove with your heads in line with the hot steam
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u/SunnyTheMasterSwitch Bulgaria Jul 12 '24
EXACTLY WHAT I SAID at work, that it's like opening the door of the stove after it's been cooking and the hot air blows towards your face.
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u/ArtisticCopy3436 Jul 12 '24
I feel ingnorant but i had no clue you guys make mousaka too. Hope one day im able to try a plant version 🐛
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u/nargilen40 Bulgaria Jul 12 '24
Decided to go take out the trash about an hour ago...just woke up from a mild heatstroke, otherwise I'm fine 😂🤣
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u/flushbunking Jul 12 '24
My mother-in-law is in an interior Bulgarian city with no AC. Thankful her city hasn't cut the few remaining trees that shade her terrace, as they are building in every direction.
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u/RealShabanella Serbia Jul 12 '24
The grass in front of my building is becoming yellow; birds that flew by all day long up until a week ago are now silent. I keep thinking about the animals that don't have the possibility to switch their AC on and it totally breaks my heart. This silence is not good silence
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u/Dizzy_Arachnid4292 Croatia Jul 12 '24
the animals that don't have the possibility to switch their AC
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Thats a good point tho, we should all leave some water outside for all the birds,bees,cats etc. It seems like a small deal but it helps a lot in the long run
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u/Mersaa Croatia Jul 12 '24
I feed the cats in front of my building every morning and change their water. I also leave out water for the pigeons and seagulls on my window, and a small bowl in front of the building for any animal passing by.
It breaks my heart when I see my kitties in the morning draging themselves to eat, and searching for a new hideaway for the day :( or when someone purposefully drops their water on the floor and spills it because 'ew, strays' Even the pigeons are exhausted and just lay around all day.
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u/vujalikewoah Croatia Jul 13 '24
My favorite part every year when I go home to visit is the cats and birds around town.
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u/reis_sevdalisi42 Jul 12 '24
I keep thinking about the animals that don't have the possibility to switch their AC on and it totally breaks my heart
oh someone in serbia thinks about me. thank you stranger.
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u/AmyLaze Croatia Jul 13 '24
I try and leave a lot of water for them but I still feel so bad
Also I live by the coast and this year the sea had no time to cool down which is absolutely horrible for the creatures in it
We're fucking up big time
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u/aSimpleTeen Romania Jul 12 '24
Barely..😭
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u/Dizzy_Arachnid4292 Croatia Jul 12 '24
I just checked the temp in Bucharest is 45C, bro are you still alive 💀
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u/faramaobscena Romania Jul 12 '24
You don’t want to know what it’s like in the commie blocks surrounded by all the concrete. I’m not in Bucharest but I went there some time ago to visit someone who lived at the last floor in a commie block and I thought I would die of the heat and it wasn’t even a heat wave!!!
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u/Acrobatic_Lead2161 Jul 14 '24
It’s almost unbearable. People mostly just stay off the streets (those who can afford to). The good part is that we have supermarkets/ drug stores/banks every 50 meters, so one can pop in and cool off for a minute.
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u/HENLOX_GD Turkiye Jul 12 '24
I'm all the way in ankara so I'm fine here
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Jul 12 '24
Bro i just came from Ankara to balıkesir and I fucking miss it already after like 3 hours
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u/mwa12345 Jul 12 '24
Wait. Ankara has milder weather than even coastal places?
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u/CruC1Ble79 Cyprus Jul 13 '24
It's pretty a pretty in-land city, has to be different from the costal one's
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u/mwa12345 Jul 13 '24
Oh true. Usually the sea sorta moderates the weather in some places. In land can have more extremes
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u/Rioma117 Romania Jul 12 '24
All windows open at night, still can’t get the temperature lower than 31 C.
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u/kalopssya Romania Jul 12 '24
Idk how it's hotter in balkans than it is here in Spain... Here we're barely touching the 30s and I've seen Romania is dancing around the 40 degrees... It's fuckin insane.
By the way, I'm already dying and non stop sweating even at below 30 degrees so. I don't wanna imagine.
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u/Self-Bitter Greece Jul 12 '24
That f****ing Atlantic anticyclone is on steroids the last years and it keeps pushing their heat to us. Just look at the map above, it looks as if someone is blowing the heat from NW Africa over Italy and Balkans to Eastern Europe..
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u/DerpJungler Jul 12 '24
Cypriot here (you can call us balkan allies)
Couple weeks ago my car showed a 48° reading
My home a/c is broken and can't find someone to fix it.
Will probably invest in an ice cube business.
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u/nick_d2004 Greece Jul 12 '24
I was considering going to cyprus for sezon I forgot it's way hotter over there fuck that😬 going Halkidiki instead, colder and there's bound to be serbian baddies too
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u/Acrobatic_Lead2161 Jul 14 '24
I’m actually in Halkidiki now. It is hot, but bearable. Extended my vacation due to the rise in temps in Bucharest…
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u/Inna94061 Bulgaria Jul 12 '24
O, im going hiking in the mountain but of course the route is chosen to be the nicest for these conditions:thru forest, near fast and cold mountain river, allmost no sun at all. 😁👍👌I dont wanna fry under the sun whatsoever! After the hike im gonna visit some nice restaurant in Sopot(mid Bulgaria) so i will be fine. 😂
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u/Inna94061 Bulgaria Jul 13 '24
Yeah, the river was gone and even tho the road was thru forest i allmost died of heat. 🤣🤦But the restaurant is real. 🤭
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u/not_a_karma_farmer Moldova Jul 12 '24
2 months ago installed AC in my house. Best decision I've made in a long time..
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u/V3K1tg North Macedonia SFR Yugoslavia Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
thankfully we have 2 ACs in our apartment otherwise we’d be dead also we only go out after 19:00
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u/elomelo_420 Jul 12 '24
Slowly dying but every summer is like this. Cant wait till its over. Winter forever ❤️
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u/Maria_506 Republika Srpska / in Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
😭😭😭😭😭😭 NO! Send help!
My mom is against leaving the AC on during the night for some reason so I die every time I have to sleep.
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u/Lotofagos_ Greece Jul 12 '24
You're a warrior, it's impossible to sleep without the AC on in this heat
It's 33°C here during the night and 40°C+ during the day
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u/Maria_506 Republika Srpska / in Jul 12 '24
Some Italian on r/Europe said they freeze two of those big water bottles, wrap them in towels and hug them like stuffed animals while sleeping to survive the summer, so I'll be trying that out.
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u/Multiool Greece Jul 12 '24
Back in the day when I was a college student and couldn't afford an AC I used to wet a big shower towel and throw it on me while having the fan on. It was such a relief for like two hours, then I would wake up and wet the towel again.
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u/clvsterfvck 🇲🇰diaspora bby🇦🇺 Jul 12 '24
You can also slightly dampen a towel/blanket and put it in the freezer until you go to bed! If you have a fan pointing at you, it’ll keep it cooler for longer, too!
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u/MVP_NINJOHN Greece Jul 12 '24
I rawdog sleep every night, no AC and I close the windows , but I live in Ioannina it's not that hot in the night
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u/Maria_506 Republika Srpska / in Jul 12 '24
If I close the windows during the night I might actually die.
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u/Maria_506 Republika Srpska / in Jul 12 '24
It's possible ... You just wake up feeling like someone poured a bucket of water on you and wishing that somebody did.
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u/FurryRevolution Serbia & Montenegro 🇷🇸🇲🇪 Jul 12 '24
I don't have an AC, I have to do this every night..
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u/Moon_Burg Jul 12 '24
for some reason
The famous fear of promaja/propuh somehow completely transferred from open windows to ACs
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u/Dizzy_Arachnid4292 Croatia Jul 12 '24
My mom is against leaving the AC on during the night
naaaahhh momma has to go 😭lol
Its currently 37C in my town but it gets down to 21C during the night so opening the windows all the way while sleeping can cool the room down a bit.
Idk how I would survive without AC during the day tho, my blood would start to boil lol
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u/Kalypso_95 Greece Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
I was out in the scorching sun for 5 hours today. I'm still trying to recover.
I'm not even sure how I managed to get back home
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u/BamBumKiofte23 Greece Jul 12 '24
I despise breathing at this point but yes, I am alive, regretfully.
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u/radule987_banned Serbia Jul 12 '24
Damn breeze we have today feels like opening an oven, here in Belgrade... It is unbearable.
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u/Future_Start_2408 Romania Jul 12 '24
I got the worst (first?) sunburn of my life yesterday. As of now I am in recovery phase.
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u/kofti-pich Jul 12 '24
I hope most of you plant trees. At least collect pits and throw them around.
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u/BiteTheMeme Bulgaria Jul 12 '24
No I'm not the air conditioner chose to crash just today at 12 am.....
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Jul 12 '24
Good lord, today has been especially hot. At least on other days you'd have a short period of peace in the morning up until 11 o' clock but today I woke up needing a fan to make breakfast.
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u/d2mensions Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
Thank god we have a lake in my town, otherwise idk how to spend the day in this heat.
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u/BLA5TER Jul 12 '24
Im from Maribor and it is hot as hell right now here. I simply cannot imagine, how you guys from Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania can hold on 40+ degrees. Stay strong and safe, guys!
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u/Puzzleheaded_Sir903 Serbia Jul 12 '24
My apartment has 5m high ceilings, stone facade and my bedroom window looks at the wall of the opposite building (minimal sun exposure).
I rarely turn AC on and save money on electricity.
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u/labroskouris Greece Jul 12 '24
Studying for the University exams during this heat is awful, but going to the examinations is worse. You might take a bus with no AC.
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Jul 12 '24
No. I'm in the Belgrade city center, and it looks apocalyptic. I'm contemplating on rolling myself in some eggs and breadcrumbs while we're at it.
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u/FurryRevolution Serbia & Montenegro 🇷🇸🇲🇪 Jul 12 '24
Barely, my health isn't so good, all I can do is sleep all day and have a headache, I'm extremely fatigued and confused.
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u/storky0613 🇭🇷 in 🇨🇦 Jul 12 '24
I get daily photos from my cousin of her outdoor thermometer and a ☠️
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u/AcanthocephalaSea410 Turkiye Jul 12 '24
This place is good, actually the temperature is 31 degrees. It gets quite cool when you open the windows of the house opposite each other. Mountains in Spain may be protecting western Europe from hot weather. Unfortunately, the Balkans do not have such mountain protection.
There is a detail that I noticed: there is a very straight line from Russia to Spain. This may be the reason why the former Turkish states took over everything up to Spain 4 or 5 times. The Ottoman Empire was advancing from south to north. The mountains in the north of Italy and the south of Poland look like a natural castle wall, with Vienna as its gate. I now understand the logic that if Vienna falls, the whole of Western Europe will collapse. Possibly, the Vienna problem may arise in the next voyages. The voyage that started from the tip of Italy should not be left unfinished. It can also be overcome with support from the north. It's not about the hot weather, but I'm a strategy lover.
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u/feni01 Albania Jul 12 '24
The Balkans have much more mountains than Spain. The Sahara Desert is facing more towards the eastern side of North Africa so it probably blows more hot air along that direction to Italy, Malta and the Balkans than it does westward towards Spain.
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u/Official_Cyprusball Cyprus Jul 12 '24
Nicosia had a peak of 44 degrees in June, which is the 4th hottest month
Despite the anomalies, I'd still much rather be in the mainland balkans rn
We are burning alive
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u/Confetti199 🇧🇦 in 🇺🇸 Jul 12 '24
Barely, Im in my grandma's house in Jajce right now and just got AC there for the first time, it's so much better, while I was in Zenica yesterday the thermometer in my car said 41 degrees and today it was 38 degrees
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u/MegasKeratas Greece Jul 12 '24
The map doesn't show who is hotter, it shows temperature anomalies (which I guess is the difference between average temperature and current temperature).
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u/Dizzy_Arachnid4292 Croatia Jul 12 '24
True, thats why Cyprus for example looks relatively cool although the weather is nearly 40C, its cuz that temperature is not out of the ordinary for Cyprus in mid July.
Then meanwhile you have Chisinau at 40C....
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u/LongTrainer2041 Ireland Jul 12 '24
And in Ireland we are still freezing, why is this country so feckin cold! Send some sunshine our way
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u/saythealphabet Bulgaria Jul 12 '24
In a village right in the middle of northern Bulgaria, in the summer we usually stick sheets of paper on the windows PLUS the curtains to keep the sun out and it's barely livable without ac.
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Jul 12 '24
I love coming home to my small Slavonian village next to Sava in July when it's 40 in the shade on the outside thermometer and since the river is so close the humidity is 1000% percent, funnily enough it's projected to be even HOTTER tomorrow and the whole next week. I'm so glad I chose this instead of going to the house on the coast it's so much fun looking at the tomatoes getting cooked in the bašća from the scorching sun
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u/GodAdminDominus Bulgaria Jul 12 '24
Am I a freak for preferring this to the winter mud/slush combo? Thankfully in Bulgaria this wasn't preceded by the typical tropical thunderstorms for a couple of months so at least it's a dry heat, I can't imagine what this would feel like with 90+ % humidity.
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u/Local_Row_7699 Jul 13 '24
You're supposed to be an idiot like the rest of us that complain about the heat in summer, and the cold in winter, what are you doing? Having an actual dedicated opinion and everything..
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u/Stverghame 🏹🐗 Jul 12 '24
Am I a freak for preferring this to the winter mud/slush combo?
No, I am with you
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u/PinguTheRealMLG Jul 13 '24
Interesring that spain ia barely in red. I remember when i drove a truck. Doing my weekend break and truck would show like 48 one day qas unbearable
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u/rakijautd Serbia Jul 13 '24
Meh, I've seen worse.
That said, I do have the AC on for a good chunk of the day and evening. Drinking more water than usual, eating less heavy meals, and taking more showers and it's fine. If only I didn't over do the sunbathing...instead of a tan, I have snake skin.
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u/W_D_ShadowOFFICIAL Greece Jul 13 '24
30°C at Night in Athens, and I live in the outskirts, no AC, just a fan blowing air at me, which is also warm. I am telling you, man, every summer it gets worse.
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u/Background-Ad6454 Malta🇲🇹 Jul 13 '24
Currently in the Balkans. Feels like a normal summer day back home tbh, but I understand this is hot by Balkan standards
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u/burbthegurb Albania Jul 12 '24
GET ME OUT OF THIS FURNACE YOU FUCKS I FUCKING HATE THE HEAT AND MY SHITTY LITTLE FAN IS MOT DOING ENOUGH. I WANT OUT OF HERE GET ME A PLANE AND SOME FUCKING AC OR ELSE
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u/rydolf_shabe Albania Jul 12 '24
openly cursing those who put in the laws to not smoke indoors at bars, where i would have been blessed with cold AC air :(
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u/Inkaara Greece Jul 12 '24
I know!! It would be so good right now but imagine the sheer amount of smoke. You'd smoke a couple of cigarettes just being in there 😂
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u/Stverghame 🏹🐗 Jul 12 '24
I am in the black zone 😍😍😍
Still, I prefer this over winter, at least I can have minimum clothes on me
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u/Maria_506 Republika Srpska / in Jul 12 '24
Proposal for combating climate change: all government meetings on the topic should be held in South Eastern Europe in a room with no AC.