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Athens turns orange, Helsinki goes white as Europe’s weather springs a surprise

edition.cnn.com Athens turns orange, Helsinki goes white as Europe’s weather springs a surprise | CNN

A yellow-orange haze of dust from the Sahara desert has blanketed parts of Greece, creating spectacular scenes and prompting authorities to issue health warnings.

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That thumbnail fucking looks like Mars
- As someone in BC it honestly just looks like they've got a nearby forest fire, it gets absolutely insane here in fire season.
  
  What does BC mean? I highly doubt it stands for Before Christ in this case.
- There are people who believe we moved from Mars to Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago because we made it the dusty, uninhabitable planet it is today.
  
  It seems really far-fetched, and the theory is full of obvious problems. But then you see news like this and can't help but wonder...
  
  (My heart goes out to all of you who became so terribly offended by this.)
  
  It's far fetched because there's literally no evidence of this anywhere other than someone's imagination.
  
  ...wonder if those people are dumbasses? Yes. They are.
  
  I can help but wonder apparently?
Desert is spreading. Not terrible, not great...
- About the same amount of sand as a chest x-ray.
  
  3.6 sand per hour.
- Pretty sure it's terrible. It's not terrible for the overall ecosystem of the world but if major Europran cities suffer desertification as well we're going to have a huge infrastructure and migrant crisis on our hands. But don't fret Americans, please keep trying to destroy the EPA and ensure you can burn the dirtiest of coals... and Germany, don't forget to transition off nuclear and back to coal and gas for the uh.... environment?
  
  The german energy mix is pretty good actually. About 60% is renewable. And a lot the infrastructure was build during our last legislation period. The early transition off nuclear was definitely a mistake but nothing we can reverse now. But even if we count nuclear as renewable, Germany is still way ahead of most big countries.
https://www.tiktok.com/@panpapaioannou/video/7361117397736017184

https://www.tiktok.com/@hara_nik/video/7361093019724008736

Videos from Greece. Or Arrakis. Or Mexico.
- God i hate how tiktok covers the video with text
  
  Proxitok thankfully gets rid of that mess:
  
  https://tok.habedieeh.re/%40panpapaioannou/video/7361117397736017184
  
  https://tok.habedieeh.re/@hara_nik/video/7361093019724008736
  
  https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok
  
  There are browser extensions to deal with it
- Any alternative videos these ones don't load for me
  
  Tiktok probably doesnt like some privacy features/extensions you use. Try using incognito in another browser that doesnt have those(like edge).
Waking up and finding out that it's snowing in April was super fun. It snowed for two days almost straight and all tram traffic stopped because their power line thingies froze. Isn't climate change awesome?
- I keep forgetting to take my car in and have the snow tires swapped…but it keeps fucking randomly snowing and the Easter bunny froze to death in a flash hailstorm
I'm actually surprised snow is unusual in the spring in Helsinki.
- Helsinki yes, Finland no.
  
  Fair enough. I associate Finland with snow like it's some sort of European Hoth.
- We've also got snow in Montreal today... it's nearly fucking May.
- A takatalvi (literally "backwinter", it means that when you think it's spring but then winter weather comes back because fuck you) or two is common, but they usually don't last as long, occur in March or early April, and ddon't have nearly as much snow.
Reminds me of some of the worst smoke seasons we’ve had in the PNW
- I remember a few years back when the skies turned red in SF. It looked so surreal.
I thought it was mars before the humans had to colonize Earth

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