Venting Weather anxiety

[vibri]

I can't cope with how there's extreme heat warnings and 100 degree weather in september now.

This summer has been particularly miserable with hot weather, and all you can do is complain about it and move on.

I miss the autumns from my childhood that lasted more than a week. Seeing temperatures breaking records on the news each year fills me with dread. I hate how the winters are either warm or unprecedentedly horrible blizzards and ice.

I used to be fond of thunderstorms but in my area it almost always leads to a tornado watch, so not even spring is peaceful. 🫩

I hate hearing about hurricanes and other horrible inclement weather around the world.

Everything about it just makes me feel so hopeless and miserable, existentially... I don't know how to go on in a world so different and more dangerous than the one i grew up in.

The only way I've been able to cope with this is just to ignore it as much as possible. But I can't ignore it when it's right outside my window and on my weather app.

 

[unluckysadness]

I can relate. I'm in EU and this summer was pure torture for me (I'm not exaggerating). I had respiratory issues because of these fucking heatwaves. It increased my anxiety and all my symptoms. I hope I'll be dead before the next heatwaves. In southern France, we have the 6th heatwave of the summer and we're in september. I live in the north, so weather is more bearable right now, but today was warm. Anyway, every weather gives me pain in my muscles and joints.

 

[Jonah Byrde]

Yes EU heatwave was brutal i went through multiple bags of ice cubes. I probably looked like a damn sociopath consuming ice raw.

 

[vibri]

I can relate. I'm in EU and this summer was pure torture for me (I'm not exaggerating). I had respiratory issues because of these fucking heatwaves. It increased my anxiety and all my symptoms. I hope I'll be dead before the next heatwaves. In southern France, we have the 6th heatwave of the summer and we're in september. I live in the north, so weather is more bearable right now, but today was warm. Anyway, every weather gives me pain in my muscles and joints.

Yeah, as an american hearing about this and how this is not the norm at all in the EU makes me feel so upset... I'm so sorry for all the pain it's brought you. I've heard many complaints from friends in the EU as well. It makes me so sad and stressed out. How are we going to survive this new world?? (do I even want to??)

 

[unluckysadness]

Thanks for your compassion I was so upset, so I prepared SN in a bottle in the case I was going crazy with these insane heatwaves.
In the future, I think people will wear clothes like spacesuits with air conditioned inside. It may sound silly, but I think that launching some ultra giant umbrellas in the sky (with drones or satellites) could be something to do ? i don't know but it's terrifying. I hope to be dead and no reincarnate on this hellish planet...

Yeah, as an american hearing about this and how this is not the norm at all in the EU makes me feel so upset... I'm so sorry for all the pain it's brought you. I've heard many complaints from friends in the EU as well. It makes me so sad and stressed out. How are we going to survive this new world?? (do I even want to??)

Thanks for your compassion I was so upset, so I prepared SN in a bottle in the case I was going crazy with these insane heatwaves.
In the future, I think people will wear clothes like spacesuits with air conditioned inside. It may sound silly, but I think that launching some ultra giant umbrellas in the sky (with drones or satellites) could be something to do ? i don't know but it's terrifying. I hope to be dead and no reincarnate on this hellish planet...

Yeah, as an american hearing about this and how this is not the norm at all in the EU makes me feel so upset... I'm so sorry for all the pain it's brought you. I've heard many complaints from friends in the EU as well. It makes me so sad and stressed out. How are we going to survive this new world?? (do I even want to??)

 

[DeadManLiving]

I can relate. I'm in EU and this summer was pure torture for me (I'm not exaggerating). I had respiratory issues because of these fucking heatwaves. It increased my anxiety and all my symptoms. I hope I'll be dead before the next heatwaves. In southern France, we have the 6th heatwave of the summer and we're in september. I live in the north, so weather is more bearable right now, but today was warm. Anyway, every weather gives me pain in my muscles and joints.

At least the ECM is still intact.

 

[helena.]

This summer was hell - I'm in southern EU, and we had 48C heatwaves and power cuts lasting over 24 hours at a time. I'd like to say I hope it was a one-off, but it seems like every summer it gets worse

 

[vibri]

Thanks for your compassion I was so upset, so I prepared SN in a bottle in the case I was going crazy with these insane heatwaves.
In the future, I think people will wear clothes like spacesuits with air conditioned inside. It may sound silly, but I think that launching some ultra giant umbrellas in the sky (with drones or satellites) could be something to do ? i don't know but it's terrifying. I hope to be dead and no reincarnate on this hellish planet...

Wild, but I don't think that's too insane of a theory... If the planet's weather becomes uninhabitable then we might as well be living on another planet, spacesuits and all. I agree I don't want to live in this reality where I can't interact with nature like I once did.

Maybe we'll all live under some giant dome or something one day, but I dunno, too many people in worse climates would die of natural disaster or heat before that point and I don't know how I'd reconcile with that even if I was one of the lucky few involved.

This summer was hell - I'm in southern EU, and we had 48C heatwaves and power cuts lasting over 24 hours at a time. I'd like to say I hope it was a one-off, but it seems like every summer it gets worse

The prospect of watching summer slowly get worse each year is terrifying, isn't it?