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Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues. Karachi has had 44 C before like many other places.

In fact, mean temp of Karachi is 32 C in June - which is not Low at all.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/pakistan/karachi/climate

and 68% percentile high temp is 35 C.

The highest temp on record for Karachi was nearly 48 C - in 1938.

For sure 44 C is not Cool - but also not worth a Guardian article for a place that has a mean temperature of 32 and many days a year above 40 C.

From a personal note - I am writing this as I sit @ 42C and I am not dying. Heck - my laptop probably does though...

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The issue isn't so much the absolute temperature as much as the combination of temperature and humidity. A wet-bulb temp of 35C can be fatal.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/how-hot-is-too-hot-for-human...

According to this site, there are numerous areas of Pakistan with a wet-bulb temp well north of 35C...that seems extremely dire, and should probably not be flippantly dismissed because other places are hotter.

https://meteologix.com/pk/observations/pakistan/wet-bulb-tem...

> Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues.

What would those more pressing issues be? Soon enough many very populated places in the world will be unlivable. Even now the reality described in the piece is shocking - 330 GBP for a month's worth of power is way more than what I pay in the Netherlands during the coldest winter months. I imagine the vast majority of Pakistanis will never be able to afford the amount of electricity needed to cool their houses down to a bearable temperature.

This comment was dead, and I expect it to be unpopular (the sentiment always is) - but I'm vouching for it because by linking some data it's at least as substantive as the submission, regardless of whether it's right or wrong.

This article isn’t about the temperature reaching 44 C for a single day.

Where you are sitting in 42 C weather, do you still have electricity? Because that’s mostly what the article is mostly about.

> This article isn’t about the temperature reaching 44 C for a single day.

Well this is the only actual data point it makes reference to, it links to a study which makes claims about 50 years in the future, which may contain some data, but that is thrice removed if it does.

==Well this is the only actual data point it makes reference to==

I don't see anywhere in the article where it makes this reference, it's just in the headline. The article actually says "When it’s above 44C it feels like you’re going to die – I’m not making that up."

==Now it goes above 40C on an average day==

A reference to the consistency of the heat as opposed to the extremes of the heat.

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