Germany is facing a record heat: experts warn of health effects. Some of the professional and population groups are particularly at risk. Others might benefit from the extreme climate, however, even.
Sabine Krüger these days is a sought-after woman. The meteorologist works for the German weather service (DWD). The Federal authority with its headquarters in Offenbach am Main has a duty to warn of weather-related hazards, and to document the climate in Germany and to assess its changes. High “Ulla” Germany fires up in the next few days, the weather expert can be compared with the German wave in no doubt: “The sun can seem almost undisturbed, it comes with a lot of warm air from Africa to us. It can be hot up to 39 degrees, in some places, even the 40-degree could be reached.” Wednesday will expected to be the warmest day of the year.
The odds are good that in 1947 in Frankfurt am Main, as measured in June hit a record temperature of 38.2 degrees. The DWD has in the meantime expressed in eleven of the 18 provinces official heat warnings. Also on social networks, the authority warns of longer stays in the sun and before that, the UV-radiation does not appreciate in the shadows. It should also be made of the “appropriate clothing such as a sun-proof shirt, long pants, sunglasses and a hat” back.
Vulnerable Occupational Groups
While most of the employees can avoid such hot days in darkened or air-conditioned offices, there are some occupational groups, where the heat is not spared. All construction workers have to suffer, you will fry literally in the blazing sun. For example, when new road surfaces are laid, can temperatures of around 80 degrees Celsius. In addition to physical exertion up a lot of dust, Dirt, and heat from construction equipment to come. To be able to legally prescribed Heat regulations, circumvent, put many employers in the construction industry to move the work beginning in the early hours of the morning.
Similarly, early harvest workers and farmers. The work on the field is at low temperatures diaphoretic. In the summer, the work is generally of a torment, because the shadow on the fruit and vegetable fields, mostly in vain. It’s all for nothing: strawberries, Zucchini, carrots, cauliflower and co. want to be harvested.
Sweaty affair: road construction work in the summer
Also firefighters coming in these days, the use of a sweat. The Perfidious: In the vicinity of fires, it is already extremely hot, 800 to 1000 degrees are not uncommon. In addition to heat, the use of forces also allows for the equipment to sweat. Alone the pants were three to four, with the addition of hatchet, respiratory protection, belt, and the Rest of the safety clothing. Overall, the cap is about 30 to 40 kilograms.
Order of Malta relief service fails Alarm
Rainer Löb is alarmed in the face of record temperatures. Löb is the Federal physician of the Malteser hilfsdienst (MHD), and, therefore, the leading physician of the international Catholic relief organization in Germany. With nearly 31,000 full-time employees of the MHD is one of the major employers in the health and social services. Löb warns that due to the enormous heat, the temperature regulation can be overwhelming for many people. The consequences of sun bites, Hitzschläge, exhaustion and circulatory failure. For him, it is not only certain professional groups that are struggling with the effects of the extreme temperatures to: “In the case of infants and small children, the regulation of body temperature through sweating due to the relatively small body surface is only possible to a limited extent”, as Löb compared to the DW. In older and chronically sick people in the heat regulation works so well at such a young age. In the result, the feeling of thirst to be disrupted “often”.
Especially older people have problems with the high temperatures
In order to prevent too great disasters, will increase the order of Malta in the coming days, the operational readiness of rescue service. Generally speaking, the expert uses his tips to beat the heat and its consequences on in-house resources. This means a lot of drinking and more breaks to make.
The Green: the political beneficiaries of heat?
That discussions of extreme climate conditions have long since found entrance into the political debate in Germany for weeks at the so-called Fridays-for-Future-demonstrations recognize. The worldwide student movement that campaigns for the protection of the climate, is in this country, every Friday, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in streams.
Especially the Green benefit from the increased sensitivity of the population to environmental issues. In the European elections, the party of Germany achieved far with just under 21 percent, a record result and landed just behind the CDU on rank two. Since then, their popularity values rise even further. According to the present Germany trend of infratest dimap, the party is currently around 27 per cent.
In a good mood in the Green: first of All, in the case of the two Federal Chairpersons Anna Lena Baerbock, and Robert Habeck
Nico Siegel is the managing Director of infratest dimap. He warns of jumping to conclusions: Although the heat wave and the drought would have used during the past summer the Green with your brand’s core environmental policy, however, let the success of the party is not “a certain occasion or a singular event out”. The current of hot days, but in any case, not only a burden for many people, but also a political issue.