When the Term "Heatwave" Is No Longer Enough

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• cjs_ac 3 hours ago
  This is a news article about a journalist using a more intensive adjective to describe an intensified phenomenon. The original Reuters article would probably have been more compelling reading.
• cousinbryce 3 hours ago
  We should name them after oil company execs
• VCFundedGenYer 3 hours ago
  Words are words. The term does what it says on the tin. No change is needed. Article is whiney.
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  • Daishiman 1 hour ago
    "Words are words" are something only a profoundly ignorant person would say.
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    • ASalazarMX 1 hour ago
      This made me picture the IQ Bell Curve meme.

      - Left: Words are words

      - Middle: Only a profoundly ignorant person would say [that]

      - Right: Words are words

      We could still use "heatwave" with a magnitude suffix, like hurricanes. It's likely "heat storms" will need the magnitude suffix anyway.

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      • t0bia_s 52 minutes ago
        What about armageddon? Or heatpocalypse?
• antibull 4 hours ago
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