Laura said:
lostinself said:
Same observation about the apparent increase in Sun's brightness. It was like 2 years ago when i started to hear people's complains about how the very intense sunlight makes it difficult to drive a car. Of course nobody ever asked a question why this was the case and why they hadn't have noticed it earlier. Once i tried to google for some info on the topic and all i found was several people getting laughed at on various forums about their "imaginary" observations of a very bright sunlight.
In general, it seems that the climate becomes more extreme in every possible aspect - sun appear to shine brighter, winds blow stronger, weather changes occur in minutes OR droughts/rains linger for months etc.
I wrote about it somewhere on the forum back in 2013... I got SUNBURNED in something like 15 minutes and that is unheard of. I usually don't even burn at all, much less that fast. And it HURT. The sun felt like needles in my skin.
I had been observing the increasing brightness of the sun, at least from 4-5 years ago, and yes, when I comment it to people, ...they had not laugh, but ... they -I assume- do not take it seriously? ... like some days ago, the sun burned but when one was at the building/tree shadow, you need a sweater, because the air was quite cold, it figures to me like the winter sun at spring or summer, too brightly, I noticed too the reflexion/ color impression it gives to objects, the contrast/shadows, its hue was different years back from what I remember. I had found coconut oil quite useful to not get burned, I pretty much use it daily nowadays. Due my job, is necessarily to get out of the building several times a day.
Today, I drive for an hour caught in traffic at the freeway, but we wanted to go to a restaurant out of the city, bad choice when we were caught in traffic, but the sheep was delicious... anyways, I noticed several people selling "sleeves" in order to avoid being burned by the sun, people take advantage of the traffic in order for them to sell its products. I almost buy one for the future, did not buy it because I took with me an -apparently unnecessarily light sweater-, a wake up call from my intuition? -as I call some choices -out of the blue I follow from myself? because it was a quite sunny weather, it was useful to wear it at the right arm, enough to cover me from the sun.
This city usually is known to have warm/hot weather, but I do not remember years back at this season, the need to cover from the sun.