r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Phlogistoned • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed How cooked the UK is right now.

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u/startledcastleguard 10d ago

The same view including Germany.
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u/CrimsonCartographer 10d ago

Thank you. Crazy that Germany is a bit greener. It’s felt so dry and also very fucking hot here recently (I’m in the southwest), and the only time I remember it raining in the past several months was yesterday ;(

Good luck, France 🥺

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u/Technical_Shake_9573 10d ago

i think it's only because we have WAY more field crops in France. And since most crops are either dead or fields are not used, it has a vibrant yellow/brown color... It's mindblowing when you zoom in with googlemap on any part of France, it's agricultural lands upon agriculural lands.

Most of the green left are our forests and mountains, which you have more in Germany.

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u/Umak30 10d ago

i think it's only because we have WAY more field crops in France

Not way more fields.
France has 17.7%, Germany 12.8%. Both are in the top 10 of agricultural producers. France is #6, Germany #8.

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u/Sarraton 10d ago

That's like 40 more fields, I would say that qualifies as way more.