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I'm cold again, [weather thread]

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular


    "Driest June in Oklahoma since the Dust Bowl" is certainly a vibe.

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  • DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    Elaro wrote: »
    Dedwrekka wrote: »
    Elaro wrote: »
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Eventually most of inland america will be covered in a wide shallow sea and things will be right in the world.

    Except for all the displaced people.

    You kidding? We'll still be living there.

    Oh yeah, people living in swamps is/may be a thing...

    Wait, how shallow is "shallow sea"?

    Nah, just literally won't be able to afford to move. I'd say we'd have people living on rafts if I didn't think they'd NIMBY raft building and declare it illegal to build a floating structure even after the water was at roof level.

    I swear the reason we don't have good vernacular architecture is because anything actually useful would be declared illegal to build.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    looking at the ocean temps in the gulf is <_<
    hurricane season

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  • DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    Texas' terrible power grid everyone hates is possibly going to have problems meeting the air conditioning load demand in the hot weather over the next few days, do what you can to prepare
    Breaking: ERCOT has issued an alert for possible rolling blackouts Monday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. "A projected reserve capacity shortage with no market solution available." Additionally, ERCOT has issued a call for energy conservation Monday.


    Fuck them. It's been 100°+ for almost a full month here, and the best my AC can do is make it feel like it's 87°. Turning down the AC in the past and future few weeks would literally kill people.

    Tell the fucking glass fronted dutch oven skyscrapers to work from home or stop pretending you're actually trying to do anything.

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  • DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    As someone who has worked in front of a forge, it legitimately felt like that driving with the windows down today.

  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Not sure what the humidity is like in those places but God damn was it humid this morning in upstate South Carolina. Average was 77% across the day but then it rained like hell. I was doing some yard work this morning around 8, before the rain, and after about 30 minutes I could ring the sweat out of my clothes. I barely sweat compared to most people too. I have never been somewhere hot and dry but I wonder how it really compares. Most people say it's much more tolerable.

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  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Not sure what the humidity is like in those places but God damn was it humid this morning in upstate South Carolina. Average was 77% across the day but then it rained like hell. I was doing some yard work this morning around 8, before the rain, and after about 30 minutes I could ring the sweat out of my clothes. I barely sweat compared to most people too. I have never been somewhere hot and dry but I wonder how it really compares. Most people say it's much more tolerable.

    Oh it is far more tolerable. For example we have similar humidity to you here but I spent the holiday where it was easily 30% less humid than here and that's like shaving 10-15 degrees off the temperature. An 85 degree day there felt like a 70 degree day here. It felt worse at midnight when we got home than it was in the middle of the day there.

    112F is certainly hot but Phoenix is also only 30% humidity, so at 112F it's a wet bulb temperature of 84F. 90F at 77% humidity would feel equivalent to that.

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  • DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Not sure what the humidity is like in those places but God damn was it humid this morning in upstate South Carolina. Average was 77% across the day but then it rained like hell. I was doing some yard work this morning around 8, before the rain, and after about 30 minutes I could ring the sweat out of my clothes. I barely sweat compared to most people too. I have never been somewhere hot and dry but I wonder how it really compares. Most people say it's much more tolerable.

    Around Dallas it's swung in around 40 to 80% humidity, with 100°F+ temps. Some days it's actually too hot to rain.

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Not sure what the humidity is like in those places but God damn was it humid this morning in upstate South Carolina. Average was 77% across the day but then it rained like hell. I was doing some yard work this morning around 8, before the rain, and after about 30 minutes I could ring the sweat out of my clothes. I barely sweat compared to most people too. I have never been somewhere hot and dry but I wonder how it really compares. Most people say it's much more tolerable.

    Guess who has 2 thumbs and organized a fancy be-suited dinner at Larkins at the end of a recent ish July and failed to specify the reservation for an indoor table

    My method of staying cool was double-fisting gin and tonics, literally holding them in my hands

    Lots of large sloshingly-sweaty and sloshed bankers that night

    furlion
  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    Ugh, I'm sitting here freezing my ass of at my office which normally targets 70-73 degrees, and is like 20% occupied while we're already at feels like 101 outside.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    That’s the biggest hail I’ve ever seen

  • SporkAndrewSporkAndrew Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    Note that much of UK doesn't have central air/AC.

    40C = 104F

    "Much of" is an understatement. Mainly you'll find AC in some office buildings, the bigger chain stores and in the higher-end shopping malls.

    In private housing it's basically non-existent because people are of the opinion that "it's only hot for a few days a year, who needs the expense?" Nevermind the fact that as each year passes that "few days" becomes a little longer and the temperature it reaches becomes higher.

    Our houses are built to trap and hold heat and built in such a way that running ducting for central air is nigh-impossible to retrofit, so any AC in houses is likely to be a minisplit system in one or two rooms or a portable unit with a vent-hose dangling out the window.

    It's projected to reach 32C (90F) where I am on Tuesday which is one degree of the absolute maximum it's ever been recorded (33), but still way higher than average (19).

    The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    Not sure what the humidity is like in those places but God damn was it humid this morning in upstate South Carolina. Average was 77% across the day but then it rained like hell. I was doing some yard work this morning around 8, before the rain, and after about 30 minutes I could ring the sweat out of my clothes. I barely sweat compared to most people too. I have never been somewhere hot and dry but I wonder how it really compares. Most people say it's much more tolerable.

    Guess who has 2 thumbs and organized a fancy be-suited dinner at Larkins at the end of a recent ish July and failed to specify the reservation for an indoor table

    My method of staying cool was double-fisting gin and tonics, literally holding them in my hands

    Lots of large sloshingly-sweaty and sloshed bankers that night

    Oh my God I bet that fucking sucked. No shade in sight and all that concrete everywhere around you. We ate at smoke in the water a few weeks ago outside but it was basically dark when we sat down so it wasn't that bad.

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  • DedwrekkaDedwrekka Metal Hell adjacentRegistered User regular
    If the UK waits long enough the Gulf Stream will break down and they'll be forced to suffer with the rest of their latitude.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    Note that much of UK doesn't have central air/AC.

    40C = 104F

    "Much of" is an understatement. Mainly you'll find AC in some office buildings, the bigger chain stores and in the higher-end shopping malls.

    In private housing it's basically non-existent because people are of the opinion that "it's only hot for a few days a year, who needs the expense?" Nevermind the fact that as each year passes that "few days" becomes a little longer and the temperature it reaches becomes higher.

    Our houses are built to trap and hold heat and built in such a way that running ducting for central air is nigh-impossible to retrofit, so any AC in houses is likely to be a minisplit system in one or two rooms or a portable unit with a vent-hose dangling out the window.

    It's projected to reach 32C (90F) where I am on Tuesday which is one degree of the absolute maximum it's ever been recorded (33), but still way higher than average (19).

    Yikes. That is not good weather to have no AC in. I have to assume it's not a dry heat either.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
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    That is literally hotter than the Mojave Desert is going to be this week, since it's going to cap at about 103 and here's Oklahoma declaring this is what it means to go even further beyond.

  • JimBobtheMonkeyJimBobtheMonkey Registered User regular
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    I'm in the top part of the dark circle. Jedoc is near the middle, 300+ miles away
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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    I'm near the top of the o in Near Normal in the upper left.
    Woo-hoo!

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    why is this happening in specific, did we heat dome again or something?

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Yup! Triple-dip La Nina, persistent high pressure over the middle of the country, probably no relief this side of Halloween. It's 2011 all over again, except this time I'm not working the garden dock at Lowe's.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Yup! Triple-dip La Nina, persistent high pressure over the middle of the country, probably no relief this side of Halloween. It's 2011 all over again, except this time I'm not working the garden dock at Lowe's.

    Thank fuck

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    Seven of the next nine days here are forecast in the 90s, and it’s maybe the happiest I’ve been all year that I’m working night shift instead of coming home in the middle of broad daylight

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    I need to move to Alaska.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    I need to move to Alaska.

    Are you ready for endless night in the winter?

    I visit Anchorage once a year in the dead of winter and there's like...4 hours of daylight.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    I need to move to Alaska.

    Are you ready for endless night in the winter?

    I visit Anchorage once a year in the dead of winter and there's like...4 hours of daylight.
    That would be fantastic.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    I've always wanted to move to one of those places that gets multiple weeks/months of no light. But don't they also get the reverse, months of constant daytime? That would suck.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    went on a backcountry canoeing/hiking trip in Alaska in 2008 and let me tell you, camping in Alaskan summer is surreal. you get used to it, eventually, but it's decidedly not something the human circadian rhythm is built for

  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    edited July 2022
    I've seen 30 Days of Night. I feel more optimistic of my chances surviving that than of my chances surviving modern America

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  • useruser Registered User regular
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    went on a backcountry canoeing/hiking trip in Alaska in 2008 and let me tell you, camping in Alaskan summer is surreal. you get used to it, eventually, but it's decidedly not something the human circadian rhythm is built for

    I went to Patagonia for my first ever backcountry trek in their summer (December) and let me tell you bein completely unaware of the extended daylight, our plan to hike until sunset and get goin at sunrise didn't survive two days, when we finally cottoned on to what was happening.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    So glad a heat wave in Minnesota is still tolerable.

    ...and that I have AC.

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  • ProlegomenaProlegomena Frictionless Spinning The VoidRegistered User regular
    unprecedented heat warnings across the UK so of course this morning is cold and drizzly

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited July 2022
    41 degrees here tomorrow and Tuesday though. Highest ever recorded is 35.

    Apparently it'll be 28 degrees at midnight Monday night so that's going to be grim

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    RIP

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Yup! Triple-dip La Nina, persistent high pressure over the middle of the country, probably no relief this side of Halloween. It's 2011 all over again, except this time I'm not working the garden dock at Lowe's.

    We can cross our fingers and hope the giant hurricane currently hitting hawaii might disrupt that system.

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