Apparently the northernmost permanent human settlement, Alert, Canada, hit 70°F for the first time in recorded history this week. The average high for July is about 43°.
When it comes to tourism this extreme heat has a filter effect. Local tourists feel the heat and realize they could be doing anything else. Coming back isn’t a problem. It’s not worth dealing with 100 F temperature.
International folks are kinda stuck with it. You don’t take a week off work and pay hundreds of dollars to not explore the city. At a certain point people from colder parts of the globe reach their limit and even the economic cost isn’t worth dealing with the heat. So you are left with tourists from HOT countries.
It's been hot dry and stuffy here. When the fan brunt out the dogs were still asking us to turn it on. Still it's gross I can start to hang laundry when finished I can go back and start to take it off the line.
When it comes to tourism this extreme heat has a filter effect. Local tourists feel the heat and realize they could be doing anything else. Coming back isn’t a problem. It’s not worth dealing with 100 F temperature.
International folks are kinda stuck with it. You don’t take a week off work and pay hundreds of dollars to not explore the city. At a certain point people from colder parts of the globe reach their limit and even the economic cost isn’t worth dealing with the heat. So you are left with tourists from HOT countries.
I apologise pre-emptively for my people.
Australians are actually one of the better tourism groups out there? Mostly because Australian summer breaks mean visiting the northern hemisphere in the winter. When nobody else has shown up you get some Aussies keeping you company in the cold.
There is a statistically least pleasant tourist country, but I feel really bad calling out a culture I don’t know very well.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
When it comes to tourism this extreme heat has a filter effect. Local tourists feel the heat and realize they could be doing anything else. Coming back isn’t a problem. It’s not worth dealing with 100 F temperature.
International folks are kinda stuck with it. You don’t take a week off work and pay hundreds of dollars to not explore the city. At a certain point people from colder parts of the globe reach their limit and even the economic cost isn’t worth dealing with the heat. So you are left with tourists from HOT countries.
I apologise pre-emptively for my people.
Australians are actually one of the better tourism groups out there? Mostly because Australian summer breaks mean visiting the northern hemisphere in the winter. When nobody else has shown up you get some Aussies keeping you company in the cold.
There is a statistically least pleasant tourist country, but I feel really bad calling out a culture I don’t know very well.
PNW folks aren’t allowed to gloat until we see what August and September look like, wildfire-wise.
I worry about this in SoCal this autumn when the Santa Ana winds start up. We've had a really mild and pleasant summer so far but it's early and we haven't had any significant rainfall for a good while now so stuff is starting to dry out. And since we had such a wet winter, there's a huge amount of vegetation available as potential wildfire fuel. Even the areas that got burned out in the big Woolsey Fire last year have already bounced back.
When it comes to tourism this extreme heat has a filter effect. Local tourists feel the heat and realize they could be doing anything else. Coming back isn’t a problem. It’s not worth dealing with 100 F temperature.
International folks are kinda stuck with it. You don’t take a week off work and pay hundreds of dollars to not explore the city. At a certain point people from colder parts of the globe reach their limit and even the economic cost isn’t worth dealing with the heat. So you are left with tourists from HOT countries.
I apologise pre-emptively for my people.
Australians are actually one of the better tourism groups out there? Mostly because Australian summer breaks mean visiting the northern hemisphere in the winter. When nobody else has shown up you get some Aussies keeping you company in the cold.
There is a statistically least pleasant tourist country, but I feel really bad calling out a culture I don’t know very well.
This picture from my trip today really stood out to me, in relation to the heat going on right now. It's got your capitalist megacorp having a touristy fake German version of one of it's stores, a beat up old work truck what probably has bad emissions, and then a giant bank of completely unused EV chargers.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Man, sneak into pools if you got to, but don't poo in them.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
We got lucky here and dodged the heat. It's only 75 today
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I'm reminding myself that this weekend actually has very favorable circumstances for me in terms of weathering a multi-day feels-like-110 heatwave
1. I can hide in my basement most of the day, which is underground so it stays relatively cool while the AC is doing the best it can with the rest of the house
2. My wife is out of town visiting her parents, who live in an area that's cooler on average but thereby doesn't have AC everywhere like we do; I stayed home to hang out with the dog
3. Since my wife isn't home, I can temporarily close off the upstairs rooms (her office, main bedroom, bathroom) so the AC doesn't try to cool them down, and sleep in the basement
4. I recently got treatment to curb my hyperthyroidism (which makes me oversensitive to heat); it hasn't really kicked in yet, but at least I took the steps necessary
5. Our electricity hasn't gone out yet. Fingers crossed.
even with all that, this is pretty miserable. Wish I could go back to thinking high 80s was plenty hot enough. Could be worse, could be worse.
When it comes to tourism this extreme heat has a filter effect. Local tourists feel the heat and realize they could be doing anything else. Coming back isn’t a problem. It’s not worth dealing with 100 F temperature.
International folks are kinda stuck with it. You don’t take a week off work and pay hundreds of dollars to not explore the city. At a certain point people from colder parts of the globe reach their limit and even the economic cost isn’t worth dealing with the heat. So you are left with tourists from HOT countries.
I apologise pre-emptively for my people.
Australians are actually one of the better tourism groups out there? Mostly because Australian summer breaks mean visiting the northern hemisphere in the winter. When nobody else has shown up you get some Aussies keeping you company in the cold.
There is a statistically least pleasant tourist country, but I feel really bad calling out a culture I don’t know very well.
that article always hits worryingly close to the bone.
I read it and it sounds like an absurd amalgam of my retiring grandfather as he crossed the U.S. and a former SAS guy I knew in my twenties announcing loudly to the bar/group, "I'm bored, let's go do something!"
I know there’s gonna be one random-ass day where the temperature is gonna drop to 50f, and all the concrete surfaces are going to be dribbling water from the stored heat difference
I know there’s gonna be one random-ass day where the temperature is gonna drop to 50f, and all the concrete surfaces are going to be dribbling water from the stored heat difference
We have forecasts dropping us below 60 Tuesday and Wednesday because we’re in the Upside Down
One thing I had forgotten in the fifteen years since I lived somewhere with real summer is how badly I sleep in hot weather. Huzzah for living on the third floor.
I stupidly went paddle boarding yesterday and got (contracted? I dunno the right term) heat exhaustion. It sucked! I don't recommend it! Don't go outside, outside is the enemy!!
I stupidly went paddle boarding yesterday and got (contracted? I dunno the right term) heat exhaustion. It sucked! I don't recommend it! Don't go outside, outside is the enemy!!
I’m leaving on a work trip for 2 weeks and needed to mow the lawn and tend to weeds yesterday to prep for that stretch and was near hallucinating near the end.
Or maybe it was the beer I was chugging to keep cool during...
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So that's, uh, neat?
I apologise pre-emptively for my people.
Just for this I’m going to point the fart bench your way
They're using xcom odds.
Then was startled again by my phone buzzing, warning me about tornado weather en francais.
You should go to a hospital for that.
Right!? I recorded this earlier.
Australians are actually one of the better tourism groups out there? Mostly because Australian summer breaks mean visiting the northern hemisphere in the winter. When nobody else has shown up you get some Aussies keeping you company in the cold.
There is a statistically least pleasant tourist country, but I feel really bad calling out a culture I don’t know very well.
They're good! Which is a pleasant coincidence, because they are omnipresent.
I worry about this in SoCal this autumn when the Santa Ana winds start up. We've had a really mild and pleasant summer so far but it's early and we haven't had any significant rainfall for a good while now so stuff is starting to dry out. And since we had such a wet winter, there's a huge amount of vegetation available as potential wildfire fuel. Even the areas that got burned out in the big Woolsey Fire last year have already bounced back.
that article always hits worryingly close to the bone.
This picture from my trip today really stood out to me, in relation to the heat going on right now. It's got your capitalist megacorp having a touristy fake German version of one of it's stores, a beat up old work truck what probably has bad emissions, and then a giant bank of completely unused EV chargers.
Oh no, the Earth isn't dying. It's been through worse and will bounce back eventually.
It's just most everything on it that's going to die in the process beforehand.
The poo is coo
1. I can hide in my basement most of the day, which is underground so it stays relatively cool while the AC is doing the best it can with the rest of the house
2. My wife is out of town visiting her parents, who live in an area that's cooler on average but thereby doesn't have AC everywhere like we do; I stayed home to hang out with the dog
3. Since my wife isn't home, I can temporarily close off the upstairs rooms (her office, main bedroom, bathroom) so the AC doesn't try to cool them down, and sleep in the basement
4. I recently got treatment to curb my hyperthyroidism (which makes me oversensitive to heat); it hasn't really kicked in yet, but at least I took the steps necessary
5. Our electricity hasn't gone out yet. Fingers crossed.
even with all that, this is pretty miserable. Wish I could go back to thinking high 80s was plenty hot enough. Could be worse, could be worse.
A fellow australian and I agreed that overall it was good tennis weather.
Fortunately I guess it was a window unit so I got a new one.
So much water in the house =/
It's just collecting dust in my garage.
I read it and it sounds like an absurd amalgam of my retiring grandfather as he crossed the U.S. and a former SAS guy I knew in my twenties announcing loudly to the bar/group, "I'm bored, let's go do something!"
We have forecasts dropping us below 60 Tuesday and Wednesday because we’re in the Upside Down
I’m leaving on a work trip for 2 weeks and needed to mow the lawn and tend to weeds yesterday to prep for that stretch and was near hallucinating near the end.
Or maybe it was the beer I was chugging to keep cool during...