• TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
    Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
    Join free Log in
    Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.

Crazy heat out west

#21
LBS-bass said:
It's down to a balmy 99* here now that the sun is down. HVAC is on again and able to keep up; I'm still keeping the temperature up to give the grid a chance to recover. Looking forward to sleeping on the new mattress in the new bed tonight. It's a bigger bed than we had, so more room for the dogs to stretch out and, hopefully, that will keep us all a little cooler.
Click to expand...
I'm keeping my air at 80.
My workshop hit 120 inside when I got home at 7pm yesterday. Today turned the AC to 90 out there can't have my wood tools ans finishes baked...
 
  • Like
Reactions: kesslari
#22
/\/\3phist0 said:
I'm keeping my air at 80.
My workshop hit 120 inside when I got home at 7pm yesterday. Today turned the AC to 90 out there can't have my wood tools ans finishes baked...
Click to expand...
I have a band rehearsal in the studio which is a converted garage and not all that well insulated. We have a free standing A/C unit out there and I'm going to have to have it on for a bit before they get here. Music is an essential service, after all.
 
  • Like
Reactions: /\/\3phist0 and kesslari
#25
viribus said:
When Gov. Newsom issued a request that EV owners not charge their cars between 4PM and 9PM that seems like a huge red flag about the grid and the transition to EVs. There will be far more EVs in service by say 2025, but hardly any improvement in grid capacity. Will EVs be prohibited from charging from noon to midnight in 2025?

Speaking as an EV owner who doesn’t live in California.
Click to expand...
This is a pretty exceptional weather event and is calling for a lot of drastic measures. Given the catastrophic infrastructure failures I've seen in other regions during major heat events I think that this one is being handled pretty well.
With the desire to increase EV use and decrease greenhouse gasses, there will need to be more capacity for peak use times driven be weather conditions like this.
But it's a little early to call "sky is falling" yet.
 
  • Like
Reactions: GregC, /\/\3phist0 and LBS-bass
#26
Had a show last Friday night. My cabs in the truck much of the day. So after load in, I was sitting on a cab and man, it was hot !
Maybe rain by Fri or Sat ??? In So Cal ?? If so the temp will drop 20* “it says “. Stay cool all
 
#27
Richard Lindsey said:
Holy hell, you all out in the Central Valley are getting killed. I'm in the East Bay right on San Pablo Bay, where it's typically milder, and it hit 101 here yesterday. I don't have A/C, so it was 94 degrees inside my apartment. Oh well, at least I wasn't overtaxing the grid....

And 107 degrees in Guerneville just blows my mind.
Click to expand...
118 in Calistoga is insane.
113 here (1200 feet up in the Diablo range above Patterson) right now.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kesslari
#30
kesslari said:
This is a pretty exceptional weather event and is calling for a lot of drastic measures. Given the catastrophic infrastructure failures I've seen in other regions during major heat events I think that this one is being handled pretty well.
With the desire to increase EV use and decrease greenhouse gasses, there will need to be more capacity for peak use times driven be weather conditions like this.
But it's a little early to call "sky is falling" yet.
Click to expand...


Unrelated but serious question. All the flooding going on back east, do EV cars operate ok or are they an electric chair on wheels? I know a person in a crash was electrocuted to death. I admit to ignorance about them in any meaningful way as to their operation.
 
#33
/\/\3phist0 said:
We are all supposed to have solar on our roofs... right?
:cool::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
Click to expand...
I took a heavy bedspread outside today after washing it, laid it flat on the table and it was completely dry within 20 minutes. That thing usually takes a couple of hours in the dryer and there was no way I was running the dryer like that in this heat. Gosh, why can't we harness that sort of power to do other things that need doing?

I don't have solar on my roof but I'm getting tempted!
 
  • Like
Reactions: kesslari, GregC, /\/\3phist0 and 1 other person
#34
Granted, I live in Michigan and our summer hasn't been all that bad compared to some. We did have days here and there where the temps were around 92.

The back of my house faces west and I get that hot sun through the doorwall in the kitchen which can really heat things up. Earlier in the summer I intalled an exterior blind which covers the doorwall. I also put styrofoam sheets (about 1/2" thick) in the kitchen window (also faces west) as well as in the south side door. Made a big difference this year. Sure, by 4 PM on some days the inside of my house was 84 but I noticed it was much more tolerable than in years past. I would then turn the AC on for about 1 to 1 1/2 hours before I went to bed and things cooled down much quicker than before.

Another thing I've been doing if it's not humid out is: around 5 PM I open the doorwall as well as the living room window (faces east) and I have fans drawing the cooler air in all night. By morning the house is nice and cool inside and as a result I've barely had to use my AC this year.

I realize I'm not in the hot zone like some of you are and what I do may not work for you.

I hope you all find cooler relief soon.
 
  • Like
Reactions: FilterFunk
#35
Another hot one at 110 degrees today here in Concord, then cooling down starting tomorrow. Norman temps with highs in the eighties forecasted for all of next week.
So far, no power outages.
It was 69 degrees outside this morning so we turned on the whole house fan and cooled the house and attic down. We keep the AC set at 80 degrees from 10 pm until until 1 pm the next day, then it goes down to 77. The AC has never come on when it is set to 80.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kesslari
#36
We've been absolutely melting in south SJ. It was over 95 in our apartment yesterday afternoon, and hotter the day before.

All of us here have just been chilling out and taking it easy, the hardest part about no-ac life in these heatwaves is when you don't sleep. I've gotten a total of 8hrs across the past five days. Absolutely brutal.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kesslari
#37
LBS-bass said:
It seems more a matter of not planning for the way people actually live. People are going to come home and plug those cars in after work, which puts a lot of strain on the grid at a particular time of day. Now that we have more plug-in cars, the impact is being felt. They need to figure it out, because people are going to charge their cars when they're home, regardless of what they're told to do.

I was told today by someone I don't really know that they registered 121*F in the sun on a backyard thermometer. I put some water out for the critters in the back yard last night, went out to replenish and cool that down, and some of my potted plants were in pretty bad shape. Watered those, but they aren't recovering in this heat. Might lose them.

Today we had our furniture delivered; we've been waiting for it since April or so, and of course it came on the hottest day of the year. They had to come through multiple doors to move the old stuff out and the new stuff in, so at one point we had three doors open to the outside heat. HVAC has not recovered from that; it's struggling to get below 78* and I just gave up and turned it up to 79 to give it a chance to rest. It's cooler in what is now the new guest room than my bedroom, so I'm hanging out in there this afternoon. Nobody here wants to cook today; I might order delivery.
Click to expand...
Yep, my wife put some water out for the raccoons and skunks that frequent our property at night. We are now having a rolling blackout at my workplace so I am working remotely today.
 
  • Like
Reactions: kesslari
#40
wind
slobake said:
Another hot one at 110 degrees today here in Concord, then cooling down starting tomorrow. Norman temps with highs in the eighties forecasted for all of next week.
So far, no power outages.
It was 69 degrees outside this morning so we turned on the whole house fan and cooled the house and attic down. We keep the AC set at 80 degrees from 10 pm until until 1 pm the next day, then it goes down to 77. The AC has never come on when it is set to 80.
Click to expand...
picked up this morning, still 109 here (diablo range above Patterson)
 

Latest posts

Top Bottom
Back