It's like the NW and the central plains states have switched weather this month. We're in the upper 70s to mid 80s and chances of rain every day. Not at all normal for Oklahoma in June.
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Hot! Hot! Hot!
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Lytton BC set Canada's all time high temp yesterday with 46.6°C or 115.9°F. I'm not surprised. I've been there a few times on a motorcycle, and it has always been eye-wateringly hot.
Ain't that the truth!!!
I hate it when people say things like, "Anything over 100 is all the same." Having lived in Sacramento most of my life, I know that's a lie!
I never in my life thought I'd need to go to Texas or Florida at the end of June to cool off.
We have friends in Boca Chica, Texas and some in Venice, Florida that said we're more than welcome to come on down and cool off.
-Mike
We have friends in Boca Chica, Texas and some in Venice, Florida that said we're more than welcome to come on down and cool off.
-Mike
Offer still open for you and C to come by. Eileen is going to bring Fosters over and spend the night with us.
Here in SW Louisiana the temperature is staying in the 80s and the humidity is about the same. It isn't much more than what I consider to be warm but daily thunderstorms make it hard to plan on outside activities. You people having to deal with 100+ temps have my sympathies.
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104 and climbing in our hood.
AC's are doing OK. The one in the big room can't quite keep up, but the other two are doing great. We don't have it wired to let all three run at once, so the office and bedroom ones take turns coming on for 10-15 minutes.
Yeah, it's hot and I'm a bit uncomfortable, but that's OK. It's only for a few more hours, so I'm not going to break my back trying to make the house cool. We're certainly not buying anything other than a kiddie pool for the dog. That'll be here tomorrow.
What this has done is provided us with some amazingly awesome evenings on the porch. Last night we did a charcuterie board with Italian and British cheeses, a Rose or two from our favorite Washington wineries, pickled habaneros and Calabrian peppers, and some Stella Artois. This evening we will try the Solstice from Stella Artois.
Then we discovered the most efficient and least invasive way for us to control mosquitos. We set a couple small fans around the chairs on the porch. The blowing wind obfuscates (see that there? I've been waiting to use that word, haha) the smells from our body and mosquitoes don't like flying in the wind, so they stayed away. No chemicals, no citronella, nothing else. The fans work with the batteries from my DeWalt tools, so nothing to plug in either. Woot!
-Mike
AC's are doing OK. The one in the big room can't quite keep up, but the other two are doing great. We don't have it wired to let all three run at once, so the office and bedroom ones take turns coming on for 10-15 minutes.
Yeah, it's hot and I'm a bit uncomfortable, but that's OK. It's only for a few more hours, so I'm not going to break my back trying to make the house cool. We're certainly not buying anything other than a kiddie pool for the dog. That'll be here tomorrow.
What this has done is provided us with some amazingly awesome evenings on the porch. Last night we did a charcuterie board with Italian and British cheeses, a Rose or two from our favorite Washington wineries, pickled habaneros and Calabrian peppers, and some Stella Artois. This evening we will try the Solstice from Stella Artois.
Then we discovered the most efficient and least invasive way for us to control mosquitos. We set a couple small fans around the chairs on the porch. The blowing wind obfuscates (see that there? I've been waiting to use that word, haha) the smells from our body and mosquitoes don't like flying in the wind, so they stayed away. No chemicals, no citronella, nothing else. The fans work with the batteries from my DeWalt tools, so nothing to plug in either. Woot!
-Mike
Much of British Columbia is forest. Five years ago the smoke from extensive forest fires in the interior flowed down the river valleys to the mouth of the Fraser at Vancouver, which dropped our air quality to emergency levels; it sat like a bowl over the city, unmoving, with the air looking like an umber haze every day for what felt like forever.
This is over five degrees hotter, and equally dry. Nothing needs to burn anywhere near us for this city to start approaching uninhabitable.
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What a change here in Eugene today. NOAA says it's currently 82. It's definitely seriously cooler than Sunday. Meanwhile they say it's 99 in Salem and 115 in Portland.
I remember that. It came down this way too. It made for a terrible time breathing alright, but also some amazing sunsets.
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Salem reputedly hit 117 earlier today, the marine layer is starting to push pretty hard from down your way.
Meanwhile, here in The Gorge:
Not sure how legit that station is, but it’s right on the south facing wall a few hundred feet above the Columbia.
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Official high110 at the kelso airport at about 3pm.
Now 82. (7pm)
When the heat dome broke, it popped like a balloon.
PDX is still at 114.
Edit to add time above, and this update:
10pm, 64°. That's a big drop in seven hours. It's ticked up a degree or two since, but still.
Portland now is the sole occupant of third place on the "major US cities highest daily temp" list with 116.
Now 82. (7pm)
When the heat dome broke, it popped like a balloon.
PDX is still at 114.
Edit to add time above, and this update:
10pm, 64°. That's a big drop in seven hours. It's ticked up a degree or two since, but still.
Portland now is the sole occupant of third place on the "major US cities highest daily temp" list with 116.
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The wind at Clatskanie must be nuking right now, it used to be common for windsurfers in the Gorge to go camp out there and wait for that setup.
That's 111F... supposed to be hotter tomorrow!
Incidentally, the thermometer on the sunny side of my house reads 64C (147 F)
- and when I started my car after work this evening, my Ultragauge complained that its internal temperature (mounted next to my dashboard) was in excess of 147F...
Incidentally, the thermometer on the sunny side of my house reads 64C (147 F)
- and when I started my car after work this evening, my Ultragauge complained that its internal temperature (mounted next to my dashboard) was in excess of 147F...
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It’s a goofy place to sail, with nasty chop, big sandbars, and huge ocean going ships that throw crazy wind shadows. But oddly enough, really high winds tend to create “weather helm” and send you upwind, and the river current makes that even worse. You need to be really experienced to mach downwind and even then it gets really hairy since you can’t see incoming wind gusts from behind very well.
