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[Home-Grown]

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[Bud Green]

I lived in Dallas, Tx in 1980..

That summer it was 100F or more for 71 days in a row..
2 days in a row it was 114f,,,in the shade...

 

[rod58]

we had here in my home town an "un-verified " 50c . this was about 8 year ago and those summers over a 10 year period dealt us many 47 and 48's , recorded !
nowadays we are lucky to get 42c .. global cooling ?

 

[Home-Grown]

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[soil margin]

Man that record of 127.5F is insane. I can't believe I'm here in the middle of a Southern California summer and it's barely breaking 75F in the middle of the day. That record temp would be almost twice as hot.

Central US doesn't really have outrageous summer temperatures compared to places like the Middle East or Australia. 30-35C range is pretty standard. It just has nasty humidity combined with constant heat that barely cools down even at night.

 

[Green Squall]

Weather here tomorrow is 89F with a Real Feel of 99F due to the humidity. Its a hotter in Boston, so I ain't complaining. I'll be at the beach and there was a verified great white shark sighting this week, so if I stop posting, consider me shark food.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Lauren Bacall.

 

[Gauss]

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[Home-Grown]

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[festerous]

75-80 every night and 95 every day with the heat index pushing 110 @ 90% humidity.

 

[watts]

Yeah the humidity with the heat is a bitch. Been eating watermelon and asparagus often and that keeps the body cooler.

 

[Home-Grown]

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[dddaver]

I was a meteorologist in a past life. We call cities heat islands. All that concentrated concrete helps.

 

[Gauss]

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[St. Phatty]

I can't help but be curious how a wildfire responds to the high heat, high humidity weather.

We know what happens in high heat, low humidity weather.

It should move more slowly in the high humidity weather BUT CO2 related climate change is full of surprises.

I got a big surprise about 3 years ago when a small area burn lit a small live cedar tree on fire. I lectured the tree, "but you're not supposed to burn !!!" and it didn't help.

 

[Gauss]

Wildfires I think have a lot to do with what happens to dead plant matter and not exactly the humidity in the air itself. In humid climates, it tends to compost or gets punky really quickly whereas in dry areas it will hang around a long time and really fuel ragers.

 

[Green Squall]

Speaking of wildfires, there is an usual amount right now up in the Arctic regions, due to unusual higher temperatures.


https://earther.gizmodo.com/satellite-images-show-vast-swaths-of-the-arctic-on-fire-1836500468

 

[troutman]

I'm hoping the temps drop a little and we get a lot more rain.

This is almost camel weather that we have now.

 

[St. Phatty]

Who Needs Snow ?

I wanted to follow through on something I've been thinking about all summer.

My backyard is REALLY slippery - with madrone leaves.

I used to have a sled packed with logs, for the trip down, maybe 20 times - on snow in the winter - & never lost a sled

The first time I took the sled up to get some termite castings, super-primo soil from carpenter ants etc., I had the sled loaded up, sitting on madrone leaves.

It ran away !! Crashed & broke in half.

With the skis, I thought I might be able to get a genuine turn, but it was just not quite slippery enough.

 

[BOMBAYCAT]

Here outside Denver it broke 100 degrees F the other day. It only happens about 1 time in every 3 years so I noticed it. My heirloom peppers wilted from the heat but came back when I gave them a little water. The MMJ seems to be liking it though.