Right back at you with the condolences. My neighbors who have three Pyrs shave their bellies in the summer to help keep them cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
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Right back at you with the condolences. My neighbors who have three Pyrs shave their bellies in the summer to help keep them cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCMtnHound
Blah blah blah. If you or the thermometer are in the same location then both you and the thermometer are subject to the same heating effects. And if you are wearing a black T-shirt and the thermometer is wearing a white T-shirt, what then professor?:tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by stalefish3169
What sort of material are the shirts? Polyester, cotton, 50/50, triblend?
For the sake of simplicity, Cotton, on a treadmill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
118° in the Arctic Circle. We are fucked.
Where is this thermometer located? At the airport?Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
In any good experiment, consistency and keeping variables to a bare minimum is key.
I feel we have this same discussion regarding snow stakes at resorts. 6" at Killington is a dusting everywhere else.
Finally got the first floor down below 70F and got more than 5 hours sleep last night.
Looks like the forecast for Seattle is normalizing. Hopefully the heat breaks for KQ and BC.
“The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel satellites measured 118-degree-Fahrenheit temperature on the ground in Verkhojansk, in Yakutia, Eastern Siberia. Other ground temperatures in the area included 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit) in Govorovo and 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Saskylah, which had its highest temperatures since 1936. It's crucial to note that the temperatures being talked about here are land surface temperatures, not air temperatures.”
I hear what you’re saying re: snow reports but it’s alarming that that region is even recording anything that hot.
And yet climate change deniers are still like
https://media1.tenor.com/images/7c65...itemid=4923610
And then they point to the fact that Texas was colder this winter than ever. No global warming!
Meanwhile: “Portland, Oregon, soared to a searing 116 degrees Monday, hotter than it has ever been in cities such as Dallas, New Orleans and downtown Los Angeles. In fact, when it comes to major U.S. cities, only Phoenix and Las Vegas have been hotter.”
I bet you like to report snowfall totals from the wind drift locations, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
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Yeah I was just thinking that last night - the whole Texas thing plays into this.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
How are the roads where you are? Rte 20 was literally melting in a stretch exposed to all-day direct sun + uphill semi traffic (near Tiger). Luckily the downslope lane was ok but the upslope (westbound) lane was pulling up. Trucks were leaving tracks as if their tires were melting (I think it was the pavement "smearing"). The pavement had what looked like lesions in spots. DOT had plow/sand trucks out there dropping sand. Gonna be just as hot today [emoji3525].
^^ That's crazy.
Sounds like the oil was coming out of the asphalt.
I am wonder if the pavement engineers in the PNW are evaluating the temperature range they are specifying for binder or if they already thought of these warmer temperatures.
I always find it a little baffling that we have all this good regional modeling of future temperatures and precipitation and yet we often are still designing to historical data. Seems very short sighted.
Well, it’s cooling down to only 97 today.
But we had a bunch of small fires in the area yesterday and now there’s a thick smoke cloud enveloping 3 Sisters. Can’t see shit from peaks to about 5k feet. Had to shut the windows already. AQI is heading for unhealthy levels and is expected to stay that way until tomorrow night.
I’m starting to hate summer here…
A beautiful stratus layer rolled in at my house around 7:00 this morning. Now this finally feels like true relief!
fixed it for yaQuote:
Originally Posted by TBS
Yesterday, Spokane Valley. When I got in the car, it showed 113 when I first fired up the beast. Once on the road, it updated and this is what I got. Holy shit...
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The pavement buckled on I-5 Monday near Shoreline.
https://www.king5.com/article/traffi...1-e0d76cf43c5f
Dashed into town on Hwy 12 this morning to pick up some groceries. Despite the road being concrete the right lane (most traveled) was all black. It was quite strange. Figured it was rubber, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by ntblanks
They've downgraded our high tomorrow to 99. Woot!Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember
Wow. This shit's crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
19 and raining hard, sposed to peak at 22
What's this 'rain' you speak of?Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca...x_auto_reload=
sposed to quit raining tomorrow and then normal teens or mid -20's
wheres my sweater ?
There is a massive high off shore of the PNW and southern BC, and a low parked over Spokane. The massive high is blocking all precip and diverting it to Alaska and Northern BC, and causing the heat wave in the PNW. We're stuck in this pattern for awhile.
Perfect for getting away from the cops when they try to catch you at the whore house!Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
https://media1.tenor.com/images/5498...temid=14627151
anybody lose weight in the heat ? I'm sub 160 which normaly never happens, drinking more water, drinking san pelegrinos white wine still eating the usual amounts
Yup. I don't have a scale but going on clothes fit I'm def down several pounds. Of course I'm hardly eating because it's just too damn hot to cook and frankly nothing sounds good.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Water, fruit, hummus, yogurt and granola is pretty much it. I have been juicing veggies. Beet, ginger, carrot with a little apple.
KQ is hot!
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Was there ever any doubt?Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Opinion: It’s not the heat. It’s the existential dread.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...nxiety-coping/
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Walking the aisles of the grocery store on Friday, you could feel an edge in the air. One cart carried a stockpile of reusable ice packs; in another, an inflatable inner tube. Under different circumstances, these purchases might be mistaken as part of a routine midsummer haul. Not this summer.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” a grocery bagger told a woman hauling ice blocks onto the conveyor. “I don’t have air conditioning — maybe I’ll just show up here by the freezers.”
Then, as forecast, the heat hit. A record-setting wave stifled the Pacific Northwest this week, sending temperatures in Seattle to 108 degrees on Monday. Portland, Ore., hit an all-time high of 112 degrees on Sunday, only to be topped by Monday’s 115. Where I am in Whatcom County, Wash., minutes from the Canadian border, roads have literally buckled under the heat. The average June high in these parts is 69 degrees.
The physical danger is real in a region where air conditioning is rare, and the stagnating heat is impossible to ignore, but all this record-breaking has fed another sensation just as oppressive: a lingering existential dread about the future.
All week, a sinking feeling has accompanied each day’s heat; there’s a distinct psychological pain that accompanies the thought that the unbearable present is only a preview of the extreme climate to come. It was 116 degrees in British Columbia on Sunday. And it was 73 degrees on snow-covered Mt. Rainier, above 10,000 feet. In one city in Pakistan, a different system pushed temperatures to levels “hotter than the human body can handle.”
It’s not hard to imagine what comes next. And that’s what makes it so horrifying.
The phenomenon of climate anxiety has sharpened for many over the past few years. In a poll from October, 55 percent of respondents said they were “somewhat or extremely anxious about the impact of climate change on their own mental health.” People who had been insulated from the disastrous effects of warming — thanks to geography, or privilege, or both — are newly confronting this uncomfortable reality in their daily lives.
I include myself in this group. When I moved to Montana in 2017, I felt the toll of wildfire season — the acrid, choking campfire smell, the stultifying beige filter that drains color from the land and steals your breath. Since then, my lifelong anticipation of summer has been shot through with unease. I feel powerless and irritable and anxious. And as bad as 2017 was, last September’s fires and smoke were orders of magnitude worse.
We can, however, find effective ways to cope. Britt Wray, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, writes about climate anxiety and grief in her newsletter, “Gen Dread.” She explains that the field of mental health is now scrambling to develop tools for people struggling to coexist with this existential threat. One strategy, Wray says, is finding ways of embracing and accepting that distress, rather than pushing it away.
It feels unfair to come out from pandemic lockdowns and confront yet another crisis that requires reserves of resilience. But Wray argues that squaring up to your anxiety and dread around climate change “gives you resources to draw from and ultimately makes intense moments like this heat wave easier to bear.”
“If we can acknowledge our feelings and bear the fact that we’re faced with extremely difficult truths about the planet, we can use that to gather strength,” she said. “This is not easy. You need to know you’re not alone but also know that you’re not going to find a silver-bullet solution.”
One of the most important things we ought to be doing, according to Wray, is talking about the climate crisis honestly in our everyday lives, with our friends, family and colleagues. “We can’t just do it when it’s 114 degrees in our neighborhood. We need to weave it into our social fabric,” she said. It won’t be comfortable, but it will reflect the urgency of the moment we’re all living through. And this small piece of common ground is critical if we hope to address this emergency.
It’s still hot where I am. Fire season is now underway. I feel anxious as I set up the new air purifier in my home. But there is a small comfort knowing I’m not alone, just as there is a glimmer of opportunity in our collective alarm. Talking about our shared dread won’t bring down the temperature or vanish the smoke, but leaning into the grimness is grounding — because a dystopia feels only more dystopian when everyone’s trying to pretend things are fine.
Absolutely, and I steal candy from babies when the opportunity presents itself. Jesus, when did you turn into such a humorless prick?Quote:
Originally Posted by stalefish3169
Fkn hell, or fairly similar id imagine. No sign of relief. Still breaking records after a couple 49c days in the interior.
Thought id pedal dowtown after i met up with a dood to buy a handlebar. Wasnt sure i could carry the black riser bar the 1/2 km to the pub after the sun hit it. Sheltered it from the sun, pass it off and rolled back home until the sun drops. Fuck that shit. Rolling cali mtb style now. Early lapz, siesta, dusk laps, sleep, repeat
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BBC World News reported BC reached 121F yesterday.
not to worry...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXtG8GrW6EQ
It was "only" 39c/102f here the last couple days. The 49c/121f was kamloops and elsewhere in the okanagan. I cant imagine, i was instantly drenched here. I think i remember a 104f day as a kid(we were F then) but 121 is quite the jump. Snowballs chance of that being remorely bareable
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Clouding up here and along with it the humidity is rising. Fucking great. I've had enough of this handbasket. Let me out!
I was just at the craft brew, i had to go outside cuz the the over cranked AC was making me cold, while hanging outside buddy jake put on a sweater
Sorry, does not compute. Wuts a sweater?
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