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Damn. AC is such a necessity here. A lifeline.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
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I think the official high was 101. It hit that for a short time around 1730. It’s hot but doesn’t really feel different than a normal hot spell hereQuote:
Originally Posted by KQ
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also: open the windows when going to bed or in the middle of the night. fans in windows, keep windows open til sun hits them if E facing, 8-9ish AM if not, doors open overnight, closed during the day; last resort of damp towel and direct fan blast in order to fall asleep. try not to think of deep powQuote:
Originally Posted by cdlv
I'm definAtely on the ventilation train.
As soon as temps outside drop below inside temps in the evening, box fan in high window in high living room ceiling (requires ladder) is blowing out, East facing first floor window box fan blowing in.
On going to bed, a couple first floor windows are left 1" open with fans blowing in, high fan runs all night blowing out.
I'm up at 4:30 watching inside temperatures until they start to rise (got it down to 73.5 inside this am), then shut down everything and hunker down until outside temps fall below house temps and repeat.
That's gotten us through all previous heat spells. Not so much this one.
That's pretty impressive. Even with central air my upstairs was over 80 degrees. I was able to keep the downstairs around 77.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
I'm sure our upstairs was over 90F, it was 80F on the first floor.
I'd thought we could get by without AC; I prefer to draw little on the grid.
This is changing my mind.
By the way, the high yesterday in Newport, Oregon was 64. Obviously it's going to be cooler on the coast, but that's just an absurd temperature gradient.
I was reading last night that a lot of the increase in average PNW temperature has been the nighttime low. It’s already 80+ where I am and never got below 70.
Makes it hard to implement the natural cooling strategy if it never cools off enough.
I’m hiding out at my parents with AC this weekend and hoping our place stayed relatively cool. Not looking forward to WFH on Monday.
It was 64F this morning at 4:30, so I try to get as much of that air in the house as I can.
exactly. going to implement timed wifi plugs on my box fans in key windows tonight. on at 4am. off at 7:30am.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
In summer, I turn on our fans when the outside temperature is cooler than inside. This normally happens about 8-9 pm. An Arduino could set up the cues.
It's 71f now at 8:10 am
It's 65* right now, 66 in the house, I'll keep the windows/doors open until it starts getting warm then close everything up, it should stay below 78 inside.
93 here
Walla Walla is killing it, only 88 hereQuote:
Originally Posted by KQ
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115df yesterday afternoon as I drove through Redding CA. Redding isn’t very nice when the weather’s good.
53 deg, light rain , I wish summer would start already
Often the hottest spot in CAQuote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
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I know this is his field, but I really wonder if he's making this too simple. If we get to 110 in Seattle that seems so anomalous that maybe you need to be looking at other mechanisms. This just doesn't fit the existing meteorological pattern for this region. When you consider that before yesterday there have been two days ever [recorded] with a high temp above 100, 110 just seems exceptionally improbable.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
Just gave my old T-bred his first cold hosing of the day. Fool won't stand in his shelter (two sided so it gets a breeze) and he overheats. Not looking good for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
101 now.
Maybe this will be our only heat wave of the summer, she says hopefully...........Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
Power out in whole of Issaquah.
Just fantastic!
Cliff Mass has his latest blog up. This is going to be nuts: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/...ry-record.html
"And the end of the event will be extraordinary, with temperatures falling by as much as 50F within a few hours."
Now that he said this, they fucking better! :)
Oh shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
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Just had to drive to Eastgate to get gas for generatorQuote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
Hoped that'd get power back on.
Nope. 6pm is estimated repair.
Best of luck. Those PSE estimates usually are just hope propaganda.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
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Just came back on.
I didn't have much confidence in it being accurate based on experience.
Nice. I’m guessing a brown/black out due to AC use? Hopefully tomorrow isn’t a repeatQuote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
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112 right now at my house
Oof
Stay cool, everyone
Who knows. With the amount of development going on in town and on cougar mountain, the plateau you have to wonder if PSE is keeping up.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK47bp
I'm sure all our wax rings are up to code though. That's where the heat comes in.
Our weather station shows 112*, but there's some reflection from the roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
Here's an official station nearby. Humidity went from 27-21%, ugh, ugly heat index
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I was just wondering if Portland would finally be on a temp downswing, and clicked through to NWS to see... 114F tomorrow?!?!? What the friggin' fuck? That's like an extraordinary summer temp if it was Vegas. Daaamn. Hang in there people. And prep your improvised ice vests tonight.
But that's the thing with climate change. If you raise the average, you also raise sigma 1 and 2 deviation Events a lot because they are outliers. Germany had 40.3 degrees (communist units) as an all time high at ONE Station since 1983. ( up from 39.highsomething). Which Was tied in 2015 and then blown away by dozens of Stations with nearly 42 as the New record in 2019. It's not going up in small increments if the general setup favors heat waves.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Coming to "other mechanisms", it's fairly simple. The stronger warming in the arctic reduces differences in global temperature and thus leads to a weaker polar vortex. Et voila less westerly flow in mid latitudes which is especially important in the pnw since it disrupts your predominant weather patterns.
How is this affecting the cherry harvest?
Cherries are doing okay. Seems like It's the apples that are going to sufferQuote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
Cherries are fine unless it rainsQuote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
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