It's hotter than a whore house on nickel night

[AK47bp]

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 repeat


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[::: :::]

112 right now at my house
Oof
Stay cool, everyone

[PNWbrit]

Nice. I’m guessing a brown/black out due to AC use? Hopefully tomorrow isn’t a repeat


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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.

I'm sure all our wax rings are up to code though. That's where the heat comes in.

[k2skier112]

112 right now at my house
Oof
Stay cool, everyone

Our weather station shows 112*, but there's some reflection from the roof.
Here's an official station nearby. Humidity went from 27-21%, ugh, ugly heat index

[KQ]

Even More Extreme: Extraordinary Record Highs Followed by Perhaps the Most Rapid Cooling in Northwest History

[bobz]

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.

[subtle plague]

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.

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.

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.

[Timberridge]

How is this affecting the cherry harvest?

[KQ]

How is this affecting the cherry harvest?

Cherries are doing okay. Seems like It's the apples that are going to suffer

[MagnificentUnicorn]

How is this affecting the cherry harvest?

Cherries are fine unless it rains


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[Timberridge]

And vineyards I gotta imagine...so any fall fruits?

Cherries are fine unless it rains

Interesting, I didn't know they were that way. Not much cherry growing here on EC.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

And vineyards I gotta imagine...so any fall fruits?

The heat over here(eastern WA) isn’t really unusual. It’s hot and dry but there’s plenty of water because of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project and the rivers draining the east slopes of the Cascades. It’s why this region is a tree fruit Mecca.


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[The AD]

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.

Yes, good point.

[TahoeJ]

Welcome to California, PNWer's.

I played golf in 114 degree weather last summer. You eventually get used to it. ;-)

[refried]

It made it up to 93 yesterday just before 5 then started dropping, it was 64 when I woke up two hours ago, now it's 71. I made the mistake of mentioning to my gf that I had a window air conditioner somewhere buried in storage that I hadn't used since '98 and she suggested that I find it and install it. Of course it wasn't where I thought it was and had a bunch of stuff on top of it but it worked and had the house down to the low 70's in no time.

[Buster Highmen]

80F inside first floor last night at 12:00.
76F inside now in full ventilation mode.

[The AD]

I just hope they get the forecast right and the cool(er) air returns overnight tonight.

I woke up last night and saw the outdoor temp at 75, so I shutdown the AC and opened the windows. The inside house temperature didn't budge at all by 6:00 this morning, but I guess at least it didn't go up...

[MagnificentUnicorn]

I just hope they get the forecast right and the cool(er) air returns overnight tonight.

I woke up last night and saw the outdoor temp at 75, so I shutdown the AC and opened the windows. The inside house temperature didn't budge at all by 6:00 this morning, but I guess at least it didn't go up...

Fans


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[The AD]

Fans

Yep, had 'em cranking. What I probably need to make an appreciable difference is an attic fan.

[KQ]

80F inside first floor last night at 12:00.
76F inside now in full ventilation mode.

Woke up around midnight/1am and it was finally cool enough outside to shut off the AC and open the windows. I left the fan on recirculate to keep things moving.

What has been really killing us the last two days is the wind. It picks up around 3pm and blows 10-15mph until sunset. 110 degree winds are not pleasant.

Put the horses out at 4am this morning.

Yep, had 'em cranking. What I probably need to make an appreciable difference is an attic fan.

I think there is a whole thread about the effectiveness of attic fans.

[AK47bp]

From 7am this morning. Actual air temp in the shade was 93( at 7am, using a digital thermometer) We may be fucked. There were scattered power outages yesterday and today will be worse.







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[KQ]

From 7am this morning. Actual air temp in the shade was 93( at 7am, using a digital thermometer) We may be fucked. There were scattered power outages yesterday and today will be worse.







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WTF? Seattle this morning? Serious?

86 in W2 right now.

[AK47bp]

WTF? Seattle this morning? Serious?

86 in W2 right now.

Snoqualmie. Foothills are warmer


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[XXX-er]

And vineyards I gotta imagine...so any fall fruits?



Interesting, I didn't know they were that way. Not much cherry growing here on EC.

hot weather is a problem, it fucks up grapes cuz it makes them too sweet, ripe too soon, consider

grapes that are only allowed to be grown in a certain region to have their name can't be grown there

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Most of the vineyards in WA are in the hottest and driest part of the state. I don’t think the grapes will suffer too much, it’s not much hotter than normal.


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