It's hotter than a whore house on nickel night

[Kevo]

It was 40 degrees at 8,000 feet in the Tetons today.

[Flyoverland Captive]

I broke out the roadie today. In the middle of February. This is nuts.

[liv2ski]

Where are you Summer? Oz

[Buzzworthy]

I’m sunburnt from yesterday. In a tank top.

[evdog]

Aaaah, it is Wisconsin Harry. I will deal with 90 at the beach before living there. Today is only 81 btw.

You need to head to Borrego where it has been cool 70s, max 80 a few days ago. : )

[liv2ski]

No thanks, my SIL lives there so it has to be hot as hell

[neufox47]

Central Valley is supposed to hit the low 90s Thursday…. They are already talking about elevated fire range for the weekend. Fuck me.


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[~mikey b]

yeah that sucks

[KQ]

Well... it looks like our turn is coming. Ugh.

𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐬:
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟳, 𝟭𝟬𝟰°
𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟴, 𝟭𝟬𝟲°
𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟵, 𝟭𝟬𝟵°

[liv2ski]

I saw a few posts on Reddit from a few days ago of 122 in TX. That is stoopid hot and explains a lot to me.

[SumJongGuy]

I saw a few posts on Reddit from a few days ago of 122 in TX. That is stoopid hot and explains a lot to me.

Grid collapse in 3....2......1.........

[billyk]

I saw a few posts on Reddit from a few days ago of 122 in TX. That is stoopid hot and explains a lot to me.

Maybe somewhere in West Texas, like Big Bend? It hasn’t been that hot in Central Texas. Low 100s. Hasn’t even hit 110 yet. Cool.

[billyk]

Maybe somewhere in West Texas, like Big Bend? It hasn’t been that hot in Central Texas. Low 100s. Hasn’t even hit 110 yet. Cool.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/20/w...ies/index.html

The highest temp I could find in Texas was 115F in Wichita Falls. The all time high was 120 in Monahans some years ago. Maybe the 122 was the “heat index” rather than the actual dry bulb temperature.

[SumJongGuy]

Bought two cheap seats tickets to the Durham Bulls game tonight. High today 97 Game starts at 6:30pm. Wondering if I'm going to regret it.. I let the 19 year old make the decision.. Definitely wouldn't have been all that disappointed if he had said no thanks dad.. Definitely getting the BIG GIANT lemonades to drink all night..

[liv2ski]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/20/w...ies/index.html

The highest temp I could find in Texas was 115F in Wichita Falls. The all time high was 120 in Monahans some years ago. Maybe the 122 was the “heat index” rather than the actual dry bulb temperature.

It was on a cars dashboard, so likely was sitting in the sun awhile to post a higher than actual temp.

[Bunion 2020]

Been hitting the low 90s here but into the 70s by 8 pm and the 50s overnight. As for wildfire smoke, so far, so good.

[Core Shot]

Grid collapse in 3....2......1.........

That can’t happen since we need to power the Teslas

[Flounder]

Grid collapse in 3....2......1.........

Nope. Solar is saving the grid, they just won’t admit it. Triple the capacity this year compared to last year.

Opinion by Catherine Rampell
July 21, 2022 at 5:39 p.m. CT
Solar power is saving Texan tushies right now. German ones, too. And perhaps, one day, tushies ’round the world.
The heat waves searing the United States and Europe have generated huge demand for energy, as air conditioners work overtime. Texas, for instance, has busted records for energy demand at least 11 times this summer. Europe is simultaneously attempting to wean itself off Russian-produced natural gas, increasing demand for other fuel sources.
Solar power, meanwhile, has been heroically filling in the gaps.

That’s because there has been an enormous ramp-up in solar investment in recent years. This has been driven by multiple factors, including government incentives, customer demand and especially technological advancements that have made solar astonishingly cheap. Sun-drenched Texas — not exactly known for its bleeding-heart liberals — has nearly triple the solar capacity this summer than it had last summer.
This has turned out to be a lifesaving investment. The additional power provided by newly installed solar has (so far) probably prevented rolling blackouts this summer.
“If you took the weather conditions from this year, and plopped them onto [the power infrastructure] from last year, it’s extremely likely that we would have had outages,” says Doug Lewin, a Texas-based energy consultant.
If there’s any possible upside to the insufferable heat roasting the West, or to sky-high fossil-fuel prices, it’s this: Recent events might finally help change the reputation of renewables. Maybe governments will, at last, see the virtues of transitioning to clean energy faster.

Maybe they still don’t care about saving the planet — but at least they will want to make it easier for their constituents to cope with having already made the planet less hospitable. Or perhaps they will want to get out from under the thumb of unsavory authoritarian petro-states.
Renewables have gotten a bad rap. Many voters still perceive solar and wind as an expensive indulgence, foisted upon them by tree-huggers. In reality, these technologies have become extremely competitive on price. As I’ve noted before: It’s cheaper to build and operate an entirely new wind or solar plant than it is to continue operating an existing coal plant.
In fact, investment in renewables has (modestly) helped keep a lid on painfully high energy prices lately, says Ethan Zindler, a BloombergNEF analyst.
Coal- and gas-fired plants must pay for the fuels that power them, and those fuels have become extremely expensive. By contrast, the marginal costs of renewables are close to zero: Once the wind farm or solar array is installed, wind and sunshine are free.
Politicians also sometimes malign renewables as unreliable. They (falsely) blamed wind turbine failures for outages during Texas’s extreme cold snap last year, even though the main power failures came from thermal sources (gas, coal, nuclear) that hadn’t been winterized.
There are, of course, times when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow. But it has become quite easy to forecast those periods and plan around them. Battery technology is steadily improving, too, enabling storage for later use.

Besides, in the summer, peak energy demand is pretty well matched with peak solar generation, as University of Wisconsin at Madison professor Gregory Nemet notes. People crank up the AC most when it’s sunny out.
Extreme heat can make solar production less efficient. But so far, the main heat-related disruptions to energy supply (in Texas, as well as France and Germany) appear to involve thermal producers. Thermal plants can require large amounts of cooling water, for example.
Economic forces are already making the transition away from fossil fuels inevitable. The only question is how quickly that happens — before or after the planet passes the point of no return — and how motivated governments are to accelerate the shift. Politicians could, for instance, fund more R&D into battery technology, offer more incentives for renewable investments or put a price on carbon.
There have been some recent legislative and court setbacks in the United States that make such interventions more challenging. And voters haven’t exactly put two and two together yet: There’s a cosmic irony to the fact that as the world burns, many complain that fossil fuels should be cheaper.
But we always knew this transition would be painful and politically fraught, because we can’t switch everything overnight.
People drive to work in the cars they have. They’re stuck with whatever heating or cooling technology they have already invested in. When there’s a major shock to fossil-fuel supply or demand — right now, unfortunately, we have both — consumers can’t just switch seamlessly to electric vehicles, heat pumps and rooftop solar. Instead, they must absorb these costly shocks, which effectively makes them a little poorer.
In the near term, it’s reasonable for politicians to try to reduce oil and natural gas prices, to limit their constituents’ suffering. But our leaders should also be pushing aggressively for more clean energy — which has so far kept today’s heat and energy crisis from being even worse, and which might, one day, prevent us from enduring this expensive agony again

[SumJongGuy]

Nope. Solar is saving the grid, they just won’t admit it. Triple the capacity this year compared to last year.

That's Texcellent! Beto needs to be blasting that info on 11..

[billyk]

There were rolling black outs a few times earlier in the summer when 3 power generators went offline for maintenance. But those are back on line now.

[SumJongGuy]

[KQ]

[The SnowShow]

Eastern WA?! 🥵🥵

[KQ]

Eastern WA?! 🥵🥵

Yeah - Walla Walla. Tri Cities is worse. They are up in the teens.

Here's a question for the hive: I've got fans running in my barn but it's so hot they just feel like blow dryers to me. Is there a point where it just makes it worse?

[Iowagriz]

Can you somehow rig up misters with a water hose?

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