HOT weather coming up...

[gmc2003]

I can totally relate to what you west coasters are experiencing. It's supposed to get up near a blistering high of 80* here this week. Last week I had to withstand a mid 60* heat wave. Man I tell ya it was tough.

Seriously, stay safe and keep hydrated. I believe the hottest it's gotten in my part of the world this year was in the 90s. The heat was bearable, but he humidity did me in.

Chris

 

[Bearcarver]

Good lord man! Stay cool Dave!!!

SLC has been hot, but nothing like that. we are looking to break the days over 100 record this summer and broke a few daily's with 105-107. But now we are getting heavy smoke from CA and or AZ blowing in and air quality is in the tank.

Rough summer all over the west.

I have a crazy idea the other day... So we human pump/pipe gas and oil all over the country. But never WATER. South and east could be flooding while our lakes are drying up and they are telling people not to water the yard...I am all about conservation, but how can they ask people to watch the yard die. if the trees died my AC would explode. Anywho - why not pump water around to at least try to make a dent in the droughts? Im not an engineer, but the risk seems low - I mean if it leaked its just water.

Great Idea!! We would be willing to chip in some of our extra Water, for sure!!
When there's Big money in Water, like there is in Oil, Water Pipelines will be springing up all over the place. Meanwhile it might be a good time for some to stop denying climate change. Better Late than Never!!

Bear

 

[sandyut]

Great Idea!! We would be willing to chip in some of our extra Water, for sure!!
When there's Big money in Water, like there is in Oil, Water Pipelines will be springing up all over the place. Meanwhile it might be a good time for some to stop denying climate change. Better Late than Never!!

Bear

Amen to that Bear!

 

[chopsaw]

humidity did me in.

No doubt .
Humidity is higher than the temp here .

 

[RiversideSm0ker]

100 degree temps are simply the norm here in the inland empire. I do my best to deal with it but I have completely abandoned my yard and it is simply dead now. I do wish that I had kept watering it a bit. All of that green grass was absorbing some of the heat that is now just radiating against my tin can of a house. My old A/C is working a miracle to keep it at about 80 inside. So I just live with $300 plus a month electric bills in the Summer. Which translates to about six or seven months a year for me. I'm sure that the heat will not persist for you guys up north but just try to hang in there the best you can. My dad is from Walla Walla so I have family in that area up north. Take care and keep yourselves hydrated just as much as you can.

G

 

[paul_alex]

So I have a really humid living room in my apartment where I hang out a lot. There is an 8000 BTU window AC but the room still feels miserable.

Should I get a dehumidifier? Bit concerned about the electrical load. And I am guessing without any way to vent that air the room will get slightly warmer but will that be offset by the AC being more efficient in less humid conditions? Also does anybody have a model they recommend and is it worth getting a warranty? Thanks.

 

[chopsaw]

An ac unit will take moisture out of the air if it's working as it should .

 

[Bearcarver]

Like Chop said, A properly sized & functioning AC will remove a lot of water from the air in the house. My last house was 2900 Sq Ft, with a very big HP & Central Air.
When I had those 17' High Tomato plants, the only water I gave them were the 3 full buckets of water a day I got from the AC drain.

I have no idea how much my new Bryant Hybrid removes, because I diverted the drain hose through a hole in the floor, beside the Gas Heater. The water goes from the AC drain to the stones under the floor, to the perforated pipe around the perimeter of my house, downhill (Underground) to the woods, and out the end through a Rodent-proof End-Cap.

Bear

 

[daveomak]

I noticed sidewalks buckling.. here's one... When I came back from the doctor's office, tlhe hump was gone and new concrete had been poured..

 

[Bearcarver]

I noticed sidewalks buckling.. here's one... When I came back from the doctor's office, tlhe hump was gone and new concrete had been poured..

LOL---They fixed it quick, before the Skate-Rats show up!!

Bear

 

[sandyut]

I noticed sidewalks buckling..

the highway buckled here a month back... the UDOT people said this happens when the over night temps don't get low enough for the concrete to contract. too much heat for too long. we are in the mid 90s and the weather guys said this was normal...but a normal 95 after shattering daily high records for a month isn't exactly relief. mid 90s isn't bad when June is normal, but June was flaming hot.

 

[daveomak]

we've pretty much been at 100 for about a month... 1 day in the 80's....

If this pattern keeps up, they will be farming cotton, sugar cane and mud bugs in Montana..
117F was the only record so far...

June...

July

 

[chopsaw]

Those long runs of high temps are brutal . Hope it breaks for you guys soon .
Humidity here finally dropped to 58 % . Hope to see some new flowers on my pepper plants .

 

[sandyut]

it been a summer for the books for sure. I don't recall celebrating the summer solstice because the days would start getting shorter as much as this year. Praying for snow already.

 

[mneeley490]

Late to the party, but I just found this thread.
During that heatwave I was in Winthrop, which is a very small, Western-y town about an hour's drive from Dave's place. I used to hunt mule deer in that area every October, but I hadn't been over there in about 20 years. So when COVID restrictions broke, I wanted to visit and made reservations at a motel 2-3 months in advance, thinking it would probably only be in the 80's that weekend, June 26-27. Ha!
Officially, it hit 106° that weekend. The "real-feel" feature on my phone said 113°. Our motel room walls were made of rustic 4x4s, sealed with some kind of varnish. It was leaking out of the wood and creating a sticky, drippy mess, as our 1970's era, A/C window unit couldn't keep up, but it was still slightly cooler than outside. I think it finally got down to maybe 90° indoors that night. My wife and I were soaking towels in water and swapping them with others from the mini-fridge, covering ourselves in order to keep from getting heat-stroke. Just so glad I was driving my '16 Challenger with excellent A/C. My old, '00 Jeep (with broken A/C) would have been miserable, and listening to my wife holler thru all that would have made the trip much, much worse.

Seattle area isn't so bad this week, mainly 70's.

 

[mneeley490]

Dude the Bellevue area is a very unique place.......many eat out every meal (I’m not joking)......

And I LIE NOT while sitting at lunch today I overheard a 24 year old (I know cause I could hear it from across the room) talk to someone talking about how there is NO WAY she could use her AC because it would hurt “earth” (used in the possessive personal sense) and that people just need to go outside to cool off.......she further went on saying the world needs to stop eating beef and focus on eating oats, oat milk, and goats because in her heart she knows that’s what earth wants “people kind” to do!!!!!!

and you know the funniest ironic thing there is......they constantly hire a meat eating carnivore to design their roads and coveted trails.....ie by proxy they heavily subsidize the beef industry...........

Unfortunately, that's pretty typical for Bellevue-ites.
There's an old story about approaching 4-way stops in Bellevue. Whoever is driving the most expensive car, has the right-of-way.