Crazy weather all over the country

dseag2

dseag2

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After over 2 months of Triple Digits in Dallas, we have now been getting rain and have never been cooler at the end of August/beginning of September. We usually never get rain and are well into the 90's at this time. I sat outside a Starbucks today and read a book because the temps were so pleasant. I think we reached 81 degrees today.

Meanwhile, California is experiencing a heatwave, and Northern California is dealing with fires. Seattle and Portland are experiencing record heat.

There were no hurricanes in August, which is a rarity.

And Mississippi, with the horrible flooding and lack of potable water. Just terrible.

We all talk about where we would ideally like to live, but with the way the weather is changing it is really hard to anticipate what area of the country will have a tolerable climate in the future.
 

The weather here in Ohio was pleasant today and this past week. It's actually warmer than I care for. I prefer from 50 degrees to about 72. I'll let you know when winter hits us and will have lots to complain of:D
 

dseag2 said:
After over 2 months of Triple Digits in Dallas, we have now been getting rain and have never been cooler at the end of August/beginning of September. We usually never get rain and are well into the 90's at this time. I sat outside a Starbucks today and read a book because the temps were so pleasant. I think we reached 81 degrees today.

Meanwhile, California is experiencing a heatwave, and Northern California is dealing with fires. Seattle and Portland are experiencing record heat.

There were no hurricanes in August, which is a rarity.

And Mississippi, with the horrible flooding and lack of potable water. Just terrible.

We all talk about where we would ideally like to live, but with the way the weather is changing it is really hard to anticipate what area of the country will have a tolerable climate in the future.
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You're right..the weather has been very strange. Witnessing these devastating weather events is frightening. Catastrophes are happening globally and it seems they are coming in rapid succession. As to where to live, I'm still putting my money on N.J. I'm liking that the evenings have cooled down. I had to use my HD's fleece jacket at the outdoor concert tonight and I wore long sleeves. But that means saving money on air conditioning. I'm wondering if we are going to have a cooler than usually September because I do want to take my annual week at the timeshare soon, go again perhaps the end of Sept or early October, then at least one more time in Oct. Hopefully no hurricanes will be active during that time since the hurricane season is slow getting started.
 
Here in Europe, the Jet stream is too far north, allowing hot air to come up from Africa. This is why it's been so hot this year. Bands of rain are coming across the Atlantic, encountering the high pressure and being forced to veer north of us. Hopefully, the jet stream will sink further south and we'll get the rain we so desperately need.
 
All my water butts are at the ready to catch all this lovely rain we have been promised.
It's grey and damp out there at the moment, but no sign of any water from the heavens, and with my luck, the rain will drop on every house in the region except mine. 😊
 
Record high for this date in San Jose is 100F and forecast shows 104F by 3pm. At 10am already 84F. That noted, parts of San Francisco I was at a wedding on Saturday, today won't see 70F due to its usual marine air flow. Unfortunately, after an eventful Sunday night at a post wedding dinner, I didn't wake up at usual sunrise but rather 8:30am when our morning low temperature had already risen from a rather high low of 70F to 78F so inside my old 4-plex townhouse residence with poorly insulated walls, it is already 77F. I turned my AC off 2 decades ago and it is rare days like this that not having AC becomes unpleasant. Am too burnt out and unmotivated after 2 days of wedding socials to drive off to the coast, the current crop of movies in cool theaters would bore me, so am wondering how to spend the day? There is a huge indoor mall a couple miles away but then am not a shopping enthusiast. Tomorrow will be a repeat.

I do have a hospital bed product that looks like an air mattress but with much denser vinyl that is used by filling with water for those with tender parts. I'll fill it with cool water from a faucet then on my living floor reclined reading won't be that awful. Unlike many inland regions, our tap water is always cool.
 
I'm in Scotland, and I must say that over the years a weird thing happens whereby it gets hotter and sunnier (in the Summer anyway) as the day goes on. So this morning for example, it started out pretty cloudy and cool, with a sprinkle of rain, and now at 7:15pm its 20 degrees with the sun splitting the skies. I love it (good sunset photography) but it does mean I can't plan anything to do, or go anywhere :rolleyes:
 
Almost 2pm now and the downtown temperature a couple blocks south shows 107F! I'm set to take a walk outside as a challenge to cope with., I'll report back to in subsequent post, haha. Will wear my green baseball style cap.

Easy as a test because I can return to my home that is currently showing 78F here downstairs and just 80F upstairs where I had just been contemplating the immense universe awhile. My outdoor thermometer is in underneath shade of an old AC unit near concrete still not fully warmed up by convection heat from nearby concrete sunny zones.
 
Ok, 3pm now and have been back home for about 15 minutes drinking cool milk with brown sugar and now a pop top. Wunderground current showing has dropped a degree to 106F while my above outdoor thermometer continues to increase to 104F as the accumulated heat of the nearby larger concrete mass pushes the shaded thermometer past air temperature. But amazingly, my indoor downstairs temperature shows just 79F while my downstairs ceiling and upstairs room are just 81F. Note I have a digital

So was apparently out for around 3/4 of an hour and for today's exercise as suggested by our health pandemic masters, street sidewalk danced with Sandisk mp3 player and earbuds to 9 rock tunes that my Excel sheet sums to almost 37 minutes. Out my door, it felt hot but not in any unfamiliar way. As a kid, I lived several years near the foothills northeast of Sacramento some summers rather barefoot that tends to be extra hot up and down the range. Out in our unit driveways the black pavement was immediately noticeable with all its absorbed heat radiating out like a furnace. Likewise crossing the residential streets. Where I reached a major boulevard, I looked west and saw a couple blocks away an expected sidewalk zone in partial shade. I would not consider going out in those temperatures if that meant an extended period just in direct sun. But may cope if I can find shade, especially where a landscape has blocked the sun long enough that the ground is no longer radiating heat up. As an extreme, example, the side of a tall enough commercial stone building. Grassy shaded areas also tend to be cool because of an added cooling boost from evaporating moisture. Much more.

Otherwise frying heat radiation that are photons and even worse ultraviolet photons across 3 dimensional space, is unpleasantly damagingly intense with certain surfaces like dark ground and pavement particularly bad. So before about 25 minutes, thin little old me had not sweated much at all. After all I'm a cool guy. 😁 But by the end could feel some forehead sweat with my neck clammy. Just enough that drinking something cool would be an enjoyable reward. And then the ice cream. After all its required on a holiday. 😸
 
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Our weather here in mid BC has been odd we have heat in the mid 90's F. one day, then rain the next day. Yesterday it stormed all day, today it is cloudy, then sunny, but only 67F. I guess it is the beginning of fall.
 

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