Southwest U.S. Heat Dome

[herm0016]

northern front Range Colorado and west of the first foothill. Topped out at 95 today. pretty hot for here, and we are usually 10 degrees or so cooler than in town not far east of us.

 

[iRONic]

111 F Heat Index in downtown Louisville today. Our 10 day forecast ~25 miles south:

 

[vi edit]

We moved out of Lexington in December 2019. That year we had 90 days over 90. It was something like 120 days within 3 degrees of 90.

In the first week of October it was over 100 degrees at 5pm and my poor kids were running cross country races in Versailles in that bullshit.

I was done.

 

[iRONic]

This isn’t the norm. Yet…

 

[IronWing]

We moved out of Lexington in December 2019. That year we had 90 days over 90. It was something like 120 days within 3 degrees of 90.

In the first week of October it was over 100 degrees at 5pm and my poor kids were running cross country races in Versailles in that bullshit.

I was done.

I moved out of Lexington because we went 58 days straight with no sunshine, gray and gloomy with more gray and gloomy on top of that. I remember flying out of Lexington, breaking through the clouds, and getting pissed that my access to sunshine was blocked by a pissant layer of clouds.

 

[akenbennu]

111 F Heat Index in downtown Louisville today. Our 10 day forecast ~25 miles south:

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Yep, it's going to be a rough week here.

 

[brycejones]

northern front Range Colorado and west of the first foothill. Topped out at 95 today. pretty hot for here, and we are usually 10 degrees or so cooler than in town not far east of us.

Keep drilling that oil herm.

 

[nOOky]

Let's Go Brandon! It's his fault, right?

 

[Roger Wilco]

Going up to 95 here in Michigan, with near 100% humidity today, and we have more of the same tomorrow.

Welcome to New Florida.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Going up to 95 here in Michigan, with near 100% humidity today, and we have more of the same tomorrow.

Welcome to New Florida.

boo hiss please don’t send it east

 

[brycejones]

Going up to 95 here in Michigan, with near 100% humidity today, and we have more of the same tomorrow.

Welcome to New Florida.

They cancelled school tomorrow for my kids in the Detroit area.

 

[Roger Wilco]

They cancelled school tomorrow for my kids in the Detroit area.

Our kids are already done for the year, but school would be cancelled for sure if it were still in session. The school doesn’t have any central air.

 

[brycejones]

Our kids are already done for the year, but school would be cancelled for sure if it were still in session. The school doesn’t have any central air.

Yeah, that's how my daughter's school is. Expect lots of school districts to ask for money for AC, (because god forbid we actually replace 80 year buildings in Michigan) and lots of old fuckers talking about how "back in my day we didn't have AC and did just fine".

 

[Paratus]

They cancelled school tomorrow for my kids in the Detroit area.

Our kids are already done for the year, but school would be cancelled for sure if it were still in session. The school doesn’t have any central air.

Much like how we get made fun of for closing schools if a light dusting of snow falls should I make fun of you guys because your schools can’t handle “summer”?

 

[Jaskalas]

and lots of old fuckers talking about how "back in my day we didn't have AC and did just fine".

Ones I know claim to have hit -60f in the blizzard of '79.
With -20f as the "high" of the day.
Actual records indicate -20f as the all time low.

And living in the Midwest for a few years now, I've barely seen below 0f.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Ones I know claim to have hit -60f in the blizzard of '79.
With -20f as the "high" of the day.
Actual records indicate -20f as the all time low.

And living in the Midwest for a few years now, I've barely seen below 0f.

might be with the wind chill

 

[Paratus]

might be with the wind chill

Back in 94 in Indiana they closed the Universities for a day when it hit -20F with -60F windchills. Spending a minute outside gave me cold induced headaches.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Back in 94 in Indiana they closed the Universities for a day when it hit -20F with -60F windchills. Spending a minute outside gave me cold induced headache.

that’s pretty dang cold.

back in ‘02 (maybe 03) January in my area got down to -40 F with the wind chill. Freeze ya stepping out side very quickly. Schools were closed for a few days. My wife (GF back then) went to HI with some family friends and missed it. I was t9 texting her mean words

 

[iRONic]

My wife and grandson just got home from an allergy apointment. They grabbed a case of cold water bottles from the fridge and turned around to go give em to the homeless people sitting on the corners in town!

 

[brycejones]

Much like how we get made fun of for closing schools if a light dusting of snow falls should I make fun of you guys because your schools can’t handle “summer”?

Hey I remember being a kid and it being so hot we used boiling water to cool off. Damn kids these days are so weak!

The lack of AC in schools here is just as symptomatic of deliberate disinvestment as your issues in Texas.

 

[MrSquished]

Going up to 95 here in Michigan, with near 100% humidity today, and we have more of the same tomorrow.

Welcome to New Florida.

oh man that's nasty.

I'll be in the mediterranean in a month where it will be in the nineties every day and hit the low hundreds as well, but there will be zero humidity and a breeze off the sea. I can deal with dry heat that high, it's the humidity that is killer.

 

[vi edit]

I moved out of Lexington because we went 58 days straight with no sunshine, gray and gloomy with more gray and gloomy on top of that. I remember flying out of Lexington, breaking through the clouds, and getting pissed that my access to sunshine was blocked by a pissant layer of clouds.

I'd just generally say "welcome to living in the Midwest, where you get to enjoy both ass ends of mother nature."

 

[Pens1566]

Back in 94 in Indiana they closed the Universities for a day when it hit -20F with -60F windchills. Spending a minute outside gave me cold induced headaches.

Worst I've seen was also in Indiana. Temp was in the negative teens with wind chill down around -40. That was brutal. Power was out as well for like 2 days of that shit.

 

[hal2kilo]

I'd just generally say "welcome to living in the Midwest, where you get to enjoy both ass ends of mother nature."

Amen. That's why I will never live in the upper mid-west again. Lived in Chicago from 75 to 80. First winter was record cold, second and third winters were record snow levels. Snow piles still around in April, then basically no spring, straight into 90 degree weather for most of the summer, then short fall. Never again.

 

[nakedfrog]

I moved out of Lexington because we went 58 days straight with no sunshine, gray and gloomy with more gray and gloomy on top of that. I remember flying out of Lexington, breaking through the clouds, and getting pissed that my access to sunshine was blocked by a pissant layer of clouds.

Seems you moved to the right place! I like my "gray and gloomy", it's given me the capacity to enjoy the sun when it's out.

I'd just generally say "welcome to living in the Midwest, where you get to enjoy both ass ends of mother nature."

Heh, that's more poetic than the way I usually described it when people asked why I was leaving.