Southwest U.S. Heat Dome

[iRONic]

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

Let’s not forget the rampant allergens floating about, around, and in the Ohio river valley!!

We can’t open our windows in the spring. My wife and kid would die.

😡😭😬

 

[vi edit]

Allergies are pretty universal. Texas, Kentucky, hell it's awful here in the PNW. I've got like 6 months straight of various sex bits falling off a tree of some sort that covers my car and patio furniture. It's been like 2.5 years of "Not sure if Covid or Allergies" living here.

 

[hal2kilo]

Allergies are pretty universal. Texas, Kentucky, hell it's awful here in the PNW. I've got like 6 months straight of various sex bits falling off a tree of some sort that covers my car and patio furniture. It's been like 2.5 years of "Not sure if Covid or Allergies" living here.

Holy hell, the annual tree pollen dump has been stretched out like 2 mos. Usually, you get the golden dust blast for a couple weeks, then the rain washes it all away. It's, I think finally done, but the damn cotton woods are still spewing.

 

[nakedfrog]

Allergies are pretty universal. Texas, Kentucky, hell it's awful here in the PNW. I've got like 6 months straight of various sex bits falling off a tree of some sort that covers my car and patio furniture. It's been like 2.5 years of "Not sure if Covid or Allergies" living here.

I took Zyrtec every year in Nebraska, I stopped taking it last August/September here and haven't felt a need to resume just yet!

 

[SteveGrabowski]

boo hiss please don’t send it east

No no no, please send it east. I'm tired of dealing with this heat dome. So nice that it's only forecast to get to 96 here today in San Antonio.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Let’s not forget the rampant allergens floating about, around, and in the Ohio river valley!!

We can’t open our windows in the spring. My wife and kid would die.

😡😭😬

Ugh come to San Antonio in December-February for the cedar pollen, it's one of the nastiest allergens known. Had a really ugly case of cedar fever in December and though it was COVID to the point I tested two weeks in a row, but both were negative. Then thought I was having another nasty case of cedar fever in January even though the pollen count was way below normal for the month and sure enough tested positive for COVID. So cedar fever was basically indistinguishable from Omicron for me (though I was triple vaccinated, guessing omicron is a real bastard if you aren't).

 

[vi edit]

I took Zyrtec every year in Nebraska, I stopped taking it last August/September here and haven't felt a need to resume just yet!

I'm in InnerSE Portland and it's basically a giant botanical garden. I step out my back door and this is what I have. It's like 50 different types of trees/plants in a 100' radius of my house. And it's just like that for miles and miles.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm in InnerSE Portland and it's basically a giant botanical garden. I step out my back door and this is what I have. It's like 50 different types of trees/plants in a 100' radius of my house. And it's just like that for miles and miles.

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I live in between a lake and dozens of acres of woods myself, I just took this picture from my home office window 🙂
I go walking in the woods on a pretty regular basis, so I think I'm probably just not allergic to stuff out here (somewhere around 120 miles to your north)

 

[ch33zw1z]

No no no, please send it east. I'm tired of dealing with this heat dome. So nice that it's only forecast to get to 96 here today in San Antonio.

friday for me is supposed to be 85 and thunderstorms, which means lots of humidity, bearable….but once that gets to 90+ Then I’m hiding inside lol

 

[SteveGrabowski]

friday for me is supposed to be 85 and thunderstorms, which means lots of humidity, bearable….but once that gets to 90+ Then I’m hiding inside lol

Has gotten up to 98 today, might hit 99 by 5PM, so much for the 96 forecast. But it still feels amazing compared to the weekend when it was 105.

 

[DaaQ]

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

Welcome to New Florida.

I worked a Woodhaven Stamping Plant for 12 years, if it was 95F outside it was 115F easy inside the plant. That was in MI.

I worked in a chicken processing plant nearby for a year and half, driving forklift to put leg quarters in the blast freezer. -60 back there. They "upgraded" one year, and on one row you would get hit by the cold blast, the fan side. Yes instant headache. I took a thermometer in the there to see how cold it was, it's what they used to check the middle of pallets to make sure they were below -30, it seems they cant handle much more than that cause thing just kept going, -60,-80-100 was a digital deal so.. You could throw a chicken leg against the wall or support rails, and it would stick. Imagine dropping a pallet. Each cell held 96 pallets, that had to freeze them to -30 in 48 hours.

Now I work outside, today the truck dash mostly said it was 92ish outside, but heat index was around 112-115F

@iRONic I am down between Lake Somerset and Dale Hollow lakes. Almost TN. Thank god for Cable, because I dont have to go into the backwoods to hook people up anymore, I maintain the plant now, so it's keeping the internet on basically.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Ugh we were supposed to be getting a break from this and a day of 96 today, now I see the forecast is 99.

 

[MrSquished]

Wrong thread

 

[BoomerD]

Mid-50's here and sporadic rain today.

 

[hal2kilo]

Mid-50's here and sporadic rain today.

Sun just popped out. Now I can take my walk. 63 inland, you get more clouds on the coast.

 

[thilanliyan]

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".

We need to think of the doors before tackling sweaty kids!! 😛

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Got to 100 today, but dew point is only 55 so it doesn't feel too bad. Much different from when it was 105 with 66 degree dewpoint last week which felt horrific. 100 with 55 dewpoint just feels like standard hot summer day in San Antonio, though it's still not even freaking summer yet. 😡

 

[BoomerD]

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".

The elementary school I went to in the 60's was built about 1890, my high school was a bit newer, opening in 1911-1912.
Neither had AC then. We sweltered in the summers, and frozen in the winters
I dun turnt out normal...

 

[uallas5]

Allergies are pretty universal. Texas, Kentucky, hell it's awful here in the PNW. I've got like 6 months straight of various sex bits falling off a tree of some sort that covers my car and patio furniture. It's been like 2.5 years of "Not sure if Covid or Allergies" living here.

Here in MA we don't have much of a Spring anymore, usually only 2-3 weeks between end of 30's at night and needing to put the window A/C's in because it's between 80-90F during the day, but we still get plenty of pollen in that short time. These are the cooling units on a couple of the MRI's I service. I could knit a sweater with the pollen wool I have to clean off these things every June.

 

[dank69]

Here in MA we don't have much of a Spring anymore, usually only 2-3 weeks between end of 30's at night and needing to put the window A/C's in because it's between 80-90F during the day, but we still get plenty of pollen in that short time. These are the cooling units on a couple of the MRI's I service. I could knit a sweater with the pollen wool I have to clean off these things every June.

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This year has been pretty great so far. Disappointed it doesn't look like we will get a heat wave next week though...

 

[uclaLabrat]

Here in MA we don't have much of a Spring anymore, usually only 2-3 weeks between end of 30's at night and needing to put the window A/C's in because it's between 80-90F during the day, but we still get plenty of pollen in that short time. These are the cooling units on a couple of the MRI's I service. I could knit a sweater with the pollen wool I have to clean off these things every June.

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I thought those were fucking beehives

 

[MrSquished]

This year has been pretty great so far. Disappointed it doesn't look like we will get a heat wave next week though...

Yeah this year in northern NJ has been good. April was 50/50 too cold and just warm enough, but since the first week of May is been beautiful spring weather with some rainy days. Usually in the seventies and low eighties during the day. Low humidity. Looks like another week of it still in the forecast.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Ugh this fucking heat dome will never die.

 

[hal2kilo]

I hope some of So Cal is getting the endless loop of wet and cold out here in the PNW. Looks like some of it got pulled in down there. I guess it can't get over the Sierras though.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Posted this in the Off-Topic weather thread, but figure it fit in here too. Fuck this summer.

So the title of this Washington Post article sums up pretty well how shitty the weather has been in my neck of the woods: San Antonio had 17 days of triple digit heat in June. There’s usually two.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/30/texas-heat-drought-sanantonio-climate/

Another quote from the article:

San Antonio has already seen more than a full summer’s worth of 100-degree days. The city has registered 22 such days, 17 in June and 5 in May, the most on record year-to-date by far; 2009, the previous record holder, only had 13 up to this point. The average yearly 100-degree day count in San Antonio is 18, the great majority of which typically occur in July and August.

Ugh and July and August are the typical hot months here.