Southwest U.S. Heat Dome

[Drach]

Steve, there better places to live .
My 10 day forecast in the SF bay area as a max of 80*
I grew up in houston so I do understand.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Steve, there better places to live .
My 10 day forecast in the SF bay area as a max of 80*
I grew up in houston so I do understand.

I lived in Cali nine years (specifically westside of LA) but I hated not being near my family and only seeing them a few times a year. Maybe when my niece and nephew get too old to want to go to the arcade, the zoo, Sea World, etc with their uncle all the time I'll look at going back to Cali or somewhere else. Right now though I'll stick around and just bitch about the heat. On the plus side at least it was actually a dry heat today with a dewpoint around 50. Last week when it was 105+ with dewpoints in the mid 60s was nasty though. God I hope we don't see another week like that the rest of the year. Or the rest of the decade. Though I imagine this will be a normal summer by 2040 to 2060, when I'll be long gone out of South Texas.

 

[IronWing]

Depending on how deep one has to dig, how expensive this is and whether the water can be made usable and drinkable.

All the surface water and groundwater in the Phoenix basin is spoken for, several times over. Arizona has a 100 year assured water supply requirement for planned developments. Unfortunately, the criteria for demonstrating a 100 year water supply are so far from reality that developers can keep on building with no regard for the future.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Here is an interesting graphic from our local CBS affiliate:

So you can see how quickly our summers are getting way worse. I remember when 1998 was considered the nightmare summer and Republicans would always start their trendlines at 1998 to argue the Earth wasn't warming. Right now 2022 would be in possession of the #4 spot on this list and by Friday it will have climbed to the #3 spot. Will probably be at the #1 spot by the second week of August and probably no less than 85 days by the end of summer.

 

[K1052]

All the surface water and groundwater in the Phoenix basin is spoken for, several times over. Arizona has a 100 year assured water supply requirement for planned developments. Unfortunately, the criteria for demonstrating a 100 year water supply are so far from reality that developers can keep on building with no regard for the future.

I was reading a story the other day about if the "subdivision" is 5 houses or less they don't even need to pretend they've got water. Everybody is hauling it or sinking super expensive dry holes and is mostly like "meh obviously the municipal governments won't just let us go dry".

Seems like a problem.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Here is an interesting graphic from our local CBS affiliate:

So you can see how quickly our summers are getting way worse. I remember when 1998 was considered the nightmare summer and Republicans would always start their trendlines at 1998 to argue the Earth wasn't warming. Right now 2022 would be in possession of the #4 spot on this list and by Friday it will have climbed to the #3 spot. Will probably be at the #1 spot by the second week of August and probably no less than 85 days by the end of summer.

I know it's not really an accident but I appreciate that the state hit hardest by the initial wave of climate change catastrophe is probably going to be Texas. Heat, rising tides, mass migrations, unusable land, TX is gonna have it all.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I know it's not really an accident but I appreciate that the state hit hardest by the initial wave of climate change catastrophe is probably going to be Texas. Heat, rising tides, mass migrations, unusable land, TX is gonna have it all.

I think Florida has gotten it the worst so far with how often Miami has been flooding the last ~10 years.

 

[K1052]

I think Florida has gotten it the worst so far with how often Miami has been flooding the last ~10 years.

Rest of the country might want to build a wall to keep the Floridians out when the time comes.

 

[Pens1566]

I think Florida has gotten it the worst so far with how often Miami has been flooding the last ~10 years.

Miami is one of the most vulnerable cities to a sea level rise. Especially when you take into account property values.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Miami is one of the most vulnerable cities to a sea level rise. Especially when you take into account property values.

Fun chart:

(citation: https://southeastfloridaclimatecomp...Projection-Guidance-Report_FINAL_02212020.pdf)

(https://earth.org/data_visualization/sea-level-rise-by-2100-miami/)

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Just moved into third place for worst summer ever recorded in San Antonio, with two months still to go, with August almost always the hottest month of the year here. I'd be completely floored if we finish with less than 80.

Years with most days of 100+ in San Antonio

1. 59 days in 2009
2. 57 days in 2011
3. 41 days and counting in 2022
3. 41 days in 2013
5. 36 days in 2020
5. 36 days in 1998
7. 33 days in 1948

 

[iRONic]

Three day bake job coming:

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Three day bake job coming:

Better than a four month bake job like we're in the middle of in San Antonio

 

[DaaQ]

Earlier today, 85F according to temp gauge on truck and weather channel app, heat index 103F at 1pm.

 

[iRONic]

Better than a four month bake job like we're in the middle of in San Antonio

I feel ya, mang.

 

[FelixDeCat]

A scorcher today in DFW!

 

[ch33zw1z]

Rest of the country might want to build a wall to keep the Floridians out when the time comes.

maybe in jest, but they have 20mil people, could get messy for the rest of us.

I hear there’s lots of area out in the Midwest for good ole Floridians

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Just barely eeked out a 100 degree day today at the SA airport to bring 2022 in sole possession of 3rd place for most days of 100+ in San Antonio in a year, notching our 42nd day officially today. Only 17 more for the alltime record, though we're probably looking at more like 40-50 more days of 100+ before this horrible and unprecedented summer ends. Gotta say the 100 today feels nice after a bunch of 103-107, not joking. Heat index is only 104 today.

 

[nakedfrog]

Just barely eeked out a 100 degree day today at the SA airport to bring 2022 in sole possession of 3rd place for most days of 100+ in San Antonio in a year, notching our 42nd day officially today. Only 17 more for the alltime record, though we're probably looking at more like 40-50 more days of 100+ before this horrible and unprecedented summer ends. Gotta say the 100 today feels nice after a bunch of 103-107, not joking. Heat index is only 104 today.

I've said the same thing in the winter after a polar vortex had finally fucked off and we made it back up to 10º 😛

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I've said the same thing in the winter after a polar vortex had finally fucked off and we made it back up to 10º 😛

Ugh polar vortex. Brings me back to the time we had one of those come in back in '21 and bring temps into the mid 20s and force us into five days of rolling blackouts. We had three inches of snow one night and one inch 3 days later, it was brutal. Had to put on a sweatshirt AND a beanie to go outside. Don't know how our brave electrical grid made it out of that one alive. Literally shut the city down for five days and had Soviet bread lines at the supermarket in my neighborhood.

 

[snoopy7548]

Ugh polar vortex. Brings me back to the time we had one of those come in back in '21 and bring temps into the mid 20s and force us into five days of rolling blackouts. We had three inches of snow one night and one inch 3 days later, it was brutal. Had to put on a sweatshirt AND a beanie to go outside. Don't know how our brave electrical grid made it out of that one alive.

Texans: "Cut us some slack, alright? We're built to handle the heat, not the cold and snow!"
Also Texans: "Man, this heat is really kicking our asses."

 

[Wreckem]

Just moved into third place for worst summer ever recorded in San Antonio, with two months still to go, with August almost always the hottest month of the year here. I'd be completely floored if we finish with less than 80.

Years with most days of 100+ in San Antonio

1. 59 days in 2009
2. 57 days in 2011
3. 41 days and counting in 2022
3. 41 days in 2013
5. 36 days in 2020
5. 36 days in 1998
7. 33 days in 1948

DFW will have to hit 72 days to break our record of 71 days of 100 degree weather back in 2011. We are slightly behind track but they are saying 100 degrees could stretch well into September for North Central Texas.

 

[Paratus]

Texans: "Cut us some slack, alright? We're built to handle the heat, not the cold and snow!"
Also Texans: "Man, this heat is really kicking our asses."

Governor Abbott will do everything possible (that doesn’t cut into profits) to make sure there are no blackouts - until after Election Day. Then whoa doggie! It’ll be like a third world country during a civil war. But again Abbott will come through and allow the power industry to recover lost revenue from the blackouts through tacked on end user fees as Jesus intended.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

DFW will have to hit 72 days to break our record of 71 days of 100 degree weather back in 2011. We are slightly behind track but they are saying 100 degrees could stretch well into September for North Central Texas.

Expecting this crap to go into mid September here too. Though I hope it's more June than July since June we only had 17 days of 100+. We're batting 20/21 in July I think.

 

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