Printable View
Wow!!!! First day of August (already) and this morning's temp is 64 degrees with a forecast high barely making 80!!!! Been this way all week, Tuesday morning was 48 degrees at 6AM!!!! Around here we're always good for a month of mid 90 temps, wouldn't be surprised if that didn't happen til September this year. The weather seems to be running about a month behind this year!!!!
How tolerable has your summer been!
Our summers here have been the same as your. Cool and not the highs we're used to. I think we had 1 90deg. day in July. and nothing near that in the future. I figured that they screwed up the calender somewhere by like you said a month. Lots of rain and no heat maybe water skiing in December??
Yep, the jet stream dropping down in a big trough through the Dakota's down into the MW and back up in the NE has brought a lot of people in the extended upper MW some welcome cooler temps. Around here people area already saying that we're going to pay for it in the winter, predicting frigid temps and big snows. For me this is just another variation in the global weather patterns that have been happening since the earth formed.
We often don't get decent weather until after July 4, but this year not that much rain since early May (although we did have two days of rain last week that shut down my solar powered spray booth). Temps in the 80s right now, mid 50s overnight...................just about perfect.
Saw a report the last couple days that "global warming" hasn't happened now for 17 years, 10 months...................no wonder the chicken littles changed it to "climate change"............the rest of us just call it weather...........
High 70's and into the mid 80's last week in the Portland area - woke last night to an incredible thunder and lightning display - no rain, but a whole lotta light and sound!
This year in Tucson, Arizona we had a record number of days in a row over 100'! I can deal with that since the humidity is low, but...
Two weeks ago our neighborhood suffered a "micro-burst" that generated 80-100MPH winds with about 1-1/4 inches of rain in 20 minutes!
The result was fences and block walls blown down... porch and carport roofs torn off... roofing actually stripped off of the wood, with the resulting water leakes flooding rooms, and bringing ceilings down... one house losing the ENTIRE roof structure... and of course cars, fences and houses damaged by the flying debris! At the neighboring air base a stored f-16 broke it's tie-downs, and landed on top of another one! I've lived in this same neighborhood since '76, and never seen this kind of damage.
We finally got our fencing replaced yesterday. :-(
I grew up in Illinois, so I spent more than one night sitting in a storm cellar listening to the tornados go over. I'll take this micro-burst over those! Tornados are REALLY scarey! {:-)
For the past year and a half it seems like we get a week of weather like we're used to, and a week and a half of strange weather. Our winter was pretty cool last year. But, that's how I remember them growing up. This summer has been super nice. Maybe a complete weeks worth of hot days. I bet winter will suck but I'm used to it. :LOL:
It has been 100 + here in the nw for the last 5 weeks except 1 week in the mix. It is forecast at 100+ for the next 10 days.
Lovely San Diego inland temps for the past few weeks has been in the mid 90's with them forecasting high 90's for the most of next week. When your use to perfect weather year round this spike in summer weather is brutal! That and its a very humid heat coming up from the storms in the south. The pooe guys 100 miles east of us are close to 110 degrees for the next few months. I should never complain!
I've not had the opportunity to spend much time in the San Diego area, but about ten years back did go out to check out the Solar Company who make small gas turbines for power applications. As I recall they told us that the area around the bay, and up into the surrounding hills stayed nicely temperate, but once past the crest of the hills the high desert temperatures climbed something like a degree every ten miles, or maybe even worse than that, until you got into the desert which peaked at about 115F to 118F. But it's a dry heat, so it's not really hot, right??? ;):HMMM::rolleyes::LOL::LOL::LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by M.T.
You got it fairly close. The coast is always cooler The cool breeze off the ocean can make its way up a few of the valleys and keep things nice some 15 to 20 miles inland. A few of those valleys Don't get much of the ocean breeze and are bowls smoldering in the sun all day. Most of the valley's are high density areas which are nothing but concrete, asphalt, and stucco. They make for a Giant heat sinks and man o man does it get warm. The mountains are just east of us so the cooler coast air hits the hot desert air which is just on the other side of the mountains and develops into the big Thunder bumpers that often light up the eastern sky. Seldom do we get much moister from them but they are impressive to watch and listen to. This whole region is a desert.
Down here on the Gulf Coast we haven't been in the 100s "yet" but August is just now beginning and sometimes it can be a booger. However, we can always depend on the Humidity to be high and steamy during the Summer. I've even had to start mowing before the dew is gone from the grass because of the weather. I'll clean off the bottom of the mower deck this Fall LOL.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Severson
Same weather here. Ain't it great.
Six weeks ago we left our Southern Hemisphere winter and headed to Scotland and the Northern Hemisphere summer.
Sheesh!
One of the first thing we did when we arrived in Glasgow was to buy a woollen jumper and a heavy jacket each.
It was as cold as a frog's tit.
Global warming?
Yeah right!
Whew!!! Doing some dirty work on the '32 sedan today, and with some overcast it was uncharacteristically muggy. Not much difference in the shop temp from outside.......