Climate in the 21st Century

injinji said:

We have been in the 90's for a few days, but just missed it today. Plus we had 37% humidity. That's cause for a party around here. But the drawback is rain is always four or five days away.

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usually our 90's and above the humidity ranges around 59 to 71, depending on what comes through from the north, it's usually the south gulf winds that bring it in. Now if we get another heat dome on top of us, that 71 rises to about 77 and then it get really oppessive that usually drives the temps here with the humidity to about 110 to 115, that was last weekend for us......further south along the border those towns hit 120F with the dew point in the high 70's......it gets crazy around here during the summers with the heat...

Polluter pays in Vermont

It’s starting early this year.

There’s a special on CNN right now called Violent Earth. S1 E2 “wildfire” it’s on again at 9pm PT

for those who are watching or will watch. I lived in Paradise Ca down off of Pearson, one road away from Edgewood where the 5 people died in their cars. They talk about Pearson a few times. I was that close to dying. I too barely made it out of that road. Kind of hard to watch but it’s got some interesting facts about the fires nowadays.

Not climate, but environment

Early threat of extreme heat for the eastern half of US

cannabineer said:

Early threat of extreme heat for the eastern half of US

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/weather/heat-dome-summer-hurricane-climate/index.html

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Local 10 day forcast. First "heatwave" of the season. I would not call it extream heat for the region but a good month early for temps to stay that high for such a long period of time

Joshua trees: bad news with a bit of good. The big summer storm last year and a decent one in winter is encouraging seeds to sprout.

VaSmile said:

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Local 10 day forcast. First "heatwave" of the season. I would not call it extream heat for the region but a good month early for temps to stay that high for such a long period of time

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be careful of that heat dome.....it's not the temp you need to be worries about it's the humidity and the dew point number, like for us doing here that 97 with a 60 dew point will fell like 102 to 103...so beware...drink a lot of water....

looks like i need to start looking at the lower gulf...seems something may be brewing.....according to the weathermen and women down here this direction we might get 5 to 6 inches out of this....then again mother nature may send it somewhere else....we shall see...

VaSmile said:

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Local 10 day forcast. First "heatwave" of the season. I would not call it extream heat for the region but a good month early for temps to stay that high for such a long period of time

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In Oregon, we don't get high heat and high humidity like you are seeing in that forecast. I found a chart on Granger's site that gives me context:



Uck. 97 F, 75% RH feels like 132 F or 56 C. I hope you have a safe place to ride it out. Stay safe.

Fogdog said:

In Oregon, we don't get high heat and high humidity like you are seeing in that forecast. I found a chart on Granger's site that gives me context:

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Uck. 97 F, 75% RH feels like 132 F or 56 C. I hope you have a safe place to ride it out. Stay safe.

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that chart even scares me, cause i've been in some of those upper echelons of the heat index, especially where i live in tx

They don't give a solution but the information in this vid is thought provoking.




Combined risk analysis (risks to life or property loss due to heat, cold, fire, flood, drought) projected through 2040 shows Florida, Louisiana, Texas and the Arizona-California border region to be the riskiest areas. These regions are also where people are moving to, mostly driven by economic factors such as high cost of living in east and west coast cities or lack of economic opportunities in the rust belt and mid-west.

Fogdog said:

In Oregon, we don't get high heat and high humidity like you are seeing in that forecast. I found a chart on Granger's site that gives me context:

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Uck. 97 F, 75% RH feels like 132 F or 56 C. I hope you have a safe place to ride it out. Stay safe.

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Back when I had the bike, I saw a peak of 118° on the thermometer I’d mounted on it. This was the Sierra foothills, so humidity 20% tops. Not a problem in my summerweight riding jacket (no way would I throw a leg over my ferrous steed without jacket and helmet).

In ‘03 I had the experience of riding through south-central Texas. It was 98°, but muggy. At some point riding through the flatlands to the left of the middle of nowhere, I started to hallucinate.

A few miles on, there was a roadside diner. I spent an hour in their AC, dumping heat and taking on a rather large amount of soda. The rest of the day went fine, but it was full dark when I trundled into Eagle Pass (recently in the news for anti-immigrant shenanigans.)

West coast heat is nothing like East/Gulf heat.