It's Frickin' Hot Here

[Bonny]

Last month I was ready to post my annual "The Heat Came On" after weeks of fog.

Yesterday DH's weather station registered 103.3 degrees. Our normal for this time of year is mid to high 60s. It's never been that hot here since we moved in 1990. I doubt anyone in this town of 40,000 has an air conditioner.

I'm trying to train for my upcoming Tahoe Rim Hike but I had to cut my hike short at 5.5 miles vs 13. It was mid 90s and hauling a 40lb pack in that weather is no fun and actually a little dangerous.

I'm so whiney it's hard to believe I lived in the greater Phoenix area for six years!

Make me feel better by telling me your weird weather stories.

[saveinla]

We are watching the fire that came up yesterday across the hill. Hopefully it will be controlled, but the smoke is very bad.

108 degree weather is not helping. Today it's supposed to be 100 and going down to 90s the next 2 days. We had one fire like this in 2009 and that one also had ash spilling across over.

[dee27]

It is rainy, chilly and damp here with temps in the low sixties that is 20 degrees below normal for this time of year. I asked DH to put the electric blanket back on the bed. 

[andi9899]

It's about 80* here and beautiful. Wanna come over?

[crazycat]

It's been god awful hot here all week . Like 105 , 108 , etc . Today it's supposed to "only" get to a lovely , cool 101 . UGH 

[Bonny]

Sept 2, 2017 12:05:23 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

It's about 80* here and beautiful. Wanna come over?

Sounds good. Do you have a pool and umbrella drinks?

[busymom]

It's been a very cool Summer here.  We're only at 76 degrees, which is the warmest it's been all week.  


While I don't mind being in the "comfortable" temperature range, because we didn't get our usual temps in the 90's in August, my poor garden is way behind schedule.  I'm thinking we will not have any of our own pumpkins by Halloween, and most of my tomatoes are still green.  How strange that we need higher temps, just another 10 degrees or so, just to have something to eat before the frost arrives.

[zibazinski]

Sept 2, 2017 10:54:45 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

We just finished up the hottest August on record (last 100 years).  We had a heat wave that reached 104, I believe, and we are settling into another string of hot days.  What's really bad is that it's not cooling off at night. It's also a very bad year for wildfires which is making air quality nasty, sometimes worse than Shanghai.

edited:  We are in the Portland, OR metro area.

More to come my Aunt in Salem says

[wvugurl26]

It's 59 and raining all day here. It's not normally this cold for labor day but it's been a pretty crappy wet summer.

[NastyWoman]

It's 106 degrees here and It has been a long tome since we had anything like this here. Must have been about 10 years or so ago. At the time there wasn't a fan to be had around here. Not only did I have fans then, next year I went out and bought a portable AC unit. Before today that thing was used exactly once. It doesn't work as well as a regular AC but, in combination with two of my fans, it keeps my living room comfy. 
And I know where I will sleep tonight -> hint: not in the bedroom 

[thyme4change]

It is a beautiful 75 degrees here. Inside. Because I will not go outside. Because I was outside for like 5 minutes and wanted to throw up. Saunas are cooler and more comfortable than whatever that shit is. Bleck.

[Deleted]

Our friend in Pasadena posted on FB that it was 115 yesterday, but supposed to cool down to 105 today - and that is real temp, not heat index.  

[Lizard Queen]

Low 70's here. I flipped the thermostat from A.C. to furnace about a week ago. It's barely hit 80 all summer. I miss the nice dependable weather of my childhood. My uncle from Poland visited us one summer. He called it, weather of the wealthy. That was a nice summer. Sunny and mid 80's nearly every day.

[Deleted]

I've had the A/C off for a week now and just got an electric bill that's a world-record low for me ($63).  In our previous, larger house, and with DH's intolerance of high temps, the bill for August could run over $300.  Even when it's 80 outside I have good cross-ventilation and the ceiling fans help.  It's been a cooler-than-usual summer with a few major rainstorms here in the KC area.

[Artemis Windsong]

Beautiful summer day. here.  We were missed by the 100 degree days for weeks.  I am thankful because I was panting in air conditioning at 90 degrees and above.

[toomuchreality]

We are still in the mid to upper 90's (F) here. I stay inside and am dreading my electric bill... I've constantly kept it 5º cooler at night and as much as 10º cooler during the day this year than I ever have before. 

I feel bad for teachers and students in schools with no a/c. People in general without a/c.

But I'm not looking forward to the frigid cold!

[saveinla]

Its 93 degress at 10 PM tonight and the fire is racing all around the hills. I only saw smoke last night, but tonight I can actually see the fire from my balcony.

Helicopters and the big fire plane are still around, but not able to do much containment as the winds are bad and the fires create their own wind patterns.

[suesinfl]

It was in the high 90s today with cloud cover/rain. but felt much hotter. We been in the high 90s all month with "feels like temps" being in the low 100s. It so humid out that it hurts to breath. But I'm thankful that that my electric bill this month is only $150 and change.

[Works4me]

Record breaking all time high temperature of 114 yeaterday here in the "Happiest City in America." I gotta say, ain't no one happy with those temps!

[TheOtherMe]

Yesterday was very fall like. 

Today it's sunny and supposed to be in the mid-80s.

[Bonny]

Sept 3, 2017 0:14:04 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Its 93 degress at 10 PM tonight and the fire is racing all around the hills. I only saw smoke last night, but tonight I can actually see the fire from my balcony.

Helicopters and the big fire plane are still around, but not able to do much containment as the winds are bad and the fires create their own wind patterns.

Fingers crossed they get it out soon. Please be careful.

On a happier note we are finally seeing some high clouds and the Marine Layer may be out their lurking.

[andi9899]

Sept 2, 2017 12:55:14 GMT -5 Bonny said:

Sept 2, 2017 12:05:23 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

It's about 80* here and beautiful. Wanna come over?

Sounds good. Do you have a pool and umbrella drinks?

Negative. But I have a lot of alcohol.

[zibazinski]

Sept 4, 2017 12:08:32 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

Ugh.  Another bad air day with high temps. Some teenagers threw fireworks on a popular hiking trail a couple of days ago and trapped 140 day hikers overnight by starting a fire. 

You can see the smoke haze.

For petes sake 

[saveinla]

Sept 5, 2017 9:07:42 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

The fire burned twelve miles towards the metro last night, jumped the river, caused evacuations and is burning the ridges around Multnomah Falls. And they confirmed that it was probably caused by two teenagers with fireworks.

Same here with another area - illegal fireworks caused a massive fire, when there was one already burning close to our homes. 

Don't know why people think its good to have fireworks when the temps are 120 degrees in the shade in their area. 

[Bonny]

Sept 5, 2017 9:29:59 GMT -5 saveinla said:

Sept 5, 2017 9:07:42 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

The fire burned twelve miles towards the metro last night, jumped the river, caused evacuations and is burning the ridges around Multnomah Falls. And they confirmed that it was probably caused by two teenagers with fireworks.

Same here with another area - illegal fireworks caused a massive fire, when there was one already burning close to our homes. 

Don't know why people think its good to have fireworks when the temps are 120 degrees in the shade in their area. 

The one in the S. Bay (Gilroy area) caused by teenage boys playing with firecrackers. One had the decency to turn himself in. At the risk of painting with a broad brush; teenage boys ===>thinking

That big Glendora fire in Jan 2014 three young men in their 20s building an illegal campfire on a trail not a mile from homes. At least one went into a rehab program so I'm guessing there was alcohol or other drugs involved. Don't know what eventually happened. Last article I read said they had to post $500k bond but  I'm not sure they were successfully prosecuted. Glendora is still decorated with K rail because they continue to have problems with flash-floods and mudslides due to the fire.

[Tiny]

I've been getting a weekly (or biweekly) Farm Box during the summer/fall months for 10 years.

This year has been the absolute worst farming year so far. It's been  wet and cold.  For the first time ever the "farm box season" started a week late.  And while we have been getting a full farm box - there's been expected veggies missing (because of too much rain or not enough heat or some other bad weather issue) and what we have been getting isn't quite as 'robust' and wonderful as prior years.   Don't get me wrong.  The veggies are fine (and tasty)... and worth the price,  but there's an obvious difference from prior years.     Even in prior "bad years" one or two crops had problems (bugs, weather, mistimed planting) but this year it's like ALL the crops/rotations were effected  

It has been a cool wet summer.     

 

[saveinla]

Sept 5, 2017 10:02:49 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

Ugh.  Did they catch the people who did it?  They have them in custody here.  We also had a fire very close by and numerous fires all over the state.

Not yet. Hopefully they will catch them, but the fire has already burned more than 5000 acres and is only 30% contained.