Texas temperatures in Alberta...

[oldE]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

Lots of us are hoping for afternoon thunder storms (without hail).

Can you do that in AB?
I remember visiting 30 years ago. Every evening after supper a thunderstorm rolled through, it hailed for about 15 minutes and was clear by 10 PM.
One of those evenings, I was standing with my brother in a herd of charolais cattle after just needling a calf. We were about a 1/4 mile from the road and the truck when the wind and rain hit. I was thinking we were toast when his wife came bouncing across the field in the GMC. We just made it into the cab as the first hailstones hit.

Hope you get the rain you need.
We're trying to get the rest of the hay in here, but it showers almost every day.

Best
Les

[billybek]

My friend up by Didsbury is doing the first cut on his hay. It should dry pretty quick if nothing else...

[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by billybek

My friend up by Didsbury is doing the first cut on his hay. It should dry pretty quick if nothing else...

Lots of my friends are doing the same… it’s not ready here and I think they will do better to wait until mid week. Depends if they are cutting grass or alfalfa.

[billybek]

I know the big orange beast that he has is air conditioned. I think the smaller tractor that he uses to rake is a "convertible... He probably wants to get it done before it is too hot....

[The Synergizer]

Ha! I bet that agitates those ANTIFA rioters! Like bugs on a hot car hood.

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

This weekend the high is forecasted to be up to 108 F in Portland. (Actually the forecasts are anywhere between 103 and 118, depending on the source.)

[GH85Carrera]

It is 68 degrees and raining in Oklahoma City right now. We are supposed to see rain all week.




1.82 inches of rain since midnight and it is not even 10:00 AM

[GH85Carrera]

Watching the F1 race today was almost comical when they talked about how horribly hot it was. It was all of 78 degrees. Yep, that is a real scorcher.

[Sooner or later]

82 here in SW Oklahoma. My sister that lives just north of me has received 13" of rain the last 2 days. Parts of Lawton are flooded. One casino shut down and flooded cars in the parking lot.

My sub division was given a voluntary evac notice. I am stuck since the road in is flooded.

[GH85Carrera]

We got 6.7 inches in two days. More rain coming tonight, so the 6.7 will go up more.

We live on a hill, so no flood worries for us.

[creaturecat]

gonna be 42C/108F in Vancouver today.
an unheard of temp here, previously.
most folks do not have central a/c. including us.
we somewhat fortunate - having a 2 really large western red cedar trees on our property.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by creaturecat

gonna be 42C/108F in Vancouver today.
an unheard of temp here, previously.
most folks do not have central a/c. including us.
we somewhat fortunate - having a 2 really large western red cedar trees on our property.

You guys are getting screwed. I would normally expect our temps to be in the 90-97º range, but today and tomorrow our temps are supposed to be 83-84º.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by creaturecat

gonna be 42C/108F in Vancouver today.
an unheard of temp here, previously.
most folks do not have central a/c. including us.
we somewhat fortunate - having a 2 really large western red cedar trees on our property.

Look at the brightside. After today it starts heading back to more normal.

[LWJ]

112 or 113 Sunday. Today is the same or perhaps up a notch.

NEVER seen anything like this in my 55 years in the Portland Metro area. I think 104 maybe once?

Good news? Humidity is low. I was out on my patio last evening and it was very nice. But then again I spent my entire day inside an air conditioned house.

[Tishabet]

Currently 101 here, heading to 108 later this afternoon. Yesterday and today mark the 4th and 5th times that Seattle has hit triple digits since record-keeping began in 1894. Average highs in this area of 77 during July and August according to weather.gov, not surprisingly AC is fairly rare here and most older homes (like mine) don't have it: Seattle has AC of some kind in only 43% of homes according to the 2019 census data, up from 31% in 2013 with new construction being a big part of the jump.

Portland apparently headed to 114 today.

Yikes.

[speeder]

112 in Portland, OR, yesterday. Similar temps in the rest of the state. Broke the all-time record high, which was set last year, BTW. Nothing to see...climate isn't changing. Let's joke about it.

The fires will be devastating. In CA., we had our worst fire season ever last year but I'm sure that we can top it. Oregon will have to get used to catastrophic fires and unlivable weather. Maybe 10 years ago, it had the most livable climate on earth.

This is happening fast.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-27/not-fun-northwest-heat-wave-builds-all-time-records-fall

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by speeder

112 in Portland, OR, yesterday. Similar temps in the rest of the state. Broke the all-time record high, which was set last year, BTW. Nothing to see...climate isn't changing. Let's joke about it.

The fires will be devastating. In CA., we had our worst fire season ever last year but I'm sure that we can top it. Oregon will have to get used to catastrophic fires and unlivable weather. Maybe 10 years ago, it had the most livable climate on earth.

This is happening fast.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-27/not-fun-northwest-heat-wave-builds-all-time-records-fall

Weather, not climate.

SW Oklahoma had the 3rd coolest May on record. Some cities had an all time coolest May. Feb freeze set multiple all time records lows (-12 here) and records for most continuous hours below freezing (nearly 200).

Climate is 30 years of data.

[creaturecat]

[masraum]

I think the deal is that climate is always changing.

There have been at least five major ice ages in the Earth's history (the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, late Paleozoic, and the latest Quaternary Ice Age). Outside these ages, the Earth seems to have been ice free even in high latitudes;[ such periods are known as greenhouse periods.

A "greenhouse Earth" is a period in which there are no continental glaciers whatsoever on the planet. Additionally, the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (such as water vapor and methane) are high, and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) range from 28 °C (82.4 °F) in the tropics to 0 °C (32 °F) in the polar regions. The Earth has been in a greenhouse state for about 85% of its history.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by speeder

112 in Portland, OR, yesterday. Similar temps in the rest of the state. Broke the all-time record high, which was set last year, BTW. Nothing to see...climate isn't changing. Let's joke about it.

The fires will be devastating. In CA., we had our worst fire season ever last year but I'm sure that we can top it. Oregon will have to get used to catastrophic fires and unlivable weather. Maybe 10 years ago, it had the most livable climate on earth.

This is happening fast.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-27/not-fun-northwest-heat-wave-builds-all-time-records-fall

Why complain about it? Hey, TV news reported that Portland's high was 5 degrees cooler than the high in Death Valley.

[mattdavis11]

Originally Posted by speeder

Nothing to see...climate isn't changing. Let's joke about it.

I won't joke about it, Denis. I like it, let it change. We have had a really mild year with plenty of rain. Let it happen. Even El Paso is supposed to get rain today.

One freak artic blast. Don't get me wrong, it's gotten hot, as high as 101F thus far this year, according to my thermometer, but it's not like 10 years ago. It had already been 100+ for 30 or so days in central south Texas.