Texas temperatures in Alberta...
 

Next Wednesday we are supposed to get 37 C or around 100 F. I am not sure if that is a record but still cooler than Palm Springs. Yikes:eek:

Next Wednesday in SW Oklahoma the high is forecast at 81.

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.)

Our 10 day forecast is only a couple days over the mid 70's

Interesting.
I made the comment this morning the cool I'm experiencing must mean a lot warmer north.
Seems to be the case.

I googled it and the record temperature for Edmonton was back in 1937 at 37C or about 99F.

100F?

Typical TX winter.

Watcha *****in about?

Go to the beach before it gets hot.

The crazy thing is that we aren't even expecting weather that hot. Our highs for most of the next week or so are around 90 with a day or two getting up to 93 or 94. Our hottest temp so far this summer has been 97, I believe.

These sorts of wild temps at extremes always shock me.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-wmo-russia/russia-confirms-record-high-temperature-in-siberian-town-idUSKBN2412SG

That's an insane different in temperature, especially for someplace within the arctic circle.

Don't the locals call it alberta-stan.....?

We had the high temps in Ontario a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe it has moved west?

It is only fair, you guys sent down arctic weather to us last February.

An historic cold outbreak overspread all of the Plains on February 6th and lasted through February 18th. A persistent Arctic airmass like this hasn't affected the region since the 1980s! During this stretch, there were days where the high temp did not make it out of the single digits! The Arctic surge made it all the way down to south Texas, where snow was observed on the beaches of Galveston!

We were in the 50s just a few days ago.

TV stations warning of a deadly heat wave, advice on how to survive, etc. Watching these would send residents of California's San Joaquine valley into gales of laughter..

About 20 years ago, I was doing a lot of traveling for work. Sometime in Jun or Jul, I left Houston and went to Boston. When I got there, I thought "wow, this weather is fantastic, so cool and comfy." I was driving from the airport to the hotel in the afternoon with the rental car windows down enjoying the fresh air. The radio DJ did the news and were talking about the heat wave and how some folks had already died of the extreme heat and how to keep from being affected by the heat. I was confused.

Just a few years ago, I read an article about a marathon in London. They were talking about how they were having to beef up the medical professionals and hydration stations over the entire course because of the extreme heat that they were experiencing. I think they were predicting temps in the mid to high 80s.

The human body gets used to certain temps, and if you take that body and put it in a radically different environment that it's not used to, it can be a problem.

We're like frogs, if you can slowly change the temp that we are exposed to, we can manage, but big swings away from our norm can impact us.

I often am astonished of my parents and my grandparents and what they survived. My grandparents and my wife's grandparents survived the dust bowl days of no rain, and 100+ temperatures and the blowing dust. No running water unless you pumped the hand pump for water. No electricity to be found.

Now imagine a house or a cabin like wooden structure, no electricity at all, it is 110 outside and the house feels like your attic or storage shed in the back yard. If you open the windows the house fills up with dirt.

Then mom needs to cook dinner and she has to light the wood stove to have heat to cook. And not just for a few days, but an entire decade! Every summer was just hell. Imagine trying to survive in that heat. People were just tougher back then I guess. The wimps moved to California.

We did not live in an air conditioned house until I was in the 11th grade. Not one of the 11 different schools I went to was air conditioned. I can remember sweat dripping from my nose on a test and making it impossible to write an answer on the paper at my school in San Marcos, TX

At the same time, if you dropped those same folks off someplace where the temp was below 0ºF with strong winds, they might need some similar advice.

Send some my way! My friggin pool is only 72.

The beach! Yeah, what a great investment opportunity.
How about we sell you a couple of miles of Alberta ocean front property?:D

I'm sure Unclebilly will be glad to help you. ;)

Best
Les

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Looking at my hayfield and the crops in my field and around me, this is no joking matter.

Many farmers will be finished after next week.

We got 1/2” of rain yesterday… we need another inch or more to get through next weeks heat.

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

My house backs to a forest. I heard one of our congressmen say yesterday that this is expected to be the worst fire season ever.

First we cook

Then we burn.

Going to be a long summer.