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Man, that dry lightning was something. It rained a bit at the time, it's raining down on the Peninsula where I live right now. My son, who grew up in NC, is grimly warning his friends that they think heat is bad, they haven't seen heat + humidity. He said that weather.com (I can't find it) says that if it lasts long enough, the off-and-on rain might break the weather pattern causing the heat wave.
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Southern California checking in. High of 82 this week, partly cloudy. I picked up food in long beach near the coast. It was a practically a no-mask party and everything was shoved out onto the sidewalks. Packed bars everywhere. Walked through like 3 restaurants to get to mine and everyone at the restaurants had huge smiles on their faces watching me. Absolutely terrifying.
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Well orange county and riverside are seeing triple digits. I was watching a flood of morons pouring out of the local mega church. They have an outside tent setup. Many park their cars across the street in nearby business and neighborhoods. So naturally there was a recall Newsom petition going on catching those leaving. Nobody leaving the church, or people gathering to sign the petition were wearing a mask. loving death cult is loving it up for the rest of us. Havent seen many people I love since March and I want to rip my loving ears off.
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Aug 16, 2020 18:05
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Just the worst (California) weather in the bay area right now. Hot dry thunderstorm, windy as gently caress all night, humidity up. Its only going to get hotter too. Expectin more blackouts Hi there friend we live in the same county of not ~5 miles of each other. To a fellow nbay goon. HOLY gently caress LAST NIGHT WAS BAD. like press democrat is saying that is the worst thunderstorm we've ever had. The bolts were loving massive. The wind blew a chair in my office over. poo poo was insane from 4am to 8 am.
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Aug 16, 2020 18:08
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I got woken up a few times in the East Bay. I can't remember the last time we've had a tropical storm with this much heat in the Bay. I remember tropical storms as a kid but the temps were in the low 70s not the 80s-90s
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Aug 16, 2020 18:38
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I was woken up for a while, definitely the biggest thunderstorm I can remember up here, and the only ones close were in the middle of winter
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Aug 16, 2020 18:40
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I woke up, then stayed in a hazy daze interrupted by thunderbolts, and eventually I fell all the way asleep and got Kafka dreams.
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Aug 16, 2020 18:43
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i woke up early because it was too hot, so i opened my window and then woke up again 30 minutes later because wind slammed my door and also wow thunder, and then i got paranoid rain would blast through my window any second, but it was too hot to close it. definitely not a normal bay area storm, felt like i was on the east coast or the south
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Aug 16, 2020 18:49
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We did a night hike last night here in SLO and were rewarded with the smell of smoke from a nearby fire and a mild light show of the thunderstorm on its way north to you all. Must've been way out over the water at the time, because we couldn't hear it at all. It was still 80° out when we started the hike at 8 and tiny scorpions were skittering all over 
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Aug 16, 2020 18:51
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Aug 16, 2020 19:09
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I woke up, then stayed in a hazy daze interrupted by thunderbolts, and eventually I fell all the way asleep and got Kafka dreams. Same. My head was cloudy the entire time from waking up to explosions and the humidy. Ugh. This week is gonna be loving horrific. one of the situations Where I can't let my staff boil to death and I'm worried about AC usage with Covid. So it hink what I'll do is run AC from 12 midnight to 8 in the morning to cool the place down as much as possible before anyone shows up.
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Aug 16, 2020 19:25
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It will be triple digits today and through much of the week in Sac and I am probably going to die while biking to work as a result. And here I thought it would have been a car that finally did me in. In non-weather news: https://twitter.com/PhilTheBern/status/1294914278248443910?s=20 Sacramento solving the COVID crisis by giving the police more money to kill people with.
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Aug 16, 2020 20:10
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Just the worst (California) weather in the bay area right now. Hot dry thunderstorm, windy as gently caress all night, humidity up. Its only going to get hotter too. Expectin more blackouts San Francisco at least is supposed to drop back down to mid 70's according to what I've seen. Oakland/San Jose look like they're supposed to peak tomorrow then get better
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Aug 16, 2020 20:17
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Holy poo poo, lightning struck twice a few minutes ago near my apartment and I thought it was bombs going off, cars nearby started beeping. It's not even totally overcast where I am. This is some scary weather.
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Aug 16, 2020 20:29
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I'm in San Jose and my power hasn't gone off. In fact PG&E have never turned it off in any of the rolling blackouts they've had. Maybe we're close enough to downtown or something? Anyway it was 79 or so at around 1am but when I was woken up at 6am with the thunder, it was 83 somehow!
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Aug 16, 2020 20:40
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I can't think of weather conditions more likely to start a fire than sweltering heat and Zeus-like lightning bolts falling at the same time. Besides meteors falling from the sky like loving Sodom and Gomorrah
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Aug 16, 2020 20:43
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Yeah I'm in South San Jose and haven't had any blackouts yet thankfully. According to PG&E nothing is scheduled for my address but I stocked up just in case.
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Aug 16, 2020 20:44
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I'm going to do my best to get my husband to approve talking to Peninsula Clean Energy. Unlike going solar with PG&E, if you have Peninsula Clean Energy you can keep using your solar/Powerwall to power your own house in the event of a cutoff. Plus all the usual environmental benefits.
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Aug 16, 2020 21:19
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Unlike going solar with PG&E, if you have Peninsula Clean Energy you can keep using your solar/Powerwall to power your own house in the event of a cutoff.
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Aug 16, 2020 21:27
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It's all connected to the grid and feeds back into it. Apparently that's how SCE does it too, it's pretty stupid.
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adoration for none posted:I can't think of weather conditions more likely to start a fire than sweltering heat and Zeus-like lightning bolts falling at the same time. Besides meteors falling from the sky like loving Sodom and Gomorrah Mom is up West of Sebastopol (way, waaaay North Bay), and she reports getting woken up by extreme wind at 4:30 this morning, followed by heavy lightning. She had her wildfire go-bags out on the deck and ready to run by the time the rain came through. We've seen this kind of heat lightning on the East Coast, but this is very weird for California. I'm just glad I'm WFH until Thursday when SSF should get a break.
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Aug 16, 2020 22:04
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I don't think PG&E cares if you power yourself if you have a proper transfer switch and disconnect from the grid. While you have an on-grid system, they care because: 1) The inverter generating AC from your solar needs to synchronize its frequency with the grid frequency 2) Your excess generation is backfed into the grid. People working on lines need to be able to deenergize them and know that they are off. Any on-grid or hybrid solar system you can legally install needs to either turn off or disconnect itself when grid power is down.
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Aug 16, 2020 22:09
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'm going to do my best to get my husband to approve talking to Peninsula Clean Energy. Unlike going solar with PG&E, if you have Peninsula Clean Energy you can keep using your solar/Powerwall to power your own house in the event of a cutoff. Plus all the usual environmental benefits.
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Aug 16, 2020 22:10
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redreader posted:I'm in San Jose and my power hasn't gone off. In fact PG&E have never turned it off in any of the rolling blackouts they've had. Maybe we're close enough to downtown or something? Anyway it was 79 or so at around 1am but when I was woken up at 6am with the thunder, it was 83 somehow! Your city buried their infrastructure and almost never has real fire risks on anything other than the unincorp areas. I envy you for this
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Aug 17, 2020 00:53
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Haha flash flood warning issued for parts of Santa Barbara County. In August. What a time to live in.
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Foxfire_ posted:Any on-grid or hybrid solar system you can legally install needs to either turn off or disconnect itself when grid power is down.
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Foxfire_ posted:I don't think PG&E cares if you power yourself if you have a proper transfer switch and disconnect from the grid. Aha! Thank you. The whole thing makes much more sense to me now.
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Aug 17, 2020 02:03
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Lmao it was 103 in Pomona yesterday. Although while I was driving I saw temps as high as 114F because of course a gigantic gently caress you heat wave is par of the course for this poo poo-tastic year.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Your city buried their infrastructure and almost never has real fire risks on anything other than the unincorp areas. I envy you for this This set of blackouts is from generator capacity, not fire risk. If demand goes up past supply, bad things happen. Solar and wind generation are below normal from messed up weather (I think patterns from the storm in the Midwest last week?), a couple of plants are offline unrelatedly, and heatwave has extra demand. When reserve generator capacity dips too low, the organization that manages the regional grip tells distribution utilities (PG&E) to cut demand immediately with little blackouts to prevent catastrophic blackouts and equipment damage. I don't know how PG&E picks what specifically to cut.
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Aug 17, 2020 03:41
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Other countries with harsher, less predictable climates than California don't have rolling blackouts, gas line explosions and forest fires started by unmaintained infrastrucutre. This is some 3rd world poo poo.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:10
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How many the size of Cali though?
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I mean, its PG&E's lovely lines for a lot of it, LA isn't dealing with blackouts despite it being significantly hotter down there
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FilthyImp posted:How many the size of Cali though? Italy is almost the same size as California with drat near the same climate and this poo poo doesn’t happen there.
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FilthyImp posted:How many the size of Cali though? Japan is roughly the same size, with ~3x the population, earthquakes, volcanos, typhoons, and tsunamis, and they manage alright. One meltdown aside.
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ratbert90 posted:Italy is almost the same size as California with drat near the same climate and this poo poo doesn’t happen there. And it's got more than 20 million more people to boot. (  )
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droll posted:Other countries with harsher, less predictable climates than California don't have rolling blackouts, gas line explosions and forest fires started by unmaintained infrastrucutre. This is some 3rd world poo poo. ratbert90 posted:Italy is almost the same size as California with drat near the same climate and this poo poo doesn’t happen there. I feel like Morocco's climate is a better match than Italy, seeing as lots of CA is desert. Death Valley is about as harsh a climate as you can find on earth. The US snowfall record was set in the Sierra Nevada too, so there is some extreme poo poo in CA, but those areas are mostly unpopulated and 90% of people live in Mediterranean climate zones. Anyways, i bet morocco has fewer fires than us too and yeah PG&E executives deserve the guillotine
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The Glumslinger posted:I mean, its PG&E's lovely lines for a lot of it, LA isn't dealing with blackouts despite it being significantly hotter down there Anaheim and Lake Forest had blackouts on Friday
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Boredumb posted:Anaheim and Lake Forest had blackouts on Friday Oh, whoops, I saw on Friday night that LADWP had avoided having any rolling blackouts, I forgot that LADWP doesn't cover all of LA
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What the hell are you guys on about? A huge heatwave crushed Europe like 10 years ago and they think it's responsible for up to 70,000 deaths. There weren't widespread brownouts because almost no one in Europe has A/C in their homes. So yeah the power didn't go out but a shitload of people died. We do share the European heatwave problem where everyone built these old houses to the climate of the time and they have no insulation in them. Now the heat comes and everyone needs AC for their old lovely homes and we don't have enough excess capacity to serve an outlier heatwave.
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