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gently caress You And Diebold posted:it was a big problem last heat wave because a ton of the homes there dont have any AC, people dont even have window units we live in a Seattle home with no AC. brought our old portable AC out of storage and ordered an additional one before they sold out (I hate portable units but our windows are weird and none of them would really fit a window unit). as it happens I called an HVAC guy a few weeks ago (at the first signs of summer heat, not even anything out of the ordinary) and he wasn't even available for an initial estimate for almost two months. Anecdotally the abundance of homes without AC around here means that HVAC techs are already at 100% capacity, and if it's anything like previous heat waves portable/window units will sell out almost immediately if we have any serious heat. seems bad!
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It's going to be nasty and I'm definitely not looking forward to it but it has been pretty dry and I don't think we're going to have to deal with any serious humidity (Portland isn't actually particularly close to the coast and while they aren't quite as high as the cascades the coast range does sit between here and the ocean, it's consistently a bit drier and warmer here than Seattle). But yeah as mentioned the houses here aren't really built for hot weather, more to stay warm in the winter, and when it doesn't cool off under 70 at night it can cause some serious issues with multi-day heatwaves gently caress You And Diebold posted:it was a big problem last heat wave because a ton of the homes there dont have any AC, people dont even have window units Window units have gotten a lot more common in the last couple of years from what I've noticed but yeah central AC is actually pretty uncommon
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Portland OR this is fine
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Testvan posted:Portland OR we know that's inaccurate because it's showing sunshine in the PNW
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Animated view of the incoming heat dome. Front of rainbow colors = high pressure (hot, cloudless), back of rainbow = low pressure (cooler, cloudy). I've got to plan some driving and living in a tent here in a week, what's the best or most accurate way to look ahead
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Testvan posted:Portland OR ping
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I talked to someone last year who had a home in the California forest (Truckee, just north of Lake Tahoe), they had cleared out the trees in the immediate vicinity, but I wonder how he's doing now
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Portlanders, move into basements. Embrace fungus. Goblin life.
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Animated view of the incoming heat dome. Front of rainbow colors = high pressure (hot, cloudless), back of rainbow = low pressure (cooler, cloudy). looking good for hurricanes.
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:what would it take to get some west coast hurricanes going?
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:what would it take to get some west coast hurricanes going? does the west coast of Mexico count
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:what would it take to get some west coast hurricanes going? Ignoring the west coast hurricanes that hit central America and Mexico, it might be possible. Last summer, a hurricane formed by Baja California and while it didn't hit mainland US, it did throw off a bunch of small thunderstorms that caused a shitload of wildfires.
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:what would it take to get some west coast hurricanes going? water temps are waaaaaaaay to cold to really hit anywhere on the western part of CONUS. Maybe remnants of a dying one could hit near the border, a couple have tried.  water temps. Early in the season but note how much further cold temperatures extend down the EPac: 
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:water temps are waaaaaaaay to cold to really hit anywhere on the western part of CONUS. Maybe remnants of a dying one could hit near the border, a couple have tried. west coast best coast
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It's quite difficult to produce hurricanes that hit the west coast of the US at significant strength because the Pacific ocean along the west coast of the US is rather cold, as the oceanic circulation draws water from the Arctic southwards, and it cannot support hurricane formation or sustain activity for very long. That said, hurricanes do hit Baja California occasionally, and a tropical storm made landfall in Long Beach in 1939.
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:what would it take to get some west coast hurricanes going? The arctic ocean being properly equatorialized. It'll take an extinction event to manage that before at least a few decades hence.
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Tropical cyclone circulations impacting the West are not common, but they have happened. The remnant moisture intrusion happens yearly and typically triggers flood-inducing thunderstorms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Norbert_(2014)
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FlamingLiberal posted:a shift in the planet’s magnetic field? magnetic fields don't cause hurricanes so no that wouldn't do it
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Now would you westerners like some of our Florida humidity? No, wet heat is awful
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Kazinsal posted:https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1406022372109418497 GFS has chilled a bit. It’s still really hot, but it’s no longer impossibly hot.  Red Bluff, between the two “115” markers in the north valley, measured one hundred and seventeen degrees on 26 June 2006.
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Platystemon posted:GFS has chilled a bit. It’s still really hot, but it’s no longer impossibly hot. Probably got confused and spit out something for July or August
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we are now expecting only 40 C in Vancouver on Monday. my phone is blowing up with extreme heat warnings from Environment Canada
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SirPablo posted:Tropical cyclone circulations impacting the West are not common, but they have happened. The remnant moisture intrusion happens yearly and typically triggers flood-inducing thunderstorms. Occasionally a typhoon remnant in late Fall will get sucked into the Pineapple Express and hit the PNW as a Big Blow-type storm, too. Happened a couple years ago but I can't remember the specific storm.
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Testvan posted:Portland OR 113 now
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Testvan posted:Portland OR Yeah, I had heard 104, this is hosed
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platzapS posted:Hurricane Norbit
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Probably got confused and spit out something for July or August Things that struggle with Linear Time: • Me • Weather Models, apparently breadnsucc posted:when i was growing up around here no one even cared about AC, now most people have it, its crazy town Our generation is clearly just soft, unlike those rugged, independent, salt-of-the-earth boomers that raised us.
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breadnsucc posted:when i was growing up around here no one even cared about AC, now most people have it, its crazy town yeah there might be a few days in the summer that would get above 90f/32c and it was notable if it ever got above 100
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lol, lmao https://twitter.com/ScottSeattleWx/status/1407916680584470528
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I’m glad my mind isn’t boggled by something that is going to happen multiple times a year with increasing frequency forever.
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Stereotype posted:I’m glad my mind isn’t boggled by something that is going to happen multiple times a year with increasing frequency forever. yeah we're hosed. what can you do
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Do they believe in climate change yet or will the solar panels and electric cars save us
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Do they believe in climate change yet or will the solar panels and electric cars save us everything i've read in the business press lately has been that finance and politics people have come around to the idea that now that biden is president global warming will be addressed and that it mostly involves phasing out gasoline cars for electric cars and the transition to a non-carbon-intensive economy will mostly be finished in maybe 10 or 20 years this is also about what the biden admin has been messaging
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