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Cup Runneth Over posted:use a loving condom what the gently caress
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Crunchy Black posted:So this is going to be a wet bulb event, and even if its not and just close, is going to kill more folks than the condo collapse, won't it. only if you bother counting the dead
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Crunchy Black posted:So this is going to be a wet bulb event, and even if its not and just close, is going to kill more folks than the condo collapse, won't it. Wtf is a wet bulb event
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SirPablo posted:Wtf is a wet bulb event Dont you post in the climate thread? this talks about it a bit https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2621/Dangerous-humid-heat-extremes-occurring-decades-before-expected quote:High humid heat defeats the body’s cooling system quote:
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SirPablo posted:Wtf is a wet bulb event eventually evaporation (sweating) stops working if the air is already too humid. if the air is saturated and it's above human body temperature, you just start cooking rather than self-cooling
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SirPablo posted:Wtf is a wet bulb event Wet bulb event is my meatloaf tribute band’s name
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Yes I understand what the wet bulb is, I just haven't heard of a "wet bulb event". There is always a wet bulb temperature. Portland now running about ten degrees warmer than yesterday and already at 108F today.
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SirPablo posted:Yes I understand what the wet bulb is, I just haven't heard of a "wet bulb event". There is always a wet bulb temperature. Ah. It comes up as a phrase in a couple of recent books like Uninhabitable Earth and I think The End of Ice edit: Definitely remember it coming up in The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions too
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SirPablo posted:Yes I understand what the wet bulb is, I just haven't heard of a "wet bulb event". There is always a wet bulb temperature. basically it is shorthand for a heat wave that isn't survivable without air conditioning. nearly everyone who isn't able to get to climate controlled shelter dies, as does a lot of wildlife.
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Ah ok. Dumb name. Needs better branding, like basically every popular weather phenomenon. Going back and reading forecast discussions from the NWS Portland office is  they really couldn't convince themselves that the lion was going to eat their face.
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the air in the pnw stays very very dry relative to the midwest and tropics so our wet-bulb temps stay comfortable even when the air gets hot just regular old heat exhaustion & dehydration you have to worry about, not evaporative cooling thru sweat not working  to be super specific, you measure wet bulb by wrapping the thermometer in a damp cloth. if the air isn't humid, this will be cooler than a dry thermometer. if it's not and reads over like 90 
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Portland, 2 PM yesterday: 96F Portland, 2PM today: 109F They'll probably grab a 115F today. Maybe cool to 83-86F tonight, make a run at 120F tomorrow. This is like a slow motion tornado sitting in a region.
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Never heard of wet bulb but it sounds like every day in the summer in Houston. gently caress it’s miserable from July-September
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i was going to lol but then i remembered i live in florida between two bodies of water that moderate the temperature and are a nice cool *checks notes* 84° each goddamn i was thinking of going to the beach but that's right out.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Never heard of wet bulb but it sounds like every day in the summer in Houston. gently caress it’s miserable from July-September Yeah but like the NOAA article - its about whether you have somewhere to go to cool off. If you live in an area where AC isn't common, it will gently caress you up good and fast.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Never heard of wet bulb but it sounds like every day in the summer in Houston. gently caress it’s miserable from July-September I think this was the closest a populated place ever got https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-world-record/
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SirPablo posted:Portland, 2 PM yesterday: 96F Yes it is very unnerving, also waiting for the wildfires to start popping up.
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Wet bulb is just the temperature you need to cool the air for dew (or frost if <32F) to form. It always exists - Houston in the summer or Lake Volstok in the winter.
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SirPablo posted:Wet bulbs is just the temperature you need to cool the air for dew (or frost if <32F) to form. It always exists - Houston in the summer or Lake Volstok in the winter. I think that's why people started calling it "wet bulb events" because obviously its always there but saying "its too hot and humid for humans the survive" is a bit long winded.
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covid probably already took care of most of the elderly that a nasty heatwave would usually take
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYt0SDnrBE probably been posted before, but now applicable to the PNW
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I hate this https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSPortland/status/1409256705125281794
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HashtagGirlboss posted:I hate this yes yes but it’s a dry heat 
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105 for me, my bedroom is 94 and the router is too hot for internet, so phone only. This sucks poo poo tbh.
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Down in the Oregon LAN thread (i think that’s where I saw it) somebody who at least sounded like they knew what they were talking about seemed to think PGE is in pretty good shape to meet the demands I haven’t experienced any brown outs or dimming or anything so far but I’m right in the middle of Portland so the grids probably super developed and redundant here
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I’m watching the usatf Olympic trials and the temp in Eugene is 104F, right now, god only knows what it feels like on the field
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SirPablo posted:Hopefully the grid doesn't go tits up. Good job saying something - a transformer just exploded in one of the suburbs https://twitter.com/cityofissaquah/status/1409257808218914817?s=20 this is clearly your fault.
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Mood rn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7M6cMrgFrI
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Canada just set a new national record https://twitter.com/robsobs/status/1409265686791086083?s=21
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:how accurate were temp recording in the 1930s Mercury is pretty accurate.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Canada just set a new national record Nooo Canada don't immolate your so full of fresh water aha
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Lytton is a place where forest fires get under control then spontaneously reignite. I am entirely unsurprised that it is now the hottest place in Canada.
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Nowhere BC hotter than Phoenix today (high of 112F so far).
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dew points are just a bit too low to be a major contributor to this event. They're sitting in the mid to low 60s in Seattle. If they got up in the 70F range where heat index values start exploding, absolutely we would be in mass casualty event territory, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:dew points are just a bit too low to be a major contributor to this event. They're sitting in the mid to low 60s in Seattle. If they got up in the 70F range where heat index values start exploding, absolutely we would be in mass casualty event territory, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Yeah, dew points are higher where I'm at in Texas (72) despite it being in the 80s right now. At least sweating will cool you off there, just need to stay hydrated and out of the sun. still miserable and dangerous though biceps crimes has issued a correction as of 23:49 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSPortland/status/1409279335928766471 Salem was really ahead of the curve on airport building I guess
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