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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: RoadKingLarry on July 18, 2011, 11:40:41 PM
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Been a little warmer and drier than average this Summer. Damn that Algore and his Globular Warming.
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/74017 (http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/74017)
Looks like we are in for a cold snap next week though.
Of course I expect the drought to end and the skies to open up come July 30th. We plan to hit the road for Colorado on the bike that morning.
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Funny you said the 30th. I looked at the long range forcast and it ended on the 29th with everyday at 100° +/- a couple of degrees.
We could use some rain. The blackberries are done in for this year.
jim
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SWMBO claims it's gotten up to 80F once so far this year. I'm not so sure. It's been cool and wet all "summer". I don't think it got over 67 today.
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Highs of 100+ for the rest of the week, here.
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We could use some rain. The blackberries are done in for this year.
It's been so cool and wet the berries suck here. SWMBO had to wait about an extra month to make her strawberry jam.
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Working on the 17th day in a row of 100+ here. But, I installed a new AC system and the house is a cold 72 degrees and the electric bill is 100 bucks less than it was with the old system.....Could be worse, I could still be in the UP in January.......chris3
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Here's it's getting into the low 90's every day, but the dewpoints are well into the 80's. You walk outside and the humidity takes your breath away. (right now it's at 94%) If you've been in the air conditioning, the surface of your skin and your clothes are cool enough that dew starts condensing on you.
At least that ought to be good for the corn crop.
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Here in North Dallas the nightly LOW temperatures have been in the mid-80Fs. When I walk out of the house at at 5:30am it's typically over 80F. Daily highs have been over 100 pretty much every day. I gave up watering all the floofy old-person plants that my previous homeowner had planted, because I don't have time to stand over them with a water hose. I'll let natural selection cull out the weaklings and then I'll either plant something more hardy, or something more useful like blackberries.
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We've pretty much seen '90's since March. And little rain, we're like 20" behind for the year.
Drizzly and mid 80's right now, though. Got a quick bike ride in.
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Only got to 115 or so here today. >:D
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www.veskimo.com
I have the backpack version. Makes riding in really hot weather much more enjoyable
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100 here yesterday, and supposed to hit 105 today. Nighttime though, it gets into the mid sixties. That's a nice part about the high plains.
So, RKLarry, do your trip plans take you anywhere near Pueblo?
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Here in North Dallas the nightly LOW temperatures have been in the mid-80Fs. When I walk out of the house at at 5:30am it's typically over 80F. Daily highs have been over 100 pretty much every day.
Yeah, the problem is its doing that here in central Illinois. 96 high /83 low today with high humidity.
AND its not even August yet.
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The rough plan is mostly up to the north. The Family reunion is at a "resort" place between Loveland and Estes Park.
We will come into CO on I70 on the way in but I haven't decided on the trip home and may take the southern route that would take us through Pueblo.
My wife hasn't spent much time in Colorado so pretty much anything I show her will be new. I lived in Aurora for about 5 years as a kid and we did all the usual sights then. I've also made a couple trips there on a bike but the last one will have been right at 20 years ago whe we leave next week.
Since we will be right there we'll have to go up into RMNP of course. The last time I rode through there it was one serious cold sleeting, raining SOB of a ride, and very memorable.
If we take the southern route home I may have to take a run up Pikes Peak, last time I was there was in the early '70s.
If we go that way Pueblo would be a convenient stop over for the night. If we do that it would most likely put us in Pueblo Thursday evening on Aug. 4th.
Then depending on weather we could go back through the panhandle and take a brief visit to Black Mesa on the way home.
Mostly I have a rough trip outline and only a few hard points to make. everything else is written in pencil on warm jello.
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I keep hearing about this heat wave but here it's been raining for the past week.
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Yeah, the problem is its doing that here in central Illinois. 96 high /83 low today with high humidity.
AND its not even August yet.
Supposed to be either 98 or 110, or maybe one's the "heat index" which is weather speak for hotter then hell. Power shut off three or four times today. I'm hunkered down in the basement of Festung Scout where it's 68F all year 'round. I may setup a cot and sleep down here. Low tonight is supposed to be 86F. So I may venture upstairs to sleep, once the bus hits me(1).....
(1)today was a chemo day. "When the bus hits me" I go from my usual feeling like "Meh" to "Total Dogshit" in the space of about 5 minutes, once the chemo "kicks in". It Sucketh. Royally.
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After yesterday I am just about ready to concede that "but it's a dry heat" may have some validity.
What with all the health issues I admit that merely getting around can be taxing, but when you step out and feel like you are drowning as that first breath of humidity hits, it's time to rethink certain things.
I'm going to stay inside and hold a festival of praise to the invention of air conditioning. There is nothing I can think of that absolutely requires me to go out in that combination of heat and humidity - and it's way too late to start thinking about building up an acclimitazation to it.
stay safe.
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I try to get all my garden work in in the early hours, if I get out early and stay out as it heats up I can hang most of the day with adequate hydration. If I try to go out in the heat from AC then it just beats me down right away.
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9 am 75 degrees and 96% humid. Supposed to go to 98 today. [barf]
NJ the only state where the humidity can and does go over 100%.
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After yesterday I am just about ready to concede that "but it's a dry heat" may have some validity.
What with all the health issues I admit that merely getting around can be taxing, but when you step out and feel like you are drowning as that first breath of humidity hits, it's time to rethink certain things.
I'm going to stay inside and hold a festival of praise to the invention of air conditioning. There is nothing I can think of that absolutely requires me to go out in that combination of heat and humidity - and it's way too late to start thinking about building up an acclimitazation to it.
stay safe.
Its a lie invented by people who don't live in the desert. 115 is like jamming your head in an oven.
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Its a lie invented by people who don't live in the desert. 115 is like jamming your head in an oven.
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We will come into CO on I70 on the way in but I haven't decided on the trip home and may take the southern route that would take us through Pueblo.
Whatever you do, don't take US 50 east =(
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Only 92 here but with 80-something % humidity, "feels like" 103. But I won't complain. I'd rather be hot than cold. And y'all will get an earful of me griping about the cold this winter.
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It was around 100 here for a few days, with the RH around 50% which is terrible for Montana.
We actually ran the AC for a couple afternoons.
Last night a cold front came through. Today is beautiful - about 80 degrees, sunny, dry, and a bit windy. Had a nice ride on my horse. =)
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On the other side of the state it is only 68 as a high and will be 49 overnight which I'm hoping won't screw up my peppers and tomatoes.
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It's in the 90's here. Sitting on the deck in the shade and a nice breeze has been wafting off the lake all afternoon. Went down for a swim and put some wax on the pontoon trim while standing in the water and alternating flopping in the water and wiping off the wax. :cool:
I just came back into the AC to check out what the poor people and plebians were doing on APS. :cool: er.
Life is good. =D
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WTF was she doing? (and why was the camera on?)
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Its a lie invented by people who don't live in the desert. 115 is like jamming your head in an oven.
Ayup. It also sucks you dry pretty damn quick.
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The rough plan is mostly up to the north. The Family reunion is at a "resort" place between Loveland and Estes Park.
We will come into CO on I70 on the way in but I haven't decided on the trip home and may take the southern route that would take us through Pueblo.
My wife hasn't spent much time in Colorado so pretty much anything I show her will be new. I lived in Aurora for about 5 years as a kid and we did all the usual sights then. I've also made a couple trips there on a bike but the last one will have been right at 20 years ago whe we leave next week.
Since we will be right there we'll have to go up into RMNP of course. The last time I rode through there it was one serious cold sleeting, raining SOB of a ride, and very memorable.
If we take the southern route home I may have to take a run up Pikes Peak, last time I was there was in the early '70s.
If we go that way Pueblo would be a convenient stop over for the night. If we do that it would most likely put us in Pueblo Thursday evening on Aug. 4th.
Then depending on weather we could go back through the panhandle and take a brief visit to Black Mesa on the way home.
Mostly I have a rough trip outline and only a few hard points to make. everything else is written in pencil on warm jello.
Pueblo is hardly a vacationer's dream, but if you come through here, we'll treat you to supper and even put you up for the night if you don't mind staying in our little shabby farmhouse. (Art Eatman thinks it's a neat place to stay, he's been here several times.) Plus, the local produce is at it's best, so think chile peppers, sweet corn and Rocky Ford melons.
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102 and high humidity...sucked ass.
It's tolerable in the shade and with a fan. Out in the sunshine and I feel like i'm going to die.
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Heat index is supposed to be 115 friday and saterday. Right now its a cool 110 =(
For someone who grew up without and still doesn't have and AC, you'd think i'd be able to tolerate the heat a lot better...
Luckly, the trailer is in the shade most of the day so it only gets real bad for a few hours in the late aternoon.
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For someone who grew up without and still doesn't have and AC, you'd think i'd be able to tolerate the heat a lot better...
We don't have AC, but we have several large cottonwood trees shading the place. 80 inside and over 100 outside is not so bad, especially if you're sitting on the porch drinking a beer. =D
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We don't have AC, but we have several large cottonwood trees shading the place. 80 inside and over 100 outside is not so bad, especially if you're sitting on the porch drinking a beer. =D
Heat does bad things to me. I don't dare excert myself in temps over 90 without being able to get to a place where I can cool out quick.
I spend a good portion of every summer slightly ill. Headaches, exasted because I can't get enough sleep and half starved because eating is horrid. Drinking three or four gallons of water a day, ice packs and altering to eating at night help, but it still sucks. And when I fail to keep myself in check I will go down, hard. Nothing like fainting in the grocery store parking lot for a good dose of humiliation.
On the other hand, being cold doesn't bother me so much. It has to be down right frezing for me to turn up the heat.
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Pueblo is hardly a vacationer's dream, but if you come through here, we'll treat you to supper and even put you up for the night if you don't mind staying in our little shabby farmhouse. (Art Eatman thinks it's a neat place to stay, he's been here several times.) Plus, the local produce is at it's best, so think chile peppers, sweet corn and Rocky Ford melons.
I'll keep that in mind, at the very least, if we do take that route we'll try to get together for a cool beverage meet up.
As for the chile peppers, I'm getting close to saturation with them, I have 60 plants (Anaheims) in the garden and they are producing pretty good but haven't sold well at the farmers market this year.
Sweet corn and melons is a whole 'nuther deal, my corn pretty well just burned up and my melons just don't want to play in this heat.
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WTF was she doing? (and why was the camera on?)
Because somebody was holding her beer, silly..... :lol:
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WTF was she doing? (and why was the camera on?)
Looks like she started to do a pushup, then there was total Fail.
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Monsoonish:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.73890&lon=-105.21500&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical
Warm, warmer, hot, hotter, rain, cool, cool, warm, warmer, hot, hotter, cool, cool, warm, warmer, hot, hotter, rain, cool, cool, warm, warmer, hot, hotter, rain, cool, cool...
Most of the T-storms get worser as they head out east by nor'east toward KS and NE.
Humidity's up there, compared to the rest of the year.
I'm glad I just refilled the R-134a stuff in the car, I tell you whut. Was blowing hot air one warm day last spring.
Terry, 230RN
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Monsoonish:
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.73890&lon=-105.21500&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical
Warm, warmer, hot, hotter, rain, cool, cool, warm, warmer, hot, hotter, cool, cool, warm, warmer, hot, hotter, rain, cool, cool, warm, warmer, hot, hotter, rain, cool, cool...
Most of the T-storms get worser as they head out east by nor'east toward KS and NE.
Humidity's up there, compared to the rest of the year.
I'm glad I just refilled the R-134a stuff in the car, I tell you whut. Was blowing hot air one warm day last spring.
Terry, 230RN
That, sir, is not a monsoon. As somene who has literally scraped the mildew off oneself due to a monsoon, I can tell you that is not a monsoon.
When you realize that it has been raining continuously for more than 40 days and nights and there is nobody bamed Noah paddling about in a boat, then you might have a monsoon.
stay safe.
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Right now it is 116.
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It was about 40 last night
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Looks like she started to do a pushup, then there was total Fail.
Planking. People do it to show off that they are in shape.
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"That, sir, is not a monsoon. As somene who has literally scraped the mildew off oneself due to a monsoon, I can tell you that is not a monsoon."
That, sir, is what almost every meterologist around here (Colorado) calls it. Talk to them.
They also call the hot wind that comes off the mountains due to the jet stream dropping down, the "chinook," although that term seems to be dropping out in the last couple of years. Talk to them.
(Both terms kind of grated with my understanding of them when I first got out here, but I adapted to the regional usage.)
By the way, that graphical display of weather parameters updates almost continuously.
I usually run the window fans all night to draw in cool air to cool all the not-so-obvious thermal masses in the house --couches, books, tables, walls, etc. I bought one of those pistol-grip infra-red (IR) thermometers for about $30 on sale from Harbor Freight and it's instructive to run around the house pointing it at various things to monitor "how much" heat they retain. (Yes, I keep my finger off the trigger until ready to "shoot.")
One thing I discovered is that the hatch to the attic radiates a lot of heat down into the house since it's not insulated. It may read, like, 95° while the ceiling next to it, insulated, shows about 85° --about 10°-15° typical delta.
I found the temperature readings from the pine trees out back are very responsive to cloud cover. It would seem the small thermal masses of the individual pine needles are quick to respond to clouds passing over, and the IR meter covers a considerable area at that distance (~ 15 feet), so it's kind of an average reading of the trees' temperature. It correlates very well with the outdoor remote-reading thermometer I've got on that side of the house except for the time lag.
I don't usually have to turn on the A/C until around one-two o'clock, but a lot of that depends on the cloud cover.
Terry, 230RN
REFS:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/9459810/detail.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9460883/detail.html
CEN-TECH Model 96451 Infrared Thermometer