Record heat wave

[lihpster]

Well, it looks like we get to cook for awhile. Looked at the 10 day forecast. The lowest high temp forecast is 90 on Wed. However tomorrows forecast high is 107. Then Sun. is 114. Mon is 107. To put it in perspective, in the over a century of recordkeeping, the highest recorded temp in Portland was 107 in 1942. Looks like the record is gonna fall. 90+ thru July 4th. The only AC we have is a portable unit in my father's room. So, lots of fans, lots of fluids and a lot less clothing. I may try putting a cast iron pan in the sun and cooking an egg. Or I might just burst into flame and do my Richard Pryor impression.

 

[kaaskop49]

Time to get more ACs, maybe? There was a hue and cry here recently when we had 110+ degrees for 10 consecutive days. But I recall the 4 consecutive 117 degree days in June 2017, so I don't react to the over-reaction of weather reporters.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[lihpster]

Time to get more ACs, maybe? There was a hue and cry here recently when we had 110+ degrees for 10 consecutive days. But I recall the 4 consecutive 117 degree days in June 2017, so I don't react to the over-reaction of weather reporters.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

Historically, we've never needed AC. Usually gets cool enough at night. For instance, Seattle has been recording weather at the airport since 1945. In that whole time it hasn't got below 70 only once. They look to at least triple that this week. Here in Portland we normally get 2 or 3 days over 100 in the summer. We will have 3 in the next 3 days. I'm shopping central air units.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Better hot than freezing. I lived in the glaciers and tundra of north eastern Ohio for 10 years. I will not complain about the heat.

 

[Salty RI]

It was 60 here this morning and I thought it was hot.[emoji3]

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[lihpster]

Better hot than freezing. I lived in the glaciers and tundra of north eastern Ohio for 10 years. I will not complain about the heat.

I've got a furnace. Place stays comfortable even below zero. Without the AC the house is about 5-10 degrees below outside temp. So I can look forward to it being near 100 in here the next three days.

 

[ladder13]

I miss not the cold and snow.

Actually, it’s been cooler here than up yonder. Hope it gets toasty soon.

 

[jjmIII_Ruger]

Better hot than freezing. I lived in the glaciers and tundra of north eastern Ohio for 10 years. I will not complain about the heat.

I went to Houston once when my sister-in-law graduated from med school. That's not heat down there, its a sauna!!

 

[lihpster]

I went to Houston once when my sister-in-law graduated from med school. That's not heat down there, its a sauna!!

Luckily we don't have the humidity that places in the South have. Highest I've seen forecast is 77%. If it was going to be 97% I'd just shoot myself.

 

[lihpster]

I would assume it cools down in the evening? Try living in SE Texas where it's HOT and humid 24/7 for 9 months out of the year! Good news though, it's frigid in my house! Hang in there!

Yeah, we don't get that 95 degrees at 3 AM stuff I've heard of. That's insane.

 

[Onomea]

Re Portland:



For something that ain't even real, climate change sure causes a lotta problems...

 

[dasnake]

Ya know what?

Well, it looks like we get to cook for awhile. Looked at the 10 day forecast. The lowest high temp forecast is 90 on Wed. However tomorrows forecast high is 107. Then Sun. is 114. Mon is 107. To put it in perspective, in the over a century of recordkeeping, the highest recorded temp in Portland was 107 in 1942. Looks like the record is gonna fall. 90+ thru July 4th. The only AC we have is a portable unit in my father's room. So, lots of fans, lots of fluids and a lot less clothing. I may try putting a cast iron pan in the sun and cooking an egg. Or I might just burst into flame and do my Richard Pryor impression.

You should go downtown and start a riot, cops should leave you alone but the fire dept will spray you down and that will cool you off and you'll make the six oclock nooz.

 

[lihpster]

You should go downtown and start a riot, cops should leave you alone but the fire dept will spray you down and that will cool you off and you'll make the six oclock nooz.

Too hot to riot. I'll just send a strongly worded letter to the editor.

 

[wood714]

Not too bad here this week. Chance of a pop up rain about every day, but it's typical for a Florida summer.

 

[ralph7]

I hate the Spring because that just means Summer is coming.
Everybody around here has AC and we won't see any relief until October.
A guy loading my truck today said "Where's the rain? It's too hot."
I told him the rain would only make my grass grow faster and I'm not into cutting it any sooner than need be.

 

[walkin jack]

Well it is hot here. But N. Texas always hits the triple digits in August if not before. Low humidity is the only reason it isn't fatal, for me at least. Our high temps are in the mid to upper 90s now and it isn't even July yet.

 

[Absalom]

Well, the National Weather Service has us “only” at 109 degrees on Sunday, without the TV surcharge.

But even that is only 9 degrees below Sunday’s forecast for Furnace Creek in Death Valley. For summer, that’s pretty impressive.

 

[quikdraw67]

God bless.

Remind me if I'm complaining about snow in six months.

As my Dad used to say, "It's easier to keep warm than to keep cool."

Stay safe.

 

[lihpster]

Well, the National Weather Service has us “only” at 109 degrees on Sunday, without the TV surcharge.

But even that is only 9 degrees below Sunday’s forecast for Furnace Creek in Death Valley. For summer, that’s pretty impressive.

Yeah. The best thing about here is the weather. Not too hot, not too cold. But 109? That's pushing it. Into fire season now, and after last year, I'm not looking forward to a hot summer. Watch your sparks, folks. Anybody shooting off fireworks in the forest on the Fourth should be shot. Or at least charged with attempted manslaughter.

 

[lihpster]

God bless.

Remind me if I'm complaining about snow in six months.

As my Dad used to say, "It's easier to keep warm than to keep cool."

Stay safe.

I'll be alright. I know how to cope. Wet head, plenty of fluids, keep the house cool and dark. etc.. My father, however, has dementia and forgets to drink, puts on inappropriate clothing, goes out and sits in the sun,etc... So I have to keep a close eye on him. Glad we got the AC in his room so he has a cool place to go.

 

[Rustyt1953]

As my Dad used to say, "It's easier to keep warm than to keep cool."

This.

Give me the cold. I can layer up like an onion if I have to keep warm.

With my over taxed heart, oppressive heat and loss of AC could be fatal.

 

[snubbyfan]

I like the heat. Body temp and above. According to my Garmin remote temperature sensor from a camping trip from last summer.
That's my kinda weather....

 

[lihpster]

I like the heat. Body temp and above. According to my Garmin remote temperature sensor from a camping trip from last summer.
That's my kinda weather....

After 10 years of using a cutting torch to cut titanium in an environment that was consistently 10 or more degrees hotter than the outside air, and doing so while wearing half a cowskin and a welding helmet, steel toed boots, welding gloves and a powered air supply, I like my weather a bit cooler. 112 isn't weather, it's an oven setting.

 

[snubbyfan]

After 10 years of using a cutting torch to cut titanium in an environment that was consistently 10 or more degrees hotter than the outside air, and doing so while wearing half a cowskin and a welding helmet, steel toed boots, welding gloves and a powered air supply, I like my weather a bit cooler. 112 isn't weather, it's an oven setting.

Oven setting reminds me of a job I had as a maintenance tech at the RubberMaid Commercial Products factory. People would ask me what my job was like, "preheat your oven to 450 degrees then crawl in with a 20 pound impact wrench." That's pretty much what it's like to work on the hot plastic manifold of a plastic molding press.
My uniform was long heavy cotton trousers, long sleeve shirt, steel toe boots, insulated gloves and for handling hot plastic injectors, heavy cotton pull on sleeves. It wasn't uncommon for people to drop from the heat.

 

[Absalom]

The simple physical reality is that our body, while amazingly adaptable, operates within an envelope.

With heat, it’s just like with altitude. While the limits vary from person to person, above a certain temperature just “getting used to it” doesn’t do the trick anymore. You’re headed for heat exhaustion and ultimately heat stroke.

Even drinking water can turn against you. In the desert parks of the Southwest it’s not uncommon to see hyponatremia, especially with European tourists who have no experience with real extreme heat. Heeding the common warnings to stay hydrated, they drink so much that their body’s level of sodium and other electrolytes gets over-diluted. Unfortunately, hyponatremia has similar symptoms as (more common) dehydration, so folks wanting to help the afflicted often make it worse.

But then, of course, there’s the Badwater Ultramarathon. 135 miles. Maybe proof that aliens live among us …

 

[jpage]

Was talking to a helicopter pilot, at an airport in Baker, CA. His external temp. gauge registered 130 degrees, because of the asphalt I guess. That was a miserable day.

 

[Onomea]

...But then, of course, there’s the Badwater Ultramarathon. 135 miles. Maybe proof that aliens live among us …

Let's enter Snubby in that one as the official S&W Forum entry. Bet we could make some bucks...

 

[walkin jack]

I was a process operator for one of the major oil refineries. They came out with a requirement to wear FRC (flame retardant clothing. The curious thing is that they were designed to protect you for 30 seconds in a high heat (i don't remember how high) ie: a flash fire. The name tags sewn inside was good for 2,500 deg.F. for a much longer time.They wanted to be able to identify the charred remains?

I wondered why the didn't make the entire cover-all in THAT material.

Any hoo, no body in a fire, flash or other wise is going to have a face or hands. Some body just didn't spend enough time thinking about our protective clothing?

I might also mention that in the summertime you were walking around in cover-alls and sweat-soaked an hour into your shift if you had and outside job. They were miserably hot.

 

[S&WIowegan]

Amazing heat in Pacific NW

The upside for the good people of Oregon is the heat should keep the antifas pretty quiet.

 

[moosedog]

You know what they say. Chili today, hot tamale.