@Felton10 I’d take 2 feet of snow. You can always put on clothes to stay warm (and shoveling the snow helps you stay warm too LOL). Taking your skin off doesn’t cool you down.
@compunaut@Felton10@Kidsandliz I think there will be rolling brown outs tomorrow. It’s really dry for not even July and with temps this high fires. An start so easily.
@compunaut@Felton10@Kidsandliz@sillyheathen We’ve been hearing about your weather on the news here - that’s insane! Meanwhile, after triple digits last week, we’ve had wonderful rain and temps in the 70s yesterday and today. Seems like the PNW here at the moment.
@f00l I live in Texas and agree that this is just crazy. It’s started to get hot down here but we’re supposed to get rain this week and that will help cool things down a little. I’m also getting ready to head to Spokane and then Glacier for about 10 days in mid-July. I thought it would be an amazing time to get out of Texas. I’m really hoping that turns out to be the case. If not and it turns out that this is all my fault, I’m terribly sorry.
@gt0163c This is what happens when you let the Universe know your plans well in advance. It brews up something extra special. (I have much experience with this. I made plans a year in advance to visit my parents in Miami in part so that I’d be able to tackle a task there uninterrupted, and Hurricane Andrew hit less than 36 hours later. We were in the zone of maximum destruction.)
@werehatrack Yikes. That sounds like a whole lot of not fun. I’ve usually been on pretty good terms with the Universe when it comes to travel weather. I mean, I’ve had a couple of flights delayed or cancelled due to snow, but I grew up outside of Detroit so that just comes with the territory. And there were a few times when I went to Colorado in June and it snowed, but that was AMAZING (well, I thought it was amazing. A few of the native Texans I was traveling with did not agree. But that’s their fault for leaving Texas in June.).
Personally I think either my luck has changed or it’s one of my travel companions. I was supposed to go on an Alaskan cruise in summer 2020 with some of the people I’m meeting up with in Glacier (stupid global pandemic). Now it’s looking to be stupid hot where we’re going. It will be interesting to see if we can figure out which person/people it is which has the bad travel luck.
Hey, the “could be worse” things include “You could live in a state where the power grid is ‘regulated’ by the same people who run it, and who don’t actually give a rodent’s posterior whether the proles die of heat stroke (or freeze to death in a major winter event) as long as they can get that last bill paid by the estate.”
@blaineg@sillyheathen Gas is ALWAYS self service here and in the last handful of states I have lived in. I can’t even remember when I last was at a gas station where they did it for you.
@blaineg@Kidsandliz You can always tell when Oregonians are at the wheel when you cross the border because they sit in the car and wait and WA is not self service. Never fails! There’s always at least one.
So gross
Better than 2 feet of snow-right?
@Felton10 I’d take 2 feet of snow. You can always put on clothes to stay warm (and shoveling the snow helps you stay warm too LOL). Taking your skin off doesn’t cool you down.
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz that has always been my argument!!
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz I’m always up for 2 feet of snow - unless the power grid fails.
@compunaut @Felton10 @Kidsandliz I think there will be rolling brown outs tomorrow. It’s really dry for not even July and with temps this high fires. An start so easily.
@compunaut @Felton10 @Kidsandliz @sillyheathen We’ve been hearing about your weather on the news here - that’s insane! Meanwhile, after triple digits last week, we’ve had wonderful rain and temps in the 70s yesterday and today. Seems like the PNW here at the moment.
@Felton10 The 2 feet of snow was in February - also anomalous for this area (NW Oregon).
Could be worse I guess.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind
just add rain to those temps
@Cerridwyn National Weather Service has a slightly different outlook:
@Cerridwyn @ruouttaurmind Florida???
Can’t even what?
@cengland0
Perhaps sillyheathen is at odds with the forecast…
@cengland0 Can’t even manage to use complete sentences, maybe.
@cengland0 @Kyeh It was far too hot for complete sentences.
@cengland0 @sillyheathen
It sure sounds like it!!!
@cengland0 @Kyeh that means I’ll just be speaking in complete gibberish later today!
@cengland0 @sillyheathen Maybe that’s how scat singing got started…
@cengland0 @Kyeh
Complete sentences are so
Condolences! How can it be possible that Oregon is hotter than Texas?
I’m sure Texas will revert to unbearable shortly. I hope Oregon also returns to something closer to historical summer norms soon.
@f00l I live in Texas and agree that this is just crazy. It’s started to get hot down here but we’re supposed to get rain this week and that will help cool things down a little. I’m also getting ready to head to Spokane and then Glacier for about 10 days in mid-July. I thought it would be an amazing time to get out of Texas. I’m really hoping that turns out to be the case. If not and it turns out that this is all my fault, I’m terribly sorry.
@gt0163c This is what happens when you let the Universe know your plans well in advance. It brews up something extra special. (I have much experience with this. I made plans a year in advance to visit my parents in Miami in part so that I’d be able to tackle a task there uninterrupted, and Hurricane Andrew hit less than 36 hours later. We were in the zone of maximum destruction.)
@werehatrack Yikes. That sounds like a whole lot of not fun. I’ve usually been on pretty good terms with the Universe when it comes to travel weather. I mean, I’ve had a couple of flights delayed or cancelled due to snow, but I grew up outside of Detroit so that just comes with the territory. And there were a few times when I went to Colorado in June and it snowed, but that was AMAZING (well, I thought it was amazing. A few of the native Texans I was traveling with did not agree. But that’s their fault for leaving Texas in June.).
Personally I think either my luck has changed or it’s one of my travel companions. I was supposed to go on an Alaskan cruise in summer 2020 with some of the people I’m meeting up with in Glacier (stupid global pandemic). Now it’s looking to be stupid hot where we’re going. It will be interesting to see if we can figure out which person/people it is which has the bad travel luck.
Ugh, what’s your humidity?
@blaineg My gauge is reading 58% on Sunday morning.
@blaineg @macromeh I think we’re currently around 50% here. I’ve had to drench everything in the garden. It’s bonkers.
Just imagine how it is for the athletes at the Olympic trials in Eugene OR this weekend with the record 100F+ temperatures.
@macromeh I can’t even imagine. Especially IN a stadium. Its just madness!
Old joke, but…
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@PocketBrain Looks like something that the WTForecast app might say.
and today Portland got to 115? breaking all time record.
PNW gets real.
Hope you guys aren’t melting too badly. I guess it’s time to cook eggs and pancakes on the sidewalk or inside of cars. My sympathies.
Make sure to oil those surfaces liberally; scorched egg is a bitch to get off of paint.
Hey, the “could be worse” things include “You could live in a state where the power grid is ‘regulated’ by the same people who run it, and who don’t actually give a rodent’s posterior whether the proles die of heat stroke (or freeze to death in a major winter event) as long as they can get that last bill paid by the estate.”
Or you could live in a state where during the summer you can set your watch by when the afternoon thunderstorms roll in.
No need to build a pool-got an instant lake in my backyard after one of those storms.
@Felton10 I don’t miss that about the south, or the humidity, or the mosquitoes, or the water moccasins……
From bad to worse?
@blaineg I actually like when we have random times that we can pump our own gas. It’s still strange to me to have full service gas stations here.
@blaineg @sillyheathen Gas is ALWAYS self service here and in the last handful of states I have lived in. I can’t even remember when I last was at a gas station where they did it for you.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz You can always tell when Oregonians are at the wheel when you cross the border because they sit in the car and wait and WA is not self service. Never fails! There’s always at least one.