The General
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How’s everyone surviving heat dome 2020.
It’s pretty warm out there!
It’s pretty warm out there!
Damn. That sucks.I live in Eugene and our upstairs air conditioner stopped working Friday night. We all slept downstairs last night. Can't get anyone to come look at it until at least Monday. My son has a baseball game at noon today so I am bringing an umbrella.
The position of our house relative to neighbors and the placement of our furnace makes AC install pretty tough but we are going to to do something this fall no matter what.I moved in December, and my first order of business in the new place was getting AC installed. Felt kinda dumb at the time, since as you mentioned it's not the norm here, but now I'm very happy about it.
My mom and stepfather moved at the same time to a house about a mile away from me, and they did a billion things to their house but didn't include AC. They'll be spending the next few days at my house. :(
Pretty much all of the restaurants near me have closed temporarily since working in a kitchen with no AC in this heat would probably kill everyone.
I saw that Seattle is forecast to reach 112 tomorrow, and the previous high on any day ever is 103. Unbelievable.
Yeah, I grew up in Southern Indiana where the heat and humidity is horrible, so I always laughed, too. Now I've gone soft, though!The position of our house relative to neighbors and the placement of our furnace makes AC install pretty tough but we are going to to do something this fall no matter what.
Grew up in Indiana so always laughed at the summer weather here that is pretty much perfect but the WFH and the fires the last few years where we had to shut windows have made it a thing now.
Enjoy that 68 degree climate controlled goodness!
Bloomington here, 25 years.Yeah, I grew up in Southern Indiana where the heat and humidity is horrible, so I always laughed, too. Now I've gone soft, though!
Btw, was just reading this interesting article in the NY Times. Apparently AC ownership here went from 31% in 2013 to 44% in 2019. Still the lowest of any major metro area in the US (for comparison, SF is at 47% and Portland at 79%), but we're quickly trending upward. The last few years have been crazy on both ends, with the excessive heat and then the snow in winter.
Hope you can get it done, given the configuration issues you mentioned. These guys are pretty damn good at figuring stuff like that out. I was impressed with the people who installed mine, as I had some configuration challenges, too.Bloomington here, 25 years.
That AC number will sky rocket in the next couple years. We dumbly pushed it back. Should have done it last fall after the weeks of smoke.
It’s actually not too bad in the shade right now. But if a breeze, just the temps in the house are unbearable in the evening.
Three former Hoosiers now in this area on this board!Another former hoosier here too (for about 25 years)..
Seven years back in the Puget Sound area (where I grew up).
Honestly i don't ever remember it getting to 100 degrees when I lived here from 1967-1990..
I have a Dyson fan and an old box fan that someone gave me a few years ago following me around wherever I go here at home.
Tomorrow I will be travelling in the heat into South Seattle @ high noon.
I'm staying alive.
I always suspected you wereHope you can get it done, given the configuration issues you mentioned. These guys are pretty damn good at figuring stuff like that out. I was impressed with the people who installed mine, as I had some configuration challenges, too.
Three former Hoosiers now in this area on this board!
It has only hit 100 or more in Seattle three times in recorded history before this wave. Be careful tomorrow.
I remember you were one as well now. I think we were even there around the same time.I always suspected you were
Could grill some meat on the sidewalk tomorrowMy brother lives in Issaquah where the NWS official forecast has it getting to 117 tomorrow. He said in his 20+ years there he only remembers maybe high 90's or 100 a couple of times. 117!
His 'official' temp readings he keeps sending me is from his grill meat thermometer where it read 102 yesterday on his covered porch.
Central Oregon here, hit 99 yesterday, and will be in the hundreds thru Thursday as of now. Not really that crazy for the high desert, but usually it would be in August not June. Really feel for those of you where it's humid. Much much worse than here. :(Checking in from just across the Sound from Seattle. I moved in December, and my first order of business in the new place was getting AC installed. Felt kinda dumb at the time, since as you mentioned it's not the norm here, but now I'm very happy about it.
My mom and stepfather moved at the same time to a house about a mile away from me, and they did a billion things to their house but didn't include AC. They'll be spending the next few days at my house. :(
Pretty much all of the restaurants near me have closed temporarily since working in a kitchen with no AC in this heat would probably kill everyone.
I saw that Seattle is forecast to reach 112 tomorrow, and the previous high on any day ever is 103. Unbelievable.
My Mom lives in Eugene and said it nuts. She’s “lucky” in that her AC went out last year so she’s got a new unit. Last year when it when down she wasn’t real happy about it but it’s sure paying off now.I live in Eugene and our upstairs air conditioner stopped working Friday night. We all slept downstairs last night. Can't get anyone to come look at it until at least Monday. My son has a baseball game at noon today so I am bringing an umbrella.
We know Uwe Blob is a Hoosier.My brother lives in Issaquah where the NWS official forecast has it getting to 117 tomorrow. He said in his 20+ years there he only remembers maybe high 90's or 100 a couple of times. 117!
His 'official' temp readings he keeps sending me is from his grill meat thermometer where it read 102 yesterday on his covered porch.
Just two fans...I remember you were one as well now. I think we were even there around the same time.
Small world.
Hope you are set up with some AC in your pad here in PNW.
Nice.Just two fans...
I have Hoosier blood, so I'll be ok.
moveNice.
I just wimped out and got a room in a hotel
My blood has thinned in the last 20 years. Be safe brother.
Portland forecast is insane. I know we have some others there... @General Malaise @urbanhack how are you holding up? I think @tommyboy is in the area, too.Portland resident. So glad we negotiated AC as part of our home purchase last year. Just hoping the power holds up.
Yup. Friends in Portland are miserable, places are closed due to heat, and one friend has to go to Eugene tomorrow for an exercise with full tactical gear and non-lethal rounds (he’s a Fed parole officer). No bueno. Supposed to be 111 in Portland proper tomorrow. Ugh.Portland forecast is insane. I know we have some others there... @General Malaise @urbanhack how are you holding up? I think @tommyboy is in the area, too.
FOUR! if you include Portland in the mix!Hope you can get it done, given the configuration issues you mentioned. These guys are pretty damn good at figuring stuff like that out. I was impressed with the people who installed mine, as I had some configuration challenges, too.
Three former Hoosiers now in this area on this board!
It has only hit 100 or more in Seattle three times in recorded history before this wave. Be careful tomorrow.
I was going to join GM at his camp site but my lady opted for some privacy since it was her Bday. We'll get her introduced GM and his family soon.Portland forecast is insane. I know we have some others there... @General Malaise @urbanhack how are you holding up? I think @tommyboy is in the area, too.
Sorry to hear about all that. Insane. What’s causing this? I mean I know what is in the grand scheme, just curious if there is a particular weird weather pattern or front?
A heat dome is effectively what it sounds like—an area of high pressure that parks over a region like a lid on a pot, trapping heat. Research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows they are more likely to form during La Niña years like 2021, when waters are cool in the eastern Pacific and warm in the western Pacific. That temperature difference creates winds that blow dense, tropical, western air eastward. Eventually that warm air gets trapped in the jet stream—a current of air spinning counterclockwise around the globe—and ends up on the U.S. West Coast.
Boilermakers areFOUR! if you include Portland in the mix!
All good here so far. My lady's Bday weekend so we drove out to Long Beach (past Astoria) and drove out on the beach and setup a tent for the day.
I've got a window AC unit for the bedroom and then a fan blowing the residual cool air to the rest of the house. It's working for now, but it's running 18 hours a day right for the next 72 hours. Almost all of the food carts and many restaurants are either closing early or completely closed today and tomorrow.
Was meaning to ask you. All our wines are in the coolest room in our house but the temp there is mid to upper 70’s going to be that way for a few days. All reds.Willamette Valley (Newberg), OR. A/C hanging in there but definitely getting taxed. The bigger issue for me has been the new vines we planted last fall. I spent the last week running 4,000 feet of drip irrigation line to (hopefully) save them. Between unrolling the constantly kinking hose in 1,000 foot segments, clipping it to the wire thousands of times over, and installing the drip emitters one by one, a truly underrated miserable experience. But at least we planted in the fall and had the winter rains to build a water base to get them started - those who planted in the spring are in trouble.
Do you have two Queens?Got a room near South Lake Union. Wind is blowing in a way that it’s coming right off Lake Washington.
Jumped in the lake and sitting outside is perfect. May be calling in sick tomorrow.
Stay safe up there.Environment Canada is warning that 45 of the province’s 57 weather regions are experiencing a “dangerous, long-duration” heat wave.
The temperature for Metro Vancouver is expected to range from 33 to 42 degrees, and only drop down to 18 to 21 degrees overnight.
Regions such as the Okanagan Valley, Shuswap, Nicola Valley and the Kootenays, among several other Interior regions, are in for even higher temperatures. The daytime highs in these areas are expected to range from 40 to 46 degrees and continue through to Wednesday or Thursday.
i hate the heat so avoiding going out for any reason and staying in front of the ac
i cancelled all my planned hikes for the week and have been watching stories of hikers being rescued from heat exhaustion
First world problems..Boilermakers are
Was meaning to ask you. All our wines are in the coolest room in our house but the temp there is mid to upper 70’s going to be that way for a few days. All reds.
Tell me we are going to be ok here.
very much so. There’s like a decade of collecting down there though so this would be some tragic ####!!First world problems..
Could you do the bolded in English please?Environment Canada is warning that 45 of the province’s 57 weather regions are experiencing a “dangerous, long-duration” heat wave.
The temperature for Metro Vancouver is expected to range from 33 to 42 degrees, and only drop down to 18 to 21 degrees overnight.
that is English and what the rest of the world usesCould you do the bolded in English please?
yeah i knew that , i guess my Canadian accent didn't help my joke response eitherIt's just a joke buddy.
You'll be fine - mid to upper 70s is the upper range of temps that I ideally ship in, so a few days up there is no problem. Even in the low 80s for a few days would be OK. Beyond that, time to get a wine fridge!Was meaning to ask you. All our wines are in the coolest room in our house but the temp there is mid to upper 70’s going to be that way for a few days. All reds.
Tell me we are going to be ok here.
Just moved to Eugene, got into our house last weekend. Luckily the AC works well, and I bought a portable unit for my shed/office.I live in Eugene and our upstairs air conditioner stopped working Friday night. We all slept downstairs last night. Can't get anyone to come look at it until at least Monday. My son has a baseball game at noon today so I am bringing an umbrella.