Huh?Today was the worst heat index ever recorded in San Antonio
I swear we've had many days over 120 for heat index.
I know in the Middle East and South Asia heat index gets to like 140-150 regularly.
It's because the airport is one of the coolest places in town. My neighborhood the heat index was 121 yesterday, likely thanks to the heat island effect. Had a day last year when WeatherUnderground was reporting my neighborhood at 125 heat index, but airport was only 116.Huh?
I swear we've had many days over 120 for heat index.
I know in the Middle East and South Asia heat index gets to like 140-150 regularly.
ing heat index is 95 at 8AM
Quite pleasant today in Austin
Definitely seems like a longshot when we should be nearing 15 days by the 20th of this month.
2021 was another strange year where the summer was well wetter and below average and very few 100s days but not caused by a tropical disturbance.
Yeah it was the year of five days of snow and temperatures in the 20s. Doubt we see that again for another 35 years.
Pleasant morning in north Austin.
Cut, edged and leaf blowed (all with ICE) the front and back.
Get er done
Not bad yesterday evening in SA. Lower humidity and wind.
this morning humidity back up but temp lower Im guessing because no cloud cover.
Now to spoil it all, Ozone alert for today. If I want to keep exercising well into retirement or whatever I would rather not keep having to deal with this.
My lungs are very efficient right now and I am proud and lucky for that ability to let me go outside and workout. Trying to think long term lung health.
The air quality alert days are very sketchy as they just measure for particulates and if it is very humid they dont give accurate results.
The lower level ozone levels can be measured quite accurately, so I am more aware of this. Ozone (very reactive) is not good for your lungs, at all. And when you attempt to exercise hard in the presence of O3, not so good. Just gotta hope my immune system can help repair alveoli in this situation. Or, just dont exercise outside.
Too much fkn with our air. We should not have this much low level ozone. Its supposed to be 31 miles up where its useful in blocking UV.
At least the smoke particles from Mexico are dying down, and just in time for Saharan dust that seems to come in early July lol. A few times in the last couple of weeks we have had air on par with places like New Delhi and Beijing thanks to that smoke. But it's crazy how many ozone alert days we have now. Feels like Texas is becoming like California but only in the bad ways like pollution and rising housing costs.
The good part is we get wind off the gulf. Not as much trapped air. But as you stated that air can bring some particulate matter as well. The lungs do have a mechanism to get rid of this. So create a lot of mucus and swallow, or spit, or hack it up. Then at some point it get so bad its like London in the late 1800s early 1900s. Unlivable.
The ozone reacts chemically with your lung cells so I am not to fond of this . The gassing up that occurs on weekends helps produce it, in hot weather sunshine especially. And then industrially. There is just a lot of associated with getting energy from hydrocarbons, but hydrocarbons do store very well (as long as you dont spill them everywhere)
2021 was the coldest overall year, start to finish, in Texas in modern record. 2023 was the hottest.
2021 was also strange in that places that normally don't get too hot, like Portland and Seattle, got like a week straight of 100s degree heat.
100s in Portland aren't that out of the ordinary anymore. They had 4 days in 2023, 5 in 2022, 5 in 2021, and 2 in 2020. Their 2021 heat wave literally had people dying in Vancouver from 120 degree heat index.
Portland actually got to 117 in 2021, and Seattle got to 108 and the tech suburbs just to the east of Seattle got to 117 as well. That was crazy. Don't know if it ever happens again, but yeah people there a) aren't used to Texas/Arizona heat like that, and b) a lot of the homes there particularly somewhat middle aged and older homes were built without AC because back in the day you never really needed it.
Don't know what's even the point of living in the so-called temperate rainforest up there when it's rapidly turning into a subtropical swamp and the subtropical swamps are rapidly turning either tropical or out right arid.
Welcome to very large variations in temp in specific places with the overall global average rising more rapidly than we expected.
The climatologists appear to have got this bang on, the variation is crazy. If we could just predict where and when we might be able to adjust to mass migration and even moving city to city like rich people.
This would be an incredible feat that might make us able to adapt to what we have wrought.
watch for real estate in places like Alaska and Michigan to skyrocket in the next ten to twenty years, also Canada is sitting pretty with all that spare virgin land they have up there that will eventually become prime real estate. Russia, too, for better or for worse.
...but how is migrating north going to save the planet? We need turd world countries like in India and Africa to stop popping out babies and the globalists to stop giving them welfare. It's no doubt anthropogenic global warming is real, but what are we going to do to reverse it, just like with inflation?
Seems to me the way to reverse global warming is to literally de-industrialize the planet, kill the factories, kill the internet and all other telecomms, stop making cars and cancel all air flights, and live on subsistence agriculture, ranching, farming, trading, and animal riding and shipping for travel like humans did in the the pre industrialized era for centuries and millennia before the industrial revolution which sparked all the global warming.
industry can be cleaned up.
We have done it with acid rain and high level ozone depletion.
There will always be a need to use hydrocarbons but not to excess like we do now.
And I have said before we must change how we plan cities to take advantage of the cleaner energy the region gives us geographically.
We are damn lazy with zero foresight. Make a profit now and then leave your mess behind for others. Dirty capitalism.
also people who like the cool shouldn't be relocating to Texas or Arizona if the regulation is going to be that you can't have the AC below 82 degrees.
move to somewhere like coastal Michigan if you can't take the heat
This is interesting.
My grandad says he likes the heat because his arthritis really hurts when it gets cold.
Then other old relatives say they cant stand the heat and want out. So Im not entirely understanding this.
Im gonna go with you cant please old people who are not naturally happy people.
Some older relatives never complain with big smiles for great grandkids and just want to be involved with life. Lots of variation with the old.
You think tired tread, and you just think why are you even hanging on when you are so obviously miserable.
Dirty capitalism is just the same thing as capitalism. We're not lazy, Exxon and other corporations are just the actual government of this nation and privatized profits with socialized costs is as American as mass shootings and medical bankruptcy.
I agree with this, but if democrats want to leave out big tech and big pharma (along with the big banks) then they're being hypocritical. Just like the Bush/Cheney admin and their nut-huggers leaving out big oil was also hypocritical.
the private sector of America is cancer and gluttonous and it's plain to see, IMO the federal government should instill a corporate profit cap (or at least profit margin % cap) and that would solve a LOT of problems, from the medical insurance industry (which trickles down to doctors and patient costs) to the gas and grocery prices to the issue of wages and housing being unfair for the average American.
I think the US private sector needs a bit of an iron fist ruling from the state.
I can't sleep when it's too hot. Like I was awake practically sweating this morning from 6:30-8:30 AM in the middle of what should have been my sleep because of this morning's power outage in Medina Valley due to the storms that came through last night. Because the AC was out.
I literally cannot tolerate not having AC set above 68 when trying to sleep, with the alternative being 60 or lower for the overnight low... sometimes it gets so humid that if camping outside it needs to be 55 or lower to be comfortable to me. I could not do Survivor in tropical Fiji. I'd get zero sleep.
C'mon man acting like Big Pharma, Big Tech, the banks, private equity firms, etc haven't bought out the GOP too.
Go camp in the Beartooths in Montana man, overnight lows in the mid 20s in August. Feels amazing. Or the high country of Yosemite or the Ansel Adams National Forest in Cali. Even last time I went when a nasty heat wave came that had temps 100+ in the Yosemite Valley at 4000 feet it still dropped to the mid 40s overnight where I was camping at 10,000 feet a few miles off Tioga Pass Road in the northeast end of the park.
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