Weather in your neck of the woods?

[Rickp]

11 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Happy to send our Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday weather your way!!!  You can cut that hay, flip it, roll it all in one day!!  

 

That’s really awful

[Kenny B]

1 minute ago, Rickp said:

That’s really awful

Only 108º today when we finished playing at 2pm.  Watered my hat at every water station and at the turn.  It was dry by the next water station.  Drink of the day was a 50/50 Gatorade/Water mix with lots of ice.

[Rickp]

8 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Only 108º today when we finished playing at 2pm.  Watered my hat at every water station and at the turn.  It was dry by the next water station.  Drink of the day was a 50/50 Gatorade/Water mix with lots of ice.

That makes our FL days pretty tame.

Take care

[Kenny B]

1 hour ago, Rickp said:

That makes our FL days pretty tame.

Take care

I'll take our hot dry weather over your hot humid weather all day, every day!!

[fixyurdivot]

10 hours ago, Rickp said:

That’s really awful

Unless you're a rattlesnake.

[Rickp]

9 hours ago, Kenny B said:

I'll take our hot dry weather over your hot humid weather all day, every day!!

Some days, not all

[Kenny B]

Had to go to the store this afternoon...  116º at 3pm.  On the way to the store, the sidewalk that parallels the 4 lane street near our house had buckled.  I said  "WOW!  Never seen that before in the 53 years I've lived here."

It's almost 8pm and it's still 104º.  Just got an alert on my phone... the two inside lanes of I-90 eastbound about 35 miles east of Seattle buckled due to heat.  Traffic down to right lane only and reduced speed.   No time given for repairs.

118º tomorrow!!!

[tommc23]

6 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Had to go to the store this afternoon...  116º at 3pm.  On the way to the store, the sidewalk that parallels the 4 lane street near our house had buckled.  I said  "WOW!  Never seen that before in the 53 years I've lived here."

It's almost 8pm and it's still 104º.  Just got an alert on my phone... the two inside lanes of I-90 eastbound about 35 miles east of Seattle buckled due to heat.  Traffic down to right lane only and reduced speed.   No time given for repairs.

118º tomorrow!!!

Yea I now feel bad about complaining about 94 tomorrow thanks Kenny

[Shapotomous]

I am reading Kenny B's posts just to feel better about our 95* + temps !  

[Kenny B]

19 hours ago, tommc23 said:

Yea I now feel bad about complaining about 94 tomorrow thanks Kenny

 

8 hours ago, Shapotomous said:

I am reading Kenny B's posts just to feel better about our 95* + temps !  

Glad I can help you out!!  Just checked and it's 118º.  The 10 day forecast shows that it will only be 113º tomorrow, then cools off to 105-107º through the weekend.  We finally get a break next Wednesday as the mercury drops to 99º.   Might have to grab a sweater!!

I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard that rolling brownouts could happen.  We have probably the cheapest power in the US with 6 hydroelectric dams in the region and a nuclear power plant outside town. 

[tommc23]

47 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

 

Glad I can help you out!!  Just checked and it's 118º.  The 10 day forecast shows that it will only be 113º tomorrow, then cools off to 105-107º through the weekend.  We finally get a break next Wednesday as the mercury drops to 99º.   Might have to grab a sweater!!

I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard that rolling brownouts could happen.  We have probably the cheapest power in the US with 6 hydroelectric dams in the region and a nuclear power plant outside town. 

It was 95 but real feel was 110 I still feel better about my temps but these temps are too hot for anyone. Stay safe

[tony@CIC]

Rain,, rain go away!

[Kenny B]

16 minutes ago, tony@CIC said:

Rain,, rain go away!

Send it here...  quickly!!

[Kenny B]

38 minutes ago, tommc23 said:

It was 95 but real feel was 110 I still feel better about my temps but these temps are too hot for anyone. Stay safe

I know what it's like back there.  I did a one year stint in DC, and this old boy doesn't like humidity.  

Unbearable in your firefighting gear, I bet!!  Take care.

[artful_golfer]

I understand heat waves, but how is it possible that can make WA can be soooo much hotter than south TX. We played golf yesterday late afternoon in mid 80s.

[fixyurdivot]

45 minutes ago, artful_golfer said:

I understand heat waves, but how is it possible that can make WA can be soooo much hotter than south TX.

It's all part of the "grand plan".  It seems that entropy is alive and well and our desire for steady-state, continued "normal", is nothing but wishful thinking. 

 

On 6/28/2021 at 8:57 PM, Kenny B said:

Just got an alert on my phone... the two inside lanes of I-90 eastbound about 35 miles east of Seattle buckled due to heat.  Traffic down to right lane only and reduced speed.   No time given for repairs.

118º tomorrow!!!

That would be around the North Bend area.  What a mess going into the 4th weekend, high temps, and many heading up to the Snoqualmie Pass area (and lakes) looking for some cooler weather .  We're getting a little of your heatwave here but not really that bad.

[ejgaudette]

26 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

Orographic effect, humid air rising up and over the western mountains losing moisture as it climbs then rushes down the eastern side of the mountains and heats up fast because it is now dry having lost the water vapor.  Warm air masses only makes it that much hotter when the air compresses as it descends.  With the heatwave on the western side of the mountains it is already packing a lot of heat before it rushes over the tops to gain more heat on the way down to the middle of the state of Washington and Oregon (and Cali to the south), same thing that happens in Western Texas 

Brining the nice meteorological talk to the thread I love it. Those mountains really can cause some crazy weather.

[Kenny B]

2 hours ago, artful_golfer said:

I understand heat waves, but how is it possible that can make WA can be soooo much hotter than south TX. We played golf yesterday late afternoon in mid 80s.

What @EasyPutter said... I guess; not my field.  We don't get much rain as it all gets dumped in Seattle and the Cascade Mountains.  We are trapped between the Cascade Mountains to the west and the Rockies to the east.  

You have to remember that not all of Washington and Oregon are like Seattle and Portland.  We get on average 7 inches of rain a year.  The natural terrain looks more like Las Vegas and Arizona; plenty of sagebrush, tumbleweeds, and cactus.  Yes, cactus!  Not the big saguaro; just little prickly things.  We have the distinction of having the highest, naturally un-treed mountain in the US at over 3500 feet.  

 

[Kenny B]

31 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

I taught Earth Science for a decade and a few years later when visiting my Army instructors at Fort Lewis had a rental vehicle and enough time before flight home to drive over the mountains past Rainier to Yakima and actually saw the Orographic effect first hand, exactly as I had been teaching it graphically on the chalkboard (in vivid colors) and watched the outside temp go from 74 in Seattle to 38 top of the mountain pass to 96 in Yakima all within a couple hour drive.  It was the aqueducts that struck me as evidence of how dry the air was downwind from the mountain range.

One winter morning in 2008 I drove my wife over to Seattle prior to her back surgery at Virginia Mason.  It was -8º when we left town; still below freezing on Snoqualmie Pass; and 47º as we got close to Seattle.  As we were talking to the doctor, VM had a fire drill.  We had to exit the building... sunny and 54º.

[ejgaudette]

1 hour ago, EasyPutter said:

I taught Earth Science for a decade and a few years later when visiting my Army instructors at Fort Lewis had a rental vehicle and enough time before flight home to drive over the mountains past Rainier to Yakima and actually saw the Orographic effect first hand, exactly as I had been teaching it graphically on the chalkboard (in vivid colors) and watched the outside temp go from 74 in Seattle to 38 top of the mountain pass to 96 in Yakima all within a couple hour drive.  It was the aqueducts that struck me as evidence of how dry the air was downwind from the mountain range.

Thats great, my degree is in meteorology so its always cool when you see the stuff you teach some to life. We normally get the opposite effect, cold air damming.

[GolfSpy BOS]

Big boomers tonight! 
 

the rain hasn’t been too heavy yet, but this light show has been going off like it’s the 4th of July already for 30+ minutes already  

 

[Shapotomous]

It's boomer time here tonight as well!  Chased me out of the metal pole barn right quick!!  

[Kenny B]

1 hour ago, B.Boston said:

Big boomers tonight! 
 

the rain hasn’t been too heavy yet, but this light show has been going off like it’s the 4th of July already for 30+ minutes already  

 

No rain in sight!!  We could use the rain, but not with Boomers!!  We would have fires everywhere.

[TBT]

It’s been very annoying….really hot and then it rains really hard for about an hour and then it’s steamy again.

The problem is it’s been raining enough that you can’t play golf or really do anything outside 

[Shapotomous]

9 hours ago, EasyPutter said:

You would be quite safe in a metal pole barn or any metal structure.  It acts as a Faraday's Cage where any electricity runs around the outside of the structure, same way that shielding works on cables.  Just make sure not to extend any part of your body outside of the dimensions of the cage.  That is how the safety cage works when working with a Tesla Coil.  (In Army Basic Training in Missouri when squall lines would sweep through with lightning forking all around, they would herd us into the metal buildings near the ranges for safety usually with the doors left open for air, and good thing too as we had M16s slung over shoulders and steel helmets back in the day.)

I do have a basic understanding of a faraday cage but this is where head knowledge and gut knowledge take a divergent path....

  I don't care how "safe" I am from the lightning itself while I am standing in the metal pole barn swinging an 8 iron hitting balls into a net strung across the big side opening during a thunderstorm.......

If a strike hit that building with me in it at a minimum I'd lose a pair of underwear and shorts and probably socks and shoes.  Worst case they'd find me the next morning and say well it wasn't the lightning that got him but the heart attack!   

Anywhoooo the humidity has taken a break this morning for a while and the high today only gets to the high 80's rather than high 90's.  

[Shapotomous]

1.5" of rain since yesterday morning.  We are supposed to get some nice humidity free weather over the weekend!  

[Kenny B]

Well, starting a week ago we had record breaking high temperatures for 6 straight days; some days by only 2-3º and others by 6-7º.  For now we are done with 115-118º temps, but our 10-day forecast calls for sunny and temps in the low 100's.  

We are very dry this year.  We didn't get much of a snow pack in the mountains and we had a warm spring, so runoff came early.  We will likely be short of irrigation water near the end of summer.  The irrigation supply will turn off water to our irrigation valve at our property line, and we might get to water 2 days a week.  Grass turns brown, irrigation filter plugs with mud and shells, sprinkler heads get plugged; weed seeds come in with the water for a new crop in the lawn.  I hate it, but the farmers are the ones that suffer.

[Shapotomous]

mid 60's this morning and looks like a great weather day in the mid 80's and low humidity.  An afternoon of grass cutting here & at church once the grass dries out.

[tony@CIC]

Our weather took a turn for the best. We played wednesday in on and off again rain with a downpour as soon as we finished. Friday and today - absolutely perfect golf weather - 70's low humidity, sunshine. Perfect. Note; too bad my game today didn't match the perfect weather. 

[fixyurdivot]

The PNW heatwave has been pushing itself east getting us into the low 90's the past few days.  I played/walked Madison Meadows and normally have no issue doing 27 holes.  The course is pretty hilly and I usually feel plenty exercised after doing so, but by hole 15 I was feeling pretty gassed.

On hole #17, after poking a tee in the ground for the par 3 iron shot, I stood up and felt dizzy .  I had been drinking lots of water (even purchased a fruit punch Powerade) but at 92F, a bit more humid than normal, and no wind, it was "tap out" time.  I sat under the shade tree to rest then finished the last hole with little enthusiasm. 

A couple years ago, I experienced a minor bout of heat exhaustion while sawing logs at our community firewood bank.  I walked over to my truck to get water and pretty much had to rest on my elbows on the front seat while the dizziness and tunnel vision subsided.  It was the first time I ever experienced this. I'm told once you experience heat exhaustion you are susceptible too it... dunno?  

New respect for heat exposure... be safe out there.