I biked 20 km today in the middle of the day. It was very hot and I was over it after 4km. My sweat made a white salt Rorschach on the back of my blue trousers.
― Yerac, Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
I am done with biking for another 5 years.
It was ugly in the city earlier but now I’m in Brittany and it is a relief
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
I'm in Beaune and it's too much sun for me.
― Yerac, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
Nice! Lovely little town.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Have only driven through (by?) Beaune, never visited. I’m on the coast of Finistère in a small village, 20 degrees all week, before going back to the boiling capital for ordinary life again. I have to go to Prague in August and I am dreading the heat.
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 6 July 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
I still have never been to Bretagne. We biked on the bike road from Beaune to Santenay to Chagny. It was pretty.
― Yerac, Sunday, 7 July 2019 05:42 (four years ago) link
pretty hot.
There's a place in Volnay past Pommard called Le cellier volnaysien that makes a mean coq au vin, if you're into that kind of thing. The setting is gorgeously rural and feels like a (very slight) respite from Beaune's bougier leanings. You could easily bike there, but you'd have to be in the mood for a few spells of uphill pedalling.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 July 2019 07:37 (four years ago) link
Yeah there was a lot of uphill pedaling that made me feel how out of shape I am. We went through all the grand cru villages in cote du beaune but didn't really stop except to get a glass of wine in meursault.
― Yerac, Sunday, 7 July 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
ok I gave in. Well, my thermostat did. Have it set to 82 and AC finally came on. Hottest day so far though at 103/39.5.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
We (my daughter and I) just watched "Do the Right Thing," and the debilitating, apocalyptic heat wave in that movie is I think 94 or 95 degrees, and we thought, how quaint. It's at least that right here right now!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
'this is fine'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
I just saw DTRT again and i don't think a temperature is ever mentioned.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/16/heat-wave-could-cause-power-outages-new-york-city-chicago-d-c/1749257001/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Everything here is so damp.
It was 82º when I got home yesterday, but it felt like 106.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
Low of 80 degrees for the rest of week.
― brownie, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
xpost I take it back, when Mister Señor Love Daddy gives his Jheri curl alert, he says it's going to be over 100. I must have been thinking of something I heard/read about the real life weather of 1988, when Spike was writing the movie. Just looked it up and summer of '88 in NYC there was a 23 day July streak of streak of temps in the 90s.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Records in Toronto today--supposedly, in weatherese, going to "feel like" it's 47. ("You're going to have a great day tomorrow, and it'll feel like you're happy.")
― clemenza, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
I don't understand the heat index or wind chill. Well, I sorta of do. It has something to do with how well your body does or does not deal with sweat and moisture, right? Like, it'll be 95, but your body will have trouble sweating efficiently (or something) so it will "feel" like it's 110? Or, it's 20, but it will feel like 0, because the wind will wick away moisture faster?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
heat index has to do with humidity in that when the air's really moist already, evaporation takes place more slowly or not at all --- so the cooling effect of perspiration evaporating off your skin is gone. you still sweat just as much.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 July 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Gotcha, thanks. Yeah, I knew it had something to do with that. You get soggy with no benefits.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
I stepped out for coffee this morning, and it does hit you like a truck. The temperature's just around 30, but it feels like there's no air.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
Pssh, I say there's *too much* air!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
Pitchfork Fest gonna be a blast.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
Basking in the bliss of the temperature and humidity having fallen to levels allowing for some kind of regular functioning.
No AC here (UK) and we're on an upper floor with southern facing windows and a flat roof. If it ever went over 38° C outside there would be genuine danger inside.
― Thank You (Fattekin Mice Elf Control Again) (Noel Emits), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Two fires at power substations here, no one has power downtown, all the traffic lights out. Fun!https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/thousands-without-power-downtown-following-explosion-fires-at-mge-transmission/article_89ebfcd0-8a8c-5278-91bc-988ef36fd8ba.html
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
xpost, looks like it could get very toasty from mid-week.
We appear to have fairly strong agreement on 850hPa temps nearing or reaching the 20°C mark for at least 2 days next week across the south, with no strong negative factors at the surface (i.e a strong wind) or cloud, there's no reason we shouldn't nudge a mid 30's in London/SE pic.twitter.com/5NBldWgj7u— Official Weather UK (@Official_WXUK) July 19, 2019
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
fukkkin 39C next week here, canicule alerts, nique mon identité
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 19 July 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
It wasn't until I moved to AZ, after 35 yrs of life, that I 1st experienced sweating actually cooling me off. "Ohhh THIS is why we sweat! Neat."
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 19 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Two fires at power substations here, no one has power downtown, all the traffic lights out. Fun!
Stayin' cool by blowing through intersections at 50mph with the windows rolled down
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 19 July 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
summer music fests sure to fall by the wayside in many regions over the next decade
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
Heatwave after heatwave in different parts of the world and Lisbon has steered clear of them all. We hit 31C next week and we had a couple of 30+ C days in May, but other than that Northern Russia has been hotter for nearly 2 months.
Tomorrow we're the same temperature as Norilsk
― cherry blossom, Friday, 19 July 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
The stat I just heard was that 90% of the population of America will be enveloped in 90-plus weather over the next two days.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 July 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
93F and 56% humidity, fucking great
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
4 of the last 5 days here we hit 100F/38C, my sister's Eurokids visited and expected we would walk everywhere (having only visited Texas in December before now) but the heat + humidity just demolished them.
we've deforested pretty much everywhere, we don't have a night-market or after-dark social culture
This is my dream, that my office will let me work a second shift during summer, and retail/dining/etc establishments will extend their hours to accommodate evening/night workers... I would bike far more in Austin if I could do stuff at night when it's "only" 85-90 degrees outside, and no punishing sunlight. But it would need a whole constellation of changes to social practices.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
my sister's Eurokids
Briefly misread this as Ewoks.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
91f / 33c in ottawa seems pretty crazy
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
deforestation is sure to effect the ewoks though.
― Yerac, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
they are kind of muppety! especially when they're being theatrically exhausted.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
When I lived in San Antonio it seemed like a relatively unusual number of businesses were open 24 hours. Bars still closed at 2am but they were regularly packed after midnight. It was a pretty night-oriented place ime
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 19 July 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
also wonder how feasible continuous shade structures for bike lanes would be. would keep the rain off, too. I've never seen one, so I'm guessing it's not practical for some reason. but it's not like roads in general are practical either.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 19 July 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
we have those on bike trails. they're called trees, though
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 19 July 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
well, we cut all those down here
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 19 July 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
LA should put elevated trains down all the major boulevards for the shade.
this is excellent btw https://placesjournal.org/article/shade-an-urban-design-mandate/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 July 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
especially as the palm trees are due to die in the next decade or so iirc?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 19 July 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
they offer almost no shade now so them dying off is no great loss
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 July 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
I meant more that they can give way to elevated train tracks
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 19 July 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
ah. word. of course it's not going to happen. there is actually a transit plan that is a good start (saner downtown rail lines, 405 transit, LAX link, etc.), thanks to the otherwise terrible olympics, but the main problem here right now is a ridership death spiral https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bus-ridership-falling-los-angeles-la-metro-20190627-story.html. we may not make it 2028 with a solvent metro. elevated rail would be a nice problem to have in this setting!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 July 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
also good https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/10/20687762/trees-in-cities-climate-change-health-benefits
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 July 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link