too effing hot

Blows my mind it's twice as hot in Bakersfield as in LA (in celsius)

ConEd keeps texting and emailing me to tell me to reduce consumption during peak hours but, just as a particularly NYC-centric example, fuck off out of here until you dim the lights in Times Square and every corporate office that's air conditioned down to 57 degrees (on a SUNDAY, mind you).

^^^my current stance as well

to be fair, lots of corporate offices I'm sure don't want to pay extravagant power bills. They shut AC off in my building on Sunday.

92, ain’t no thing

I'm loving the heat in Portland (highs around 100 yesterday through Tuesday). Dry as a bone, not a cloud in the sky, air quality seems good.

I like not even having to think about wearing a long sleeve whatever later

It’s so hot in NYC that the Third Ave Bridge over the Harlem River can’t fully open/close because the heat has expanded the steel. We saw workers using a saw to shave part of the steel down & fire boats shooting water on the bridge to cool it down @nbcnewyork #nbc4ny #nyc #heat pic.twitter.com/lAxdyXNHEP

— Jesse Hamilton (@JesseJHamilton) July 8, 2024

It’s 83 in New York right now so I’m not convinced but could be!

Improvised bridge maintenance seems like it could be problematic.

i'm assuming it's not so much the high temp today (which is not that high) but the sustained heat of the last few weeks that has caused the bridge to accumulate enough heat to be stuck open?

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It’s really not that hot

balmy 75*F in Oakland right now, but it's supposed to heat up again later this week

DOT says it was heat https://gothamist.com/news/third-avenue-bridge-in-the-bronx-gets-stuck-due-to-heat-dot-says

it's too effing hot imo

Really?

Las Vegas whooee (I'm not there, but it's effing hot)

https://abc7.com/post/las-vegas-shatters-hottest-day-record-120-degrees/15041684/

Heard an NPR report about people showing up at the Vegas hospital with burns from the pavement.

calstars if you wanna be a high-temp hardman, maybe keep it to an nyc thread

https://i.imgur.com/onVes4O.png

K

It's a refreshing 72 degrees here.

Nice weather for July, if you're able to ignore the residual Beryl blasts and tornado warnings.

I mean, it’s not even August…

it's not even close to August

Summer starts in fucking May now

Omg the air is so thick and gross

Yeah there's something unusually dispiriting about this recent NYC weather. Feels like being trapped in a hot soup. After a 15 minute walk I have to come home and hang dry my clothes.

I think that (in a way) our 2024 summer weather is kinda what I imagined 2000 weather would be when it was like 1989 or 1990: just sheer misery

I feel like the switch flipped on NYC summers about 5-8 years ago, where it went from 2-3 waves of hot and steamy weather over a summer (and just hot the rest of the time) to it being hot and steamy pretty much the entire summer.

i must admit (to calstars) that it hasn't actually been crazy *hot* in nyc, but even mid-80s is a nightmare with humidity/dewpoints this high. can't imagine doing construction work in this

obviously the state governments of texas and florida have done a lot of awful shit lately, but preemtively banning local ordinances requiring breaks for workers in hot weather is among the most blatantly cruel (and racist)

xp NYC's climate classification switched from humid continental to humid subtropical in 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/nyregion/climate-change-nyc.html

Thank u mookie for that vote of sanity

龜 - At least I'm not imagining it :(

every day the forecast two days out from now says it will be a few degrees cooler, but when that day comes it ends up being just as hot

yesterday was finally, dramatically cooler in nyc - but only after 6 PM, when things settled down into the low 80s and there was a decent breeze.

11 of the last 21 days have reached 90 degrees, nine of those days surpassing it.

Today's expected high is 90.

Thankfully not as bad today since have to trapse all over the city

108 in Sacramento yesterday, 111 today, 111 Friday, 100 saturday
then back down into 90’s for a while

i may not survive til sunday

Those Western temperatures break my brain. Forecast for Palm Springs is sunny and over 100 every day for the next week.

My first world problem so far in NYC so far is having to see the P1 alert every six hours or so on the A/C and having to drag the unit over to the tub to drain it

I’m assuming it’s related to the dew point humidity thing mookie mentioned

And here it is, like clockwork

Worried that maybe I emptied it over energetically and broke some part that is supposed to splash the water onto the fans for evaporation purposes

It’s awkward to drain those things, I usually get some water on the floor

Yeah, we used to use some combination of a dish and a cookie sheet slid underneath. I'd also make sure all filters/vents are clean. But ultimately I think those things are truly meant to work with a drain hose installed in the bottom, which was never a practical possibility in our apartment.

Cleaned all the filters a few days ago

At first I only did the top two and then I remembered or saw the other two

I used to drain mine every couple of months, but it wasn't our only air conditioner; we had two window units going — one in the bedroom and one in the office — at the same time. The "portable" (LOL; the thing weighed like 100 lbs and dragging it out of the basement every May, then dragging it back down in September, was the bane of my existence) unit was in the living room. Now I have just one AC — a big one in the main room of the apartment that keeps everything comfortable. Having thick double-glazed windows to keep the insane winter cold at bay (it was -30 for a week or so in January) also helps keep the place cool in summer, it seems.

heat index in houston, tx is supposed to be 106 degrees today and over a million people still don't have power after the storm there.

Meanwhile their governor is screwing around in asia.

its about 93 degrees here right now. its pretty hot out. but not as swampy as the last few days thankfully.

xxp ha nobody in Oakland has air conditioning, we just suffer gladly with tiny, impotent fans that just blow hot air around