I kept watching the forecast here, which showed a pretty huge temperature drop starting Saturday night, from 102 down to the 70s, or something like that, but there was never a storm prediction. Which made me scratch my head, since usually huge pressure changes like that are paired with some sort of weather event. I get to Pitchfork fest around, I dunno, 4 or so, and within minutes of walking in the temperature seems to drop several degrees. I've never quite felt anything like that so quickly. Look up, still a little sunny, maybe partly cloudy, good breeze going. Seems like a storm a brewin'? But the weather mostly says chance of drizzle, and just for a bit. Um, OK. Hang with friends for a little, talk about the weather, radar etc. looks pretty clear where we are. Next thing I know there's an announcement that the fest is closing, due to weather, and everyone has to get out. Still no real change ... and then a huge thunder crack. A few minutes later the sky just opens up and dumps down, buckets. I leave the fest, decide to call it a day and head to where I parked. Soaked head to toe, shoes squishing. Hop in, put on the wipers, and within just a couple of minutes ... the rain has stopped and the sun is mostly out. Get home, about 5 miles west of the fest, and my wife tells me they got a few drops of rain at most. Weeeeeeeird. But hey, at least it's nice out now.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
I’ve also had the experience of earlier feeling that the weather app was pretty reliable about when and where it was actually going to rain and now not so much.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
I feel like my body has an ice cream headache
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
It’s like the storms are now microstructuring to foil the algorithms
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
fukin now we get 41 on Thursday If we got I Love/Hate Weather then I could finally quit ILE, ILM + the sub boards are nearing everything i want in a message board
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Anyway it’ll be up to 33 here this week, I am here for it although I will also be enjoying the air conditioning at work
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SzwiU9d.png
For the wunderground.com "feels like," is that where they just make the intern go outside and report what it feels like to him?
― mick signals, Sunday, 21 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
our weather is generally amazing this is why shit weeks like the one forthcoming are noteworthy but yes on the weather sub board we will have positive and negative threads, the people must speak
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
i think i'm gonna try to run in this tonight? one like is one prayer
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
ay yi yi, good luck
do it after 9
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Hot weather things I have learned: there is a 30-minute window in the time a water bottle is in the freezer, freezing that when you remove it from the fridge, the water freezes into slush when you flip the top open.
― suzy, Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
Bus is an option if you don’t give a f about your time. Hey man I’ll be there whenever
guess what, more buses mean your timing becomes reliable
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
nb: trains >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> buses, dgmw
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
If what’s stopping you riding the bus is reliability and you’re somewhere like LA (big headways, no street infrastructure to make waiting non awful) then I highly recommend the app “transit” (bad name). It’s kind of like 4square in that it gamifies riding transit. But when you play the game you’re actually sharing your location with other users, which gives bus arrival times down to like 10 second accuracy. It’s also pretty good at coming up with hybrid routes (eg bus + train + scooter).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
You don’t have to share your location to benefit from people who do btw. It’s just a source of more accurate arrival times for most users.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
There's gotta be an app like that for any major transit system, right?
I use the one for my municipal line. My biggest complaint used to be getting to the bus stop and not knowing if I was ten minutes early or ten minutes late (the buses ain't exactly programmed by Mussolini.)
But with the app, I can watch them scoot along the route in real time. I've about got it timed just right where if I leave the house right as the little icon crests the top of the loop, I can be at the stop with about two minutes to spare.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
right. LA metro has a real time app too, and google maps etc. inherits this data. transit is nicer though because most US municipal bus systems's idea of "real time" is pretty fuzzy and error prone (beacon at each bus stop, which can be 5-10 mins apart, and in between is guesswork).
obviously if you live in a developed country this is not an issue though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 July 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
I ignore the beacon.
I work between the bus shop and the main terminal, so the bus stop outside my door is always showing my bus to be <1min away.
― pplains, Monday, 22 July 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
You could be the mayor of your bus
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 July 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
If I was elected, I'd make transit drivers announce "Following Stop!" instead of "Next Stop!"
― pplains, Monday, 22 July 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
I lost power around 8 pm in my living room and most of the kitchen except for my fridge. I still have power in my bedroom and bathroom. I am considering this a win.
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 22 July 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
run an extension cord to the fridge?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 22 July 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
Maybe check the fuse box too.
― o. nate, Monday, 22 July 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Not interested in being anywhere except literally in a body of water. Options include ocean; sparklingly clear mountain lake, inflatable kiddie pool in backyard.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 22 July 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E03/75258.jpg
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Monday, 22 July 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
Exactly. True facts though, I put cold hose water in the pool on Friday, and by Saturday evening it was hotter than the air. So not really much help.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 22 July 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
Yes, if you have power in some rooms and not others, you probably need to reset a breaker switch for the affected rooms.
― Brad C., Monday, 22 July 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
hey the LA metro board read that article i posted (maybe they lurk here) and it's resulted in an actual policy change
Laura's story was excellent, and this is great news, but it's simply unacceptable that the Metro board had to read a newspaper article to understand how to prioritize basic, fundamental improvements for its bus riders. https://t.co/TqbMfzbZ1Q— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 22, 2019
is there a transit thread?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 July 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
here's one
I Love Mass Transit
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
thank you
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Living in an always somewhat cooler northern part of a country where the national prediction/temperature is forever worse than it is up here, even I am bracing myself for the upcoming 35/37 degrees coming up on Wed/Thurs. Would be a record by quite some margin but it seems like it is really happening this time. :(
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
Everything's back to normal in Toronto; next few days 25-30°.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
shorts on, fans on, I want a siesta
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 07:49 (four years ago) link
“If only someone could explain why LA’s bus ridership is going down” pic.twitter.com/bbZbnEucAO— Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 23, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
*considers going up to London on Thursday for demo* *sees it may be pushing 40 degrees on thursday*
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
I just gave the building super $200 in an envelope for switching out my ancient AC for a newer model last week, which is the most New Yawk thing I've ever done as a tenant here.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
here in the heart of the city the overnight low was 27still on course for 42 tomorrow, "only" 39 todaythis heat wave is really something historic I think
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
It was 62º/17º in freaking Arkansas this morning. In late July.
Not complaining, but something ain't right.
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
It's intense, but I like the dog days even more now that I've gotten acquainted with the sheer monotony of English weather.
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
our forecast high for saturday is 22, so a 20 degree (celsius) drop in highs over 2 days.
sorta reminds me of spring in texas, ugh
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
An all-time record for Holland today (39º), and expected to be bettered tomorrow.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
yeah I saw that our horror has leaked into the lowlands too, what an abominationthe air today is disgusting: it's unnaturally bright, with a greenish tint. and our AQI isn't even that horrid today, 72 in my arrondissement (the most polluted in the city). but compared to like Santiago Chile (144 AQI right now), Sao Paolo (141) or Delhi (132) it's paradise here.
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 23, 2019 11:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
loooool this is totally how Christopher operates every day. Need something done? Give the guy a "crispy" and *poof* it's handled.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
Red alert in 20 French departments, including l'Île-de-France. 41 tomorrow is going to be brutal…
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
42 in paname non ? C’est l’enfer
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
42, you're right. I'll try to spend the day at the library…
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
I'm just not leaving the apartment. as bad as it is inside (26 right now), just getting anywhere else, even the airconned ligne 2, would be worse.
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Have to work in Soho (London) tomorrow, dreading getting the Cental Line *all* the way from Tottenham Ct Rd to Epping in scorching heat at the end of the day's rush, I think I might just wait until after 7pm and see, lived in London for 26 years and can't honestly recall it ever forecast as high.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
probably gonna be a lot of breakdowns around this time tomorrow - trying to work out if I can rentabike all the way home in constant shade
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Austin is bizarrely cool and dry, it feels like the end of the world in July
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link