too effing hot

Interesting that London was hotter today than Miami or Miami Beach have ever been in recorded history.

Meanwhile NYC is poised to get 7 straight days of 90+ F (32.2 C) starting Tuesday.

just took thermometer outside it's 35.1°c. The closest I've ever got to the equator is Northern France so it feels absolutely infernal to me. Come back rain, I never once called you miserable and pissy.

windows 10 weather taskbar lying like fuck telling me it's 30°c

the fatty coconut we put out for the birds has just melted all over our patio, it's brutal out there

all the heat reduction benefits of keeping all the curtains and blinds drawn all day are completely undone downstairs now I've to do some cooking.

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— James Felton (@JimMFelton) July 18, 2022

Because of the heat (and rising electricity costs) I've fired up my old Mac Mini - a 2012 model, but I've installed Big Sur on it with this tool:
https://github.com/barrykn/big-sur-micropatcher

One thing I can recommend is a utility called smcFanControl:
https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl

Macs typically don't run the fun until they get really hot, but I'm not comfortably with a tiny block of aluminium running at 70c. smfFanControl lets you manually set the minimum fan speed.

I'm all for running the fun

windows 10 weather taskbar lying like fuck telling me it's 30°c

― calzino, Monday, July 18, 2022 3:48 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

for real though i kind of suspect we'll start seeing various official sources lying about the weather in the coming years.

i don't think that's going to be all that successful except in areas where people are already used to bald-faced lying

Do you guys in the UK have the "so what? it's *summer*, it's always like this" crew like we Americans do?

Yes, but with a specific reference to how hot it was in 1976.

we have the summer of '76 crew and people posting from holiday in Turkey saying: it's 46°c here and the streets aren't lined with corpses

Yep, tediously several people have been doing this. Plenty of boomer posts, also saw things like this:

https://www.facebook.com/Goldie/posts/pfbid037CwHC4pPuX1j8veuFdVGk5JwXHHnUnQfkGqRvgQkvJnKEgSrrYUQiNU5SfzbWREGl

for people with physical health conditions or with autism this shit varies from completely lethal to an absolute nightmare.

109, 109, 108 with indexes above 110 for the next three days

where are you, milo z?

NYC is poised to get 7 straight days of 90+ F (32.2 C) starting Tuesday

My phone is telling me it peaked at 92 in my NJ town today and the next week and a half will be 95, 97, 99, 97, 98, 98, 88 (bliss!), 91, 89.

xp Texas, so there's air conditioning everywhere (until the power grid fails!) but we still get several dozen to 100+ deaths every summer because landlords are monsters/air conditioning is too expensive to replace/our social safety net is an early death.

alert just came across that there will not be a day under 100 for the rest of the month so I can start the annual process of being Stockholm Syndromed into 101 'not feeling that bad really'

JFC

we're around 105 for a while, low humidity though. slc utah. monsoon moisture has been blessing us sporadically over the past two weeks. we're right at the northern tip of its reach so it isn't much. even though the colorado plateau has had a few better than average monsoon years, the colorado river system is basically collapsing from drought.

Stay safe, Planet Earth! Oh wait.

I read something about the arab world being more into the lunar calendar & moon goddesses because it's so fucking hot, and the evening is preferable

maybe it's time that we all go nocturnal

The killer down here is that it will be a low in the high 80s for three minutes at 4AM so there's never a respite, no chance for the daily heat to dissipate, people with bad/no AC can't sleep and don't have anywhere to go.

I read something about the arab world being more into the lunar calendar & moon goddesses because it's so fucking hot, and the evening is preferable

Along those lines, anyone performing the Hajj this year and not in, say, 2036, is CRAZY.

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

A change in the weather
Is known to be extreme

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYB6_fsX0AEEwCk?format=jpg&name=small

it's currently 37.2°outside my house ... fuck

just outside my house (or a mile or two anyway) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-62219162

Just read that the hottest spot in the UK yesterday was in Suffolk, about 23 miles West of here.

there's an exciting wall of thunder moving slowly up the channel: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php?map=12

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

ooh yes, bring it

for real though i kind of suspect we'll start seeing various official sources lying about the weather in the coming years.

just outside my house (or a mile or two anyway) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-62219162

Swaffham Bulbeck and Stow cum Quy, you say?

Stow cum Quay is a few minutes up the road, as you drive in there's a sign saying "STOW ᶜᵘᵐ QUAY" like they hope nobody will notice the cum.

it's 40.5°c rn. A couple of degrees higher than what bbc weather is showing. There is a steady breeze but the air is so hot it doesn't bring any relief.

got chubby rain here

had a round of golf today but teed off at 5.30am so it was manageable. still amazed to see joggers towards the end of my round just after 8am when it was getting p crispy.

This is so horrible. Curtains closed all day for the last three days, trapped in an endless cycle of sweating, crying and drinking water to try to replenish my hydration. Everything feels awful. The only okay thing is that the cats seem to be managing alright and are enjoying the novelty of playing with ice cubes.

I am dying for a storm right now.

A2 Southbound by M25. pic.twitter.com/LzyAbeqbgV

— efenda (@efendaTv) July 19, 2022

my poor labbie just gives up and looks despondent, genuinely sadness in his eyes. My son can't cope either and it's much harder to deal with his meltdowns in this heat. Cold showers have been useful though.

Good luck dealing with this calz and other UKers.

thanks PBKR. it's alright now where I am, it dropped 10+ degrees between 3.30 - 5.30 and has rapidly cooled down since then. I feel for people who have to live in these infernal conditions for months at a time.

we have raindrops in stratford

after a day of boiling temperatures the flat is now full of barbeque smoke from somewhere. earlier, at 18:15 in fact, we had fireworks.

Stow cum Quay is a few minutes up the road, as you drive in there's a sign saying "STOW ᶜᵘᵐ QUAY" like they hope nobody will notice the cum.

I’m assuming that podcast is racist I’m not gonna listen to it

I'd guess you are probably not missing much

https://i.imgur.com/frqgKUq.gif

Still 98F outside at 10PM

that's the thing -- it's not even so much that it gets hot as that it never cools off