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Post by kingedmund on Jul 28, 2023 18:08:32 GMT
Still hot. Pretty normal for this time of year.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 28, 2023 23:03:42 GMT
Some days start out with high overcast, but all days turn mostly sunny by midday. The temperatures are not too oppressing, but the direct sunlight drives me from the garden.
I wait for long shadows.
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Post by Mari on Jul 29, 2023 6:33:45 GMT
Grey, rainy, except for when you're dressed for it, because then the sun suddenly breaks through and warms it up to almost 30 degrees
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Post by JoeP on Jul 29, 2023 16:07:47 GMT
Some unusually heavy rain today - but it seems to have stopped.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 14, 2023 10:37:37 GMT
Heat wave! We experienced a high of 38 C yesterday and today is expected to be slightly warmer yet. This is expected to continue through Thursday or Friday.
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Post by Kye on Aug 14, 2023 13:47:39 GMT
We've been having a cool and rainy summer  The high today is only 24 C and the low is 17 C |
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 14, 2023 16:38:24 GMT
Cool. Hey what a treat! Got rain in last night and woke up to 68 degrees. Weird this time of year but on the whole this summer has been wetter and cooler. Not reached over 105 degrees this year.
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Post by Mari on Aug 14, 2023 19:48:28 GMT
It's still sunny, but not that warm. Quite muggy unfortunately though.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 15, 2023 4:17:36 GMT
Day two of the heat wave....106F. 41C.
I'm hiding indoors.
The electric utility is urging everybody to reduce usage during the hottest part of the day. Peak usage is evidently threatening the system; or may.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 16, 2023 23:31:31 GMT
Day three. 102F. 39C.
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Post by Mari on Aug 17, 2023 19:53:24 GMT
We're heading towards a muggy heat wave, but at the moment it's 21 degrees and quite nice for exercise or activity
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 17, 2023 21:21:27 GMT
Overcast and warming. It just breached the 30C mark and temperatures will continue to rise until about 5 to 6 pm. It is more 'humid' as a result.
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Post by Moose on Aug 17, 2023 23:58:07 GMT
It's been a temperate summer here but today was a bit too warm for me
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 19, 2023 3:34:18 GMT
Back to decent summer temperatures.
I sure would like to have some rain. Rain would be nice. Real nice.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 20, 2023 22:48:50 GMT
Cool evenings. Cloudy mornings. Warm, sunny afternoons. Temperatures hover around 30C for daily highs.
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 22, 2023 13:24:31 GMT
Went back to hot hot hot. Hottest point of the year with temps at 107 F.
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Post by Mari on Aug 22, 2023 14:38:48 GMT
Nice and warm, not too sunny. Last Saturday we were supposed to get a very light drizzle, but in the end we got drenched and we sprung a leak so I spent half an hour running back and forth with buckets.
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 23, 2023 15:30:08 GMT
Still hotter than a fryer here. So ready for September in that department.
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 25, 2023 21:13:11 GMT
This weeken we will be in the 80s. I’m loving it. The heat didn’t last very long at all. This was really a perfect summer here. Most of the summer it didn’t reach over 95 and only the last two weeks it went over 100 or so. Hot yes but I’ll take a couple weeks. Looking forward to labor day weekend.
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Post by tangent on Aug 26, 2023 7:48:00 GMT
Last year, we had three days when the temperature was 90°F to 95°F (31°C to 33°C) and that was enough for me. But then, we don't have air conditioning, which means we had to endure the heat around the clock (a little cooler at night but still uncomfortably hot).
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 28, 2023 14:38:18 GMT
Oh my goodness. No air conditioning in those temps. Yikes.
I went for a walk last night. It was soooooooo… nice and cool. The sunset was really pretty as well. This morning, it is 72 degrees and I’m loving it.
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Post by tangent on Aug 28, 2023 17:29:02 GMT
Oh my goodness. No air conditioning in those temps. Yikes. Most of India have temperatures far hotter than that (up to 50°C, 120°F I believe) without air conditioning. And with global warming, European countries that border the Mediterranean are going to see temperatures in the high 40s quite regularly, again without air conditioning. |
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 28, 2023 18:00:43 GMT
It’s a challenge. But I have a feeling that when it rises the sea level will change and the ocean may changes its proverbial conveyor belt. The pendulum will swing back to another ice age again and then that will cause another problem. Earth does these cycles without us but we just pushed it faster is all. What the answer. Who really knows what can be done as the current green energy isn’t that reliable yet either. Hoping Fusion power is going to be the answer soon.
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Post by tangent on Aug 28, 2023 22:35:16 GMT
It’s a challenge. But I have a feeling that when it rises the sea level will change and the ocean may changes its proverbial conveyor belt. The pendulum will swing back to another ice age again and then that will cause another problem. Earth does these cycles without us but we just pushed it faster is all. What the answer. Who really knows what can be done as the current green energy isn’t that reliable yet either. Hoping Fusion power is going to be the answer soon. Those cycles of which you speak are well known, they are called Milankovitch cycles. They are caused by subtle changes to the earth's orbit and tilt. There are two types of changes to the earth's environment, regular periodic cycles and spontaneous, unpredictable ones. The regular Milankovitch cycles tell us what will happen over thousands of years and the change they forecast is very, very slow. The unpredictable ones, such as volcanoes and meteor strikes occur instantaneously. Scientists can predict the Milankovitch cycle effects down to the millisecond. If they could not, GPS wouldn't work and spaceships to Mars would miss the planet and fly on towards Jupiter, or some other unintended course. Yes, the pendulum will swing back to another ice age but not for tens of thousands of years, I'm afraid. Meanwhile global warming will make us wish it would come a lot sooner but the Milankovitch cycle says not. We can only hope either for fusion power or a massive volcano that spews dust into the atmosphere and blots out the sun for more than a decade. |
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 29, 2023 13:45:44 GMT
See a few months back I had heard some story about it so I started to look into it and found it interesting. It rather made sense on ice ages. In fact some oceanographers where saying the Atlantic stream was collapsing and changing which was going to possible cause Canada and Europe to get colder and the possibility of another mini ice age was under way in coming centuries. I’m no oceanographer so I didn’t know how true it was but it sure sounded intriguing.
I’m not sure I’d want it to occur sooner because the alternative is ice and snow across continents down to near the equator or something. We’d be in worse shape I’d think.
Years ago as a kid I remember at church they had a question. Would your rather die in a desert with no water or the Antarctic at below zero? It reminds me of that.
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 29, 2023 13:51:04 GMT
Oh yes. The stream would go further south and Europe would not get the warm Caribbean waters anymore because the sea levels rose causing it to change or collapse was my understanding.
That’s definitely what it was I thought. Then sea levels declined and it went back the other way.
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Post by tangent on Aug 29, 2023 17:33:01 GMT
Yes, the Atlantic current (AMOC) may collapse with disastrous consequences throughout the globe. The BBC did a drama called Atlantic on this in 2018. If it were to collapse, it could have a number of devastating consequences, including colder winters, more extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. The UK would be plunged into a new Ice Age, with temperatures plummeting and snow falling even in summer. The infrastructure would be damaged, food supplies disrupted, and people would be forced to flee their homes.
According to Bard, Google's AI, "Atlantic was a well-received drama that was praised for its realistic portrayal of the AMOC collapse and its aftermath. It was also seen as a timely warning about the dangers of climate change."
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 30, 2023 14:46:22 GMT
That is creepy. I know it’s happened in the past numerous times but sea level go down once it starts is my guess but we’d be frozen. 😂 yikes!
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Post by tangent on Aug 30, 2023 17:57:30 GMT
There may be a solution provided it is implemented before AMOC shuts down and that is to dig 2000km channel from the Northern Divina River to the Kaspian Sea. The reasoning is that fresh water from the river is flowing into the Barents Sea and is altering the salinity of the ocean (as does melting of the Greenland Ice cap). The cost has been estimated at $20 billion but it would, of course, be totally unacceptable to Russia. Nevertheless it would, as a by product, add much needed water to the Kaspian Sea.
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 30, 2023 19:56:40 GMT
Oh. That’s an interesting thought. AMOC is more likely that it would change directions instead of shutting down as the earth still spins it’s more like directions can shift. At least it seems like a common sense idea. Like moving further south with an new on the could develop further north of that stream. Of course it still would not bring warm waters from that one either and still throw the pendulums to ice age side.
The Kaspian Sea is an interesting idea. I think it would solve the drying up from over the years. That would help refill it and does make some sense to do that.
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The high today is only 24 C and the low is 17 C
