All day yesterday we had drizzle – it was in the 50s, but constant light rain.
Today it has been fog and the temperature has been climbing – 52° at midnight last night was the low, and 64° at midnight tonight will be the high. That isn’t normal. The silence from the lack of heaters working is deafening after having them run constantly for so long.
I wonder if there is anywhere left where the weather works normally?
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Yeah! Weather is crazy (which is the new *norm*, so get used to it!) Of course all the certifiable wacko’s at FOX and elsewhere are all ecstatic that because you are all freezing, it proves, “CATEGORICALLY PROVES” THEY SAY (they were all frothing and having an near-orgasmic epiphany whilst screeching it to the camera’s), that Global Warming it completely bogus! 😆 (I spent the day catching up on The Daily Show! I need my fix dammit!) 😀
Well, I have some news for them… It’s been mid-high 30’s here, and will be in the 40’s all next week at least! (up to 109F to save you converting C to F). So… You wanna swap? 😉
(*sniff* I wanna go back to the river and the cool shade of the red gum’s, and the cool breeze off the river, and… *sniff*)
I am stocking up on goods today an tomorrow, and will kill anyone who tries to make me go out anywhere next week! And Lord help the owner if my AC breaks down! Oh yeah!
We had the same sort of weather down here in Miami on Thursday: a fine drizzle and low clouds. It reminded me of being in northern Michigan in August; one of those days where you stay inside, light a fire, drink whiskey sours, and play Monopoly all afternoon.
Kryten, I’ve been tracking the 50° C highs coming out of Australia – that is insane. The hottest year ever, but the deniers are paid big bucks to create doubt.
The Arctic Vortex we had in the US was a result of the lack of sea ice. Open water is not cold enough to maintain the system, and it sags. The logic escapes people who are dependent on an alternate reality for their paychecks.
Yeah, MB, in some ways it makes you colder than the actual temperature, and you start looking for a fire to sit near.
Luckily, Victoria is in the South of Aus. But a whole week of 40’s is very unusual here. We normally get only a couple to a few days in the 40’s the whole summer!
And yeah, you are right about the above.
We almost never get more than a few days of 40° C temps down here in summer, and they are becoming rarer.
I remember the ‘black flag’ days in basic training in San Antonio, Texas when we just lay around in our underwear in the barracks because there was no air conditioning and it was too hot to move. The march to noon chow was a sweat bath.
Well… the first day of the 30’s was a scorcher! Even in my little place, the Samsung A/C unit struggled. It’s a pretty good unit that coped well last summer, but today, even at full tilt, it was warmer than was comfortable in here.
However… It just started raining a few minutes ago (and I can hear peals of thunder). Wonder how long that will last? Hopefully, long enough to cool down the place and the ground. 🙂
I spent 40 days in the Simpson Desert in summer during survival training. But I was a lot younger, fitter, tougher and probably more stupid! 😉 😆
Also, it was a dry heat which is easier to endure. Today was quite humid, and now that it’s raining… I hate to think about tomorrow if it hit’s the 40’s! May need a respirator. *sigh*
The humidity really drives up the heat index and reduces the effectiveness of AC units. One of the big sources of water for the feral cats in the summer is the bowl under my AC during the summer. It stays full.
I see your bushfire season is in full swing around Perth. It may start this month in California as they head into a fourth year of drought.
A lot of people are going to have to die before governments start to take climate change seriously.
Oops! I meant “the first day of the 40′s” 😀
The rain didn’t last long at all, so it was a muggy night.
Nahhh. The Gov’s of the World couldn’t care less if some of the peasants die. Hundreds still freeze to death in the USA every year in Winter, and they do nothing. So why would you expect them to do anything? *shrug* There’s too many free-loading peasants anyway they reckon. Of course, if the elites start dying because of global warming… but they can afford to avoid the worst of it, so I won’t bank on that.
TDS last night had a piece about a toxic chemical spill into the Elk river near Charleston W. Virginia. The chemical used to process coal by ‘Freedom Industries, INC’ (LOL Just the name should have warned everyone this was gonna happen) leaked out of a 40,000 gal storage tank into the Elk river, just North of the region’s main water treatment plant. Of course, due to the joke that is US regulatory bodies, the plant was inspected regularly. In fact it had just been inspected in… 1991. Yeah. *Accident* that was bound to happen. *shrug* I mean, the fact that toxic chemical storage tanks were built upstream of a major drinking water supply, speaks volumes for the way the USA cares about it’s citizens… zero, zip, nada comes to mind. Of course, the pundits have for years been yelling and trying to terrify people about terrorists or *aggressor Nations* contaminating the US water supply. I think given everything that has happened the past decade or two, the USA should be on the top the USA’s (and the World for that matter) terrorist watch list! LMAO
Selfish, thoughtless, careless sociopathic a’holes.
‘Freedom Industries, INC’ (LOL Just the name should have warned everyone this was gonna happen)
😀
Actually, the company isn’t a manufacturer of chemicals, but only a storage facility, so no one actually inspects the site. The regulations only apply to makers.
The chemical companies shift their products to storage facilities to avoid regulatory problems and liability.
The company that currently owns the storage site has only been in business in its current form for less than a month, and no one is really sure who is the president of the new company.
Yes, Kryten, it all depends on who dies, not how many. I will say we aren’t actively trying to kill people like the group in charge of the Australian Tennis Tournament currently under way. It is too hot to be playing tennis, or even shuffleboard in Australia at the moment.