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#1 AWG_Pics

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Posted 27 June 2021 - 03:49 PM

May just stay home with our 3 window ACs working 24/7. Stay safe, stay hydrated. Stay cool if possible.

 

https://www.wweek.co...n-it-was-today/

 

From Wonkette: 

"According to meteorologist Ben Noll, Portland is hotter today than about 99.8 percent of the Earth. The only places worse off are Africa's Sahara Desert, the Persian Gulf, and California's deserts. Normal highs this time of year in Portland are in the mid-70s or what Southerners like myself call “sweater weather." The record-breaking temperatures have climate scientists concerned and sweaty."


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Posted 27 June 2021 - 06:22 PM

"scientists concerned and sweaty"

 

That's a great quote. It looks like the big dome of high pressure moved a bit further north than first forecast. Our predicted highs in the low nineties have been bumped down to the high eighties.

 

Wow, it is fearful about the coming high temps we all may reach this summer, this summer that is just beginning.................along with the extreme drought.


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Posted 27 June 2021 - 06:57 PM

May just stay home with our 3 window ACs working 24/7. Stay safe, stay hydrated. Stay cool if possible.

 

https://www.wweek.co...n-it-was-today/

 

From Wonkette: 

"According to meteorologist Ben Noll, Portland is hotter today than about 99.8 percent of the Earth. The only places worse off are Africa's Sahara Desert, the Persian Gulf, and California's deserts. Normal highs this time of year in Portland are in the mid-70s or what Southerners like myself call “sweater weather." The record-breaking temperatures have climate scientists concerned and sweaty."
 

Eeeeeeeek!


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#4 dennis 221

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Posted 27 June 2021 - 07:20 PM

An where leaving for a 2 month trip to the N W.asap.. bring on cooler temp,please
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Posted 27 June 2021 - 08:32 PM

Bend's forecast high temperatures are record-breaking (if they occur)...but Portland's forecast high temperatures are nothing less than freakish!  :o  :wacko:  :blink: 

 

Screenshot_20210627-Bend_Forecasts.jpg Screenshot_20210627_Portland-Forecasts.jpg

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(I've experienced 118°F in Redding, CA a couple of times, growing up there...but that's only about 15-20° above summer-normal for Redding -- not 40° above normal! )


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Posted 27 June 2021 - 11:47 PM

So if Portland reaches the predicted 118 on Monday, it will surpass the previous record high by 17 degrees! I fear people will start dying with that kind of record shattering heat.


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Posted 28 June 2021 - 12:13 AM

So if Portland reaches the predicted 118 on Monday, it will surpass the previous record high by 17 degrees! I fear people will start dying with that kind of record shattering heat.

 

Yep.  :(  Triple-digit temperatures are rare in Portland (and Bend) -- even in mid-summer. So a lot of older homes weren't built with air conditioning (mine doesn't). And then there're the homeless and people whose "home" is an RV -- parked on city streets without AC hookups to run a/c.

Bend has set up, designated, "cooling centers" now, and I assume Portland has, too.  It's like the "warming centers" set up on extra-cold nights in winter.

 

But:  It's easier to stay warm when it's cold than to stay cool when it's hot.  You can put on as many layers of insulation as needed, but you can only get so naked.


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Posted 28 June 2021 - 02:06 AM

Well, made it through the first searing day. We are not set up for this heat in Portland. Lucky we have 3 window AC units. I feel very badly for those with no AC at all. They are living in their basements if they have them. Tomorrow will also be bad, but heck, it will cool off to 80 tonight, so no problem, eh?


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Posted 28 June 2021 - 05:39 AM

It was 101 in Astoria, Or. today and 99 in Burns.  This is crazy.


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Posted 28 June 2021 - 02:17 PM

Weather Weirdness....

 

We had to spend the weekend in Seattle helping sister unpack.

 

Driving south Saturday along the coastal route we noted a sudden drop in temps  from 95 to 77 (!) near Raymond/West Bend.

 

Only explanation I have is an onshore breeze from  Willapa Bay (and the Pacific).....

 

Then it returned to mid nineties just south of town.

 

There are some cool folks living in that area.

 

Oddly, Astoria, on the Columbia, did not show the same temp differential.

 

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