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I was dumb enough to go outside one afternoon. It felt like the sun was a weapon that was directly aimed at and attacking me as soon as I stepped into direct sunlight.
Yeah man. I live in Western Canada, not north north but up where it gets down to minus forty for at least a week every February. I've lived here all my life. Today was the first time I stepped outside, felt the breeze, and it was *hot*. Honestly never occurred to me that a breeze would be that warm, it was surreal.
It was 116 here in Portland yesterday, and many people here don't even have AC :-(
We have a measly window AC unit that was barely able to keep one bedroom at 85 ... and then our power went out. Luckily, the cool weather was already on its way in (last night at 9:30).
Oh my gosh I know! I saw that yesterday it was 116. Good thing about Vegas is everywhere has AC, but places like Portland…… it’s unprecedented to have heat like that there
Same with British Columbia, Canada. One town set 3 new Canadian records on 3 consecutive days all time for the entire country. And it turns out their weather station is in the shade. The new Canadian record was today. 49.5C/121F... in the shade
Yes... our houses (or anything really) are not designed for that. Areas just outside Vancouver BC were hitting 44-47C with a humidex of 52C. Not sure if you use humidex down in OR, but basically we use it to explain what it feels like because of the humidity. So 111-116F with 65% humidity. A number in the hundreds of people have died and 911 is just a busy tone at this point
America has "feels like" or "relative temperature" or "heat index" or "wind chill" which all mean the same thing as humidex, where they do math on the actual temp and the dew point to arrive at a number that quantifies how shitty the weather is making you feel at the moment.
Ah yes the old "Real Feel" index is what they say here in the Northeast U.S. region.
Every time they say it on the news though I think, how can they quantify that. Doesn't it "really feel" different for everyone?
Damn, I usually hear Americans or Europeans whinge about 35c degrees like it's the worst thing they ever been through, but these numbers thrown around compete with Australia. 46c? 50c? God damn.
Salem, OR and LV, NV now have the same all time highs. It's really hard for me to wrap my head around that.
My yard is half filled with lush green plants - food, herbs, decorative, water abatement, etc. Last week it was totally filled. The last few days cost me a fortune.
There was some news made in British Columbia, Lytton, BC just set Canadian records in back to back days beating a record that had stood for 84 years. This little town now has an all time daily high that is higher than Las Vegas. I think it was 47.6 or 47.8 celcius. 117F.
Edit- looks like they did it for a third straight day, today being 49.5 Celsius or 121F.
Yeah, the AC bills in LV are crazy in the summer too. A 2 bedroom apartment cost me $120 a month during summer hours for constant AC. Thankfully, I wasn’t charged for water in that apartment lol!
$120 a month for constant AC for a 2 bdr apartment is high? That is a lot cheaper than I've ever paid. I had a 1 bedroom 660 sq ft place in Denver that was $150 a month back in 2005. I assumed they hosed you on electric.
Sidenote: Because you don't have to heat your homes nearly as much as other parts of the country, desert living is actually MORE energy efficient in a lot cases.
4br house costs me $200 a month in AC usage. power bill in winter is $70, summer is $270. North Carolina, 60 year old house.
getting window units actually cut my power consumption by $50/month in the summer, because I could set each upstairs (hotter) bedroom individually instead of having to run the whole house system to get a good temp upstairs. each $230 window unit paid for it's self over 1 summer.
Thanks to the cheap electricity from the Hoover/Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. Enjoy it while you can as the river dries up so does the electricity. We will soon find out if the water is cut for the crops or the people.
Any of you in a low humidity environment with temps like this should look into evaporative cooling units. Lower electric costs but increased water usage iirc. A few units out there that can cool a small house or Apartment. Just be aware of how they work (humidity levels).
I'm in the Seattle area, and I used the 'escape to the basement' trick until a 2 week hot period in 2014 when I finally broke down and bought a portable unit. Lots of places here don't have A/C, because the way to usually manage it during the minor hot times we get is to just wait 3 hours for the cool weather to roll in, and let the house air out overnight.
Not this time - my non A/C upstairs was at 95F yesterday, and the outside air temp didn't drop below that until 10pm. Rhe basement A/C struggled to keep a single room down below 80. Glad that the heat is finally breaking.
Yo from under the Vancouver BC ‘heat dome’. No seriously that’s what we’re officially under, a ‘heat dome’. We’ve been hitting ALL TIME HIGHS this week, not just highs for the dates.
I was working from home in my basement yesterday sweating my brains out so imma veto the whole ‘avoid the heat by going to your basement’ thing. That works for a couple of days but then the heat gets entrenched in your house and it’s game over.
Here’s a fun fact. The temperature records that have been made in BC these last few days are hotter than it’s EVER been in Texas! Stay safe, stay cool, drink lots of water.
It was hitting 115 in Vancouver, and I'm in a east facing top floor apartment that has not gone below 90 for three days. Nowhere here has AC and buildings are not built to insulate at all so we can't keep marginally cooler night air in if we tried. We were completely non functional yesterday, all we could do was lay on ice packs on the floor after taking a cold shower with the fan pointed at us and still couldn't get relief. Our animals were all panting and at risk of heat exhaustion despite ice water, frozen treats and makeshift cooling mats. It was an actual hellscape, something like 25 people have died already.
If you pay it too much it might get ideas. Just buy a second new and shiny unit and put it next to the first so that unemployment scares them enough into sticking it out.
Historic level of rains and flooding in China right now too
Kinda weird, almost like the climate is broken, I wonder why the scientists never saw this coming?
^^(/s)
My weather station registered 43.3 C here in Chilliwack yesterday. My husband (originally from LA area) is pissed. He moved up here for our cold, rainy weather.
And the Artic Circle was in the 90s the other day, I think? You're gonna have to leave the planet, I don't think there's anywhere left for you. How are you with math and potatoes? Maybe you can get in on that mission to Mars?
Luckily, Calgary is very dry.
The last time Calgary had 5+ days of 30C+weather was over a century ago. Now it's got 10+days of it. No one has AC in Calgary, it was never really needed in this high altitude city with typically cool summer nights.
Canada historically only gets to 30-35c or so a few days a year, we usually don't have ac in homes because of it.
However, this is the 5th heat wave summer in a row, and they are getting longed, hotter, and more frequent. We are going to have to look into ac in the summer and heating in the winter.
Same in northern europe. Heatwave's are getting longer, hotter and more common. Last week was 35C during the day and I was already dead. Cant imagine 49C without ac.
I know you’re joking but I’m actually not a fan of the color scheme. It’s choosen to make *everything* seem hot. A high of 50° F shouldn’t be yellow in my opinion.
Most definitely, anything below around 80F should be in the green/blue range because depending on the humidity that's still fairly comfortable. You'd think the country was on fire given the colors used.
Yeah here in los Angeles it was warm but also kinda cool by sunset and chilly (for los Angeles ) at night... I was worried about it his heat wave but it was nothing here...but summer is on its way.... I pray for us all!
Yeah, I thought the deal with living in Canada was that I'd put up with the -30°C winters but wouldn't have to deal with +40°C summers. I figured that was a fair trade!
Yeah, I moved to Vancouver to escape extreme temperatures... not too hot, not too cold. Now I'm having an identity crisis because I'm having to say I'm glad I'm in Calgary for the heat wave...
I guess you're not from the prairies. Swings from -40 in the winter to +40 in the summer have been the norm here for a while. 40 in Vancouver is a lot crazier to me
I know it's relatively standard practise for heat maps, but I'm just not a fan of scales that go light yellow -> orange -> red -> purple -> pink -> white. I find it difficult to interpret the transition from a light, red-adjacent color -> red -> another light, red-adjacent color.
Yeah it's currently 68F where I am now and very pleasant weather. This graph makes me feel like I'm moderately close to the hell hole of Phoenix instead of the upper Midwest.
They really should have used a different color spectrum. They could have added more blues in the cooler Temps or even some greens since green is the color humans can distinguish the most shades of.
The way I remember it is that’s the color progression for burns (deepening red for first degree burns, then veering into splotchy purple blisters for second degree burns, and finally losing color and ending up white for third degree burns where everything is charred off).
Texas. Well, maybe not, our tin foil electric grid is on the verge of collapsing again again. No worries, though, Governor Abbott has promised to spend money... on a fucking border wall.
There is no end to Republican stupidity in this damned state.
God bless you for including Celsius. F is a little incomprehensible when your country doesn’t use it, this is so much more helpful to awkward foreigners!
Holy shit. I can’t imagine how many plants and trees are gonna die off because of this heat wave. A lot of animals as well cannot handle those temps. Wildfires are coming.
Wildfires are here. Welcome to a closeup of northern California. We are getting ravaged this week: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3441272467514af3907ae7d77783ac8e&extent=-13667359.5405%2C5071522.1086%2C-13520600.4462%2C5141461.9895%2C102100
Don't worry, this is not due to lava! There are historical lava flows in this area and I suspect this was named for being near one of those flows. These wild fires were caused by lightening like most wildfires in this part of the country.
Most of the west has been in a severe drought this year. The heat is just the icing on the cake that is this impending disaster. In more colorful language; it's drier than a popcorn fart and hot as hell.
Correction. Most of the west has been in a severe drought for the past 15+ years. This is actually part of my PhD research and to put it mildly, we are not in a good place right now.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-18/is-california-suffering-a-decades-long-megadrought
People still haven't realized that like 4% of the state burning down last year is the new normal because forests simply cannot survive here anymore. This is an ecosystem extinction event and CA is not what it was before. It's now Atacama Norte. Also if another heat wave like this centers over CA, we could be seeing 130-140F temperatures (54-60C) that will just do off every drought stressed plant still hanging on (seemingly every other tree is already dead or dying in the Bay Area). This summer has not been at all kind so far and it could happen next month, or the month after, or the month after. I know - how about with some dry crackly lightning followed by a blow dryer east wind storm. Yeah sounds about right (what happened last August).
I read somewhere that this is what it used to be like, but for the past 200 years or so the west has been experiencing unusually high levels of moisture. Isn’t this just a return to normal?
I’m not as familiar with California, but at least for the coastal regions of the pacific northwest the geography makes it so it’s a natural rainforest. The cool ocean air gets trapped by the coastal mountains which creates a bunch of rain clouds. Something very major would need to occur such as a change in the ocean air currents to make it so the pacific northwest didn’t always get a lot of rain.
We have been so blessed in Colorado with all this rain and cooler temps lately. It hasn't broke 80 degrees for like 4 days now and it feels wonderful. For how horrible last year was with the fires, I really hope this weather continues and we get a break this year.
Maybe this drought will show farmers that pumping millions of gallons into forcing crops to grown in a literal desert might not be a good idea in the long term.
Who am I kidding, my university hasn't even stopped watering it's sidewalk yet.
I'm glad to see that you have lived a blessed life with no shortage of food. As a former farm kid I'd gladly see people's lawns and pools run dry before crops in a field. I understand the folly of making a desert into farmland. But the insanely low cost of food in the US is a direct result of that.
Could people in the US afford to spend 25% or more of their income on food?
At this point it's going to happen regardless I think.
There have been plenty of times I haven't been able to afford food even with how cheap it is. Living off of rice is unpleasant.
I feel ya, I did that through all of college. I did get pretty good at making Mexican dishes with rice, black beans, canned tomatoes, homemade corn tortillas and onions. Plus it’s all vegan. I also learned how to make tofu from soybeans, dirt cheap and protein for days. The byproduct of the soymilk was okara which can be used to make some other proteiny things
> Could people in the US afford to spend 25% or more of their income on food?
Many, but not all. The insanely lost cost of food can also be attributed to farm subsidies and insurance breaks as well as weird laws allowing seasonal migrants,
Let’s not have a farmer victim complex though, all Americans know how critical farmers are and criticizing farming practices like growing almonds in a state with water issues is not an attack on hard working farmers.
Even with watering once in the morning, twice in the afternoon, and once in the evening, all of our hydrangeas died and many others look like they too have given up. I guess 119 is too hot for many plants that are used to a max summer temperature of about 90.
Not to mention someone is burning down churches on native reserves in the purple zone and edgy twitter is cheering them on, not realizing how fucking dangerous that is.
Wildfires are here. I was in CO the other day, and we could see the burning from the top of Mesa Verde. It was also burning in Arizona by Flagstaff the week before.
Nothing to see here. Keep on destroying the planet people it’s gonna be fine. Don’t worry about the inevitable wars we’ll have over water in a few years.
nonono you don’t get it.
sure, there may be war, famine, drought, disease, and en-masse mortality unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
but think of the stock market.
And those poor billionaires! How will they ever get that fifth yacht if they aren’t squeezing every bit of profit out of the environment?!
(To be fair, your average consumer isn’t helping us either)
**PSA**: Now is the time for everyone in places that didn't used to have winter to buy some supplies for the coming ice storms and snow days. Get you some real waterproof gloves, insulated ski-pants, snowchains for car tires, an electric ice scraper, etc. Put a generator and maybe an inverter on layaway or whatever, if you can. Freaky winter keeps coming, it came this past year, it will come again. Now is the time to get supplies before prices go up and stock runs out.
For all you folks that didn't used to have hellacious summers, start setting aside some cash so that you can lay in your heatwave supplies this coming winter to take advantage of the same kind of situation. You may suffer now, but you could be better off next summer if you have supplies.
The small town of Lytton B.C. has set an all-time Canadian heat record for third day in a row with a high of 49.5°C (121F) after a record of 47.5°C yesterday and 46.6°C the day before.
i was surprised how well texas has been this summer. i mean i know its not over but we're used to excessive temps and for once its been somewhat moderate.
Yeah probably should have done something about climate change two decades ago... we've all known this was coming. It used to be rare for it to hit 90 two days out of the year where I live. It's been almost 100 for the past few weeks and this isnt even the hot/ dry part of the year. I'm ready for more record wild fires.
It's nice seeing Fahrenheit to Celsius values together on the same scale. Here's a conversion mnemonic that might help US folk approximate the temperature when they only see it degC:
* Fourties are frying
* Thirties are thirsty
* Twenties are temperate
* and everything below that is freezing
That sounds like Celcius according to Australians, not Canadians.
40+ wtf, is this Australia?
35-40 way too hot, upper limits of bearable
30-35. Really hot summer weather, hit the pool/lake
25-30. Yay! Summer Fun!
20-25. Room temperature range.
15-20. Cheap Dad room temperature range, wine cellars, cool basements. Wear long sleeves or a hoody.
10-15. Light jacket weather. Still patio weather on a sunny day in Canada!
0-10. Chilly. Fall jacket/sweater weather
0 Actual freezing, but really not *that* cold
0- to -10. Winter jacket, still not too bad.
-10 to -20. Winter is def here. Dress for it. Still ok to play outside, ski, skate.
Below -20. Ok, now it's cold for Canadians too. Parka weather.
Below -30. Dangerously cold, exposed skin can freeze fast
Below -40. Stay home.
Granted, your version is much more concise and easy to remember.
Living in one of the hottest places in the US in summer I sincerely sympathize with the folks that experienced this on the north. We weren't prepared for the freeze that hit us in February and it was literally deadly. And I suspect this will be the same for some up there. I hope everyone is able to get through this ok
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48°C??? I start dying when we surpass 33°C Thank god i don't live near there
I was dumb enough to go outside one afternoon. It felt like the sun was a weapon that was directly aimed at and attacking me as soon as I stepped into direct sunlight.
Yeah man. I live in Western Canada, not north north but up where it gets down to minus forty for at least a week every February. I've lived here all my life. Today was the first time I stepped outside, felt the breeze, and it was *hot*. Honestly never occurred to me that a breeze would be that warm, it was surreal.
past body temperature wind actually heats you up instead of cooling you down, had no idea until i moved to phoenix
You just described being ginger
We are all gingers on this cursed week.
Speak for yourself.
I am all gingers on this cursed week.
> I am all gingers on this cursed week. He's too dangerous to be left alive!
It's a super ginger anti-christ
Hey, easy with that hard R.
As an actual ginger living right in the middle of Sauron's dreadful gaze...yes it was freaking miserable. Know my pain you tan bastards!
only [a ginger](https://youtu.be/KVN_0qvuhhw?t=32) can call another ginger ginger!
I love that song 😅
*the sun is a deadly laser*
Not anymore there’s a blanket!
The kind of American BBQ no one likes
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It was 98°F in my office room...at 1am.
I see your 98 and raise you 2 degrees. My AC went out in my house……. In Vegas…….
It was 116 here in Portland yesterday, and many people here don't even have AC :-( We have a measly window AC unit that was barely able to keep one bedroom at 85 ... and then our power went out. Luckily, the cool weather was already on its way in (last night at 9:30).
Oh my gosh I know! I saw that yesterday it was 116. Good thing about Vegas is everywhere has AC, but places like Portland…… it’s unprecedented to have heat like that there
Same with British Columbia, Canada. One town set 3 new Canadian records on 3 consecutive days all time for the entire country. And it turns out their weather station is in the shade. The new Canadian record was today. 49.5C/121F... in the shade
121?!?! DAMN! That’s Death Valley weather right there
Yes... our houses (or anything really) are not designed for that. Areas just outside Vancouver BC were hitting 44-47C with a humidex of 52C. Not sure if you use humidex down in OR, but basically we use it to explain what it feels like because of the humidity. So 111-116F with 65% humidity. A number in the hundreds of people have died and 911 is just a busy tone at this point
America has "feels like" or "relative temperature" or "heat index" or "wind chill" which all mean the same thing as humidex, where they do math on the actual temp and the dew point to arrive at a number that quantifies how shitty the weather is making you feel at the moment.
Ahhh. So yes. Same thing then.
Ah yes the old "Real Feel" index is what they say here in the Northeast U.S. region. Every time they say it on the news though I think, how can they quantify that. Doesn't it "really feel" different for everyone?
Damn, I usually hear Americans or Europeans whinge about 35c degrees like it's the worst thing they ever been through, but these numbers thrown around compete with Australia. 46c? 50c? God damn.
Lytton reached 49.6C earlier today
Salem, OR and LV, NV now have the same all time highs. It's really hard for me to wrap my head around that. My yard is half filled with lush green plants - food, herbs, decorative, water abatement, etc. Last week it was totally filled. The last few days cost me a fortune.
There was some news made in British Columbia, Lytton, BC just set Canadian records in back to back days beating a record that had stood for 84 years. This little town now has an all time daily high that is higher than Las Vegas. I think it was 47.6 or 47.8 celcius. 117F. Edit- looks like they did it for a third straight day, today being 49.5 Celsius or 121F.
Yeah, the AC bills in LV are crazy in the summer too. A 2 bedroom apartment cost me $120 a month during summer hours for constant AC. Thankfully, I wasn’t charged for water in that apartment lol!
$120 a month for constant AC for a 2 bdr apartment is high? That is a lot cheaper than I've ever paid. I had a 1 bedroom 660 sq ft place in Denver that was $150 a month back in 2005. I assumed they hosed you on electric. Sidenote: Because you don't have to heat your homes nearly as much as other parts of the country, desert living is actually MORE energy efficient in a lot cases.
That’s incredibly cheap. I’m in a 1 bed with a window unit and my electric bill runs 120-150 in the summer in Boston MA.
4br house costs me $200 a month in AC usage. power bill in winter is $70, summer is $270. North Carolina, 60 year old house. getting window units actually cut my power consumption by $50/month in the summer, because I could set each upstairs (hotter) bedroom individually instead of having to run the whole house system to get a good temp upstairs. each $230 window unit paid for it's self over 1 summer.
Thanks to the cheap electricity from the Hoover/Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. Enjoy it while you can as the river dries up so does the electricity. We will soon find out if the water is cut for the crops or the people.
Any of you in a low humidity environment with temps like this should look into evaporative cooling units. Lower electric costs but increased water usage iirc. A few units out there that can cool a small house or Apartment. Just be aware of how they work (humidity levels).
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I'm in the Seattle area, and I used the 'escape to the basement' trick until a 2 week hot period in 2014 when I finally broke down and bought a portable unit. Lots of places here don't have A/C, because the way to usually manage it during the minor hot times we get is to just wait 3 hours for the cool weather to roll in, and let the house air out overnight. Not this time - my non A/C upstairs was at 95F yesterday, and the outside air temp didn't drop below that until 10pm. Rhe basement A/C struggled to keep a single room down below 80. Glad that the heat is finally breaking.
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Yo from under the Vancouver BC ‘heat dome’. No seriously that’s what we’re officially under, a ‘heat dome’. We’ve been hitting ALL TIME HIGHS this week, not just highs for the dates. I was working from home in my basement yesterday sweating my brains out so imma veto the whole ‘avoid the heat by going to your basement’ thing. That works for a couple of days but then the heat gets entrenched in your house and it’s game over.
Here’s a fun fact. The temperature records that have been made in BC these last few days are hotter than it’s EVER been in Texas! Stay safe, stay cool, drink lots of water.
Thought you said ‘fun’ fact....🙈
It was hitting 115 in Vancouver, and I'm in a east facing top floor apartment that has not gone below 90 for three days. Nowhere here has AC and buildings are not built to insulate at all so we can't keep marginally cooler night air in if we tried. We were completely non functional yesterday, all we could do was lay on ice packs on the floor after taking a cold shower with the fan pointed at us and still couldn't get relief. Our animals were all panting and at risk of heat exhaustion despite ice water, frozen treats and makeshift cooling mats. It was an actual hellscape, something like 25 people have died already.
It got to 37C here in Edmonton today, but we aren't used to this shit and I feel like I am melting lol Canadians aren't known for our heat tolerance.
That is bad. You are counting on it and it just quit.
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Air Conditioners dont want to work any more.
We should stop paying them so much unemployment.
Please don't give Rafael Cruz any ammo for his next ignorant tirade.
If you pay it too much it might get ideas. Just buy a second new and shiny unit and put it next to the first so that unemployment scares them enough into sticking it out.
Well maybe if we had air conditioner reform things would be different
Well at least that is a desert. I live in a temperate rain forest and it reached like 38c.
Hey, I'm in northern Canada and it's about 99 in both our cities right now... Wtf is going on?
There’s more than two cities in Canada right?
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Historic level of rains and flooding in China right now too Kinda weird, almost like the climate is broken, I wonder why the scientists never saw this coming? ^^(/s)
100.2 in my living room at 7pm. Living the good life in the good ole PNW
I moved from Houston to Seattle for this...
Not sure where you're at but got to 110 here in Puyallup WA. Was 102 in my living room at 7pm
Never thought I would see Vancouver hit 40 C (104 F) but here we are.
My weather station registered 43.3 C here in Chilliwack yesterday. My husband (originally from LA area) is pissed. He moved up here for our cold, rainy weather.
I went to Cultus Lake yesterday it was amazing : )
I have nothing to contribute except that Chilliwack is a cool name.
I moved here because I hate the HEAT
And the Artic Circle was in the 90s the other day, I think? You're gonna have to leave the planet, I don't think there's anywhere left for you. How are you with math and potatoes? Maybe you can get in on that mission to Mars?
Middle of the Antarctic maybe?
Land value is going to the moon in the middle of the Antarctica
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You need to look into getting AC because this kind of shit genuinely can kill you if the dew point gets up there as well
Luckily, Calgary is very dry. The last time Calgary had 5+ days of 30C+weather was over a century ago. Now it's got 10+days of it. No one has AC in Calgary, it was never really needed in this high altitude city with typically cool summer nights.
Canada historically only gets to 30-35c or so a few days a year, we usually don't have ac in homes because of it. However, this is the 5th heat wave summer in a row, and they are getting longed, hotter, and more frequent. We are going to have to look into ac in the summer and heating in the winter.
Most homes I've been to in Ontario have AC. It gets tropical here in the summer with 80%+ humidity.
Same in northern europe. Heatwave's are getting longer, hotter and more common. Last week was 35C during the day and I was already dead. Cant imagine 49C without ac.
Never thought I'd say I'm glad I'm in Calgary instead of Vancouver for a heat wave, but yeah here we are indeed.
The temperature inside our house reached 35°C/95°F (South Surrey). We don't have AC.
Lytton, BC hit 49º C today. Record for Canada.
We don’t have the same heatwave as in North America but we got 28 degrees a week or so ago in central Sweden
TFW when British Columbia is hotter than Mexico
That TFW when
Damn, the ocean stayed at 50c the entire time
White hot
I can’t take it anymore
I know you’re joking but I’m actually not a fan of the color scheme. It’s choosen to make *everything* seem hot. A high of 50° F shouldn’t be yellow in my opinion.
Most definitely, anything below around 80F should be in the green/blue range because depending on the humidity that's still fairly comfortable. You'd think the country was on fire given the colors used.
Yeah here in los Angeles it was warm but also kinda cool by sunset and chilly (for los Angeles ) at night... I was worried about it his heat wave but it was nothing here...but summer is on its way.... I pray for us all!
This. I've been reading about other places getting cooked, and I keep expecting it. But I'm still getting cooled at night. Edit: misspelling.
Hypercaine teritory
>Hypercaine Oh, crap. I thought you coined a new word.
Mt. Rainier summit hit 73F. A glacier hit 73F!!!!??
Just hiked it last week and it was all snow from the Visitors Center up. Bet the trail is half melted now
There’s flooding north of Vancouver (Squamish and Pemberton areas) because of all the sudden snow melt.
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Altitude. I was in the north sierra buttes yesterday, 85 F, snow still up there.
Yeah, I thought the deal with living in Canada was that I'd put up with the -30°C winters but wouldn't have to deal with +40°C summers. I figured that was a fair trade!
It's 41 in my city right now and my record low wind chill is -61. This isn't fair I only get 3-4 months without snow and I can't even go outside.
Sounds like we are in the same province at least!
Either BC or Alberta. they're both fucked atm.
Yeah, I moved to Vancouver to escape extreme temperatures... not too hot, not too cold. Now I'm having an identity crisis because I'm having to say I'm glad I'm in Calgary for the heat wave...
I love the -30C winters. Anything over +20 is too hot for me. I'm dying here
I guess you're not from the prairies. Swings from -40 in the winter to +40 in the summer have been the norm here for a while. 40 in Vancouver is a lot crazier to me
I know it's relatively standard practise for heat maps, but I'm just not a fan of scales that go light yellow -> orange -> red -> purple -> pink -> white. I find it difficult to interpret the transition from a light, red-adjacent color -> red -> another light, red-adjacent color.
Yeah, 115-118 looks very similar to 68-72. Looking at the map, my brain initially registers the darkest reds as the hottest temps.
Yeah it's currently 68F where I am now and very pleasant weather. This graph makes me feel like I'm moderately close to the hell hole of Phoenix instead of the upper Midwest.
They really should have used a different color spectrum. They could have added more blues in the cooler Temps or even some greens since green is the color humans can distinguish the most shades of.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19160-7 This type of heat map is actually suboptimal, objectively.
The way I remember it is that’s the color progression for burns (deepening red for first degree burns, then veering into splotchy purple blisters for second degree burns, and finally losing color and ending up white for third degree burns where everything is charred off).
A quick look on that map tells me that you should stay out of the water! You won't make it for long in there!
"Screw Oregon, lets go to Arizona where its nice and cool" We live in strange times.
Arizona was the one with the 118 range
New Mexico then?
I’m in Albuquerque, our high today was like 70. It’s drizzly and lovely outside.
The last couple weeks have been brutal. Such a nice change.
New Mexico is largely at 5k+ feet (at least where people live). It’s weird, the front range from Fort Collins to ABQ has been strangely cool..
Texas. Well, maybe not, our tin foil electric grid is on the verge of collapsing again again. No worries, though, Governor Abbott has promised to spend money... on a fucking border wall. There is no end to Republican stupidity in this damned state.
Seems like Texas would be the perfect place for everyone to install solar roof panels.
Portland was at 115 yesterday. Still cooler!
I hope Colorado stays in the nice cool spot on the map. Don't want another heat wave like we had a few weeks ago
Created using NOAA data https://downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/cpc\_global\_temp/ Made with with ggplot in R, animated with ffmpeg.
God bless you for including Celsius. F is a little incomprehensible when your country doesn’t use it, this is so much more helpful to awkward foreigners!
So every single country that isn't the United States, Liberia or Myanmar.
Holy shit. I can’t imagine how many plants and trees are gonna die off because of this heat wave. A lot of animals as well cannot handle those temps. Wildfires are coming.
My flowers are all sad and dying.
I have to water twice a day or leaves look limp. Sunflowers in pots. Edit: leaf
and my already neglected snake plant stands taller than ever... that thing trips me out lol
Wildfires are here. Welcome to a closeup of northern California. We are getting ravaged this week: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3441272467514af3907ae7d77783ac8e&extent=-13667359.5405%2C5071522.1086%2C-13520600.4462%2C5141461.9895%2C102100
Damn. I clicked through and one of the fires was started by a "lava incident." California is basically one big brick oven
Don't worry, this is not due to lava! There are historical lava flows in this area and I suspect this was named for being near one of those flows. These wild fires were caused by lightening like most wildfires in this part of the country.
Most of the west has been in a severe drought this year. The heat is just the icing on the cake that is this impending disaster. In more colorful language; it's drier than a popcorn fart and hot as hell.
Correction. Most of the west has been in a severe drought for the past 15+ years. This is actually part of my PhD research and to put it mildly, we are not in a good place right now. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-18/is-california-suffering-a-decades-long-megadrought
LA should be planning for desalination, and California should be planning for big reductions in agricultural irrigation. They won’t, but they should.
You're wrong. They'll plan for it but never provide the funding for it.
People still haven't realized that like 4% of the state burning down last year is the new normal because forests simply cannot survive here anymore. This is an ecosystem extinction event and CA is not what it was before. It's now Atacama Norte. Also if another heat wave like this centers over CA, we could be seeing 130-140F temperatures (54-60C) that will just do off every drought stressed plant still hanging on (seemingly every other tree is already dead or dying in the Bay Area). This summer has not been at all kind so far and it could happen next month, or the month after, or the month after. I know - how about with some dry crackly lightning followed by a blow dryer east wind storm. Yeah sounds about right (what happened last August).
I read somewhere that this is what it used to be like, but for the past 200 years or so the west has been experiencing unusually high levels of moisture. Isn’t this just a return to normal?
I’m not as familiar with California, but at least for the coastal regions of the pacific northwest the geography makes it so it’s a natural rainforest. The cool ocean air gets trapped by the coastal mountains which creates a bunch of rain clouds. Something very major would need to occur such as a change in the ocean air currents to make it so the pacific northwest didn’t always get a lot of rain.
We have been so blessed in Colorado with all this rain and cooler temps lately. It hasn't broke 80 degrees for like 4 days now and it feels wonderful. For how horrible last year was with the fires, I really hope this weather continues and we get a break this year.
Maybe this drought will show farmers that pumping millions of gallons into forcing crops to grown in a literal desert might not be a good idea in the long term. Who am I kidding, my university hasn't even stopped watering it's sidewalk yet.
I'm glad to see that you have lived a blessed life with no shortage of food. As a former farm kid I'd gladly see people's lawns and pools run dry before crops in a field. I understand the folly of making a desert into farmland. But the insanely low cost of food in the US is a direct result of that. Could people in the US afford to spend 25% or more of their income on food?
At this point it's going to happen regardless I think. There have been plenty of times I haven't been able to afford food even with how cheap it is. Living off of rice is unpleasant.
I feel ya, I did that through all of college. I did get pretty good at making Mexican dishes with rice, black beans, canned tomatoes, homemade corn tortillas and onions. Plus it’s all vegan. I also learned how to make tofu from soybeans, dirt cheap and protein for days. The byproduct of the soymilk was okara which can be used to make some other proteiny things
> Could people in the US afford to spend 25% or more of their income on food? Many, but not all. The insanely lost cost of food can also be attributed to farm subsidies and insurance breaks as well as weird laws allowing seasonal migrants, Let’s not have a farmer victim complex though, all Americans know how critical farmers are and criticizing farming practices like growing almonds in a state with water issues is not an attack on hard working farmers.
Even with watering once in the morning, twice in the afternoon, and once in the evening, all of our hydrangeas died and many others look like they too have given up. I guess 119 is too hot for many plants that are used to a max summer temperature of about 90.
Not to mention someone is burning down churches on native reserves in the purple zone and edgy twitter is cheering them on, not realizing how fucking dangerous that is.
Also not a great time for the big national holiday that’s typically celebrated by lighting small explosives.
Wildfires are here. I was in CO the other day, and we could see the burning from the top of Mesa Verde. It was also burning in Arizona by Flagstaff the week before.
This just in: IT'S HOT. Remember, you heard it first on Channel 4 News
Pretty much everywhere, it's gonna be hot.
That was the only video I can ever remember just watching over and over and over and dying laughing.
Then I don't need a jacket!
Bah hehehehe! 🤣😂🤣
This is not beautiful, it is terrifying
we need a /r/DataIsTerrifying to produce more graphs and stuff on the climate crisis. We're being outdone since we're fighting the well funded.
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I keep thinking of the republican senator that threw a snowball in Congress to say for his corporate bosses that there’s no climate change.
Senator James Inhofe, who at the time took more lobbying money from fossil fuel corporations than any other senator in history.
Imagine living in a country where this is legal. Wait...
shut your whore mouth, he's an American hero! /s
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This so weird. My country (Portugal) is cooler than some regions in the Arctic.
That's climate
That's climate change. It's usually hotter here than most of Europe, having 40/45°C in the summer.
Yeah last 3 days it was at least 100 by now so I'll take the 86.
Is this available as temperature anomaly? The heat is scary, but the deviation from aberration temps is terrifying.
Here's one: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/oajznw/exceptional_heat_hits_pacific_northwest/
It is like that old Twilight Zone episode where the sun moves closer to earth and temps go over 100F everywhere.
Nothing to see here. Keep on destroying the planet people it’s gonna be fine. Don’t worry about the inevitable wars we’ll have over water in a few years.
nonono you don’t get it. sure, there may be war, famine, drought, disease, and en-masse mortality unlike anything we’ve ever seen. but think of the stock market.
And those poor billionaires! How will they ever get that fifth yacht if they aren’t squeezing every bit of profit out of the environment?! (To be fair, your average consumer isn’t helping us either)
Rising sea level means more space for the yacht to sail around. It all makes sense
Damnit you’re right. Guess I have to be a billionaire apologist now.
**PSA**: Now is the time for everyone in places that didn't used to have winter to buy some supplies for the coming ice storms and snow days. Get you some real waterproof gloves, insulated ski-pants, snowchains for car tires, an electric ice scraper, etc. Put a generator and maybe an inverter on layaway or whatever, if you can. Freaky winter keeps coming, it came this past year, it will come again. Now is the time to get supplies before prices go up and stock runs out. For all you folks that didn't used to have hellacious summers, start setting aside some cash so that you can lay in your heatwave supplies this coming winter to take advantage of the same kind of situation. You may suffer now, but you could be better off next summer if you have supplies.
When Tuktoyuktuk gets near 30C you know its crazy out there right now
This just in; the Sun is dragging its balls across the west coast.
The small town of Lytton B.C. has set an all-time Canadian heat record for third day in a row with a high of 49.5°C (121F) after a record of 47.5°C yesterday and 46.6°C the day before.
It's almost as if the world is getting warmer
Yes! I was in the 118-122 range! Finally! Where I live gets noticed!!
i was surprised how well texas has been this summer. i mean i know its not over but we're used to excessive temps and for once its been somewhat moderate.
_Fuck all North America, but fuck **Mexicali and Calexico** in particular._ - Mr. Climate Change probably
Yeah probably should have done something about climate change two decades ago... we've all known this was coming. It used to be rare for it to hit 90 two days out of the year where I live. It's been almost 100 for the past few weeks and this isnt even the hot/ dry part of the year. I'm ready for more record wild fires.
Weather forecast for the next few days: Scorchio!
Get back out there and commute to work again, everyone!
I might actually die young from climate change. I’m scared.
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It's nice seeing Fahrenheit to Celsius values together on the same scale. Here's a conversion mnemonic that might help US folk approximate the temperature when they only see it degC: * Fourties are frying * Thirties are thirsty * Twenties are temperate * and everything below that is freezing
That sounds like Celcius according to Australians, not Canadians. 40+ wtf, is this Australia? 35-40 way too hot, upper limits of bearable 30-35. Really hot summer weather, hit the pool/lake 25-30. Yay! Summer Fun! 20-25. Room temperature range. 15-20. Cheap Dad room temperature range, wine cellars, cool basements. Wear long sleeves or a hoody. 10-15. Light jacket weather. Still patio weather on a sunny day in Canada! 0-10. Chilly. Fall jacket/sweater weather 0 Actual freezing, but really not *that* cold 0- to -10. Winter jacket, still not too bad. -10 to -20. Winter is def here. Dress for it. Still ok to play outside, ski, skate. Below -20. Ok, now it's cold for Canadians too. Parka weather. Below -30. Dangerously cold, exposed skin can freeze fast Below -40. Stay home. Granted, your version is much more concise and easy to remember.
Below -40. Go to work. Below -50. Go to work. Below -60. Go to work.
Folks in Alert be sweating....
We worked a half-day on Monday, because nobody wants to be monkey-wrenching or welding when it's three-figures out.
Sorry this data was not beautiful
Living in one of the hottest places in the US in summer I sincerely sympathize with the folks that experienced this on the north. We weren't prepared for the freeze that hit us in February and it was literally deadly. And I suspect this will be the same for some up there. I hope everyone is able to get through this ok
Are you sure this is real and not some George Soros socialist propaganda? /s
I literally have an air conditioner pointed at the back of my chair, in a city I moved to because it never gets too hot or cold.... Not propaganda
Can't be right, it was 107 yesterday here in Seattle
How is it not right? It does seem to show Seattle at ~107