How is the weather out there?

[LongRider]

1 minute ago, Zorral said:

"You can tell the writers are on strike because no one would have a hurricane and an earthquake at the same time."

I have seen this one and it too is hilarious and right on point.  Srsly, are we living in someone's bad script?  Seems like at times, I'm afraid to ask, what next?

[Zorral]

3 minutes ago, LongRider said:

we living in someone's bad script

It's what happens when the fascists think they can just dump theactually skilled, talented, and knowledgeable writers don't matter, and make war on woke instead!  See, for instance, economics and the fascist-racketeering-treason party.   

Why yes, I've been reading Paul Krugman and his textbooks on economic modeling etc.  They start from something that doesn't exist and continue building from there.  It works the same way the fascists have been working:

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/21/donald-last-line-of-defense-ramp-up-the-transactional-antisemitism/

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by Zorral

[Tywin et al.]

Heat index in Minneapolis: 112F

Heat index in Duluth: 63F

Duluth is only a roughly two hour drive from Minneapolis. Midwest weather is weird. 

[ThinkerX]

On 8/21/2023 at 7:33 AM, Zorral said:

It's what happens when the fascists think they can just dump theactually skilled, talented, and knowledgeable writers don't matter, and make war on woke instead!  See, for instance, economics and the fascist-racketeering-treason party.   

Why yes, I've been reading Paul Krugman and his textbooks on economic modeling etc.  They start from something that doesn't exist and continue building from there.  It works the same way the fascists have been working:

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/21/donald-last-line-of-defense-ramp-up-the-transactional-antisemitism/

 

I have been seeing increasing numbers of comments in weather articles loudly insisting that the recent wildfires are the result of arson (by liberal activists). 'Jewish Space Lasers' has gotten a few mentions. 

[Tears of Lys]

Michigan's weather has been beautiful lately - which means it's time for a thunderstorm.  

We've got the water, Bitches!!!  

[Zorral]

Yesterday and today's aqi is Green/Good -- and the temps' highs low-mid-70's.  

Hurricanes taking aim, probably, at us -- 3 - 4 storms/depressions/developers currently heading to the very overheated Gulf and then up this way, if not this week's there are always the next weeks' developers to be anxious about.

[Tears of Lys]

No rain today - unfortunately.  But it hot warm and humid.  Joy abounds.  

[baxus]

Scorching heat again today. Ever since coming back from vacation, we've been having 30+ºC days and, what's even worse, 20+ºC nights. Even when we do get some breeze, it's hot breeze and it makes things unbearable.

I know I'll miss the heat when we get autumn rains and winds and shorter days and all that, but at the moment I'm not sure why exactly I'd miss it.

[Sophelia]

@baxus Same here in Valencia, Spain - it's peaking at 36 degrees or so today - really muggy - my whole skin is humid.  Later in the day my fingers will start sticking together and I will feel trickles of sweat in places I am not used to.  Going for a walk later in the day, like everyone else we'll cross the roads to go on the shady side, and gather under the trees while waiting for the pedestrian crossing light to go green, and the breeze will be like a hairdryer.  Nights are around 25 or 26, but it doesn't get that low until 8am or so, so it's still in high twenties when trying to get to sleep.  The cat stretches out so far on the bed to try and air herself, that there isn't much room for us humans.  Ceiling fans are amazing though - makes such a difference.  

When I go back to my house in the UK it'll be 18 degrees maximum.

[3CityApache]

On 8/23/2023 at 1:56 AM, Tywin et al. said:

Heat index in Minneapolis: 112F

Heat index in Duluth: 63F

Duluth is only a roughly two hour drive from Minneapolis. Midwest weather is weird. 

112F is like more than 44C? That's unbearable for a normal human being! Minnesota was supposed to be cold! I've watched Fargo!

[Tywin et al.]

17 minutes ago, 3CityApache said:

112F is like more than 44C? That's unbearable for a normal human being! Minnesota was supposed to be cold! I've watched Fargo!

Fargo* isn't in Minnesota! People make the mistake that it's always cold here. It's common for summer days to be over 100F and the worst of winter being below -20F. At least here in the big cities. Up north gets colder and even more snow. The strange thing is regardless of the season the weather can swing by upwards of 50 degrees over just a few days compared to somewhere like Hawaii where the temperature is basically the same year round and the only thing you have to plan for is rain.  

*The Coen brothers went to the same HS as I did. There are so many inside jokes in that movie I think most people not from here miss. 

[3CityApache]

19 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

Fargo* isn't in Minnesota! 

I know, I was referring to "The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987". Brainerd mostly, was it?

I live in a place which can be 30-35C hot in summer and even -20-25C cold in winter, so big temperature differences are not uncommon for me, but 44C is a bit too much. That's almost what I experienced when I was visiting Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. In the freaking summer!

Edited August 24, 2023 by 3CityApache

[Tywin et al.]

32 minutes ago, 3CityApache said:

I know, I was referring to "The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987". Brainerd mostly, was it?

Brainerd is featured in it, but a lot of the plot also takes place in the Twin Cities, which is where I'm from (I grew up close to where the car dealership in the movie is). Brainerd is a weird town. I've spent too much time there. My family's old hunting and fishing cabin is about an hour north of it and when as a kid we'd go up there we always stopped there. I enjoy the rural nothingness at times, but I'll always be a city boy.

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I live in a place which can be 30-35C hot in summer and even -20-25C cold in winter, so big temperature differences are not uncommon for me, but 44C is a bit too much. That's almost what I experienced when I was visiting Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. In the freaking summer!

Damn your Eurocommie measurements!  And the real downside here is it can get that hot and the humidity is a bitch. 

The weirdest place weather wise to me is San Fran. The weather can change by 15F degrees up or down if you go two miles from where you are depending on the time of day. 

What madness drove you to go to Death Valley in the summer all the way from Poland? I've been a few times and it's awful year round. I can't believe people run marathons there.

Edited August 24, 2023 by Tywin et al.

[3CityApache]

37 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

Damn your Eurocommie measurements!  

Is there literally anyone in the world but you Yankees still using Fahrenheit?

BTW, Fahrenheit himself was born in Gdańsk, some 30k from where I was born.

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What madness drove you to go to Death Valley in the summer all the way from Poland? I've been a few times and it's awful year round. I can't believe people run marathons there.

It was a part of my sorta honeymoon. In 2005 we visited US with my wife and a pair of friends, we rented a van and made quite a ride through mid-western National Parks. If memory serves, we visited, apart from Death Valley, also Joshua Tree, Great Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Yosemite, Capitol Reef and Sequoia national parks, plus Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. And one of the most weird cities I've ever seen (not weather wise though), which is Fresno. It was actually a great trip.

And yeah, leaving the car for 10 minutes was a challenge in Death Valley, running a marathon there is inconceivable.

Edited August 24, 2023 by 3CityApache

[Tywin et al.]

2 hours ago, 3CityApache said:

Is there literally anyone in the world but you Yankees still using Fahrenheit?

BTW, Fahrenheit himself was born in Gdańsk, some 30k from where I was born.

Maybe there's a random country or two that does, but otherwise I don't think so. In our defense I do think a lot of our measurement systems make more sense. A yard is more practical than a meter, for example. 

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It was a part of my sorta honeymoon. In 2005 we visited US with my wife and a pair of friends, we rented a van and made quite a ride through mid-western National Parks. If memory serves, we visited, apart from Death Valley, also Joshua Tree, Great Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Yosemite, Capitol Reef and Sequoia national parks, plus Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. And one of the most weird cities I've ever seen (not weather wise though), which is Fresno. It was actually a great trip.

And yeah, leaving the car for 10 minutes was a challenge in Death Valley, running a marathon there is inconceivable.

You didn't really go to Joshua Tree unless you did shrooms there. Hopefully you went in the morning. The place has a unique pink look if you go hiking at sunrise and there's a special spot my family likes to go to because people don't know you can slip between the rocks and go a lot higher. But yeah, sounds like a fun trip. 

[3CityApache]

15 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

I do think a lot of our measurement systems make more sense.

Of course you do.

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A yard is more practical than a meter, for example. 

Oh? Do tell. Because it's shorter?

How can a system which goes like this: 1 -> 10 -> 100 -> 1000, be less practical than a system that goes like this: 1 -> 12 -> 36 -> 1760. 

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You didn't really go to Joshua Tree unless you did shrooms there. Hopefully you went in the morning. The place has a unique pink look if you go hiking at sunrise and there's a special spot my family likes to go to because people don't know you can slip between the rocks and go a lot higher. But yeah, sounds like a fun trip. 

I guess we didn't then, sadly. Mere pot doesn't count, right?

TBH I don't have much recollection from there and anyway many of those parks kinda blur into one. It was almost 20 years ago after all. I do remember Zion and Yosemite were two of my favourites at the time though.

Also Reno, on our way from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, was a weird experience*. A place which really wanna look like Vegas but in fact looks like a poor cousin at best.

* Not as weird as Fresno though, a place which is objectively quite a big city (some half a million or so), and yet every single street and corner screams at you "I'm a really small town!". We had a breakfast there in a random diner at crossroads, with bored waitresses asking to refill our cups with your horrid coffee without milk. It was a scene like from Coen movies, give or take. They asked us where we were from and when we told them (and after they realised it was in Europe) they looked exactly like if we said we just came by from the dark side of the Moon. And they wanted to take pictures with us.

Edited August 25, 2023 by 3CityApache

[LongRider]

1 hour ago, 3CityApache said:

Also Reno, on our way from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, was a weird experience*. A place which really wanna look like Vegas but in fact looks like a poor cousin at best.

Having lived quite a while in Reno, 20ish years, ya true for the casino parts.  It’s a nice place to live though, especially if one likes the outdoors. 
I left due to job layoffs, and miss it.  I learned to really appreciate the desert while there. 
Been to Vegas once, hated it!  Give me Northern Nevada any day. 

[Tears of Lys]

Just had bad storms/tornado warnings, etc., etc.  The ground is SO saturated in so many areas.  Still warm and humid.

This weekend is going to be beautiful, though.

[baxus]

I was thinking about walking from home to work, since I don't have to go pick my daughter up from kindergarten so I don't have to drive. It made sense, going for a stroll (it's almost exactly 3km) and walk my dog, then do that again in the afternoon. Unfortunately, when I took my dog outside he was getting very hot even while just doing his morning business in front of our building. So, I decided against it and took my car.

18 hours ago, 3CityApache said:

I live in a place which can be 30-35C hot in summer and even -20-25C cold in winter, so big temperature differences are not uncommon for me, but 44C is a bit too much. That's almost what I experienced when I was visiting Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. In the freaking summer!

There's a world of difference between the temperature they say on the TV and the temperature where people actually live. Air temperature is measured by certain standards (in the shade, at specific height above the ground blah blah blah) and those standards usually don't apply to conditions general population lives and moves around in. I mean, all the buildings, roads, pavements, cars etc. also absorb heat from the sun and then radiate it themselves.

17 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

The weirdest place weather wise to me is San Fran. The weather can change by 15F degrees up or down if you go two miles from where you are depending on the time of day. 

I take it you haven't been to St. Petersburg, Russia? I went there in early August 2017, and while temperature doesn't vary that much (it was around 20ºC, give or take 1 or 2) the weather itself does. Oh boy, does it vary! You can get from sunshine and not a cloud in the sky to pouring rain and back again in 15 minutes. And that happens countless times throughout the day.

12 hours ago, 3CityApache said:

How a system which goes like this: 1 -> 10 -> 100 -> 1000, can be less practical than a system that goes like this: 1 -> 12 -> 36 -> 1760. 

Did you miss get the part where he said he does mushrooms?

[Tywin et al.]

18 hours ago, 3CityApache said:

Of course you do.

Oh? Do tell. Because it's shorter?

How can a system which goes like this: 1 -> 10 -> 100 -> 1000, be less practical than a system that goes like this: 1 -> 12 -> 36 -> 1760. 

No one measures a mile in yards. And admit it, you just like the metric system because it makes you feel like your car is going faster and you want to order royales with cheese. 

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I guess we didn't then, sadly. Mere pot doesn't count, right?

Close enough. And yeah, the national parks in the US are gorgeous, but they do blend together, especially in the West. If you come back I'd recommend seeing some in the upper Northeast if you like the woods and seafood. Plus it's probably not as expensive as some other places. There's some great places in the Carolinas too, but then you'll have to expose yourself to "real Murikans." 

And I don't drink coffee, but everyone says ours is among the worst in the Western world. 

5 hours ago, baxus said:

I take it you haven't been to St. Petersburg, Russia? I went there in early August 2017, and while temperature doesn't vary that much (it was around 20ºC, give or take 1 or 2) the weather itself does. Oh boy, does it vary! You can get from sunshine and not a cloud in the sky to pouring rain and back again in 15 minutes. And that happens countless times throughout the day.

Nope. I hope to visit Russia one day as I have ancestry from there, but it's not happening if the country doesn't drastically change in my lifetime. 

It's always interesting going to a new place and seeing their weird weather. I lived in South Florida for a short bit and it was similar. It would be sunny and beautiful one moment and then all of the sudden a monsoon would hit you only for the sun to pop back out shortly after. When I was living in Buenos Aires it was cold and/or rainy, but if you went a few hours North it was a tropical paradise. 

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Did you miss get the part where he said he does mushrooms?

I haven't taken them in around 15 years and fyi, there's a lot of research that indicates it's a positive thing to take them a few times in your life if you don't have any serious mental issues.