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Muse
We had a windstorm last night in Healesville Australia. Currents of air hit our house over and over again making it boom like a drum. The morning was cold, but cloud cover means our afternoon was cool but pleasant. Another windstorm is on its way!
Karl Auerbach
I'm in Las Vegas. The word is "hot" - but at least we missed the heat wave e few days back.

Back at home it's dropped to the upper 40's (F) at night and mid 70s in the day - not really warm enough for my tomatoes. We haven't had a hot summer in Santa Cruz for a couple of years.

I've been watching the sun and shadow for a couple of months trying to figure out where to site a bat house I plan to install. I want morning sun and really dark at night (no artificial lights).
Jay Bryant
We are having average weather for here. Mid-90s F.

I'm sorry so many people are having weather that causes problems.
Joyce Donahue
81 here too, near Chicago at midnight - and still super-humid and miserable. Last night we didn't get below 77, which broke the old highest low temp record by a degree. Looks like they backed off on the forecast and are only calling for 93 (and humid) tomorrow instead of the orginal forecast of 97. Still, that's about 10 degrees higher than normal for this time of year. I hate this weather and have never tolerated heat well. I remember when we normally wouldn't hit the 90s until July. Now, we get heat earlier and it lasts longer.
Lisa Stranger
Now, we get heat earlier and it lasts longer.
Somebody counted the number of 90F+ days in the Tampa area, and they have doubled during the study period (20 years I think?). @Beej Cobalt has been complaining about it being hotter, longer in Phoenix too.
@Beej Cobalt
Joseph Teller
High yesterday was 92F where I am... and we are expecting a similar high today. Wakeup temp right now is 76F outside and 80% humidity.
This and other conditions brought the heat index up to 101F. We are stuck in High Pollen and Moderate Air Quality (still suffering from some effects of Canadian Smoke).

What I dread is tomorrow when the local weather is expected to reach a full physical 102F.

And we don't see any relief until Thursday....
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
It's 7:20am on a Monday, and it's already 80F. I am so glad we are inside and have a Fan going in the Computer Room (that's what the second 'bedroom' in our apt. The AC's are going in the bedroom and Living Room...and the shades/blinds are down & covering windows. One window has the blinds raised, but that's where the Cats Hammock is...so the cats can peer outside. They neighbor watch. In my part of PA will deal with excessive heat over the next three days....it's predicted 3 days of Tstorms after that...(I hope)
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
It's supposed to be a high temp of 100F today and because Southeastern PA, humid humid humid. Heck, we're due of 102F tomorrow. IN JUNE! I have a baaaaad feeling about July & August, the actually HOT months.
Jodi
83F (28C) here in Gotham City, with 77% humidity. Going up to 102! (nearly 39C)
Richard
Yesterday was 90ish w/50% humidity. It was yuck.
Cass
It's hot everywhere but here! It's 8°C and rainy outside. This is us for the next few days… Canola was developed for this climate so I guess it's good.
Mark Wollschlager
9:30 am and it's 30c. I'm glad Ruby and I got a walk in before it hit 25c. It's supposed to go to 38 today. Yuck.
Joyce Donahue
@Richard I would love to see 50% humidity. Try 95 and 70%! This is what the long-term projections are for the Great Lakes area. Increasing heat and humidity. We have many days in the summer now when Chicago is more humid than the Amazonian rain forest. (We had 100% with no rain one morning last week.) Eventually too hot and humid for human habitation. 🥵
@Richard
roddio
Almost 9:00 (8:51 AM PDT (UTC-7)) and 63°F/17°C. Maybe will hit 70°F/21°C in the afternoon. It's San Diego. We'll be lucky to break 74°F/24°C by the end of the week. I've got some transplanting to do, so it's fine with me.
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
It's now upped the warnings to Air Quality as well. The dump fire yesterday in NJ hasn't helped the air quality in our area either. Blech.
Lisa Stranger
What I dread is tomorrow when the local weather is expected to reach a full physical 102F.
It’s supposed to be a high temp of 100F today and ... we’re due of 102F tomorrow. IN JUNE!
Gotham City ... Going up to 102!
I do not miss the actual-bulb triple digits. A 100F day here is a bigger deal than dipping below freezing.

Which is not to say that we don't hover close to it, because we do... 95 is fairly normal.

I do recall some blistering heatwaves in June up north. In fact I can name 2015, when Mr. Stranger was driving with the trailer and pets to meet me in MD for the case against the squatter. He couldn't stop to rest—the AC was inadequate unless he kept moving.
The dump fire yesterday in NJ
Trump was at Bedminster yesterday? 😏
Lisa Stranger
I shouldn't joke about dump fires... I lived downwind of the Baltimore stump dump fire for about a year and a half.
Lisa Stranger
Sitting here dreading going out. My current rut of not going to bed til 5am or so is not great for heat management (read: getting anything done). I had sooooo many things I wanted to get done over the winter for that reason, and most just didn't happen. I walk past all of them as I get into the one operational vehicle with its 2-40 air 🥵

no clue how this state was settled by folks in hoop skirts and wool suits with no AC
stefani banerian
Where I am in the PNW we'll have low 70s, after a couple days of cool and rain.
So far, we're good.
Andreas G
Pretty chilly here, for midsummer.
Not extraordinarily cold, but shorts&t-shirt is not really advisable.
Or at least bring a windbreaker.
Cass
Welp, now it's thunder showers and tornado watches. No walk for Bennie this afternoon.
Muse
Yeah, we had some close lightning strikes last night.
Fun-fun!
stefani banerian
lightning striking, again? and again? and again?
Richard
Today I said to the person at the financial institution I use "I approve of the decorations." The decorations were LGBTQ+ flags. They responded with a clenched grin and said something in a tight voice that I don't remember. Perhaps they had a different opinion. Finance is rife with sociopaths and fundamentalist extremists so it doesn't surprise me.
Richard
I also wouldn't be surprised if the flags were ordered by sociopaths in the financial institution's leadership that could care less about LGBTQ+ issues but want to make the marks feel comfortable.
John Hummel
Here in east central Illinois life is hellish. Highs in the upper 90s and heat indices in the 100s - 110s. Life is also hellish because we're part of Trump's America, but that's another story.
Andreas G
At least your governor seems with it.
John Hummel
You're right, @Andreas G, Pritzker is awesome.
@Andreas G
Griff Ferrell
Pritzker beats the hell out of my governor, sarah huckabuck-sanders
stefani banerian
that's not even a comparison, @Griff Ferrell
@Griff Ferrell
Griff Ferrell
@stefani banerian

lol, no it really isn't
@stefani banerian
Griff Ferrell
I need to move back to Illinois, stupid Darkansas
Andreas G
Pritzker is world-class, imo.
Karl Auerbach
@Griff Ferrell - Is that beating by Pritzker of sara huckster literal or figurative?

Wouldn't it be interesting to have a cage match of governors?
@Griff Ferrell
Griff Ferrell
@Karl Auerbach
Wouldn't it be interesting to have a cage match of governors?
It would Karl, yes it would.
@Karl Auerbach
John Hummel
I am not aware of any beating by Pritzker of Sanders, but any such contest would be pointless. To those who are in touch with reality, Pritzker would have destroyed her. But to the other (zombie) half of the American populace, Sanders would win no matter what.

One of the main problems in the USA is that half the populace is completely out of touch with reality, controlled instead by the propaganda spread by the likes of FOX "News", OAN, and their ilk.

It's not clear to me how to solve this problem. And this scares me, because I'm a cognitive scientist. The problem is the control of information. Right now, the wrong people control what the majority of people believe, and I don't know how to fix that.
Andreas G
I think a sudden concerted series of cyberattacks that took those networks off air could have a significiant impact on them.

What are they going to do? Not watch TV?

Certainly there are no legal means of fixing things.

A bit like with Hitler's death machine. It was perfectly legal. It was the resistance and the allied invasion and liberation of the camps that were illegal.
Lisa Stranger
I legit LOLd at this

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Lisa Stranger
I think a sudden concerted series of cyberattacks that took those networks off air could have a significiant impact on them.
IIRC, Anonymous said they were not inclined to intervene til Americans stood up. Hopefully No Kings was enough for them?
Lisa Stranger
Somebody counted the number of 90F+ days in the Tampa area, and they have doubled during the study period (20 years I think?).
found it finally... 50 years

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Lisa Stranger
Pritzker beats the hell out of my governor, sarah huckabuck-sanders
and—and I can't believe I'm saying this—she's an upgrade over the cruel white-supremacist hack running my state... she's at least told PBMs to fuck off... meanwhile we've been teed up for exploitation by the insurance industry
Wouldn’t it be interesting to have a cage match of governors?
she'd probably come out ahead in that too... he'd be fighting in heels
Griff Ferrell
@Lisa Stranger

Oh yeah, Ron Desatan (sp?). You have my sympathies. He's actually smart, evil and twisted, but smart
@Lisa Stranger
Mark Wollschlager
They are all mostly smart, but deeply evil.
Lisa Stranger
He's smarter than Trump, but that's a low bar. He's going to be done in by his complete lack of people skills.
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