Posted on 06/15/2021 7:43:32 AM PDT by blam
When we moved to MO ten years ago, we hit two summers in a row with heat waves. Temps around 110 for weeks with high humidity and we lived off grid. No a/c by day. We’d run a little generator after the sun went past the trees to cool things off a little bit so we could sleep.
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Sometimes it’s hot in Florida - like for 9 months - but because we don’t have idiots running our state, we don’t have electrical outages...
Want it colder? Turn down the AC... and hire Republicans like DeSantis to run the state.
Water is wet IF you can find some!
Global warming, at the moment. I notice it every year about this time.
That's why I'm for green energy, but only at the individual level. Over 3/4ths' of my power comes from solar -- with equipment bought with my money and designed and configured for my particular situation and energy usage. There's no way that can be done on a massive scale with a one-sits-fits-all mentality a utility provider has to do -- especially with the crony capitalism not forcing them to actually produce something useful and the regulatory red tape of green energy hamstringing the ones who actually do want it to work well.
It’s all over the place out here...our problem is that there are too many people trying to get it.
Which brings up the real problem for hot daze in CA: the State and the Feds let our water out of the reservoirs. Back in 2019 we were drowned in rain, so much that all the reservoirs were filled and we were told could withstand a drought for at least 5 years. NOW we find out they drained the ponds: those reservoirs are less then half full. So the screaming will commence: Oh Noes! We ain’t got no watuh and it’s hot hot!
I lived in the Los Angeles area for 40 years before moving to Charlotte six years ago. SoCal can have "blistering heat" any time of year. It is and always has been a semi-desert to full desert area.
California has both the highest mountain in the lower 48 (Mt. Whitney; high Sierras) and the lowest, hottest, largest desert (Mojave) in North America within 280 miles of each other. Mt. Whitney is only 109 miles from Death Valley. When the so-called Santa Ana winds blow from the desert to the ocean, the region can get very hot and dry.
One of the worst brush fires to occur in the immediate L.A. area happened in November 1961. (We're only 5 days away from summer 2021, for heaven's sake!) The Bel Air fire destroyed over 480 homes, including those of celebrities. I copied the following paragraph from Wikipedia:
There were multiple celebrities affected by the fire. Actors Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward,[2] Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, comedian Joe E. Brown, Nobel laureate chemist Willard Libby, composers Lukas Foss and Conrad Salinger, and writer Aldous Huxley all lost homes in the fire. Others that fought flames before they evacuated were former Vice President Richard Nixon, actor Robert Taylor, film producer Keith Daniels and orchestra leader Billy Vaughn.
Don’t forget blackouts. THere’s always blackouts.
The 118 degrees would be out in the desert approximately between the Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave National Preserve.
It gets hotter than hell in CA.
Who knew?
And we need more money 💰💰💰 to "fix" it. SOP for the thieving, lying, corrupt, communist, democrats who have taken over California.
like the heat that hits your face when you open the oven.
Heatwave
Par for southern California from June to December 90’s to 110 is normal I’m still waiting for my ship to come on to get the hell out of here asap.
For the bonus round we get Santa Anna winds 40 to 80 MPH.
Death Valley is a lovely place to visit in December.
Whoa!
It’s hot in the summer!
Wow! That’s never happened before…
If you notice the temperature in San Francisco you’ll see why everybody wants to move here
The forecast in my town of Fairfax and Marin county is for 80 and 81 the next few days and it’s 111 20 miles away in Walnut Creek. And 104 10 miles to the north in Petaluma
Exactly
The pacific ocean is always right around 60° and 95% of the time the wind is blowing from the ocean onto the land
That’s if you’re anywhere near the coast it’s about 60°
Once you get over the first little mountain range it goes up about 15 to 20°
Once you get over a couple mountain ranges it’s 110
that is correct sir, your lips chap before you get to the car ..
i have ties in coastal old dominion and dont miss the humidity at all .
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