To: Free ThinkerNY
I like heat. It cooled down below 100 here in Texas for the first time in a while. Gonna go running here in a sec.
2 posted on
07/21/2011 11:56:00 AM PDT by
Flightdeck
(If you hear me yell "Eject, Eject, Eject!" the last two will be echos...)
To: Free ThinkerNY
A claustrophobia-inducing greenhouse of heat and sadness
Nothing like hard science. LOL
3 posted on
07/21/2011 11:57:17 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Free ThinkerNY
I’ll take it. Here in Michigan just happy not to be shoveling snow :p
4 posted on
07/21/2011 11:57:21 AM PDT by
Moleman
To: Free ThinkerNY
God is turning up the heat!
5 posted on
07/21/2011 11:59:03 AM PDT by
cblue55
(IT'S EITHER OBAMA OR AMERICA. THERE CANNOT BE BOTH.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
“Nearly 150 million Americans in 32 states are in the dome, leading to at least 22 deaths around the country as of yesterday, according to CNN. In Oklahoma alone, state medical officials believe 12 people have died from the heat.”
The heat alone does not “lead” to any deaths, as if they are inevitable just because it is hot.
Such deaths normally occur because individuals faced with high temperatures take actions they should not, or fail to take actions for themselves or others to either protect from, or compensate for, the effects of the high temperatures. Most such deaths are avoidable, in spite of the high heat.
8 posted on
07/21/2011 12:01:04 PM PDT by
Wuli
To: Free ThinkerNY
we suffered through the same in the summers in rural nebraska
but we lacked a media that constantly whined about it.
9 posted on
07/21/2011 12:05:41 PM PDT by
ken21
(liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)
To: Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro; Tax-chick
A claustrophobia-inducing greenhouse of heat and sadness, the "heat dome" is actually a 1 million square-mile high-pressure system hovering over most of the country and pushing temperatures sky-high. Rolling my eyes over here. It's pretty dang hot (102° outside my office), but come on.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Heat Dome? New terms are so cool. Like Kinetic Military Action.
But.... wasn’t there an old term for this? Gosh, as I get older my memory seems to be failing, but wasn’t it... something like.... oh, I REMEMBER.
It was called SUMMER.
11 posted on
07/21/2011 12:06:57 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Free ThinkerNY
What’s with this term “Heat Dome”. I’ve been around for a long time...and my bro is/was a meterorologist.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Bottom Line:
God says let there be heat and humidity, and there is not a damn thing we can do about it.
Even Al Gore.
24 posted on
07/21/2011 12:13:10 PM PDT by
EyeGuy
(2012: When the Levee Breaks)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Like when the “heat” in Chicago caused all that violence at the beaches a couple of months ago?
31 posted on
07/21/2011 12:39:04 PM PDT by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Free ThinkerNY
That compressed, sinking air keeps clouds from forming, giving the sun--which is at its highest angle this time of the year--free rein to do its worst. The sun in Liz Goodwin's world.
Bad, Sun! BAD!
To: Free ThinkerNY
"Warmer air is thicker than colder air so it's actually a literal dome," Bull.
Air density, from highest to lowest:
Cold, dry air
Cold, moist air
Warm, dry air
Warm moist air
More dense=thicker, and thicker (more dense air) seems easier to breathe because there is more oxygen per unit volume.
Must be their science writer at it again.
35 posted on
07/21/2011 12:44:16 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Welcome to Texas, ya’ll! :D
36 posted on
07/21/2011 12:44:49 PM PDT by
Ditter
To: Free ThinkerNY
Now imagine what it will be like if the EPA has its way and dozens of coal plants are shut down. No power - no AC whatsoever.
39 posted on
07/21/2011 12:52:45 PM PDT by
Godzilla
(3-7-77)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This phenomenum is not man-made. Things were just as bad during the Medieval Sad Period.
40 posted on
07/21/2011 12:54:24 PM PDT by
agere_contra
("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
When I was a kid this was called “summer”.
42 posted on
07/21/2011 1:01:13 PM PDT by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Unless you live in the lucky part of the continental United States that will not be slammed by a heat wave this week, you've probably encountered what meteorologists are calling the "heat dome." This is what passes for professional writing these days?
44 posted on
07/21/2011 1:06:41 PM PDT by
Mr.Unique
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
123 degrees in Council Bluffs IA yesterday? No.
50 posted on
07/21/2011 1:50:13 PM PDT by
Mr.Unique
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This is no hotter than when I lived in Virginia in the early 1990s. What they call a heat-wave, I call July.
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