Posted on 08/24/2023 5:41:42 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Roughly 130 million people in 22 states are under various heat warnings, watches and advisories as a dangerous heat dome settles over a huge section of the county.
The searing August heat wave is forecast to continue through at least the end of this week.
The National Weather Service says a potent upper-level ridge is anchored over the Mid-Mississippi Valley, trapping the hot air.
It is bringing oppressive heat from the central U.S. to the Gulf Coast. High temperatures throughout these areas are forecast to reach into the upper 90s and low 100s through Thursday.
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Stop it! It’s called summer.
It was 103° here yesterday on the north Gulf Coast.............
Here in Florida the rainy season usually starts sometime in June.
We’ve had some substantial rain fairly recently.
The weather is most unusual.
The rainy season tends to end around the second week of September.
Many affluent people have bought on my street. There are three new lawns that have St. Augustine grass that needs to be watered. I have the drought-tolerant native Pensacola bahia grass.
Hopefully, the well water won’t become salty.
Good thing the Co2 doesn’t come from volcanos. We don’t have enough virgins to sacrifice.
tyrannical chicken little sez
climate emergency!
climate emergency!
climate emergency!
When the last hurricane came through here, one of the tips to stay safe was to get a covid shot.
Here in Tunica MS the sun has been Angry all week, and looking to get p*ssed the rest of the week. 🌞
“It’s called Summer”
Ask the farmers what it’s called. That’s the only opinion that really matters, since the farmers are the ones whose crops feed us. And when even the daily-watered lawn grass is crisping up from the heat and drought, you have to wonder what’s happening to all that produce.
Sounds just like California’s central valley every summer.
We think it is “cool” if the temperature is in the 80s. Not uncommon for temperatures to be triple digits for days if not weeks at a time.
Oh FYI the great hurricane of 2023 barely reached us and mostly turned the normal heat into a humid heat. The storm has already been dropped down into the memory hole.
“Heat Dome” = “Hot summer weather” with a press agent.
Dome....Polar Vortex...Have been watching the weather for almost 80 years...all of a sudden.....These weather folks throw in a new term...but I have yet to hear one of them say that it’s caused by man in any way...it’s nature...and nothing more...ever changing...
we’re freezing here in upstate NY...it’s 67...
Upstate NY...Haven’t used my air at all...I have a $15 Turbo fan by Honeywell...Walmart or Amazon..
I remember murderous hot summers back in the 1950s and 1960s before we got air conditioning. My brother passed out from the heat in 1963 in the bean fields.
My mom, from Tennessee said when she was a child they would go to bed and each one had a hand made fan that they would fan themselves till they fell asleep.
My wife said when she was a child in Texas that her parents would take a bed and put it out in the yard, and put a damp sheet over the kids till they fell asleep.
I remember going to bed in the Ozarks and waking up in the middle of the night with sweat rolling off of me and the sheets damp from the sweat.
Nights on the High Plains were cool. Days were hot but nothing like the Ozarks.
My favorite product of weather-scare wordsmithing is “Atmospheric River”. You know, from the same folks that brought you “Sharknado”.
Wait till the very early freezing a@@ winter coming this year shows up in 3 to 4 weeks. Super snow events in NE and the Southeast. Yes, it is absolutely normal this time of year— called Summer. Snows in New Zealand on this global tilt of the polar axis.
Try that “Frozen Dome” ... morons of the climate change pogrom. They will still claim climate change— caused by man, and ignore the fact that everything man is doing to change this, is actually causing a great deal of it, beyond of course the hopefully unchangeable...Sun cycles. The big star burns out, and we are quickly overnight, finished. Until then try to act like civilized people, live and let live.
The heat dome is worst over Springfield, and it’s Homer’s fault.
As Weather Bell’s Joe Bastardi has pointed out for the umpteenth time... the heat pattern in the mid-west (Kansas Nebraska etc.) is exactly the same as in 1935 when few if any had buildings or houses with air conditioning. Inconvenient irrefutable facts, and he shows the weather patterns that governed it then, and now.
Notable no troughs this time to produce the Labor Day hurricane which destroy the FL keys. So far.
My WFH office is in the basement. The hotter it gets outside, the colder it gets downstairs. So today, 90 outside, 73 upstairs, 68 downstairs. I have to go outside to warm up during the day.
When I first read about this heat dome, I did what I usually do and researched it.
I saw quite an interesting graphic....
It would appear that the outside of the heat dome is actually cold air and stormy weather that rotates around the heat dome.
Everything in the stormy weather is cold and very wet...
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