+ScroogieII Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) Off topic, but it's hot as purgatory here. Some Like It Hot I've ne'er been fond of searing heat, nor days of biting cold Nor drifts of snow nor roads of ice, these things I'd never hold In high esteem, for they to me, now that I've gotten old Are "perks" of warming climate now on which I'll not be sold. When I was young I was a wild and carefree teenaged lad The things we'd done on snow and ice you'd now consider bad A winter wonderland is where we lived and we would gad About on snowy icy roads, a charmed life's what we had. My world is seen through glasses now of quite a different hue The years have passed and now I'm of a somewhat different view Today my most adventuresome exploits outside are few I'm up before the sun has riz, to walk upon the dew. The temperature is inching up with every passing day With higher temps our way to come is now what they do say And now we hear that come midweek the temperature just may Hit forty four and I am sure that we are gonna pay. A strong high has entrenched itself over British Columbia. As a result, yesterday was supposed to have hit 42° (107.6° F) as are the next few days, with 44° (111.2° F) forecast for Wednesday. The highest temperature I've ever experienced (remember, I'm a Canuck, from the Great White North) was 106° F (41° C), and that was both in Westbank, BC, back in the '90s, and in Joplin, MO, in 2000. As you can easily guess, I don't go out much except verrrry early in the morning. So, how's the weather where you are? Even hotter there? I hope not. Edited June 27, 2021 by ScroogieII 1 Quote Link to comment
+Mausebiber Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 GC1Z2R1 Death Valley Earthcache 1 Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) Another coolish day in Death Valley, no? Keith EDIT: I just noticed - taking pix at 47 MPH!?! Edited June 27, 2021 by ScroogieII Quote Link to comment
+Mausebiber Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Well, 90 Minutes later ... As a matter of facts, we really enjoined it. I don't want to live here, but for a day it was a lot of fun. 2 Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) OK, a warmish day in Death Valley. Edited June 27, 2021 by ScroogieII Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Checking in at108° F British Columbia (Okanagan) Quote Link to comment
+bluesnote Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Last September my home thermometer read a record temp of 113 F. Must have been a record for my city. This was also during the California Wildfires, so the sky looked orange for a few weeks. Where I'm at now (Maryland) it's a much cooler 90 F. Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted June 27, 2021 Author Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) Yeah, all this coming week will likely set temp. records here. Things ain't good when 90° F sounds cool to us. Somewhere I have pix of the sun during a forest fire year when we were in Trail. The sun is a dark red rubber ball one could stare at with the naked eye for hours, if they chose. A zoomed pic even revealed a couple of sunspots, easily visible as the sun was so smoke covered. Edited June 27, 2021 by ScroogieII Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 44° is now in the rearview mirror. It's 45° here now. Quote Link to comment
vulture1957 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 It's been raining for about 3 days -- highs only in the mid 80s Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 35 minutes ago, vulture1957 said: It's been raining for about 3 days -- highs only in the mid 80s Well,, Lee, I'm not too badly off as my condo is half below ground and I don't even need AC. But I live in a 4 storey building and people from the 4th floor were escaping the heat this morning under a tree by the building. They, and I too, for that matter, would pay good money for some OK weather right now. Please try blowing some of that our way. Keith Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 And now both 44° and 45° have been left in the dust. 1 Quote Link to comment
+8Nuts MotherGoose Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 I live at N26° at the south tip of Texas. I'm 50 miles (80km) from the Gulf of Mexico. We get a cooling breeze off the Gulf and it rarely hits 100° F (38° C.) It will stay just below 100°, about 96 to 99 for weeks. Another 50 miles farther west and it frequently hits 110° F (42° C.) What you folks are experiencing is astonishing. Quote Link to comment
+Smurffaaja Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Meanwhile on FInland... 21° C @ 10:52PM and we call this warm evening! Stay frosty ScroogieII ! Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) ... And it has gone from astonishing to deadly dangerous. So far 486 have died of the heat in BC. Now some of us are beginning to pay, as I predicted in the poem at the outset. The little town of Lytton, along the Fraser River north of Vancouver, set the Canadian High Temperature record three days in a row, the final high being 49.6° C (121.3° F), on June 29th. On June 30 a wildfire went through the town, almost totally destroying it. At least 90% of the town is reported to have burned. We took the following pix in Lytton when we visited in 2019. Sadly, they seem somewhat prescient. We did several Waymarks in Lytton, probably all now gone, including their 149 year old church. "29,000 lightning strikes across B.C. in the past 24 hours" - things will get MUCH WORSE before they get better, even though the temperature is about 7° C lower than .it was yestereday. Keith, a melancholy Canuck Edited July 2, 2021 by ScroogieII Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 16 minutes ago, Smurffaaja said: Meanwhile on FInland... 21° C @ 10:52PM and we call this warm evening! Stay frosty ScroogieII ! Well, Kai, it's 13:12 and the temp. is down to 39°. Almost, but not quite, frosty. Quote Link to comment
vulture1957 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 71 and raining here again (71 is 20C or so, right?) Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, vulture1957 said: 71 and raining here again (71 is 20C or so, right?) Close enough, guy. Surely I don't have to actually say that I'm envious, right? Edited July 1, 2021 by ScroogieII Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted April 27, 2023 Author Share Posted April 27, 2023 April 29 or 30, 2023 Supposed to be 29° (84.2° for the Yankees) APRIL!!! C'mon! This is in the Great White North! 'Nother Heat Dome due for us in the Pacific Northwest? Quote Link to comment
Becktracker Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 Meanwhile n the Netherlands it was colder yesterday than on new years day (10 degrees celsius)... Quote Link to comment
+fi67 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 22 hours ago, Becktracker said: Meanwhile n the Netherlands it was colder yesterday than on new years day (10 degrees celsius)... Not so bad, 10 degrees is almost t-shirt weather. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted April 28, 2023 Author Share Posted April 28, 2023 23 hours ago, Becktracker said: Meanwhile n the Netherlands it was colder yesterday than on new years day (10 degrees celsius)... As I recall you had a helluva lot nicer New Years Day then did we, so we're even. Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted April 28, 2023 Author Share Posted April 28, 2023 As I just posted in a neighbouring thread: BEAUTIFUL, sunny 24° afternoon with not a cloud in the sky and not a breath of wind. Our first true "Shorts & T-shirt" day of the year. Just got back from a long walk in the sun and was actually sweating when I arrived. We're not quite yet to the 28° or 29° forecast for this weekend, but we're getting there. I hope the rest of you are lucky enough to be experiencing a similar day!. Keith Quote Link to comment
razalas Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 Around here we are having record breaking temperatures for April, in my zone 30° Quote Link to comment
+ScroogieII Posted May 1, 2023 Author Share Posted May 1, 2023 On 4/29/2023 at 12:00 PM, razalas said: Around here we are having record breaking temperatures for April, in my zone 30° ... And tomorrow 32° here. It's been 28° to 30° for the last few days. Keith Quote Link to comment
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