Heat Wave: Anyone else getting this?

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The weather is so unusual. Hottest day was today I think. This evening it's cooling off fairly rapidly, we hit 27C before 11 pm. Those high 20s felt cool.
It's windy. Normally I would expect a thunderstorm after a hot day and then cooling so quickly. There's not a cloud in the sky though.
 
Checked the temp - official was 37. It was hotter though and an official weather station reported as such, but it's not in the right location to compare to historical data (highest was 37.2).
In the shade our thermometer hit 40 and then 45 when the sun hit it.
 
ChemGal said:
Checked the temp - official was 37. It was hotter though and an official weather station reported as such, but it's not in the right location to compare to historical data (highest was 37.2).
In the shade our thermometer hit 40 and then 45 when the sun hit it.
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Apparently it’s moving slowly east and breaking up. This evening is delightful here in Victoria. For now.
 
Awoke to the news from Lytton, this morning. 15 minutes from first signs of smoke to the town being on fire. I cannot even comprehend the panic that those folks must have felt...
 
Ok, hear the question:
I think we all agree that humid heat is worse than dry heat- so, my experience, if I just set my heat pump on drying instead of cooling, it gets comfortable without getting too cold.
So why are you all cooling off with increasing the humidity with wet towels and so on?
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Ok, hear the question:
I think we all agree that humid heat is worse than dry heat- so, my experience, if I just set my heat pump on drying instead of cooling, it gets comfortable without getting too cold.
So why are you all cooling off with increasing the humidity with wet towels and so on?
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The evaporative effect ... thus folk with vapours ... some Kohl Authority on emotions? That's dark ... to a point!
 
Northwind said:
Because that kind of wet cools the skin and body. When it's humid, it's in the air making it suffocating.
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Two ways of looking at the same thing ... a deux of a thing as demi urge ... if a great observant power looks at things from many angles ... would that require a well rounded observer as a humming dark sphere?

Some say we live within such a' hole ... given the fact that much of the lesser gods are down trodden ... with compression could they erupt?

Such may be a tamped canon ...

Hawking projected a dark Rae ... or some kind of unseen beamer ... imagine the spillover from being run down that way ... yet powers declare they must rule over the destruction ...
 
Speaking of sparks, there was conjecture on CBC that the fire was started by a spark from a train.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Speaking of sparks, there was conjecture on CBC that the fire was started by a spark from a train.
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We have that happen sometime here in the GTA in a dry summer - lots of tall grass alongside the rail tracks.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Ok, hear the question:
I think we all agree that humid heat is worse than dry heat- so, my experience, if I just set my heat pump on drying instead of cooling, it gets comfortable without getting too cold.
So why are you all cooling off with increasing the humidity with wet towels and so on?
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It is DRY here.
There are tables with comfortable levels of humidity, we are below that.
Evaporation requires energy, so it actually decreases the temperature. The reason why humidity feels worse with hest is sweat can't evaporate as quickly, which physically cools.
So in a place like a lot of BC one wants water on/near them. Here, that helps too, but cooling down the air in the house in general with cold water washed laundry out on drying racks inside helps too while not driving up the humidex. It's also more comfortable, better for the skin, nasal passages, lips mouth and throat to increase the humidity.
 
Yes survived the 2021 HEATAPOCALYPSE

107 on Sat
111 on Sun
117 on Mon
now a nice and cool 19. i feel soo cold i get goosebumps outside

on Monday I had to leave
through thePAINFUL AIR
to the local mall
I drank more than 4 L

people at the mall were everywhere like languishing lemurs of despair and dearth
 
I am wondering if road construction or construction in general had continued-I don’t think one can drink enough to make up for the fluid loss ( and work at the same time).
 
Two of the most impossible jobs: roofers, but also, and I only learned this recently, concrete basement pourers. Concrete heats as it begins to set, and you're stuck in a hole down below the breezes with this heating-up material.
 
Someone was shingling a house on my block on Tuesday and yesterday. Hard for me to imagine that it couldn't wait for lower temperatures.
 
KayTheCurler said:
Someone was shingling a house on my block on Tuesday and yesterday. Hard for me to imagine that it couldn't wait for lower temperatures.
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Roofers (the actual workers) are generally hourly so don't get paid if they don't work. Waiting for lower temps = delaying the paycheque.
 
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