BetteTheRed
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Wow. Global warming might render the climate on the Rock barely habitable, vs not really barely habitable.
Heat Wave: Anyone else getting this?
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EasternOrthodox
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It’s cooling off in Victoria. High of 81°F ( 27.2°C). It’s hot but bearable. Not cooling off in the interior. My sister in Kamloops can expect highs over 100°F (38°C) all this week. She has a/c though.
Mendalla
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That's kind of where we are right now. Absent the high humidity we have been getting, it would be bearable.
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Making things worse here, poor air quality & there are voluntary water restrictions in the city and mandatory ones in surrounding areas. Adjacent neighbourhood has low water pressure, some people are complaining their toilets won't flush because of it.
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So you keep a bucket full of water in the bathtub...
EasternOrthodox
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No kidding. It’s like a preview.
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My sister is in Mill Bay where she says it's 25. That would be lovely.
All I can say about our temperature here is ugh.
Wow! Is the pavement melting yet?
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I have not set foot out of this trailer today
EasternOrthodox
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Forest fire started in the hills north of Kamloops and Cache Creek. My sister saw the plume of smoke. Not a good sign for forest fires to start this early. Spark Lake Fire.
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And Lytton, BC does it again. 49.5, breaking the record they set just yesterday. The highest validated temperature ever recorded during the history of modern weather forecasting and tracking is 54C in Death Valley, CA last summer (an earlier record of 56.7C from 1913 has been disputed). So Lytton came within 5 degrees of being the hottest place ON EARTH.
N.B. that is the highest recorded. The article below on last year's record points out that some extremely hot areas are too remote to be reliably monitored and could, in fact, be hotter than Death Valley.
(And my source was in the NY Times and I just got blocked by their paywall because, hey, I've used up my free articles for this month. I will still post the link but whether you can read it depends on how many NYT articles you've read this month.)
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N.B. that is the highest recorded. The article below on last year's record points out that some extremely hot areas are too remote to be reliably monitored and could, in fact, be hotter than Death Valley.
(And my source was in the NY Times and I just got blocked by their paywall because, hey, I've used up my free articles for this month. I will still post the link but whether you can read it depends on how many NYT articles you've read this month.)
Death Valley Just Recorded the Hottest Temperature on Earth (Published 2020)
Scientists still have to validate the reading of 130 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, the equivalent of 54 degrees Celsius.
BetteTheRed
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And our muggy 30 degrees here sounds quite reasonable.
I have a strategy because of a problem. No demasking in the store except when taking a drink of water, or when actively eating in the break room, with no more than 3 people, distanced, etc. So I have my break in my car, maskless. But it's either cold, or hot. So I sit in my car, turned on, with heat or A/C on. This pandemic has been disproportionately harder on the poorer than the richer. As frigging usual.
I confess to a modicum of bitterness these days. There are some people who this pandemic has disproportionally impacted, and guess, what? It's everyone that no-one gives a s**t about already. Gig workers, like those in bars and clubs. "Essential workers", who maybe got a bit extra per hour for a few months, but then it's "wash everything after every shift, and we'll charge you for every extra t-shirt" and your hands might fall apart due to vastly increased mandated use of hand sanitizer and disinfectant. And homeless people? Fallen completely off the radar. My City, in addition to the food bank, and what the Sally Ann does for meals at lunch and dinner, has the churches doing a "breakfast reachout" downtown Mon to Friday. We do Tuesday; apparently it's horribly busy.
I have a strategy because of a problem. No demasking in the store except when taking a drink of water, or when actively eating in the break room, with no more than 3 people, distanced, etc. So I have my break in my car, maskless. But it's either cold, or hot. So I sit in my car, turned on, with heat or A/C on. This pandemic has been disproportionately harder on the poorer than the richer. As frigging usual.
I confess to a modicum of bitterness these days. There are some people who this pandemic has disproportionally impacted, and guess, what? It's everyone that no-one gives a s**t about already. Gig workers, like those in bars and clubs. "Essential workers", who maybe got a bit extra per hour for a few months, but then it's "wash everything after every shift, and we'll charge you for every extra t-shirt" and your hands might fall apart due to vastly increased mandated use of hand sanitizer and disinfectant. And homeless people? Fallen completely off the radar. My City, in addition to the food bank, and what the Sally Ann does for meals at lunch and dinner, has the churches doing a "breakfast reachout" downtown Mon to Friday. We do Tuesday; apparently it's horribly busy.
EasternOrthodox
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That looks bad. It’s still very hot in Kamloops where my sister lives.
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That’s very true. Our church has kept going with Zoom (we are far out of the city.) They are now permitted just recently to have a very limited number of people in the sanctuary. I won’t go because I still need my second dose of the vaccine, scheduled for July 6. Then about three weeks for your body to get lots of antibodies. (I’m nearly 70, so an encounter with Covid is best avoided.)
I keep worrying about this one homeless guy that attended faithfully. I believe there was a program to vaccinate homeless people. I hope there was.
But you’re right about some types of work being worse affected. I don’t know how they pay their rent or mortgage. I think there’s a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures, but what about after?
EasternOrthodox
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I remember driving through Lytton in the early 1960’s because my parents had moved to Quesnel (I was about 10). People were sleeping outside in the summer. A/C was less common then.And Lytton, BC does it again. 49.5, breaking the record they set just yesterday. The highest validated temperature ever recorded during the history of modern weather forecasting and tracking is 54C in Death Valley, CA last summer (an earlier record of 56.7C from 1913 has been disputed). So Lytton came within 5 degrees of being the hottest place ON EARTH.
N.B. that is the highest recorded. The article below on last year's record points out that some extremely hot areas are too remote to be reliably monitored and could, in fact, be hotter than Death Valley.
(And my source was in the NY Times and I just got blocked by their paywall because, hey, I've used up my free articles for this month. I will still post the link but whether you can read it depends on how many NYT articles you've read this month.)
Death Valley Just Recorded the Hottest Temperature on Earth (Published 2020)
Scientists still have to validate the reading of 130 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, the equivalent of 54 degrees Celsius.
Avid humour .... like reading old con text as it goes against our belief in balance that is tilted towards the self-centered soul!
Anything else is denied as an unreal dream ... thus creation or abstraction of the medium as mind ... an those that process that way are out of it ...
Abstraction of a vast ocean of sans ... expect transliteration to dispose it from the determined ... hard core type? The word of law vs imagination of flexibility thereof to escape the determinate rich!
Justifies the great escape ... Pan*The*On fails as something goes off ... leaving us with the concept that there must be something out there ...
Anything else is denied as an unreal dream ... thus creation or abstraction of the medium as mind ... an those that process that way are out of it ...
Abstraction of a vast ocean of sans ... expect transliteration to dispose it from the determined ... hard core type? The word of law vs imagination of flexibility thereof to escape the determinate rich!
Justifies the great escape ... Pan*The*On fails as something goes off ... leaving us with the concept that there must be something out there ...
BetteTheRed
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There certainly was in B.C. My son was fully vaccinated (he's no longer officially homeless, but he was at the outset of the pandemic) before I'd had my first shot.
EasternOrthodox
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That’s good to hear.
Here‘s a heat wave story.
Heat wave update: 486 sudden deaths reported in B.C. over 5 days
A staggering 486 sudden and unexpected deaths were reported across British Columbia over the past five days as the province suffered under a blistering heat wave, coroners said Wednesday.