Comments | albear: On July 6, 2018 at 1:10 PM

albear

On July 6, 2018 at 1:10 PM

Jul 06, 2018 14:01

We just hit this ungodly temperature of 119°F - 48.8°C. This is officially the highest temperature we have ever witnessed here. The last record was 117°F last year. 116°F the year before and you get the drift ( Read more... )

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allaboutweather July 6 2018, 21:02:33 UTC

Even Catalina Island is forecast to hit triple digit temps!

It's supposed to be that hot there through the rest of the weekend.

albear July 7 2018, 15:32:58 UTC

Oh yeah, tell me something I don't know! 😉 We're quite aware of this. at 1:30 AM I saw the thermometer saying 93! 😣 Again, I had never seen crazy hot weather like this.

allaboutweather July 8 2018, 03:48:33 UTC

The monsoon's really kicking in farther east. I suppose Sabot and Carol have already seen a couple showers and storms.

procyonid July 7 2018, 16:50:19 UTC

It's pretty insane over here, too. The temperatures aren't otherworldly (80s, mainly) but it's been nothing but sunshine day in and day out for two months straight... pretty close to what a "normal" SoCal summer would be like except that, you know, this is England where it's supposed to be 60s/70s and raining frequently. My apartment faces the sun for about 8 hours a day without air conditioning, and so I've been feeling quite a bit like the people in that video - desperately setting up fans and just suffering through 90F indoors temperatures. (Needless to say the farmers aren't so happy either.)

Incidentally when I was a young child I was terrified about living through some sort of global over-heating meltdown scenario (I knew a little too much astronomy for a six-year-old :P)

albear July 7 2018, 17:41:22 UTC

It really seems like the start of this run away global overheating is starting. My friend from Liverpool posted a photo elsewhere of his car thermometer that showed 33°C or 91.5°F. Indeed quite unusual for the UK. And yes, When we had our trip there we don't recall seeing air conditioning units in our hotel rooms.

I jokingly said that London AC is just open the window. And as for your last sentence. This is why you are a very well respected Professor of astronomy.

sabotlours July 8 2018, 03:46:23 UTC

But did you turn on the air conditioning because you know that costs money. 😆

albear July 8 2018, 18:32:33 UTC

Oyyyyyyy! LOL! Yes, we absolutely, positively had to. Who the hell (if felt like that outside) knew that the usual 82°F A/C threshold we have felt like the inside of an icebox.

sabotlours July 9 2018, 13:31:33 UTC

Now you know what it felt like to live in Yuma for 6 years

albear July 9 2018, 15:25:57 UTC

LOL! That topic came this Saturday at the Glendora furry gathering. We were talking with Scruff and others about the weather I mentioned it being the same as when Sabot lived in Yuma in the early to mid 90's. I still remember the story you told us over a decade ago about 92° at 2:00 AM and boiling hot water coming out of the supposedly cold faucet.

picadelphon July 9 2018, 18:41:20 UTC

I know the feeling, I am cooking in this Tower site in Sewell NJ the shed it about 140 right now..This week is SO not good to stay in here very long..