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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Weather Thread

In the summers of the late 70s and early 80s, when home AC was uncommon in my native NJ, I would always be given the job of emptying an attic on moving day, and, if there was a lot of stuff, other younger guys would also be on attic duty. You know it is bloody hot when you are carrying whatnot out of somebody's attic and you can literally feel with each step down how much cooler the second floor of an un-air-conditioned house feels.:melting:
 
The power company reminded everyone yesterday that when the temps get to 100 to make sure the inside AC was set no lower than 80. That's not going to happen. We have to run the AC occasionally just to deal with the moisture or the walls will start to sweat.

Our older home has traditional windows across the house. I'm thinking about buying some screens to put the windows.
 
Gedunker said:
In the summers of the late 70s and early 80s, when home AC was uncommon in my native NJ, I would always be given the job of emptying an attic on moving day, and, if there was a lot of stuff, other younger guys would also be on attic duty. You know it is bloody hot when you are carrying whatnot out of somebody's attic and you can literally feel with each step down how much cooler the second floor of an un-air-conditioned house feels.:melting:
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I remember being miserable as a child having a bedroom on the second story on a corner of the house that got less than optimal airflow, and being miserably hot on countless summer nights. I think there was one or possibly two houses in our neighborhood that had air conditioning. The only relief I got was from a fan which I placed at the foot of my bed. So many sweltering sleepless nights before AC. Imagine how bad it would be before they had electricity to power fans.
 
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Maister said:
I remember being miserable as a child having a bedroom on the second story on a corner of the house that got let than optimal airflow, and being miserably hot on countless summer nights. I think there was one or possibly two houses in our neighborhood that had air conditioning. The only relief I got was from a fan which I placed at the foot of my bed. So many sweltering sleepless nights before AC. Imagine how bad it would be before they had electricity to power fans.
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I'm trying to remember who it was that pointed out the silliness of Americans building exactly the same stick-frame way across all their climatic zones - maybe Kunstler? It seems like there was a time before AC where builders left out a lot of the older, passive-cooling design features in some climates.
We are thinking about using some of the passivhaus ideas when we build, to help make the place survivable if the power goes out/reduce cooling costs. I like that it's mostly improvements to stick-frame design.
 
Maister said:
I remember being miserable as a child having a bedroom on the second story on a corner of the house that got let than optimal airflow, and being miserably hot on countless summer nights. I think there was one or possibly two houses in our neighborhood that had air conditioning. The only relief I got was from a fan which I placed at the foot of my bed. So many sweltering sleepless nights before AC. Imagine how bad it would be before they had electricity to power fans.
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Yes, but I think the overnight lows were a lot lower during the 1970s and 1980s during the summer, perhaps low enough that you could open the windows by late evening. Average overnight lows may have been as much as 4F less in many parts of the Midwest back then. Even during 1988, which had one of the hottest summers on record at the time, several record lows were set in my city. Just today in fact, the overnight low was 45F in 1988 and another record low of 38F was set on June 9th.

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As I woke up I dreamed that the hurricane had taken a turn and made a direct hit on Fort Worth. Our recently replaced windows held up, but the two old jalousie windows on either side of our back door were blown out and the driving rain was coming into the kitchen. I realized it was a dream when I went to check the garage and it was about twice the size of our actual garage and had many windows that were also blown out (there is only one small window in the garage).
 
Doohickie said:
As I woke up I dreamed that the hurricane had taken a turn and made a direct hit on Fort Worth. Our recently replaced windows held up, but the two old jalousie windows on either side of our back door were blown out and the driving rain was coming into the kitchen. I realized it was a dream when I went to check the garage and it was about twice the size of our actual garage and had many windows that were also blown out (there is only one small window in the garage).
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Perhaps you really dreamt about having a bigger garage.
 
I would get that if I threw out all the crap in there. That's on my to-do list. (It's a 20 x 24 garage with a loft on top so it's plenty big enough.)
 
Super Amputee Cat said:
Yes, but I think the overnight lows were a lot lower during the 1970s and 1980s during the summer, perhaps low enough that you could open the windows by late evening. Average overnight lows may have been as much as 4F less in many parts of the Midwest back then. Even during 1988, which had one of the hottest summers on record at the time, several record lows were set in my city. Just today in fact, the overnight low was 45F in 1988 and another record low of 38F was set on June 9th.

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It definitely feels about 5 degrees too warm for this time of year. We usually had tomatoes still growing to this point, but now the overnight lows are too high. September last year was the same way. It's just staying hotter (August weather) earlier and longer.
 
We had some light showers yesterday from the outer bands of Beryl for much of the day yesterday, highlighted by a very brief squall late in the afternoon. So much for that.
 
Looking at Beryl impacts for tomorrow- possible 4-6 inches of rain, basically in the same area of the state that got hit exactly a year ago...
 
We've got the wind. I got blasted by a strong gust when I walked back from lunch. The tree branches are waving back and forth.
 
I left a fast food cup in the car the other day. I worked through lunch and parked in the sun. When I came out the lid was shriveled up around the straw and only about 1/3 its original size. I cant imagine a hot day in Arizona.
 
It's been raining non-stop here since around 4:00 p.m. yesterday. It started as a sprinkle and by around 9:00 p.m. it was raining pretty good. It must have been really rainy and windy overnight because I woke up to a little puddle of water on the dining room floor and that only ever seems to happen when we get a sustained, driving wind combined with heavy rain. :bloodyface:

It's been raining pretty hard most of the morning so far today but not much wind anymore so no more drip from the ceiling.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
I left a fast food cup in the car the other day. I worked through lunch and parked in the sun. When I came out the lid was shriveled up around the straw and only about 1/3 its original size. I cant imagine a hot day in Arizona.
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Imagine the plastic melting enough to let the drink leak all over the cup holder then evaporating whatever drink there was so your left with a nasty sticky mess. Styrofoam is an almost instant mess.
 
Yesterday there was according to NWS preliminary data a EF-3 Tornado in the County Next
 
Eyewitness Report:

Currently raining sideways in a heavy downpour. Close lightening strikes and thunder.

Radar confirms showing a large dark red patch over this location.

No film at 11:00.
 
I left my house yesterday morning around 10:00 a,m. and it was about 75º and humid. Got to the beach house about 70 miles NE at 11:30 and it was 62º and windy and cold!

Drove the kids to the county agriculture fair about 15 minutes west from the beach and it was suddenly back to about 70º and no wind.
 
Wannaplan? said:
On a great lake, or an inland lake? I mean, the temp differential between inland and beach front, that's how that works, right?
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On the very southern end of Lake Huron. But yes, the temp differentials often surprise me. Our driveway at the beach is a few hundred yards long and the temperature difference is noticeable even just walking out to the road.

FWIW, there are a few decently-sized inland lakes near our house and two in particular seems to be really good at creating its own weather patterns, especially with whipping up some snow in the colder months over the lakes and real close to the shoreline and the roads when it's clear or maybe just a little drizzle just about everywhere else.
 
We have had "Weather Alert" days for four days in a row now. Welcome to Summer in NC. We have a house showing tomorrow and it is expected off and on until then. Lawn isn't going to be mowed.
 
btrage said:
We've had a lot of random heavy rains so far this spring in Metro Detroit. It's been relatively warm, but also a lot of rain it seems.
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Still the same patterns. A lot of really nice warm sunny days, with a ton of random heavy rain falls. Even with the amount of rain so far it's been a pretty good summer.
 
We're finally getting into the highs over 100 every day part of the summer. We'd been doing pretty good until now.
 
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