Lexicus
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Weather is actually kinda nice in DC. It was nice in LA too (was there Weds-Fri).
Oh, the weather outside is...
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hobbsyoyo
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Yeah we've finally left unseasonably, stupidly hot territory.
Though it's heading back into the 90's this weekend.
Lexicus
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Well it was 96 in Sherman Oaks on Thursday, but I was in Santa Monica where it was like 68 and breezy, which is perfect weather for me when I have to wear nice clothes.
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Yeah we've finally left unseasonably, stupidly hot territory.
Though it's heading back into the 90's this weekend.
You need to adapt man. Who told you that "stupidly hot" was "unseasonably"? This is LA, and it isn't January. Hot happens.
stfoskey12
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It's been too cloudy here lately. We're sunny 71% of the time on average in September, but it this year it's felt more like 40% of the time. And we had our seventh wettest September on record on the heels of our second wettest August on record, so we could use some drier air. This is the first time I've seen many mosquitoes after living in Oklahoma two years.
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Dude, we had a record breaking heat wave. That's what made it unseasonable. If it were one hot day, fine. But we had a whole month of wildfires and swampass. Also I walk to work which makes it worse for me in particular.
(actually the air is too dry for proper swampass but you know what I mean)
Sunny and in the low 80s.
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Meh. Around here the term "record breaking heat wave" gets tossed around as if it means far more than it does. A new record high on September 12th that is one degree higher than the previous record for September 12th, right in line with the records for September 11th and September 13th, and not all that far above the average is just a coincidence of timing, not a sign of the end times. Numbers might stray slightly beyond previous numbers here and there, but clear, dry, and hot is what September has to offer pretty much every year, so it's not really unseasonable.
But being a weatherman in LA is a total dead end job, because there is really never anything to get all breathless about. "It's clear. It's sunny. It's hot. Again. That's that." Who is gonna remember you for that? They don't have tornadoes and blizzards and thunderstorms blasting the hardware store with a lightning bolt to work with. So when something is "record breaking" our guys with the weird obviously made up names like 'Dallas Rains' or 'Fritz Coldman' play it for all it could possibly be worth. Once you get used to it you'll see that it just isn't as exciting as they make it out to be. It's clear. It's sunny. It's hot. Again. That's that.
By the way, now you know why nobody walks in LA. If someone came up with a way to get from an air conditioned house to an air conditioned car to an air conditioned office without the hot garages part it would sell like hotcakes. Commuter trains that people could drive their cars onto without getting out of their air conditioned vehicle would be a great thing here...like ferries without the whole going across the water bit. I might patent that if I can find some rocket scientist to figure out how to make it work...
I think that there is a case to be made that air conditioning has ruined the world in that it has made the outdoors the enemy.
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Agreed. Of course, the same could be said for roofs. Is getting rained on really the end of the world? Heck, I have a huge investment in indoor plumbing that I am about to use just so I can act like I'm getting rained on, yet if I were to go stand around outside the next time it rains (ie, maybe December) people will act like I'm weird for not scurrying for cover.
Roofs and plumbing have been important for a very long time and they made doing things everywhere easier. AC is only 80ish years old and really walled people off from the outside. Florida, Arizona, and SoCal would look really different without AC.
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When I worked in the Gulf, I was working outside for 8+ hours in 40C.
You get used too high temperatures.
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Ever seen Instinct? Do they really "make doing things easier," or do they just provide an illusion of the control that we so desperately crave?
Zkribbler
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Before AC, Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, etc. were empty.
South Florida was too. In 1940 Florida had less than 1.9M people. In the 50s AC became widespread. By 1960 that population was 5M. Now it tops 18M. AC negates hurricanes.
BTW, AC has only become really popular in NM in recent decades. Northern NM doesn't need AC and elsewhere swamp coolers were the primary cooling equipment. We only added it to our house 7 years ago when we had to replace the furnace. We hardly use it. Ceiling fans and open windows at night are sufficient most of the time.
I found this in my evening newsfeed: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...ll-warning-1.4845564?cmp=news-digests-calgary
They're a bit late with that. It's been snowing all day.
They're a bit late with that. It's been snowing all day.
Zkribbler
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We are in the season of gentlemanly rain, to wit: nightly furious storms in the early morning hours, sometimes [like now] accompanied by lightning and thunder. By dawn, it will be gone. 
Edit 04:30: I walked into the master bathroom and step in a puddle of rainwater, which is what happens when the windows are left open.
Edit 04:30: I walked into the master bathroom and step in a puddle of rainwater, which is what happens when the windows are left open.
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It's still snowing.
Snerk
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It snowed quite a bit last week but it melted away quickly. I'm hoping the weekend won't be as bad as currently forecasted.
The snowflakes were huge just awhile ago.
Still, it's actually not that cold, just -5C. The Weather Network is forecasting -15C tomorrow, so I might have to consider turning the thermostat on.
Still, it's actually not that cold, just -5C. The Weather Network is forecasting -15C tomorrow, so I might have to consider turning the thermostat on.
