Oh, the weather outside is...

[Morty]

true - but I'll be at home where I can open windows (unlike work) and wont be surrounded by many computers (unlike work)
Plus thunderstorms are forecast!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Beautiful as usual: mid 90s, sunny, chance of thunderstorms in the afternoons.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's been insanely hot here lately. 35C is 18 degrees too many. Of course this happened right after the close of the annual Westerner Days (midway, rodeo, arts exhibits, petting zoo, parade, and the rest of the stuff I don't bother with anymore).

CFC has no "fingers crossed" emoji. I use:

Hm. I'll see what I can find, and ask Petek if we can have it.

 

[Morty]

some great thunderstorms overnight - although it would have been a little better had it not been at 3am!! ;-)

 

[Arakhor]

Seriously dramatic thunderstorms - quite unprecedented to my knowledge, in fact. My part of the country had them from midnight to at least 1.30 am though.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I miss those

 

[Arakhor]

We had over an hour of intra-cloud lightning at night, when it was most visible, along with long, rolling peals of thunder, interspersed with rain so heavy it was drowning out the thunder. For some reason, I don't think I slept well last night.

 

[Akka]

Second heatwave in one month (good thing that climate change is a hoax, I would be worried otherwise ).
41°C when going home at 18:00. Gah.
Did I mentioned already how much I ABSOLUTELY HATE heat ?

 

[rah]

I prefer the heat. At least at night it usually gets cooler.
When it's freezing, it doesn't usually get warmer at night.

 

[Akka]

I prefer the heat. At least at night it usually gets cooler.
When it's freezing, it doesn't usually get warmer at night.

When it doesn't get warmer, you can just move to get warmer. And the heater keep the house pleasantly fresh.
When it doesn't get cooler, you're just left sweltering, in a foul mood (heat makes me positively heinous), unable to sleep and the ambiant temperature stays at an unwelcome high level.

 

[Lexicus]

We had over an hour of intra-cloud lightning at night, when it was most visible, along with long, rolling peals of thunder, interspersed with rain so heavy it was drowning out the thunder. For some reason, I don't think I slept well last night.

You ever get hail out of your thunderstorms over there?

Over here, meanwhile, after days on end of brain-melting heat (to think I used to work outside every summer, spending hours on end in weather like that, is just...the things we can get used to, eh?) the weather has changed for the better, with highs in the mid-80s and not nearly so much humidity. When I biked to work this morning it was 72 degrees and felt absolutely perfect.

 

[rah]

When it doesn't get warmer, you can just move to get warmer. And the heater keep the house pleasantly fresh.
When it doesn't get cooler, you're just left sweltering, in a foul mood (heat makes me positively heinous), unable to sleep and the ambiant temperature stays at an unwelcome high level.

The AC keeps our house pleasantly fresh. And most nights I can sill open the windows.

 

[Lexicus]

The AC keeps our house pleasantly fresh. And most nights I can sill open the windows.

In most places in Europe they don't even have AC because they haven't needed it (e.g. my mom was in Vienna for work during a bad heatwave and reported that basically no buildings, not even hotels, have air conditioners). Global warming is introducing our European friends to the joys of hot, humid summers. time will tell if they adopt AC out of necessity.

 

[rah]

I assume they will. Of at least the wealthy ones will.

 

[Akka]

AC is actually a pretty dangerous invention, in that it hides one of the worst consequences of global warming, and reduce the pressure on people to actually worry about it.
I'd like to not live in a world where I don't need to always live inside a building to keep at a tolerable temperature...

 

[Kyriakos]

I heard there was some rainfall in NY.

Here it is hot, but possibly will become a bit better the next days. I am sick of 30+ degrees Celsius. 15-25 is optimal imo.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Window and portable AC units are taking off in popularity in Europe and parts of the US that historically lacked AC just because of ever-climbing temperatures.

 

[Lexicus]

AC is actually a pretty dangerous invention, in that it hides one of the worst consequences of global warming, and reduce the pressure on people to actually worry about it.
I'd like to not live in a world where I don't need to always live inside a building to keep at a tolerable temperature...

I'd say it's dangerous just because of all the energy use that gets normalized. But you might have a point here. All I can say is try living through a summer on the US east coast without it. Don't like heat, you say?

 

[EgonSpengler]

I heard there was some rainfall in NY.

Right before the Northeast US was setting local records for heat in June and July, it was setting local records for rainfall in April and May.

 

[rah]

And not just the east coast. But yeah it does probably hide some of it. But TEXAS was stinking hot before global warming and a lot less densely populated prior to AC.