Oh, the weather outside is...

[Sommerswerd]

It's 22C now. Some clouds. It might rain tonight, though hopefully not until after the Canada Day celebrations. It's not fun to sit out on the hillside at the Folk Festival when it's raining.

Sorry Valka... I completely overlooked that you might not be familiar with the Right Guard deodorant commercial campaign, because duh, it ran in America, duh, featured Murican sports/athletes, and duh, was about men's deodorant *facepalm*

Slogan queued (0:27)

The whole gag was taking infamously boorish and obnoxious American sports stars (Hulk Hogan, Brian Bosworth, Charles Barkley, etc.) and depicting them doing "educated/cultured" activities while giving advice on proper etiquette/behavior... which of course included using Right Guard deodorant/antiperspirant.

It led to the phrase "anything less, would be uncivilized" being a pop-culture phenomenon.

 

[Zardnaar]

Rains kinda cleared. Grey and showers.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

It was 0.8C at 6am, which is about the temperature that quantum effects kick in IIRC.

 

[Zardnaar]

What -10 Celsius here looks like. Not quite a hoar frost but not sure.

Bit higher up.


Not mine but yeah.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

 

[Zardnaar]

Better photo of a -10 day here. Think this is a hoar frost.

 

[Birdjaguar]

100 today; 101 tomorrow; high 90s the coming week.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The heat wave continues. There's the sound of distant thunder outside, but it's a tease. We're not getting rain tonight. The sky is hazy, but that could actually be the precursor to smoke from the wildfires. When that gets here ('cause it will sooner or later), I'll have to shut the window, plug in the fan, and hope the electricity bill doesn't get too high. No, we don't have air conditioning here.

@Synobun, how are you doing this summer? I've been seeing stuff about BC fires in the news. I hope you have breathable air where you are and you're managing to stay reasonably cool and hydrated.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The smoke has arrived. The Sun was bright red when it came up a little while ago.

 

[Samson]

The smoke has arrived. The Sun was bright red when it came up a little while ago.

That looks rough, take care.

 

[EgonSpengler]

That looks rough, take care.

Each of the little flame icons represents an area that's burning, but I can't find what the difference is between the small, black-bordered icons and the larger icons. I note that the artwork for the purple "hazardous air quality" zone is a person wearing a gas-mask. The AQI scale goes from 0-500, and there's at least one spot in that purple zone in Canada that's up to a 443. I'm not exactly sure what that means, though. For instance, if 500 is the top of the scale, what does a 500 mean? "Unbreathable; like being inside a burning building"? Does a 443 mean people should pack up and leave? I tried looking at AirNow.gov, a US site, but it's very evasive about providing any specifics.

 

[Samson]

Each of the little flame icons represents an area that's burning, but I can't find what the difference is between the small, black-bordered icons and the larger icons. I note that the artwork for the purple "hazardous air quality" zone is a person wearing a gas-mask. The AQI scale goes from 0-500, and there's at least one spot in that purple zone in Canada that's up to a 443. I'm not exactly sure what that means, though. For instance, if 500 is the top of the scale, what does a 500 mean? "Unbreathable; like being inside a burning building"? Does a 443 mean people should pack up and leave? I tried looking at AirNow.gov, a US site, but it's very evasive about providing any specifics.

Wikipedia is always (normally) the answer. It is complicated, and differs in detail all over the world. Who do you care about?

Spoiler AQI Description for US of A :

I= the (Air Quality) index,
C = the pollutant concentration,
C_low = the concentration breakpoint that is ≤ 𝐶
C_high = the concentration breakpoint that is ≥ 𝐶
I_low = the index breakpoint corresponding to C_low
I_high = the index breakpoint corresponding to 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ

 

[Valka D'Ur]

To put this in perspective, I live midway between Edmonton and Calgary. Jasper is west of here, and they've been ordered to evacuate - heading west, into BC. Of course BC has its own fires, so I would assume they've already got places set up.

Fort Mac still hasn't entirely recovered from the major fire they had there 8 years ago.

I'm in no danger of fire here, just smoke. And heat, as well. Temperatures have been in the 30s, and last night was awful. Heat exhaustion is what I'm worried about now, and trying to figure out the safest place in the apartment to keep my insulin (when you start a pen it's not supposed to go back in the fridge), and of course I'm keeping an eye on Maddy. She's more vulnerable to the heat than I am, and the last time we had a prolonged heat wave, I ended up having to feed her by hand and hold her water dish for her.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Wikipedia is always (normally) the answer. It is complicated, and differs in detail all over the world. Who do you care about?

Spoiler AQI Description for US of A :

I= the (Air Quality) index,
C = the pollutant concentration,
C_low = the concentration breakpoint that is ≤ 𝐶
C_high = the concentration breakpoint that is ≥ 𝐶
I_low = the index breakpoint corresponding to C_low
I_high = the index breakpoint corresponding to 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ

I don't have a particular place in mind. I'm just trying to understand what these scales mean, and for who. The other day I listened to a podcast about the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale that the US Weather Service uses to inform the public about oncoming storms, and there's a big debate in the meteorology and public safety communities about whether that scale does anything for anybody. iirc, I believe the Richter Scale is no longer used for earthquakes, although I don't remember why.

 

[Samson]

I don't have a particular place in mind. I'm just trying to understand what these scales mean, and for who. The other day I listened to a podcast about the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale that the US Weather Service uses to inform the public about oncoming storms, and there's a big debate in the meteorology and public safety communities about whether that scale does anything for anybody. iirc, I believe the Richter Scale is no longer used for earthquakes, although I don't remember why.

Does the above make sense? I should have included the link, but it makes sense to me at least up to 500. It should go over that smoothly, if you change the definition of C_high = the concentration breakpoint that is ≥ 𝐶 or max.

 

[stfoskey12]

Toasty.

It is 30°C (86°F) after midnight.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

That's horrible.

It's not too hot tonight, but there's more smoke coming this way from the fires.

 

[Zardnaar]

6 degrees last night after D&D.

 

[really]

There was a good thunder storm last night.

 

[Sarin]

I was working from 5 AM today. Eight hours in air-conditioned building, stepped outside right into ~32 degrees C(ivilized). It felt like stepping into the oven.