Heat Dome

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed from living here for almost 50 years, that in the summer, when it gets above 95 degrees, the likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms occurring and cooling things off diminishes rapidly. At 100 degrees, there’s almost zero chance of a afternoon storm. It will just stay hot into the night.

Storms here occur most frequently at temps in the upper 80’s with high humidity. It’s easier for the air to reach saturation in the 80’s than in the upper 90’s because you need a LOT more water to get there than is required in the 80’s.

So I would not expect afternoon storms if temps are already mid-90’s by lunchtime.

You're probably right!

It'll probably just be hell-hot, without the thunderstorms. The plants will suffer, sadly.

I can't wait until October

It's five days of heat! We've had a beautiful start to summer, June has been incredible. You people are WEAK!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed from living here for almost 50 years, that in the summer, when it gets above 95 degrees, the likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms occurring and cooling things off diminishes rapidly. At 100 degrees, there’s almost zero chance of a afternoon storm. It will just stay hot into the night.

Storms here occur most frequently at temps in the upper 80’s with high humidity. It’s easier for the air to reach saturation in the 80’s than in the upper 90’s because you need a LOT more water to get there than is required in the 80’s.

So I would not expect afternoon storms if temps are already mid-90’s by lunchtime.

You're probably right!

It'll probably just be hell-hot, without the thunderstorms. The plants will suffer, sadly.

I can't wait until October

It's five days of heat! We've had a beautiful start to summer, June has been incredible. You people are WEAK!

+ a million.

Such delicate, fragile, helpless creatures these complainers are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A heat dome is just a high pressure system. They're just inventing new words to scare us.

Exactly this.

Just gullible fools being scared by a fearmongering media.

Scare you how? Dangerous heat is dangerous heat. Period.

Rwnjs post crap like this on every post about extreme weather. They are trying to shut down any discussion of global warming since they don't believe it is happening.

A week of temps in the upper 90’s-low-100’s is NOT EXTREME weather for our area. It’s a totally normal seasonal pattern that should happen every year.

JFC you people are dense.

No, it's not normal for spring. It's still spring until Thursday. Stupid teachers were announcing it was summer after Memorial Day and it's still spring.

June 1st is the start of meteorlogical summer.

You spelled it wrong. They didn't teach that concept in meteorology grad school. We used the astronomical seasons. The calendar does not use June 1 as the start of summer.

And you clearly didn’t study it, either.

Meteorological summer is indeed a very real thing, and it starts June 1.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My forecast says a high of 91 today (Rockville). Not exactly a news story for summer in Washington.

The forecast next weekend is what they’re talking about.

Seems like last week it was next week too.

That just means it's creeping even slower than expected. Bad, very bad. It's a dome of heat death that is just crawling and settling. It's probably expanding as well.

You’re all goners. The people in the desert SW have already gone up in flames. Just patiently wait for death.

I’m laughing so hard right now. Up in flames. LOL Thank you!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed from living here for almost 50 years, that in the summer, when it gets above 95 degrees, the likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms occurring and cooling things off diminishes rapidly. At 100 degrees, there’s almost zero chance of a afternoon storm. It will just stay hot into the night.

Storms here occur most frequently at temps in the upper 80’s with high humidity. It’s easier for the air to reach saturation in the 80’s than in the upper 90’s because you need a LOT more water to get there than is required in the 80’s.

So I would not expect afternoon storms if temps are already mid-90’s by lunchtime.

You're probably right!

It'll probably just be hell-hot, without the thunderstorms. The plants will suffer, sadly.

I can't wait until October

It's five days of heat! We've had a beautiful start to summer, June has been incredible. You people are WEAK!

+ a million.

Such delicate, fragile, helpless creatures these complainers are.

I’ve lived here for 30 yrs and this Spring has been perfection!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our A/C is an old freon system. We're babying it. Aside from our blinds, which we angle against the sun, I put up window film that reflects light and heat. I hope it will reduce our dependence on A/C just enough to eek a few more years out of it.

Nope. It will give out in the dead of summer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed from living here for almost 50 years, that in the summer, when it gets above 95 degrees, the likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms occurring and cooling things off diminishes rapidly. At 100 degrees, there’s almost zero chance of a afternoon storm. It will just stay hot into the night.

Storms here occur most frequently at temps in the upper 80’s with high humidity. It’s easier for the air to reach saturation in the 80’s than in the upper 90’s because you need a LOT more water to get there than is required in the 80’s.

So I would not expect afternoon storms if temps are already mid-90’s by lunchtime.

You're probably right!

It'll probably just be hell-hot, without the thunderstorms. The plants will suffer, sadly.

I can't wait until October

It's five days of heat! We've had a beautiful start to summer, June has been incredible. You people are WEAK!

+ a million.

Such delicate, fragile, helpless creatures these complainers are.

I’ve lived here for 30 yrs and this Spring has been perfection!

I've lived here for 40, and this Spring was very hot and humid. We had like 4 nice days.

Those of you calling people "weak" are the first to complain when temperatures hit below 35.

But I'm thankful the days will begin to get shorter soon!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the terrordome

Beat me to it, Tina!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It keeps wavering back and forth between topping out at 96 or 97 (unpleasant but fairly common every summer) and exceeding 100 (I saw one forecast for Saturday being 103... not heat index, the actual temperature).

From what Capital Weather Gang says, the more humid it gets, mercifully, the less chance we have at getting over 100 degrees. It takes more energy to heat moisture saturated air, and more humidity earlier in the day increases the chances of clouds and possible storms to cool us off before the hottest part of the day (around 4pm). But it will feel like a sauna.

So pick your poison.

Yeah, that’s why Desert west hits 120F with a sneeze — no humidity so less mass to warm up.

[Anonymous]

Climate change is real.

This week’s heat waves and the inevitable rounds of heat waves we’ll get through September are not the most concerning indicators.

The most concerning indicator of climate change was when it was 80 degrees in January, 70+ degrees multiple days in February, literally only one week with actual winter weather and snow, no snow at all last winter, and 70 degrees on New Years Day last year (I remember clearly because we rented a mountain cabin thinking we might be able to do some skiing. Silly, silly me).

Summer heat waves are normal. It’s the complete absence of winter that is problematic. It’s disrupting the growing cycles and hibernation cycles of wildlife.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You guys know we can just sit in the AC right? We stocked up on library books and easy dinners that don’t need the oven. We are getting some pool time in now before the heat arrives, will water the lawn after the sun sets. I made my teen choose an indoor summer job.

It’s all good.

Yes! Just stay inside and blast the AC! Next year this will happen in May and last through October.
Then it will be normal April through November.
Until we just melt into the sun.

No worries for people who have to work outside- farmers providing your food, construction workers, etc. Eff them, right? Just double down on the old AC. And read those library books!

It's all good.

Take it up with the mansion-dwelling suv drivers with the 4 kids. My 2 kids and I and our fuel-efficient car will enjoy our AC thank you! I’ll make a few more meatless dinners in your honor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Climate change is real.

This week’s heat waves and the inevitable rounds of heat waves we’ll get through September are not the most concerning indicators.

The most concerning indicator of climate change was when it was 80 degrees in January, 70+ degrees multiple days in February, literally only one week with actual winter weather and snow, no snow at all last winter, and 70 degrees on New Years Day last year (I remember clearly because we rented a mountain cabin thinking we might be able to do some skiing. Silly, silly me).

Summer heat waves are normal. It’s the complete absence of winter that is problematic. It’s disrupting the growing cycles and hibernation cycles of wildlife.

So we use our personal anecdotes about the weather to determine what should happen in national and global affair? What was the weather like in the 1750s? The 1230s? Doesn't that matter as well. I guess not you were not alive then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed from living here for almost 50 years, that in the summer, when it gets above 95 degrees, the likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms occurring and cooling things off diminishes rapidly. At 100 degrees, there’s almost zero chance of a afternoon storm. It will just stay hot into the night.

Storms here occur most frequently at temps in the upper 80’s with high humidity. It’s easier for the air to reach saturation in the 80’s than in the upper 90’s because you need a LOT more water to get there than is required in the 80’s.

So I would not expect afternoon storms if temps are already mid-90’s by lunchtime.

You're probably right!

It'll probably just be hell-hot, without the thunderstorms. The plants will suffer, sadly.

I can't wait until October

It's five days of heat! We've had a beautiful start to summer, June has been incredible. You people are WEAK!

+ a million.

Such delicate, fragile, helpless creatures these complainers are.

I’ve lived here for 30 yrs and this Spring has been perfection!

“Perfection?” We had one of the rainiest springs on record!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve noticed from living here for almost 50 years, that in the summer, when it gets above 95 degrees, the likelihood of afternoon thunderstorms occurring and cooling things off diminishes rapidly. At 100 degrees, there’s almost zero chance of a afternoon storm. It will just stay hot into the night.

Storms here occur most frequently at temps in the upper 80’s with high humidity. It’s easier for the air to reach saturation in the 80’s than in the upper 90’s because you need a LOT more water to get there than is required in the 80’s.

So I would not expect afternoon storms if temps are already mid-90’s by lunchtime.

You're probably right!

It'll probably just be hell-hot, without the thunderstorms. The plants will suffer, sadly.

I can't wait until October

It's five days of heat! We've had a beautiful start to summer, June has been incredible. You people are WEAK!

+ a million.

Such delicate, fragile, helpless creatures these complainers are.

I’ve lived here for 30 yrs and this Spring has been perfection!

“Perfection?” We had one of the rainiest springs on record!!

So what? It was good for the plants!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A heat dome is just a high pressure system. They're just inventing new words to scare us.

Could we nuke the heat dome? 🤔