Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 09:18     Subject: Heat Dome
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:55     Subject: Heat Dome
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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.


“heat death”…. Do you even hear yourself? SMH.


Oh yeah, you're right. I should have included an illustration for the slow ones:


Which would be ironic since entropy = eventual absence of any heat.



You’re not nearly as clever as you think you are.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:54     Subject: Re:Heat Dome
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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.


You commie SOB’s always bleat out “weather is not climate” when conditions don’t suit your narrative - like really cold temps in the winter or cool patterns in the summer.

But then when it’s hot in the summer, you’re right back to screeching about the end is upon us because of climate change.


It’s so predictable and tiresome.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:51     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


“heat death”…. Do you even hear yourself? SMH.


Oh yeah, you're right. I should have included an illustration for the slow ones:
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:49     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:
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.


The derecho was on a 100 day degree day, I remember seeing the temperature on my phone earlier that day on a walk and being surprised by it. So if you do get a storm on a 100 degree day, safe to say it isn’t good.


Derecho was a frontal boundary between two different weather systems.

We’re talking about localized convective thunderstorms. Please learn the difference and try to keep up, ok?
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:47     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


“heat death”…. Do you even hear yourself? SMH.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:46     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know a thread is incoming, so might as well start now.

I recommend you increase your AC set point a couple of degrees higher, to not over-stress your system.

Does anyone know if this is going to be a humid/thunderstormy heat, or a hot dry heat?



Google is your friend or the capital weather gang. Heat and humidity taking heat index to up to 105 on Saturday. Was invited on a kayak camp trip on the Patuxant. Will not go.


Camping on the Pax? Yuck. Gross. Mud, muck, mosquitoes and deer flies (this time of year).

Summertime is for the upper Potomac. Nice clean rock and gravel bottom, gin clear water, plenty of islands to camp on.

The patuxent is freaking nasty. Muddy water. Muddy shores. Mosquitoes everywhere. Deer fly season right now. Pax is ok in the fall after the first frost or early spring if the wind isn’t up. But in summer it’s disgusting.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:44     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 08:39     Subject: Re:Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 06:34     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 06:33     Subject: Heat Dome
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 06:20     Subject: Heat Dome
My forecast says a high of 91 today (Rockville). Not exactly a news story for summer in Washington.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 06:01     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the terrordome


Damn take me back to 1990
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 05:49     Subject: Heat Dome
Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the terrordome

Nice
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2024 04:21     Subject: Heat Dome
Welcome to the terrordome