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Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 3:53 pm I don't want that many storms, but would love to see a Hurricane Ronin.

Jeff V wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 9:51 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 3:53 pm I don't want that many storms, but would love to see a Hurricane Ronin.

Robert DeNiro approves this statement.

gbasden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:08 pm

Jeff V wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 9:51 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon May 31, 2021 3:53 pm I don't want that many storms, but would love to see a Hurricane Ronin.

Robert DeNiro approves this statement.

I'm not sure Hurricane Mindy contains the right amount of gravitas.

Tropical Storm Claudette's journey from the Gulf of Mexico to the Carolinas was an unusual one, to say the least. In the wake of Claudette's dissipation over the Atlantic Ocean on Monday evening, here are five unusual things about the storm.

Lorini wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:32 am My cousin passed away in Alabama trying to rescue someone. So sad.

Lorini wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:32 am My cousin passed away in Alabama trying to rescue someone. So sad.

Lassr wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:00 am

Lorini wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:32 am My cousin passed away in Alabama trying to rescue someone. So sad.

I'm sorry to hear that. Last name Bragg? I was just reading about him this morning.

Lorini wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:40 am

Lassr wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:00 am

Lorini wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:32 am My cousin passed away in Alabama trying to rescue someone. So sad.

I'm sorry to hear that. Last name Bragg? I was just reading about him this morning.

Yes! That's him. Very sad day for all of our family.

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:33 pm While the Atlantic stays fairly quiet, with two areas of interest that have only small chances of developing, things are getting "hotter" on the west coast

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:02 am

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:33 pm While the Atlantic stays fairly quiet, with two areas of interest that have only small chances of developing, things are getting "hotter" on the west coast

mentioned elsewhere it is estimated it'll hit 105 in Seattle on Sunday, which would be an all-time high record (or at least from when the records started being kept)

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:55 pm AC in homes only relatively recently became a thing here. i lucked into my current apartment with a hotel-style wall unit permanently installed in the bedroom.

That’s because Seattle is the least air-conditioned metro area in the nation — at least out of the 41 metros included in the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey. As of 2015, only one of every three housing units in the Seattle area was cooled by central air or a room unit. That’s nowhere near the national average of 89 percent.
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Even in Portland, which ranks third-lowest among the metros, 70 percent of homes were cooled — that’s more than double Seattle’s percentage.

That does make sense, though, because despite the geographic proximity between Seattle and Portland, we don’t have the same weather. The Rose City can easily be 10 degrees hotter in the summer.
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The Seattle Times put a call out to readers, asking what they do to keep cool in their non-air-conditioned homes. We got close to 100 responses.

One reader wets her clothes, freezes them, and then puts them back on. Another goes for a swim, and then leaves the damp swimsuit on until bedtime. One woman lies on the hardwood floor with a wet towel over her stomach.

Another goes for a swim, and then leaves the damp swimsuit on until bedtime.

One woman lies on the hardwood floor with a wet towel over her stomach.

A shockingly intense heat wave for the location, and for so early in the year, will produce some of the highest readings ever observed across much of the Northwest U.S. and adjacent southwest Canada. Temperatures will soar to dangerous levels – well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in many places – from Friday, June 25, into the following week, in a region where hundreds of thousands of residents lack central air conditioning or any AC at all.

For several days, multiple computer forecast models have been spitting out astonishing numbers for Portland, Oregon; Seattle and Spokane, Washington; Vancouver, British Columbia; and other towns and cities. Even with some potential model overestimation, confidence is growing that a truly historic heat wave is on tap.

One sign of this is official forecasts from the National Weather Service: They’ve grown bolder through the week as model agreement has solidified and the event has drawn closer. As of midday Thursday, June 24, the National Weather Service forecast was calling for Spokane to hit 110°F on both Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. These would break the city’s all-time high of 108°F from July 26, 1928, and August 4, 1961.

In Portland, Sunday is predicted by the National Weather Service to be the hottest day in city history. The forecast high of 109°F would topple the all-time record of 107°F set on July 30, 1965, as well as August 8 and 10, 1981. (See more on local records below.)

It’s extremely unusual for the National Weather Service to predict three or four days in advance that all-time records could be not only approached but exceeded. Such is the projected intensity of this heat wave and the resounding agreement among the world’s top forecast models.

In some cases, the highest single-day low temperatures ever recorded may be challenged as well. Warm nights only add to the danger of multi-day heat waves.

Temperatures will be 20 to 28 degrees Celsius (36 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit) above average at 5 p.m. PDT Sunday, June 28, 2021, over much of the Pacific Northwest coastal region, according to the 12Z Thursday, June 24, run of the GFS model. (Image credit: tropicaltidbits.com)

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:19 pm You don't want those temps with humidity.

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:55 pm AC in homes only relatively recently became a thing here. i lucked into my current apartment with a hotel-style wall unit permanently installed in the bedroom.