Monster heat dome threatens all-time temperature records Friday in Southern California
Source: Washington Post
Record-crushing heat is likely in Southern California through Saturday from the same deadly heat dome that has torched the central and eastern United States and parts of Canada over the past week.
Today [Friday] will be one for the record books, the National Weather Service office serving Los Angeles wrote in its morning discussion. Almost all if not all of the daily records will fall today. It is likely that several monthly records will fall and its possible that 1 or 2 all time records will be made.
Specifically, the Weather Service said the all-time high temperatures of 113 in Burbank and 117 in Woodland Hills are in jeopardy.
In downtown Los Angeles, the temperature is forecast to soar to 106 degrees Friday, obliterating the previous record for the date of 94, set in 1992. But the all-time high of 113 degrees, set in September 2010, should not be threatened.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/06/monster-heat-dome-threatens-all-time-high-temperature-records-in-southern-california-friday/?utm_term=.becc8b360bb9
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Hell they don't even come around and accuse him of taking credit for inventing the Internet either.
aggiesal
(8,863 posts)Just inland north of San Diego
nini
(16,670 posts)He's melting too
yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)hot there, I worry about her commute home and hope she has AC in her car.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)I am eaten alive 4-5 months a year now. I had over 100 bites and still have the scars from last Summer. I am wearing really stinky anti insect bands on my arms and legs right now (10 bites in two days while indoors...window and door screens do not help at all). These are Houdini insects and can somehow get anywhere they want to. No magic cures work...tried them all.. Bill Maher mentioned the rise of insects and the diseases they bring as another part of climate change. The tRump admin believes there is no climate change since it will hurt their personal stock portfolios which benefit from oil and coal and 0 regulations to fight C02. Fuck Scott Pruitt and the GOP treasonous, greedy, hypocritical bastards who profess NO CLIMATE CHANGE...this includes you George Will, you evil GOP COMPLICIT fuckface! I saw you on Bill Maher and had to throw up mid interview!
Hugin
(32,772 posts)For, I too, seem to be especially delicious looking to the charming little blood-suckers. Right now, I've got matching shiners on each cheekbone to prove it.
I don't know how they're getting in the house. I suspect they're born there in the plumbing somewhere and I keep those capped off when I'm not actively using them.
To compare notes, I was wondering if those insect bands worked. I guess not. :/
Two things I've done over the past couple of years to mitigate the onslaught; I replaced most of the light bulbs in my house with LED types. Insects don't seem to be drawn to them like they are to regular incandescent types or CFL bulbs. Also, I bought a couple of those special single bulb bug zappers and I have one on the opposite end of my bedroom from where I sleep. It's on in UV only mode (purple colored light) and I leave it on while I'm sleeping. There's about a dozen little carcasses on there now, I need to clean off with a little brush. I was very skeptical of it until the first night when I heard a *pow* and I sat up and yelled, "YES! YES! OH, YES!"
I also keep a small vacuum cleaner handy to slurp up the particularly incorrigible singles. I believe it's easier to deal with a swarm than hunt only one by the sound of it's humming wings.
I used to spray my sheets with repellent, but, I didn't feel doing so was particularly healthy... For me.
Yep, there's climate change alright.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)The insects here can get through a screen so I need stuff on the inside of my apt. I could use that DEET stuff but it is very harmful worn 24/7 fro 5 straight months. I tried traps with baking soda, yeast, etc and had tons of bodies but still had tons of bites. Can I get those bulbs at Ace Hardware?
Hugin
(32,772 posts)They're relatively inexpensive.
You think it's worth a try?
joshdawg
(2,637 posts)just ask any republican congressvermin.
We in the DFW area of Texas apparently had a "cold" front blow in. Temps here are mid to high 90's; a brief reprieve, I fear, from the 100's.
ggccvvtt
(24 posts)You're experiencing global cooling in DFW then?
When we hit 106° here in San Francisco last September, everyone said it was climate change. It was back to the normal 70° a couple of days later. That is not global warming. Just sayin'.
joshdawg
(2,637 posts)Sorry if you didn't realize it was all satirical.
blugbox
(951 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 6, 2018, 07:59 PM - Edit history (1)
And we hit 113 today... Ugh, what is late July/August going to bring?
yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)are you close to there?
Hekate
(90,189 posts)We don't have AC, just portable fans, but we do have double-paned windows that help. Right now at 11 pm it is still 82 inside the house, where everything with a screen has been opened up for hours. We're in a foothill area of Ventura, and it's hotter.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Oh shit oh shit.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)haele
(12,581 posts)At the beaches, it's cooled down to a balmy 98 degrees. And that's only because the Pacific Ocean is at 66 degrees. My stepdaughter is working her first real job in Balboa Park - at 100 degrees, and hopefully, she remembered to bring water because she's working outside under an umbrella doing henna and face paint.
The fires in the East County aren't helping any.
Haele
Tom Kitten
(7,339 posts)3:30 pm...never got this hot all the years I lived in Portland!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Disney apps all down too
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)On the backside of Mt San Gregornio it seems. Very eerie and dramatic! the mountain is outlined in fire, not visible from my house but from the road that passes it. I just looked it up online and it seems fairly well behaved so far but the fire season has officially begun and it's gonna be cinders until Thanksgiving or even later
https://www.sbsun.com/2018/07/06/brush-fire-in-san-bernardino-mountains-shuts-down-highway-38-near-forest-falls/
Codeine
(25,586 posts)I dont even want to imagine what my electric bill is going to look like.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)The people who supply the grid could easily calculate the correct over capacity to make electricity cost-effective with predictable sable rates. They won't though because of it being much more profitable to rip off individual ratepayers.
My cost for my leased solar power for family of four is a steady $123 a month, every month
Codeine
(25,586 posts)We have a municipal power company her, one of only a handful of cities in California that doesnt use Edison. Wintertime I play around $65 a month, summer heat waves it averages about $135 or so, so crappy but not crippling. My friends in other towns who use Edison often have $600 bills in the summer. Fuck that noise.
My wife works nights and I work days, so we need it air-conditioned around the clock. When I lived alone I could cut that bill way down by only cooling when I was home.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Summer months electric bills would be $350 or more out here in Perris. I work outside at a truck garage in Riverside, so yesterday during that part of the heat-wave I got through it drinking about twice the amount of water as usual, but it did work.
Sometimes you don't know you are getting dehydrated till hours afterward
Hope we have a cooler one soon