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Misc Sizzling Shenanigans: warm season whamby
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That's probably a good reason to use the significant rise in ocean temps as a prime metric to objectively measure how much the globe has warmed. That obviously takes away any skew from UHI. Also, using satellite images for determining land based warming allows for the reduction of the weighting of cities' warming as compared to the weight given to the lesser amount of warming in rural areas since official stations are skewed toward UHI affected cities.
I was wrong...I thought it would take 10 years...it's taken a week.
LickWx
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Maybe if you gave the sensor or the meteorologists in charge that hawk tuah it’ll get fixed. Go on head spit on that sensor
Will someone please take this heat to the Train Station ..
GeorgiaGirl
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This is August weather tbh in July and in June.
I had some plans to try out a new state park that I haven't been to over in Aiken County a couple weeks ago...then saw the forecast and had to nix it even if it was a place you could swim at as I was thinking about a hike.
There may be other times in which we've seen something like this, but I can't remember hitting the 100s with high dews as early as it occurred.
I had some plans to try out a new state park that I haven't been to over in Aiken County a couple weeks ago...then saw the forecast and had to nix it even if it was a place you could swim at as I was thinking about a hike.
There may be other times in which we've seen something like this, but I can't remember hitting the 100s with high dews as early as it occurred.
A couple of OG’s in the Weather Channel studios currently! Jeff Morrow and J Lo! Have not seenJ Lo in a hot minute!
Drizzle Snizzle
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It's 89 in Seattle with a Dew Point of 45 and they are under a heat advisory. That sounds pretty comfy to me !
Another day another screw job here. I'm glad the pattern changed and some are getting rain now. And the pattern looks good going forward. I just fear the results in this particular location will end up being the same results June produced.
LickWx
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Crazy how the world collapses when a run of the mill storm blows through. When the thunderstorm rolled through today there were multiple homes on fire due to lightning all at once including 3 in the same neighborhood in wake forest , arcing wires, cars in flood waters etc… I can’t imagine the chaos of a real bad hurricane if this is all caused by a thunderstorm
Brick Tamland
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Well complaining yesterday has worked. Have no idea what I have so far since I decided not to keep track this summer. But it's easily more than I had received since June 1st combined. And probably safe to assume it'll be the highest daily total of summer. It's always been that way in this little spot. Very long stretches of nothing getting missed in all directions to getting it all at once and then back to nothing. That's summer in a nutshell here
I hate summertime! And days like today is exactly why. This is oppressive. I understand the dislike for extreme cold that some have but this is just as bad and we deal with this way more than we deal with extreme cold. So give me winter over this crap any day
question for the board- at around what heat index does your AC begin to get overpowered?
i bought my house in november (naive first time homeowner here) and new hvac was installed/vents put in but i'm trying to quantify the effectiveness. seems like the threshold is 103-105 before things get hairy and i'm going to bed to a gross temperature.
my insulation is meh and there are some drafts i need to seal (that will be easier to find in the winter), but just trying to get a sense of where my house stands
i bought my house in november (naive first time homeowner here) and new hvac was installed/vents put in but i'm trying to quantify the effectiveness. seems like the threshold is 103-105 before things get hairy and i'm going to bed to a gross temperature.
my insulation is meh and there are some drafts i need to seal (that will be easier to find in the winter), but just trying to get a sense of where my house stands
Is the tonnage appropriate for your house size? I’ve also learned you don’t want too large because besides it being more expensive, it won’t reduce RH as well due to more frequent cycling on and off though variable speed indoor unit helps.
I’m gonna have to add a mini-split to take the load off my unit next year after remodeling the garage into bedrooms. However my biggest issue is the lack of insulation in the walls and I think most of all my windows. Going back and forth between the new rooms(with good insulation and windows) and the older rooms is night and day.
If your windows are leaky like mine, you are fighting an uphill battle. The bigger new unit is probably pulling outside air in.
You answered your first question in your question. You need to get the insulation right before anything. I generally try to keep my house within 10 to 20 degrees of the outside temperature during the day max. I have not had triple digit heat, but if I did I would probably go as high as 75 or 76 during those afternoon hours. You don't want to freeze the coils. At night I try to keep it within 10 degrees separation, and never have any issue. I also have a lot of shade.
I've got a dual zone heat pump for 2359 sq ft. I set it to 73 during the day and 68 at night. The hottest day so far saw the temp rise to 75 in the house. Every other day, it's remained at 73. The house is in full sun. I don't know if that helps or not, but that is my experience.
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