What's your weather currently?

[Bruce]

The North Sound tends to have cooler temperatures (maybe because of the convergence zone?), but also has more green zones to break up the urban heat islands.

[Roadgeekteen]

Around 70 with a chance of rain and thunderstorms.

[ET21]

Around 70 with a chance of rain and thunderstorms.

You get to deal with Elsa

[hotdogPi]

Around 70 with a chance of rain and thunderstorms.

You get to deal with Elsa

While I haven't actually seen the movie, there was no snow here (except for remnants of a parking lot pile at the Mall at Rockingham Park). Hail (which I did see, but not on the day Roadgeekteen posted) is not snow.

[Roadgeekteen]

70s and raining. Flash flood warning. Wonderful summer lol.

[Roadgeekteen]

70s and cloudy

[ozarkman417]

Severe Thunderstorms associated with a cold front will bring 1-2 inches of rain to my area, and are expected to arrive late this evening. Tomorrow's high will be 74.

[Roadgeekteen]

80 and partly cloudy

[CoreySamson]

Finally dried out from the low pressure system that was sitting over Corpus, currently sitting at 90 degrees and partly cloudy. Also, the Saharan dust is back, making the sky dull light blue, almost greyish at times. And more's on the way later this week. Also, after today, there may not be another 90 degree day for a couple of weeks in my locale. Our weather is weird.

[Roadgeekteen]

It ended up raining a bit. And now there's a flash flood watch lol.

[Max Rockatansky]

About 90F at the campground north of Oakhurst at 6,000 feet above sea level.  It ended up being 109F when I returned to Fresno this afternoon.

[US 89]

A layer of relatively thick smoke has moved into the Salt Lake area over the past couple days. Most of it is originating from the Beckwourth Complex fires in California, though the Bootleg Fire in Oregon and some smaller fires in Idaho may also be contributing.

It was enough to hold yesterday's high temp down to a slightly more reasonable 97. Unfortunately, it didn't do much in that regard today - our afternoon high was 104. Tomorrow will likely be similar. After that, a push of monsoon moisture will enter Utah from the south, but as of now it looks like it won't be enough to bring any real threat of decent rainfall to northern Utah. If we get anything it will probably be of the dry microburst variety. Southern Utah, on the other hand, may be looking at a couple days of flash flooding threats.

[Roadgeekteen]

60s and cloudy

[Bruce]

In the past 4 weeks, we've only had 2 or 3 days below 70, and many of those days above 75 or 80. No rain at all.

Last night I had a dream about rain. I miss it.

[Roadgeekteen]

In the past 4 weeks, we've only had 2 or 3 days below 70, and many of those days above 75 or 80. No rain at all.

Last night I had a dream about rain. I miss it.

Can we trade? It's rained like every day for the past week here.

[hotdogPi]

In the past 4 weeks, we've only had 2 or 3 days below 70, and many of those days above 75 or 80. No rain at all.

Last night I had a dream about rain. I miss it.

Can we trade? It's rained like every day for the past week here.

No. Low 70s and rain is better than 90s.

[Roadgeekteen]

60s and cloudy

[Roadgeekteen]

High in the 80s and partly cloudy.

[kphoger]

I just wish there were a stronger embrace of AC around here. We worry a lot about our natural environment during the summer, and it's time to start worrying more about ourselves. Heat is a huge killer, and we have a lot of older people in this area living in homes without AC. That has to change.

Have the heat-related deaths been occurring inside people's homes?

[jakeroot]

I just wish there were a stronger embrace of AC around here. We worry a lot about our natural environment during the summer, and it's time to start worrying more about ourselves. Heat is a huge killer, and we have a lot of older people in this area living in homes without AC. That has to change.

Have the heat-related deaths been occurring inside people's homes?

Yes. That's where most of the bodies have been found. They are still finding people who don't have frequent welfare checks.

Also homeless people. Point is: people with nowhere to cool off are going to struggle with heat.

[kphoger]

I've read that greater heat than one is used to can exacerbate existing underlying conditions to such a point.  It just surprises me that it frequently occurs within the home, rather than out and about in the weather.

[jakeroot]

I've read that greater heat than one is used to can exacerbate existing underlying conditions to such a point.  It just surprises me that it frequently occurs within the home, rather than out and about in the weather.

It's hotter outside, but it's also hot indoors as well. If you have no AC, and your home was not designed in any way to dissipate heat, it's going to become miserably hot and very nearly, if not absolutely, unlivable indoors. Most people can find ways to rectify the issue (only 500 to 1000 are thought to have perished thus far), but there are others that may not be able to (mobility, most likely, plus underlying conditions). Western WA/OR is also, logically, a frequent move-spot for those who have trouble regulating their body heat, such as those with anhidrosis or chronic dehydration, since it doesn't normally get outrageously hot here; they should be prepared (my father has anhidrosis so we have always had AC growing up), but that's no guarantee, sadly.

[US 89]

Another hot day in Salt Lake today, with a high of 96 (which, believe it or not, is the second-lowest high we've had this month). A few thunderstorms moved through some southern areas of the Wasatch Front today, but southern and eastern Utah got the good stuff today with numerous severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings being issued throughout the region. The biggest thunderstorms formed in and west of Cedar City late this afternoon, dropping quarter size hail and also featuring some rather strong velocity rotation signatures on radar. They then organized into a squall line that hit St. George with severe winds. Flooding was reported in both cities as well as along some other, more rural highways.

And as if all that wasn't enough, a tornado touched down in Huntington, Emery County today. It was a weak landspout that did little to no damage, but it appears to have been the state's first tornado since May 2018.

[hotdogPi]

I've read that greater heat than one is used to can exacerbate existing underlying conditions to such a point.  It just surprises me that it frequently occurs within the home, rather than out and about in the weather.

It's hotter outside, but it's also hot indoors as well. If you have no AC, and your home was not designed in any way to dissipate heat, it's going to become miserably hot and very nearly, if not absolutely, unlivable indoors. Most people can find ways to rectify the issue (only 500 to 1000 are thought to have perished thus far), but there are others that may not be able to (mobility, most likely, plus underlying conditions). Western WA/OR is also, logically, a frequent move-spot for those who have trouble regulating their body heat, such as those with anhidrosis or chronic dehydration, since it doesn't normally get outrageously hot here; they should be prepared (my father has anhidrosis so we have always had AC growing up), but that's no guarantee, sadly.

My previous house didn't have working central air conditioning, so we had a room air conditioner, which was put in an unused room (most of the outdoor windows didn't open, but that one did), not any of the rooms we used. The days in the 90s were mildly uncomfortable but not enough that you would get sick or die. Once it becomes nighttime, you could go outside and it would be fine. In addition, indoors, the first day was fine; it would only become an issue with two or more days in a row.

[jakeroot]

I've read that greater heat than one is used to can exacerbate existing underlying conditions to such a point.  It just surprises me that it frequently occurs within the home, rather than out and about in the weather.

It's hotter outside, but it's also hot indoors as well. If you have no AC, and your home was not designed in any way to dissipate heat, it's going to become miserably hot and very nearly, if not absolutely, unlivable indoors. Most people can find ways to rectify the issue (only 500 to 1000 are thought to have perished thus far), but there are others that may not be able to (mobility, most likely, plus underlying conditions). Western WA/OR is also, logically, a frequent move-spot for those who have trouble regulating their body heat, such as those with anhidrosis or chronic dehydration, since it doesn't normally get outrageously hot here; they should be prepared (my father has anhidrosis so we have always had AC growing up), but that's no guarantee, sadly.

My previous house didn't have working central air conditioning, so we had a room air conditioner, which was put in an unused room (most of the outdoor windows didn't open, but that one did), not any of the rooms we used. The days in the 90s were mildly uncomfortable but not enough that you would get sick or die. Once it becomes nighttime, you could go outside and it would be fine. In addition, indoors, the first day was fine; it would only become an issue with two or more days in a row.

It was hotter than the 90s by quite a significant amount during our last heat wave, so indoors would have been much hotter than what we are normally used to (Seattle summers usually peak in the upper 90s at most), or for that matter, what most of the country east of the Mississippi would normally be used to.

I'd like to stress that, for the most part, being hot inside is not going to kill regular, active, healthy people. We're talking largely about those with underlying conditions, those of advanced years, maybe those with mobility issues, those who were not properly hydrated, etc. These things are only accelerated by even hotter temperatures, and living situations insufficient for such temperatures. That you even have central air (working or otherwise) already puts you ahead of most PNW homes.