Happy Summer!!
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From the National Weather Service in Chicago:
https://www.weather.gov/media/lot/DssPacket.pdf
Temps in the upper 90s. Dew points in the 70s (predicted for this heat wave) are seen in tropical climates. The high temps and high humidity really stress the body as it tries to cool itself down.
We had a heat wave back in 1995 that killed a lot of people. Temps then were even higher (over 100), as were dew points (in the 80s), but we won't be that far off those temps this weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
I was working downtown during that 1995 heat wave. It was brutal.
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Heat warnings up here too. Forecast for tomorrow is for 34C and very humid.
Andy, does your house have air conditioning
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Starts later tonight. First full day is tomorrow and we're in an extreme heat warning through Tuesday.
I stocked up on Tillamook ice cream.
@wtg so good. I like the cherry and marionberry best. We only recently starting getting it here.
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Heat warnings up here too. Forecast for tomorrow is for 34C and very humid.
Andy, does your house have air conditioning
@Steve-Miller said in Happy Summer!!:
Heat warnings up here too. Forecast for tomorrow is for 34C and very humid.
Andy, does your house have air conditioning
Nope. In fact I've never been in a UK house or flat that's had anything other than heating. The way our summers are evolving we may soon favour it.
Aircon/climate control in our cars started mid 1990's.
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34c and high humidity! You must have a special room for the piano?
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@AndyD said in Happy Summer!!:
34c and high humidity! You must have a special room for the piano?
34C is our predicted high here as well today, and high humidity.
In terms of taking care of the piano, when I lived in Japan, I had my piano in a room with a mini split (an AC unit that sits up high on the wall and has an outdoor unit, so unlike a window unit, it鈥檚 super quiet, and the temps are super nice). So that worked out well.
Now, in the states, my houses have all had central air conditioning (which is very common) so all the rooms are basically the same in terms of temperature and humidity. These days, my piano room is sitting at about 24C and 40% relative humidity. This house is very consistent in temp and especially humidity. The two houses I lived in before this (one rental, one I owned) were much harder to manage in terms of humidity. But both had central air conditioning.
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This house stays a comfortable 23.3C with humidity staying around 50% when the air conditioner is enabled. It鈥檚 8 years old now, but it was built for the climate and doesn鈥檛 require the a/c to run much to maintain the indoor temperature.
No piano any more. I sold it to another piano forum member (Bongwater Q. Liberalstein
) after my daughter got married and moved to the Midwest. I wasn鈥檛 playing it hardly at all and it was just taking up space. -
In Penang all my relatives have it, certainly every bedroom has a unit. My inlaws piano was barely playable. On advice I now pkeep my Bluthner at 52%
Incidentally, the only home in the UK that might have had aircon was the Westminster flat of Bob Gaskins, but I can't be sure.
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We're getting snow above 5,000 ft. Winter storm warning for Glacier National Park. This is why I never plant the tomatoes before the solstice and I'm also glad I haven't yet washed and put away the winter horse blankets.
This morning we have super fresh air from all the heavy rains we've had the past two nights and a brisk, cold wind out of the north. So invigorating! I love getting up early on June mornings like this one and going out to feed. It's so very Montana.
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Yes, I noticed it on my planner. We've had summer weather for about a month now, anyway. Very hot late spring/ early summer.
I'm in negotiations with my brother to borrow $10,000 or otherwise ask our cousin to advance it to me because the only realistic option is a new roof before all of the interior ceiling come crashing down while flooding my entire home.
A person could well die in this structure during a hurricane. My preferred option is to move into a long stay motel but they only offer day rates around her. My cousin is suggesting it could be October 2 before I can move.
I'm going swimming today because my back is killing me.
It will be basically low '90's from 12 p.m.- 5 p.m.
The NWS High Heat Advisory has been up for more days than I can remember.
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Yesterday, and again just now, I saw a robin with its beak open, looking like it is panting. Turns out he/she may well be doing just that:
https://birdsinthetree.com/do-birds-pant/
I have four bird baths in the back yard and I'm changing the water twice a day. It needs to get itself to one of them to cool off....
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93 F.
I know it's a "forecast" but they're wrong all the time. They said it would rain at 4 p.m. It didn't. They said it would only get up to 91 F. That didn't happen. I can't count the days when they said it would rain but didn't. I think their computer models have certain biases built in. I guess could think of it as erring on the side of caution although I don't see any reason I should.
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Was at a family birthday party in a park in Connecticut yesterday--temps in the 90s F. A man not of our party collapsed from the heat and was taken away by ambulance. I myself wore a hat and stayed out of the sun but after a few hours of supervising kids from the side of the pool I was done for and had to cool off with an ice pack to the back of the neck.
Be careful out there.
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