God I hate summer

[SteveGrabowski]

You have my sympathy in Texas. What can I say, we had a tough winter, spring was reluctant to arrive, it's finally nice, and as usual my BD was attended by glorious weather.

This year is so obnoxiously hot. Just saw this: even with the airport being one of the coolest places temperatures are taken in San Antonio (and where the official temperatures come from) it has cracked 105 ten times this year as of today. The previous record was four times in a year, which was last year. August 2023 is already looking like it has a very very good shot of going down as the hottest month ever recorded in San Antonio. With the current record holder being the nightmarish July we had last summer.

 

[Muse]

This year is so obnoxiously hot. Just saw this: even with the airport being one of the coolest places temperatures are taken in San Antonio (and where the official temperatures come from) it has cracked 105 ten times this year as of today. The previous record was four times in a year, which was last year. August 2023 is already looking like it has a very very good shot of going down as the hottest month ever recorded in San Antonio. With the current record holder being the nightmarish July we had last summer.

What is the discussion in Texas? Are people acknowledging that global warming is a crisis? Oil is, I guess, still a big revenue source for Texas. But are the blinders on?

Here's a song by a band who started out in Texas, The Big Boys:

 

[SteveGrabowski]

For the first time since the very beginning of June we have a 7-day forecast with no 100s. A couple of 98's and a 97 so we could still hit it again next week. But if this is it here are the damages for this summer in San Antonio, tx:

1. Most number of 100 degree days in a year ever. 74 as of September 10th, which beats the previous record by 15 days.
2. Hottest month ever recorded in San Antonio. August had an average high temperature of 103.1, decimating the previous worst month of July 2022 that averaged a high of 101.7.
3. Hottest meteorological summer (June-August) ever. 102 average temperature. So this three month period had a higher average high than any month ever recorded here in 2022 or before.
4. Most number of 105 degree days in a year. 17 as of September 10th, which more than quadruples the previous record of 4, set in 2022.
5. Three highest heat indices ever recorded in San Antonio, at 117, 115, and 115 in late June. My neighborhood was worse, had one day our heat index was 125. The official San Antonio measurements are taken at the airport though, which is one of the coolest places in the city.
6. Three of the four longest streaks of consecutive 100 degree days ever recorded here happened in 2023, including the current streak of 18 straight days which is the third longest ever recorded here.

This is after last summer set records 2,3 and 4 and came one day from setting record 1.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Move.

 

[pmv]

Starts up Calc...

subtract 32...divide by 9....multiply by 5

Delayed-Wow, 39C average!

(It kind-of messes with the impact when you have to stop and do maths first...I'm more-or-less equally capable of thinking in metric and imperial for everything except temperatures - Farenheit means absolutely nothing to me)

I'm finding the low-30s unbearable. It's supposed to stop soon, thank God. Longest September heatwave ever, I believe.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Meanwhile for some odd reason, we've been below 'normal' all Summer.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

So far 2023 has been the capstone of a 15 year trend where San Antonio's summers have gone from hot to ridiculous. When I was a kid San Antonio was hot, your typical summer day would be 95, maybe 97 in early August right before school started up. But it was still fun to go and play basketball all day or go play baseball all day or walk 5 miles to my friend's house every day of my summer vacation. Can't imagine doing all that even as a kid when we're having long unbroken stretches of 103 or 105 though.

 

[snoopy7548]

For the first time since the very beginning of June we have a 7-day forecast with no 100s. A couple of 98's and a 97 so we could still hit it again next week. But if this is it here are the damages for this summer in San Antonio, tx:

1. Most number of 100 degree days in a year ever. 74 as of September 10th, which beats the previous record by 15 days.
2. Hottest month ever recorded in San Antonio. August had an average high temperature of 103.1, decimating the previous worst month of July 2022 that averaged a high of 101.7.
3. Hottest meteorological summer (June-August) ever. 102 average temperature. So this three month period had a higher average high than any month ever recorded here in 2022 or before.
4. Most number of 105 degree days in a year. 17 as of September 10th, which more than quadruples the previous record of 4, set in 2022.
5. Three highest heat indices ever recorded in San Antonio, at 117, 115, and 115 in late June. My neighborhood was worse, had one day our heat index was 125. The official San Antonio measurements are taken at the airport though, which is one of the coolest places in the city.
6. Three of the four longest streaks of consecutive 100 degree days ever recorded here happened in 2023, including the current streak of 18 straight days which is the third longest ever recorded here.

This is after last summer set records 2,3 and 4 and came one day from setting record 1.

Just wait until next summer!

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Just wait until next summer!

Only going to get shittier and shittier over the long term, hell the near term too, but I hope we have a sane one next year.

 

[NutBucket]

So unAmerican of you all. I love summer!

 

[mindless1]

For the first time since the very beginning of June we have a 7-day forecast with no 100s.

Okay, and how much snow do you expect to have to shovel this winter, and how much salted road damage to your vehicles?

There's something to be said for living a little more north, between the two temperature extremes. At the same time, I'll take 105F (as long as I have A/C) over living in Canada in winter.

Nevermind the crops I could grow, where perennials don't get killed by winter freezing temps, longer growing season that just needs some shade and more frequent watering. Even so, a little bit north would be better still.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The issue I found this summer is we barely got a normal day. It was either blistering hot where you sweat by just going outside for 2 minutes making it super miserable to get anything done, or it was raining and or cold. Cold and dry is not so bad, at least you can still get stuff done outside, but usually if it's cold in summer it's also raining.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Okay, and how much snow do you expect to have to shovel this winter, and how much salted road damage to your vehicles?

There's something to be said for living a little more north, between the two temperature extremes. At the same time, I'll take 105F (as long as I have A/C) over living in Canada in winter.

Nevermind the crops I could grow, where perennials don't get killed by winter freezing temps, longer growing season that just needs some shade and more frequent watering. Even so, a little bit north would be better still.

LOL but Canadian snow as the response when we have the two worst summers ever recorded in San Antonio back to back and this one has half a month more 100+ days than any ever recorded here. It's ridiculous how much this area has heated just in the last 15 years.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

So unAmerican of you all. I love summer!

Come to South Texas where we have 5-6 months of it.

 

[NutBucket]

I'm in SoCal. But to me anything under 110 is fine.

 

[snoopy7548]

Come to the Northeast. Winters here are enjoyable for the most part, and we have four different seasons as opposed to hot and not quite as hot. Housing is expensive, but eh.

 

[Ajay]

Come to the Northeast. Winters here are enjoyable for the most part, and we have four different seasons as opposed to hot and not quite as hot. Housing is expensive, but eh.

Winter is great if you enjoy snow sports, like skiing and whatnot. I don't, so it's meh - mild winters are my favorite.

 

[MrSquished]

Come to the Northeast. Winters here are enjoyable for the most part, and we have four different seasons as opposed to hot and not quite as hot. Housing is expensive, but eh.

Yeah the winters around here aren't really that bad anymore. Of course sometimes I hate the cold weather, but I can always dress up to handle the cold. When it's that goddamn hot and humid out, there's nothing you can do except stay inside with AC. It's unbearable and stifling to just even be outside for more than a few min.