Oregon's Killer July: 12 Days Over 90° & 4-5 Days Over 100°!

[turbo]

Record high temperatures across the board.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvp25jA_02jSEcqpsAXUp2_a-NRgD99OGNEG0

No wonder! All the Seattle weather is over here on the other end of the country. Rain, rain, rain, humidity through the roof... Did I mention rain?

 

[Evo]

Having another beautiful, cool Fall day today. But It's July 30th.

 

[russ_watters]

Highs of around 90 in Philly the past few days - the first real summer heat wave we've had (we did have a couple of days in April above 90), which makes this about the coolest summer I can ever remember. Typicall July heat waves are in the mid to upper 90s. I bet we're running 5 degrees below average across the board.

[edit] According to my electric bill, the average temperature from 6/11-7/12 was 77 F and the average over about the same period last year was 72.

 

[Evo]

It's going down into the 50's tonight. But the dog days of summer are coming, that normally means temperatures of 100-105F for a week or two where I live. We haven't seen this in the last 2-3 years and I'm keeping my fingers crossed it won't happen. I have central a/c, but going out to a car left in the sun in that kind of heat is horrible. I've still got a scar on my left arm from where the metal seat belt piece touched my arm.

Everyone in the heat wave has my sympathy. <Evo keeps her cold air for herself>

 

[Math Jeans]

WARNING: Horror story ahead.

I live in Phoenix, AZ where it is at least 110 degrees every day in July. I can't emphasize enough how miserable it is to be outside for any extended period of time (being more than 5 minutes).

Well, you'll never guess what happened to us in the middle of July: our AC broke down in a section of our house. The AC guys came and took out the old unit, and put in the new unit, but then realized that they had taken out the wrong unit, and another section of the house was without AC.

So we went about a week without AC in about half of the house in the middle of July in Phoenix, AZ. Not only that, but they had to rip out 3 walls in the area that had the originally broken unit, and the entire place was a train wreck, so it took another week to get all of that cleaned up.

My summer has been great, thanks for asking.

 

[Integral]

23% RH? I'd take that in a heartbeat! Gotta be typo.

No typo, when the temp goes up in PNW the humidity goes down. The RH in Portland was 40% yesterday (according to the weather I saw) this is way high, usually 100+ weather means 20% or even lower. This makes for mad fire conditions in the woods. They are predicting T storms in the Cascades and the Willamette Valley this weekend, the firefighters are ready and waiting. Generally T storms here are dry, only lighting and thunder, no rain.

 

[russ_watters]

When the temp goes up anywhere, the RH goes down, but 23% is a lot lower than I would have expected for the PNW. That's a 55 F dewpoint - is 55 F a typical nighttime low temp up there?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

When the temp goes up anywhere, the RH goes down, but 23% is a lot lower than I would have expected for the PNW. That's a 55 F dewpoint - is 55 F a typical nighttime low temp up there?

Yes. We have started to cool down, and like the daytime temp, the nightime temp went down about twelve degrees. It is supposed to be about 55 degrees tonight, [Thank goodness]

Right now we are at 75 degrees and 54% RH.

 

[russ_watters]

That makes sense - 75F and 54% RH is also about a 55F dewpoint.

 

[wildman]

It was a very pleasing 101 with 20% RH in Arizona. Humidity a bit high but it is the Monsoon season...

 

[Math Jeans]

It was a very pleasing 101 with 20% RH in Arizona. Humidity a bit high but it is the Monsoon season...

Lucky you. You live in Flagstaff or something?