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...going to be 103° here in Portland later today. My area of town was even briefly on NBC News tonight in their story about the heat wave They're calling for 110° - 115° in the Northwest, but that will be on the other side of the Cascades. in the high desert area.
Yep, it was! It covered a fairly large area too. She lives in a much smaller house now and doesn't have wallpaper to deal with, so I'm sure she's happy about that.
Well, one person died due to the historic flooding where I live. They shut down the whole Metro link. Highways flooded all over. My wife wanted me to get her meds after they said to stay home due to flash flooding. I swear there were buckets of rain coming down as I drove to the pharmacy.
When the aluminum and other heavy metals that are sprayed into sky (documented by a product called Modern Skies at Rendo) fall to the ground, those metals, along with decreasing soil fertility, also reflect the sunlight, creating a greenhouse effect.
...just saw that on the news.
I saw that! Sorry for the fatality and trouble. We get flooding hear now pretty dependably in late fall/early winter and less frequently in July.
...here in Portland OR, 102° yesterday and 101° today. Supposed to be "only" 98° tomorrow (we'll see) then Friday and Saturday above 100° again both days (103° now for Saturday).
We even made the NBC Nightly News.
Oh goodness, that's horrible! I used to think that my area didn't flood (downtown was known for it's flooding, but not my area) and then we had a hurricane come through a few years ago and flood more than half of our neighborhood. Luckily, my street is just elevated enough that we missed the flooding. The local news interviewed people standing chest-deep in water. It was a really surreal thing to see. Turns out a lot of people didn't know there's a creek directly behind the neighborhood, me included!
We live on the inside of a bend in the road, and our house has been there a long time & is close to the road. In the past it used to be a main road, so the road was re-surfaced regularly and at speed without grinding the old surface off. Consequently the road surface is now at house floor level on the inside of the camber and 5" above it on the outside.
When the drain outside our house is overwhelmed by thunderstorms, the water level can be 5" above floor level before it starts draining into the large storage volume in the front gardens on the other side of the road. We have flood boards which we put in, and so far... we've not had problems. I need to take the board level to the 16" level which is the height of our front garden wall, so when that's in place we'll be as safe as we can be.
Apparently our house was flooded in 1991, and that was the last time it was at risk until 2005. Since 2005 we've had 8 events when it could have flooded.
Regards,
Richard
They found a second one that drowned in his truck. Over the last 72 hours, we are working on around about 15 inches of rain in my city.
The odds are pretty good that these extreme weather events are only going to get worse.
My insurance company tried to add a clause to the policy this year to Cover Overland Flooding, after all the floods last year in other areas. I'm sure they are trying to recoup on payouts and losses from the previous years, and limiting their liability going forward. I had it removed.
Speak of the devil, there are counties just east of me that are having historic flooding. The governor declared those counties disaster areas. We've heavy rain here too but everything is soaked but no flooding yet. It's getting to be more and more of a problem for long stretches of the year, both winter & summer.
I'm so sorry for everyone in the floods right now! Hope everyone's home and family is safe. I know in Europe, we're aching for a tiny bit of rain ourselves right now, but severe floods are just as terrible. Maybe worse in a way, because they come with such force and get people killed so quickly. How awful to drown in your own truck ...
....used to live in a fully finished half basement apartment where that happened. During heavy rains the drain outside the door would be overwhelmed and cause the floor inside to flood. The bad part this is in Portland OR where rain is rather frequent. Had the flooring on two different occasions swell up from water underneath and need replacing..
was 32C here today - Thunderstorm rolled through just now - temp fell to 18C
One of my neighbors is beside themself because they just got a $400 plus electric bill today and they had actually cut back on air conditioning use and such last month in spite of the weeks of 95F+ temperatures!
Move to the Pacific Northwest, they said.
It's cool year round, they said.
It rains almost the whole year, they said.
I moved to the Willamette Valley in 2017 and I can assure you that all of those statements I was told were lies.
At least there's no Heat Dome this year (knock on wood).
...I've been in Portland since 1989 and never seen weather like we have experienced in the last decade or so. Yeah, there may have been a day or so here where it touched 100° but the "Death Valley" like conditions (112° and 116°) we had last year was extreme, and again this current string of stifling days this year (granted it "only" made it to 99° today but it may as well have been 100°). I remember back in 2009 we had almost a week of 100° weather, when two days in a row it was just on degree shy of the all time record (then) for for the city (107°). A few years later we had 33 days above 90² with three or four days above 100° (the "average" usually is 7- 9 days of 90+ temperatures).
In 2015 Mt. Hood was totally devoid of snow cover and the glaciers were in peril, the first time I have ever seen that in my 33 of living here.(ftne times there is "summer skiing" near the summit).
To make matters even more unbearable, smoke from both the California and Alaska wildfires is beginning to make an inroads high up in the air above This morning we had a very "red" sunrise similar to what we experienced a couple years ago when fires were raging over the entire west coast into British Columbia.
Agreed, about a heat dome though we still have all August to go and it will be back in the 90s by next weekend again lasting well into the following week The normal highs this time of year are usually 82° - 84°.
Didn't expect this after the chilly and wet spring we had where we were still experiencing March like conditions in May April like ones into early June.
Here in the southeast it's like living in a Finnish sauna but in the summer when you definately don't want that experience.
...unfortunately for people in Kentucky it's not the heat but far too much rain today which has caused disastrous flooding primarily in the Appalachian region. . More heavy rains expected that will also stretch into Tennessee and West Virginia
Still no rain here, and the temps are picking up once more. There're thunderstorms predicted for the evening, but this usually doesn't happen. If it did today, would be kind of ironic, because today is one of the very few days that I'm actually going out to meet with people at a little village do ... Still, I'd much rather be drenched than parched, as will all my lovely garden!
Still absolutely gorgeous weather here.
70s - 80s during the day, partly cloudy, rain at night.
I'm trying to figure out how to sell boxes of good weather over Ebay.
Kelsey really is one of the funnest people on early morning TV.
Oops, misplaced reply. Now moved to proper thread.
I'm gettin' old and confusable.
I'm in Canada. I NEVER complain about how hot or dry it is.
Went to Viewpoint, the damage was not as extensive as the news reports made it look.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence it's the same area where they keep the trees out, to maintain the view.
Report's said it probably started with a piece of glass...
...though that one town in BC where it reached 121° last summer then was burnt to the ground by a wildfire afterwards.
121° is even hot for Palm Springs CA or Phoenix AZ
Meanwhile, here in Portland, 95° already (before 14:00 on the way to a high of 102².