PNW Heatwave

[InBetweenDays]

Jun 27, 2021 20:38:02 GMT -5 smock said:

Relief is coming! Just read that temps will drop close to 50 degrees in Seattle starting at 5pm on Monday. 🎉

You mean at night? My phone is showing 90 on Tuesday then mid 80s the rest of the week. Which I'll take! But isn't a 50° drop.

[Nonny]

It probably won't help anyone right now (unless you are planning to run to the grocery store tonight or tomorrow in the middle of the even bigger heat spike), but I've gotten sick of plain ice water, and this evening I realized I hadn't really had enough today for how hot it's gotten in our house.

Enter, Twinings Cold Infuse.

I'd forgotten I had these from last summer. So easy, and now I'm much more hydrated.

[booky]

I’m worried about burning out my fans in my little hot box of a house for the next few days. “Feels like” 50* (122) when we are used to maybe 18* for June and 25/28* into August is unfathomable. It feels helpless encouraging my kids to have cold showers and drinking lots of water today. Tomorrow is meant to be so much worse and with no fans for sale available in the city and no ice anywhere that I could find I’m a bit concerned about helping my kids and elderly family.
I’m hoping we can have a water fight or something at midnight tonight and sleep better than last night.

[smock]

Jun 27, 2021 20:51:54 GMT -5 InBetweenDays said:

Jun 27, 2021 20:38:02 GMT -5 smock said:

Relief is coming! Just read that temps will drop close to 50 degrees in Seattle starting at 5pm on Monday. 🎉

You mean at night? My phone is showing 90 on Tuesday then mid 80s the rest of the week. Which I'll take! But isn't a 50° drop.

Yeah it's supposed to drop from 110 (😭) at 5pm on Monday and be in the 60s by early Tuesday morning. That will hopefully help cool down people's houses before it warms up on Tuesday. It's still supposed to be in the high 80s on Tuesday but honestly it will feel like a relief after 100+.

And pumpkin, that forecast is rough. Hopefully you'll get power back soon. I can't imagine not even having fans and ice.

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I'm also hoping preschool will open on Tuesday. They already cancelled Monday because they don't have AC. I'm really at my limit with childcare chaos.

[sofamonkey]

Jun 27, 2021 21:09:58 GMT -5 smock said:

Jun 27, 2021 20:51:54 GMT -5 InBetweenDays said:

You mean at night? My phone is showing 90 on Tuesday then mid 80s the rest of the week. Which I'll take! But isn't a 50° drop.

Yeah it's supposed to drop from 110 (😭) at 5pm on Monday and be in the 60s by early Tuesday morning. That will hopefully help cool down people's houses before it warms up on Tuesday. It's still supposed to be in the high 80s on Tuesday but honestly it will feel like a relief after 100+.

And pumpkin, that forecast is rough. Hopefully you'll get power back soon. I can't imagine not even having fans and ice.

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I'm also hoping preschool will open on Tuesday. They already cancelled Monday because they don't have AC. I'm really at my limit with childcare chaos.

Wat? The Seattle forecast still says 80+ for over a week. I don’t even see 50 at night!

[pixy0stix]

Not a single, "but 78 degrees inside is tolerable" joke?

CO is experiencing the inverse in that its much colder than normal the past couple of days. I wish we could have evened out the temperatures to moderate for everyone.

[smock]

Guys, guys, I know all our brains are fried from heat. Mine is, too. I'm trying to say that it will go from like 112 or whatever ungodly high we hit tomorrow down to 65-ish by early Tuesday morning. That is nearly a 50 degree drop. Yes, it will still be hot all week and no it will not be 50 degrees as the low for a while. But a big overnight temp drop is still a good thing! 🤪

[pumpkin]

Jun 27, 2021 21:23:58 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Not a single, "but 78 degrees inside is tolerable" joke?

Hahaha, I’d be totally happy with this IN Seattle!

[pumpkin]

Jun 27, 2021 21:24:59 GMT -5 smock said:

Guys, guys, I know all our brains are fried from heat. Mine is, too. I'm trying to say that it will go from like 112 or whatever ungodly high we hit tomorrow down to 65-ish by early Tuesday morning. That is nearly a 50 degree drop. Yes, it will still be hot all week and no it will not be 50 degrees as the low for a while. But a big overnight temp drop is still a good thing! 🤪

I just wish it would do enough overnight to cool inside off, but yep, I’ll take any temp drop righty now.

[AdaraMarie]

Jun 27, 2021 21:15:07 GMT -5 sofamonkey said:

Jun 27, 2021 21:09:58 GMT -5 smock said:

Yeah it's supposed to drop from 110 (😭) at 5pm on Monday and be in the 60s by early Tuesday morning. That will hopefully help cool down people's houses before it warms up on Tuesday. It's still supposed to be in the high 80s on Tuesday but honestly it will feel like a relief after 100+.

And pumpkin , that forecast is rough. Hopefully you'll get power back soon. I can't imagine not even having fans and ice.

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I'm also hoping preschool will open on Tuesday. They already cancelled Monday because they don't have AC. I'm really at my limit with childcare chaos.

Wat? The Seattle forecast still says 80+ for over a week. I don’t even see 50 at night!

She is saying the temperature will drop BY (close to/almost) 50 degrees, not TO 50 degrees. 

[ellipses84]

Jun 27, 2021 19:51:50 GMT -5 smock said:

We're going to have three days in a row of temperatures over 100 in Seattle.

In the past 124 years of recorded temperatures, it's only hit 100 THREE TIMES in Seattle. We doubled that number in a long weekend. 🤯

It’s crazy! I’m used to hot weather since we live in SoCal (which also rarely gets this hot), lived in TX and visit AZ a lot but most of my life was spent here and this is so abnormal. I imagine a lot of places are going to have to shut down and send workers home early if their a/c can’t keep temps cool enough to be safe, but for people who don’t have a/c it’s going to be better to be at work. I’m worried about firework fires this weekend because everything will be so dry. My “vacation” is officially over and I have to work remotely the rest of our trip. I did not plan this well and debated flying home early.

[loira]

Jun 27, 2021 21:08:39 GMT -5 booky said:

I’m worried about burning out my fans in my little hot box of a house for the next few days. “Feels like” 50* (122) when we are used to maybe 18* for June and 25/28* into August is unfathomable. It feels helpless encouraging my kids to have cold showers and drinking lots of water today. Tomorrow is meant to be so much worse and with no fans for sale available in the city and no ice anywhere that I could find I’m a bit concerned about helping my kids and elderly family.
I’m hoping we can have a water fight or something at midnight tonight and sleep better than last night.

Me too. We're roasting in Esq. but my parents live in Brentwood and it's even worse there. They have a tiny portable A/C and a couple of fans, but my mum doesn't handle heat well. I hope your fans are okay but if not I've seen people have success asking for a loaner on my community Facebook page.

[basilosaurus]

I feel for you all. While I've lived in many places without a/c that see temps like that, including my main room reaching in the 90s for a few months, I was acclimated. It wasn't great fun, but it wasn't as miserable as if I was used to your normal temps plus a real (comparatively) winter.

At least Denver gets cool at night and is so dry the evaporating damp towel works pretty well. You might want to try a cooling towel like these. www.amazon.com/Cooling-Breathable-Microfiber-Running-Activities/dp/B0968DYGW5. They sell them at sports and camping stores if you want to avoid amazon.

[aprilsails]

@@ For those with little kids (or those without), a fun trick we discovered last year during a local heatwave was to fill a spray bottle with cold water with a bit of ice and then have the kids mist each other outside. It made it tolerable to spend time outside or at the park and the kids thought it was fabulous. Also no one got soaked and no one cried due to it being a full on water gun fight.

[usuallylurking]

81* at 7:00 this morning, calling for 111 today. 115 tomorrow, 113 on Wednesday. Then 108 on Thursday and a measly 104 on Friday.

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We are doing a water day for daycare kids from the time they arrive until we reach 100*, then inside for the rest of the day. My house warmed up naturally yesterday even with the AC running and us barely opening doors. I’m dreading what today will look like with multiple door usages and simply adding more bodies indoors.

[loira]

We have a new puppy (15 weeks old) and I've been super worried about her, although she seems just fine. Still, we put an ice pack under her bed in her crate last night and that seemed to reduce the amount of time she spent panting before she settled down. So that's an idea for anyone with pets.

Also, I made an ice pack cuddle pack for each of us to take to bed. Ice pack wrapped in a damp towel, tied with a hair tie.

[schrodinger]

Our house didn't cool off below 80 overnight, so we are probably looking at high 80s inside by the end of the day today. I'm pretty far north of Seattle and forecasts are not showing much overnight relief until Tuesday, but more likely Wednesday.

The heat has been so intense we had a highway buckle.

[wawa]

Jun 28, 2021 10:32:50 GMT -5 schrodinger said:

Our house didn't cool off below 80 overnight, so we are probably looking at high 80s inside by the end of the day today. I'm pretty far north of Seattle and forecasts are not showing much overnight relief until Tuesday, but more likely Wednesday.

The heat has been so intense we had a highway buckle.

yeah, none of the infrastructure up there is designed for this. (it's not in other places too...our light rail shuts down during heat waves pretty often, but it's REALLY not designed for it there)  My infrastructure nerd twitter feed is full of shit melting and buckling.

Stay cool friends.  if you're handy a swamp cooler or styrophone cooler "a/c" isn't terribly hard to rig up, but just ice in front of your box fan will help. And ditto the cold ass shower just before bed.  That's what I always did when I was at summer camp in August and we were just melting.  Get that cold water in every single crevice of your body and then just stay damp and let it evaporate as you lay down.  

[bugandbibs]

It’s 9 am and already 91*F. Headed to 115 today. I feel so drained, I was planning to do my workout early, but that didn’t happen. Now, I don’t know if it will happen….

[picksthemusic]

It's 88° here right now. Who knows if it'll get up to what it says, but we're prepared. My SIL is coming over today because she wants to make sure not to overheat. BIL will be out of their house elsewhere, so it'll be just her while DH WFH in the office.

[sofamonkey]

I’m at work today. The ac in the building isn’t keeping up, and it’s just so muggy. I think I may leave as soon as our last patient is gone. I am just sitting at my desk, dripping sweat. I don’t want to be this gross in public.

Oh, and I went to grab something from the freezer in the garage. It had been left open a bit. Judging by the amount of melt, it had been open a few days. I told DH not to eat anything, but I shut it and we will toss everything in there when it’s cooler. So, that’s fun too.

[picksthemusic]

sofamonkey, it's hot here in our building too. Our manager brought popsicles and ice cream sandwiches to help keep us cool.

We have desk fans going so it's not horrible.

That sucks about your freezer!

[oregonpachey]

It's 101 freaking degrees at 10am. Thank God for home offices in the basement. Our upstairs, even with a/c was 85 degrees last night. Blech.

[heygrey]

Our projections are trending down. It was supposed to be 111 today. Now they are saying only 108! The high isn’t supposed to drop below 100 until next Monday.

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So many districts cancelled school today, but we’re still here. If our classrooms hit 28 Celsius it’s considered unsafe working conditions. We’re at 26.2 and climbing at 10:20am.

[sofamonkey]

My sis referred to this as “satan’s taint” and she ain’t wrong! 😂

[sillygoosegirl]

DH managed to figure out how to DIY the AC repair we needed yesterday. We probably called 100 places before we found someone answering the phone who had the part we needed, and he charged us more than a 200% markup on it (which is fine, it was a cheap part). I'm so grateful to have working AC again! This weather sucks so much. How are so many people still not concerned about climate change? Ugh.

[smock]

So turns out we've had the bedroom ceiling fan rotating the wrong way all heatwave. Can you tell we don't get hot temps here that often? 😆

[sofamonkey]

Jun 28, 2021 14:57:19 GMT -5 sillygoosegirl said:

DH managed to figure out how to DIY the AC repair we needed yesterday. We probably called 100 places before we found someone answering the phone who had the part we needed, and he charged us more than a 200% markup on it (which is fine, it was a cheap part). I'm so grateful to have working AC again! This weather sucks so much. How are so many people still not concerned about climate change? Ugh.

If you follow Inslee on FB, he posted something about staying safe, as well as fighting climate change. There are tons of total asswagons laughing or saying some nonsense. It’s infuriating.

[pumpkin]

I just heard that part of I5 is buckling. And my sister texted me to say that the AC is out at her work; just one of the major hospitals and trauma centers in the area.

I’m so looking forward to only a high of 90-something tomorrow.

[aurora]

Jun 28, 2021 11:05:05 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

It’s 9 am and already 91*F. Headed to 115 today. I feel so drained, I was planning to do my workout early, but that didn’t happen. Now, I don’t know if it will happen….

I may not be the most dedicated exerciser anymore, but I feel like I could convince myself to take a rest day in the case of 1000-year heat or whatever statistical anomaly this is.