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Post by Randy_Cain on Jul 31, 2009 16:09:33 GMT -5
Hi, We've got a cold front moving through South Dakota today. Have you gotten any relief from it yet? Yours,  |
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Post by emfrat on Jul 31, 2009 16:17:11 GMT -5
Well, down here it is the first of August, the last month of Winter, and I haven't seen a cloud for over a week. When I got up at 0505 local, the OAT was 0.5C. It has now crept up to 2C, but by lunchtime it will be around 23 or 24C, which is very pleasant. My office/playroom has an oil-filled radiator with a timer, and it kicks in at 0430, so I am nice and cosy. Might give the aircon a run this afternoon, just to keep it on its toes  MikeW |
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Post by pilotgod on Jul 31, 2009 16:51:11 GMT -5
Well, down here it is the first of August, the last month of Winter, and I haven't seen a cloud for over a week. When I got up at 0505 local, the OAT was 0.5C. It has now crept up to 2C, but by lunchtime it will be around 23 or 24C, which is very pleasant. My office/playroom has an oil-filled radiator with a timer, and it kicks in at 0430, so I am nice and cosy. Might give the aircon a run this afternoon, just to keep it on its toes MikeW Yeah, yeah, I'll post this back to you in January and see how you like the heat. As for working on aircraft and having a brew, I've known some (including pilots) who honestly would do better work and be safer with a light buzz, but that's neither here nor there. I guess the best you can hope for is to be behind a nice prop spinning so you can at least get some air flow. Down here, we have to have swamp coolers in the hangars if we're going to get any work done during the day. I remember last summer in Arlington, TX (Dallas area) the hangar with the doors open was over 130F inside, the mechanics had us roll the planes out onto concrete, we sprayed them down with water, then they went to work. That was a miserable week. |
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Post by circleman on Jul 31, 2009 23:24:04 GMT -5
hi randy
got some relief today.
temps down by average 15 degrees F.
thx for the SD wx.
cman
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Post by ashaman on Aug 1, 2009 9:00:41 GMT -5
At least yours is a heat wave that will dissipate... here in Italy, where I live, in the mountains ( where it's relatively cooler than on sea-level flat grounds) it's from the first week of July that the coolest day was 34° C, and the fact that there is no rain at all, only mild winds that only move the heat around bringing no surcease, and high levels of humidity are not helping at all.  If I apply my mind to the fact that it will be another month and a half before it will cool down somewhat... I want to cry.  |
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Post by pilotgod on Aug 1, 2009 12:32:39 GMT -5
Yeah, ashaman, but you live in some of the most beautiful countryside on the planet, so if there are some "dues" to be paid to live there, can you really be that upset? I mean, it's better than being in the middle of the Sahara desert with nothing but sand dunes for a thousand miles in all directions right?
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Post by ashaman on Aug 1, 2009 14:30:44 GMT -5
At least in the Sahara there's strong winds and absence of humidity, so if you can find an oasis, you're set, but I guess you have a point.
May be beautiful, Italy (at least until our politicians will not destroy or sell it all off for money) but is very difficult to live in, in summer.
If only my father would accept the necessity of installing AC, it wouldn't be half as hard, at least in the house, and instead we must make it with a cheap fan.
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Post by Dennis the menace on Aug 9, 2009 19:22:14 GMT -5
Last week it was consistanly 114F to 117F every day. Last friday night we broke our old record for the highest recorded overnight low temp. At 5 AM it finally got down to 99 degrees F. I was up spraying for weeds the next morning and it was 106F at 8 AM. My pool was 90F in the water.
This last Monday we had a big windstorm blow through, and the temps have gone down. Today it was rather cool outside, only 104F. I noticed the pool has gone down to 84F in just a week.
Of course, it's always 78F inside the house, with central air. Our humidity has been hovering around 12% or so. Our usual monsoon desert thunderstorms have not happened this month. Usually we get 3 ot 4 inches of rain in August.
So I do any work outside in the morning, then stay inside in the AC, or go out and swim 4 or 5 times a day.
The hottest I have seen it here was 121 F last August. We had 46 days that were over 110F. Here, officially, a heat wave is 4 or more days over 110F.
I'm in Scottsdale, AZ.
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Post by jesse on Aug 9, 2009 21:40:43 GMT -5
Mike, that reminds me of my days at Williams AFB when I was in GCA. Even with A/C, it would get so hot in the trailer sitting out by the runway, it was almost impossible to touch any metal panel without getting a 3rd degree burn. We were only permitted 16 hours a week. Four hours for two mornings and four hours for two afternoons. Then it was off to the club pool for a swim. I guess my record heat would be in Saudi Arabia when I was over there setting up the Saudi airways and airport system. Usually 135 to 150F daily.
Jesse
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Post by circleman on Aug 9, 2009 22:12:57 GMT -5
wow jesse. that is some hot hot hot work. Never heard about your saudi travels.
we have returned to normative seattle weather. it was 68 and cloudy most of today. yippee!
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Post by pilotgod on Aug 9, 2009 23:43:29 GMT -5
Yeah, you Arizonans have got a good corner on heat. I once flew a plane from Glendale (supposed to start at SDL, but it got moved) back to Texas. I forget the precise OAT, but I remember that at full fuel, two pax, and 70 pounds of baggage in a 1969 Piper Arrow, we used nearly 2,800 ft of runway and the highest I could climb was 9,500 feet and up there it was still 95F. It changed my routing, I planned to fly direct to Demming, NM, but since I couldn't get over those big rock thingies y'all have there, I had to go South of them down by Tucson then cut across. That was a miserable, yet fun as heck flight. I just wish the old piper had air conditioning, because that little window next to the pilot isn't worth a darn thing in that kind of heat. Of course, it could've been worse, that heat with Dallas humidity. I think I would've died.
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Post by emfrat on Aug 20, 2009 16:52:11 GMT -5
Well, down here it is the first of August, the last month of Winter, and I haven't seen a cloud for over a week. When I got up at 0505 local, the OAT was 0.5C. It has now crept up to 2C, but by lunchtime it will be around 23 or 24C, which is very pleasant. My office/playroom has an oil-filled radiator with a timer, and it kicks in at 0430, so I am nice and cosy. Might give the aircon a run this afternoon, just to keep it on its toes MikeW Yeah, yeah, I'll post this back to you in January and see how you like the heat.  Me and my big mouth! At this time of year, there should be a weather system centred about Tasmania, pulling lots of polar air up from the Antarctic, in through the Great Australian Bight, and out between Brisbane and Bundaberg. There should be very cold westerlies, but look at the forecast for my region: Forecast for Friday Fine. Moderate to fresh NW to NE winds. Precis: Fine Max 27 UV Alert: 9:40 am to 2:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 5 [Moderate] Saturday Fine, hot Max 32 Sunday Fine, hot Max 33 Monday Fine, hot Max 34 Source: www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ10090.htmlMust be all that hot air coming out of Canberra MikeW |
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Post by okami on Aug 20, 2009 17:07:39 GMT -5
We've had some rather hot weather over here the past couple of days, which is rather unusual for our normally rain-sodden country.
Yesterday saw an average heat-record for our country, with a reference-temp of 31.7° for Ukkel (Brussels).
Last night, we had the hottest night of the year: 22.6°
And today, yesterday's average-record was broken: 33.0° for Ukkel. It was even hotter at Kleine Brogel (EBBL) - it's normally the hottest placel: the temperature peaked at 38.2°, which is the all-time record there (previous 37.8° in 2006).
Fortunately (or unfortunately?) no good weather goes unpunished here - in the afternoon we had some severe thunderstorms and showers. Tomorrow's forcast is for just 22°C.
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Post by ashaman on Aug 20, 2009 22:15:24 GMT -5
Don't... please don't talk about heat... it makes me sweat even more, especially now that I'm back from my brief seaside vacation and in spite of being 5:20 in the bloody morning. I know I already wrote bemoaning my land's heat in summer, but ever since and mostly lately it's being sweltering so much, I think we broke some record ( and in fact I am still awake at this ungodly hour mostly because of the terrifying combination of heat and humidity, 35° C + 72%). Really hope it will begin raining soon.  It's hard living without AC hereabout.  |
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Post by pilotgod on Aug 20, 2009 23:40:31 GMT -5
I guess this would be a bad time to mention that for the past few days we've been getting off and on thunderstorms with the average high being 92F (32C) and the low being 65F (18C). The humidity has been a bit high, but with the southerly breeze and shade from clouds passing by, hasn't been all that bad. Granted, you still get sticky and would rather be in air conditioning or on a nice tropical beach, but then again, it's August, in Oklahoma. You take what you can get.
Now as to those thunderstorms, 80 mph winds, 3/4 inch hail, over 8 inch per hour rainfalls, and more lightning strikes then the thunder can keep up with all make for some interesting nights. Behind our house is a creek that normally is an underground spring, but when it rains the runoff comes up to about 10 feet in places, goes down to a pond and sometimes causes the water table to rise so there is a small trickle of a stream. During the storm we had a couple of days ago, we had two trees get swept down by waters that look to have been nearing 15 feet deep and doing about 20 mph. The entire landscape of the backyard has been changed, and worse is it will change again the next time it rains. I've just learned to grab my camera, sit on the veranda and try to get some good lightning photos. About the only thing to do when the lightning and wind knock out power for hours at a time.
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Me and my big mouth! At this time of year, there should be a weather system centred about Tasmania, pulling lots of polar air up from the Antarctic, in through the Great Australian Bight, and out between Brisbane and Bundaberg. There should be very cold westerlies, but look at the forecast for my region:
