WTF is with this bleeping weather?

[Homebrewer]

Heat is on up here in the sierra too. Expected to be around 100 the next 2 days and then down to the mid-high 90's for the foreseeable future.

Also..Happy Solstice!

(From NOAA)

The Summer Solstice occurs today at 3:34 PM PDT. This also happens
to coincide with a full moon this morning.

 

Solstice

Either of the two times per year when the sun is at its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator: about June 21 (the Northern Hemisphere summer solstice), when the sun reaches its northernmost point on the celestial sphere, or about December 22 (the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice), when it reaches its southernmost point.

 

[nate]

50 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

I'll take the straight heat, over 92 degrees and am thunderstorms.  You might as well take 5 shirts to work with you.  Everytime you step outside, you'd need to change one.

Yup, that will end up being the worst day of the year.  We seems to always get one.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Sweet, longest day of the year today and its blazing hot.  My house doesn't have AC, but we have a couple of those portable units that vent out a window.  It works pretty good.  Might have to take the kids to the pool after work to cool off.

[Amazing Larry]

27 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

The Summer Solstice occurs today at 3:34 PM PDT. This also happens
to coincide with a full moon this morning.

[Jay]

On 6/11/2016 at 8:39 PM, gotbeer said:

Today was cold, and had some kind of mist that wasn't really rain and wasn't really fog.  It's supposed to be summer dammit.

lol

 

[arch stanton]

I haven't lived in OC in 40 years but here's my impression of the OC residents this week:

 

Godammit! I didn't pay $600 thousand for this little stucco box just to sit through triple digit days. Thanks, Obama

[Jay]

Supposed to drop by at least 10 degrees tomorrow and then be perfect through the 4th.

[Jay]

Cooling off already here in HB

 

[Stradling]

Dear Mother Nature,

Go Fuck Yourself!

Sincerely,

Someone working in a kitchen today. 

[Tank]

I'm guessing Bixby Knolls is somewhere in the quadruple digits today.

[Tank]

as bad as it is here today, this is still better than the caribbean (that probably sounds a bit pretentious right know, but whatever). while every day was between 82-86, the humidity was at least 90% each day. Falmouth, Jamaica was an absolute beast. we sang in a church with no A/C, but they had some giant fans that made it a bit less horrifying.

[fan_since79]

17 minutes ago, Tank said:

I'm guessing Bixby Knolls is somewhere in the quadruple digits today.

Nope. A balmy 98 at the moment. Life is good.

 

 

[IEAngelsfan]

The high here in Jurupa Valley is expected to reach 116.  111 as I'm posting.

Thanks Al Gore!

[fan_since79]

114 in Van Nuys right now.

That's a little weird for June.

 

[Tank]

58 minutes ago, fan_since79 said:

Nope. A balmy 98 at the moment. Life is good.

so not even the low 300s? incredible!

[Ray McKigney]

[Jay]

Weird weather.

Hot this morning, then cooled off, now hot again.

 

[fan_since79]

116 in Canoga Park.

There's a weather station in Tarzana that's reporting 117.

Crazy hot.

 

[Amazing Larry]

1 hour ago, IEAngelfan said:

The high here in Jurupa Valley is expected to reach 116.  111 as I'm posting.

Thanks Al Gore!

Hey man, if it wasn't for him you couldn't post that on the internet.

[Ray McKigney]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

Weird weather.

Hot this morning, then cooled off, now hot again.

 

Earthquake weather.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Bandar Mahshahr, Iran recorded a heat index of 165 degrees - the second highest ever recorded. The air temperature was 115 degrees, with a dew point of 90.

 

Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degrees, near world record

[Jay]

14 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Bandar Mahshahr, Iran recorded a heat index of 165 degrees - the second highest ever recorded. The air temperature was 115 degrees, with a dew point of 90.

 

Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 165 degrees, near world record

A year ago, but yeah that's pretty hot.

[Mark68]

It was 98 officially in Denver (at DIA). Record is 99.

That's plenty hot enough for me. I don't need to see 110 or that shit you're seeing in SoCal. The following will make some jealous:

It's supposed to be mid-80s with thunderstorms tomorrow...

 

[nate]

Mid 80s with storms is just about as bad as upper 90s.

[Homebrewer]

Forest Service Survey Finds Record 66 Million Dead Trees in Southern Sierra Nevada

 

 

Last Updated: Wednesday, 22 June 2016 11:00

Full article:

http://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/7113-forest-service-survey-finds-record-66-million-dead-trees-in-southern-sierra-nevada

Credit: USDA

Underscores Need for Congress to Take Action on Fire Budget Fix

VALLEJO, Calif., June 22, 2016 - The U.S. Forest Service today announced that it has identified an additional 26 million trees dead in California since October 2015. These trees are located in six counties across 760,000 acres in the southern Sierra Nevada region of the state, and are in addition to the 40 million trees that died statewide from 2010 to October 2015, bringing the total to at least 66 million dead trees. Four consecutive years of severe drought in California, a dramatic rise in bark beetle infestation and warmer temperatures are leading to historic levels of tree die-off.

"Tree dies-offs of this magnitude are unprecedented and increase the risk of catastrophic wildfires that puts property and lives at risk," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "While the fire risk is currently the most extreme in California because of the tree mortality, forests across the country are at risk of wildfire and urgently need restoration requiring a massive effort to remove this tinder and improve their health. Unfortunately, unless Congress acts now to address how we pay for firefighting, the Forest Service will not have the resources necessary to address the forest die-off and restore our forests. Forcing the Forest Service to pay for massive wildfire disasters out of its pre-existing fixed budget instead of from an emergency fund like all other natural disasters means there is not enough money left to do the very work that would help restore these high mortality areas. We must fund wildfire suppression like other natural disasters in the country."