Current Events > It is currently 115 degrees in Portland Oregon

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https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/weather/current/KPDX.html

Holy shit!

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Streetcar cables are melting lol
https://twitter.com/PDXStreetcar/status/1409287314870837253?s=19

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Youd think power cables would handle heat better

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Previous hottest days in Portland: 108 in the 80s, 107 in the 60s

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Pine Sol Lady: That's the power of naughtiness!

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lol portland

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Global warming gonna kill us

Yeah, this is f'n terrible. I can't even turn my computer on to pass the time because it keeps getting too hot

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Texas freezes
California burns
Upper west coast melting
East coast gets hurricanes, upper half gets blizzards with 5 feet of snow

*laughs in Midwestern*

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littlebro07 posted...

Texas freezes
California burns
Upper west coast melting
East coast gets hurricanes, upper half gets blizzards with 5 feet of snow

*laughs in Midwestern*

while everyone is evacuating the Midwest

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Nah but it snowed somewhere last winter so climate change isnt real.

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CE_gonna_CE posted...

I lived their when I was in the womb.

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Guess we got lucky in Vegas with it only going up to 109

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

while everyone is evacuating the Midwest

wait why

Im in Omaha, everything seems fine here

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That's hotter than it's ever been in any of the major Texas cities lol. How is that possible

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"maybe I should register to vote"
Said the homeless
And the Republican man said
"No. If you don't have an address to you don't exist"
And the wind
Cries
Mary


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Does anyone know the highest temperature that humans can tolerate when they go outside?

TheVipaGTS posted...

Nah but it snowed somewhere last winter so climate change isnt real.

Portland actually got a decent amount of snow for a few days earlier this year. More than a foot in one day, which is a lot for the area.

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B18Champ posted...

Does anyone know the highest temperature that humans can tolerate when they go outside?

The limit for what the human body can withstand is approximately 130 degrees, though your risk of heat stroke and all first starts around 80 degrees and gets alarming in the mid 90s, by 100 you're basically gonna need to avoid the sun entirely to be safe.

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B18Champ posted...

Does anyone know the highest temperature that humans can tolerate when they go outside?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

We're all doomed

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Talk2DaHand posted...

We're all doomed

We've got the solar cycle on top of the "hockey stick", so absurd peaks just happen from time to time.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/solact.html

SE Portland here. Can confirm its currently hell on earth. These ACs have been clutch

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littlebro07 posted...

Texas freezes
California burns
Upper west coast melting
East coast gets hurricanes, upper half gets blizzards with 5 feet of snow

*laughs in Midwestern*

I've seen Chicago and Minnesota winters, fam


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That boggles the mind.

littlebro07 posted...

Texas freezes
California burns
Upper west coast melting
East coast gets hurricanes, upper half gets blizzards with 5 feet of snow

*laughs in Midwestern*

You left out Detroit is flooded

My above ground pool sprang leaks from the shell melting. Im gonna have to fix that when it cools down tomorrow.

wbloechel posted...

I think everything in my lawn is melted tho.

if it melts... it's a witch. even that cable.
edit: it cooked so bad last night. one of the few nights i couldn't use a blanket.
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I think the highest it's been in dallas proper is 112 or 113? Highest heat index I can recall is 118 (happened last august).

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Omg, do you feel that breeze?!?!

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I think the highest i have ever been in is about 100-101 lol, (I have been in heat indencies were the actual temp is in the 80's/low 90s but the real feel is in the mid 110's, gotta love the Deep South)

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my place is about 1/2 mile from the puget sound, i hit a max of 102. my house interior got up to 99. my room i have 2 air conditioners running (one on an extension cord so its on a different circuit) and its still 82 in my room.

my brother in bellevue hit 108. my parents south of Oympia hit 111.

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littlebro07 posted...

*laughs in Midwestern*

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it feels so nice out now

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People laughing in Midwestern don't realize that our part of the country has never had these conditions and more importantly, not very much here is built to withstand this kind of weather. Our infrastructure isn't able to handle it. Most home owners have AC but when electrical cables literally melt in temperatures they'd never reach, it means fuck all. Plus all the apartment renters, and homeless people. Basically? You've never actually been in these kinds of conditions because you're in an area that has things in place to withstand the heat.

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littlebro07 posted...

wait why

Im in Omaha, everything seems fine here

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We've had probably the nicest start to summer in Florida. It rains most days around 1pm, cools things down, and even if the sun comes back out, it hovers in the low to mid 80s. July and August usually suck, but so far so good.

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gunplagirl posted...

People laughing in Midwestern don't realize that our part of the country has never had these conditions and more importantly, not very much here is built to withstand this kind of weather. Our infrastructure isn't able to handle it. Most home owners have AC but when electrical cables literally melt in temperatures they'd never reach, it means fuck all. Plus all the apartment renters, and homeless people. Basically? You've never actually been in these kinds of conditions because you're in an area that has things in place to withstand the heat.

I was gonna ask, how common are ACs up there? Do apartment renters really not have them?
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spanky1 posted...

I was gonna ask, how common are ACs up there? Do apartment renters really not have them?

They're not legally required, only heat. So they're really rare, none of the apartments I've been in here had them unless they were a friend's place in a closer to upscale than not type of building. If that description makes sense. Programmer type of income but not programmer with money to blow kind of income types would be the ones to live there.

Nearest cooling center to me is probably downtown so it's... Troubling. If the power went out here I'd be fucked. My new gf would pick me up again to chill in her house, sure, but my roommates are disabled veterans and have a cat. So I'd still be worried regardless.

Ah, but that's getting off topic from what you asked. Basically, no, most apartments don't have AC and there's enough areas without power that there's a lot of people at risk from this heat. Just based on hospital admissions I'm wagering a dozen heat related deaths happened Sunday and Monday here.

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littlebro07 posted...

*laughs in Midwestern*

We're lucky we'll all be dead before it gets to the critical point, sucks to be you future generations.

bknight posted...

We're lucky we'll all be dead before it gets to the critical point, sucks to be you future generations.

why? they'll just fly to mars with Cyborg Elon Musk and "Cobra Kai"" Jeff Bezos

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California always burning tho

Can't wait to get snow in LA

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bknight posted...

We're lucky we'll all be dead before it gets to the critical point, sucks to be you future generations.

I've done my part by not contributing to those damned souls. ^^

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66 now at 1 am

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God damn

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