Pacific NW To Be Hotter Than Miami This Weekend

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24 Jun 2021, 1:27 am

Lucky us Pacific Northwesterners. :(


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25 Jun 2021, 9:15 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Lucky us Pacific Northwesterners. :(


Well, we in the Pacific NW are going to be in a time loop (of sorts) at least until the 4th of July.

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25 Jun 2021, 10:58 pm

Will it be a dry heat or will there be a lot of humidity?


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26 Jun 2021, 9:48 am

After this weekend I will have a good reason to never visit Miami. :twisted:


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26 Jun 2021, 9:52 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
Will it be a dry heat or will there be a lot of humidity?

Where I am in the PNW it's very humid whenever it gets hot. I don't know about other places.



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26 Jun 2021, 9:53 am

This is unusual this time of year. We usually got heat waves in July and August for 3 weeks total but I get a feeling this will be a lot longer this year. Our AC can't even keep our house at 70 when it's so hot out.


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26 Jun 2021, 12:54 pm

During a heat wave in other parts of the country, Miami is frequently cooler than places with heat waves. Their problem is not high temperatures, necessarily----but high humidity.

Miami itself has only hit 100 degrees once in its history. New York City has hit 100 degrees quite a few times; and it's all-time high is 106 degrees.



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26 Jun 2021, 1:37 pm

Houston has hit 109 twice, but it was unusually dry both times.

Normally we’re in the 90s with high humidity.

Still better than Louisiana, especially the area between Lafayette and Baton Rouge.


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26 Jun 2021, 4:01 pm

Portland and Seattle will not be humid, either.



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27 Jun 2021, 6:40 am

I’m here in Washington, Seattle area. It’s 4:40am and 74 degrees currently; today my city is projected to hit 106, tomorrow 111.



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27 Jun 2021, 8:28 am

Here in Beaverton, Oregon they are forecasting 113 for today and 111 for tomorrow. It hit 108 yesterday. A new all-time record high.


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27 Jun 2021, 11:48 am

Our AC decided to quit working again. It's 80 inside while it's 88 outside but my room is cooler because I have the fan blowing in there.

I grew up in 100 degree weather without any AC but we had fans and the basement where I stayed cool. It gets real hot in Montana this time of year and stays this hot till September and our middle school had no AC and neither did my high school and we all survived.

I still can't believe people in Portland still can't handle this heat. I mean drink water, dress down, use fans, get some AC for god's sake and use fans. No places shut down in Montana over heat, even if small places had no AC, they used fans and had them all over. Since we get this heat every summer for a few weeks, people should already know how to adjust to it without treating it like its dystopian weather.


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27 Jun 2021, 2:43 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
During a heat wave in other parts of the country, Miami is frequently cooler than places with heat waves. Their problem is not high temperatures, necessarily----but high humidity.

Miami itself has only hit 100 degrees once in its history. New York City has hit 100 degrees quite a few times; and it's all-time high is 106 degrees.

It is harder to achieve extremely high temperatures in a humid airmass. That is one reason most of the world's records have been set in deserts.

The 100+ degree readings in NYC usually occur with moderate or low humidity. Traditionally 100+ degree readings in NYC occur only occasionally. It was thought global warming would make 100+ degree readings in New York routine. That has not happened in almost 10 years, what has happened is a lot of upper 80s to mid-90s readings with extreme humidity. Dew Point is a measurement of humidity. If the dew point is 70 degrees the relative humidity will be 100 percent. Growing up a dewpoint of 70 was considered very humid uncomfortably steamy. The last few summers 70+ dewpoints are routine and 75+ dewpoints once a rarity has been happening fairly often. Instead of the extremely high readings predicted we are getting Miami-like summers.

Dew points in the region are around 70 or 71 at the moment.

Back to the Pacific Northwest, they are in a world of hurt, shattering many temperatures records, not just for the day but for the month of June and even for all time.


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27 Jun 2021, 2:59 pm

Here in Spokane Valley this afternoon, it's 98 degrees!


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27 Jun 2021, 4:34 pm

Canada could also hit its all-time record high this week.


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