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[–] 45 points 1 year ago*

The dishonest LIBS are trying to convince you global warming is real by leaving ALASKA off the map. ALASKA is still cold, therefore climate change not real. Checkmate, atheists. ^/s in case it's not obvious^

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    So what’s California without Death Valley?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Still hot as hell. The central valley, and basically anywhere more than 10 miles inland that isn't elevated, is insufferable in the summer. Sacramento has a high of 102 today

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My thought, given I'm by the coast and it's only 85 here right now. It's actually been weirdly cool up until August, actually, for a lot of CA. Everyone else was borrowing our summer heatwaves.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was just reading an article about the past 2 summers being below average along the coast here. That jibes with my experience. Honestly I wouldn't mind a few more hot days.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Plus all the rain those previous years lead to a ton of growth. Then just one dry period was all it took to cause those horrible fires earlier this year. Inconsistency is kind of a big problem everywhere when it comes to climate change.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    this doesn't factor in the "feels like" temp. Florida is a LOTTT worse than other places because it's very swampy and humid which makes your body unable to sweat to cool itself down.

    I visited new Orleans for like a week a few years ago and was like "damn you bitches just get to live like this?? you can actually go outside?!" even though it was like 90°+

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Humidity is killer. I've lived in Vegas during the summers, and New Jersey.

    When it feels like you're swimming in the air, it's so much worse!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I've been in the Mojave in the summer, and yeah, it's hot during the day, but when the sun goes down it cools off. I live in Jersey (best state!) and when it's 95° and 100% humidity, there is just no escape, day and night.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Shhh, we can't let everyone know NJ is the best state, they might come here, and we're already so packed!

    If more people come...actually, maybe we'd get actual public transport then, if it gets that crowded. Hmmm....

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I live in PA and experienced humidity so bad that my glasses fogged up when I stepped outside. It was awful.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it... doesn't do that... everywhere?

    I've only gotten glasses like a year and a half ago and haven't visited father than Georgia in that time. I thought that was like an experience that happens no matter where you are. TIL.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That can't be true. You shouldn't sweat less in humid heat. If anything, you should sweat more in humid heat because your sweat isn't able to evaporate and cool you off.

    Perhaps you could get dehydrated more easily in dry heat just because you don't notice the water loss as quickly since you stay drier longer. However, I would wager that if you hold air temp, exposure time, and activity level constant, then higher humidity would lead to greater water loss.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Great Lakes cooling is real apparently.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I could swear we broke 100F more than once when I was growing up in rural Ohio in the '80s and '90s. I wonder if it's a source/data problem?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Illinois has hit 100 a couple times. I was there in July and it was 101 on multiple days in July.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I’m curious where Hawaii sits. Does the ocean breeze help keep it cool or no?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    This lists 92°f last month, but it's likely only for this location and not the entire state. It's generally very temperate, with Honolulu averaging 75°-85°f all year. Looks like there are some spots that average a little higher, but the state as a whole has only a single instance of recording 100°f in 1931. But on the other end, the tops of some of the mountains are high enough they get regular snowfall every year, with the lowest ever recorded being 12°f.

    ETA -
    92°f = 33.3°c
    75°-85°f = 23.9°-29.4°c
    100°f = 37.8°c
    12°f = -11.1°c

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    51 degrees science in that one over there in the west?! That’s too damn hot

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The temp there is going to be from Death Valley, near the Nevada border, which is the hottest place on earth.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's boiling temperature! How come they are still alive?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s crazy we haven’t had any 110 days in Texas this year. It actually hasn’t felt like all that hot of a summer compared to what we usually get. I’m sure it really sucks ass for those states who aren’t used to or prepared for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have lived in Tennessee since 09, and just moved to SC in April. SC has been hell, temperature wise. It's brutally hot and humid. Just spent 9 days in Texas (San Antonio), and the whole time I was there the number on the thermometer was higher than back in SC, but it felt significantly cooler. Everyone kept saying it was so humid and hotter than normal, but after 5 months in the SC low country it felt like a treat. I miss my TN weather, though. Especially now that I'm back in SC

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    idk about 2025, but +100°F in Alaska is a thing

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's been a thing once, at least in an official, record-keeping capacity. In Fort Yukon, AK it hit 100F in 1915, but the accuracy of that reading is still in question.

    That said it is pretty normal for Fairbanks and other parts of the interior to get up in the high 80s/low 90s in the summer (before dipping down to the -20s/-30s for the winter).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The Alcan — the Alaska Highway — is the world’s longest franchise ghetto, a one-dimensional city two thousand miles long and a hundred feet wide, and growing at the rate of a hundred miles a year, or as quickly as people can drive up to the edge of the wilderness and park their bagos in the next available slot. It is the only way out for people who want to leave America but don’t have access to an airplane or a ship. It’s all two-lane, paved but not well paved, and choked with mobile homes, family vans, pickup trucks with camper backs. It starts somewhere in the middle of British Columbia, at the crossroads of Prince George, where a number of tributaries feed in together to make a single northbound highway. South of there, the tributaries split into a delta of feeder roads that crosses the Canadian/American border at a dozen or more places spread out over five hundred miles from the fjords of British Columbia to the vast striped wheatlands of central Montana. Then it ties into the American road system, which serves as the headwaters of the migration. This five-hundredmile swath of territory is filled with would-be arctic explorers in great wheeled houses, optimistically northbound, and more than a few rejects who have abandoned their bagos in the north country and hitched a ride back down south. The lumbering bagos and top-heavy fourwheelers form a moving slalom course for Hiro on his black motorcycle. All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they’d grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units. With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheeldrive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain’t what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream. In twenty years, ten million white people will converge on the north pole and park their bagos there. The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous. It will a hole through the polar icecap, all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it. For a fee, you can drive into Snooze ‘n’ Cruise franchise umbilical your bago. The magic words are “We Have Pull-Thrus,” which means you can enter franchise, hook up, sleep, unhook, and drive out without ever having shift your land zeppelin into reverse. They used to claim it was campground, tried to design franchise with a rustic motif, but customers kept chopping up those log-and-plank signs and wooden picnic tables and using them cooking fires. Nowadays, the signs are electric polycarbonate bubbles, the corporate identity is all round and polished and smooth, in same way that a urinal is, to prevent stuff from building up in the cracks. Because it’s not really camping when you don’t have a house to go back to.

    Snow Crash

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Texas is a bit surprising.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It absolutely has been a mild summer. We have only had 4 days in the DFW area over 100 vs typically around 18 days on an average year. We easily hit past 107 in a normal year just in DFW.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is there a version in standard international units?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    West of the Mississippi and excluding the PNW, that looks pretty normal. Plus, you gotta account for extremes. I'm in NW Florida, that 105 was likely recorded at the very tip. California has Death valley.

    How do you Yanks feel about the northeast numbers?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Do it again with record lows and the map will invert.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    94 in Wisconsin, 97 in Michigan, 98 in Vermont, 97 in Ohio.

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