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25 minutes ago, ztejas said:

My weather on my phone says feels like 118.

Not sure how many times I've ever seen that. At any point during the summer. 

I got this right now for Austin:

  • 103F,
  • 42% humidity,
  • heat index 121F

 

(81F and raining in Dallas right now!)

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3 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

I'll believe that when my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet. 

 

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The 70 percent chance of rain at 7pm is already down to 50 percent. It'll be 30 in an hour and zero at 7.

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Heat index in NB is up to 124.....furk.

Corpus just set a record for 127!

3 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

That doesn't seem like it could be right but like I commented earlier I can't ever remember seeing a "feels like" close to 120.

It takes a strong enough low to make it happen.  Very possibly won't, but a strong enough low will feed off a big high pressure system and become even stronger.  
Typically the only thing that gets rid of the dome is wobbling and weakening itself, or a massive low pressure system...like a hurricane.  

Right, but black holes also exert a gravitational force so strong light can’t escape and suck draw much of the surrounding material in. The implication that the heat dome will act like that and bring a bunch of tropical moisture (liking “good, bring me the rain”) is a bad metaphor. Hurricanes/tropical storms go around strong high pressure domes, not into them. There’s a reason we don’t get a lot of hurricanes in July/early August, because that’s when it’s typical for a high like this to park over the state.

There’s your daily dose of semantics, carry on.

Here’s my weather underground 
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100 degrees in Houston (hotter then PHX), 74 degree dew point (similar humidity to MIA), resulting heat index: 115

Bonus: AQI of 84 puts us right there with CDMX (83) for air quality.

Heaven, I tell you.

Oh....wait till you look at the forecast for NEXT week.  Mon-Fri....forecast high of 106.  EVERY.  FUCKING.  DAY.

Fuck. This. Shit.

51 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Heat index in NB is up to 124.....furk.

Insane. 102 deg w/ 80 deg DP observed at 15;51.

Persian Gulf weather....ahhh nice.

26 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Bonus: AQI of 84 puts us right there with CDMX (83) for air quality.

Austin has been around 70.

AQI has been shitty through this entire thing. 

Glad the boy has baseball practice in less than an hour. Hope he drank water all day like I told him. Ugh this weekend will be brutal. Baseball needs to end in May down here.

23 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

Glad the boy has baseball practice in less than an hour. Hope he drank water all day like I told him. Ugh this weekend will be brutal. Baseball needs to end in May down here.

Keep an eye on his cheeks. If they go beat red GTFO.

My boy had summer 7v7 lax,l practice, but he said he wasn't feeling well, so we are skipping it. Pads and helmet in this weather? Pass.

2 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

127 heat index in corpus is insane

 

with that humidity?

Considering heat index is calculated using Relative Humidity to get a heat index of 127 it’s kind of given that the humidity is piss. 

11 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

My boy had summer 7v7 lax,l practice, but he said he wasn't feeling well, so we are skipping it. Pads and helmet in this weather? Pass.

How many players does lax have on a side normally?

I first heard of heat index at basic training 30 years ago at Ft Jackson in May. It was announced every hour when we were out training. Once it hit a certain mark we went inside for classroom training.

Being a dumbshit/young Texan I scoffed, "if it's hawt it's hawt".  Didn't listen to anything about it. 

Next thing I know I wake up in the infirmary with a giant needle in my ankle. I had collapsed from heat exhaustion and dehydration. No heat stroke tho.

Had to wear a white arm band of shame for a week and drink two canteens of water at every morning formation. 

I’m with the previous poster that the weather services are spouting bullshit on the heat index numbers and trying to one up each other. Oh, TWC says it feels like 108?  Well fuck them, we’re going to say it feels like 110. A week from now some clickbait site will post a heat index of 205. 

We cooled off with some Nachos Supremos and Mexican Martinis this afternoon at Santiago’s on 620….

 

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me earlier today escaping on my flight home to Denver...

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jeezus. i don't see myself visiting Texas May-Sept ever again if i can help it (had a funeral this week). 

15 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I’m with the previous poster that the weather services are spouting bullshit on the heat index numbers and trying to one up each other. Oh, TWC says it feels like 108?  Well fuck them, we’re going to say it feels like 110. A week from now some clickbait site will post a heat index of 205. 

Heat index is an objective metric comprised of two numbers that are readily available to anyone. Go get a thermometer and hygrometer and find a heat index chart and it will be 115+ at 4 pm.

11 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Nothing about those nachos look supreme.

Stuck the plate outside until the cheese melted 

19 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

We cooled off with some Nachos Supremos and Mexican Martinis this afternoon at Santiago’s on 620….

 

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But how much did you take home with you?

6 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Heat index is an objective metric comprised of two numbers that are readily available to anyone. Go get a thermometer and hygrometer and find a heat index chart and it will be 115+ at 4 pm.

Ok, replace heat index with “Feels Like” bullshit. 

22 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I first heard of heat index at basic training 30 years ago at Ft Jackson in May. It was announced every hour when we were out training. Once it hit a certain mark we went inside for classroom training.

Being a dumbshit/young Texan I scoffed, "if it's hawt it's hawt".  Didn't listen to anything about it. 

Next thing I know I wake up in the infirmary with a giant needle in my ankle. I had collapsed from heat exhaustion and dehydration. No heat stroke tho.

Had to wear a white arm band of shame for a week and drink two canteens of water at every morning formation. 

Not quite as rough, but at boy Scout summer camp in Mississippi when it was about 96° my senior patrol leader threw up and then passed out at lunch. I realized that talking to them about hydration would not work, so I wound up making them drink a bottle of water before we went to breakfast or dinner - and they had to drink a bottle of water in front of me if they wanted their money to go to the camp scout shop to get ice cream or other junk. 

Fucking SPL got vomit on my hat.   When he recovered I made him wash it - for setting the bad hydration example for the younger guys. Easy for kids to mess up in high heat. 

Insane. 102 deg w/ 80 deg DP observed at 15;51.
Persian Gulf weather....ahhh nice.

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37 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

How many players does lax have on a side normally?

Up until 4th grade it's usually 7v7, but > they play a full field 10v10 (goalie, 3 defense, 3 mid, 3 attack). But re: today's practice, looks like Thor lightning detector is going off, so my flakiness doesn't count. 

I’m with the previous poster that the weather services are spouting bullshit on the heat index numbers and trying to one up each other. Oh, TWC says it feels like 108?  Well fuck them, we’re going to say it feels like 110. A week from now some clickbait site will post a heat index of 205. 

I don’t think it’s the weather services trying to one up each other so much as there are so many individual weather stations that it’s easy for someone’s location to be right next to one getting a weird reading for whatever reason

Lightning, booming thunder, and Wunderground just dropped from 31% to 16%. So sick of this shit. Hope they’re wrong for a change, but it’s been pretty spot on for us lately

It's weird and annoying having to crack my car windows all day and then run outside when the random thunderstorms hit to roll them back up.  I wish it would at least cool things down, but nope, still a billion degrees.

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Keep an eye on his cheeks. If they go beat red GTFO.

We rolled up, immediately the lightning warning system went off.  Now we are home watching these storms miss us. Fun times.

37 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

But how much did you take home with you?

Ate it all.

52 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Nothing about those nachos look supreme.

Good enough for us gringos.

40 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Ok, replace heat index with “Feels Like” bullshit. 

Heat index = feels like

 

lol

 

 

3 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

Heat index = feels like

 

lol

 

 

I think feels like factors in wind and cloud cover. But maybe I'm wrong. 

Well it feels like...uhhh.. amazing outside now. Despite having the rain go right around us. 2nd time in the last week we were missed by maybe a mile. FML. 

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2 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

Well it feels like...uhhh.. amazing outside now. Despite having the rain go right around us. 2nd time in the last week we were missed by maybe a mile. FML. 

Yeah. Not a bad temp change.

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Campus walking tour with my daughter on 40 acres today.  
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Dayummmmm!  At least I got a few beers from Dervin at Crown.

This rain cooled air is amazing. Fuck that 106 degree bullshit.

3 hours ago, Grade of D as in David said:

I am ensconced in dry fit.  It's the only way to survive.

We’ve basically (as an office since Covid) gone completely to golf attire as office attire.  Golf shirts, Game Guard shirts and pants.  I’ve even bought the damn no see/barely see dress socks to wear with whatever shoe I’m wearing because regular dress socks aren’t comfortable to wear when it’s summer.  I’m thankful for that.   

6 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Where are all the yahoos that say natural disasters happen because god is angry? Is this because Texas didn't pass having the 10 commandments in classrooms? /nocr

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Well. Fuck. 

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