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3 hours ago, yoladu said:

high school football games this weekend. 100+ temperatures at 7pm kickoffs.

I hope school districts are wary and prepared.

Supposedly, a lot of games are being moved to 8pm starts.

Yeomans said a week or so ago that the high pressure shit was moving more toward the midwest and we'd get some relief.

Fuck this. 

 

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I believe that forecast will put us at 52 straight over 100. Do we make it to 60?

What the fuck is the point of even having Friday?  

49 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Yeomans said a week or so ago that the high pressure shit was moving more toward the midwest and we'd get some relief.

Fuck this. 

 

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In my mind's eye, those clouds from Friday through Monday look like fish about to explode.I may beat them to it!

12 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

I believe that forecast will put us at 52 straight over 100. Do we make it to 60?

Wunderground has Austin at 99/73 one week from Wed. Looks like a weak front based on the wind. Will probably fizzle in Oklahoma with the dry air air filtering in for a 109/80 day in Austin.

14 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

I believe that forecast will put us at 52 straight over 100. Do we make it to 60?

If you believe the AccuWeather 15-day forecast then it becomes a question of more than 60.

On the subject of long range looks, the high for the Rice game? 104.

SonInsaw a news story that we should expect an exceptionally cold and wet winter. 

Our poor grid. 

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That "-0.25" is actually negative 0.25 inches.  It will take moisture out of the ground.

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1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

If you believe the AccuWeather 15-day forecast then it becomes a question of more than 60.

On the subject of long range looks, the high for the Rice game? 104.

 

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Just took a shower on the coldest setting. Like on the letter C and that water never got below at least 90 the whole time. 

8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I must have missed it, but what is the concrete joke?

 

 

Just ribbing on someone trying to pass off a sharp uprising in heat increase over the last 20 years on the "concrete around Mabry" even thought the temps are the same in bum fuck Texas. 

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4 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

If you believe the AccuWeather 15-day forecast then it becomes a question of more than 60.

On the subject of long range looks, the high for the Rice game? 104.

The turf has to be at least 150 degrees. I hope nobody gets burned out there during tackles.

They should play the game at 2am to an empty stadium and broadcast the recording the next day.

11 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

I believe that forecast will put us at 52 straight over 100. Do we make it to 60?

Two months of straight 100+ is Sep 8 right?

 

So my kids can go outside for Columbus Day?  Cool, cool.  I'm really starting to worry about what this kinda weather is gonna do for their socialization.  Gonna make a few months of Covid social distancing look like amateur hour.  I mean, I can send them out to play and ride bikes 'n shit still, but if there's no other kids outside (which there's fucking not)...then what's the fucking point?  There's no socialization.  Then I gotta go out there to play sports with 'em and I'm fucking gassed, I'm out.  About two weeks ago, I fucking gave up on choring, playing outside.  We go swimming and even then, only briefly and right after dawn or right before dusk.  

The very thing we complained about during Covid, kids losing interaction time, is going to be visited upon them ten-fold. How many times can I show them the 'Frozen' DVD before it becomes cruel?  

10 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

So my kids can go outside for Columbus Day? 

It's Indigenous People's Day.  Indian's Day is also acceptable.

12 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

How many times can I show them the 'Frozen' DVD before it becomes cruel?  

Cruel to you or them?

Also, today wasn't supposed to crack 100 as of a few days ago, but that changed on Sunday, and this morning I saw it might hit 103.

Lovely.

GFS is showing lower temps (as in 98 degrees instead of 108 degrees) pretty consistently out past about a week. Wunderground is too.

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 Maybe we're about to turn a corner?

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25 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

So my kids can go outside for Columbus Day?  Cool, cool.  I'm really starting to worry about what this kinda weather is gonna do for their socialization.  Gonna make a few months of Covid social distancing look like amateur hour.  I mean, I can send them out to play and ride bikes 'n shit still, but if there's no other kids outside (which there's fucking not)...then what's the fucking point?  There's no socialization.  Then I gotta go out there to play sports with 'em and I'm fucking gassed, I'm out.  About two weeks ago, I fucking gave up on choring, playing outside.  We go swimming and even then, only briefly and right after dawn or right before dusk.  

The very thing we complained about during Covid, kids losing interaction time, is going to be visited upon them ten-fold. How many times can I show them the 'Frozen' DVD before it becomes cruel?  

You've never lived in a place like Chicago or Minneapolis, have you?

3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

You've never lived in a place like Chicago or Minneapolis, have you?

I grew up near there, first 17 years of my life.   Got hotter than two rats in a sock, almost as bad as here.  But the big difference was it cooled down at night.  After the angry fireball in the sky went to sleep, it was very pleasant in the 50's and 60's.  I went to bed last night and it was 94 degrees.  Every Texas weather tracker  says just as recently as 25 years ago, the days were 10 degrees cooler than they are now, and the nights were 10 degrees cooler than they are now.  The cumulative effect of this many hot years so close together, where extreme heat and draught last for so long on either end of summer, and barely reprieve at night, is a recipe for long-term shitiness.  

24 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

GFS is showing lower temps (as in 98 degrees instead of 108 degrees) pretty consistently out past about a week. Wunderground is too.

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 Maybe we're about to turn a corner?

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How I feel about were going to experience after the corner

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6 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

I grew up near there, first 17 years of my life.   Got hotter than two rats in a sock, almost as bad as here.  But the big difference was it cooled down at night.  After the angry fireball in the sky went to sleep, it was very pleasant in the 50's and 60's.  I went to bed last night and it was 94 degrees.  Every Texas weather tracker  says just as recently as 25 years ago, the days were 10 degrees cooler than they are now, and the nights were 10 degrees cooler than they are now.  The cumulative effect of this many hot years so close together, where extreme heat and draught last for so long on either end of summer, and barely reprieve at night, is a recipe for long-term shitiness.  

That's not what I'm saying.

In Chicago, you don't go outside between December 1 and March 1.  Kids don't go out and ride bikes or play outside.  If they socialize, they do so the same way they do here in the summer--they go over to a friend's house or they talk on the phone/internet.

And they've been doing that in Chicago for a very long time.  So I think your concerns about child socialization are misplaced.

Fair point.  I don't remember how we made it work, but we did.  I guess we bundled up to play, not much you can do when the asphalt in the street is 140 degrees and the backyard has been scorched of any grass.  This summer has been extra frustrating because the older one was embracing tennis and volleyball.  The younger one wanted to learn to ride a pedal bike and play soccer.  We tried doing all those things inside a friend's home but the parents got all pissy about us breaking shit.  

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Live look at the crowd at DKR:

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11 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Just took a shower on the coldest setting. Like on the letter C and that water never got below at least 90 the whole time. 

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55 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Live look at the crowd at DKR:

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Yep I will definitely not be at the game

My favorite part about this tropical storm?  It's nearby.  It won't give us shit for rain.  But it will whip up some serious-ass tropical storm-driven winds, in our area which is dry as a tinderbox and waiting for a spark.

Remind you of any place recently?  

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Yep I will definitely not be at the game

I try to make one game a year and never before November.

3:35 today. It's happening!

Narrator: No, it isn't.

 

Does it look a little like a middle finger? Yeah, yeah it does.

 

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My app shows the exact same thing, plus another cell about 90 minutes later slightly more north.

This is sad that we're looking for tiny spotty showers on the future radar map.

Looking at the forecast and overlaying my kids practice schedule the next two weeks. I think I am going to die. will it be hot on a turf field at 5:30 pm? How about 3pm Sunday?

I am going to dress like I live in Saudi Arabia.

During the week my only time to excercise is in the afternoon at the hottest part of the day.

Due to injury about the only thing I can do is cycling, which due to my own personal hang ups, I won't do on a stationary bike.

Nevertheless, I am able to get in 30 to 45 minutes outside on some more intense hill and sprint type of training.

Any more time than that, I feel dangerously overheated. Also, it becomes a logistical problem, as that is the amount of time that my do rags and head band become completely saturated with sweat and I can no longer control the stinging drip onto my eyes.

Some days I start out and head down the drive only to be hit in the face with a hot wind of death and then "nope" out and go watch tv, preferably some thing with some cold wintery scenery.

The wife and kids rock climb at the gym in ac comfort.

This morning felt "acceptable" in our corner of Austin... a little overcast which helps.  I've actually been sitting on the back patio which faces west and is covered so there's no direct sun back here for now.  Will probably throw in the towel soon but this is the first time I've done this in a while.  Yesterday it was about 100 by now.  Today a chilly 91.

On the bike riding... I keep telling myself that training in this heat will make us bulletproof later in the year.  Allegedly.  (or dead)

12 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Due to injury about the only thing I can do is cycling, which due to my own personal hang ups, I won't do on a stationary bike.

I got over my stationary bike hang ups and never looked back.  I'll do some outdoor riding when the weather is tolerable but for real work; it's the stationary with auto incline / resistance adjustments for me.  I like being able to go hard for 30 minutes straight and not have to worry about dodging traffic, dogs, rabid squirrels, etc.  Plus, AC.

4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

So my kids can go outside for Columbus Day?  Cool, cool.  I'm really starting to worry about what this kinda weather is gonna do for their socialization.  Gonna make a few months of Covid social distancing look like amateur hour.  I mean, I can send them out to play and ride bikes 'n shit still, but if there's no other kids outside (which there's fucking not)...then what's the fucking point?  There's no socialization.  Then I gotta go out there to play sports with 'em and I'm fucking gassed, I'm out.  About two weeks ago, I fucking gave up on choring, playing outside.  We go swimming and even then, only briefly and right after dawn or right before dusk.  

The very thing we complained about during Covid, kids losing interaction time, is going to be visited upon them ten-fold. How many times can I show them the 'Frozen' DVD before it becomes cruel?  

This doesn't make any sense at all. Are your kids not in school? That was the biggest socialization issue during covid. Also, get the phone numbers of other parents in your hood and arrange times for the kids to either play at your house or theirs. Just because they don't want to play outside on the weekends or after school doesn't mean their socialization skills are suffering. These are things that everyone has dealt with our entire lives, whether it be due to the heat in the south or the winters in the north. 

11 minutes ago, texasdago said:

This morning felt "acceptable" in our corner of Austin... a little overcast which helps.  I've actually been sitting on the back patio which faces west and is covered so there's no direct sun back here for now.  Will probably throw in the towel soon but this is the first time I've done this in a while.  Yesterday it was about 100 by now.  Today a chilly 91.

On the bike riding... I keep telling myself that training in this heat will make us bulletproof later in the year.  Allegedly.  (or dead)

I don't know about later in the year, but when I do my long rides on weekend mornings, they feel like a walk in the park comparatively.

Come to think of it, riding in the cold kind of sucks too.

1 hour ago, Jiggy-Z said:

During the week my only time to excercise is in the afternoon at the hottest part of the day.

Due to injury about the only thing I can do is cycling, which due to my own personal hang ups, I won't do on a stationary bike.

Nevertheless, I am able to get in 30 to 45 minutes outside on some more intense hill and sprint type of training.

Any more time than that, I feel dangerously overheated. Also, it becomes a logistical problem, as that is the amount of time that my do rags and head band become completely saturated with sweat and I can no longer control the stinging drip onto my eyes.

Some days I start out and head down the drive only to be hit in the face with a hot wind of death and then "nope" out and go watch tv, preferably some thing with some cold wintery scenery.

The wife and kids rock climb at the gym in ac comfort.

 

1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I got over my stationary bike hang ups and never looked back.  I'll do some outdoor riding when the weather is tolerable but for real work; it's the stationary with auto incline / resistance adjustments for me.  I like being able to go hard for 30 minutes straight and not have to worry about dodging traffic, dogs, rabid squirrels, etc.  Plus, AC.

Join the Pelo-cult!  It's amazing.  

Most of the world is ride-able.  And one day we will do the cleaning.

3 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Live look at the crowd at DKR:

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And I won’t be there either.

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