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Valmy

#5400
August 15, 2020, 12:53:03 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 14, 2020, 06:19:42 AM
It's now cooled down and there's no sun and I'm unhappy that I have to wear trousers again :( <_< :blush:

You lucky bastard. You lucky lucky bastard.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Duque de Bragança

#5401
August 15, 2020, 02:54:08 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 14, 2020, 06:19:42 AM
It's now cooled down and there's no sun and I'm unhappy that I have to wear trousers again :( <_< :blush:

That chilly or are you just fickle?  :P

Valmy

#5402
August 15, 2020, 03:14:07 PM
Quote from: merithyn on August 10, 2020, 07:16:21 PM
Huge storm moved across the midwest today. Over 400,000 people in central Iowa without power, including the entire city of Ames - where my daughter lives.

Admiral Yi? You okay? :unsure: I heard Iowa City got walloped pretty badly, too.

Yi hasn't visited Languish since so I guess he did lose power :hmm:
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Admiral Yi

#5403
August 15, 2020, 03:59:16 PM
I did lose power.  Just got it back today.

This type of storm is called a derecho; I had never heard the term before.  Straight line winds, not circular.

Trees down all over town.  My front yard looks like a bocage.  The side wall on my patio got knocked down.

Life without power is weird and stressful.

Oexmelin

#5404
August 15, 2020, 04:38:29 PM
Glad you are okay. :)
Que le grand cric me croque !

garbon

#5405
August 15, 2020, 05:23:51 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on August 15, 2020, 02:54:08 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 14, 2020, 06:19:42 AM
It's now cooled down and there's no sun and I'm unhappy that I have to wear trousers again :( <_< :blush:

That chilly or are you just fickle?  :P

He's fickle. It wasn't that cold. ;)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Sheilbh

#5406
August 15, 2020, 05:34:40 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 15, 2020, 05:23:51 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on August 15, 2020, 02:54:08 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 14, 2020, 06:19:42 AM
It's now cooled down and there's no sun and I'm unhappy that I have to wear trousers again :( <_< :blush:

That chilly or are you just fickle?  :P

He's fickle. It wasn't that cold. ;)
:o Et tu, Garbo?

I'm still in trousers because, apparently, summer is over :(
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

#5407
August 15, 2020, 05:42:34 PM
I've fans on in my bedroom right now. -_-
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Syt

#5409
August 17, 2020, 01:53:35 AM
It's been raining a fair bit the last few days. This morning 24°C with high humidity in my apartment feels significantly worse than stuffy 27°C felt before the rains.
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mongers

#5410
August 17, 2020, 07:39:52 AM

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What could be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth - 130F (54.4C) - may have been reached in Death Valley National Park, California.


:cool: :(

BBC news item:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53788018?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story
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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Caliga

#5411
August 18, 2020, 07:45:15 AM
I thought it routinely got hotter than that in one of the Iranian deserts. :hmm:
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mongers

#5412
August 18, 2020, 07:43:51 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 18, 2020, 07:45:15 AM
I thought it routinely got hotter than that in one of the Iranian deserts. :hmm:

I think the American standards meet or are the international standards for recording weather, whereas a lot of the historical records in the Middle East and North Africa seem questionable.

Also haven't many areas of Death valley and especially Furnace Creek (what a great name) haven't hardly change in 100-150 years, so the year on year records are likely to show real climate changes.

In contrast with over here, we now regularly get " today's highest temperature was a heathrow airport"; no matter how well shielded the official weather station, surely the hundreds of acres of flat concrete and tarmac, must generate a different micro-climate as compared to the surrounding landscape?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

jimmy olsen

#5413
August 18, 2020, 08:50:45 PM
Got so much rain the first half of the month. Floods everywhere. :(
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Admiral Yi

#5414
August 19, 2020, 09:18:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfFghcmGNQ4

Video of the derecho.  This was filmed in Cedar Rapids, about 45 minutes NNW of me.
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