Weather WTF

[Sheilbh]

June was wonderful in London - but July is starting off really shit. Very cold all weak and just constant rain today

[mongers]

June was wonderful in London - but July is starting off really shit. Very cold all weak and just constant rain today

We and the rivers desperately need it. 

[Admiral Yi]

I tried to be a trooper and walk 18 holes today but I crapped out after 7 and got a cart.  Asked a dude later what the temp is and he said 91 feels like 96.  So I don't feel so bad.

[Maladict]

A freak summer storm hit today, that almost never happens. Thankfully I just had my worn out roof replaced.

[Grey Fox]

We got hail the size of rapsberries yesterday, a pretty rare event around here. Made multiple bumps on the roof my new car. 😕

[Syt]

Read that hundreds people have died from heat related causes in Texas during the current scorcher.

[HVC]

I wouldn't have thought Texas. I know it's hot there, but the glory that is ac is pretty ubiquitous I would imagine. Unless maybe homeless people?

[Syt]

Might have gotten it mixed up. Seems 100+ dead in Mexico, 13 in Texas as per June 29th (couldn't find more recent numbers) https://abcnews.go.com/US/11-dead-texas-heat-related-illness-amid-scorching/story?id=100479859

[Valmy]

I wouldn't have thought Texas. I know it's hot there, but the glory that is ac is pretty ubiquitous I would imagine. Unless maybe homeless people?

People still work and go outside. Heat stroke can sneak up on you pretty quickly out there. So 13 dying of heat related reasons during a Texas summer month isn't shocking.

Got to keep hydrated and keep the sun off your skin if you are going to be working outside for long periods.

[HVC]

13 makes more sense yeah. It wad the possible hundreds that surprised me.

[Caliga]

At least when I was a kid in Philly, a lot of the summer heat wave deaths were elderly folks who didn't have someone caring for them, and either didn't have working AC or weren't using it properly (perhaps due to dementia).

[crazy canuck]

I wouldn't have thought Texas. I know it's hot there, but the glory that is ac is pretty ubiquitous I would imagine. Unless maybe homeless people?

There was the tragic story of the father and son who went hiking (a couple of weeks ago?).  This is a heat dome and having lived through one of those a couple of years ago, I don't wish that on anyone.

[Sheilbh]

Furious at how shit the weather is (and is forecast to remain)

[mongers]

Furious at how shit the weather is (and is forecast to remain)

You want wall-to-wall climate change weather instead? 

[Iormlund]

The city was flooded on Thursday. Worst one I remember.

Spent the last few days trying to salvage the shit I had in storage. There's still water in the parking floor and quite a few units.

Still, it could have been worse. One of the newest schools was pretty much obliterated, only a few hours after kids went home (school is off but there are summer activities there).