Whereabouts are you, @LeeAbe ?
LeeAbe
5422
Bothell. North of Seattle.
Up here in Edmonton we are feeling the heat too. Wednesday and Thursday it’s predicted we will be at 101F. Back in February we had a cold snap of -56F (including windchill). Crazy the extremes we are getting and it’s probably only going to get worse.
It’s down to 86 in south Seattle at 11:30pm. I just spent the last hour floating in a pool hammock in 90° water staring up at the clearest city sky ever. It did not suck.
KevinC
5426
Yeah, it’s pretty wild. When I moved back to Utah from Thunder Bay I barely felt the need to wear a jacket in 30-40 degree weather, considering it was a solid 70-80 degrees warmer than what I had been dealing with the past couple winters.
It’s too bad that kind of superpower doesn’t last very long and you adapt right back. :)
KevinC
5427
Really glad to hear the heatwave is passing. I don’t mind the heat much and have quite a bit of experience with 110+ but never without being able to retreat to some AC. That sounds… not fun.
This morning was amazingly pleasant. Low 70s. Wonderful walk.
Today is supposed to get to around 90, which is hot, but it’s not bullshit hot.
That fast panting is her trying to cool herself. You definitely don’t want that for a sustained period of time if you can help it.
This may sound silly, but could you put cold things next to her? Like frozen coolant bags (like you use in a camping situation) or frozen peas or anything?
Another thing that works with my cats sometimes is to put them in the cat carrier. They are pissed at first and yowl a lot, but then settle down and just hide under the throw that is in the carrier. The move the carrier into the cooler room, see if that works.
Are cats sensitive to high pitched noises like dogs are? Newer AC compressors are incredibly loud at high frequencies. I got a window unit to supplement my central AC here (no longer needed since we finally fixed our ductwork to be more balanced now) and the damn thing whined something fierce right at the top of what I could still hear, so I looked it up and it’s a thing.
LeeAbe
5431
I did that. She wasn’t having it. I did lock her in the AC cooled room. That led to her howling at the door. She does hate to be locked in anywhere, but I think it must be the sound of the AC. Her sister spent all day and night in that room, so I don’t think it’s a high frequency sound.
Seems like we’re mostly back to normal anyway. They did renew the heat warning today, but looks like max 90° here.
South Everett checking in.
Damn, it’s been really hot.
Thanks a lot, west coast…
It’s like a steam room outside due to the humidity being above 50%.
KevinC
5435
All that graphic tells me is you babies are complaining it “feels like” temps that are several degrees less than they actually were out west. Suck it up!
(tongue firmly planted in cheek in case it wasn’t clear)
Nesrie
5436
We’re still under an excessive heat warning but the top today is supposed to be 101 which is, well 20 years ago would be omg, but in today’s world is… okay triple digit summer.
Kinda BS too, I got in my car to get lunch and it was in the 80s from leftover cooling, by the time I got back to the office it was reading 97 even though Wunderground says 94 right now. Heat island is a thing.
And the temperatures here in Michigan have been pretty low as our drought has been ended by days and days of rain with the jet stream sitting over us. So weird as summer usually has a rain pattern of quick thunderstorms and instead we’re getting full on rainy days (although switching more to the thunderstorms this week) that we simply didn’t get in spring when we should have.
I’ll take this over the ridiculous heat out west though. Glad the folks in the northwest are finally cooling off a bit.
Nesrie
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So parts of the West has essentially been in a 20 year drought. I mean there are more than one way to define a drought but…
Parts of S. OR is right in it, Klamath especially, we’re right on the edge but it’s… like it’s been building for years.
I mean my High School Senior Year Book has one of the biggest floods we’d seen in the area on the front it. That’s not me advocating for floods or anything but it’s just so different now. We have 3 essentially dry lakes… these are places we fished and boated at as a kid.
After mentioning the “feels like” temps coming in the Northeast, Colbert last night had a gag about how in the PNW the heat was so bad that the folks in Seattle were “down to their flannel speedos.” ;-)
BTW, our official high in Portland was 116 F yesterday. Third day in a row of setting the recorded high temp record. 108 Saturday, 112 Sunday, 116 yesterday (but at least yesterday it started dropping rather dramatically after 8 PM or so–from yesterday’s high to the low of 64 this morning there was an unprecedented 52 degree drop).
