Vegas has record heat...

According to the NWS the 124 was a new high set this week in Palm Springs....it must have been 123 when you were there - much cooler


Can you imagine living in those areas without A/C? My Grandson (Vegas) takes his Goldendoodle out for walks at midnight and 5 am - with boots on to protect his (the dog's) feet.

Yeah, but Robert don't you know that is a dry heat so it doesn't count.

I can't wait until night time here when the temperature drops like a rock down to 90 or so with 85% or more humidity. Deep freeze!

Mark

PS I think that sizzling sound I keep hearing may be my liver deep frying.

Mark - do people and businesses there have A/C - probably a dumb question but I don't know the answer.

I am in it and it is hot as the devil (100° +)

At some point, air conditioners STOP working because it's just too hot.

If you are in extreme temperatures, stay safe, cool and hydrated.

If you get overheated, take a cool shower.

This heat can kill.

As a child I lived most of the time with my Grandparents in a big 3 story farmhouse. It was shaded with huge trees on three sides and my Grandmother always closed the wood shutters on the west side for the summer afternoons.


We would sit outside in the shade and do as much work outside as possible to 'catch the breeze'. But I don't remember ever being too hot to sleep or all that uncomfortable. High ceilings captured the heat - shutters kept it out and the shade trees helped. Today we build houses on bare lots with shutters that don't close.


After Katrina I had problems with my central A/C and waiting for the insurance settlement I bought a window A/C for my bedroom. In the end, by the next summer I had 4 6000 BTU window units and one large-space portable unit. House was cooler than ever - and my electric bill was cut by 1/3. Who knew? The reason for multiple units was simple - that was the biggest A/C I could lift and install by myself...and I could remove/store them in the winter.

Oh, you are in it Robert? I guess I missed that. Sorry man. Dry or not, that's hot!

Mark

j/k Robert - anything over 90 is totally unacceptable....

It hot I actually got sick a few weeks ago when it jumped to 110 but it had fallen to the mid 90's for a few days before. No more drinking until September or October when the heat drops down. Haha.

Thankfully there has not been much wind that just feels like standing in a hand dryer.

I'm out in the heat from about 8 am to 2:30pm but am able to sit in shaded areas. It's really hard to go anywhere though I don't have a car and my shoes start to melt if I walk more than 1/2 of a mile.

But I feel physically better than I have felt in a while . The extreme amount of sweating has a cleansing effects. Next place I move to live I think I will settle for having access to a sauna verse living in one.

I'd still take the heat of a blizzard with many feet of snow

Years ago I had a cousin who was with the military and spent years in the US Southwest and then deep in Texas...when he retired he retired to Alaska. Said he'd had enough heat for a lifetime.


I'm in SW Ohio and it's 75 here with a great breeze...go figure...in July?

It's not even 9AM and I'm heading to the bedroom. LOL

Mark

I just saw on CNN that half a million people around Houston don't have water or power due to the hurricane and it's not supposed to get fixed until next week some time. The feel like temp could get as high as 106!

Talk about misery!!

Mark

The heat Index in NJ was above 100 the past few days. Today we have showers because of Beryl. Philly had a heat index of around 109 on Wednesday. Being close to the coast we had humidity equivalent to Miami FL, on top of the As*hole that started a forest fire in Wharton State Forest because of FireCrackers. Stay cool out there everyone.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...p15-story.html

I would like to know where the temperatures were taken from, (if it is the same bias crap Australia has," taken from an airport" then it is the usual pack of lies to support the so called non existent climate emergency).

Vegas has hot weather, Death Valley has record heat, (134).

Australia has record cold full dams wall to wall rain zero sea level rise and snow. We also have an idiot Bureau of Meteorology that is constantly trying to convince us that we are burning up when we clearly are not.

Farmers have lost a lot of money listening to these clowns, and others have lost their lives listening to these idiots telling them a while ago that rain was easing just before it become torrential, (a frickin 12 year old reading their satellite data could have figured it out).

This climate emergency is becoming a global embarrassment!

I agree - and all the scare stories about climate ignore areas that are cooler than usual This past week is the first really HOT weather my area has had this summer...and one day last week was in the 70s while the others were 90s.


I don't doubt weather patterns change - I don't doubt some areas are getting hotter not do I doubt that humans contribute with our engines and machines and manufacturing...and breathing. What I don't believe is that we can control the climate changes - and it seems to me those who WANT to control it more often than not have a financial motive in mind.


In Texas this weekend many people are furious at the power company because only 2/3 of those who lost power with the hurricane last monday have their restored. 1.5 million without power - and 5 days later one million have power....I think that's pretty good. People seem to think the power company just points and the broken poles remove themselves and replace themselves....that miles of new line just hangs itself from those new poles. Not one person mentioned the hardship of those electrical workers doing this work in 100 degree heat.

If you want a bit of a laugh on me...here's a true story from a month ago.

A man in a white truck ran into my car recently - not a lot of damage but had to get it fixed. His insurance covered it - and also provided me with a rental car while my car was in the shop.

The rental agency is right next to the auto repair shop (handy, huh?) so I dropped off my car to be repaired, then went to pick up the pre-arranged rental. The rental agent told me they had listed me for a 'mid-size car' but had none in stock that day so had upgraded me to full size. Fine with me.

Then the agent said 'Do you mind a Charger'?

And I said "I do NOT want an electric car"

And she said - "I meant a Dodge Charger"

...then we looked at each other and both cracked up laughing....


When I returned the rental car - she said I gave her the best story she's had all year....

I remember being in Chicago in 1995 and experiencing a heat wave ..It was so hot that every was advised to stay inside

Shane first world economy doesn't mean anything anymore.

People like simple answers that cause more pain to others to solve complex problem.

We are getting to see this work out with inflation. The simple answers were to raise interest rates and tighten money supply.

Now we are heading for a bigger set of problem.

With the argument about climate change we are failing to address the pollution problem. That drastiy effects humans as the apex species of the planet.

The earth we live on responds a lot faster than we believe. There are already bacteria evolving around the world to break down plastic. And the excess CO2 being absorbed into the ocean mix with the agricultural run of and create large growth of seaweed.

There are probably ten thousand other things the planet is doing to attempt to balance off the problems we are causing.

In any case back to Las Vegas it rained last night and it's now just 100 degrees with 20 percent humidity

My godness how people can survive at that temperature ?
I think if you throw an egg on the ground it will be prepared

I just saw this in the news:

300 suspected heat-related deaths under investigation in Phoenix

It been a record breaking summer for heat in Vegas in July there was the hottest day ever recorded in Vegas at120 degrees. With seven days straight over 115. And 35 days over 110 degrees so far.

With 55 plus days so where the low has not gone below 80. Which may have ended today but not sure.

It will be very amusing if the temperature drops after the first of October and people start binding up in winter clothes when it's in the high 60s during the day

You can 'discuss' climate change till you freeze or overheat - but you cannot toss insults around or predict what moderators will do.

Shane

I'm here in Vegas and I'm out in the heat ever day a good chunk of day. This year we have the hottest summer on record. The winter of 22-23 had was the coldest on record. With the record length of time between 100 degree days.

Talking about the record heat of this summer in Las Vegas.That I am on the ground experiencing.in a thread started to talk about the record heat in in Las Vegas.is not me complaining about climate change.

The man made element of climate change outside the effects of the cycles of the sun. Have as much to do with how humans build cities and destroy ecosystems and replace them with hotter man made environments.

But humans want the simple explanation for a complex problem. The best thing will actually be the coming drop in population of the planet.
The way humans are moving around the planet they Are moving away from areas that will get hit worse if temperature drops

You are arguing when there is nothing to argue about.i also said nothing about population control. People around the world are having fewer children. also with obesity becoming a world wide problem we will probably see life spans shorten a few years around the world.

The primary cause of stress humans put on the environment was from the expanding population. As that slows and levels off in the next 30 years. I don't see end times on the horizon.

Again back to the subject of the thread how hot it has been in Las Vegas. being in the USA the temperature data goes back at least a hundred years or more with some accuracy.

The summer of 2024 has been the hottest on record.while the winter of 2022-2023 was the coldest on record. Las Vegas valley also covers 140 square miles.while being a dessert environment that tends to be hot. It's actually the environment I chose to live after moving through the different environments available in the USA.

I'll talk about how hot it's been in Las Vegas this year.in a thread about how hot it's been in Vegas this year without saying omg the end of the is coming.

So why are you arguing about how hot it's been in Las Vegas when you are in Australia.

Let's get this back on topic. Records were broken here in July for 90 degrees and above with tropical humidity. This week after Hurricane Debbie passed by the weather was perfect for August, 80s during the day, good air quality, and low humidity. We even had a few nights of upper 50s and lower 60s. It's great to hear the A/C stop running in the evenings. I can only imagine how expensive the electric bills must be in Vegas. Stay cool guys the fall is right around the corner.

Wow, that's intense! Five days of 115 degrees or more is no joke. I can't imagine how challenging that must have been. And 124 degrees in Palm Springs? That's on another level of hot! Hope you were able to stay cool and hydrated during those extreme temperatures.

Only about 6 weeks to go to a little cooler weather. I have no clue how I've survived this long. However, I know others have it much worse than I do and I'm grateful for some of the basics I have such as access to at least some AC.

Damn those farting cows.

Mark

My Grandson has been walking his Goldendoodle at 4 am in Vegas - he'll love having a bit of cooler weather.

For most of this week, we had nights in the low 50s, with pleasant temperatures in the 70s and low humidity. We set a record low for August the other day. The sad thing is next week back in the 90's the humidity starts coming back on Sunday. Stay safe out there everyone. September and the beginning of fall are right around the corner.