SFR 100s that used to be 90s that used to be 80s - - - -
- Thread starter Flymph
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Keeping it civil here: Back in 1977 my wife and I followed a college classmate to Anderson, CA (Redding is mentioned in @Flymph's link). We stayed in a tent in Mike's parents yard. It was HOT. Mike and I went to the store and bought several blocks of ice and put them into the swimming pool and then jumped in and pushed the blocks around for a bit of cool water. It was 117F Sunday when we left and headed back to Klamath Falls. Mike's oldest daughter rode with us in our '63 Chevy pickup. Windows were rolled up as that was better than the heat roiling up off the freeway and not many 63 Chevy trucks had A/C.
I find the thread title to be very apropos.
In fact, my wife, daughter and I were just talking about it last night. My daughter even made the comment that she never remembers it being this hot when she was going up. (She is in her late 20's)
Our conclusion was glad we live in the Western Washington. My conclusion is we should move closer to the Pacific Ocean. More temperate there...
In fact, my wife, daughter and I were just talking about it last night. My daughter even made the comment that she never remembers it being this hot when she was going up. (She is in her late 20's)
Our conclusion was glad we live in the Western Washington. My conclusion is we should move closer to the Pacific Ocean. More temperate there...
Coastal counties of the U.S. are home to 129 million people, or almost 40 percent of the nation's total population, yet the coast accounts for less than 10 percent of the nation's land mass (excluding Alaska).
From 1970 to 2020, the population in coastal counties increased by 40.5 million people, or approximately 46 percent.
From NOAA...
For a local example, just look at the rise in AC in Western Washington. I've been around since the 80s and didn't even consider the need for AC until the last 5-6 yrs. Not just me . . . the tech I talked to from CM Heating the other day said the increased interest in AC has really exploded. Don't need scientists to tell you it's getting warmer, everyday folks consumption of AC is a nonpartisan indicator. 
Mom's house in Seattle had no AC and big West facing windows. It was never really an issue as I recall in the 60's and 70's, although it was always hot or cold in my room in the attic. Mom had found the west rooms really becoming too warm the last several years, and we found that listing it without AC was probably going to be an issue.
I was just talking about this recent 100 degree spell with my old rodman yesterday after church. We recalled a summer in the 90's doing Harvey Shaw and setting blue tops for weeks on end in the mid 90's with about a week of hundred in early August. That was pretty normal. The last several years have been noticeably warmer. All the blueberries in the yard are dead now, the last one just giving up.
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Here in the Columbia Gorge we have a pretty strong weather interested community. Being in line with the Cascades we see a rally quick change in biomes, from near rainforest to desert in just 40 miles. Cascade Locks gets twice the rain Hood River does, and Hood River gets twice as much as The Dalles.
What we have been noticing the last decade or so is that weather events are getting longer and longer. In the past a heat wave or snow event would last around 3 days and then be gone. Nowadays we are seeing these be more like a week. Over the last 100 years our average July temp is low 80s. Right now we are 2 weeks into a heat advisory with it being 90+, and the 10 day forecast doesn't show any let up coming soon. We are also setting a lot of record "High-Lows", aka the lowest temp of the day. the other night it never dropped below 70.
We have a window mounted AC that can get 2 rooms nice and cool, but if this trend continues we may have to think bigger. I can handle the heat during the day but if it doesn't cool off at night I don't sleep.
What we have been noticing the last decade or so is that weather events are getting longer and longer. In the past a heat wave or snow event would last around 3 days and then be gone. Nowadays we are seeing these be more like a week. Over the last 100 years our average July temp is low 80s. Right now we are 2 weeks into a heat advisory with it being 90+, and the 10 day forecast doesn't show any let up coming soon. We are also setting a lot of record "High-Lows", aka the lowest temp of the day. the other night it never dropped below 70.
We have a window mounted AC that can get 2 rooms nice and cool, but if this trend continues we may have to think bigger. I can handle the heat during the day but if it doesn't cool off at night I don't sleep.
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The heat dome that occurred in 2021 and again just recently are unprecedented in modern instrumented temperature records of the PNW. They’re complete statistical anomalies, so it is hard to even know just how rare they are. Best guess (based on a lot of data) is they’d historically occur from never (in recent centuries before the present) to once every 1000 years, to currently at once every 200 years, and are predicted to increase to once every 5-10 years by 2050 with continued global warming.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01520-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01520-4
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x2...wouldn't be living in Sunriver without a/c, 90's for three weeks, no end in sight. Been a major scramble for a/c retrofits going on by those without it, many having owned homes here for 30 years and never having felt it was needed before. Contractor who recently installed a system next door (same crew who did ours 5 years ago) is 4 to 6 months out on new installs.For a local example, just look at the rise in AC in Western Washington. I've been around since the 80s and didn't even consider the need for AC until the last 5-6 yrs. it's getting warmer, everyday folks consumption of AC is a nonpartisan indicator.
Causality still in debate? Have a party at your home, invite a couple dozen guests, doesn't take long before the windows and sliders get opened as everyone offloads their body heat and Co2.
8 billion people swarming on a rapidly shrinking rock, all wanting a/c and vehicles, any different?
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It's much harder to notice, and not a topic I know very well (just like most everyone else on the internet..), but I have heard the real change in the data is that the low nighttime temps are much higher than before. It's easy to notice how hot the day gets, but you might be more surprised to notice how cold the night didn't get.
Things are changing fast.
Things are changing fast.
My long-term barometer of climate change has been my lawn mowing season. Some 60 years ago typically the first mowing would be in late March/early April and the last would be in mid-October. The last mowing in 2022 was the first week in December and the first morning in 2023 was late January. The first time in my memory that in a calendar year I was mowing in all 12 months -Grrrr!
I built my house in 2010 and would have installed a natural gas furnace without AC if natural gas was available in my area. We only need AC for maybe 7 days a year, so I didn't think it would be worth it. Gas isn't available in my neighborhood, so I installed a heat pump. Talk about a happy accident. We've had enough warm weather that we have used AC for 30 days or more in two summers recently. And this year could make a third. Someone posted above about warmer nights. We open the windows at night and run ceiling fans, but we've had some mornings only cool down to 70 and one day only 74. Yeah, I'd say that our climate is warming.
