Yeah, at least our PNW heat dome last year had the courtesy to fuck off after a few days.Shit's getting real. We're moving from IL to CO in a month. We hate midwest heatwaves accompanied by 60-90% RH and then inevitable storms that follow that flood the neighborhood and bring out swarms of mosquitoes two weeks later like a clock. Going to be renting for a couple of years before buying something of our own. We would love to build our own to make sure we build it right with proper insulation throughout, good windows, air sealed tight, and solar panels with backup battery to ensure we'll be good in case of a heatwave/power outage. Unfortunately, that's going to be really difficult aka expensive. And to be clear, this is not CO specific problem, it's becoming a problem everywhere (see PNW in the summer of 2021 for example). We need to address climate change now, and that includes how we build housing too, not just denser housing, but better housing, better insulation, better house design/layout that helps the house stay cool in the summer. People and builders are still carrying on like that's not a problem...
Yeah, at least our PNW heat dome last year had the courtesy to fuck off after a few days.
At some point, the 'heat dome' is just 'summer'.Our's is going to be here until fucking mid September or maybe even early October. 22 days at 100 and over so far this year when the previous record was 13 by July 1st. 18 days over 100 per year should be our average and instead we had 17 days over 100 last month.
At some point, the 'heat dome' is just 'summer'.
Been unseasonably warm in upstate NY as well, not as severe but enough that I don't want to work outside.
I more meant that the damn thing will last so long it'll just be the entire summer, year after year.This isn't just summer. I have been through a ton of summers in San Antonio and I have never seen anything as unrelenting as this one this early. It's very normal to have very hot days and hot stretches in June. But this is almost nonstop. This June would have been an incredibly nasty August any other year, where August is almost always our hottest month.
I more meant that the damn thing will last so long it'll just be the entire summer, year after year.
Yes, that is becoming new normal, which is why ideally we would love to build a house that is designed with climate change in mind. At least CO will have low humidity and night time temps still dip to 70 most of the nights so we'd be able to cool the house by opening windows in the evening.At some point, the 'heat dome' is just 'summer'.
Solar panel roof ASAPPosted this in the Off-Topic weather thread, but figure it fit in here too. Fuck this summer.
So the title of this Washington Post article sums up pretty well how shitty the weather has been in my neck of the woods: San Antonio had 17 days of triple digit heat in June. There’s usually two.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/30/texas-heat-drought-sanantonio-climate/
Another quote from the article:
Ugh and July and August are the typical hot months here.
Solar is still expensive, up-front. It can save money in the long run, and that over-under is getting better all the time, but most people don't just have $5k to plop down on an investment (more if you're smart and add a battery system). I think it makes total sense to align with a roof replacement though, if such a thing were to be necessary.So real talk... is there actually a science based reason solar isn't used more in Texas? Or is this really just paying lip service to big energy and intentionally sabotaging renewables? I'm not a consumer energy expert by any means, but it sure seems that a place like Texas that gets 8+ months a year of sun and heat could power quite a bit off a source that they get for free. Yes I know that panels, installation and integration isn't free. But the sun part is. And I'm also pretty sure that a solar panel on your roof absorbing that heat instead of your roof proper probably helps on passive cooling too. But again, this is just dumb dumb me with simple questions.
The gulf is a little toasty right now.All I know is, this much heat is probably going to make hurricane season pretty lit. Gulf Coast waters gonna be toasty.
So Texas broke another energy demand record with ERCOT reporting 77,721MW demand at 4:55PM CST today. Beating out our previous record of 76,592MW from June 23rd, which beat our previous record of around 75,000MW from June 12th. And it's not even especially hot today in San Antonio. It was only 100 today. When that new fucking heat dome starts moving west and brings our state's temps up another 4-5 degrees Saturday through Monday I wonder how high this will push our demand.
So real talk... is there actually a science based reason solar isn't used more in Texas? Or is this really just paying lip service to big energy and intentionally sabotaging renewables? I'm not a consumer energy expert by any means, but it sure seems that a place like Texas that gets 8+ months a year of sun and heat could power quite a bit off a source that they get for free. Yes I know that panels, installation and integration isn't free. But the sun part is. And I'm also pretty sure that a solar panel on your roof absorbing that heat instead of your roof proper probably helps on passive cooling too. But again, this is just dumb dumb me with simple questions.
Yep paying for heat in June sucks says someone up in the PNW.June electric bill was ridiculous, looks like same shit for July. I just hope it actually cools down in September.