Blastfurnace 2022

[Js1 85311]

Holy fuck no one cares about your golf games

[Beantown Express 2.0 6559]

25 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

It's absolutely possible.  When it's 105 outside, not many people are playing golf.  You don't need 2-3 warmup swings for every shot because you're not waiting around for groups in front of you.  90% of the round is spent in the cart and on the green.   You can basically play as fast as you can drive to your next shot, and if you're having a good day, 2 hours is easily doable.  I've done it dozens of times over the years.  

The best I have done on my course is about 2 hours and 10 minutes but that is on a weekday (pre covid when everyone else was actually working and I had the course to myself) so 2 hours is definitely possible.  

[Beantown Express 2.0 6559]

12 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Holy fuck no one cares about your golf games

I thought this was the 2022 golf thread of dominance.

[Sbbruin 21842]

And I didn't mean to direct this towards 4th&Five.  The "stupid" comment is for the tweeter.  Tweets like this do more harm than good because it gives other stupid people fodder for their stance.  La Nina is a cooling of the sea temps in the Central Pacific.  It has little to no impact or Europe.  Take the time to do a little research before you post something so stupid.

I'VE DONE MY OWN RESEARCH!!!!

[texasdago 7570]

1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

 

not a big deal, it's temporary, the weather is not the climate

How did this absurd quote sneak through?

 

This crap is happening on an annual basis now...

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-hasnt-warmed-this-fast-in-tens-of-millions-of-years/

Also just published (this is a PDF) - https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/assets/File/aboutams/statements_pdf/AMS_Statement-EPA-2(1).pdf

[Armybrat 40832]

Edited July 19, 2022 by Armybrat

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[Guest]

Looks like wind has picked up, so ERCOT showing now issues with power levels today.

[52-80 19150]

25 minutes ago, texasdago said:

This crap is happening on an annual basis now...

OK.  Where are we tracking 5, 20, and 50 years from now?

[Hate 20108]

Easily accomplished if the course is wide open and you are only a single/twosome. I watched a single play a full 18 in 1:35 at Legends in Kingsland about 6 weeks ago, and he had to play through groups.
We let him him play through us on the third hole and he was finishing the 18th as we made the turn.

I love Legends! That’s is a great track as is Delaware Springs…Lighthouse, not so much.

[Neonmoon 38129]

31 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

 

not a big deal, it's temporary, the weather is not the climate

[texasdago 7570]

30 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

OK.  Where are we tracking 5, 20, and 50 years from now?

Welp... I'm sure you can take a guess... 

 

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-temperature-graph-1851-2020/

 

[52-80 19150]

19 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Welp... I'm sure you can take a guess...

I ran out of guessing tokens today.  Can you give me a number for 2040?

[gsoda3 3254]

34 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

not a big deal, it's temporary, the weather is not the climate

it's transitory

[Brisketexan 105095]

1 minute ago, 52-80 said:

I ran out of guessing tokens today.  Can you give me a number for 2040?

[bschoolprof 6252]

1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Looks like wind has picked up, so ERCOT showing now issues with power levels today.

there are now issues?  

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

2 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

It's absolutely possible.  When it's 105 outside, not many people are playing golf.  You don't need 2-3 warmup swings for every shot because you're not waiting around for groups in front of you.  90% of the round is spent in the cart and on the green.   You can basically play as fast as you can drive to your next shot, and if you're having a good day, 2 hours is easily doable.  I've done it dozens of times over the years.  

we used to play 27-36 in 4 hours all the time in the summer during high school.  we were good, and when it's 105 outside not like you need to hit a lot of warm up shots.  Most of golf in a 4 hour round is absolutely waiting on the dickhead in front of you to clear out of the way or the moron in your group to find his ball and get his ass ready.  Pull your clubs, putter and wedge around the green be ready to go etc.  It wasn't like we were running or anything, just hit the fucking shot and move on.  

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

there are now issues?  

D'oh. now = no. Showing no issues today.

[bschoolprof 6252]

1 minute ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

D'oh. now = no. Showing no issues today.

I know. Just being Surly.  

[Storm the Field 5294]

Fuck it, I'm moving to Dublin. Hit their "all time high" of (squints) 91 but it's already down to 71. Tomorrow's high is a scorching 68.

I went on a vacation there back in August 2018. One day of the trip, the sun actually came out and the temperature crept up to 80 or so. It seemed like the entire city took the day off to go hang out/picnic in the city parks. Some locals told me that the a dead giveaway that somebody was an American tourist (aside from being fat and wearing a baseball hat) was going out in public in a pair of shorts. 

I joke, but with every passing year, I become more and more determined not to spend all year living in Texas. I've got to eventually end up somewhere with legitimate contrasts between the seasons. I'm tired of the years where it's 90 on Halloween, 82 on Thanksgiving and 74 on Christmas. I don't mind being somewhere that's hot-ish on summer days as long as it's dry and cools down below 70 in the evenings and early mornings.

[texasdago 7570]

30 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

I ran out of guessing tokens today.  Can you give me a number for 2040?

8

[52-80 19150]

3 minutes ago, texasdago said:

8

Parsec per fortnight?  What about in temp units?

[mooseoutfront 3643]

23 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Might have to put on a hoodie if it stays like this

[texasdago 7570]

2 hours ago, 52-80 said:

Parsec per fortnight?  What about in temp units?

Is Kelvin acceptable?

[Cody2422 271]

5 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Sorry but I am not buying a round in 2 hours bullshit.

That means you are playing each hole at a 7 minute average without waiting for another group on any hole and that does not include the driving time between holes.

No way.

 

Two weeks ago, I played our local course in 1 hour and 45 minutes.  I was one of three groups on the course when I tee'd off on Sunday afternoon at 3 PM.  I was back in my truck at 4:45 headed home.  Shot an 82 and never broke a sweat in 100 heat.  

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

3 hours ago, 52-80 said:

I ran out of guessing tokens today.  Can you give me a number for 2040?

Tree fiddy

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Have until about August 8-9 until the daily averages start to drop. Have until October 2 until the record high is no longer more than 100.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, that light is just the sun moving closer to us.

 

 

Edited July 19, 2022 by FirstTimeCaller

[Brisketexan 105095]

18 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Have until about August 8-9 until the daily averages start to drop. Have until October 2 until the record high is no longer more than 100.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, that light is just the sun moving closer to us.

 

 

How many 100 degree days do we have under our belt so far?  Something like 5 in May, 27 in June, and 17 in July?  That would put us at 49 days over 100.  The all time record is 2011, with 90 days over 100.  Second place is 69 days....we'll be blowing past that one.  Shit, the 10-day forecast is all 100*, so we're damn near at 60 when we hit August.  We could top 2011's total number, if August is 30 days of 100 degree days (which at this point, why wouldn't it be?)

F.  This.  Shit.

[Samson's Wig 3191]

53 minutes ago, Cody2422 said:

Two weeks ago, I played our local course in 1 hour and 45 minutes.  I was one of three groups on the course when I tee'd off on Sunday afternoon at 3 PM.  I was back in my truck at 4:45 headed home.  Shot an 82 and never broke a sweat in 100 heat.  

[Storm the Field 5294]

10 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Have until about August 8-9 until the daily averages start to drop. Have until October 2 until the record high is no longer more than 100.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, that light is just the sun moving closer to us.

 

 

Yep. Got a good 2 months to go before it makes any sense to start hoping for that first cool front. September 20th is about the average day over the past 125  years that Central and East Texas sees its first temperature reading of 65 or below. On the extremes it has come as early as 8/30 or as late as 10/13, but typically it arrives the 3rd or 4th week of September. With the way our luck has gone this summer, we'll probably set a new record (not in a good way).

Right now, the daily average highs and lows stay the same for over a week at a time. Gotta wait until late August to get an average temp drop in less than 5 days.

Only real difference you'll notice over the next few weeks is the days getting shorter, which I guess at least means the extreme afternoon highs subside a little quicker. Currently only losing less than a minute sunlight or so each day, but that will start picking up steam. By this time next month, sunrise will be a minute later and sunset a minute earlier each day, more or less.

[ztejas 43418]

1 hour ago, Cody2422 said:

Two weeks ago, I played our local course in 1 hour and 45 minutes.  I was one of three groups on the course when I tee'd off on Sunday afternoon at 3 PM.  I was back in my truck at 4:45 headed home.  Shot an 82 and never broke a sweat in 100 heat.  

csb

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25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

How many 100 degree days do we have under our belt so far?  Something like 5 in May, 27 in June, and 17 in July?  That would put us at 49 days over 100.  The all time record is 2011, with 90 days over 100.  Second place is 69 days....we'll be blowing past that one.  Shit, the 10-day forecast is all 100*, so we're damn near at 60 when we hit August.  We could top 2011's total number, if August is 30 days of 100 degree days (which at this point, why wouldn't it be?)

F.  This.  Shit.

For "Austin Area" (which I assume is Mabry), I count (https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=ewx):

May: 1
June: 21
July: 17

So a total of 39 days of 100+. There's also been plenty in the 97-99 range.

70% of June days were above 100. So far, 89% of July days are over 100. No idea what will happen, but say that the rest of July and August are 75% at 100 degrees+, and that's another 32 days. That puts us at 71 days.

That 75% estimate could be too low, and that doesn't count September. 

 

[hookem2010 2624]

33 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

Yep. Got a good 2 months to go before it makes any sense to start hoping for that first cool front. September 20th is about the average day over the past 125  years that Central and East Texas sees its first temperature reading of 65 or below. On the extremes it has come as early as 8/30 or as late as 10/13, but typically it arrives the 3rd or 4th week of September. With the way our luck has gone this summer, we'll probably set a new record (not in a good way).

Right now, the daily average highs and lows stay the same for over a week at a time. Gotta wait until late August to get an average temp drop in less than 5 days.

Only real difference you'll notice over the next few weeks is the days getting shorter, which I guess at least means the extreme afternoon highs subside a little quicker. Currently only losing less than a minute sunlight or so each day, but that will start picking up steam. By this time next month, sunrise will be a minute later and sunset a minute earlier each day, more or less.

I am looking forward to my 99-degree dog walks beginning at 730 pm rather than 8.

[hookem2010 2624]

I remember playing sports outside all summer long as a kid. It's too bad my little one probably won't know what that's like.

[Biff Tannen 45673]

1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

I am looking forward to my 99-degree dog walks beginning at 730 pm rather than 8.

Dude, walk them in the morning.  It's too damn hot to do it at night.  The air temp, but especially the pavement.

[Hate 20108]

You can let your kids play outside.  They will be fine.  Did you ever play sports in the summer when you were a kid?

[tigol 2395]

You can let your kids play outside.  They will be fine.  Did you ever play sports in the summer when you were a kid?

I wonder what could be different now vs. when I was a kid.

[hookem2010 2624]

21 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Dude, walk them in the morning.  It's too damn hot to do it at night.  The air temp, but especially the pavement.

Oh I do that as well, but our doberman starts to get a little stir crazy when she's been stuck inside for 12 hours.

[Cody2422 271]

18 minutes ago, tigol said:

I wonder what could be different now vs. when I was a kid.

Umm it’s approximately 2 degrees hotter than it was 150 years ago.  Really it’s just we are all pussies now with echo chambers to reinforce our pussiness 

[LW Goatman 1121]

34 minutes ago, tigol said:

I wonder what could be different now vs. when I was a kid.

Electronics, other than that it was hot as shit when I was a kid and we played outside. We also drank out of water hoses and were happy to do so. 

[yoladu 4093]

4 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

Fuck it, I'm moving to Dublin. Hit their "all time high" of (squints) 91 but it's already down to 71. Tomorrow's high is a scorching 68.

I went on a vacation there back in August 2018. One day of the trip, the sun actually came out and the temperature crept up to 80 or so. It seemed like the entire city took the day off to go hang out/picnic in the city parks. Some locals told me that the a dead giveaway that somebody was an American tourist (aside from being fat and wearing a baseball hat) was going out in public in a pair of shorts. 

I joke, but with every passing year, I become more and more determined not to spend all year living in Texas. I've got to eventually end up somewhere with legitimate contrasts between the seasons. I'm tired of the years where it's 90 on Halloween, 82 on Thanksgiving and 74 on Christmas. I don't mind being somewhere that's hot-ish on summer days as long as it's dry and cools down below 70 in the evenings and early mornings.

Earth's population is just gonna have to write off the land between the 45°N and 30°S parallels.

[yoladu 4093]

4 minutes ago, LW Goatman said:

We also drank out of water hoses and were happy to do so. 

It had a very distinctive taste, that is for sure.

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

How many 100 degree days do we have under our belt so far?  Something like 5 in May, 27 in June, and 17 in July?  That would put us at 49 days over 100.  The all time record is 2011, with 90 days over 100.  Second place is 69 days....we'll be blowing past that one.  Shit, the 10-day forecast is all 100*, so we're damn near at 60 when we hit August.  We could top 2011's total number, if August is 30 days of 100 degree days (which at this point, why wouldn't it be?)

F.  This.  Shit.

As of Saturday we were 5 days ahead of the 2011 100 degree day pace.

 

[Brisketexan 105095]

2 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

As of Saturday we were 5 days ahead of the 2011 100 degree day pace.

 

Swell.  Neato.  Keen.  Nifty.  Groovy.

[Neonmoon 38129]

3 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

 

1 hour ago, Cody2422 said:

Umm it’s approximately 2 degrees hotter than it was 150 years ago.  Really it’s just we are all pussies now with echo chambers to reinforce our pussiness 

 

30 years ago, kids had it a lot easier in July. 

[Ollie Slatt 289]

23 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

 

30 years ago, kids had it a lot easier in July. 

Last year kids hat it a lot easier in July.  

[Armybrat 40832]

6 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

Might have to put on a hoodie if it stays like this

Watch for the moose out front.

[Armybrat 40832]

[atomheartbevo 89648]

3 hours ago, yoladu said:

It had a very distinctive taste, that is for sure.

Our garden hose tasted like cancer.

[Hate 20108]

4 hours ago, tigol said:

I wonder what could be different now vs. when I was a kid.

Parents made their kids get out of the house every day?  I have a 13 year old that goes fishing every day or plays basketball at the park.  He takes water with him and stays hydrated.  He's fine.  All kids these days would be just fine too.

Edited July 20, 2022 by Hate