Blastfurnace 2023

[Guest]

Y'all, it's hot today.

[GreenspointTexas 9599]

Not even noon and its 103 with a feels like of 118 in Houston already

[SimonBolivar 10957]

Perfect high school football night right?

[Bozo_Casanova 26440]

19 hours ago, kevwun said:

Chili coffee and a cigarette would probably make someone shit their pants within 2 minutes.

Every male Texan over 35 knows first hand how this combination effects them. 

15 hours ago, YGIFS said:

108 in Northern France, or 10 degrees hotter than the Saharan desert.  

totally normal cycle.

Not minimizing but I think you are looking at Northern Spain. 

2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Perfect high school football night right?

I went to the McCallum-Anderson game last night, and the concrete and metal bleachers in House Park were basically a brick oven radiating heat into our asses, in addition to almost no breeze. 

[Gatorubet 30189]

32 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Y'all, it's hot today.

That’s a good macro. 

[The Dog 44020]

 

[sidis 9825]

37 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Every male Texan over 35 knows first hand how this combination effects them. 

Not minimizing but I think you are looking at Northern Spain. 

I went to the McCallum-Anderson game last night, and the concrete and metal bleachers in House Park were basically a brick oven radiating heat into our asses, in addition to almost no breeze. 

that's a lot of concrete, flip flop.

[Hate 20107]

[YGIFS 19449]

Judges would have also accepted Tuco Salamanca snorting fresh cut meth off a bowie knife by the kilogram or Tony Montana with the comical pile of blow in 'Scarfare'...but pos rep. 

[sasquatch69 602]

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Every male Texan over 35 knows first hand how this combination effects them. 

Not minimizing but I think you are looking at Northern Spain. 

I went to the McCallum-Anderson game last night, and the concrete and metal bleachers in House Park were basically a brick oven radiating heat into our asses, in addition to almost no breeze. 

They delayed kickoff of our HS game last night to 7:30.  It was still balls hot, but it did make a difference as sun was mostly behind stadium wall by that point.

[Guest]

I guess this is just how life is now.

 

[Brisketexan 105089]

I like how the 6-10 day is just a giant scorching heat penis giving us a firefuck right up the middle of the country.

[YGIFS 19449]

10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I like how the 6-10 day is just a giant scorching heat penis giving us a firefuck right up the middle of the country.

I'd watch that movie, but my VPN hasn't arrived yet.  

Somebody please regale us again with the "Good news Texans, Just 6 more days until the start of meteorological Fall."  My daughter's science teacher told them something like that yesterday.   

[yoladu 4093]

3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I went to the McCallum-Anderson game last night, and the concrete and metal bleachers in House Park were basically a brick oven radiating heat into our asses, in addition to almost no breeze. 

A real squeaker.

[Bozo_Casanova 26440]

4 minutes ago, yoladu said:

A real squeaker.

Mac won halftime though

[texasdago 7570]

I keep hearing about these pattern changes in September but all I see rage.  Or are we talking pattern kind of like you're not supposed to wear white after Labor Day? This is a fashion thing right?

[YGIFS 19449]

4 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I keep hearing about these pattern changes in September but all I see rage.  Or are we talking pattern kind of like you're not supposed to wear white after Labor Day? This is a fashion thing right?

You're actually supposed to wear white as we all involuntarily self-immolate ourselves on black asphalt to appease Ercot, the squire to Hyperion.  

[SimonBolivar 10957]

52 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

 

Somebody please regale us again with the "Good news Texans, Just 6 more days until the start of meteorological Fall."  My daughter's science teacher told them something like that yesterday.   

The average high goes down a full degree every 5 days this time a year. Yet here we are sitting at 107 right now.

[Sbbruin 21833]

1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

I guess this is just how life is now.

 

Seems like it's looked like that for 2 months.

[Orange&White 5522]

For point of reference, in 2011 the last 100 degree day didn’t come until September 29th.

[UT_OB1 2217]

I know my car thermometer isn’t calibrated to be the outside temperature, but it does give me a consistent number to compare other days too.  During this wave it usually 106-108 when I get in the car and cools down to 98-103 while I’m driving.  Well yesterday it was 117 when I got in and only cooled off to 107.  

 

My 7-10 day out look shows mid 90s for the highs and lows that start with a 7. Fall is here!

 

 

[YGIFS 19449]

5 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

The average high goes down a full degree every 5 days this time a year. Yet here we are sitting at 107 right now.

You're not looking at the law of moving numbers here, man.  With so many summers in the last 25 years looking more and more like this, the average high goes up a full degree every 5 days this time of year.  So we're actually narrowing the gap.  That's good news if you look at it mathematically.  

If you recall the "battle tactics" scene in "The Hunt for Red October", by quickly closing the distance between the ship and the torpedo, Capt. Rameus reduced the time for the weapon to arm itself.  By heating ourselves, we are closing the range between our current highs and the annual average temps for this date.  Pretty genius, or certainly a "You arrogant ass, you've killed us" situation.  

[SimonBolivar 10957]

Just now, YGIFS said:

You're not looking at the law of moving numbers here, man. 

Might as well just kill myself now.

[kevwun 15772]

10 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

For point of reference, in 2011 the last 100 degree day didn’t come until September 29th.

Yeah, from the numbers someone posted a while back, every really hot year doesn't start cooling off until the end of September.  We got 5 more weeks of this.

Edited August 25, 2023 by kevwun

[Biff Tannen 45670]

1 minute ago, kevwun said:

Yeah, from the numbers someone posted a while back, every really hot year doesn't cool off until the end of September.  We got 5 more weeks of this.

At least

[Guest]

This summer has taken away my will to live.

[Brisketexan 105089]

3 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Yeah, from the numbers someone posted a while back, every really hot year doesn't start cooling off until the end of September.  We got 5 more weeks of this.

Weeks.  Months.  Whatever it takes.

[Guest]

How the fuck does nature make a straight line? There are no straight lines in nature. Yet the daily highs are a straight line since early July. The daily lows and the total rainfall are a straight line since early June. This isn't nature. This is a climate controlled house set to "on fire."

[ClubWhatever 12120]

Sommen bout a weak jet stream and big pressure dome and shit.

[FartingMonk 3606]

I flew into Houston this morning.  The weather is fucking offensive.

[Brisketexan 105089]

2 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Sommen bout a weak jet stream and big pressure dome and shit.

You sound like my Dr.

[atomheartbevo 89633]

1 hour ago, yoladu said:

A real squeaker.

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Mac won halftime though

[sidis 9825]

fuck everything.

[Js1 85300]

5 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Not minimizing but I think you are looking at Northern Spain. 

[YGIFS 19449]

21 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Europe today. 

Bozo & JS1-------------That 42 and 41, okay maybe that's more central France, not North---but it's France.  A stretch from Toulouse to Lyon, at/around 107-108 degrees.  Those dark maroon ovals in/around Central France, it's 40-42, nearly 108 degrees.  That's France.  There are no 42's anywhere in Spain.  So you don't know how to convert Celsius or how to read a map, you must be great on camping trips.  

I'm looking right at two spots of 42 in Central France.  How the fuck are you two not seeing this?  Andorra seems pleasant right now though, we should go.    

Edited August 25, 2023 by YGIFS

[Brisketexan 105089]

6 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

There are no 42's anywhere in Spain.

Man, I don't know how many times I've had to tell people that.

You want some 42's, you gotta go somewhere else.  I hear Croatia has a good supply, but only on the black market.

[Biff Tannen 45670]

16 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Andorra seems pleasant right now though, we should go.    

Pyrenees High Route baby!  I got my pack ready!

[Surly Bevo 24908]

110 at DFW today. Fuck this shit.

[YGIFS 19449]

26 minutes ago, Js1 said:

You see that 42 where you think Spain is for some dumb fucking reason?  The one with the 37 to its 2 o'clock and 39 at its 11 o'clock.  That's not even close to being in Spain.  You're literally in the hundreds of kilometers off.   

Unless you're one of those challenged people that thinks whichever direction they are facing is North, in which case I am sorry for my insulting tone  

Edited August 25, 2023 by YGIFS

[Bozo_Casanova 26440]

37 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

34 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Bozo & JS1-------------That 42 and 41, okay maybe that's more central France, not North---but it's France.  A stretch from Toulouse to Lyon, at/around 107-108 degrees.  Those dark maroon ovals in/around Central France, it's 40-42, nearly 108 degrees.  That's France.  There are no 42's anywhere in Spain.  So you don't know how to convert Celsius or how to read a map, you must be great on camping trips.  

I'm looking right at two spots of 42 in Central France.  How the fuck are you two not seeing this?  Andorra seems pleasant right now though, we should go.    

 

Also that 42 is in the proverbial "South of France", Central France is Centre, where my cousin lives. It's in the 60-70s this week, though it gets warmer as you go down to Lyon or Toulouse. That 42 is south of there.

Edited August 25, 2023 by Bozo_Casanova

[YGIFS 19449]

Okay, Central France.  But still France.  You said I was referring to Spain, not the country of France.    I am not, I am referring to the 42 degree zone in Central France, literally hundreds of kilometers where you two cartographers think Spain is for some reason.  Find Malloraca and Minorca.  Go straight up from there to a 42* zone with a 37 to its immediate East.  That's France as I've said a half dozen times.  I am not mistaking Central France for Spain.  It's about Mountaban, France at 108 degrees and about 400-500 kilometers where your Spain bubble is.  The 42 to which I refer again is in France, not Spain.  

[Fudge Nuggets 19189]

2 hours ago, Orange&White said:

For point of reference, in 2011 the last 100 degree day didn’t come until September 29th.

There is no fucking God damn way I can do another month of this shit.

[Born to Run 6569]

But got blown the fuck out for the second year in a row in football.

[Okie State 3816]

There is no fucking God damn way I can do another month of this shit.

You'll be here bitching just like the rest of us.

[Gatorubet 30189]

52 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

 

 

Also that 42 is in the proverbial "South of France", Central France is Centre, where my cousin lives. It's in the 60-70s this week, though it gets warmer as you go down to Lyon or Toulouse. That 42 is south of there.

might be a good time to buy a bunch of cases of your favorite wines. Not sure grapes are gonna love the heat.

[YGIFS 19449]

Good point.  I didn't even think about the Hill country winemakers during all this shit.  The Tempranillos were finally getting good after some years of vine acclimating.  But I'm sure the grapes are thinking, "We're good hot weather grapes, but you can't grow shit on the sun assholes!"  I'm guessing for the rest of this decade, you'll be able to get a really good deal on any Texas wine (or most winemaking regions in the Northern Hemisphere for that matter) from 2023.  And invariably when your guests ask to just switch to Mad Dog 20/20, we'll look back on these maps and weep.  

Edited August 26, 2023 by YGIFS

[Biff Tannen 45670]

3 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Good point.  I didn't even think about the Hill country winemakers during all this shit.  The Tempranillos were finally getting good after some years of vine acclimating.  But I'm sure the grapes are thinking, "We're good hot weather grapes, but you can't grow shit on the sun assholes!"  I'm guessing for the rest of this decade, you'll be able to get a really good deal on any Texas wine (or most winemaking regions in the Northern Hemisphere for that matter) from 2023.  And invariably when your guests ask to just switch to Mad Dog 20/20, we'll look back on these maps and weep.  

Vast majority of the grapes come from the high plains near Lubbock. Doesn’t matter anyway. Texas wines are…not good. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26440]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

Okay, Central France.  But still France.  You said I was referring to Spain, not the country of France.    I am not, I am referring to the 42 degree zone in Central France, literally hundreds of kilometers where you two cartographers think Spain is for some reason.  Find Malloraca and Minorca.  Go straight up from there to a 42* zone with a 37 to its immediate East.  That's France as I've said a half dozen times.  I am not mistaking Central France for Spain.  It's about Mountaban, France at 108 degrees and about 400-500 kilometers where your Spain bubble is.  The 42 to which I refer again is in France, not Spain.  

Who you calling Macaca, George Allen?

[YGIFS 19449]

What can I say Dino, she's into Malakas! 

[Bozo_Casanova 26440]

17 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Vast majority of the grapes come from the high plains near Lubbock. Doesn’t matter anyway. Texas wines are…not good. 

It depends! Texas can grow pretty good Mourvedre, Granache, Temperanillo, Chenin Blanc, decent Cab Franc, and truly excellent Viognier. Terrible Chard, Merlot, and mediocre zin and Cabernet Sauv though.