Blastfurnace 2018 Thread

[Steamboat1874 4184]

The thing is we used to get a few cool days in September and a lot of cool days in October but now it is pretty much fucking summer until November.

[Deej 77298]

My backyard firepit just spontaneously lit.

[TexasBuckeye 43]

My wife had to turn the furnace on this morning, it was 50 here in Ohio.

[Deej 77298]

33 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

The thing is we used to get a few cool days in September and a lot of cool days in October but now it is pretty much fucking summer until November.

I'm getting used to the three weeks between Summer and Summer.

[Pato del Muerto 52977]

On 8/22/2018 at 9:46 AM, Telegraph_it said:

I am going to Jacskon Hole in a week. Thank you sweet baby Jesus. This is not a humble brag, just a brag. 

I have forgotten what a dew point under 70 feels like. 

Need a golfing buddy?  

[Guest Lobo]

Fun fact.  Fucking Maryland game will be almost 90 and humid as shit.   So we got  That going for us.  Which is not nice

[Telegraph_it 3374]

3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Need a golfing buddy?  

Be my guest. I have tee times at Teton Springs and Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis. Should not suck I think. 

[Pato del Muerto 52977]

24 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

Be my guest. I have tee times at Teton Springs and Jackson Hole Golf and Tennis. Should not suck I think. 

Would give me a good excuse to drive through the parks once more before I move...

[Biff Tannen 45786]

16 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Would give me a good excuse to drive through the parks once more before I move...

Where ya going?

[Moby Ric 2058]

On 8/22/2018 at 10:46 AM, Telegraph_it said:

I am going to Jacskon Hole in a week. Thank you sweet baby Jesus. This is not a humble brag, just a brag. 

I have forgotten what a dew point under 70 feels like. 

I was there 2 weeks ago for a week.  It was nice.

[staboner 5017]

i let the dog and have to set a timer. old fucker is cooking himself

goddammit. i have time today to do shit and not a fucking thing to do other than drink beer at the pool, which is cool, and i am good at that, but dammit man. be nice to go for a walk or something

[El Diablo 4232]

23 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

We'll be out there running around 6. I'm not looking forward to it.

Pogue?

[SimonBolivar 10962]

18 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

Pogue?

Nah sometimes Cottonbelt and other times Cameron

[WhatTheBuck 28852]

1 hour ago, staboner said:

i let the dog and have to set a timer. old fucker is cooking himself

goddammit. i have time today to do shit and not a fucking thing to do other than drink beer at the pool, which is cool, and i am good at that, but dammit man. be nice to go for a walk or something

How many beers have you had? I'm guessing several. 

[phdhorn 6224]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

Today is the anniversary of the hottest day ever recorded in Austin, 112°, August 28, 2011.

Actually, we get to celebrate it again next week!  Because it ties the record, also set September 5, 2000!  Can't beat that.  Hey look, it's hot in late August!

This year going down as #3 hottest summer, won't get close to the first two.  Plus we had a lot of good rain in May and July, so it hasn't been as brutal as 2011, when we had like 3 inches in about 5 months.  It was already bone-dry in April that year, and only got worse.

Anyway, as posted 2 weeks ago, we are turning the corner and temps look to ease down below 100°, starting after this weekend.  Earth is getting along in its orbit and the sun's rays are going to become more angled and indirect.  Result:  temps go down.  Might have a few 100's left for a week or so due to the ground storing up so much heat (and it being dry), but it's going to change.

Until then, enjoy the lovely weather!

(going up to D.C. for most of the next month... won't be here to experience glorious late late summer coolness and lovely rainy days).

[XYZ 2154]

I remember the summer of 2011 very well. Late in the summer, despair started setting its claws on me. You know, random thoughts such as “dying wouldn’t be so bad”. I would wait until 11 PM to walk the dog, and it was still fucking hot. That summer killed a large tree on my front yard that I liked a lot. It also destroyed several houses in my neighborhood.

[Brisketexan 105701]

4 minutes ago, XYZ said:

I remember the summer of 2011 very well. Late in the summer, despair started setting its claws on me. You know, random thoughts such as “dying wouldn’t be so bad”. I would wait until 11 PM to walk the dog, and it was still fucking hot. That summer killed a large tree on my front yard that I liked a lot. It also destroyed several houses in my neighborhood.

We didn't lose a tree in 2011 (although we lost some blackjack oaks in the greenbelt behind us).  This year, we lost an old mountain laurel.  Made my wife sad.

[MissingInAction 25330]

I remember 8/12/11 quite well. AC went out so i opened the fridge put a fan in front to blow cool air at my taint, and drank a case of beer. My dog,Amber , actually crawled into the fridge it was so fucking hot.

[Guest Lobo]

Seriously though, how many more weeks of this bullshit?  I know you fucking tough guy Texans only consider days over 100 to be hot, but I consider anything over 90 to be insane.  So how much more of that?  3 weeks?  I can do that.  6 weeks?  I'm calling bullshit.  

[GabrielsHorn 2210]

As someone who is feeling pretty sad about moving from Austin to Denver, this last little bit of hellish temperatures is making it a bit easier to realize why I want to leave. 

[Knoxtnhorn 6180]

Avg high in Dallas on Sept 30 is something like 82 degrees.

Avg for Oct 31st is 73 degrees.

We're, hopefully, getting close.

 

[SimonBolivar 10962]

45 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

 

This year going down as #3 hottest summer, won't get close to the first two.  Plus we had a lot of good rain in May and July, so it hasn't been as brutal as 2011, when we had like 3 inches in about 5 months.  It was already bone-dry in April that year, and only got worse.
 

Just 90 miles north we've only received 9.61" on the year with the average being 22" for today's date. The paper is claiming that's an all time low for us.

[SimonBolivar 10962]

20 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Seriously though, how many more weeks of this bullshit?  I know you fucking tough guy Texans only consider days over 100 to be hot, but I consider anything over 90 to be insane.  So how much more of that?  3 weeks?  I can do that.  6 weeks?  I'm calling bullshit.  

Over 90? That'll be a while. The average high is above 90 until September 15th and there will be plenty of days after that in the 90s.

[Trey3216 15382]

23 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Seriously though, how many more weeks of this bullshit?  I know you fucking tough guy Texans only consider days over 100 to be hot, but I consider anything over 90 to be insane.  So how much more of that?  3 weeks?  I can do that.  6 weeks?  I'm calling bullshit.  

You'll be able to sit in a deer stand on Oct 1 for bow season in shorts and flops.  

[Guest Lobo]

2 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

You'll be able to sit in a deer stand on Oct 1 for bow season in shorts and flops.  

Thank god, 'cause that's a sport!  

I don't know what's been happening to Central Texas, but we're having to actively plot our family halloween costume around "what won't make Daddy and daughter pass out from heat exhaustion?"  That's not a great way to approach such a fun day.  

[gsoda3 3315]

14 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Thank god, 'cause that's a sport!  

I don't know what's been happening to Central Texas, but we're having to actively plot our family halloween costume around "what won't make Daddy and daughter pass out from heat exhaustion?"  That's not a great way to approach such a fun day.  

was it last halloween or the year before, we had to come back to the house for the kids to put on their thick winter jackets.  

[phdhorn 6224]

Here, feast on this while I'm on the road, first winter weather advisory of the season. It's snowed in the northern U.S. Rockies.  And one model forecast a very cold winter.

Yes, it's the Rockies, but enjoy these hundred degree days, they'll be over soon.

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Article

First Winter Weather Advisories of the Season Issued for the Lower 48 as Snow Blankets Northern Rockies

Published: | weather.com

Aug 27 2018 10:00 PM

August is ending with a taste of winter weather in the northern Rockies as snow blankets the highest elevations.

Winter weather advisories have been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of the Rockies of Montana and Wyoming, where the NWS said a few inches of wet snow is possible into early Tuesday above 6,000 feet in elevation.

These are the first winter weather advisories to be issued by the NWS anywhere in the Lower 48 for the upcoming snow season. Early June was the last time a winter weather advisory was issued in the Lower 48 as a late-season weather system brought snow to the West.

NWS said higher elevations of the Beartooth Highway, one route connecting southwestern Montana to Yellowstone National Park, could have hazardous travel conditions and may have closures at times.

An inch of snow was measured Monday morning in grassy areas at Logan Pass in Montana's Glacier National Park.

Accumulating snow is expected in the highest peaks of northwestern Wyoming, southwestern Montana and adjacent portions of Idaho.

Snow is not uncommon in the higher elevations of the northern Rockies in late August. In fact, snow coated a few spots in the northern Rockies at the beginning of this past July, illustrating that flakes can occasionally fly through the air at any time during the summer months in the high country of this region.

Snow can also occur in valley locations during the tail end of August. Great Falls, Montana, saw its earliest snow on Aug. 22, 1992, the same year its only below-freezing temperatures were recorded in August.

Southward plunges of the jet stream moving over the region this time of year can allow just enough cold air and moisture to intermingle and produce accumulating snow. That's the type of weather pattern we are seeing early this week.

This plunge of the jet stream is also helping to scour out wildfire smoke that has been plaguing the Northwest recently.

 

[Brisketexan 105701]

I think it was two years ago that it did rain substantially (thankfully not until about 9p), and  it did drop about ten degrees.  But I can remember being chilly in the last 10 Halloween’s or so.  

Rained like hell last year.

Hasn’t been cold in a decade or more.

[Guest Lobo]

57 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

was it last halloween or the year before, we had to come back to the house for the kids to put on their thick winter jackets.  

I think it was two years ago that it did rain substantially (thankfully not until about 9p), and  it did drop about ten degrees.  But I cannot remember being chilly in the last 10 Halloween’s or so.  Also, how did this quote time travel thing happen?

Edited August 28, 2018 by Lobo

[gsoda3 3315]

31 minutes ago, Lobo said:

I think it was two years ago that it did rain substantially (thankfully not until about 9p), and  it did drop about ten degrees.  But I cannot remember being chilly in the last 10 Halloween’s or so.  Also, how did this quote time travel thing happen?

yeah last year, apparently it was 54 and raining at 6pm last halloween.  

[Okie State 3868]

I don't remember it being cold last Halloween in Houston, but it poured down rain. We tried to do the Mall thing as a last second backup and it was a complete shitshow. I ended up taking her in the rain.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11830]

24 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

yeah last year, apparently it was 54 and raining at 6pm last halloween.  

In 2014 we had a cold snap - I remember because I was hunting that weekend.  I looked it up and on Nov. 1 that year there was a low of 38 and a high of 54.  Definitely coat weather if you were outside all evening.

[yoladu 4172]

As my kids were complaining about the heat this summer, i was about to give the ole "Dad can't remember complaining once about the heat as a boy." speech.

then it dawned on me, my kids have experienced two or three hottest summers ever recorded in Austin. I got off light growing up.

oh and 2011....

[Post Oak 20360]

Hang in there a little bit longer boys. 

[Brisketexan 105701]

Hang in there a little bit longer boys. 

Around here, the new “stinging cold” is 75.

[Post Oak 20360]

46 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Around here, the new “stinging cold” is 75.

My kingdom for a day with a high of 75  

[Brisketexan 105701]

8 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

My kingdom for a day with a high of 75  

Slow your roll, January will be here soon enough.

[Storm the Field 5308]

I used to not mind the heat all that much, but I feel like once I hit my 30's, I started to tolerate it less and less each passing year and now summer weather starts pissing me off by late July.

Just got back from a week-long vacation in Ireland where it was in the 50s and 60s the whole trip. Landed in Houston around 7:00 p.m. last Wednesday and a blast of 95 hit me in the face upon walking out to the parking shuttle. That shit ain't cool. I could handle it a lot better if it was hot during the day but at least cooled down at night, but when it's still 83 at midnight, no thanks. 

I've never really considered leaving Texas permanently and will probably be in Houston the next 25+ years, but my wife's best friend lives in Aspen and we go visit for 4 or 5 days every summer, and it always gets me thinking. Another friend of mine has a condo there and moves up for pretty much all of May-October before coming back. I doubt we could afford to live and work remotely for 1/3 of the year like that, but maybe 6 weeks or so when its topping out at 100 here might be nice. A guy can dream right?

Edited August 28, 2018 by Storm the Field

[Biff Tannen 45786]

1 minute ago, Storm the Field said:

I used to not mind the heat all that much, but I feel like once I hit my 30's, I can tolerate it less and less each passing year and now summer weather starts pissing me off by late July.

This is exactly me.  Growing up in Austin, it was a badge of honor or something to have the summers be brutal and that was when I was out in it all day, every day.  Once I hit 30 or so, fuck that.  I would move tomorrow if my wife didn't have her career nailed down here.

[gsoda3 3315]

^^^ same.  i was 28 summer of 2011.  never the same after that.  

[YChang 3475]

It's been fun gettin used to the heat again after living in the Bay Area for the past decade. 

[Guest Lobo]

2 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

yeah last year, apparently it was 54 and raining at 6pm last halloween.  

Okay.  I was blending "two years ago and last year."  Shit happens when you're dealing with a 2-year old at halloween.  I do remember our little block party and food truck thing getting cut short, but not until right at dusk.  Obviously was raining in other parts of Austin.  But we didn't get the brunt of it until about 8:00p or so, maybe a hint earlier.  How fucked up is that though that we remember a Halloween in the 50's and all the ones in the 90's just fucking blend together?  Don't get me wrong, love the slutty costumes.  But when you have kids and help host the neighborhood shindig, your biggest worry should be fun and fright, not kids passing out from heat exhaustion.  But here we are.  Top 4 of the 5 hottest summers in recorded history all in the last 17 years.  

[phdhorn 6224]

4 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

Over 90? That'll be a while. The average high is above 90 until September 15th and there will be plenty of days after that in the 90s.

Funny thing is, a good swath of Oklahoma (mostly Central/East has had their rainiest summer - ever.

Yeah it's Oklahoma and sucks and all, but the Trinity Aquifer starts up there and hopefully some of that water will make it down to my well in Western Travis.

[phdhorn 6224]

Good as place as any for this...

So suddenly Accuweather Channel pops up on my DirectTVNow lineup, like The Weather Channel more or less.  Ho-hum.
Except for this gal named Brittany Boyer.  She is on the blastfurnace side of hot.

[Post Oak 20360]

21 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Good as place as any for this...

So suddenly Accuweather Channel pops up on my DirectTVNow lineup, like The Weather Channel more or less.  Ho-hum.
Except for this gal named Brittany Boyer.  She is on the blastfurnace side of hot.

[Okie State 3868]

Funny thing is, a good swath of Oklahoma (mostly Central/East has had their rainiest summer - ever.

Yeah it's Oklahoma and sucks and all, but the Trinity Aquifer starts up there and hopefully some of that water will make it down to my well in Western Travis.

My hometown in NE Oklahoma has had a very mild summer. Highs in the mid to upper 70's some days.

[XYZ 2154]

Count me in the boat of getting too old for this bullshit.

[Newdoc 3465]

3 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

Another friend of mine has a condo there and moves up for pretty much all of May-October before coming back. I doubt we could afford to live and work remotely for 1/3 of the year like that, but maybe 6 weeks or so when its topping out at 100 here might be nice. A guy can dream right?

Right there with you. Eyeballing downsizing here and getting a second place somewhere in the Rockies.

[Trey3216 15382]

24 minutes ago, Okie State said:

1 hour ago, phdhorn said:

Funny thing is, a good swath of Oklahoma (mostly Central/East has had their rainiest summer - ever.

Yeah it's Oklahoma and sucks and all, but the Trinity Aquifer starts up there and hopefully some of that water will make it down to my well in Western Travis.

My hometown in NE Oklahoma has had a very mild summer. Highs in the mid to upper 70's some days.

Was tension running high in ‘65?

[Zepol87 9263]

Count me in the boat of getting too old for this bullshit.

Yep 31 and I haven't even been in Texas all summer and fuck all this shit.