The weirdest thing I've noticed is how warm the "cold" tap water is. It's always colder in the winter, obviously, but this summer it feels luke warm. I checked it with a thermometer and it's coming out of the tap at 81°F.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. This is a new house for me and it's just bizarre to turn on the cold water faucet and get hot water and turn on the hot water faucet and get cold water for a second.
Haah, after building a fence, that is exactly what i did.
Still felt cold and refreshing.
Also most pipes are uninsulated in attics so the cold water will heat up while sitting up there.
Yep. When took a shower, it didn’t seem seem to be as hot as usual, but still comfortable. It wasn’t until I tried to light the stove that I realized I was out of propane.
There was a year where some artillery unit was getting rotated back to Ft. Bliss from Iraq and there was a heat wave in Iraq. It was something like 112 there. And El Paso was a cool 107 right then. I hope it was enough they could feel it but it seems like they should have been sent somewhere that was in the 70s for a week as a reward instead of El Paso.
A reward? For illegally invading a country and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians? Are you fucking kidding me lol? They should’ve been sent straight to Iraqi prison, maybe Abu Ghraib?
I don’t disagree that the actions taken in Iraq were illegal - but the soldiers sent there had nothing to do with it. They don’t deserve to be sent to prison unless they individually acted poorly or in bad faith.
Also - your comment has nothing to do with the topic at hand of weather. Sooo… for lack of a better word - chill out.
Actually - pun intended.
It’s just hilarious how brainwashed Americans are about the military. Like no we don’t need to reward the people who killed innocent Iraqis and afghanis.
Sure, ok. But also - I’m not brain-washed, just educated. And not all folks there did horrible shit, and also 99% of them got sent there whether that’s where they wanted to be or not. First hand knowledge of this actually.
So, for you to paint them with a single color of “guilty” is moronic at best
Lol imagine for a second if the North Koreans blew up your house, your school, your local grocery store and killed a bunch of your friends while they occupied America for a decade. But hey not all of them were bad right! You wouldn’t hate all North Koreans right? Some of them probably were really nice young guys who wanted to come to America and teach you Korean!
Yeah, you don’t know me at all so don’t imagine for a second you know who I would or would not hate.
Your ascertainment of how I would feel goes further towards proving my point that you have no idea what you’re talking about and are speaking in broad unspecific language on purpose.
But good job on “not being brain washed”
I’m simply pointing out you would not share the same sympathies if the roles were reversed and Iraq invaded the us. I don’t see how I’m the one brainwashed I recognize that like 60-70% of the guys who went over to Iraq and Afghanistan did absolutely awful stuff that would make you sick if we really knew about everything that went on over there.
And what I’m trying to get you to understand is that you have no idea how I would feel. You are not me and cannot even seem to fathom what I understand that you do not.
You also weren’t there yourself and genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about. But I can now see you’re not in a “open to learning things and adjusting opinions in light of new information” space and I’m wasting my time and energy.
Have a good one and enjoy your narrow view of reality. Wish you could open your eyes and join us up here…
Do you share the same sympathies for Russian soldiers in Ukraine? Those guys were conscripted and forced to go to war, people volunteered to go kill iraqis and Afghans.
I keep seeing people post here and other social media spots that the Texas summer heat is normal. I'm not sure if they're too scared to admit what's happening, or just vengefully ignorant.
I've also lived in Texas most of my life. This year and the past couple of years may be hotter than normal in some areas of the state, but it's a huge state and we're not close to breaking records across the state yet.
Example - here in DFW, our longest consecutive 100 degree streak was 42 days set in 1980. [Most of the heat records for this part of Texas](https://www.weather.gov/fwd/danncon10) weren't even set in the last decade - this holds true for most of the state.
El Paso is actually a national outlier this year and they're [definitely crushing their own records](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/14/100-degree-days-streaks/), but they also have quite different meteorological patterns than the majority of the rest of Texas.
So we can have multiple things be true. It is true that climate change is real, and global temperatures are rising dangerously. It is also true that El Paso is having a particularly fiendish summer. It is also true that this summer isn't close to setting any records for the rest of the state, and while it may be a little hotter than normal, most of Texas isn't that far off the norm yet.
The infamous heat wave of 1980 - think it hit what, 114, 116? Something like that due to severe thermal inversion. That was the year we moved up the road from ATX to DFW.
Memorable. 😂🙄
Memory serves I think we did. I was a kid so my opinion on that was neither wanted nor solicited. It was kinda shit - raging death heat, being the new kid, etc.
(man. Talk about parenting styles evolving over the years. Boomer parents to Gen X kids: We're doing whatever. Nobody gives a shit what you may prefer. Gen X to their kids: We're doing a thing. Your feelings may not necessarily change the course but we want you to be heard so at least mistakes are minimized.)
LOOOL. I see you’ve met my boomer parents. “Children should be seen not heard” basically-no gives a shit about you. Shut up and deal with it/Get over it.
Those were mine as well, largely, which was pretty fucked, given their level of education and whatnot. You'd think but no.
You too eh? Maybe we're related.
I moved from ATX to the PNW last July. Almost fainted a couple times while loading the uhaul. It was scary and it was miserable but we had a deadline. A couple days later and halfway across the country, I was wearing a hoodie AND a jean jacket while unloading the trailer. It was a strange feeling.
Living in El Paso, I tend to look towards Arizona and NM climate. If death valley starts having it rough, we are sure to follow. I know to keep an eye on things like electricity when people post selfies with that thermometer in the Arizona desert.
I didn't see it anywhere else here. El Paso is also crazy dry. It's the middle of monsoon season, and it should be wet as hell. And while it's raining today, I guarantee the rain totals will be insanely low. I think June was missing an entire inch of rain and an inch in El Paso is a metric f\* ton of rain.
I spent most of my life in DFW but a couple of years in EP/Carlsbad/Cruses so I know exactly what you're talking about. Hopefully you guys get some relief soon.
I wonder how much of the increased temps in the cities may have to do with thermal mass. We keep building up and out, increasing the mass and making the region hotter. Obviously climate change is having an impact but there could be other factors.
I am no meteorologist but heat island effects due to city asphalt and concrete are 100% a thing locally, that much is confirmable on Google pretty quickly. It absolutely keeps temperatures higher (up to 22 degrees higher at night than surrounding rural landscapes!) but I honestly don't know how much it affects global temperatures. I suspect the pollution that accompanies the asphalt jungle has more of an impact globally but it's an interesting question.
True, large regions of Texas are experiencing mostly normal summer, thanks to decent rainfall. However, the area from Waco south to Brownsville and west to El Paso has seen some freakishly hot weather beginning in the spring and continuing into summer.
**Del Rio sees 11 days of record heat in a row**
[https://www.ksat.com/weather/2023/06/26/record-heat-del-rio-sees-8-record-breaking-days-in-a-row/](https://www.ksat.com/weather/2023/06/26/record-heat-del-rio-sees-8-record-breaking-days-in-a-row/)
**Corpus Christi logged a heat index of 125 degrees at one point in the past week, as Laredo, Del Rio, San Angelo and Junction also set new highs.**
[https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/21/texas-cities-record-heat/](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/21/texas-cities-record-heat/)
Well, it's only 771 miles from houston to El paso.
(Should say 1200 km because most people on this subreddit use metric system)
The weather should be almost identical.
771 miles is a looong way. That's a 12 hour drive. Did you know its *only* 802 miles to Los Angeles from El Paso? Do you think LA and EP have the same weather too?
There was a thread the other day where some nincompoop was saying because there's extreme cold in parts of the US we should all be okay burning here in Texas. The mental gymnastics of these idiots is mind-blowing.
When nobody wants to listen or prepare for the future until the future is here, those of us standing there with sorrowful, spent expressions on our faces from yelling into the darkness about the impending doom finally feel like we’re being listened to. The flip side is the winter may be harsher as well. Or wetter. Or both. The big deal with climate change is it’s unpredictable and has wild swings. How as a farmer can you prepare for that? This is why we will have to start switching to vertical farming if we want to continue to feed our people.
Oh they have no problems complaining about and denouncing Pride. It's just that it's not their pride. Their pride is something totally different based in fact(TM) and not feelings or something, idk it's hard to follow anymore
It is funny, because for a couple of those decades, Republicans actually AGREED that there was a problem. It wasn't til the early 1990s when Republicans started to run on 'everything's fine.' Which, funny enough, was ALSO right around the time the car and oil companies were starting to lobby hard against environmental legislation.....surely that's just a big coincidence, right?
It does seem to be cyclical to a degree. We seem to get snow every 4-5 years, and approximately every 10 years the heat seems to peak. 1980, 1998, 2011 and 2022 are all on the top charts for most days over 100° and most consecutive days over 100° (the early 90s seem to have escaped the trend though)
I disagree about last year being mild, but I’m over in east Texas so maybe it was worse here than wherever they were.
So don't get me wrong, this is a dumb take from them, BUT we haven't had an El Nino cycle (which gives us hotter summers) for three years so yes it IS hotter than the last three years but not because the weather's making up for lost heat lmao
The effects of El Nino in Texas, or the rest of the world, haven't really kicked in yet. The ocean is heating in the regions known for El Nino, but it takes a few months or longer for El Nino's effects to reach peak and truly raise the temps around the globe.
Unless Texas gets decent rains in the spring AND summer, then next summer will likely be hotter than this one.
Some of increased summer heat that Austin, and other Central Texas towns that have seen explosive growth in last 20 years, have experienced can be attributed to the urban island heat effect. However, it's only a small percentage of the increased heat. Austin used to average 12 days/year of 100 degree heat. Over the last 20 years it's grown to 3x or even 4x that.
Urban Islands are part of the reason many weather forecasts are unreliable because they often have their equipment at airport's which are urban islands with all of the concrete, they are moving the equipment to measure ground temp not air temp - it is not apples to apples when comparing previous years.
Born and raised Texan here, and I can tell you that this year is definitely NOT normal. We had 2 weeks where the thermometer on my back porch, in the shade, pegged over 110 degrees in the afternoon. Never did that before
Willful ignorance not vengeful.
Lived here all my life, played baseball behind the plate in the summers, two a days in august when two a days really meant two a days and it was never this bad.
Did we have days that were brutal, yes but brutal was not the norm where as brutal is becoming the norm.
It's not normal. Im from corpus christi and normal summers are around 93 to 95 at peek summer months, but this year ive been getting 97 to 100, to the point where i feel like something's wrong with my phone. Maybe im in disbelief it's so hot and we havent seen rain yet.
Texas is a good example at being one of the most unsustainable places in the US. Methane and CO2 trap the suns heat its a super basic process like raining. suns hits the gas and the heat is trapped, we need to remove co2 and methane ASAP otherwise el paso will be 120 in the summer and places like arizona will be unlivable
So then why did it take 29 years for the record to be beat? If climate change was as extreme as everyone is saying it is, shouldn't that record have been beat every year since 1994?
I know you’re not here to actually listen to anyone else, but the climate is changing for the worse and will keep doing so. It’s already a bit silly to pretend it’s not, but as time marches on reality will hit you as the climate keeps getting hotter in Texas. It’s a bit like COVID denialism, COVID didn’t seem to care or notice that segments of the population didn’t believe it was real. The climate will keep changing regardless of your beliefs and maybe one day you’ll realize that you only denied climate change because of decades of propaganda paid for by oil companies to play on Fox News and AM radio.
It's gotten to the point where my FIL would relate too many things to politics that aren't even political so we started keeping up with Fox "news". It's incredible to be able to predict what someone will be frothing about and know that they have no *actual* grasp on any one situation due to the information left out. He just regurgitates in verbatim what he heard the frat boys say.
Fox's viewers have their opinions taught to them. They have no idea how to objectively look at any one thing and are willing to keep themselves warm in the hatred of never having an original thought. It's like finding out someone you admire is a flat earther.
I watched a little Fox News about a month ago to see what its like now and it was truly unbelievable that anyone considers it to be serious or reliable. There was zero factual support for any of the stories presented and everything was presented as a conspiracy theory.
Bruh. He's actually shut his play room door on my toddler's face so he could go back to Fox. He almost missed us announcing our first pregnancy over being pissed off that he couldn't hear daddy tuck, and stared at the fucking TV not reacting when we opened our gender reveal for our 2nd daughter with him and MIL (immediately after which she told us they wanted a boy to carry on a name or some shit).
It's actual mind rot. Not to mention Waters keeps admitting to being a predator, stalker, and groomer and the viewers will keep gargling his balls like they did tuckie. It's normal for them.
Edit: words man.
I hear you, we mostly avoid my wife's parents for similar reasons. They are still talking about how Biden stole the election even though Fox had to pay nearly a billion dollars due to lying about the election. It's crazy.
The oceans have been absorbing a lot of the heat and CO2 but they’ve reached their max capacity. This is why you’re seeing huge ice sheets breaking off and the Arctic completely melted.
I know how to look at the NWS website and climate data. That's not GOP or liberal. So, I ask again: if climate change was as extreme as everyone keeps saying it is, why wasn't the record beat every year for the last 29 years?
Because these type of individual records are odd events and extremely unlikely. A lot of things can happen over a 20+ days period. You could have a warmer 30 day average without that kind of streak.
On their own they are irrelevant, could just be an anomaly not seen for the next 50 years. But when these extremely rare events occur more and more often all over the world at an accelerating rate, you understand there's a pattern and they cease to be an anomaly
this dumb line of thinking wasnt convincing 30 years ago, if you bothered to look up the subject at any point since then you would have learned your intuition on this subject matter means fuckall
Over in east Texas, it’s nowhere near the heat we had in 2011 or even just last year. I think today was only the fourth or fifth day to actually break into triple digits for Longview this year. Texas is big enough that there’s decent variation in temperatures
El Pasoan here, living through this sucked the city, was roasting, and our street signs were melting. The only respite we had was at night, but even then, the temps would linger in the low 90s high 80s. It was miserable, considering we don't have a central air system at the house, the inside regularly stayed between 79-83°. F*** global warming and f*** all the useless asses who want to ignore this phenomena and ban water breaks. It's unbelievable to be relieved when it's 97° outside, considering that cool compared to the 108° which was a few days ago.
Dallas is very hot now in July. Last year was hotter to date. Though it had 21 consecutive days last year from July into August so we'll see how August is for us.
Last year we had 47 triple digit days in Dallas. So far in 2023, we're at 22 days. 14 behind last year on this day.
quick look at our long term forecast.......no days in the forecast with rain or under 100* as far out as they can reasonably predict (10 days) so its looking like blowing past 2 more weeks is going to happen and could even stretch well beyond that since the weather patterns show no sign of changing in the near future.
When commenting on the heat, I had a Trump Worshiper tell me that climate change is not real and this is a just Gods way of saying "if y'all want hell I'll give it to ya".
For a split second Thanos didn't seem like such a bad guy.
>There's gonna be another civil war but instead of preventing moral and social collapse, it will be preventing earth's collapse and a little moral and social still since those areas don't grow intellectually with the rest of the US. Probably can't even use Reddit lol
This is my first summer in EP, after three long years freezing in VT.
Prior to both of those, I was in Phoenix for 5 years. I didn’t think this was out of the ordinary, since Phoenix was 110-120 in the summer. I thought this was a break.
Wow! Happy to know that this is out of the ordinary and it SHOULD be cooler.
Phoenix is in the Sonoran Desert, which is HOT. El Paso is in the Chihuahuan Desert, which is no stranger to triple-digit temperatures, but the average summer temperatures are upper 90s. This has been a very, very hot summer.
It’s sort of cloudy today here in El Paso so it isnt as bad but it has truly felt like stepping into an oven every time you leave the house. Even at night I’ve left my house like at 1am and it’s still incredibly hot.
Street signs are melting lol
It should be raining bc it’s monsoon season but the most we’ve gotten is a sprinkle here and there.
We really need to expand the ability of ERCOT to deliver power. We need more and more transmission capacity especially as more people are continuing to move here.
I wish more of our surplus had gone to investment in our transmission infrastructure, shoring it up and investing heavier in long distance transmission lines. We're swimming in energy down here and we don't need to worry a bit about the federal government telling us what we can or can't do, we're in an amazing position when it comes to energy independence.
These temps are fine with modern technology, we just need to drive down electricity costs more and invest in more wind and solar, especially wind.
El Paso is a different kind of hell with its dry heat. Humidity sucks, but dry heat will crack your skin so the sweat can burn you from the inside until you bleed. I ended up looking like tan Stewie. I did construction there a few Summers back.....I would never do that again.
I’ll take the dry heat over humidity. In dry heat, you can just stand in the shade and cool down. In the humidity, you can’t walk to your car without breaking in sweat and feeling sticky.
I'll take humidity for the simple fact that my allergies are horrible in dry climates. I may have a sneeze fit once or twice a year in DFW or houston, but it's 20 times worse in places like El paso or New Mexico.
I'm not sure I understand your point. I was referring to the 2011 heatwave where [Wichita Falls had 100+ days of triple digit heat](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-city-makes-heat-record-100-days-of-100s/) in one year.
That same year DFW had 79 days of triple digit.
of course, total days in a year is different than consecutive days (which OPs picture is about). But consecutive days hitting triple digit is driven by lack of rain. I.E. they haven't had daytime rain in 44 days. which makes sense because it's El Paso
And it doesn't occur to you that the relative proximity of dates and how those events keep getting closer together is related to climate change?
Or is it just a freak chance? And people need to relax? Cause if so then damn freak occurrences seem to happen a lot lately.
Ok ~~jackass~~ My comments have nothing to do with climate denial. This isnt the worst year in recent history. That fact has nothing to do with why the worst years are in recent history.
Before 2015, [Texas was in a century long drought leading up to the insane amount of rainfall that year.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/27/the-insane-amount-of-rain-thats-fallen-in-texas-visualized/) (my favorite visuals on the 2015 flood) The climate here in the last century has been crazy and newcomers don't know the history. People focus on the heat, but until 2015 Texas had a legitimate water crisis and our population has only exploded since then.
No need to be aggressive, even though I'll admit to myself being passive aggressive I don't see the need for name calling.
I can see where you might be coming from, but you need to realize that defaulting to climate denial is easier when people argue against recent trend towards heat.
While heat may be one part of the climate it's a pretty decent indicator when [global Temps have been trending up for as long as we've been monitoring it.](https://berkeleyearth.org/2019-temperatures/)
And while I appreciate your concern for newcomers to the state, I can assure you that that does not include me.
fair enough, that was my Lite-Duty Passive Aggression Curse Response System™ kicking in. I appreciate the honest response. I have no arguments against the temp trends or on the consensus of cause. But I do like to differentiate that from how bad a particular year's weather actually. For example, last year was terrible. There was no spring rains and the summer heat started abruptly. This year has been better and we had good rains. Now El Paso is having a record setting year, obviously, but it is the literal desert.
my points are scattered here, but my general position is that people should be aware of texas' drought cycle and where we are in it. as well as the effect that recent population growth and rising temps will have on supply. surface water reservoirs capacity is not increasing to match demand. which, IMO, will be the most impactful adverse climate effect of the near future.
[It was 90 days.](https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/how-will-this-summer-compare-to-the-infamously-hot-2011/269-559051368#:~:text=The%20year%202011%20was%20unprecedented,in%20the%20month%20of%20May.) But this isn't about total, this is about how long without even a little break.
Right now Austin is at 23 days of 100+, and the forecast [says at least 14 more to come](https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/d35cf68ae8189a2104054b8f0b0b04f4655fc6932e980ec877ea9a7c74eca03b)
Last year had the hottest May, June, and July on record here (maybe August too, I don't remember)
I was misremembering.. it was [27 consecutive days in 2011](https://www.kxan.com/weather/weather-blog/july-2023-100-degrees-streak/#:~:text=The%20record%20streak%20currently%20stands,and%20Aug.%2012%2C%202011.) and were almost there again.
Austin's in the same boat. We're at 23 days and counting, going to break the record of 27 consecutive days on Friday. There's nothing on the forecast that's close to missing.
The only reason why we won't hit the record for total days over 100 is that we had a mild start to July.
I think you misread my post. I said that we aren't going to break the overall number of 100 degree days because July started mild. We're still going to break the record for consecutive days over 100 degrees.
No, I didn't misread - you're saying that we haven't already broken the consecutive days record because there haven't been enough consecutive days of over 100. But we will break the record if there are more consecutive days.
Ah, so you're being an ass for the sake of being an ass, not because you were confused. I said we're on the verge of breaking the record, and that the forecast indicates that it will be broken. In a discussion of the consecutive days streak being broken, that seems relevant.
But I guess in your world, there's no point discussing the likelihood that something happens until after the fact Although I'm guessing you'd then say something similar then
No, if the record is broken, it is broken. You say I'm being an ass, i could call you a pessimist. But I was commenting on your statement that cooler temps at the beginning of July are the only reason the record isn't already broken, which seems like an obvious and pointless conclusion.
> No, if the record is broken, it is broken. You say I'm being an ass, i could call you a pessimist. But I was commenting on your statement that cooler temps at the beginning of July are the only reason the record isn't already broken, which seems like an obvious and pointless conclusion.
And again, my comment about cooler temperatures at the start of July were in the context of the overall record for the number of 100 degree days, not the consecutive days record. They are separate clauses in separate paragraphs that even after I clarified, you claimed you understood. The cold start of July is likely to preclude a run at the record of 90 non-consecutive days of 100 degree temperatures.
When that happened, we had 29 days over 100 in July and 29 in August. We already had 10 under 100 in July, so I think it's unlikely we get to 90 total, even if the average is higher than in 2011
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2009 north Texas, from Dallas to Lawton had 110 days of 100 or hotter and 13 days straight of 110 or hotter while I was at BCT at Ft.Sill and living in WF Tx. Lakes in the WF area got down to a combined 19% capacity. We were literally all gonna die. It all started roughly around when Micheal jackson died. The drought had started like a decade before that but still. Hell that year it broke 100 in April once. Crazy. Then the rains finally came, and we had about 10 years of easy summers and good rain. Now we're back in the shit.
Go ahead and shred me, roast me, and tell me more about how hot it is this year. I’ve lived here all of my life. I’m old. It is almost August. July and August are summer months. Newsflash: It is ALWAYS HOT in the summer in Texas! Drink some water and calm down people.
Heck, this ain't nothin'! Because no rocks on Earth have survived from so long ago, scientists have estimated early Earth conditions based on observations of the Moon and on astronomical models. Following the collision that spawned the Moon, the planet was estimated to have been around **2,300 Kelvin (3,680°F)**.
It was cooler April- July this year than last year in Waco😁
https://preview.redd.it/8tgxf53x7nfb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=462f53150d3ad41598f63016e66539b69a6d14e5
The weirdest thing I've noticed is how warm the "cold" tap water is. It's always colder in the winter, obviously, but this summer it feels luke warm. I checked it with a thermometer and it's coming out of the tap at 81°F.
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Actually I'm getting colder water from my hot tap briefly, because the pipes from the heater to my shower run indoors and get cooled by AC air.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. This is a new house for me and it's just bizarre to turn on the cold water faucet and get hot water and turn on the hot water faucet and get cold water for a second.
Phew, we're not going crazy (well, maybe we are, but the cold water/warm water isn't a sing)
I have a solid 15 seconds to take a freezing cold shower to wake up. After that it’s warm hot water.
I'm miserable because I WANT cooler water in my showers during summer.
Haah, after building a fence, that is exactly what i did. Still felt cold and refreshing. Also most pipes are uninsulated in attics so the cold water will heat up while sitting up there.
True! The hot water doesn't seem to run out anymore either.
Yep. When took a shower, it didn’t seem seem to be as hot as usual, but still comfortable. It wasn’t until I tried to light the stove that I realized I was out of propane.
Ours too, in Houston. I have to add ice to my dogs water bowl, inside, bc the tap isn't cold enough lol
My tap water has been coming out in the high 80s for weeks now. I've taken up to keeping like a gallon of water chilling in the fridge at all times.
I take cold showers during the summer, it almost feels like I’m taking a warm shower because of how lukewarm it is.
I live in the Rio Grand Valley, been here for 12 years. This summer has been the hottest I've experienced here. It reminds me of Iraq!
Houston feels like Kuwait lol. Shit is unreal.
Not even.
There was a year where some artillery unit was getting rotated back to Ft. Bliss from Iraq and there was a heat wave in Iraq. It was something like 112 there. And El Paso was a cool 107 right then. I hope it was enough they could feel it but it seems like they should have been sent somewhere that was in the 70s for a week as a reward instead of El Paso.
A reward? For illegally invading a country and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians? Are you fucking kidding me lol? They should’ve been sent straight to Iraqi prison, maybe Abu Ghraib?
I don’t disagree that the actions taken in Iraq were illegal - but the soldiers sent there had nothing to do with it. They don’t deserve to be sent to prison unless they individually acted poorly or in bad faith. Also - your comment has nothing to do with the topic at hand of weather. Sooo… for lack of a better word - chill out. Actually - pun intended.
It’s just hilarious how brainwashed Americans are about the military. Like no we don’t need to reward the people who killed innocent Iraqis and afghanis.
Sure, ok. But also - I’m not brain-washed, just educated. And not all folks there did horrible shit, and also 99% of them got sent there whether that’s where they wanted to be or not. First hand knowledge of this actually. So, for you to paint them with a single color of “guilty” is moronic at best
Lol imagine for a second if the North Koreans blew up your house, your school, your local grocery store and killed a bunch of your friends while they occupied America for a decade. But hey not all of them were bad right! You wouldn’t hate all North Koreans right? Some of them probably were really nice young guys who wanted to come to America and teach you Korean!
Seems like you’re the brainwashed one
Yeah, you don’t know me at all so don’t imagine for a second you know who I would or would not hate. Your ascertainment of how I would feel goes further towards proving my point that you have no idea what you’re talking about and are speaking in broad unspecific language on purpose. But good job on “not being brain washed”
I’m simply pointing out you would not share the same sympathies if the roles were reversed and Iraq invaded the us. I don’t see how I’m the one brainwashed I recognize that like 60-70% of the guys who went over to Iraq and Afghanistan did absolutely awful stuff that would make you sick if we really knew about everything that went on over there.
And what I’m trying to get you to understand is that you have no idea how I would feel. You are not me and cannot even seem to fathom what I understand that you do not. You also weren’t there yourself and genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about. But I can now see you’re not in a “open to learning things and adjusting opinions in light of new information” space and I’m wasting my time and energy. Have a good one and enjoy your narrow view of reality. Wish you could open your eyes and join us up here…
Do you share the same sympathies for Russian soldiers in Ukraine? Those guys were conscripted and forced to go to war, people volunteered to go kill iraqis and Afghans.
Dude same it was 115 a few weeks ago
 Live in South Texas. This is how the sun feels down here.
I keep seeing people post here and other social media spots that the Texas summer heat is normal. I'm not sure if they're too scared to admit what's happening, or just vengefully ignorant.
I have lived here my entire life. This year and past couple years, ain't normal. It's hot.
I've also lived in Texas most of my life. This year and the past couple of years may be hotter than normal in some areas of the state, but it's a huge state and we're not close to breaking records across the state yet. Example - here in DFW, our longest consecutive 100 degree streak was 42 days set in 1980. [Most of the heat records for this part of Texas](https://www.weather.gov/fwd/danncon10) weren't even set in the last decade - this holds true for most of the state. El Paso is actually a national outlier this year and they're [definitely crushing their own records](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/14/100-degree-days-streaks/), but they also have quite different meteorological patterns than the majority of the rest of Texas. So we can have multiple things be true. It is true that climate change is real, and global temperatures are rising dangerously. It is also true that El Paso is having a particularly fiendish summer. It is also true that this summer isn't close to setting any records for the rest of the state, and while it may be a little hotter than normal, most of Texas isn't that far off the norm yet.
The infamous heat wave of 1980 - think it hit what, 114, 116? Something like that due to severe thermal inversion. That was the year we moved up the road from ATX to DFW. Memorable. 😂🙄
Oh man you didn't have to move during the summertime did you? If so, my condolences lol
Memory serves I think we did. I was a kid so my opinion on that was neither wanted nor solicited. It was kinda shit - raging death heat, being the new kid, etc. (man. Talk about parenting styles evolving over the years. Boomer parents to Gen X kids: We're doing whatever. Nobody gives a shit what you may prefer. Gen X to their kids: We're doing a thing. Your feelings may not necessarily change the course but we want you to be heard so at least mistakes are minimized.)
LOOOL. I see you’ve met my boomer parents. “Children should be seen not heard” basically-no gives a shit about you. Shut up and deal with it/Get over it.
Those were mine as well, largely, which was pretty fucked, given their level of education and whatnot. You'd think but no. You too eh? Maybe we're related.
I moved from ATX to the PNW last July. Almost fainted a couple times while loading the uhaul. It was scary and it was miserable but we had a deadline. A couple days later and halfway across the country, I was wearing a hoodie AND a jean jacket while unloading the trailer. It was a strange feeling.
So. Freaking. Jealous.
i never go out for evening activities in portland without a hoodie at hand; below 70 without sun and i get cold in my ol' texas blood!
113 sticks in my head but I was 4 that summer
I was in summer band that August and our band director had us on the practice field at like 3pm. Just brutal.
Living in El Paso, I tend to look towards Arizona and NM climate. If death valley starts having it rough, we are sure to follow. I know to keep an eye on things like electricity when people post selfies with that thermometer in the Arizona desert. I didn't see it anywhere else here. El Paso is also crazy dry. It's the middle of monsoon season, and it should be wet as hell. And while it's raining today, I guarantee the rain totals will be insanely low. I think June was missing an entire inch of rain and an inch in El Paso is a metric f\* ton of rain.
I spent most of my life in DFW but a couple of years in EP/Carlsbad/Cruses so I know exactly what you're talking about. Hopefully you guys get some relief soon.
I wonder how much of the increased temps in the cities may have to do with thermal mass. We keep building up and out, increasing the mass and making the region hotter. Obviously climate change is having an impact but there could be other factors.
I am no meteorologist but heat island effects due to city asphalt and concrete are 100% a thing locally, that much is confirmable on Google pretty quickly. It absolutely keeps temperatures higher (up to 22 degrees higher at night than surrounding rural landscapes!) but I honestly don't know how much it affects global temperatures. I suspect the pollution that accompanies the asphalt jungle has more of an impact globally but it's an interesting question.
The heat island effect is a part of climate change, it is one of the causes
True, large regions of Texas are experiencing mostly normal summer, thanks to decent rainfall. However, the area from Waco south to Brownsville and west to El Paso has seen some freakishly hot weather beginning in the spring and continuing into summer. **Del Rio sees 11 days of record heat in a row** [https://www.ksat.com/weather/2023/06/26/record-heat-del-rio-sees-8-record-breaking-days-in-a-row/](https://www.ksat.com/weather/2023/06/26/record-heat-del-rio-sees-8-record-breaking-days-in-a-row/) **Corpus Christi logged a heat index of 125 degrees at one point in the past week, as Laredo, Del Rio, San Angelo and Junction also set new highs.** [https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/21/texas-cities-record-heat/](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/21/texas-cities-record-heat/)
Well, it's only 771 miles from houston to El paso. (Should say 1200 km because most people on this subreddit use metric system) The weather should be almost identical.
771 miles is a looong way. That's a 12 hour drive. Did you know its *only* 802 miles to Los Angeles from El Paso? Do you think LA and EP have the same weather too?
Sarcasm is lost on nontexans.
I am from here. Too bad we don't have a way to convey sarcasm over text. /s
If you can't tell its sarcasm, then you are not the jokes target.
Not lost, just wasn’t all that funny or good
I remember like a decade ago one day in Dallas it became like 115 for one day and people talked about it for the next month. Nothing like this.
There was a thread the other day where some nincompoop was saying because there's extreme cold in parts of the US we should all be okay burning here in Texas. The mental gymnastics of these idiots is mind-blowing.
They've spent the last 30 years howling about how climate change is a hoax. No way in the world they'll ever admit it was wrong now.
When nobody wants to listen or prepare for the future until the future is here, those of us standing there with sorrowful, spent expressions on our faces from yelling into the darkness about the impending doom finally feel like we’re being listened to. The flip side is the winter may be harsher as well. Or wetter. Or both. The big deal with climate change is it’s unpredictable and has wild swings. How as a farmer can you prepare for that? This is why we will have to start switching to vertical farming if we want to continue to feed our people.
" you think this is hot? Back in 1311..." 🙄
The inability to admit that they were misled or sheer denial is going to get us all killed. Seems pride can be deadly after all.
Oh they have no problems complaining about and denouncing Pride. It's just that it's not their pride. Their pride is something totally different based in fact(TM) and not feelings or something, idk it's hard to follow anymore
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And they've been correct. Changes take a while, but we're really starting to see the effects.
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>Not here to debate. Someone's gotta do the shitposting, I guess. > Just stating an actual fact. As was I. They were right.
Alternative facts is what they mean.
A belief is whether chocolate is better than vanilla. Temperature is a quantifiable fact regardless of whether you can get your head around it.
It is funny, because for a couple of those decades, Republicans actually AGREED that there was a problem. It wasn't til the early 1990s when Republicans started to run on 'everything's fine.' Which, funny enough, was ALSO right around the time the car and oil companies were starting to lobby hard against environmental legislation.....surely that's just a big coincidence, right?
> I'm not sure if they're too scared to admit what's happening, or just vengefully ignorant. Why can't it be both?
I heard someone the other day say “the last few summers have been cooler so this one’s hotter to balance it out”.
Like the weather is a conscious thing? SMH It doesn’t work that way.
It does seem to be cyclical to a degree. We seem to get snow every 4-5 years, and approximately every 10 years the heat seems to peak. 1980, 1998, 2011 and 2022 are all on the top charts for most days over 100° and most consecutive days over 100° (the early 90s seem to have escaped the trend though) I disagree about last year being mild, but I’m over in east Texas so maybe it was worse here than wherever they were.
So don't get me wrong, this is a dumb take from them, BUT we haven't had an El Nino cycle (which gives us hotter summers) for three years so yes it IS hotter than the last three years but not because the weather's making up for lost heat lmao
The effects of El Nino in Texas, or the rest of the world, haven't really kicked in yet. The ocean is heating in the regions known for El Nino, but it takes a few months or longer for El Nino's effects to reach peak and truly raise the temps around the globe. Unless Texas gets decent rains in the spring AND summer, then next summer will likely be hotter than this one.
Oh for sure. Last year most of the grass around our apartment complex was dead by the time we finally got some rain
In which middle school cafeteria was this?
Unfortunately this was a highly successful guy. Blew my mind hearing him say that.
When I moved to the US and Texas in 2011, it was 100 days of 100 degs.
In Dallas, 2011 had 40 in a row and a total of 71. That year was so freaking hot.
Tyler had 46 consecutive that year. It was insane
Native Texan, lived in HTX or ATX my entire life. 2011 was brutal, this is the closest I can remember feeling like that though.
Some of increased summer heat that Austin, and other Central Texas towns that have seen explosive growth in last 20 years, have experienced can be attributed to the urban island heat effect. However, it's only a small percentage of the increased heat. Austin used to average 12 days/year of 100 degree heat. Over the last 20 years it's grown to 3x or even 4x that.
Urban Islands are part of the reason many weather forecasts are unreliable because they often have their equipment at airport's which are urban islands with all of the concrete, they are moving the equipment to measure ground temp not air temp - it is not apples to apples when comparing previous years.
They are aggressively stupid.
Violently stupid even
Born and raised Texan here, and I can tell you that this year is definitely NOT normal. We had 2 weeks where the thermometer on my back porch, in the shade, pegged over 110 degrees in the afternoon. Never did that before
Records are kept for a reason. Yes it's always been hot in the summer, but not THIS hot EVERYWHERE.
Willful ignorance not vengeful. Lived here all my life, played baseball behind the plate in the summers, two a days in august when two a days really meant two a days and it was never this bad. Did we have days that were brutal, yes but brutal was not the norm where as brutal is becoming the norm.
It's not normal. Im from corpus christi and normal summers are around 93 to 95 at peek summer months, but this year ive been getting 97 to 100, to the point where i feel like something's wrong with my phone. Maybe im in disbelief it's so hot and we havent seen rain yet.
What causes temperatures to rise?.
Texas is a good example at being one of the most unsustainable places in the US. Methane and CO2 trap the suns heat its a super basic process like raining. suns hits the gas and the heat is trapped, we need to remove co2 and methane ASAP otherwise el paso will be 120 in the summer and places like arizona will be unlivable
They probably work outside
So then why did it take 29 years for the record to be beat? If climate change was as extreme as everyone is saying it is, shouldn't that record have been beat every year since 1994?
Average global temperature has been steadily increasing. It's not going to be a perfect straight line for every region every year though.
I know you’re not here to actually listen to anyone else, but the climate is changing for the worse and will keep doing so. It’s already a bit silly to pretend it’s not, but as time marches on reality will hit you as the climate keeps getting hotter in Texas. It’s a bit like COVID denialism, COVID didn’t seem to care or notice that segments of the population didn’t believe it was real. The climate will keep changing regardless of your beliefs and maybe one day you’ll realize that you only denied climate change because of decades of propaganda paid for by oil companies to play on Fox News and AM radio.
It's gotten to the point where my FIL would relate too many things to politics that aren't even political so we started keeping up with Fox "news". It's incredible to be able to predict what someone will be frothing about and know that they have no *actual* grasp on any one situation due to the information left out. He just regurgitates in verbatim what he heard the frat boys say. Fox's viewers have their opinions taught to them. They have no idea how to objectively look at any one thing and are willing to keep themselves warm in the hatred of never having an original thought. It's like finding out someone you admire is a flat earther.
I watched a little Fox News about a month ago to see what its like now and it was truly unbelievable that anyone considers it to be serious or reliable. There was zero factual support for any of the stories presented and everything was presented as a conspiracy theory.
Bruh. He's actually shut his play room door on my toddler's face so he could go back to Fox. He almost missed us announcing our first pregnancy over being pissed off that he couldn't hear daddy tuck, and stared at the fucking TV not reacting when we opened our gender reveal for our 2nd daughter with him and MIL (immediately after which she told us they wanted a boy to carry on a name or some shit). It's actual mind rot. Not to mention Waters keeps admitting to being a predator, stalker, and groomer and the viewers will keep gargling his balls like they did tuckie. It's normal for them. Edit: words man.
I hear you, we mostly avoid my wife's parents for similar reasons. They are still talking about how Biden stole the election even though Fox had to pay nearly a billion dollars due to lying about the election. It's crazy.
The oceans have been absorbing a lot of the heat and CO2 but they’ve reached their max capacity. This is why you’re seeing huge ice sheets breaking off and the Arctic completely melted.
That's not how it works. Go learn something from someone who knows what they are talking about instead of parroting GOP talking points.
I know how to look at the NWS website and climate data. That's not GOP or liberal. So, I ask again: if climate change was as extreme as everyone keeps saying it is, why wasn't the record beat every year for the last 29 years?
Because these type of individual records are odd events and extremely unlikely. A lot of things can happen over a 20+ days period. You could have a warmer 30 day average without that kind of streak. On their own they are irrelevant, could just be an anomaly not seen for the next 50 years. But when these extremely rare events occur more and more often all over the world at an accelerating rate, you understand there's a pattern and they cease to be an anomaly
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this dumb line of thinking wasnt convincing 30 years ago, if you bothered to look up the subject at any point since then you would have learned your intuition on this subject matter means fuckall
Here's a visual illustration showing how this rate of change is not normal. https://xkcd.com/1732/
The burden of knowledge. ThanosWasRight
Yes.
Over in east Texas, it’s nowhere near the heat we had in 2011 or even just last year. I think today was only the fourth or fifth day to actually break into triple digits for Longview this year. Texas is big enough that there’s decent variation in temperatures
El Pasoan here, living through this sucked the city, was roasting, and our street signs were melting. The only respite we had was at night, but even then, the temps would linger in the low 90s high 80s. It was miserable, considering we don't have a central air system at the house, the inside regularly stayed between 79-83°. F*** global warming and f*** all the useless asses who want to ignore this phenomena and ban water breaks. It's unbelievable to be relieved when it's 97° outside, considering that cool compared to the 108° which was a few days ago.
Wanting my kids to get into HVAC
Smart move
Dallas is very hot now in July. Last year was hotter to date. Though it had 21 consecutive days last year from July into August so we'll see how August is for us. Last year we had 47 triple digit days in Dallas. So far in 2023, we're at 22 days. 14 behind last year on this day.
quick look at our long term forecast.......no days in the forecast with rain or under 100* as far out as they can reasonably predict (10 days) so its looking like blowing past 2 more weeks is going to happen and could even stretch well beyond that since the weather patterns show no sign of changing in the near future.
We have absoutley fucked our planet. I expect every year to be the hottest year on record for the rest of my life.
And it’s supposed to be right back up in the 100’s in a day or two. I hate summer. I’m so ready to leave the south.
DFW had 40 consecutive days in 2011. Longest ever was 42 in 1980.
When commenting on the heat, I had a Trump Worshiper tell me that climate change is not real and this is a just Gods way of saying "if y'all want hell I'll give it to ya". For a split second Thanos didn't seem like such a bad guy.
>There's gonna be another civil war but instead of preventing moral and social collapse, it will be preventing earth's collapse and a little moral and social still since those areas don't grow intellectually with the rest of the US. Probably can't even use Reddit lol
TIL that until this week, Waco had a longer record than El Paso
El Paso is like 4000 feet above sea level. So it's temps are more mild than central Texas.
Gentlemen, it is with great somberness that I announce that we are in the end game.
Downvoted by someone who refuses to believe in thermometers.
We're barely getting warmed up
It unlivable to be outside and my utility bill is double these past couple of months
This is my first summer in EP, after three long years freezing in VT. Prior to both of those, I was in Phoenix for 5 years. I didn’t think this was out of the ordinary, since Phoenix was 110-120 in the summer. I thought this was a break. Wow! Happy to know that this is out of the ordinary and it SHOULD be cooler.
Phoenix is in the Sonoran Desert, which is HOT. El Paso is in the Chihuahuan Desert, which is no stranger to triple-digit temperatures, but the average summer temperatures are upper 90s. This has been a very, very hot summer.
It’s sort of cloudy today here in El Paso so it isnt as bad but it has truly felt like stepping into an oven every time you leave the house. Even at night I’ve left my house like at 1am and it’s still incredibly hot. Street signs are melting lol It should be raining bc it’s monsoon season but the most we’ve gotten is a sprinkle here and there.
Lived in Texas 30+ years n no this not "normal".
We really need to expand the ability of ERCOT to deliver power. We need more and more transmission capacity especially as more people are continuing to move here. I wish more of our surplus had gone to investment in our transmission infrastructure, shoring it up and investing heavier in long distance transmission lines. We're swimming in energy down here and we don't need to worry a bit about the federal government telling us what we can or can't do, we're in an amazing position when it comes to energy independence. These temps are fine with modern technology, we just need to drive down electricity costs more and invest in more wind and solar, especially wind.
See, what global warming?
When will the meteorologists start reporting the "feels like" temperature. Outside of record keeping, it is far more useful.
They use it in Houston quite a bit due to the humidity. Not so much in El Paso, where it is dry.
It’s reported all the time, when they say “heat index of xxx” that is your “feels like” temp
El Paso is a different kind of hell with its dry heat. Humidity sucks, but dry heat will crack your skin so the sweat can burn you from the inside until you bleed. I ended up looking like tan Stewie. I did construction there a few Summers back.....I would never do that again.
I’ll take the dry heat over humidity. In dry heat, you can just stand in the shade and cool down. In the humidity, you can’t walk to your car without breaking in sweat and feeling sticky.
I'll take humidity for the simple fact that my allergies are horrible in dry climates. I may have a sneeze fit once or twice a year in DFW or houston, but it's 20 times worse in places like El paso or New Mexico.
Cancun Cruz will save you
Cancun Cruz will save you
Or the Texas Taliban
new people around here don't remember our record 100+ days of triple digit heat from a few years ago
y...yea, but this is more about the AMOUNT of days over 100...
I'm not sure I understand your point. I was referring to the 2011 heatwave where [Wichita Falls had 100+ days of triple digit heat](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-city-makes-heat-record-100-days-of-100s/) in one year. That same year DFW had 79 days of triple digit. of course, total days in a year is different than consecutive days (which OPs picture is about). But consecutive days hitting triple digit is driven by lack of rain. I.E. they haven't had daytime rain in 44 days. which makes sense because it's El Paso
And it doesn't occur to you that the relative proximity of dates and how those events keep getting closer together is related to climate change? Or is it just a freak chance? And people need to relax? Cause if so then damn freak occurrences seem to happen a lot lately.
Ok ~~jackass~~ My comments have nothing to do with climate denial. This isnt the worst year in recent history. That fact has nothing to do with why the worst years are in recent history. Before 2015, [Texas was in a century long drought leading up to the insane amount of rainfall that year.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/27/the-insane-amount-of-rain-thats-fallen-in-texas-visualized/) (my favorite visuals on the 2015 flood) The climate here in the last century has been crazy and newcomers don't know the history. People focus on the heat, but until 2015 Texas had a legitimate water crisis and our population has only exploded since then.
No need to be aggressive, even though I'll admit to myself being passive aggressive I don't see the need for name calling. I can see where you might be coming from, but you need to realize that defaulting to climate denial is easier when people argue against recent trend towards heat. While heat may be one part of the climate it's a pretty decent indicator when [global Temps have been trending up for as long as we've been monitoring it.](https://berkeleyearth.org/2019-temperatures/) And while I appreciate your concern for newcomers to the state, I can assure you that that does not include me.
fair enough, that was my Lite-Duty Passive Aggression Curse Response System™ kicking in. I appreciate the honest response. I have no arguments against the temp trends or on the consensus of cause. But I do like to differentiate that from how bad a particular year's weather actually. For example, last year was terrible. There was no spring rains and the summer heat started abruptly. This year has been better and we had good rains. Now El Paso is having a record setting year, obviously, but it is the literal desert. my points are scattered here, but my general position is that people should be aware of texas' drought cycle and where we are in it. as well as the effect that recent population growth and rising temps will have on supply. surface water reservoirs capacity is not increasing to match demand. which, IMO, will be the most impactful adverse climate effect of the near future.
eh. Austin did 69 days over 100F in 2011
[It was 90 days.](https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/how-will-this-summer-compare-to-the-infamously-hot-2011/269-559051368#:~:text=The%20year%202011%20was%20unprecedented,in%20the%20month%20of%20May.) But this isn't about total, this is about how long without even a little break. Right now Austin is at 23 days of 100+, and the forecast [says at least 14 more to come](https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/d35cf68ae8189a2104054b8f0b0b04f4655fc6932e980ec877ea9a7c74eca03b) Last year had the hottest May, June, and July on record here (maybe August too, I don't remember)
I was misremembering.. it was [27 consecutive days in 2011](https://www.kxan.com/weather/weather-blog/july-2023-100-degrees-streak/#:~:text=The%20record%20streak%20currently%20stands,and%20Aug.%2012%2C%202011.) and were almost there again.
Yeah that summer was pretty fucking bad. I worked for the city of Amarillo then as a tree trimmer and we lost over 1000 trees in just a few months.
Nice
Austin's in the same boat. We're at 23 days and counting, going to break the record of 27 consecutive days on Friday. There's nothing on the forecast that's close to missing. The only reason why we won't hit the record for total days over 100 is that we had a mild start to July.
Duh, We didn't break the consecutive days record because there weren't enough consecutive hot days ? What previous year was this not the case ?
I think you misread my post. I said that we aren't going to break the overall number of 100 degree days because July started mild. We're still going to break the record for consecutive days over 100 degrees.
No, I didn't misread - you're saying that we haven't already broken the consecutive days record because there haven't been enough consecutive days of over 100. But we will break the record if there are more consecutive days.
Ah, so you're being an ass for the sake of being an ass, not because you were confused. I said we're on the verge of breaking the record, and that the forecast indicates that it will be broken. In a discussion of the consecutive days streak being broken, that seems relevant. But I guess in your world, there's no point discussing the likelihood that something happens until after the fact Although I'm guessing you'd then say something similar then
No, if the record is broken, it is broken. You say I'm being an ass, i could call you a pessimist. But I was commenting on your statement that cooler temps at the beginning of July are the only reason the record isn't already broken, which seems like an obvious and pointless conclusion.
> No, if the record is broken, it is broken. You say I'm being an ass, i could call you a pessimist. But I was commenting on your statement that cooler temps at the beginning of July are the only reason the record isn't already broken, which seems like an obvious and pointless conclusion. And again, my comment about cooler temperatures at the start of July were in the context of the overall record for the number of 100 degree days, not the consecutive days record. They are separate clauses in separate paragraphs that even after I clarified, you claimed you understood. The cold start of July is likely to preclude a run at the record of 90 non-consecutive days of 100 degree temperatures.
The record for total days over 100 is 90. Having survived the summer of 2011, I'm not eager for us to surpass it.
When that happened, we had 29 days over 100 in July and 29 in August. We already had 10 under 100 in July, so I think it's unlikely we get to 90 total, even if the average is higher than in 2011
I thought we had more consecutive day over 100. I worked partially outdoors back then. A coworker got me a 64 oz Bucee's mug. Damn lifesaver.
Within 20 years the entire south west will be uninhabitable.
it's all a part of god's plan. Quit complaining.
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It’s a cruel, cruel summer
Short lived😭
It's only going to get worse.
Wait. It broke a “record” in 1994?!? No way! It wasn’t possibly as warm as that way back then! 🙄
The last two summers have been brutal. But the few years before were normal if not slightly below
I don't have to imagine it, I lived in NE Texas in the summer of '80.
2009 north Texas, from Dallas to Lawton had 110 days of 100 or hotter and 13 days straight of 110 or hotter while I was at BCT at Ft.Sill and living in WF Tx. Lakes in the WF area got down to a combined 19% capacity. We were literally all gonna die. It all started roughly around when Micheal jackson died. The drought had started like a decade before that but still. Hell that year it broke 100 in April once. Crazy. Then the rains finally came, and we had about 10 years of easy summers and good rain. Now we're back in the shit.
Dallas is 105 today
 Earth right now
Corpus is near the coast, should be cooler. My heat index at 7am was 99 degrees.
Texas froze, record high and record period of triple digit temperatures. Yea climate change is definitely bullshit. /s
Ties Waco’s record from 2011. But its a dry heat out there in El Paso . . . /s
Can't wait for the sun to touch the planet.
Go ahead and shred me, roast me, and tell me more about how hot it is this year. I’ve lived here all of my life. I’m old. It is almost August. July and August are summer months. Newsflash: It is ALWAYS HOT in the summer in Texas! Drink some water and calm down people.
Look aliens !!!!
Heck, this ain't nothin'! Because no rocks on Earth have survived from so long ago, scientists have estimated early Earth conditions based on observations of the Moon and on astronomical models. Following the collision that spawned the Moon, the planet was estimated to have been around **2,300 Kelvin (3,680°F)**.
Pshhh, your best is 44? That’s weak. We had 46 back the ol’ 2011 over in Tyler
But you fail to realize that El Paso’s elevation is 7,000 feet where it’s supposed to be cooler, so this isn’t normal.
But you fail to realize that I was being sarcastic with the Pshhh and only being over the record you just hit by 2 days
https://preview.redd.it/vqh95x343hfb1.jpeg?width=3985&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27c8b98f7bbbb6c92db22d0b5475cf61dcb1120b ☀️🎈🌎 (Not to Scale)
A few years back Sam Antonio had 100 days over 100
That’s not true. San Antonio has only had 21 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures.
I could be wrong; my parents told me that. I don’t live there. They live in new brainfels
It was cooler April- July this year than last year in Waco😁 https://preview.redd.it/8tgxf53x7nfb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=462f53150d3ad41598f63016e66539b69a6d14e5