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My home in the US is suffering under the heat... Check out what happened to this street in PDX.
DANG!!!
DANG!!!
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If the roads around here were that good I'd be ecstatic.
That is impressive in a most unfortunate manner. Is the buckling caused by heat expansion? The last time that I saw that kind of damage, it was due to a water main leak.
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It the heat causing that damage.
The official high in Seattle was 108 ºF yesterday....the highest temperature ever recorded there. Down Portland way it was even hotter.
We saw a maximum of 102 ºF yesterday here at our house between Seattle and Tacoma. Warm enough for sure....even for those of us who grew up in the desert Southwest (where normally "it's a dry heat" and where it was unusually cool yesterday).
We saw a maximum of 102 ºF yesterday here at our house between Seattle and Tacoma. Warm enough for sure....even for those of us who grew up in the desert Southwest (where normally "it's a dry heat" and where it was unusually cool yesterday).
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It gets hotter in Phoenix and the streets don’t buckle.
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Phoenix has always been hot... Portland usually doesn't hit 100F until the first week of July (and typically it's after that).
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Portland got fried over the past few days. They can get some hot days, but not 110 or 115 degrees! WAY TOO HOT!!! I have friends in the area who retreated to the coast, and it was still over 100 degrees, which never happens.
I think it’s extraordinary, but probably part of a “new normal”, and the region needs to start adapting to heat waves, droughts, and fires. This isn’t going away. It’s happening more frequently, and it’s going to keep going that direction.
I think it’s extraordinary, but probably part of a “new normal”, and the region needs to start adapting to heat waves, droughts, and fires. This isn’t going away. It’s happening more frequently, and it’s going to keep going that direction.
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Here is the three-day plot off my weather system here in the west hills of Portland.
We typically run 5-8 degrees cooler than the official temp.
Note the front that came in and impressive cool-off - never seen it slew faster - very welcome!
Heavy green line is the outdoor temp.
Light red line is my indoor temp - you can see my AC couldn't keep pace especially when the power went out at the end day 28.
Yellow is solar which is somewhat blocked early and late in the day by overgrown trees.
We typically run 5-8 degrees cooler than the official temp.
Note the front that came in and impressive cool-off - never seen it slew faster - very welcome!
Heavy green line is the outdoor temp.
Light red line is my indoor temp - you can see my AC couldn't keep pace especially when the power went out at the end day 28.
Yellow is solar which is somewhat blocked early and late in the day by overgrown trees.
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I'm guessing that the buckling is a result of pavement primarily set up to handle and channel water. Such a design seems to lose stability over 100 degrees F. Uncommon extreme occurrences tend to point out infrastructure issues.
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Rocketry scene is excellent, we have 5 active clubs in WA and Oregon (actually 6 iirc) Washington Aerospace Club, Oregon Rocketry (highest waiver in NW), Washington High Power aka WHiP, TriCities Rocketeers (best launch site in the Northwest IMO), Spokane Area Rocketry aka SPARC, and a newer club that flies out of Goldendale WA. All offer LPR through HPR. I am a member of TriCities Rocketeers (tricitiesrocketeers.org) and we fly most months Feb to November) from a large sod farm near Pasco WA.A bit off topic but I've been eyeballing that area after university, how's the rocketry scene? I kind of enjoy this hobby
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Ironically, when the Republic of Texas hit -23F last February and lost power for a few days, them smug Yankees were saying the same about their wind turbines.
Neener, neener, neener.
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While my son, who lives outside Seattle and has no a/c, has had to move his family to a hotel, down here in Las Cruces NM we've had four straight days of rain with more predicted for as far out as I can find a forecast. It's like the deliveries got reversed!
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Maybe it depends on what the ambient temperature was when the pavement was applied. Pavement applied at a cold temperature probably goes through more expansion when the weather gets warmer, than pavement applied when it's already warmer. Not a pavement expert here, just a physics nut trying to figure things out.
Yes, this. Fun here when we swing from -20 to 95 during a year. we get buckling up in the summer and cracks in the winter. In a city like pictured, the curb/gutter acts as a limiter to expansion sideways....so it buckles up. Same reason a dark nosecone gets snug in a body tube out in the sun on a warm day. Nothing complex going on other than really basic physics.
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One of the worst things during heat waves is when the nighttime temps are still high, like that night you show that was still about 85 degrees. For people who don’t have AC who count on cooling down at night, that’s no fun.
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If Detroit’s countless potholes would bow up like that, it’d be a gift from God.
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Good skies,
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For context on how extreme the heat wave was in Seattle, up until last week, we'd had three days at or above 100F in recorded history, all one-offs. Then we had three days over 100 in a row. June's average high temp is 71 degrees--we call it Junuary because it tends to cool, cloudy, and rainy. We beat the record June high temp by 12 degrees this week.
Fortunately, it's cloudy and cool now. Only 45% or so of the homes in Seattle have AC, so we depend on cool nighttime temps to cool off.
Fortunately, it's cloudy and cool now. Only 45% or so of the homes in Seattle have AC, so we depend on cool nighttime temps to cool off.
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A bit off topic but I've been eyeballing that area after university, how's the rocketry scene? I kind of enjoy this hobby
Also BEMRC, which IIRC is limited to D power by their current site. You've gotta watch out for the club president though--he's a killer. (Really, @BEC is one of the niceset people you'll ever meet)
On the Seattle side of the mountains, it's too populated for high power sites, so everything running right now is Class 1. It's a 3-5 hour drive from Seattle to any of the HPR sites that Rich mentioned above. Most of those have weekend events, so you can stay over and/or camp to get more flying time per unit of driving time. One really nice feature we have on the Seattle side is a large soccer field complex that can accommodate anything up to G motors and ~2000 feet altitudes. The soccer folks occupy it from May-late October, but otherwise it's open any day for people with their own GSE.
The biggest challenge is being able to afford a house. Seattle's real estate prices went up 20% last year, from stupid high to truly ridiculous.
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Missed you out in the sage at NXRS. It was a bit cooler out there.
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Missed being there but the fam wanted me around this weekend which turned out for the best.
First NXRS I've missed.
Looked like it was a great time based on the video posted.
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That's just low quality pavement and/or engineering. Typical of big city thinking. The poorly installed manhole might be a clue.
There's something else going on.
There's something else going on.
That's what I was alluding to when I mentioned it being unusually cool in the desert Southwest. My wife is from Carlsbad, NM and she was looking at the flooding they've been having the last few days, and I was watching conditions in Santa Fe, where my Dad and brother live. We were also getting weather reports (and a mention of building a fire in the wood stove) from my brother-in-law in Mountainair, NM. It was like things were backward.
Fortunately we have a heat pump system for our house and it was able to keep up.
I miss Las Cruces. My wife are NMSU graduates....
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No expansion joints.. with gaps. The longer the distance between joints, the wider the gap.
You know... driving down the highway... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump... thump...
No thump... thump... thump... then you may end up with an Evel Knievel ramp.
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Put as scientifically as I can? This heat sucks.
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I’ll pass the message on to my 95 year old grandmother in Seattle. Thanks!
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