***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[Pope]

I grew up in Iowa in a family of 7 and we had no AC. I remember when Dad installed a fan in our hallway ceiling that sucked the air up into the attic. We thought we died and went to heaven.

You could see the curtains be sucked inward when we turned on that fan and you could actually feel a little breeze in the house.

Of course our parents waited until us 5 kids had grown up and moved out before they had central air conditioning installed.

 

[Letterkenny]

Backpacking in the Big Horns several years ago, I was blown away by all of the mosquitos.
It makes sense once you get down into all of the bogs etc. but I still never would have guessed them to be that bad (and active).

Love the Bighorns. Way underrated and basically the same driving distance as the Rockies in Colorado.

 

[NWICY]

Half a inch of rain Monday night/Tuesday morning.

 

[Raiders70]

Anymore we’re taught to believe 90 degrees is unprecedented heat.

School out early 3 days in a row in Dubuque because of the heat. Ok maybe Monday but today and Wednesday??? Its getting a little bit ridiculous. The schools of course unlike 40 years ago all have air conditioning so I think we know where the belief that 90 degrees is unprecedented heat is originating from.

 

[madguy30]

School out early 3 days in a row in Dubuque because of the heat. Ok maybe Monday but today and Wednesday??? Its getting a little bit ridiculous. The schools of course unlike 40 years ago all have air conditioning so I think we know where the belief that 90 degrees is unprecedented heat is originating from.

Do they?

The school I work in doesn't have AC.

And 30ish years ago we got out for heat.

*looked it up: As of last April 35% of Dubuque schools had AC.

So...not all schools.

 

[wxman1]

School out early 3 days in a row in Dubuque because of the heat. Ok maybe Monday but today and Wednesday??? Its getting a little bit ridiculous. The schools of course unlike 40 years ago all have air conditioning so I think we know where the belief that 90 degrees is unprecedented heat is originating from.

Surely it can’t be from the power company shutting them down to save power on the grid and give them a better rate saving tax payer money…

 

[ImJustKCClone]

We didn’t have any AC outside of a window AC in our farmhouse when I was growing up. Dad wouldn’t turn it on due to cost. It had to be really hot to do use it. Maybe 1-2 days a year I would sleep on the living room floor to avoid laying in a pool of sweat. You just learned to tolerate it back then. Bale hay with an old 4020 and a year around cab and you opened the windows and door for air flow.

I spent my summers on a ranch in TX...no AC there either. But I was younger then, and I wasn't taking a med that makes me less able to tolerate heat. I overheat easily, and it makes my heartrate skyrocket.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I grew up in Iowa in a family of 7 and we had no AC. I remember when Dad installed a fan in our hallway ceiling that sucked the air up into the attic. We thought we died and went to heaven.

You could see the curtains be sucked inward when we turned on that fan and you could actually feel a little breeze in the house.

If course our parents waited until us 5 kids had grown up and moved out before they had central air conditioning installed.

That's because they finally had the discretionary cash fund to pay for it with all you rug rats gone!

 

[bluestarcyclone]

Do they?

The school I work in doesn't have AC.

And 30ish years ago we got out for heat.

I wonder if other changes in the interim also have an effect.

Like, 30 years ago a teacher might've kicked a door open to try to get some airflow into the room. That may no longer be allowed for security reasons.

But yeah, i remember schools with no AC getting out early when I was a kid too.

 

[Raiders70]

Do they?

The school I work in doesn't have AC.

And 30ish years ago we got out for heat.

In Dubuque they have AC. Reasoning is its to hot to ride in a bus without AC. Monday was a scorcher but I don't think today or tomorrows temperatures reach a point where kids can't tolerate a bus ride in a little bit of heat.

 

[madguy30]

In Dubuque they have AC. Reasoning is its to hot to ride in a bus without AC. Monday was a scorcher but I don't think today or tomorrows temperatures reach a point where kids can't tolerate a bus ride in a little bit of heat.

I edited.

As of April of this year 35% of Dubuque schools had AC.

Did that change?

 

[Rabbuk]

In Dubuque they have AC. Reasoning is its to hot to ride in a bus without AC. Monday was a scorcher but I don't think today or tomorrows temperatures reach a point where kids can't tolerate a bus ride in a little bit of heat.

We'll make a note of it.

 

[JP4CY]

Anymore we’re taught to believe 90 degrees is unprecedented heat.

I think we know where the belief that 90 degrees is unprecedented heat is originating from.

Go on...

Who is teaching this? A certain teacher, weather person, who?

 

[KidSilverhair]

Surely it can’t be from the power company shutting them down to save power on the grid and give them a better rate saving tax payer money…

No, that’s LinnMar

 

[MLawrence]

I edited.

As of April of this year 35% of Dubuque schools had AC.

Did that change?

In my estimation, I would say 8/19 schools do not AC. Also, there was bond vote last fall that in part would have put AC in all the schools, but it didn’t pass by less than a percent.

 

[Pope]

In my estimation, I would say 8/19 schools do not AC. Also, there was bond vote last fall that in part would have put AC in all the schools, but it didn’t pass by less than a percent.

Yeah, the last thing those little kiddos need is air conditioning. Way to go, Dubuque.

 

[madguy30]

In my estimation, I would say 8/19 schools do not AC. Also, there was bond vote last fall that in part would have put AC in all the schools, but it didn’t pass by less than a percent.

So 42%.

I think I saw the '35%' blurb in a Telegraph type of article about that bond but it was paywalled so couldn't confirm.

Either way, that's not all schools.

We had staff meetings yesterday in my school and it was brutal.

 

[madguy30]

I'd also add that a 5 year old being on a really hot bus full of other kids for a longer route is probably not a good thing.

 

[wxman1]

No, that’s LinnMar

ha I have known we had it for as long as I can remember.

 

[nrg4isu]

Go on...

No one is teaching it. But hey, it pushes an agenda, so let's spread the lie...