***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[MLawrence]

Was explaining to the 5 year old how my elementary school did not have AC.

We'd stew in our own juices while trying to hear the teacher over the industrial fan. He looked at me like I was insane.

As they said on Bluey:

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This isn’t the eighties, Pat.

 

[KidSilverhair]

It likely counts as a day so it's not made up.

Also, some routines etc. can still be practiced/implemented even if a shorter time.

I think Iowa goes by hours instead of days now. So they squeezed in 2 or 3 hours today that they won’t have to worry about in June, I guess.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

This weather is fun. Bring on snow.

Give me extreme cold over extreme heat any day

 

[Jdk]

Chili is done

 

[CRcyclone6]

Same as early dismissal tomorrow for CR schools.

 

[Turn2]

Chili is done

Congrats. Should last until kickoff.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Who invented modern air conditioning?

And why isn't their birthday celebrated as a national holiday?

 

[Turn2]

Who invented modern air conditioning?

And why isn't their birthday celebrated as a national holiday?

If you have a Carrier outside your home you already have a monument to the man. That holiday would be, appropriately enough, right at the midpoint of summer, July 17.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-air-conditioning

 

[BoxsterCy]

Sirens just went off. Serve thunder storm warning for Mpls and west.

Almost didn't hear the sirens with TV tuned up so I could hear baseball game while cooking in da kitchen. Windows are obviously closed since it's tropical jungle humid outside.

 

[cyspy]

Who invented modern air conditioning?

And why isn't their birthday celebrated as a national holiday?

Willis Carrier. After starting in New York City he moved to Syracuse,New York where his company really took off. The Carrier Dome at Syracuse was named in his honor. The Carrier Dome didn't have air conditioning when it opened,not sure if that's still the case.

 

[Letterkenny]

Give me extreme cold over extreme heat any day

There is something exciting about bundling up and going out in sub zero temps. There is nothing exciting about walking outside when it's 100+.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Sirens just went off. Serve thunder storm warning for Mpls and west.

Almost didn't hear the sirens with TV tuned up so I could hear baseball game while cooking in da kitchen. Windows are obviously closed since it's tropical jungle humid outside.

Torrential downpour and lot-o-thunder but well short of "You're All Going to Die" wind.

And no hail

 

[snowcraig2.0]

There is something exciting about bundling up and going out in sub zero temps. There is nothing exciting about walking outside when it's 100+.

The only things that gets excited are the sweat glands in my butt crack

 

[jbhtexas]

Give me extreme cold over extreme heat any day

I'll take the extreme heat. And once you move away to a warmer climate and live there for awhile, so will you.

 

[SaraV]

Neither did we...

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Is that Laura Ingalls Wilder in the front row?

Nah, that's @ImJustKCClone with @BoxsterCy standing behind her.

 

[ClonerJams]

I'll take the extreme heat. And once you move away to a warmer climate and live there for awhile, so will you.

Yeah but when I sip on a glass of whiskey in front of a fire in the winter, no one questions it. But in the summer when I walk around shirtless in the neighborhood drinking Jim Beam from the bottle all of a sudden people get their panties in a twist.

 

[BCClone]

Worked outside most of the day. By 10 am (started at 9) my shirt was fully drenched and by 11:15 my pants just below my pockets was as wet as my shirt. Humid enough that it was just hard to catch your breath at times.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

I'll take the extreme heat. And once you move away to a warmer climate and live there for awhile, so will you.

Not a chance. I have a bit of heat induced asthma. With the cold you can always put on more layers only so far you can go with the heat.

Also **** Texas.

 

[Agclone91]

Give me extreme cold over extreme heat any day

When I was younger I would have agreed. The heat sucks, but when temps get below zero **** just doesn't work right. I hate the nights of -30 hoping nothing goes wrong with my furnace and all the vehicles will start the next day.

Don't get me wrong, I ******* hate his heat as much as I hate the extreme cold. But given the choice of 100 or 0 I would choose the heat most of the time

 

[somecyguy]

I'll take the extreme heat. And once you move away to a warmer climate and live there for awhile, so will you.

I can deal with 100 degree weather. But 100 degree weather and 80 degree dewpoints...mother nature can eat a big fat one.