115 in PDX, way to hot to anchor up on the CR.

It hit 134.7 inside the house yesterday, but we weren't around to see it. Ever see cactus' die from too much heat?

We took the dogs and headed up past Skykomish yesterday to play in the river and cool down. The VERY old cocker spaniel, who doesn't like water one bit, hit the creek and just stood in the coolness and wouldn't come out. Of course the lab and golden just went crazy.

On a sad note, someone drowned very near where we were hanging out. S&R had everyone in the river. I guess a small child also went missing in the Sky somewhere down by Sultan as well. That snow melt is no joke and I wish more people understood that.

I'm glad it's starting to "cool" down a bit. This episode was just too much...

It did break my 99.9 deg. prediction here yesterday.

So, just prior to it reaching 103 here, our good luck continued and the power went out !!! So from about 3 in the afternoon until The evening no fans, no ac, no water pumps, and no crapping in the Jon with no water down the drains.

Out come the generators, 37 tangled up power cables, gas cans, fire extinguishers, and sweaty mayhem. We tried to save all contents in the freezers and reefers, in the garage and home. Followed closely with a lot of swearing, yelling at the dogs, and sweating like I just got off a plane at the Phoenix airport !

A total sux aphuc up !

Well, the powers back up, water & fans a runnin, and our ancient heat pump looks to have joined the dinosaurs with it’s total demise....

Rolling w the weather’s punches and hoping the heat wave abates a bit.

Take Care



As noted above, the last few daze have seen the swift water rescue folks way overworked here on the Green. 100 degrees, 50 thousand folks from town trying to escape the heat, with the river still running fast, we’ve had more than a few ambulances flying down the road with sirens blasting.

69 degrees here now. Nice

Really?!?! Does your thermometer have its thermal sensor above tar shingles or something?

Spent Sat, Sun and Mon up in the hills... in the shade along the creek, it was running about 20 degrees cooler up there and mostly just pleasant, no people, no bugs and mostly no people, put on some mt miles looking for mt goats and even found a few... decided to rejoin civilization this am, along Greenwater coming down 410 the White is pretty much running mud and looking somewhere between agitated and downright angry, river rescue deserves a break, I don't expect that anybody is willingly jumping in that Lahar.

I looked in to getting heat pumps installed in my house last year or so. They wanted something more than 15K to install 2 big pumps and multiple units on both floors. I told them to go take a hike.

Do I get a mulligan?

Have two portable AC units that couldn't keep up Sunday and Monday. With the AC running, house still was in the mid 80's. Have East/West facing windows that just pull in the heat in the morning and late afternoon's and evenings. No N/S facing windows to let the flow of air move through the house.

I was in my office yesterday and it was cool enough. Not so when I go home.

Not in the office today and the house is warm, but manageable.

i finally got the house down to 78 inside (now), AC has been running since 9 am today...

yesterday i ran a temp gun a couple times on the living room side of the house, it got to 170 degrees at one point...

should be able to get things under control tonight hopefully...

Put a portable in the master bedroom and one in the family room, shut the doors. The rest of the home got up quite a bit, but it was nice in cool in those two rooms. We are only a few blocks from McChord and the weather station there stated 110 as the top but it hovered between 108-109 for quite a while.

A friend of mine was east of Mt. Hood yesterday and his truck was registering from 119 to 133 degrees while driving. I know they're not as reliable as a thermometer in the shade but even if it were off 5 degrees that still would be near insanity. Heck the hottest recorded temp ever was 134.1 in 1913, back when Global warming started...

Keith

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, you know.

Registered 119° in my car when I left Kirkland at 4:30 yesterday to head home.
My windshield cracked. Went out to have drinks and dinner to get out of the heat.
House is registering 89° inside at 9:00 when I got home, so I open things up and crank the fans.... then the [Bleeeeep!] power goes out.
Fun times!
SF

Yesterday, the thermometer on our shady porch hit 108 degrees. The house thermostat registered 97 degrees most of the afternoon. No AC; only five fans creating convection oven conditions. When I went to get an ice cream bar from the freezer, I found only wooden sticks floating in milk and broken chocolate pieces. The carton of hard ice cream, in the freezer, had turned into super soft serve ice cream, as well. Then I checked the refrigerator side of our side by side; the temperature there was 55 degrees and rising. The afternoon and evening was spent filling coolers with almost impossible to find ice, in an effort to save a couple hundred dollars worth of perishable food. Only hours earlier the wife and I were commenting on how refrigerators/freezers always fail on the hottest day of the year...

Topped out at at 106 yesterday, with Sun. and Sat. not much less.

Wife has a small window unit in a back bedroom where she spends her days,
and we have a brand new 10,000 BTU window unit in the family room. Between
them, it kept the house under 75 for all but the hottest pats of the day
(4-6pm).

The Skagit is in the backyard, and it's running 2-toned at the moment. The
Baker is feeding in clear water, and it hangs to the north bank, while the Skagit
is running high, pissed off and puking mud.

Tomorrow will be down to 90ish, and livable.

It was warm to hot all last week in Montana. Drove home yesterday, and it got steadily warmer as the morning progressed. The western WA heat wave has moved east to Montana and elsewhere I suppose. It was 103 when I got gas in St Regis, then 111 in Spokane and Ritzville, then 109 all the way to Ellensburg. It was later in the day and cooling to 87 by Cle Elum, and 72 at Snoqualmie Pass. Had the car AC on full blast all day and could not keep the car comfortably cool. That was a first. Back home in Oly and it was in the 70s. Mrs. Salmo was watering the garden and yard non-stop since last Friday. Guess I'll mow the lawn today.

Global warming is happening people! We must take action and correct our mistakes before it is too late! Trump is enabling the fossil fuel industry and we need to move forward with our Green New Deal. Let’s put an end to fossil fuels and reduce our carbon footprint today! We need to move to electric cars and not gas guzzling vehicles that people like Todd like to drive. If he cared about the environment he would join us!

65 and light rain in PDX this AM, feels great.

AOC ,

Sounds like a Buckley kinda stam.

Maybe a sign that the women that can never be named here, really is...

So, how hot did it get in Buckley the last few daze ?

We heard that its so hot , the forest management folks closed all of White river, Kapowsin, and Eatonville forrest access to combat this world warming in support of the greed new deal.

What more can we ask for ?

The woman that shall not be named is rumored to living Mick Dodge style in the banjo land above town, only comes down on occasion anymore......mostly to eat small children