Welcome to #CheckIn for MONDAY 2025-06-23
It's 2300 local time and the temp is 81F(27C). It should be under 70F(21C) at night, in the summer, here in Rochester, NY (43.1°N 77.6°W).
How bad is it where you are?
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I'm in Las Vegas. The word is "hot" - but at least we missed the heat wave e few days back.
Back at home it's dropped to the upper 40's (F) at night and mid 70s in the day - not really warm enough for my tomatoes. We haven't had a hot summer in Santa Cruz for a couple of years.
I've been watching the sun and shadow for a couple of months trying to figure out where to site a bat house I plan to install. I want morning sun and really dark at night (no artificial lights).
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •We are having average weather for here. Mid-90s F.
I'm sorry so many people are having weather that causes problems.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Somebody counted the number of 90F+ days in the Tampa area, and they have doubled during the study period (20 years I think?). @Beej Cobalt has been complaining about it being hotter, longer in Phoenix too.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •High yesterday was 92F where I am... and we are expecting a similar high today. Wakeup temp right now is 76F outside and 80% humidity.
This and other conditions brought the heat index up to 101F. We are stuck in High Pollen and Moderate Air Quality (still suffering from some effects of Canadian Smoke).
What I dread is tomorrow when the local weather is expected to reach a full physical 102F.
And we don't see any relief until Thursday....
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I do not miss the actual-bulb triple digits. A 100F day here is a bigger deal than dipping below freezing.
Which is not to say that we don't hover close to it, because we do... 95 is fairly normal.
I do recall some blistering heatwaves in June up north. In fact I can name 2015, when Mr. Stranger was driving with the trailer and pets to meet me in MD for the case against the squatter. He couldn't stop to rest—the AC was inadequate unless he kept moving.
Trump was at Bedminster yesterday? 😏
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Sitting here dreading going out. My current rut of not going to bed til 5am or so is not great for heat management (read: getting anything done). I had sooooo many things I wanted to get done over the winter for that reason, and most just didn't happen. I walk past all of them as I get into the one operational vehicle with its 2-40 air 🥵
no clue how this state was settled by folks in hoop skirts and wool suits with no AC
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stefani banerian
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •So far, we're good.
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Andreas G
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Not extraordinarily cold, but shorts&t-shirt is not really advisable.
Or at least bring a windbreaker.
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Muse
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Fun-fun!
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Carsten Raddatz
in reply to CheckIn Posting • •There was a local storm and that also brought about advance warnings yesterday. I noticed since the dog came in from the balcony, looking unexpectedly excited, and moments later diagonal rain and storm started, slamming windows in the neighbourhood and displacing stuff on balconies and window sills.
Reports say gusts were up to 100km/h (around 60mph). Where I was that storm lasted around 10-15 minutes, bringing summer street life to a standstill as everybody out tried to get out of the way. There was minor damage from fallen trees, a couple cars were hit, and overground transportation networks were stopped.
So last night and today weather is much cooler, around 20C only, down from 35C yesterday. The streets are being cleared from fallen branches and debris from flower pots. Public transportation has restarted mostly, but I think there were more people on bikes than usual.
Dog walkers we met this morning had wild stories to tell about how their dogs reacted to the situation. Ours was fine.
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lol, no it really isn't
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •@Griff Ferrell - Is that beating by Pritzker of sara huckster literal or figurative?
Wouldn't it be interesting to have a cage match of governors?
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Griff Ferrell
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It would Karl, yes it would.
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John Hummel
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I am not aware of any beating by Pritzker of Sanders, but any such contest would be pointless. To those who are in touch with reality, Pritzker would have destroyed her. But to the other (zombie) half of the American populace, Sanders would win no matter what.
One of the main problems in the USA is that half the populace is completely out of touch with reality, controlled instead by the propaganda spread by the likes of FOX "News", OAN, and their ilk.
It's not clear to me how to solve this problem. And this scares me, because I'm a cognitive scientist. The problem is the control of information. Right now, the wrong people control what the majority of people believe, and I don't know how to fix that.
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •IIRC, Anonymous said they were not inclined to intervene til Americans stood up. Hopefully No Kings was enough for them?
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Andreas G
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I think a sudden concerted series of cyberattacks that took those networks off air could have a significiant impact on them.
What are they going to do? Not watch TV?
Certainly there are no legal means of fixing things.
A bit like with Hitler's death machine. It was perfectly legal. It was the resistance and the allied invasion and liberation of the camps that were illegal.
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •found it finally... 50 years
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •and—and I can't believe I'm saying this—she's an upgrade over the cruel white-supremacist hack running my state... she's at least told PBMs to fuck off... meanwhile we've been teed up for exploitation by the insurance industry
she'd probably come out ahead in that too... he'd be fighting in heels
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Griff Ferrell
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Oh yeah, Ron Desatan (sp?). You have my sympathies. He's actually smart, evil and twisted, but smart
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