This is why if I ever lived in Japan I'd only live in Hokkaido.
As much as I fucking love Kyoto, it's about the same latitude as the Carolinas. I wouldn't last a summer there.
This is why if I ever lived in Japan I'd only live in Hokkaido.
As much as I fucking love Kyoto, it's about the same latitude as the Carolinas. I wouldn't last a summer there.
Greece wildfires death toll hits 80 as rescue efforts intensify
Very interesting article that originally ran earlier, but was updated yesterday=
Huge wildfires are spreading in California, Oregon, and Colorado. They’re poised to get worse.
Wildfires have almost become a year-round threat in some parts of the western United States. From Colorado to California, it feels like the blazes from last year never went out.
Flames ignited forests and chaparral virtually nonstop in 2017, and the year ended with record infernos in Southern California that burned well into 2018.
Officials don’t refer to “fire seasons anymore but rather to fire years,” Jennifer Jones, a spokesperson for the National Interagency Fire Center, told me in an email.
The NIFC reports that this year, wildfires have burned more than 3.9 million acres, behind the 5 million acres that had burned as of this time last year.
One part is likely to be contraverisal to some as it says many of the US wildfires are not natural events.
But the destruction from the gargantuan blazes we’ve seen in recent years is hardly natural; human activity is clearly making it worse.
For one thing, humans start the vast majority of these fires, upward of 84 percent of them. California officials have blamed a dozen of last year’s fires on Pacific Gas and Electric’s power lines. Utilities were also blamed for fires in Nevada. Arson was suspected for fires in Northern California.
Another factor is how humans use the land. People are increasingly building closer to the wilderness, blurring the line between suburbs and shrubland. That means that when fires do burn, they threaten more lives and property. Meanwhile, active fire suppression in some areas has allowed dry vegetation to accumulate, so when embers ignite, it causes a massive conflagration.
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The above article has a link included this video
Looks like it's basically hot everywhere. We usually have really high temp for a few days, but it's been 25-30 C (which is around 80-90 F I believe) for like two weeks now.
Northern countries like mine don't have much in the ways of AC because we generally don't need it and our houses are built to keep warmth in so summers like these are a pain.
What an unsually hot summer.
It's hotter then a god-damn rattlesnake's ballsack in southern Arizona. But because it's monsoon season, you have high himidty with like 114-115 degree weather.
Looks like it's basically hot everywhere. We usually have really high temp for a few days, but it's been 25-30 C (which is around 80-90 F I believe) for like two weeks now.
Northern countries like mine don't have much in the ways of AC because we generally don't need it and our houses are built to keep warmth in so summers like these are a pain.
What an unsually hot summer.
Were are you located? My instinct is saying not in US since you said 'northern countries', instead of 'the north' or 'northern states'. I don't know anything much about outside of the US, so I'm curious.
I do understand about the northern regions not needing AC though. I grew up down south in Texas where AC is mandatory in the building codes. In the NE Texas, they would have both but there are areas (esp, in southernmost of state) where heaters are not mandatory and some buildings don't have any.
About 10 yrs ago, I moved up north to Wisconsin and its flipped. Its mandatory building code to have heaters, but some buildings don't have AC. When I lived in Texas, I used to hear how northern cities like Chicago, Ill. would have made it onto national news for having a death toll due to the heat after two days in triple digits. I wondered why they would have such trouble when down in Dallas we were having the 3rd month of triple digits. It wasn't until I grew up … and moved up north.. that I realized that not everyone had AC.
North Eastern Europe to be less vague.
Such an unusual heat wave. But if it rains there might be some relief. (Or it might get worse if it's very little rain because humidity makes things much worse).
Welp it seems like they've sort of contained the massive forest fire that was approaching our town. Or contained is the wrong word i guess it's more accurate to say that it isn't expected to wildly consume everything in it's path anymore but it ain't going to stop burning no mattet what is thrown at it. Atm fighter jets are bombing the terrain to hopefully hinder the spread a little bit. And a bunch of polish and german firefighting crews arrived a few days ago so i guess the situation is better in the manpower deparment.
Welp it seems like they've sort of contained the massive forest fire that was approaching our town. Or contained is the wrong word i guess it's more accurate to say that it isn't expected to wildly consume everything in it's path anymore but it ain't going to stop burning no mattet what is thrown at it. Atm fighter jets are bombing the terrain to hopefully hinder the spread a little bit. And a bunch of polish and german firefighting crews arrived a few days ago so i guess the situation is better in the manpower deparment.
0.0 Hope you stay safe and good luck to you, Wolfwood.
Just an update on Kilauea Volcano. Not much but nice images.
According to this news update, its added almost 700 acres to the island.
Yesterday I experienced the "It's not the heat, but the HUMIDITY" phenomena in the flesh.
Saturday it got to 37ºC and was bearable, can't remember the humidity, while yesterday it was "just" 29ºC but humidity of 80%, it was agony.
Went to get the shopping in Milan yesterday. Only about supermarket was only about 400 metres away, it was 6:30 pm, thought I'd be fine.
Left the house cool and perfectly dry, within 2 minutes I had melted. I quite literally got there a wet, disgusting, sweaty mess. My shirt was drenched. Horrible, the heat and humidity here. Utterly horrific.
Today was a lot better, still hot, but dryer.
the Mendocino Complex Fire, the Largest Wildfire in California History
At more than 290,692 acres, the fire spans more than 454.2 square miles. That’s almost the size of Los Angeles, nearly double the size of Chicago, and more than triple the size of cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Portland, Atlanta and Las Vegas.
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How did the Mendocino Complex Fire get so big?
The Mendocino Complex Fire grew under conditions ripe for an aggressive, fast-moving wildfire. Bone-dry vegetation, triple-digit temperatures and afternoon winds fueled the fire as it rapidly spread tens of thousands of more acres with each day since it first sparked. Blazing temperatures during the day have exacerbated the wildfire. California is also coming off of a years-long drought and a notably dry winter, making officials anticipate this season could grow far worse.
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Aw hell... talking about humidity...
Right now its 72 F (22 C) with humidity at 82%. Feels stuffy but not too bad ... for now. Its predicted that by 8pm (1 hour away) Humidity will rise to 88% ... and continue to rise. By 5am it's projected to be about 63F (18C)
Sounds great right? ... nope Humidity is expected to reach 100%!
Mother nature is taunting me with 60 f temps but humidity so great I need to keep windows closed and have A/C on.
When talking humidity the key is less the actual percentage of humidity, but the dew point. The weather this summer has utterly sucked in large part to the dew point being constantly in the 60s-70s.
https://www.weatherworksinc.com/humidity-vs-dewpoint
Most weather stations I've seen don't give dew points. Even at Weather.com, you can change F to C, and it can tell you =DESCRIPTION(cloudy, clear ect), TEMP (real temp), FEELS (with heat index), PRECIP, HUMIDITY, and WIND. But it doesn't say dew point.
I'm guessing that its usually part of the "what it really feels like" part. And on that, I do agree it is very important. Being from Texas, that is what we really paid attention to. I've seen online descriptions of NE Texas having summers with avg temp of high 90s. But the truth is with the heat index, July & Aug will be in triple digits. Days of "only 96 F" are really "it feels like 108 F" (and too many days of 110+, that's what drove me up north!)
But humidity can still be bad. It's only 64 F right now for me, feels like 64 F, but humidity at 94% is keeping my windows closed.
Glad to be of help.
Don't tease the spam bot, Kattztar. :P
@S.C.:
Don't tease the spam bot, Kattztar. :P
… wait, a spam bot that actually interacts with a poster, no suspicious links, and makes a comment about what the thread is actually about? and its not a brand new account, was created back in may ... are they getting more cunning?
One never knows about spam bots. :ninja:
How many times does someone have to get banned to grow enough resentment to the point of launching bots on a manga forum ?
Japan had the strongest typhoon they ever experienced.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/world/asia/typhoon-jebi-japan-evacuations.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45429673
And following the strong Typhoon now Hokkaido gets hit with a strong Earthquake
Not a good time for Japan
If anybody here lives in the Carolinas, GET THE FUCK OUT.
https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2018-09-12-hurricane-florence-forecast-southeast-us
Crap its forecasting that hurricane Florence is going to 'crawl along the coast'. No wonder there's gonna be catastrophic flooding.
Was it Sandy or different storm that 'crawled' so had stayed in local area can made the flooding worse than if just moved through and didn't 'crawl through'.
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Large Earthquake Strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi Island; Damage Reported Actually is seems there were multiple earthquakes hitting the area. While some tremblers were around 5.0, there's at least one that's 7.1
Large Earthquake Strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi Island; Damage Reported Actually is seems there were multiple earthquakes hitting the area. While some tremblers were around 5.0, there's at least one that's 7.1
Easily one of the most deadly disasters this year for sure!
In other news I hope that anybody that lives in the FL panhandle are evacuating from Hurricane Michael. It is forecasted to become a major hurricane of at least 111 mph by landfall.
Edit: Hurricane Michael is beginning to pummel the Florida Panhandle. Hopefully anybody that lives in that area has already evacuated. Unfortunately Hurricane Michael is going to go down as the strongest hurricane(it now has 145mph winds as of 8AMEDT) to ever strike the Florida Panhandle. Stay safe everyone.
First snow of the season! Woo! It actually probably won't last because in the morning it's turning to rain, which will make it ice. But oh well. 5-8 inches is pretty damn good for a first fall.
Always reminds me of this:
First snow of the season! Woo! It actually probably won't last because in the morning it's turning to rain, which will make it ice. But oh well. 5-8 inches is pretty damn good for a first fall.
Always reminds me of this:
We got our first snowfall too here in Madison, about a day or so ago (really didn't pay attention as I slept lol)
But yeah I have to laugh at that chart. It's all true for the South, but then its because they usually don't get snow so are unprepared to deal with it. While I lived in Lewisville (or was it Carrollton?, nah doesn't matter they are sister cities) I had one snotty New Yorker try to sneer down on the south, saying we were fools for panicking, "Sand and salt don't work, just slap some snow tires on and it's fine". I bit back at her, saying snow tires wouldn't work if the snow is only 1-3 inches, its likely to damage the roads instead. With that little accumulation, sand and salt does work, since salt melts and sand gives traction. But we still get black ice a lot and that's what dangerous since most don't encounter it enough to know how to stay in control of the car.
And so the South is getting another Winter Storm:
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2018-12-05-winter-storm-diego-snow-ice-forecast-southern-plains-appalachians
Obviously I say, stay safe everyone down there. And remember: we survived, so can you.
Guess I wasn't far South enough. Eastern Oklahoma must have had a curse put on it. This storm was looking to actually hit us, giving us our long awaited first actual winter storm since 2011. Instead we got nothing. Nothing at all. Geez, this is just depressing. What the heck happened? We used to get at least a five inch + storm every year. =(
The southeast US had a 4.4 earthquake. https://weather.com/news/news/2018-12-12-tennessee-earthquake