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Might hit 130 in Death Valley this weekend. Isn't Badwater coming up in the next week or so?

kingsnake wrote:Might hit 130 in Death Valley this weekend. Isn't Badwater coming up in the next week or so?

I hiked in Death Valley last weekend, when it was quite a bit cooler (the highest I measured was 105). There were runners out training, and a few cyclists.

Looks like the Alamo high for the summer was reached 2 days ago when it was 106 (unless hotter but not recorded). Yesterday was forecast to be 103 again, but we got no higher than 99. Forecast has since been changed to show 99 today, and a dropping off trend as the monsoon rolls in and 89 is the high later next week. Storm chances are up, and the QPF models show rain in NM.

Record Highs in Jake's neighborhood. http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/ ... &version=0

Flag hit 96 yesterday, breaking the old record of 94. The highest it has ever been in Flag is 97, so 96 is pretty big. It was 96 once when I was living there, July 4, 2007, but I was traveling over here (ironically) from Guadalupe NP to Albuquerque that day, and then to CO the next day to hike Elbert.

It is so smokey here, and overcast, that the temps never really got too scorching. The locals hate the heat. I love a little heat. Gee whiz, it's under 100 here, and they call that "unbearable." I think they need to alter their clothing styles, take off the jeans and cowboy boots and put on shorts and flipflops! But oh, no, someone might see their LEGS if they did that!

@azbackpackr
I know what you mean. When I was living in CA, if the temp got over 85 everyone started complaining. I'd tell them to "get over it, at least you're not in Phoenix." They would always come back with " at least it's a dry heat." To which I would respond "122 isn't a dry heat, it's an oven setting!" That would shut them up.

They have to wear their uniform Liz, how else will people know where they live and how they think?

Raining on the mountain... and very cool. low 60's around 2pm

Haboob this evening, and rain around town. Monsoon season is here.

Clicked the hate button because they are really dust storms. ;)

It got to 103 here in Walnut Creek yesterday even though I'm only 27 miles from the coast. The coast was nice at Point Reyes where I was yesterday. Unfortunately we don't have monsoons up here so there won't be rain until October. Fortunately, it will cool down even it's basically going to be highs of 85-95 until the fall weather kicks in. It could be worse, and I had 35 years of that!

beterarcher wrote:Clicked the hate button because they are really dust storms. ;)

I have a friend in Tucson, who likes to say this, totally in jest: "I've lived in Arizona since 1954. During most of my lifetime we had a summer rainy season. We used to have really big dust storms from time to time, too. But now, we don't have those things anymore, maybe due to climate change? Now we have a MONSOON and HABOOBS! I wonder what happened to our climate?"

@azbackpackr
Monsoon kicked in when I was a kid and Haboob started being used during the operation Iraqi Freedom. Haboob came about because the news folks liked saying it. I'm still not going to use Haboob since spell check says it's wrong. It's a dust storm people!

Yeah, I think, too, the newsies like saying it.

Journalism's in the toilet these days. Partly it is because we will put up with it, and many people don't know any better, don't understand it used to have standards. :SB:

Jim_H wrote:Haboob this evening, and rain around town. Monsoon season is here.

very odd... shows I clicked "hate"...when I did not? Cool dust storm yesterday evening...I nearly called to make sure you saw it!

Have been in Alaska for 2 weeks they have been having a heat wave last week.. up to 91 when we were running around outside of Anchorage.. now this week is in the high 50s and low 60's..

Dschur wrote:Have been in Alaska for 2 weeks they have been having a heat wave last week.. up to 91 when we were running around outside of Anchorage.. now this week is in the high 50s and low 60's..

Oh poor you, suffering in Alaska... ;)

My wife and little one have been stuck in traffic between Manitou and Cascade for about 2 hours. They are trying to clear the highway 24 of flash flood debri. We were not able to find anything on the net about the closure but an ill dressed for hiking news woman just got band aids from my wife for her ankles, i'm assuming from my wife's description because she is wearing tv shoes for the shot and not walking shoes. She said the road is washed out and they are trying to clear it. Evidently, the news teams are stuck in the traffic farther down the road. What appears to be the cave of the winds access road seems to have received the majority of the damage.

@MtnBart01 For a minute there, I was disoriented. Does that count as a SAR incident?

@big_load
The news has just caught up with everything. I guess the 24 is back open, but 20 homes have been damaged in the flash flooding to go along with the 500+ homes destroyed in the Black Forest Fire.
http://www.koaa.com/mobile/story.cfm?n=247427
The creek pictured Fountain Creek runs through my back yard. You can normally jump across it. Fortunately, our house is a hundred feet up from it, but the B&b next door has cabins at the creek level.
This was all severe enough that I received a NOAA reverse 911 call to my phone warning of flash flooding imminent for our area about 15 min. before my wife called and said the road was closed.

Quite a storm hitting Flag right now. I was hiking around Hart Prairie from 11 to 1:30 earlier and it was partly cloudy, but as I was driving back into town, it looked awfully dark to the east. Now pretty much the whole sky is dark and here on the east side of town we're getting occasional downpours. Frequent thunder as well, but I haven't seen any bolts.