Spring/Summer Official Thread 2015

[Greener_Pastures]

Originally Posted by Coniferian

I really do not want to see my Pacific Power bill.

I agree completely, my wife has had pretty bad allergies the last month or so, so we've had to keep mostly all windows closed 24/7 (she's just starting to get relief, so that's the good news). I've never ran an AC unit half this much in my life.

[kapetrich]

As a former east coaster this makes me smile. Although, the last week it would have been nice to have a bit of AC at night, I have to admit. It was a tad uncomfortable to sleep, but from my experience not bad.

Sometimes I feel lucky to have grown up with so much humidity, its made my bar for comfortable weather very very low.

It's been a hot week, not much end in sight either. If you get the chance, escape to the Cascade lakes. It's always 15 degrees, or more, cooler up there.

[BendLocal]

I estimate the temps up in the mountains using this information.

Ask A Weatherman: How Does Elevation Affect Temperature? - OnTheSnow

If there is NO snow (or the dreaded rain) falling from the sky and you’re NOT in a cloud, then the temperature decreases by about 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit for every 1,000 feet up you go in elevation. In mathematical speak that is 9.8 degrees Celsius per 1,000 meters.

However, if you’re in a cloud, or it is snowing/raining, the temperature decreases by about 3.3 degrees Fahrenheit for every 1,000 feet up you go in elevation. Thus meaning it’s a change of 6 degrees Celsius per 1,0000 meters.)

[oregonwoodsmoke]

It's been up near 100 degrees in Bend. I just wanted to let you all know it's high 60's on the coast. We had one sweltering day this week where it got up to 70.

Neener neener.

[Thom52]

We seriously considered the coast.

60 to 100 inches of annual rain was a bit too much of a good thing, and we are moving from normally damp Western WA. That killed the deal for us.

This has been an highly unusual year.

Inland Seattle area has been overall hotter than Bend. I have been tracking it. That is crazy.

Seattle area just tied a record for number of days in the summer over 90 degF, set in 1958, and our hot month is just starting.

[redguard57]

That 2 week heat wave in June was the weird one. That was intense.

This 4-5 day one in late July, early August is pretty much normal. It's going to back to the 80s by next neek.

If there were decent jobs on the coast, I'd move there too. On the other hand, if there were decent jobs on the coast, it'd probably become ridiculously unaffordable like the California coast.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I just got off the phone with my son. It was 105 degrees in Crooked River Ranch yesterday. Yikes. It was 68 here on the coast.

There are a lot of good reasons to not live on the coast: no jobs, limited shopping, inadequate medical, fog, and endless wind. However it is a great place to take a vacation especially when the weather is like it is right now. Just have reservations before you come over. I'm pretty sure that half of the population of Portland is currently pouring into the coast.

The drive from Bend to the coast is just a slight hair too far to do a two day weekend. If you've got a couple of days extra it is worth the drive.

Traditionally in Bend we could expect a week or two of hot weather in august. We'd just stop work and go sit up to our necks in the Deschutes until it passed.

If you are stuck in the heat, there is a nice little beach at the Tumalo State Park day use area. You can get into the river at Cline Falls State Park, or across the highway from the state park at the actual falls. Veering slightly off topic, there used to be electricity generated at Cline Falls.