Dallas Heat Wave 2018 (Atlanta, Vega: metro, areas, company)

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by happycrow

If it doesn't work for you, that's fine - I have very good success with it (and yes, clearly use it for more than literally just walking to my car, lol).

Don't bother arguing. Everyone who actually works outside some and has tried it knows you are correct.

[Texyn]

Originally Posted by cBach

Also you're not considering all this dry weather will start drying out the vegetation. That is how droughts start. Drought begets drought, weather 101. This ridge ain't going anywhere...

Thanks for confirming that your understanding of weather is still at the surface level. Like I said, cBach, do your homework.

Vegetation-air moisture feedback is only but one factor regarding drought formation, and even then, it's only a localized influence at best. Larger scale atmospheric dynamics far supersede anything else when it comes to drought formation. These dynamics include seasonal changes in weather patterns ... like the northward shift of a subtropical ridge during summer. Yep, this ridge in Texas right now is only temporary.

[ozzeran]

Heh, I was born in Arlington and moved out to Phoenix for a job 3 years ago.

I remember countless times where it was in the 100's (growing up in Arlington), the only thing different right now is the time of the year that it's occurring as others have mentioned and the amount of days forecasted for it.

As far as cooling off in Phoenix like some people think in the summer, nope, not with all the ****ing concrete and people moving here. Right now it's decent at night but soon it will be 80's and sometimes close to 90 at 5am. Now outside of summer, the temp drops like a rock at night here which I LOVE. Just hard to grin and bare it here in the summer, a lot of people here hate it.

I will say that I don't miss the humidity one bit, however I miss the rain

[cBach]

Originally Posted by Texyn

Thanks for confirming that your understanding of weather is still at the surface level. Like I said, cBach, do your homework.

Vegetation-air moisture feedback is only but one factor regarding drought formation, and even then, it's only a localized influence at best. Larger scale atmospheric dynamics far supersede anything else when it comes to drought formation. These dynamics include seasonal changes in weather patterns ... like the northward shift of a subtropical ridge during summer. Yep, this ridge in Texas right now is only temporary.

If you study the weather patterns in North Central/North Texas, rainfall peaks in Spring and there is a minimum in July (for the year). The reason is an upper level high pressure system that never fails to arrive. It's arrived every year I've lived here, even the rainy ones.

If rain was going to fall, it would happen in May and June. July and August are among the driest months. Now September could get a large tropical storm or a cold front but it would be temporary and then back to hot dry weather.

No, you are the one that is not familiar with the weather patterns of Texas. Study the historical climate of Dallas and come back to us, okay?

[Texyn]

Originally Posted by cBach

If you study the weather patterns in North Central/North Texas, rainfall peaks in Spring and there is a minimum in July (for the year). The reason is an upper level high pressure system that never fails to arrive. It's arrived every year I've lived here, even the rainy ones.

If rain was going to fall, it would happen in May and June. July and August are among the driest months. Now September could get a large tropical storm or a cold front but it would be temporary and then back to hot dry weather.

But we aren't talking about the average year, we're talking specifically about this year. And this year, the high pressure may very well move north enough to give even North Central/North Texas rain.

The reason is simple. In most years, the high pressure doesn't even come into the picture in Texas until July, as it's holed up in Mexico: any dryness during the springs of those years would be coming from super-active elevated mixed layers, not from actual ridging. But this year, the high pressure is making its arrival in May. And as anyone familiar with weather patterns would know, subtropical high pressure migrates poleward during the summer. Given that knowledge, it's not hard to figure out why the summer of this year has a healthy chance of being wet, perhaps even in the northern parts of the state.

No, you are the one that is not familiar with the weather patterns of Texas. Study the historical climate of Dallas and come back to us, okay?

I'm very familiar with Texas weather patterns. But unlike you, I do my homework, which is how I'm able to figure out the innate processes behind those patterns. So I have a good sense of of which years will feature wetter summers for Texas. And this year is shaping up to be one of those.

The future is looking even wetter. Because of tropics expansion, the wind belts will shift poleward as time goes on. South Texas will become like Veracruz, Mexico, just you watch.

[cBach]

Originally Posted by Texyn

The future is looking even wetter. Because of tropics expansion, the wind belts will shift poleward as time goes on. South Texas will become like Veracruz, Mexico, just you watch.

That's not the way it works and you know it.

[Texyn]

Originally Posted by cBach

That's not the way it works and you know it.

That's most definitely the way it works. Not hard to figure, my dude, just check out weather patterns in neighboring Mexico.

[EDS_]

FYI - just saw the expected high heat index for the weekend will be 107 or 108F. Hot for sure but nowhere near the 120+ nonsense thrown about a few pages back.

Carry on.

[lvmensch]

Originally Posted by EDS_

FYI - just saw the expected high heat index for the weekend will be 107 or 108F. Hot for sure but nowhere near the 120+ nonsense thrown about a few pages back.

Carry on.

Earlier forecasts were calling for 106 highs. That an 36% RH will get you to 120.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by lvmensch

Earlier forecasts were calling for 106 highs. That an 36% RH will get you to 120.

Right, but those two things don't happen at the same time around here.