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^ yeah, that was a massive storm, I saw nickel sized hail and the power kept going on and off . Thank goodness it finally came back on and stayed on, at least at my house. WTOP is reporting this:
11:50 p.m.: More than 1 million people in the D.C. area are without power.
Smyrna, Tennessee is currently at 113F. This sets a new daily record (previous record was 101F in 1952), a new monthly record (previously it was 103F in 1954), and a new all-time record high (previous all-time high was 109F). Many places in the region are joining the club of places that set their all-time record highs in June instead of July or August.
Equal in its incredible notoriety, Smyrna is currently the hottest place in the United States east of the Rockies, and is tied for the hottest place in the entire country . Lake Havasu City, Arizona is at 113F as well. Death Valley is at 111F. It's not often that Death Valley offers better weather for me than anywhere in Tennessee.
Ah yes, Smyrna: right next to my hometown. And somehow it's almost always the hottest place in the area. My brother told me it hit 112 in my hometown today. I feel bad for him because he hates heat as much as me, and he originally moved out here with me but had to move back. And of course, the first summer he's back this happens.
Athens, GA set an all-time record high of 109 degrees today, breaking the old record of 108 on July 12, 1930. I was outside at 3PM, and there literally was not a cloud in the sky, not even a wisp of one. The sky was just a milky light blue all around. I took this picture near the local airport:
Oh, it's SO HOT in Duluth! About 82 degrees F with 35% relative humidity right now! And it got up to about 88 yesterday!
Anyone want to chime in on the heatwave that is now affecting the Midwest and will soon go eastward? I'm surprised a thread wasn't already created for it. The high was 108 in St. Louis today, which is a bit extraordinary...
For us here in the East, East Coast to be exact, the heat wave has been here for a while. Yesterday it was 96 degrees and today going to be more of the same (June 30th 2012). We tried to work outside yesterday to vac our pool and clean up down there but too hot, going to head down there again this morning. Hopefully it will warm the water up enough to actually have a swim today. Stay cool!
That derecho was one of the biggest I've seen, in terms of the combined intensity, duration, and distance. It went from parts of Indiana all the way to North Carolina. There was massive damage all across its path along with many reports of hurricane-force winds, the prevailing peak winds being 50-90 mph. The biggest impact even more so than the hundreds of millions of dollars (perhaps 1 billion?) of damage is the absolutely massive power outages. 3 million people are without electricity. I can only imagine how long it will take to resolve this situation given the decrepit state of the American electric grid, and the deprivation, disruption, and misery due to the extreme heat will be as massive as the outages. This event, which is small potatoes compared to many others that have and will occur, highlights the extreme fragility of the power grid.
Below is a video of the derecho passing through Verona, Virginia late last evening. The winds at the weather station were clocked at 56 mph, but to me it looks like it could be higher in the spot this video was taken (which for derechos wouldn't be anything unusual). The temperature hit 100F throughout the entire region the derecho hit, but by the time the winds started the temperature was 90F. That must have been a scorching wind, but temperatures rapidly cooled to the 70's as it passed through. Hypothetically, if such a huge wind gust/cooldown was combined with a strong cold front I imagine that would be extremely refreshing .
More extreme heat is forecast for the area in the post-storm period, so the people without power that have no air conditioning are really going to be suffering today. They need to find someplace that has electricity like a hotel and hole up there until the crisis is over.
Storm damage and power outages stretching from Indiana to the Washington DC area. It will be awful to go without A/C in these parts this weekend. Hopefully it'll be restored as quickly as possible.
We're in the midst of a heatwave, but it's much more benign here compared to the south. Highs generally in the low 90s. Low this morning was 63 F, but as I've pointed out it, it gets cool too late here during the summer and only for a couple of hours. Anyone who went to bed in this area at a normal time would have been dealing with temperatures in the 70s and 80s with high humidity.
More extreme heat is forecast for the area in the post-storm period, so the people without power that have no air conditioning are really going to be suffering today. They need to find someplace that has electricity like a hotel and hole up there until the crisis is over.
Yeah, my sis and her family are among the affected, in Alexandria, VA. My parents have been trying to get in touch with them this morning, but landlines are down and the mobile phone networks are jammed.
My advice to them would be to drive down to Richmond and bunker down in a motel down there, if there's room to be had. 100+ degrees is NOT something you wanna experience in a stuffy old house with no fans and no breeze...this is gonna be a real tough day for a whole lotta people in the Washington area...
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. Lake Havasu City, Arizona is at 113F as well. Death Valley is at 111F. It's not often that Death Valley offers better weather for me than anywhere in Tennessee.
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