Last night's full moon was blindingly bright. Light shot out of it, like a star or cross. Lovely, but too intense. Did anyone else notice? And please let this amazing moon bring good things. :)
@jewels
I was driving home while it was rising. It made my jaw drop.
Wild weather indeed.
Today in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles it was a stunning 121 degrees. It was also the highest official temperature ever recorded in L.A. County as well as Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties
In Denver, a 60-degree drop in the city's high temperature, from 99 degrees to 37 degrees, is expected in a mere 48 hours Sunday to Tuesday.
Yesterday Phoenix hit 110 degrees or more for the 53rd time this year. The previous record was 33 days back in 2011. We also have had barely any monsoon storms.
This should be alarming!
Phoenix just broke another record. 144 days of 100 degrees or higher temps this year. More 100's expected this week.
Also, We now have exactly half of the days so far this year at 100 degrees or more.
Not, this is not normal.
@lovendures I lived in the East Valley for 30+ yrs off and on, a lot of my family is still there. I left 2yrs ago and haven't looked back, it just became so unbearable. I remember when I was a kid and we hit the 122 degree record. I don't see know how the Southwest in general is going to survive. It breaks my heart, I consider AZ my home state, the drought and heat just gets worse year after year. I pray something changes.
In addition to making a go bag a day before Henri made landfall here 2 weeks ago, I made an impromptu go bag on Wednesday night as weather alerts flooded my phone and the remnants of Ida literally deluged the Northeast. Just today the New York Time published a guide to making go bags and "stay bins," and we're at a point where everyone should be thinking about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/well/go-bag-essentials.html
Speaking about the floods yesterday, Governor Hochul of New York said that "there are no more cataclysmic, unforeseeable events. We need to foresee these in advance and be prepared.” She's exactly right.
I'm glad you're alright. Really. I'm still processing the scope of Ida in the Northeast, and I'm shaken by how much devastation occurred in such a short amount of time; by how tornadoes ripped apart houses and floodwaters drowned dozens of people.
You talked about having to manually pump your basement during Elsa, so I know it must be a huge relief to be dry after this storm. My parents' sump pump gave out during Elsa and they ended up with 2 feet of water in the basement. They installed a more powerful pump soon after that, and so far we're dry (there's still a huge amount of water in the ground, so I'm not exhaling yet).
@coyote It's now been 30 hours since it stopped raining and I can hear our new miracle pump spewing out gallons of water from below ground every five minutes. It pumps the water before it reaches the floor level so if it weren't pumping, the water would still be rising 30 hours after the rain stopped. Oops, there it goes again.
@coyote Truly I was debating in my head at 12:30am about whether or not I should head to the basement. My husband wanted to go down. But I wanted the comfort of the couch if I couldn’t have my bed. Of course, after I became less blurry eyed was up most of the night. Like you, I thought of the devastation… and how on earth one deals w flooding waters in the pitch black of night. Horrifying. One of my former students lived this ordeal. Her young family lost everything.