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2 minutes ago, IronTy said:

92F down by the bay.  When I left DC it was def oppresive my car's AC couldn't keep up when I was idling.  And there's some crazy traffic at the triangle at New York Ave.  What a mess.  Feels much nicer down here in the woods.  

Oh I was just at ny and 395, what a mess!

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2 minutes ago, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

Oh I was just at ny and 395, what a mess!

I must've waited fifteen red light cycles to turn from First to NY Ave.  Avoiding that whole area like the plague until construction is done.  I'm impressed they were doing work in the beating sun with no visible cooling stations around.  

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1 minute ago, IronTy said:

I must've waited fifteen red light cycles to turn from First to NY Ave.  Avoiding that whole area like the plague until construction is done.  I'm impressed they were doing work in the beating sun with no visible cooling stations around.  

America was built with no cooling stations around. 

My truck thermometer is reading 99. It's a normal summer day. Classic summer conditions. I bet the pools are packed. 

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Copying the record high list from Sterling's AFD

                                    Saturday Jun 22nd
Climate Site                  Record High     Forecast High
Washington-National (DCA)    101F (1988)          99F
Washington-Dulles (IAD)       99F (1988)          99F
Baltimore (BWI)              100F (1988)          99F
Martinsburg (MRB)            102F (1933)          98F
Charlottesville (CHO)        101F (1933)          97F
Annapolis (NAK)              101F (1988)          94F
Hagerstown (HGR)             100F (1988)          98F

                                    Sunday Jun 23nd
Climate Site                  Record High     Forecast High
Washington-National (DCA)     98F (1988)          98F
Washington-Dulles (IAD)       96F (1988)          97F
Baltimore (BWI)               97F (2010)          98F
Martinsburg (MRB)            100F (1934)          94F
Charlottesville (CHO)        100F (1894)          96F
Annapolis (NAK)               98F (1988)          94F
Hagerstown (HGR)              98F (1988)          95F


The 1988 drought was nasty back in the plains.  I remember the river in my hometown drying up to a trickle.

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20 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

America was built with no cooling stations around. 

My truck thermometer is reading 99. It's a normal summer day. Classic summer conditions. I bet the pools are packed. 

We're disparaging heat safety and awareness now? Really??

America was built on the backs of hundreds of thousands of work related injuries and deaths. OSHA didn't exist until 1971 and wasn't doing a whole lot before the 80s.

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Just now, TSG said:

We're disparaging heat safety and awareness now? Really???

America was built on the backs of hundreds of thousands of work related injuries and deaths. OSHA didn't exist until 1971 and wasn't doing a whole lot before the 80s.

I work outside all day everyday. OSHA never showed up to cool me off lol. 

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9 minutes ago, dailylurker said:

I work outside all day everyday. OSHA never showed up to cool me off lol. 

lmao. not how OSHA works tough guy. They show up when complaints are filed or in the limited high risk industries that get regular inspections

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19 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

I'm glad we don't get the nasty milky sky HHH days like back in the 70s and 80s.  That haze would make the air itself bright as heck

You don't see that today because the air is so much cleaner than the 70's and 80's.  That is a fact though some act otherwise.

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You don't see that today because the air is so much cleaner than the 70's and 80's.  That is a fact though some act otherwise.

If this is true. That’s awesome.

90s forecasts always use to say HHH.

So far during this wave I personally haven’t felt the humidity has been that bad. The heat today is noticeable. Still cruised in my jeep with top down and was still nice.

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1 hour ago, stormy said:

You don't see that today because the air is so much cleaner than the 70's and 80's.  That is a fact though some act otherwise.

You don't have to go back nearly that far for the HHH skies. I remember them and I was born in '92. The legislation responsible for removing the vast majority of that aerosol layer was 1990's Clean Air Act amendment signed in by HW. The downstream effects of that would not be fully realized for 20+ years. Our air was pretty shitty through the new millenium.

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57 minutes ago, BlizzardNole said:

I'm glad we don't get the nasty milky sky HHH days like back in the 70s and 80s.  That haze would make the air itself bright as heck

 

35 minutes ago, stormy said:

You don't see that today because the air is so much cleaner than the 70's and 80's.  That is a fact though some act otherwise.

This. It’s a huge and noticeable difference. And it saves people’s lives in addition to making blue skies a thing again in summer.

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