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1980 Summer Heatwave
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:08 am
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:08 am
Obviously before my time, you old farts remember that summer? From wiki:
The drought and heat wave conditions led many Midwestern cities to experience record heat. In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature was below 90°F (32°C) only twice and soared above the century mark (100 °F or 38 °C) for 17 days straight; in Memphis, Tennessee, the temperature reached an all-time high of 108 °F (42 °C) on July 13, 1980, part of a 15-day stretch of temperatures above 100 °F (38 °C) that lasted from July 6 to 20. In Indianapolis, Indiana on July 15, the temperature reached 100 °F (38 °C) for the first time since 1954.
In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded 100 °F (38 °C) a total of 69 times, including a record 42 consecutive days from June 23 to August 3,[4] of which 28 days were above 105, and five days above 110. The area saw 29 days in which the previous record high temperature was either broken or tied, including its all-time high when the temperature hit 113 °F (45 °C) on two consecutive days (June 26 and 27).
The drought and heat wave conditions led many Midwestern cities to experience record heat. In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature was below 90°F (32°C) only twice and soared above the century mark (100 °F or 38 °C) for 17 days straight; in Memphis, Tennessee, the temperature reached an all-time high of 108 °F (42 °C) on July 13, 1980, part of a 15-day stretch of temperatures above 100 °F (38 °C) that lasted from July 6 to 20. In Indianapolis, Indiana on July 15, the temperature reached 100 °F (38 °C) for the first time since 1954.
In Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, high temperatures exceeded 100 °F (38 °C) a total of 69 times, including a record 42 consecutive days from June 23 to August 3,[4] of which 28 days were above 105, and five days above 110. The area saw 29 days in which the previous record high temperature was either broken or tied, including its all-time high when the temperature hit 113 °F (45 °C) on two consecutive days (June 26 and 27).
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Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:12 am to pioneerbasketball
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1980 Summer Heatwave
survived that summer driving a 74 cutlass with no a/c.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:14 am to pioneerbasketball
quote:
Obviously before my time, you old farts remember that summer? From wiki:
I had a summer job working outside, sandblasting the inside of large steel enclosures. Had to war a coat and hood to protect from the shot. The most miserable summer I ever experienced. Made $3.10 an hour.
When that was finished, they taught me to heliarc weld which I had to wear a coat, and a hood.
When I returned to school I took a drafting class, then next summer when I went to work I had an air conditioned office job.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:15 am to pioneerbasketball
Lived in West Laville no A/C!
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:15 am to pioneerbasketball
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1980 Summer Heatwave
That summer marked the beginning of the steady increase in crawfish prices.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:16 am to pioneerbasketball
But the news said this current heatwave was unprecedented?
Also went to school in Louisiana without AC. Fun times.
Also went to school in Louisiana without AC. Fun times.
This post was edited on 7/13/21 at 10:19 am
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:17 am to pioneerbasketball
My friends and I were building my house that year. Wevwere pouring concrete and it was 100 degrees.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:17 am to pioneerbasketball
We are having something similar here in Boise. We haven't been under 90 since the 16th of June and I don't think we are getting any reprieve until the middle of August.
Something like 80% of our days in the past 3-4 weeks have been over 100.
Make no mistake, it's fricking hot here. And it's miserable. It's not hot like 98 degrees with strong humidity, but it's hot in a different way. As opposed to feeling like you're being smothered, you feel like you're being baked. Not worse, just different.
Something like 80% of our days in the past 3-4 weeks have been over 100.
Make no mistake, it's fricking hot here. And it's miserable. It's not hot like 98 degrees with strong humidity, but it's hot in a different way. As opposed to feeling like you're being smothered, you feel like you're being baked. Not worse, just different.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:18 am to pioneerbasketball
"iF oNLy wE WouLD'Ve HAd a CliMATe TaX"
- prog filth
- prog filth
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:20 am to pioneerbasketball
I was 14 years old, I live in Louisiana, all my summer memories are of it being hot as frick in the summer time.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:20 am to pioneerbasketball
I was 8.
Playing baseball and Atari.
It was hot that summer, I guess?
It was always hot every summer in the NOLA area. And it still is.
Playing baseball and Atari.
It was hot that summer, I guess?
It was always hot every summer in the NOLA area. And it still is.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:22 am to pioneerbasketball
Summer before my FR year in HS. Survived two-a-days with an old school football coach (African American with a toothpick in his mouth). Nobody knew what the frick a "hydration break" was. You ran, sweated, threw up, and kept going.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:23 am to pioneerbasketball
I was bailing hay that summer with the farmer’s daughter.
It was hot.
Temperature as well.
5¢ a bale to the barn. $40 a day was good money.
It was hot.
It was hot.
Temperature as well.
5¢ a bale to the barn. $40 a day was good money.
It was hot.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:27 am to pioneerbasketball
The vinyl seats on the 79 Ford LTD "Landau" were brutal that summer.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:30 am to pioneerbasketball
What was up with your weird suicide post on that other board?
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:32 am to pioneerbasketball
I remember it well as that was the summer before my freshman year at LSU. That’s the summer that some horses pulling carriages in the FQ in NOLA died of heat exhaustion and the city outlawed horses and replaced them with mules or donkeys (they apparently do much better in the heat).
I was in a Drum Corps based in Chalmette and we practiced every day that summer in the Schwegman’s parking lot on the asphalt. It was hotter than Hades!
I was in a Drum Corps based in Chalmette and we practiced every day that summer in the Schwegman’s parking lot on the asphalt. It was hotter than Hades!
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:46 am to pioneerbasketball
That shite happened in DFW in 2011. 103 consecutive days above 100. I was doing an internship in aerospace and had to walk half a mile every morning and afternoon to my parking spot from my office.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 10:48 am to pioneerbasketball
I was 8 and vaguely remember it. But seems there were a lot of 100+ degree days in the early 80's so I may be thinking of another year. I probably still played outside all day, every day regardless. But that might have been the summer the junior golf league was canceled. It was canceled one summer around that time, and I don't remember the reason.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 11:00 am to pioneerbasketball
Remember it not so fondly.
I bottomed out my car and got stuck in DUST on a rig road in Claiborne Parish. Walked 3/4 of mile and it was hot as blazes. Had to get the derrick hand to pull me out with a dozer. Bought ole boy a six pack as thanks.
I bottomed out my car and got stuck in DUST on a rig road in Claiborne Parish. Walked 3/4 of mile and it was hot as blazes. Had to get the derrick hand to pull me out with a dozer. Bought ole boy a six pack as thanks.
Posted on 7/13/21 at 11:01 am to pioneerbasketball
Sucks for yall.
I played a 90 minute soccer game on Sunday and it's the coolest it's ever been in July.
I played a 90 minute soccer game on Sunday and it's the coolest it's ever been in July.
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