Heat Wave here in Southern California

[4lbs]

Here in SoCal, the South San Diego area (includes National City, Bonita, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, Otay Mesa, etc.), experienced a massive heat wave this weekend.

I'm glad I work early morning until around noon. By 10:00am we were 'baking', and when the back door of the restaurant opened for a few minutes, there was a huge inflow of 'hot air' from the outside.

Earlier today (Sunday Sep 8, 2024) at around 1:00pm PDT the temp here hit 101, with a RealFeel of 108 (according to AccuWeather).

That's today. The temps have been in the 90s, high 90s Friday and Saturday. On Wednesday and Thursday, the temps were in the upper 80s. They reached over 100 today. That's on the coast, where I'm at. Further inland, around El Cajon and Santee and such, it is easily 10 to 15 degrees hotter on a regular basis. I.E. if the coast has a high of 85, then inland it will be 95 to 100 at the same time.

Tomorrow, Monday, Sep 9, 2024, it is forecast to be about 89 degrees, and 87 on Tuesday, in my area.

The temp won't get down to a "reasonable" 75 degrees for me until the end of the week.

So, temps reaching 100 degrees, in September.

I remember about 6 years ago, it reached 100 in my area in mid-October.

But hey, I guess 'climate change' is a hoax right? I mean, I must not be really feeling this heat, and that sweat dripping off me is imaginary.

EDIT: For those not in the US, all temps shown are in degrees Fahrenheit. 100 degrees Fahrenheit = 37.778 Celsius. https://www.metric-conversions.org/temperature/fahrenheit-to-celsius.htm

Also, all times are PDT. PDT = Pacific Daylight Time (which is the current time standard in California)

EDIT 2: It is currently 7:00pm PDT here in my area, and the temp is still around 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Guess I'll be waiting at least until 8:00pm or even 9:00pm for the temp to drop another 5 to 10 degrees. The sun is setting which is helping greatly.

[BOSSHOG]

1. A trip down memory lane

I went to Navy Bootcamp in San Diego in 1972. The weather was San Diego pleasant. Very Nice. Comfortable. Probably not what the Navy wanted. Comfort for their recruits. So they closed up shop in San Diego and sent all recruits to the Chicago area.

Sadly, you are right. Climate Change is a hoax. It’s right there in Project 2025. And probably the Bible.

I always have fond thoughts of my time in San Diego. For various and asundry reasons.

[2naSalit]

5. That's when...

I first moved to San Diego, the weather was nice. A few years later I recall triple digit temps during summer. And Santa Ana conditions were new to me then. It get into the triple digits here in Montana quite often. I remember when a heat wave up here was +85F. Now I'm glad when it only gets that hot and thankful for anything in the 70s. Right now it's 77F outside, an hour past sunset.

[msongs]

2. september heat waves are common in So Cal nt

[onecaliberal]

3. 106 here today. 50+ days of 100 degrees this "season"

[quaint]

11. I would send cooling vibes but none in North O.C.

Survived yesterday's 106° with three fans, three showers, and some King Louis pot. No A/C.

[onecaliberal]

12. Oh damn. I at least have AC

[quaint]

13. It hasn't been as bad as I expected, the excuse to do nothing but read, vape, and shower made the difference.

[usonian]

4. I'll trade.

It has been in the high 90's for what seems like forever in the Sierra foothills, and the San Joachin Valley runs 7 to 10 degrees hotter. In the one-hundreds.

For reasons of isolation, living in the woods and long drives to do anything, I plan to move near the coast soon. I lived in the SF Bay area for 30 years. My "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" experiment has been interesting (but no lake adjoining the home). Thoreau missed partying with the Emersons and others, I am sure, so he called it a day.

People in the Central Valley do have it a lot worse.

I was hoping that this heat wave would be the last of the year, but I suspect that it won't.

Spending my IRA money on electric bills.

[LogDog75]

6. Hot day here, too

I live not to far from 4lbs in Coronado, across the bay from San Diego. Normally, we get about two weeks of really hot weather but rarely above 90 degrees. It was 91 degrees today and it was, for here, very hot. I don't have air conditioning because I get a cool sea reeze from the ocean most days (not today) which keeps me cool. For these hot days I have oscillating fans that help.

[Dem2theMax]

7. I'm in North County. So far, hottest we've had this week is 107.

10 minutes shy of 9:00 p.m. and it's 86° out right now. I have my AC set at 84°, and it turned off about 30 minutes ago. I feel like I'm breathing sawdust.

Toss in the three fires to the north, all within a 30-minute drive, and a couple of fires to the south, (thankfully those ones are out,) and it's definitely that time of year. But of course, there's no such thing as climate change.

My parents retired in this area in 1982. The climate was so temperate that they didn't put air conditioning in their home. Had to install it years later when it started to warm up around here.

I love how the Republicans in my area refuse to admit there is such a thing as climate change. But at the same time, they complain that the plants they used to be able to grow in their yards, no longer grow in this area. Umm, wonder why that is?
Oh yeah, climate change.

[sdfernando]

8. It has been hot and humid

I’m in Hillcrest about a mile from the Zoo and it hit 92 at one point. I do have a rental house in Otay Mesa. I’m sure my tenants are happy I replaced the furnace and A/C last year and put on a new roof this year.

[4lbs]

9. In years past, whenever it got close to this hot, we would experience "brownouts" late into

the evening because everyone would have their A/C on until at least 9:00pm. Sometimes the brownouts would lead to total blackouts.

However, now, a lot of us (me included) have been moved from using SDG&E electrical power to SDCP (San Diego Community Power). With the majority of its electricity solar/wind generated, we put less strain on the electrical grid. In fact, checking the CAISO website today, the capacity was about 70,000 megawatts. Current load at the time I checked was around 68,000. So, we still had several thousand megawatts to spare, and we could always add in "seemlessly" SDG&E power if we needed it (it is a 'backup' in my setup). SDCP also has a bunch of "solar farms" and "wind farms" all over the southwest, including states like Arizona and Nevada.

In fact, earlier this year, SDG&E was powering down some areas for a few hours. I and most in my neighborhood, were unaffected, because we were on SDCP and it didn't apply to us.

The power rates are about the same (+/- 5% of SDGE). We still get bills through SDG&E, and I pay through it's online website. However, it looks slightly different in the detail breakdown.

I haven't had a brownout or blackout since moving to SDCP several years ago. Even the heavy rains in January left me unphased. The current heat wave isn't causing any electrical issues for me either.

[sdfernando]

10. I might put solar on the house next year

The peaked roof faces east and west. Gets a lot of sun during the day. The houses to the west are much lower so no obstructions to shade the panels if I do install.

I remember back in the 70s and 80s if temps got into the high 80s it was an unusually hot day.

[kimbutgar]

14. Spend the last week in San Diego.

When we got there on the Labor Day weekend the weather was comfortable but by Monday it had become unbearable. We were gong to go to the San Diego zoo but skipped it. I couldn’t get over how hot it was. And driving back to SF going though LA it was over 100 degrees. One area before the grapevine it was 114 degrees. I was grateful to have a nice air conditioned car. We stopped in Santa Clarita to pick up something from a store and it was so stifling and hard to move from our car to the grocery store.

Back home in my foggy cool Sf. But still loved San Diego!