***Official 2023 Weather Thread***
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Ankeny has the new Albaugh Senior Community Center, and it has an elevated indoor track (1/10 of a mile). Seniors (60 and older) have free memberships.
It has been a huge blessing during inclement weather like this to be able to exercise in an air conditioned environment!
It has been a huge blessing during inclement weather like this to be able to exercise in an air conditioned environment!
2012 was absolutely brutal. At every stop light in Des Moines you could see rubber sticking to the road from thousands of car tires sitting there over time.
Probably going to skip our normal golf on Thursday afternoon. I golfed in South Carolina when it was 99 with 98% humidity, and it went okay (drank 8 gatorades and 2 waters and never peed once), but it wasn't a lot of fun.
Just gross out this morning already. Might have to take my pants off.
The kids are obsessed with the moisture on the windows. Time for a lesson on dew point!
I was musing at the individual data points. We may have had only one 100+ degree day in the past five years, but we had eleven 95+ degree days last year alone. Definitely not arguing anything climate change related. I’m just pointing out that a lot of data gets ignored if we’re using arbitrary measurements like “number of 100 degree days”. To me, there’s very little difference between 97 degrees and 102 degrees… it’s still plenty hot.
For a second I thought one of the windows we had installed last Spring failed, and then I realized every window looked like that.
You just wrecked my day. That thought will haunt me.
Don't airplanes have trouble creating lift when the air is this warm? Longer takeoff runouts?
Definitely not a "pics or it didn't happen" event.
Yes, this is called density altitude. Both higher temperatures and higher humidity decrease the density of the air molecules that are obviously needed for lift and engine performance. At 8AM at CID the density altitude was 2,783' while the field elevation is 837'. So the plane will perform like it is at 2,783 despite being at a much lower altitude resulting in longer takeoff runs. I bet we will see density altitudes of 4k+ today.
They must have figured out how to prevent the buckling of pavements as well. Because I can remember almost every summer it would seem they were everywhere come July and August.
