The Weather Thread

No A/C on (yet) but it's humid AF so I've got the fans on moving air through our residence.

 

F that. All our fans do is move the humidity throughout the house. A/C for the win.

I have a procedure whether I run the A/C or not. I open the back slider and stand next to it. If I feel anything other than cool air, the door gets closed and the A/C gets turned on.

 

I use this same very scientific approach...

 

It's a fairly nice 75° out, but 84% humidity. warmer in the house and sweaty, so turned on the AC to dehumidify. Ah that feels so much better.

 

I obsessively monitor the thermostat which shows outside temp. As soon as the outside temp hits 78F, I turn off the AC and open every window. Reverse that in the morning when temps go up to 78F. Perfection is when it only goes up to 83 or so outside, and I can leave everything open 24hrs a day!

 

That's pretty much where I have been most of the summer. Unfortunately, the last couple of weeks I have just given up and basically chase the A/C all day. It does fine until the afternoon. Yesterday it couldn't get it under 84° even while it was raining.

 

Anyone ride in OC today? Looks like we got .25" yesterday, wondering what conditions are like?

 

We got .5" here in Simi and the dirt was nice and tacky this morning.

 

Coal Cyn ....heroic

 

Whiting with Xtra credit. Some mud on the tires, but not to bad. Tomorrow the dirt should be perfect.

 

Sat outside on the deck with the youngest and let the light rain soak us for about an hour. Temps droped about 10° and the rain was border line cold.
Hopefully the fires were cooled down enough to make a difference.
Now back to yard work.

 

That hurricane, now a tropical depression is just sitting out in the Pacific just off of Sandy Eggo and a little south of the boarder. It has been there 3 days. They called it unheard of when one sat over Houston. Not a word mentioned here.

 

Well it was a little bit different circumstances/ outcome... Than our wisp of a couple raindrops....

Hurricane Harvey was a devastating Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliesttropical cyclone on record,[nb 1] inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas;[1][2]
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In a four-day period, many areas received more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain as the system slowly meandered over eastern Texas and adjacent waters, causing unprecedented flooding. With peak accumulations of 60.58 in (1,539 mm), in Nederland, Texas,

 

LOL! I follow that same procedure in ly home.

 

yes it was a tropical depression when it meandered over Houston. It had lost its umph in wind strength. Still an odd storm that just sat there not being steared by the Jet, same as here. Look at Goes West it is now heading towards Hawaii at lightning speed

 

Huntington looking towards Irvine lake Forest doesn't come out but it's a full rainbow end-to-end

 

On the way to Silverado yesterday.

 

Went to Mammoth again this weekend. Lightning shut down the life twice; once for about an hour and the second for the remainder of the day.

The second time, I did my usual stupid stuff, and rode to the summit. It was IN the clouds, so it was high winds, cold, no visibility, and soaking wet. Rode down Off The Top barely being able to see where I was going until I was out of the clouds and into the rain.

Didn't see a soul on the mountain for about 4 hours though, so that was nice.

 

I'm glad my airconditioner was working..........lol

 

Cool Pic

https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/1568677878606462976/photo/1


Also...Wow Angelus Oaks / Oak Glenn...

Brutal mudslides
https://www.newsmirror.net/news/sev...cle_26e60994-32f7-11ed-b4cc-e3164c27f1d4.html

 

(yes, wifey already put Fall/Halloween stuff out)

 

Does anybody know if Black Star got a lot of rain today? I haven't been on my bike in over 2 weeks and today I headed that way but ended up in a downpour by the 405 and 22 interchange. Frustrated, I turned around and went back to work.

 

Oaks got rain yesterday. This poor eBiker got karma from the trail god's.

 

Tried to do a quick whiting loop at 830 this morning. As soon as a started to get ready it just dumped rain. I sat in my car for 15 min until it subsided. So ride anyway went to go up the backside. Puddles, sticky sand and no biggie. Then I got near the bottom of dreaded. Two fat tire bikes were being pushed out of sleepy hollow. Oh wait, they're not fat tires, they're e-bikes with so much mud the rat tires were not turning. Been there done that on my bike. They just continued to push and didn't seem interested in clearing the mud until I mentioned it. Oh well.... I'll go to dreaded, it'll be fine!

Nope, got about 50 feet and my bike was the same. So much mud the the rear tire wouldn't turn. Oh well. Cleaned it out, hopped on ride out. Hitting every puddle to clean the mud of the tires.

Got home, washed the bike ( sticky ass clay based mud) and went back to work.

All in all, a fun adventure and the rain was a very welcome sight.

The pic is on the car after the ride out and clearing 90% of the mud.

 

I've learned my lesson on riding Black Star in the rain. Nothing but sticky mud on the tires and it ruins the drivetrain. Tomorrow is a new day.

 

hahahaha!

 

It's actually nice and cool this morning.

 

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Such a cool looking photo!!!

 

My daughter has talent.