So yeah, we all know the first heatwave of the season is incoming. But look at this overnight lows. This is why they will scrape my cold, dead remains from my house rather than move anywhere east of the Rockies.
Desert nights are so nice. Unfortunately, not all of Oregon gets that type of relief at night. š„²
True. Central Oregon here. Might be hot during the day but humidity is low and it cools off at night. Love it
It was 36 this morning at 5am. High in the low 80s this afternoon. I love the weather here.
I moved from the valley 23 years ago. Never going back. Itās the best
Well you're not growing any tomatoes with those overnight temps...
Yes, we do.
I lived in Union County for the first 18 years of my life and that's one of the things I miss the most. That and summer thunderstorms.
that's what I found weird about living in Marin (the very North of the Bay Area / South of Californian wine country): high of 100, low of 50? How?
Our offshore waters are colder. It's natural air conditioning in the summer for much of the Pacific Northwest. But even further south can feel the effects of chilly fronts diving down out of Alaska. With our heat dome forming, there's nothing much to stop it.
BIG ginormous pic. Knock yourself out... :)
āVery North of the Bay Areaā
Petaluma is about to kick your ass
Yeah, I don't count Sonoma county, but this is also something I lack strong feelings about. And I guess we do have to count Vallejo, so maybe we do have to fold in Southern Sonoma...
My method is open windows at night, and closed windows and shades by 10 each morning. Letās the cool in then keeps the hot out, and is mostly effective
Yeah I find this to be effective as well. Helps to run a fan in the window blowing air in at night too. But sometimes I forget to close the windows the next day...
Chiming in to say this is the method I use too and it works really well on days like this, and I donāt have AC just a single lonely stand fan. Keeping it airtight and dark staves off the heat for a good chunk of the day. Rinse and repeat the following night and youāll survive.
If you can get a window exhaust fan, even better. Close all the windows other than your bedroom. Put the exhaust fan as far from that bedroom window as possible. Turn on exhaust fan. Pulls cool air in from outside directly into your bedroom first, then cools the rest of the house along the way out through the fan. Works really well, as long as itās not Smokey.
My house was built 1915 with no AC at all, the upstairs is hot AF until like 9pm.
One thing my family did growing up was invest in box fans & create a wind tunnel along the house. We had an old house that had zero AC. My dad bought 6 box fans & some thick styrofoam insulation.
He measured the insulation to match the size of the windows & cut them out to fit just perfectly. Then he cut holes in the styrofoam for the box fans. Weād position 3 at one end of the house blowing night air in, and 3 at the other end blowing air out.
It did a pretty good job at cooling the house down quickly!
I used to do a similar thing with those dual-fan inserts for windows, set them up so the ones downstairs would suck in cooler air and the ones upstairs would blow out warmer air.
Thanks for the advice I can probably figure something similar out! Iām working with very small window openings too, high up close to the ceiling
I believe pacific power will give you a ac unit for free, you have to pay the install fees. Don't quote me on that.
Yeah, right. š¤£
Call them A few of my neighbors got one.
Problem is that whoever decided to build buildings here obviously have never lived in Oregon, itās hot as fuck at 9PM in my apartment with no AC
I'm guessing you're relatively new to Oregon or pretty young. It wasn't hot like this when I was younger.
For me it was. As the youngest kid still at home, I got the worst bedroom. You know, the one upstairs in an uninsulated 1930's house. I might as well tried to sleep in a fucking coal mine.
Of course, my parents grew up during The Depression and were both WWII vets. "Oh, you think it's too hot? Try sleeping on an overcrowded troop ship with bunks stacked 6 high in an unventilated cargo hold, and everyone is smoking Lucky Strikes. Then the ship starts rolling and everybody pukes."
My Grandpa missed WW2 by about a decade. He was only eight when the war kicked into full gear.
He still has a two story farm house that is 175 years old. No AC... 4 months a year upstairs is absolutely brutal. All six guest rooms and 2 bathrooms. Dude has a goddam PNW "plantation" house, with wrap around rich person porch.
"You mother fuckers are going to fry when you visit for my birthday." Says my Grandpa in my head.
June 21st
June 22nd
July 31st
August 7th
August 13th
August 20th
Family birthdays. We all have them at Grandpa's, for the most part. Mom, Uncle, Cousin, Cousin, Grandpa, me. It's generally a few day affair and we all stay there. It's like the Walton's but way more alcohol.
Do you all yell "G'night!" to each other from your beds? I always found that especially annoying.
Yeah kind of. It's basically: Grandpa's going to bed between 8pm and 10pm.
"You can stay up, but be quiet."
If we don't, a very kind, but pissed of gentleman will find you in his whitey tighties and tell you to shut up.
My maternal grandparents did this when I was a kid in the late 80s and I always loved it haha.
Grew up in Salem. I sure donāt remember triple digit temperatures. Maybe a few days 95 or so.
I remember when I was probably 8 so around 1995. It hit 117 degrees on my birthday in August down in Medford. Itās always been hot.
Well sure Medford has always been the gate to hell. But the coast and valley are hotter. Easy to check the data.
Maybe not as hot, as it is everywhere hotter but its been hot here in the northern valley area for awhile. Born and raised since early 80's and i remember everyone in the family staying in the living room with a big blanket covering the hallway to keep all the cold air in the TV side of the house because the window AC unit couldnt keep the whole house cold.
I literally got yelled at on a daily basis for "letting the cold out".
I have been here half a century, it is hotter now but that that much. Plenty of triple digit days in past summers.
Depending on when it was built....
Never needed AC until the 90s.
I remember thinking it was ludicrous for anyone to spend that much money on something they used 3 days a yearā¦
Now we have Forest Fire Seasons.
True, if you can't open the windows at night cause of smoke it really sucks
Even if it does have AC, most equipment here isn't built to run efficiently above 85Ā° outside air temp. Climate change is a hell of a thing...
Yeah, we just got a new heat pump. So darn weird I even need one at the coast. This little shitbox has used only a woodstove for over a century.
Now it is vented with a heat pump.
So true and then it seems like in 2014 it really started getting screaming hot more and more each each year!
Yeah, last house I lived in with no AC was one I bought off Alberta in 93.
When I moved in 2000, I said never again:-D
They never lived in Oregon after 2012 or so...
That's one reason we left in 2016. The heat waves just started. Most apartments and restaurants never had AC. Or city snow removal.
š at least we arenāt in California, Phoenix, or Las Vegas
I'm in Phoenix... 112/86 this whole week. š
Gonna be sweatin' it out with you. :(
Youāre going to jinx it!
I spent 3 years in Chicago and out of habit, always took a jacket when going out in the evening. Not once, in three years, did I need that jacket. It was MISERABLE.
I love the 30-40 degree temp drop at night.
Grew up in a house built in the 1880s no ac. Mom would wake up at the coolest part of the morning open it all up and turn the fans on. Then she would close the house up as soon as the temp started going back up. Spent a lot of evenings at Starbucks or walking around Fred Meyer- never realized it was because of the temperature of the house later in the day.
It's great. I generally shut the A/C off before bed and open a number of windows. Cools the house off enough the A/C isn't needed before it hits 90F.
This, but I just switch the A/C over to fan instead.
Oh boy, bad news, unless you have a very special AC model - that just recirculates the air, it doesn't pull cool air from outside the house. If anything, you're only making your interior air warmer by running it through your AC without the cooling function.
Iām just east of the Rockies now and my overnight lows are also going to be in the 50s.
Yeah, it's the humidity that seems to carry the heat into the night. It's further east, out in the corn fields. No thanks, I'll live here. I don't turn the A/C on until in the evenings, then off before bed.
I used to do that but have stopped for two reasons. Allergies and running the AC at night when itās cool is the least expensive time to run it. So I use barely any electricity and am not stuffed up all day.
If you have good insulation, itās actually a good strategy.
Air conditioners usually work better with a smaller temperature differential too.
The worst was last summer when the nighttime air didnāt drop below 70 for a few days. It felt like a constant cycle of sweat & irritation for days.
Yeah, but when it stays in the 70s at night, it sucks!
High of 81 over on the coast. 
65 at the moment...
65 and sunny. Perfect.
Not if you want to be in water! Need it 80+
i'm sorry but does anybody actually go to the coast to get in the water? it's cold even in the summer months. this isn't california or florida where the water is super warm
Moved from salem to yuma and fuck do I regret it
The rest of this week and into next (if forecast is to believed) is not going to be nearly as forgiving in the Rogue Valley. ā¹ļø
Too much sun exposure in our building, as well, unfortunately..
Iām in the RV too and Iām not planning to do a damn thing this weekend. Itās gonna be so miserable.
Oof 103 is wild.
Iām in south Texas and we havenāt hit 100s yet, however, itās hot 24/7, temps donāt even get below 80 at night
I don't think many locals here on the coast are planning on leaving their homes this weekend.
Here in southern Oregon weāre getting 113 on Saturdayā¦.
Bearable ? Itās fucking miserable . When I grew up in Oregon in the 70s the summer was a magical time. Never rains and mid 70s. Now I dread it. I thought you were supposed to feel cold when you got old!!
I think you're memory has gotten a little selective. The 70s were hotter overall than the 80s, just as hot as the 90s, and nearly as hot as the 00s.
East of the Rockies? āLaughs in Phoenix, AZā
Hell, Phoenix at 115 is STILL better than Mississippi at 90.
I'll agree to that. If it were humid here, we'd be suffocating.
Nope. Lived in Phoenix. Itās damn hot. Humidity sucks too, but until youāve lived in Phoenix and experienced 6 months of 100+ degrees, you canāt say itās better.
And if youāve lived there and thought that, you must be like my ex, who Iām convinced is a lizard.
I've had a window AC installed in the window of every bedroom of every apartment and house i've lived at in my adult life. $200 from best buy. best $200 i've ever spent. takes 10 minutes to put in and 5 to take out. at least one bedroom stays cool
Uhm climate change.
god i wish i had ac
Moved to the Midwest from Oregon, 90F in Oregon compared to 90F Midwest + humidity is a whole other ballgame I was so unprepared for. Wishing everyone stays safe out there!
Couldnāt agree more. Moved to the PNW from the west Texas desert and our overnight lows in July and August are always like 75-80Ā° lol. I do not miss it one bit.
Currently in Arizona and the night time temperatures have not been below 90. It's just crazy! Why do people live here?
Itās gonna be like 110 in Sacramento with over night lows of 75 or some nonsense! Brutalism!
Just saw the extended forecast. This is going to go on for a week or more. I'm now concerned for our farmers and our forests. Food crops can take a hit. Things like Douglas Fir don't like heat either...
I have lived here since 1973. All you folks claiming you didn't need A/C before 2000 don't remember the same weather I do.
https://projects.oregonlive.com/weather/temps/
It is absolutely getting hotter overall, no doubt, and there's a lot more red in that map over the last decade, but having at least one heat wave with triple digits every year has been the norm for a long time. I was working my first job in high school outside on the asphalt in 1981 on August 10th when we had a 4 day stretch over 103, topping out at 107.
That is exactly what I am thinking. Been here my whole life, since the late 60s, and it is always hot in the summer. Yeah, it is a couple degrees more on average now and climate change is real and a big problem, but acting like it never went above 80 degrees last century is nonsense.
I just moved to VA from OR. You guys donāt know what miserable summers are. This state is a monument to manās arrogance.
Lol, you've never lived in a hot state, have you?
Not until now. Hell is cooler than here.
Mid-A humidity!
Could be worse, could be farther south, and farther inland.
Still, it's awful, I know.
103 crazy. Hasnāt hit triple digits here in Florida since I moved here 4+ years ago.
Itās the trees. Please help prevent Forrest fires.
DEWPOINT. People donāt understand that when itās hot, itās dryyyyyy.
Itās predicted to get up to 112 on Saturday (where I live, at least), but nights will be in the 50s and 60s so at least weāll get some relief. š
Well, wherever you are is much more bearable than what weāre in for on the eastern side of the state.
Canāt wait to move out west. Florida summers are like living on the sun. It has currently cooled down to a balmy 97 because itās finally dark out.
Yeah I donāt get people who constantly complain the heat. Itās 9am and itās gorgeous out right now. Gonna get really hot in the afternoon/evening then start dropping till itās downright chilly. Imo itās only a problem when itās like 80+ overnight
Itās not though. These are basically the same temps since the 70s
Often our heat waves in July and August don't have such lows. Three 90Ā°+ days with the low above 80Ā° and my A/C can't keep up. Happens most years at least once, now.
Low above 80? The all-time record highest low ever recorded in August is 73 (at PDX). So maybe 80 in an urban heat island? But that's extremely rare.
Yeah, PDX, seems like that's true, what they say every year, and then my weather app tells me some week won't be below 80Ā°. Maybe I shouldn't go by apps, even the seemingly reliable one. Otherwise it never deviates from the airport measurements more than five degrees, though. Idk. My rule is to set my A/C at 68Ā° (to keep my apartment down around 74Ā° or so), except when the lows are so high. Then I turn it down to 62Ā° (max) and don't open windows at night. It keeps my place below 80Ā°, but not by much. I have to break out the frozen water bottles to sleep. And if it goes for more than three days then my A/C freezes over and won't do much. It's a good 10,000 BTU unit, supposedly big enough for my 300 sqft living area (though it's a weird shape), except when the weather doesn't cool off at night. But every year, I stop opening the windows once the lows get above 70Ā° or so, and I don't mess with the thermostat until the lows hit 80Ā°.
I find reality doesn't always play fair with facts, but other people commonly have different experiences that I cannot account for. So don't go by me.
Wish I lived in Wallowa County where it truly cools off at nightā¦.
Lived in Oregon from early 1970ās to late 2010ās, able to cool off house at night with no AC. Life happened and I now live in Clark County, WA. It takes so long to cool off before it heats up again. Too hot to cool off house well. Ugh.
Lmfao try calu, Texas or Arizona. 102 ain't shit!
Cali
Y'all complain too much..it's not that bad..a few weeks of hot weather. Suck it up.
My phone is showing 99 for Saturday. This is totally normal July weather. I don't know why people are acting like we are getting another heat dome.
Just think of the heat wave as a nice middle finger to all the people who moved here from California š
(Sorry, but also not at all sorry)
idk personally i prefer the heat here over the heat in California. at least it gets cool here at night, where i grew up if itās over 100 during the day thereās a very small possibility itās going to dip under 90 at nightā¦. this summer is the first summer that iāve been able to sleep through the nights because iām not waking up in a pool of sweat.
Cool nights are our saving grace. Especially here in Eastern Oregon.