#Portland's first test of its new administration style will put it under #heatstress, but not, we hope, a trial by fire.
I haven't heard any news about #coolingshelters, in spite of the obvious fact that over 72 hours of excessive heat will cause deaths to the unhoused.
What stresses me is local governments' apparent inability to read a fucking forecast, and plan accordingly. Again.
This pink rhody will be gorgeous for less than a week due to the #PNWHeatWave. The deadheading will hit all at once this year.
Hopefully the terrifying combination of
1) drought
2) midsummer
4) hot wind out of the East
3) heat dome centered right over #Oregon
won’t come to pass. If it does, guess we’ll need to switch to olives and figs.
#PNW #Flowers
Pretty rhododendron soldiering through the #PNWHeatWave in the shade and getting a morning sprinkle each day.
At least yesterday it remained below 90F and those horrible hot winds stayed away.
#PNW #Flowers
Here are some blog posts about eating in a heat wave. Please share if you find them useful.
https://drornaizakson.com/eating-in-a-heatwave-part-1/
https://drornaizakson.com/healthy-diy-popsicles/
https://drornaizakson.com/freezer-tricks-to-beat-the-heat/
3/3
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #OregonHeatWave #Pyrocene #PNWHeatWave #DrBuzzkill
For the past couple of weeks I’ve had a song from the musical, Oklahoma!, stuck in my mind. It’s a song I think I’ve only heard once, maybe twice. But it’s absolutely been on repeat on my internal playlist. In the show, it’s about finding commonalities between the farmers and the cowboys. In my mind, […]
Note, too, that we’re coming out of a La Niña cycle — which, in the PNW, usually means cooler and wetter. We’re heading into an El Nño, which means hotter and dryer.
Plus, global warming/climate chaos. Plus wildfires.
This is why I get so aggro about people saying this is “nice” weather. It’s dangerous and deadly and going to get much, much worse.
2/3
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #OregonHeatWave #Pyrocene #PNWHeatWave #DrBuzzkill
NYT story from yesterday says 1) Portland’s heat yesterday broke a record set in 1973 and 2) this heat wave May see temps 30° above normal. I’d only seen that we’d be 20° above.
The Oregon coast, usually dozens of degrees cooler, is seeing temps above 90°. One friend reports 93° in Yachats. That is not normal.
1/3
rexi
@CharleneTeglia
Christof Maupin, Glass Artist
Layla Low
Dr. Orna Izakson ND, RH(AHG)