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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108925]
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I'm not buying what they're selling. I mean, as a
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Aug 19, 2023, 7:53 PM
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southerner who has lived in SC for 47 years now, this summer isn't that bad. I'd call it average really. We haven't hit 100 degrees yet. Humidity is the same as always, sticky. Not sure, maybe they can find places that had it hotter. Texas has been hotter than normal I hear. But me, nope.
I remember in 5th grade the average July temp in Columbia, SC was 99.5 degrees. The AVERAGE high. We had entire weeks over 100. And then in what, 2012 or 2013 we hit 111 degrees. That was hot.
Nope, this has been a relatively average summer. Maybe they can find some people elsewhere to complain.
https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/19/the-south-knows-a-hot-sticky-summer-but-this-its-hell/
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Re: I'm not buying what they're selling. I mean, as a
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Aug 19, 2023, 8:01 PM
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My entire work career has been outside and totally weather dependent. This summer in SC has been very tolerable compared to some.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108925]
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Yeah, seen cooler summers, and hotter ones. Really
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Aug 19, 2023, 8:17 PM
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it started off cool, which was misleading. It warmed up a little late, but overall I'd call it average.
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TigerNet Elite [73592]
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Anyone who still falls for the alarmist bs is
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Aug 19, 2023, 8:30 PM
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Are total loons.
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National Champion [7790]
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Re: I'm not buying what they're selling. I mean, as a
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Aug 19, 2023, 9:57 PM
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Telling leftists what they want to hear has nothing to do with reality. The last few years should have taught us all that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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Orange Blooded [2420]
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Re: I'm not buying what they're selling. I mean, as a
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Aug 19, 2023, 10:26 PM
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Well, get ready for climate lockdowns and a new variant for mail in ballots
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Re: I'm not buying what they're selling. I mean, as a
Aug 19, 2023, 10:39 PM
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I spent most of my boyhood in rural mid-state SC before moving to the N.East USA shortly before my FR year at Clemson a few decades ago.
Ditto to your experiences, at least as far as from back then.
From what I’ve been able to gather from friends and customers in the upstate and coast of SC (along with my personal experiences this spring & summer), this has been very much like how summers were back when I was a kid.
The Atlantic Coast going way north has also had an unremarkable summer, more like ~ 20 years ago than like those within the previous ~ 5 or 6 years.
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They don’t care about science, they just want you dead.***
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Aug 19, 2023, 10:43 PM
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Campus Hero [13611]
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35 days straight above 95, hit 100 a handful
Aug 20, 2023, 1:57 AM
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last months power bill was $900 Fing dollars with two 3 ton units not even being able to keep up. And that with them set at 75. F this summer.
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Paw Warrior [5022]
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Re: 35 days straight above 95, hit 100 a handful
Aug 20, 2023, 6:27 AM
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Where?
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Orange Blooded [2420]
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Re: 35 days straight above 95, hit 100 a handful
Aug 20, 2023, 7:32 AM
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He's in hell already
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Paw Warrior [5022]
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Re: 35 days straight above 95, hit 100 a handful
Aug 20, 2023, 7:49 AM
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LOL!!!
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108925]
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Our highest electric bill was around $320.
Aug 20, 2023, 9:49 AM
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What's odd is my parents, growing up in the 80's, had $400 and $500 electric bills in their house built in the early 70's, and had 1400 less square feet of house.
And between electricity and gas (heat), we have never had a combined energy bill over $400 since moving to this house in 2012.
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Paw Warrior [5022]
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Re: Our highest electric bill was around $320.
Aug 20, 2023, 11:59 AM
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Dang, $500 in the 80s would be a gut punch.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108925]
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Yep. They had massive electric bills.
Aug 20, 2023, 4:53 PM
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And adjusted for inflation that's insane, back then. Think the house was like 2800 square feet, give or take. They had crap insulation and none in the walls as I recall. And none under the floors. They got a new unit (eventually) and added attic and crawlspace insulation and they went down some. New windows would also have helped greatly.
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Paw Warrior [5022]
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Re: Yep. They had massive electric bills.
Aug 20, 2023, 5:45 PM
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Might as well have been tent camping. Wow.
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You might want to check your ducting to make sure it's not
Aug 20, 2023, 10:16 AM
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leaking. I had the same issue (extraordinarily high power bills) and found that my air ducts had so many holes I was essentially cooling the attic and crawl space as much as I was the house. I fixed the ducting and my power bills returned to normal...
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Libbies ain't gonna like it, but it's been average at best***
Aug 20, 2023, 5:25 AM
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108925]
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Looks like next week will be hotter, in the hotter places
Aug 20, 2023, 9:51 AM
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East Tejas and Louisiana will swelter. Still, in SC we will just have a regularly hot week, upper 90's a few days, maybe hitting 100.
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Re: I'm not buying what they're selling. I mean, as a
Aug 20, 2023, 10:38 AM
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July was a little lower on average than the last few summers, August has been higher on average compared to the last few summers.
(And I'm only comparing averages to one spot in SC)
Where were often seeing higher averages is night time lows, it isn't always day time highs.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108925]
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I'm sure it's worse in places, but SC has been spared
Aug 20, 2023, 10:43 AM
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the worst (so far). If this ridge moves just 500 miles east, it can make a huge impact.
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Gridiron Giant [15546]
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Re: I'm sure it's worse in places, but SC has been spared
Aug 20, 2023, 10:50 AM
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Yes, SC has been spared from the worst this year.
And seeing signs of a "false fall" for most of SC on long range.
Thankfully I'm in the mtns now and no longer on the coast, i often enjoy no or low humidity. 😉
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [108925]
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This coming week will be bad, per the weather nerds.
Aug 20, 2023, 10:58 AM
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Again, SC spared (barely).
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Gridiron Giant [15546]
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Re: This coming week will be bad, per the weather nerds.
Aug 20, 2023, 11:04 AM
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I'm one of those weather nerds. 😄
It will be bad but spared the worst.
I noticed the article you shared spoke about the Bermuda High, the heat and the potential increase in hurricanes.
But, failed to mention (unless I missed) that until the Bermuda High breaks down, the chances of a hurricane hitting is almost slim to none.
The tropics are heating up but the storms will be forced out to sea or around the Bermuda High.
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Well the CA hurricane is 100%
Aug 20, 2023, 7:39 PM
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proof of the climate crisis.
Seems to be there are at least two pieces of good news. 1) lakes that are super low will get filled up some and 2) doesn't the rain help the wildfire situation? Seems like it should.
But, I've heard no mention of either of these on any of the Climate Crisis TV channels.
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Legend [6737]
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Disregard the fact that 90% of Canadians
Aug 20, 2023, 10:24 PM
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live within a hundred miles of the U.S. border. Disregard the likelihood that without the warming period preceding Michaels Mann's farcical 'Hockey Stick', 99% of Canadians would be living within a hundred YARDS of the U.S. border in one condominium complex strung out along the 49th parallel. The idea of natural climate variability is a hoax; a fallacy designed to lure people into a false sense of guiltlessness.
Don't give in to it.
Own your sin against Devine Mother Earth.
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Orange Blooded [2058]
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Do you seriously still not understand the difference between
Aug 20, 2023, 10:31 PM
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local weather and climate?
No wonder you're so confused.
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Re: Do you seriously still not understand the difference between
Aug 20, 2023, 10:58 PM
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Canada ain't exactly local there, sinner, but seeing as how you're so obviously enlightened eco-wise, please tell us, is 'natural climate variability' real, or just some right-wing jargon meant to excuse humanity's loathsome existence?
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Orange Blooded [2058]
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Re: Do you seriously still not understand the difference between
Aug 21, 2023, 8:32 AM
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Sinner? lol ###? That's some culty behavior but ok.
> please tell us, is 'natural climate variability' real, or just some right-wing jargon meant to excuse humanity's loathsome existence?
Of course not, it's when you say things like "it's always been hot here" or "it snowed here, climate change lol" that you look silly.
Are you even aware that the global average temperature is steadily rising and is highly correlated with C02 in the atmosphere? This isn't hard, it really isn't
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