[HN Gopher] If Portland can hit 116 degrees, so can San Francisc...
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If Portland can hit 116 degrees, so can San Francisco. We're not
ready
Author : mmettler
Score : 30 points
Date : 2021-08-20 17:57 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sfchronicle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sfchronicle.com)
| LatteLazy wrote:
| 46C
| [deleted]
| dr_faustus wrote:
| Right, MORE air conditioning will solve our problems with global
| warming...
| occz wrote:
| > Right, MORE air conditioning will solve our problems with
| global warming...
|
| I'm not sure that it will be optional, given where we're going
| with the climate crisis. We can probably mitigate most of their
| impact by reducing the impact of electricity production to
| zero, at which point we can hopefully address the refrigerant-
| issue.
| chaostheory wrote:
| A big issue is whether or not our power grid can handle all these
| new air conditioners coming online. Historically, it hasn't been
| able to handle it well in the past two years.
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| I guess in the near future we'll be having partial blackouts to
| power the emergency "cool shelters", where everyone will have
| to go to, to keep cool...
| pope_meat wrote:
| Let's just go full on mole people, tunnels underground, all
| we need is a surface antenna for the 5G. It's not like most
| of us see much sunlight as it is.
| Arrath wrote:
| I would totally rock a hobbit hole, however I don't think
| that is a scalable solution for massive population bases.
| pengaru wrote:
| Isn't the pivot to EVs more of a grid stressor than 120VAC
| window rattlers
| asdff wrote:
| Actually I don't think San Francisco can ever be that hot given
| its on the ocean. The prevailing ocean breeze does a lot to keep
| temps down. In LA, 15 miles from the ocean can easily mean 15
| degrees increased in temperature throughout the year. When it was
| 110 inland in Oregon, it was still in the 70s on the coast due to
| the prevailing ocean breeze:
| https://www.beachconnection.net/news/excessheat062321.php
| tsomctl wrote:
| I live a couple hours north of San Francisco, about a mile from
| the ocean. There is pretty much always a prevailing ocean
| breeze. Last summer, about 10 in the morning, I walked out on
| my lawn, and couldn't believe how hot it was. There was no
| breeze, pretty high humidity, and I could just feel the sun
| beating down. It was so bad that I couldn't stand there.
| wil421 wrote:
| Sounds like where I live in the Deep South except it's 8am.
| The other day I woke up and it was 97% humidity and I could
| literally see the moisture in the air (not quite fog).
| gtvwill wrote:
| May I introduce you to Perth. City on the ocean, regularly gets
| temps >45 in summer or 116 as you'd say. We had a week where it
| didn't drop below 40 at night when I lived there :)
|
| San Fran could easy hit it.
| echlebek wrote:
| Vancouver BC hit over 42C this year, and hundreds of people
| died because the region is not prepared for heat. Victoria,
| which is facing directly out to the ocean, hit 39C. Houses and
| apartments don't have A/C, and businesses' A/C is not robust
| enough to deal with that much load. I would bet on it happening
| in SF too.
|
| https://bc.ctvnews.ca/temperature-record-from-1895-among-59-...
| russellbeattie wrote:
| Apparently SF has hit 106degF before, which, given that the
| city is surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean
| averaging around 56degF, is pretty amazing.
| oehtXRwMkIs wrote:
| The heatwave last year was pretty bad, and with climate
| change the heat waves are supposed to get worse so the
| article seems intuitive to me.
| mmettler wrote:
| Who's working on new heat pump tech other than Gradient?
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