What Has This Summer's Weather Been Like Near You. Any Blackouts Yet?

[KittyWampus]

I live on eastern Long Island. South shore... otherwise known as the Hamptons.

We've had a fairly cool summer... with moderate amounts of humid days and almost no rain.

Just wondering how the rest of the US has faired over this summer.

Usually there are a few blackouts due to overload on Electricity grid here on Long Island.

Are there any Europeans on DU posting? What's weather been like across the Big Pond?

[Snoggera]

1. Southwest has been fine as far as I know

You caused a thought to form in my head. What if there are "unexpected" blackouts on election night? Electronic machines need juice to operate, right? Damn, now another thing for me to worry about.

[robcon]

10. Although I'm only a hundred miles west of the Hamptons....

the weather has been very different from the weather out on the island.

A beautiful spring, nice early July, then lots a rain the last two weeks. A nice spring and summer overall, and my lawn isn't burned out (yet) by the July/August scorchers.

[RoyGBiv]

2. Oklahoma...

It seems to have been cooler here than in recent years. I don't recall any +100 days, which we're usually having about now, and there were a number of days in July that remained in the low 80's. Mid-90's today, which is about normal.

Weather is pretty weird here, though, so I don't know if this means anything. We've had a lot of extra-hot summers recently. This year seems to be more like I remember from the late 80's/early 90's.

Electricity has gone out a few times in my apartment complex, but that's not unusual. The wiring around here seems to be screwed up ... hasn't been quit right since an ice storm we had a couple years back.

[NYC]

3. France is on Heat Wave Code Blue.

I have no idea what that means. It was on the French television news yesterday.

Nursing homes have been alerted to pay more attention to their residents. It seems many of them are serving fruit juice once an hour (and making sure it is consumed) to avoid dehydration of the elderly.

It was mentioned that only one nursing home in Marseilles does not have air conditioning.

[Mz Pip]

4. Cold and foggy

all f*cking summer. Down parka weather. It's nearly 3 PM and the sun hasn't come out all day.

I do believe the SF Bay Area is the last place on earth not affected by global warming.

MzPip
:dem:

[Ann Arbor Dem]

5. We've had a fairly cool summer in SE Michigan...

Only a few days over 90. No reason for electricity grid overload here.

[Philosophy]

6. SE Alabama

I've only been here a year so I'm not sure but I think this is normal - basically we have the stereotypical "Florida vacation" weather here - daily high in the low 90s, very humid, very short but sometimes very heavy rainstorms at least every other day. In fact a rain shower that lasted all of two minutes just concluded outside my window.

[fedsron2us]

7. I was in Paris recently and the weather was quite warm

but nowhere near the record breaking temperatures of last year. In southern Europe it is hot, but that is normal at this time of year. The only place suffering any real extremes is the Iberian peninsula where there have been some major wild fires in Spain and Portugal.

[Habibi]

8. Cool and wet in upstate Noo Yawk

Fair number of thunderstorms here this year, which I gather is unsusual for this area.

The lack of sun is driving me mad!

[KittyWampus]

9. Curious Kick

:)

[LWolf]

11. No blackouts.

It's been unusually cool, relatively speaking, here in the sw corner of the Mojave. Many days in the high 90s, very few days above 106 or 107.

:D