Hot Outside

[RakuraiTenjin]

It's 115 degrees here right now. Have very good AC so I didn't know when I opened the door my computer/reading glasses got fogged from a blast of hot air.

I want to go outside but it's too hot :[. We methods cool off
A: A porch pretty fast, I sprayed it with the hose but meh
B: Car
C: anything else worth cooling off outside.

 

[Raziaar]

A friend of mine I know online who lives in Nevada, has told me they are expecting record high temperatures within the next couple days.

Apparently it also got to 126 degrees in death valley too.

Can somebody explain to me how nevada gets so much hotter than texas, even though texas is closer to the equator? I suck at science. LOL

 

[gh0st]

Ahhh its a cool and comfortable 70 degrees with 64% humidity. <3 the northwest.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

A friend of mine I know online who lives in Nevada, has told me they are expecting record high temperatures within the next couple days.

Apparently it also got to 126 degrees in death valley too.

Can somebody explain to me how nevada gets so much hotter than texas, even though texas is closer to the equator? I suck at science. LOL

Because Death Valley is below sea level

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Can somebody explain to me how nevada gets so much hotter than texas, even though texas is closer to the equator? I suck at science. LOL

Tisk tisk, my favourite subject...lemme see...

I believe its because texas gets cooler marine air off the gulf of mexico, whereas Nevada gets the dry, scorching air off of the rockies and the midwest plains. Only reason i can think of, and it makes sense from my work.

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Because Death Valley is below sea level

On the one hand...with that because the pressure is likely to be higher in death valley, which would increase the dew point temperature and also the saturation point of the air. So you'd be incorrect, but that would lead to an increase the latent heat that could be stored by the air.

But the mid-level air in texas would definitely lose heat faster due to an increased level of humidity - which would release energy faster in the form of rain and keep air temperatures lower even though the amount of energy in the air would actually be greater. (which also explains why you get large, high altitude convective storms and tornadoes along the eastern edge of the midwest and not in the west)

 

[Raziaar]

Tisk tisk, my favourite subject...lemme see...

I believe its because texas gets cooler marine air off the gulf of mexico, whereas Nevada gets the dry, scorching air off of the rockies and the midwest plains. Only reason i can think of, and it makes sense from my work.

Scorching air off the rockies? It gets colder the higher in altitude you go <chuckles> Wouldn't it be cooler air coming from the rockies, especially snow-capped?

 

[gh0st]

Scorching air off the rockies? It gets colder the higher in altitude you go <chuckles> Wouldn't it be cooler air coming from the rockies, especially snow-capped?

no. its scorching hot, like me.

 

[Foxtrot]

Hectic, I thought the wind came in from the west, westerlies or somthing stupid like that.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Scorching air off the rockies? It gets colder the higher in altitude you go <chuckles> Wouldn't it be cooler air coming from the rockies, especially snow-capped?

No because you have no clouds + lots of bare rock + little crosswind = a lot of convection up the mountain sides

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Hectic, I thought the wind came in from the west, westerlies or somthing stupid like that.

Where? For nevada its northeasterlies i believe, and for texas its southeasterlies. So im not sure what your referring to but its neither. Can't answer anymore questions sorry going to bed, lotsa work tomorrow. Toodle pip.

 

[Foxtrot]

No because you have no clouds + lots of bare rock + little crosswind = a lot of convection up the mountain sides

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Where? For nevada its northeasterlies i believe, and for texas its southeasterlies. So im not sure what your referring to but its neither. Can't answer anymore questions sorry going to bed, lotsa work tomorrow. Toodle pip.

Came from the west off the ocean...IDK, I am just use to weather from the west because I live in Minnesota.