Printer-friendly versionUPDATE - Jul 8 - One more 90+ day. Looks like this might be the break we need to end the heat wave since there is a pretty good change of t-storms later today.
Jul 7 - Another day of 90+ temps. Energy use for Air Condx is at record levels too. No problems locally yet though. Solid power here but there have been a few outages in other areas not too far away.
Jul 6 - temp is headed for 95 or more today with a feels like temp of over 100 degrees. Energy use is off the charts in parts of the northeast today so there might be problems with the site or my Internet connection.
Jul 5 - Weather forecasters here in upstate NY and across the northeast are predicting 90+ temps for at least three to four days. That, by definition in my area my least, constitutes a heat wave. Depending on how hot it actually gets there might be rolling brownouts or blackouts if the electricity use gets too high. We're fortunate that we have an abundance of hydro power available to us in central NY and that the rains have filed all of the lakes/dams/rivers/streams to nearly overflowing.
Since most homes here are very well insulated to ward off the cold temps in winter it also doesn't take as much to run the air conditioning in summertime. While I don't expect any power problems from the heat you never know for certain so if the site disappears for a while it will be back after the power problems are resolved.
Bob
heatwave
It's affecting us here in Southern Ontario (Canada) too. From the news reports, it appears a 1000 megawatt transformer (about the size of a 2000 sq ft 2 storey house) blew up in Toronto, and about 250 000 customers are without hydro there. The a/c units there were too much for it.