I live in extreme Nor Cal basically the PNW and can verify that it has been hot AF since spring. Over 100° everyday getting as high as 115°. Supposed to get 110° this weekend. It is like this all up through Oregon and Washington. There is typically a 30-40° difference between high and low temps year round where i live so it has been dropping to the 60s at night.
There is no relief in sight. The forecast is in triple digits for days and they have been there for like a month now. I have actually been thinking about moving to the places you guys are talking about that aren't "the west" but are actually more like south, south east. Austin is not the west. Those places are generally worse because of the humidity/heat index, but at least those places get rained on in the summer. California has the driest summers of any state which is one of the reasons we have such bad wild fires. We had an exceptionally dry and hot spring too. No rain at all this spring and temps in the upper 90s starting in early spring accompanied by lots of wind. I will be surprised if the rest of this town doesn't burn down this year along with the surrounding forest. Last year wildfire burned half the homes along with well over 100,000 acres of coniferous forest.
About 40 miles due west of here is the pacific.ocean and the redwood coast. They are actually experiencing normal summer time weather which is upper 50s and lower 60s. It's literally twice as hot here as it is on the coast. The hotter it gets here causes it to become cooler and foggier over there but only until you get about 5 miles inland/away from the shoreline. About that distance it becomes hotter and hotter the more inland you go very rapidly.
Colorado is generally a higher elevstion sonos always going to be cooler. But if the day time temps are upper 80s in colorado that is about 10° hotter than the norm. When you are at 5000+ ft elevation the summers are very cool and mild. Lake Tahoe here in Cal for example usually has day time highs in the 70s and cool nights. Lake level is about 6000ft and the surrounding peaks range from 10,000 to 12,500 ft.bthe UV is much stronger up there and it is very easy to get a severe sun burn without even noticing it's happening until it's too late. If it is in the upper 80s up there that would absolutely be a heat wave and that sun would be very dangerous because of the thinner ozone at those elevations.
That's not the western US.
I live in extreme Nor Cal basically the PNW and can verify that it has been hot AF since spring. Over 100° everyday getting as high as 115°. Supposed to get 110° this weekend. It is like this all up through Oregon and Washington. There is typically a 30-40° difference between high and low temps year round where i live so it has been dropping to the 60s at night.
There is no relief in sight. The forecast is in triple digits for days and they have been there for like a month now. I have actually been thinking about moving to the places you guys are talking about that aren't "the west" but are actually more like south, south east. Austin is not the west. Those places are generally worse because of the humidity/heat index, but at least those places get rained on in the summer. California has the driest summers of any state which is one of the reasons we have such bad wild fires. We had an exceptionally dry and hot spring too. No rain at all this spring and temps in the upper 90s starting in early spring accompanied by lots of wind. I will be surprised if the rest of this town doesn't burn down this year along with the surrounding forest. Last year wildfire burned half the homes along with well over 100,000 acres of coniferous forest.
About 40 miles due west of here is the pacific.ocean and the redwood coast. They are actually experiencing normal summer time weather which is upper 50s and lower 60s. It's literally twice as hot here as it is on the coast. The hotter it gets here causes it to become cooler and foggier over there but only until you get about 5 miles inland/away from the shoreline. About that distance it becomes hotter and hotter the more inland you go very rapidly.
Colorado is generally a higher elevstion sonos always going to be cooler. But if the day time temps are upper 80s in colorado that is about 10° hotter than the norm. When you are at 5000+ ft elevation the summers are very cool and mild. Lake Tahoe here in Cal for example usually has day time highs in the 70s and cool nights. Lake level is about 6000ft and the surrounding peaks range from 10,000 to 12,500 ft.bthe UV is much stronger up there and it is very easy to get a severe sun burn without even noticing it's happening until it's too late. If it is in the upper 80s up there that would absolutely be a heat wave and that sun would be very dangerous because of the thinner ozone at those elevations.