Yeah, ain’t that the icing on the cake?
Greater Sac suburbs here. Cowering inside wearing my “personal swamp cooler,” a wet towel slung over my shoulders. I tried to do my part by setting the thermostat to 82, but the AC has been running nonstop anyway. I put a pan of water in the back yard for any critters that have the energy to find it.
I can’t tolerate putting the thermostat up to 82. I start feeling a bit ill with indoor temps that high. I’ve got mine about where I can stand it with use of cooling bandana.
North San Jose. Something like 109 out now.
My A/C is really on its last legs, and is just barely keeping it at 80 running constantly. I bumped it to 82 now that we’re in late afternoon. I can handle that.
I really need to convince my HOA to allow a modernized HVAC system with an outdoor condenser. The current ones are probably half as efficient as they should be. But we have enclosed condensers for aesthetic reasons and they’re all ancient and have terrible SEER values.
I’m also in the Sacramento suburbs (I know I just said “NorCal” earlier, which is a little vague). I have the thermostat set at 80, and yeah, that still has the AC running more or less constantly. Where I sit while working from home one of the vents is aimed directly at me, so it probably feels a bit cooler in this spot with cool air blowing directly on me.
Santa Clara: 107 deg. I’m in my office which they keep at a frosty 70 degrees year-round.
That had to be one of the most miserable places to be last week. I mean, it’s HOT. Even by normal standards. Only worse is when it rains. The flat turns to a glue-like substance that sticks to your shoes (or, for Burners, feet or maybe knees) and you end up about a foot in the air after a few steps. 30 pounds of shit stuck the bottom of your feet! Also, the rain falling makes a large dust cloud. Craziest fucking thing…
The thermometer on my car’s dash read 115 in Campbell about an hour ago. I don’t know how accurate it is, but earlier in the afternoon when I was on the coast by Pescadero State Beach it read 73. That has to be one of the biggest temperature swings I’ve experienced in such a short timespan.
DH posted a picture to Facebook with our car’s thermometer display showing 127. I don’t know where the 2016 Dodge Dart puts the sensor, but the car is black and it was parked in sunlight (he reports zero shade available to park in at the construction site he’s currently on), so I consider that thermometer unreliable (routinely differs drastically from phone weather apps).
I had planned to make a simple stir-fry for dinner tonight, but Mr. brown texted that that sounded too hot and that he’s going to go pick up some sushi to go. I said that sounded fine - cold fish and rice. Accompanied by tall glasses of ice water.
My non-AC sun-facing bedroom, even with the shades drawn is currently sitting at 88 per my probably not very accurate clock. I’m sure the actual sun room is a few degrees more 
. I am of course huddling at the other end of the my place 
- probably at least a 10 degree gradient.
Man, there are typically only one or two weeks/year I miss having AC here by the bay, but today is ridiculous.
Nobody should set their thermostat to the point where they are feeling ill, but remember a properly running AC system should be cycling. If it is running continuously the power draw becomes pretty hefty. Ideally you want to raise the set point until it shuts off and starts cycling normally.
However obviously that depends on your level of home insulation, how beefy your AC unit is and how much stress the environment is putting it under. On day like today there is probably not much you can do.
And the rolling blackout just hit us. Power should be back by 8:30 tonight. I hope.
I’m using our new battery operated floor fan, purchased for this very situation. It works well. I also bought an old school transistor radio and am using that.
Anyone else lose power?
Not yet. SMUD (my power provider) isn’t on the ISO network, apparently, but they’re making noises about the potential for blackout. They claim they’ll give an hour warning to customers in afflicted sections.
Sunnyvale here. We have not lost power today. So far. Yeah it’s hot. I sit in front of a fan. We don’t have AC and we almost never need it. Lately though, AC would be nice.
We drove to LA for the long weekend. Thankfully the Jeep has a strong AC. It got to 107 down there last weekend.
A wildfire over the grapevine had two lanes of I-5 northbound closed (out of 4 lanes) just north of Castaic. I’m glad we left super early Monday morning. We got home in under 5 hours.
I-5 southbound was not affected by that fire — the Route Fire. CalFire reports that it’s 98% contained.
I’m really hoping that no new fires get started!
The thread title immediately brought to mind Ethel Merman. And that was only 93°.
Ethel Merman, who died of brain cancer? Why Ethel Merman?
Gee, her anatomy
Makes the mercury
Jump to ninety-three.
Heatwave 
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ETA: Six official Bay Area records yesterday, ranging from a balmy 109 in San Jose to a warmish 116 in Livermore and King City. Spot readings were certainly higher in places like SJ, but I guess official numbers come from a particular location.
F—. My air conditioner crapped out last night. I think I found a guy who can come look at it today. fingers crossed…
When today’s weather report says both “Predicted high 101” AND “Today is predicted to be much cooler than yesterday” you know things got hot. We avoided rolling blackouts, but just barely. I’m at 2700’ and don’t even want to know how hot it was down in the valley.
Yeah she was pretty hot.
I opened all the windows last night. Sleep was comfortable, especially with the fan on. Note I’ve gotta shut them all.
I’m heading into the office. It’s in Sunnyvale and is kept cool with AC. So far no power outages here in Sunnyvale, thankfully.