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Alaska just had their first excessive heat warning: 85ºF.
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As a neurologist and headache specialist practicing in Colorado, a place with frequent weather shifts, patients often tell me that weather is one of their biggest migraine triggers. The results can disrupt work, school and social plans, and create a sense of helplessness.
I’m not feeling helpless, I’m bloody annoyed.
Also, “headache”… Yeah, yeah, technically…
But when I’ve got a migraine I dream of having a headache.
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This happens to me. When it is hot, humid, and air pressure is high I get headaches and have to pop acetaminophen like tic tacs. I love when air pressure drops: sweet, sweet relief.
I also can smell when it is going to rain and snow. (From an earlier post I am too lazy to look up.)
Eta: I finally looked it up, and it was your post! Derp!
(I’m going to blame the weather related headache I am suffering right now. Feels like a railroad spike is being drive through the top of my skull through my eye socket. No relief on the horizon 
)
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Southern Quebec is embarking on a week of ~30C heat, add 5 to 10 degrees for humidity. The fan’s gonna get a workout.
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After years of enduring summer temperatures greater than 90°F (along with what feels like 80% humidity at times from July through late August)…
Due to climate change, the heatwaves here are getting worse, too:
https://vista.today/2025/06/philadelphia-heat-waves-summer-temperatures/
So our sauna is just…outside. 
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Same.
When I was a kid in the 70s, it only rarely reached 85F in Detroit. During the summer of 1985, we had two weeks straight of 90+ temps, with high humidity. We now get close to a month’s worth of 90F and above days.
A friend moved here from Lou-uh-vulle, Kentucky in the mid-ish 90s. He admitted he’d laughed at his first coupla Detroit summers, and since his roomies were also imports, from Ohio, he didn’t know they’d been particularly mild. I’d told him, but he didn’t believe me. His last few summers here, he told me, more than compared with Lou-uh-vulle’s heat and humidity, and he thought of what I’d said years before.
He moved back home, and says the summers have gotten even worse, and noted that ours have, too. He also says it’s snowing there far more early and more often, that it sticks around longer, and there’s more accumulation than he’d ever known.
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yarp!
while it has always been humid in south florida and the keys, it seems to have rapidly become more and more unbearable earlier and earlier in the season. i remember, not that long ago - 2017, 18, even 19, before pandemic times - i could work outside in may and june for longer periods of time than i can now. how much of that is me, having aged 5 or 6 years, and how much is a discernible acceleration in climate changing? i mean, 88F and 80+% is more than i can take any more! it seems - in my fading, foggy, old brain - that this hot season starts earlier and lasts longer than before.
if it weren’t for the constant easterly trade wind blowing over our island, i don’t know how we’d make it.
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Hope you have AC most places around don’t and are built for winter.
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Oh, yeah. We have cooling locations in many towns in case of power outages, too. Last month, I encountered many neighbors at the library when a storm caused some locations to lose power for almost a week*. It’s rare for the whole grid to go down, though. I got a battery backup / solar generator to keep myself (and perishable food) cool in case there’s a similar problem in the future.
^That was the fourth multi-day outage in my area this year.
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Generators are such a great idea in a lot of places. My friends in the Smokies got one b/c waaay up in the mountains.
Our local electricity/gas company is far more interested in profits and feeding their shareholders our money than in building new and maintaining existing infrastructure, and trimming the trees who grow near the lines. dte energy charges us the country’s highest rates, and offers almost the lowest reliability in the US. They’ve even had the gall to request another rate hike. It’s only been a couple years since the last one, and this follows a buncha recent blackouts! Detroit area generator sales keep increasing every year because they’re so hopeless…mayhap they are in cahoots. The increasing number and severity of storms sure ain’t helping.
We had a brownout a couple weeks ago. The a/c kept turning off and coming back on, waking me up. It finally stayed off long enough the heat kept me awake, so I got up. I noticed the a/c unit’s lights were still on, so I knew what was going on. At least it was only for a few hours, but our orange sherbet got pretty melty. 
Still, I put some in a couple bowls, and it was plenty cold enough to cool us off. 
Our contractor came over the next day, at D’s request, to make sure our circuit breaker box is OK, and it is. He figured dte had to do some redistribution among the various power stations, and our area got screwed.
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Wildfire smoke moved in again on Sunday, and there’s an air quality alert for all of today, too. Local news’ weatherman said he thinks it could/should be extended thru Wednesday.
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Wow, this sounds very similar to events in the Greater Philadelphia Region (and Delmarva Peninsula, according to my cousins’ complaints). The rate hikes and tree trimming/fallen tree cleanup in particular are causing the most negative feedback. The latter could be due to labor shortages caused by the regime’s actions, based on news that shed some light on who was doing that work. If so, we can expect the problem to get worse (as well as the costs and time needed for repairs / service restoration to go up).
My neighbors and I have been noticing that pattern, too - partial outages. Since I’m in an apartment (and not a fan of explody fuel), I went with a unit from Jackery that has a LiFePO4 battery (review here). We’ll see if balcony solar and bifacial panels are enough for recharging in 12 hours or less, but initially it should get me through a week with the basics for staying connected and keeping cool. 
The food waste from the last two-day outage ticked me off, so I also got an electric cooler (fridge/freezer) from Anker with two batteries. They should last for up to 4 days on their own, allowing me to extend the 4/48-hour food safety limits of my main fridge/freezer. The plus side for the Anker is it has wheels, so I can use it on road trips (or grocery shopping on hot days). The Jackery is less portable than I’d like, but with a hand cart and portable ramp I could get it into my car (or dream RV / van life model 
).
The forecast here shows we’re in for a stormy week, too. 
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Hope everything’ll be OK! We’ve had quite unsettled (and unsettling) weather, too.
Sounds like you’ve made very ahem sound purchases! Well done !!!
I asked my BF, while watching a massive storm on a big map during a local weather report - I think it stretched alla way from texass to Minnesota - “Do you remember storms ever being this big when you were a kid? I sure don’t.” He said no.
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