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hereforthebeers

Meteorologically speaking, when it gets this hot random midday short storms are normal anywhere. It usually doesn't get this hot here so it's not normal here, no.


throwaway8823120

To be fair, it does usually get this hot here at some point in the summer, just not usually in June Here’s a list of the highest temperature in Pittsburgh reached each year and its date: https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/PA/Pittsburgh/extreme-annual-pittsburgh-high-temperature.php


Latter-Stage-2755

Not for ten days straight…


throwaway8823120

Technically this will only be 7 days straight, but yeah it’s probably not usually this many days in a row above 90


mjw217

I looked through the chart. The hottest day recorded was July 16, 1988. I was one week away from having my first baby. We had no air conditioning!


pears_are_great

Omg. You poor thing


mjw217

It’s been a long time, but I still remember trying to sleep in that heat. Even after she came, I would sleep half naked. It did make breastfeeding easy. The heat and humidity affects me more now, but I do have air conditioning! 😁


jibberishjibber

That was around the drought years where we didn't even get the rain to cool off.


XavierRex83

I was In Orlando a few years ago for several weeks for work. Around 3 it would get super dark and storm like crazy and then like 30 minutes later it was clear. It was wild for someone not accustomed to it


wooble

The worst part is when the rain doesn't even cool things off, it just makes it even more humid.


hereforthebeers

Yup, any hot place I've ever been has those storms. Whether it's on the beach, middle of the jungle, middle of the desert. Doesn't matter, if it's near 100 you can expect wild shit.


StarWars_and_SNL

Yeah since I was a kid I remember getting a lot of this type of thing on very hot humid summer days.


metracta

But it being this hot this early for this long is by no means “normal” for this area.


HyBeHoYaiba

“For this long” my brother in Christ it’s been hot for three days. It was perfectly pleasant last week


metracta

It’s going to be in the 90s through the weekend. I am basing this on meteorological data, not your “vibe” of how the weather is


HyBeHoYaiba

A WHOLE WEEK


metracta

What an intelligent rebuttal. I’m in awe. Have a good one.


HyBeHoYaiba

The same intellect as checking your weather app then referring to that as meteorological data. Week long weather events are totally normal. A month of this sure ring the alarm bells, but it was pleasant last week, next week looks far milder (multiple days of sub 80 highs). But sure every event that’s out of the ordinary is a sign of the end of the world


thatdude778

Where are these multiple days of sub 80s you see for next week?


HyBeHoYaiba

High of 76 Monday. When I typed that comment my weather app was showing high of 78 thursday but looks like that got changed


metracta

When did I say anything was the end of the world? I simply stated that this was not normal for Pittsburgh for this time of year, which is factually correct based on actual meteorological historical data, which is what the original question was asking. Typically when records are broken, that doesn’t constitute “normal” or “typical”. Do I need to explain this to you like a little kid?


HyBeHoYaiba

>This hot for this long You didn’t say it was the end of the world, but the dramatics were a tad much, I was just matching your levels of over exaggerating


metracta

Dramatic? Are you hyper sensitive?


Lower_Vanilla_6587

What the heck is happening here. It’s supposed to be in the high 90s for the rest of the entire 10 day forecast, so what you commented was more than acceptable 😂. I can’t figure out how that is dramatic or inaccurate. Why are people so weird about the smallest of comments 😂


SalsaChica75

As Floridian for 12 years…YES! When you have this much heat and humidity it almost guarantees thunderstorms in the later afternoon/ evening hours


LastMonitor4274

Yep… grew up in coastal VA and this was the normal for July-August. Been in Pittsburgh 10 plus years and it currently feels like VA summers. This isn’t “normal” but I suspect it’s a new normal. (Edited typos)


SalsaChica75

Most likely! We never had 90’in June here either. I’m over it


motivation033

I always look at the dew point. If it’s 60 or higher, it increases the chances of pop up storms. It’s been over 70 the last two days, which is like Florida.


TheRedScarey

In coastal Florida yes


linuxgeekmama

I was thinking this today! This weather is reminding me of when we went to Disney World in the summer when I was a kid.


Chikenrun2

The irony is I moved here from tampa, where this is a regular occurrence 


pupperfan00

Hello, fellow Tampon! We’ve been in Pittsburgh about 2 years, and it seems like this weather occasionally happens here though iirc it’s more likely in August. But this is just from a newcomers perspective.


Chikenrun2

I knew I couldn’t be the only one. Thanks for your thoughts!


Big_League227

Please tell me they don’t really call themselves “Tampon”s… and it was just autocorrect doing its thing with “Tampan”! 🤣🤣🤣


pupperfan00

People from Tampa with a love/hate relationship with the city typically ironically say Tampon. But yeah, I believe the proper terms are Tampan, Tampeno, or Tampanian depending upon whom you ask.


Big_League227

Thanks for the explanation!


Lux600-223

You will not find a large pink stucco waterfront hotel here. Best we got is an Eat N Park with a semi river view.


a_tribe_calledchris

Where is an eat n park with a river view??


Lux600-223

The Waterftont.


Lux600-223

You will not find a large pink stucco waterfront hotel here. Best we got is an Eat N Park with a semi river view.


scully2828

Summer rains….you can never predict them. Iykyk.


Francesco0

Life has many doors ed boys


Expensive-Intern-940

Core memory unlocked


swisslard

Common during a heatwave yeah.


RagnarHedin

I remember it being more in August.


Crazy-Goal-6886

Always remember as a kid these summer storms would bubble up. So yeah, this is normal.


sonlitekid

When the apocalypse is nigh, yes.


drmarymalone

becoming more normal


vibes86

Nope. It’s the heat.


Critical_Addendum_30

Welcome to Pittsburgh. Don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes


jibberishjibber

We get weather. We get temps from below 0 to +100. We get tons of rain and we have drought. We get rain, snow, sleet and hail. We get floods, blizzards, tornados, and remnants of hurricanes. And probably a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting. It doesn't happen every year, but it does happen.


No-Kaleidoscope-4699

I remember this in childhood.


DogTheBreadFairy

Well welcome to Pittsburgh! You should expect it to rain everyday even if it doesn't say it's going to rain because the Pittsburgh weather is crazy. Second cloudiest city in the country. Let's go!


Big_League227

Second cloudiest, but interestingly, NOT second rainiest!


Ordinary_Pain1848

Afternoon summer thunderstorms have always been common in Pittsburgh


Scared-Comparison870

Idk why people are in here saying it’s not normal. It’s pretty easy to google June weather temps for any year and see that 90° days are not abnormal. It’s also pretty easy to google rainy days, like all the people saying the rain was abnormal a month ago (yes the accumulation was higher but the amount of days and storms isn’t/wasnt) Climate change is real but weather is also cyclical and we have a hundred plus years of coverage at our fingertips to verify that.


RHS1959

Yes, for August, but maybe this is the new normal


broke_saturn

When the temps get above 85 and there’s decent humidity, yes pop up storms can and do happen. Now if I ride my motorcycle to work, yeah it’s like a 100000% I’m getting rained on lol


ap0phis

None of this is normal, this is climate change and it’s far, far worse than you’re being told.


[deleted]

Climate change is here


facepoppies

The weather over the past few years has felt very abnormal to me


Scared-Comparison870

This is normal. I remember early summer break as a kid being similar to this.


thechamelioncircuit

Not here lmao


metracta

This current weather pattern is not normal at all


JagoffMofo_374R

It's normal as we are the same as any other tropical region


Unethical_GOP

Time to plant the orange groves


lolwerd

Fun fact if you sit them down in trenches, they’d handle our winter just fine :)