She just looks that way. It’s around 30°C here, and every morning the evil cat complains at me — she won’t shut up — until she collapses on an old carpet remnant near a fan I’ve set up in my office. Then she’s immobile most of the day. I’d feel sympathy, except I’m stuck in the same oven with her.
Could be worse. Look at these views of the Park Fire, currently raging in Northern California. The video is especially notable for showing all the different views technology gives us on the fire — satellite, radar, airplane flight maps, etc. — so you can get a multidimensional appreciation of the awfulness.
All I can do is show you a photo of a heat-stressed cat in western Minnesota.
the molecules of burning organic matter are so wild. i was living in an apartment building and smelled burning, went out into the hall, tracked it to a neighbor’s apartment. her kitchen was well recessed in there, but some trace of burned popcorn got all the way out and around the bend, through two closed doors.
What its like inside an Australian fire. At one point the firefighters put up a fire blanket to protect themsleves from radiant heat. https://youtu.be/SWZt2_WjAUg
(Compulsory reference to “This is fine” cartoon)
Curiously, reducing the oxygen content of air by just a few per cent would stop wildfires from appearing. But I do not recommend it, even if it was possible.
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My adopted semi-feral cats do not like heat. This weekend I finally worked out how to open my new windows so the bedroom gets tolerable temperatures.
Regarding heat -this adds the question of how to install air conditioning in an old house, a sometimes non-trivial engineering problem.
– The yearly average temperature of Minnesota should be quite low – if it was possible to drill holes into bedrock and circulate a fluid (just like you do for heat pumps ) you get a way to cool air without the electricity cost of A/C.
But maybe solar panels will become cheap enough to power air conditioning.
I don’t think any previous pic of The Evil Cat published here has shown those little white spots. (Nor that audio jack.)
At least humans have the option of spraying or splashing cool water on themselves.
The Park Fire is at 353,194 acres as of today per FireMappers with only 12% containment. It’s going to burn a lot more. That area had a very large fire a few years ago that burned thousands of acres including a little town near Chico named Paradise.
Fortunately for us in the Bay Area the smoke has not made here.
Although no smoke, we’ve had weeks of heat wave here. Yesterday we woke up to a lovely gray marine layer, so it was cool most of the day. We had a similar morning today but it burned off by Noon so it’s in the 70’s now. I’ll take mid-70s over mid-80s or 90s. They’re promising warmed weather later in the week.
robro @ # 6: I’ll take mid-70s over mid-80s or 90s.
Geez, at mid-70s half of us in Florida would start pulling out sweaters.
I have a long haired Norwegian Forest cat. He went through another heat wave of 100 degree weather. I went and got him a haircut and he is loving it. Had another week long of 95+ temps and he did really well. Cost a bit but I couldnt stand to see him go through another summer like that.
One way to help cool down a cat in summer heat is to take an ice pack or a frozen water bottle and wrap it in a thin dish towel, then place it down next to the cat.
My bicolor housemate does spend lots of time fan-lounging, but be still likes to spend rather long stretches napping atop me. Surprises me he’s so happy for the contact.
I see your cat is unplugged. Maybe it needs to be plugged in to recharge its energy?
My sisters and I were headed northward up the 505 in California and could easily see the towering pyrocumulus from 120 miles away.
Apparently the heat here has made the neighborhood cats I tolerate hanging out in my yard lazy as there was a deep smallish diameter hole dug these alleged sociopathic serial murderers failed to prevent. There will be an inquiry as to which of these ne’er-do-well fur balls failed at their job. They had one job. And they suck at it.
I hate the global warming is getting so bad I had to buy an air conditioner and further contribute to it, but it was getting hot enough in my home that I was starting to worry for my health.
My aunt and uncle live in Chico. They are (or were, as of Friday) right ion the edge of the mandatory evacuation zone. They were visiting Lassen when the whole thing started, and the wind is blowing the smoke away from them, but they are keeping the trailer hitched up just in case.
Marvelling at Scandinavian-Americans who think 30 degrees is hot. X-D
Um yeah, I guess in Queensland you’d start to think about taking off your cardigan. :-/
But of course we know nothing of this weird thing you call “snow”.
I don’t know hiw humans survive in that shit. You’re telling me it gets so cold water freezes – and you still live there!!! 8- O
Californian forests do need to burn every now and then, otherwise the entire state will go up. Hopefully people can get better at avoiding and surviving the inevitable.