warm...86 degrees

agh, it's been over 30C (90F) here for days here, we are so not used to this weather....

It's about 30 C but very cloudy and there's also a gentle breeze around. Too bad the gentle breeze isn't enough to keep me cool.
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guess you guys wouldn't enjoy the sunny weather here in los angeles.

hit 90 yesterday, but humidity was way up

It's supposed to be a hot weekend.

dochira wrote:

It's supposed to be a hot weekend.

yay, ill be camping by the river...

I'm always camping by the river. Well, almost. It's 4 blocks South.



Hot as hell during the day, but we keep having big thunder storms around 10 or 11pm.
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another warm summer day.....mostly indoors w/AC at work....

it is 95 degrees......so hot

Hot
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warm all night long, and it is going to be warm today too...

qilver wrote:

warm all night long, and it is going to be warm today too...

no sh*t...it's such a b*tch to fall asleep these days b/c of the temp...it's a pain. argh!

Tu_triky wrote:

no sh*t...it's such a b*tch to fall asleep these days b/c of the temp...it's a pain. argh!

hell yeah....and just read in the paper, they are hiking up the edison bill for consumers that use a lot....damn, with heat like this, we need the AC, but i am trying to cut back to save on the energy...
but it is tough when it is 82 degrees, inside the house.

qilver wrote:

hell yeah....and just read in the paper, they are hiking up the edison bill for consumers that use a lot....damn, with heat like this, we need the AC, but i am trying to cut back to save on the energy... but it is tough when it is 82 degrees, inside the house.

yeah dood it sux...i just heard that edison won a case in court enabling them to institute a rate hike on energy (20%) and that it's even retroactive a couple months or something like that. wtf????



Edison rates rising again
Hikes retroactive to start of 2006
BY PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM, Staff Writer



A month of triple-digit temperatures isn't all that will contribute to eye-popping Southern California Edison bills - the utility will raise rates Aug. 1 by up to 55 percent.
And the increase is retroactive to January, though Edison, which serves the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys, will spread that pain over a year rather than billing a lump sum, spokesman Gil Alexander said Friday.

The rate increase, the third this year, was approved Thursday by the state Public Utilities Commission, the third hike this year. The revenue is needed to expand and renovate California's power system, Alexander said.

"Southern California's power infrastructure is aging and we told the commission we believe it's prudent now to spend money and invest in upgrading it," Alexander said. "The commission agreed."

The latest increase applies to medium and heavy energy users. For the average customer - including residential, business and agricultural users - the three increases will amount to an additional 17 percent a year, Alexander said.

In the high desert, where energy-gobbling air conditioning is a necessity rather than a luxury, the Antelope Valley Union High School District already is paying $4 million a year for electricity. The district has been hard hit by unannounced increases in one segment of its bill - the peak load rate - and has pleaded with Edison to give officials advance warnings of increases so they can budget.

"Edison will charge what they have to charge, but we need to plan. We need to budget for it, and we can't seem to get that across," said Larry Freise, coordinator of consolidated projects for the district. "Last year, we overran our power budget by a couple hundred thousand dollars because rates changed and we weren't notified in advance."

Private business looks at the increase as just another hurdle in doing business in California.

"It just increases your costs, it makes it tougher to compete with your competition in Asia," said Doug Sink, chief financial of Remo Inc., a drum manufacturer in Valencia.

At the urging of the PUC, Edison has created a tiered pricing system that means lower rates for residential customers who conserve power.

In January, Edison increased rates by an average 9 percent, and 5.5 percent in February. The PUC approved those hikes to cover the increasing costs of energy contracts and the rising cost of natural gas, used to run the system.

The gross increase is the result of a three-year review of Edison's operations and maintenance costs. The PUC agreed to the rate increases but the process was delayed, making it necessary to raise rates retroactively.

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with all those hike increases in energy bills....

i'll have to settle for the fan, and try not to melt in this heat...
the temperature hit 105.....
with heat like that, it is very hard not to use the AC at times..

It's rainy season here. It stopped raining two days ago but it's back now. We've got another storm visiting the country.

humid, overcast and warm.....
listening to the crackling of the rolling thunder....no lightening........yet

Will this heat wave ever break? Speaking from The Valley in Los Angeles.

And I have to play golf tomorrow. Actually I play every Monday and Wednesday and as any of you golfers know a round of golf cannot be skipped regardless of the heat (or the cold).

ralphm1999 wrote:

round of golf cannot be skipped regardless of the heat (or the cold).

except for a round of beer.

Oh goodness, it's like broiling death outside. Feels like Florida weather, only less rain.
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