It is too freakin' hot here!!! I have a fan but it is just blowing hot air. There is a breeze, but it's' just hot air is coming in my window.
Al Gore won't have to do much convincing after this summer. This is a record I think for San Diego.
Power usage surges to record; another heat alert set for today
By Craig D. Rose
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
July 22, 2006
The heat wave that just won't quit pushed San Diego regional electricity use to a record yesterday.
San Diego Gas & Electric said power use peaked at 3:45 p.m. at 4,163 megawatts, breaking the previous record set just one week earlier of 4,083 megawatts.
And the hot, humid weather could last into next week, said National Weather Service forecaster Philip Gonsalves.
The high temperatures forecast for today have led the weather service to issue a heat watch.
The persistent heat also drove demand statewide to a record yesterday.
The California Independent System Operator – which oversees most of the state's power grid – said electricity peaked at 49,036 megawatts, well above the previous record set Monday of 46,561.
A megawatt is sufficient to power about 650 homes.
The temperature reached 120 in Palm Springs yesterday, shattering a 54-year-old record for the date of 117.
It was 112 in Los Angeles' Woodland Hills section, breaking the 1976 record by 2 degrees and marking the 16th consecutive day that temperatures exceeded 100.
Death Valley hit 123.
Gregg Fishman, an ISO spokesman, said it appeared that the cumulative effect of the long-running hot spell was driving the demand for air conditioning to new heights.
“Everything is absorbing just that much more heat,” Fishman said. “The sidewalks are hotter, and the houses are hotter.”
The weather service forecast high temperatures for today in the 80s for coastal areas, and into the upper 90s inland and in the mountains – much the same as yesterday's highs.
Adding to the heat is the humidity caused by winds from the southeast, bringing moist air from Mexico.
The heat watch in effect today is designed to alert people that the high temperatures could threaten their health if they're not well-hydrated, forecaster Gonsalves said.
A heat warning was issued yesterday because of the threat, especially to the elderly and young, he said.
Two record temperatures were set in the county yesterday: 105 in Campo, eclipsing 103 for the date in 1967; and 103 at the Ramona Fire Department, surpassing the 101 record set in 1982.
The Independent System Operator continues to call on residents to conserve power by raising thermostats to 78 degrees to minimize air conditioning demand, unless it is medically necessary to keep temperatures lower.
The grid operator and SDG&E also are asking residents to seek other ways to cut daytime power use, in particular by delaying the use of major appliances to evening or early morning and by turning off unneeded lights. Electricity demand tends to peak in the afternoon.
Despite the record heat, California's electric generators and transmission systems have held up well, officials said, with few heat-related outages.
Staff writer David E. Graham and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Craig Rose: (619) 293-1814; craig.rose@uniontrib.com
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she has off as many day as she works,( must be great )
windblown, unshaven, no cares in the world at the great white world know as the private beach.
The pool is now offically a wet sand puddle.
which is where the California CGCS members are going to have their 2nd Annual Convention...
... somebody is in the rough today... 
86 degrees right now, so time for a little 
... in mid-October my wife and I will be sitting out here with our iced tea, holding our new GRANDDAUGHTER! 
Will post yesterday's pictures when I can get them out of the camera... 
