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Alaska Heat Advisory is not an indie low-fi band, itâs a news headline:
85° F is only 30°C but the Sun is out almost 21-22 hours at that latitude around the Solstice. So, a significant part of the day is not far for the max temps.
As the mosquito is the Alaska state bird, expect this announcement to be followed by one on Dengue fever outbreaks!
All that research into fighting Malaria by the Gates Foundation may finally yield some returns close to home 
A case of $1,200-a-bottle tequila is sent by private plane to Bezosâ wedding:
Reminds me of this skit:
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Well! So much for going nuclear.
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how private? An amazon plane is private to Bozo, right?
Iâm sure he stuffed the rest of that plane with cheap Chinese thingymabobs for the domestic peasants he pushed out of Venice for the event. Not that theyâre not used to that.
Oh hell, do we have to talk about this nonesense, itâs really none of my business.
PS. Is Trump invited? 
Blayais NPP mentioned in the news, drink a shot!
Blayais NPP is infamous because it almost becomes Fukushima before Fukushima. The flooding of the plant had already started during a particularly strong storm But due to divine intervention or something like that, water stopped rising and the damage caused by the flooding was manageable and the plant could be shut down safely.
Back to the article. There are some truths in the text, but not the whole truth. Nuclear plants that have to be slowed down during summer work with direct cooling. This means water from the river or the sea is passed through a giant radiator (just like the one in cars) and returned to the water body.
The irony is that the article shows a power plant with 2 cooling towers which is not affected by environmental limits during summer. Beznau NPP in canton Aargau works with direct cooling, so no happy cooling tower with happy little cloud on top of it 
You may be wondering why built a plant with direct cooling if it has to be slowed down during summer. Two reasons: i) cheaper, no need to built a gigantic cooling tower, ii) direct cooling is more efficient because cooling towers a lot more energy to operateâŠprovided thereâs cool water.
So, thereâs always a trade-off among cheap, efficient, resilient, etc. If the article was filtered by a great editor, the headline would be âcheaper nuclear power plants have to be slowed down during summerâ.
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Very interesting. Rösti will hate the news.
And it shows how much in trouble we really are - more and more electric items and no reliable solution to produce it.
Lately I had the impression that the subject re environment has been dropped as if it was just a fashion-thing by some nutters.
The fish are having a hard time in lakes and rivers here as the water in the upper part where they live is too warm and they canât go further down because the lack of oxygen for them there.
We should give them the right level of love, maybe?
1969 and 1971 when they were put into service. things were also very different from now.
Indeed, all those ideas about fishes, water temp and oxygen content came like 10 years after the plants started operating.
not sure about the fish and oxygen content but the water temp in lakes and specially also rivers I would agree.
No one asked you to reply to Philâs post.
SMOC has reversed its flow.
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I know reversal of the Gulf Stream would be a disaster for the UK and Western Europe would be a disaster but I do not know about the Southern Ocean.
Well CH is at, what: 45° lat.? That brings it to southrrn Canada.
But, with the weakening of the jet stream we will see a lot more omega patterns bringing extreme heat fom Africa.
Vancouver is 49°, Toronto is 43° and Iqualit is 63°
4 months worth of rain in just a few hours. 1.8 trillion gallons of water.
And it had to be the 4th of July in Texas!
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I hope FEMA is there if Donnie has not emasculated it
Never fear - Disaster Barbie is on sceneâŠ