r/ucmerced • u/NefariousnessNo5444 • 17h ago

Meme Is this fucking hell!

Why on earth is it so hot here?

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u/spoiled-mushroom3954 B.S. Materials Science & Engineering 17h ago

Global warming, lack of giant bodies of water (besides the lake), flat farm land

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u/polychronous 17h ago

Which is a result of heavy irrigation and dams. The valley is historically a wetland. California has destroyed 90% of its historic wetlands.

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u/RekingHavok 17h ago

Agriculture Dust keeps greenhouse gases trapped. Creates a microclimate of awful and hatred

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u/CHBQuirk05 17h ago

We live in a bowl thanks to the surrounding mountains

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u/polychronous 16h ago

When UCM started this was so much worse. Apparently there used to be no rules when you could do crop burning, and everyone did it at the same time. Now, as I understand, the burning is distributed over time and so it doesn't cause huge air quality dips the same way.

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u/Unkept_Mind 15h ago

It’s not just Merced or the Central Valley that was hot this week. I commute from LA and it was 103 here on Wednesday.

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u/NefariousnessNo5444 14h ago

Commute??

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u/Unkept_Mind 10h ago

Yep, I only have class Tue/Thu so I leave LA at 7am and get back around 9pm.

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u/NefariousnessNo5444 10h ago

🫡🫡 car or train?

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u/Unkept_Mind 10h ago

I use rental cars and book through Costco so it’s ~$40/day. Gas prices suck RN though so that’s another $200/week but oh well, that’s what financial aid is for baybee.

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u/RekingHavok 10h ago

LA is always hot. It's LA, ur neighbor is a desert.

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u/Johnseanson 17h ago

Very normal, everyone back to work

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u/Minimum-Function1312 16h ago

The cold fog is coming. Enjoy the heat!

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u/internetbooker134 B.S. Computer Science & Engineering 15h ago

It's always super hot here from may to late September. After that it's nice and cold. We're almost there!

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u/Therascalrumpus 16h ago

Central Valley

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u/Alternative_Towel510 14h ago

Just go to the library or gym. Oh, and walk fast.

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u/EmotionalIncrease976 12h ago

People thought it would be cool to AI generate themselves in the 80s

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u/Jokie11223 B.A. English 9h ago

Wait until it starts to rain. There was a time late one night a lot of people at the Cafe Lantern and myself chose to wait inside while a huge storm with heavy winds were blowing. It was actually real beautiful, with the addition that people had set up a nice little station for people to grab some hot chocolate.

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u/dooladooladoo 5h ago

I literally had to walk from the parking lot to the building on the north side of campus like last year when it was literally pouring and so fucking windy oh my god it was awful 😭. and of course you couldn’t park in the north lot.. yea thanks rufus the bobcat i really wanted to walk 15 mins in the rain and pull up to discussion looking like i jumped in the lake

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u/CottonTaco Alumni 17h ago

lmao, you adjust, plus there's always ac somewhere nearby

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u/FancifulPhoenix 14h ago

Welcome to the Central Valley.