Hot

It's hotter than Hades today in S.C., is someone not living right out there?
Gavin

 

We've had several days consecutive over 106 but now the rains have arrived; the temp is down but the humidity is a killer!

 

It's pretty nasty in Northern VA too, mid to high 90's

 

I don't know how Texas missed it this year...I mean it is hot (nearly 100), but that's expected, and is nowhere near record temps for this time of year....

 

Not quite so bad here in northwest Ohio. But it is so humid that my glasses fog up when I step outside to mow the lawn or just for a cigarette or whatever.

 

It has been a very hot Summer here in Connecticut. As for not living right, of course we're not living right. It's the greenhouse effect. It's all based on the idea that we're not living right.
Jack

 

Napa, CA: 81 degrees outdoors as I'm typing this (at around 5:59 PM PDT). Got up to around 87 mid-day I think. But -- and here's what's so cool (no pun intended) about Northern California: Less than 40% humidity. And a gentle (but still hot) breeze all day. Will get down to 60 or maybe even 55 by midnight. Broke 100 during the day a couple days last week.

Speaking of listing temperatures: Ask a native Minnesotan -- especially if s/he's from up North on the iron range or near the boundary waters -- what the temperature is and she'll say "above" for anything above zero (F) just like most everyone else (including Minnesotans) say "below" for temperatures below zero (F). So, for example, in the fall, when the temperature could be as high above zero as it's technically possible for it to be below, you'll hear a native Northern Minnesotan say "it's 45 above" when most of the rest of us would just say "it's 45" and we'd only add "below" when its 45 below zero (F). Imagine living in a place where, unless you're there to know which (above or below) the speaker is talking about, it could be as many degrees below zero part of the year as it could be above; and you have to say "above" just as often as you'd have said "below" just to keep people from being confused.

Our friends here from North Dakota (and other Northern states), and Canada are familiar with this, too. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was unique to Minnesota... though I've heard it there more often per capita than in any other place, for what that's worth.

 

You call that hot?

Guess I've been in the Middle East too long, when I don't consider 100F hot anymore!

We've been at 115-120 for several months now, and will remain so, until, say, October-ish. It's mostly pretty dry in my town, but I'm usually in Abu Dhabi every weekend, where you've got about 85% humidity on top of the temps . . . it's like walking through soup!

Last time I was in the US during the summer, I found it was too cold for me to wear shorts . . . in Florida! Funny what you can get used to.

Cheers,
Adrienne

 

Last year I was working in Chad, Africa - working in 120 degree heat in April.
I am now working in Aberdeen, Northern Scotland. Right now it is about 70 and that's good.

Adi, you are so right, amazing what you can get used to!!!

 

For Aberdeen, that constitutes a heat wave!

In London it's currently (pauses to find a converter from C to F) 55 degrees and widdling down. Bleh.

Angela

 

Angela,

Ha, I just checked and it's 55 (13 for us Europeans!) here too!
Still a heatwave for Aberdeen though.

See how my body has lost any sense of weather calibration. I have just come back from Mexico so maybe that's an excuse. Maybe it isn't...

 

South Florida hot??? NOT!

Hey Steve,
I just moved to WV from South Florida, and let me tell you.... IT FEELS HOT HERE by comparison! We always had a nice sea breeze in So FL, plus there was the pool and overhead fans by the lanai. Here in WV, there is no breeze, nothing but haze, fog, heat, humidity, and blistering sun baking through it all. Mountain state? Bull! These mountains aren't high enough to give any cooling effect, and all they seem to do is trap the humidity, fog, haze into an unholy mess that these poor souls up here call "summer".....
Carl

 

Houston-Hello....96-97 with 70 percent humidity. Just lovely. But there is a "cold" front on its way. It just might get to us. In JULY. Go figure.

 

You came back? From Mexico? Brilliant blue skies, vibrant colours, wonderful spicy food . . . to Aberdeen?

The mind boggles!

I can only say that your oil company is either paying you far too well or too much time in Aberdeen has rotted the brain ;-)

Angela

 

Re: Re: South Florida hot??? NOT!

Further in, on the wrong side of the mountains (western side)... It seems much warmer and hazier here than in Maryland (Cumberland area) or the eastern panhandle....

 

The rains came last night. We got maybe an inch and a half through the night and today's high will run around 80F.

 

New Mexico is sounding better and better.

It's now grey and mizzling here. Apart from the fact that the trees are green it looks more like October than July.

Angela