It still feels like 90 degrees Fahrenheit????

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[lowflykiwi]

SSS

I would be willing to send some of our crappy weather your way. It has rained almost solid for 2 weeks here.

I will trade you for some of that sun.


Kiwi

 

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[lowflykiwi]

It's a deal. Not quite carbon trading.

I lived in Queensland, Australia for a while and know how sticky things can get when the humidity gets up. esp. without Air Conditioning.

 

[TE999]

Damn. It's well past midnight, but with the heat and humidity it still feels that hot, so the TV weather folk just said.

I suppose we should be happy. An hour ago it felt like it was above 100.

That sucks ass.

And not in a good way.

Living in the land where heat and humidity vacation in the winter, I can feel your pain. When our A/C konked out (on a weekend of course) last summer we tried sleeping and then said "Screw this"and checked into a motel for the weekend.

 

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[lowflykiwi]

Mind You SSS that tub in your profile looks inviting

Icewater in there eh?

 

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[matriarch]

We had the opposite last night, really wierd.......it's August, and it was colllldddd....at least for the wife. For me it was fine. Wonderful to go to bed and not to have to put a blasted fan on all night. She was snuggled down under the covers, moaning it felt like October. I refrained from arguing, it doesn't bode well for my health if I disagree with her about the weather.

I sit here in the lounge with sweat running down my face, and she's curled up on the couch wrapped in a blanket.

The problems with being an Arazonian living in UK. What we call summer temp, for her is a good winter.

 

[Lisa Denton]

In my part of texas we had the heat advisory, thats when the heat index gets to where it feels like 105 or 110 or something.

They were talking about opening the "cooling stations" but I dunno if they did, they are lil places you go into that are AC'ed and have like watersprays to keep you from littering up the sidewalks with your dead body from heatstroke.

It hasn't rained in weeks, even the hurricane aftermath missed us. I gave up on the grass and just water hoping to keep the trees and shrubs alive.

I explained texas heat to some northerners once who said I did it well:

"In texas when its hot, as you stand beside your car talking to someone with EVERY part of your body sweating, you know its bad when you lean your arm on the roof of the car and hear your arm sizzleing before the pain hits your brain."

But you get used to it, its a texas thing.

 

[keeblercrumb]

Amsterdam Dreams

Well.... I think we are moving into fall in Moscow... it has been cool and rain, off and on.

I know the heat is tough but be careful what you ask for....



-KC

 

[rgraham666]

It's been a remarkably mild summer here in Toronto. More rain that we usually get but we haven't had any deadly hot days.

 

[starrkers]

What the hell is a "heat advisory"?

 

[rgraham666]

A 'get off the streets' warning. Stay indoors, stay out of the sun, go to places with air conditioning. Libraries, malls and other public places. Here in Toronto they set up cooling stations for the homeless and others without access to air conditioning so they don't get cooked alive.

We always lose a few people, mostly old and living alone or on the streets, every time we have one.

 

[Liar]

Weather's gone completely mad the last few days.

35 C (95 F) on Friday
17 C (63 F) yesterday
30 C (86 F) today and
16 C (61 F) expected tomorrow.

So I'm either sweating like bacon in a micro, or I'm freezing my nuts off.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Damn. It's well past midnight, but with the heat and humidity it still feels that hot, so the TV weather folk just said.

I suppose we should be happy. An hour ago it felt like it was above 100.

That sucks ass.

And not in a good way.

So you went from snow covered, to tornadoes, to extreme heat in just a few weeks? that sucks.

 

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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Its all relative.

I've been to Alaska and Germany and the Alps, and Chicago is the coldest goddamned spot on the planet. That fucking HAWK will get you! Spain may be a tidge colder, as it has to warm up to snow there.

On the other-hand, Chicago in summer is mild compared to Orlando in August. 90 in Chicago is like sweater weather here.

 

[Elianna]

We had the opposite last night, really wierd.......it's August, and it was colllldddd....at least for the wife. For me it was fine. Wonderful to go to bed and not to have to put a blasted fan on all night. She was snuggled down under the covers, moaning it felt like October. I refrained from arguing, it doesn't bode well for my health if I disagree with her about the weather.

I sit here in the lounge with sweat running down my face, and she's curled up on the couch wrapped in a blanket.

The problems with being an Arazonian living in UK. What we call summer temp, for her is a good winter.

Well.... Just a report from the Homeland of AZ. Friday was a heat advisory and it reached 115 degrees. We experienced a MAJOR COOL DOWN yesterday because it only reached 105. It's going to get even more pleasant because we expect monsoons (summer storms for you non-Arizonians) and the temp will drop to 103 tomorrow but the humidity will jump so not only will we roast but we'll turn into puddles of sweat and humidity. This is a normal summer for us, though. This has been one of the cooler summers I remember as a native to the place. Usually we have about 6-10 days of summer heat advisories (we don't have those unless it gets over 110 here...) Actually, I think it's been a decent summer. I plan on hopping in the pool this afternoon, throwing the dogs in with me and then coming inside to evaporate under the fan in the AC. That usually works.

 

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[freshface]

Weather's gone completely mad the last few days.

35 C (95 F) on Friday
17 C (63 F) yesterday
30 C (86 F) today and
16 C (61 F) expected tomorrow.

So I'm either sweating like bacon in a micro, or I'm freezing my nuts off.

It's nice to know that someone is sharing my summer. Jackets to shorts to jackets again, all in the same week.

Of course, it beats summer in Kuwait. Think highs of 125 F (45 C), lows of 100 F (38 C), constant sun, and high humidity. Throw in a nice sand storm that lasts for days to weeks and suspends sand particles in the air. When the wind picks up, it's rather like being in a sand blaster. Sand gets everywhere. You collect so much on your skin that you turn the water brown in the shower. As a rare treat, you might get to see it rain mud. After that, I'll never complain about anyone else's weather again.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I'm not being smug, just a bit confused. It's been so mild this summer my tomatoes are complaining. Hardly any fruit at all. Go figure . . . or wait until September's Santa Ana's!

 

[snap1415]

Remember 1980?

In Arkansas, we went over 100 every day for 40-something days straight. I was working in a sawmill that year. Thought I was gonna croak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_heat_wave