Now This is Rediculous

[Muddy Creek Sam]

Heat Index: 144 °F

[Moonman]

Sam,

Sounds like a better day to drink a cool one rather than smelting and casting.

[Finster101]

Come to Florida where it is a nice cool 94 today.

[runfiverun]

it's just over 60-f and raining here.
good thing too i just washed and waxed the mustang,i hate wasting a good 5 hrs on sunshine.
i love summer...

[Mk42gunner]

What's this rain stuff you speak of????

103 here according to the local radio station. My Mom, Daughter and I took a trip today and we agreed that the pastureland looks like it is the end of August not the first part of July.

Soybean fields that were planted 5-6 weeks ago are maybe 4" tall. I saw some the plants were about 8" and already turning colors, I hope everybody has crop insurance.

Robert

[Bad Water Bill]

Heat Index: 144 °F

Sam I am afraid your thermo meter bit the dust. :bigsmyl2:

[BD]

I feel your pain Sam, of course these days I'm feeling it from northern Maine, were it's 70 deg :)
BD

[Gelandangan]

gee.. a few more degree your lead would smelt itself..:kidding:

[Shooter6br]

I use an old outdoor spa with a roof rain gutter to collect rain water.Holds 300 gallons.My garden would wilt away without it.I have township water but prefer free water from on high.Will have 11 day heat wave.Lucky humidity is as low as 30% somedays.Need to put freon thur my rifle barrels to shoot......Rick

[Blacksmith]

They are calling for 103 degrees here tomarrow and the heat index will be more. But we didn't complain when we had a very mild winter.

Stay cool all and if it gets real bad go sit in a bathtub full of water because that will transfer the heat quicker than humid air. Some folks in Maryland and Washington DC still don't have power since last weekend.

[Bret4207]

I was thinking the same thing as Blacksmith- no one complained last winter when we had essentially no winter!

I spent the other day working on my stock trailer axles. No breeze and mid 90's (very warm for here) with humidity in the 80% range. Drank 4 liters of water in 7 hours and then more later. At least I know my kidneys work.I don't mind the heat as long as there's a breeze, which there usually is since there's not much between me and Lake Ontario. OTH, the pool looks like a swamp!

[41 mag fan]

Calling for a 110* here today.....Alaska sure looks more lucrative with each passing year.
Keep telling the wife, I could go work in the mines up there during their spring, summer and fall and some of their winter, then come back and work for McDonalds, till the next spring.

So far she's not bit that fish, but i'm still baiting the hook and dangling it out there for her.

[Bullfrog]

Feeling all the heat and pain you all are experiencing. The smoke is still heavy in areas here from the wildfires and we are still under a statewide ban on about everything fire related. It was over 100 degrees here for over two weeks and we are finally scheduled to get some much needed rain. Highest recorded out here was 106, but we have constant wind usually and it destroyed the prairie grass I graze my goats on. This is an incredible year of drought for the entire nation.

[44man]

Hot here too but most storm cleanup is done.
I put the window unit in the garage for the dogs. Protect your animals, the heat is hard on them.

[waksupi]

I just saw some pictures of a dog's feet, that had been walked on asphalt. The pads are burned away to bloody mess. Don't do this to your dog, keep them on grass or dirt. Even dirt is very hot. Better to keep them shaded up until sunset, then walk them.

[garym1a2]

Gee, in Florida we are only getting up to low 90's so far. Of course its not the heat its the humitiy.

[err.gray]

Our dog Blondie is part of the family and stays inside with us.

[blackthorn]

Quote "Heat Index: 144 °F"

What is a "heat index"??? How do you figger it out??? I have never heard of this until today.

[Muddy Creek Sam]

Heat index is the feel like temperature, it is calculated from the Temperature and the Humidity. That one came from 97 °F and a humidity of 85%.

Sam :D

[Bad Water Bill]

The temp was 104 and the humidity was 75% and no breeze.

No idea what your gadget reads but it was plain miserable.

[Blacksmith]

Bill your heat index was 171.

Here is a link to a calculator for heat index.
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml

[Bad Water Bill]

:groner::groner::groner::groner:

now i am hot

Wonder how much hotter till the hinges start meltin

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

108 is what my thermometer said wednesday , thursday , and friday for a high 90 before 9am 100+ by noon

and it isn't cooling off at night at midnight it is 80 some somthing

we usually don't see triple digits but a day or two a year at most and a week in the 90s

no rain

no fun

just hot

it even gets humid feels like rain at times then just passes over

the A/C that normally is on for a week or two a year has been running non stop , it won't even touch the second story so the kids have been sleeping in the living room for almost 2 weeks.

i might expect something like this if i lived in the south

[quilbilly]

and the Bering Straits still haven't cleared of ice nor has Hudson's Bay become ice free (should have happened weeks ago). North America above 50 degrees north is still well below normal temp wise. It is all in where the jet stream sits

[Lloyd Smale]

sunny and 75 here. We may have to deal with cold snowy winters but Id take it any day over 100 degree plus weather. We might have 3 or 4 days in the 90s every year but most of the summer is in the 70s. I can dress and get along fine in the cold but when it gets in the 90s im about house bound sitting in the ac.

[Marvin S]

I tell ya how hot it is in KS, the crab grass is wilting.

[Freightman]

I have been without an air conditioner for two and a half weeks, started off at 106 but the humidity was 8% not 80% makes a huge difference, now stuck in the mid 90's humidity is 30% which is high for us. It is supposed to be fixed tomorrow.

[Harter66]

Gotta love the desert w/its 40* splits. 102/65 yesterday,98/61 today, 102/65 tomorrow. Only places on the planet where you can be burned to death by the sun and freeze to death by the moon on the same day.

Heat index as I write 96/92 w/7% humidity dew point 25* .

[DCM]

Temp. here right now is 105F humidity 99%, heat index 199!

Just plain miserable in the direct sunlight. No breeze at the present time either.

Supposed to be a cold one tomorrow just the high eighties.

[KCSO]

Here in N/E NE we are done for the year all the crops are gone. We haven't had ran since the end June and we have been 95 to 100+ every day. Our May rainfall was way under normal too. Even the corn that grew a little did not fill out enough for sileage.

[looseprojectile]

I lived in NW Florida for a couple of years in the late fifties.
The heat was hard to take for a Washington boy.
It was a hundred degrees and a hundred percent humidity for weeks at a time.
In 1960 I settled in SW Washington.
Since then I have only briefly left Washington where today the forecast is for
73/55 and showers.
A perfect day in paradise is 68 degrees and overcast.

Late winter here saw most of the tree limbs fall off due to the weight of freezing rain and rhyme ice. I had several whole trees fall.
Our spring was cold and wet and even the wild woods blackberries are just now starting to turn red. Garden is retarded. Just in the last week have we had fresh snow peas and leaf lettuce. Three attempts to get corn seed to germinate, too cool.
I think I will be able to cope.
It's got to be heartbreaking to watch your crops burn up. It is just only dissapointing when your garden doesn't grow. I hope that another year brings way better conditions for all.




Life is good

[MtGun44]

Heat index is just a way to fake up a bigger, worse sounding number.

Of course the actual temp is probably 109F or something which is pretty darned hot.

Drink plenty of fluids and be careful. My Dad gave himself a heart attack sitting out in the
heat a few weeks ago.

Bill