Hottest day since they started keeping records in 1879.
Today thru next week is suppose to be just as hot.
This weekend is our anniversary so mommajesus and I are going to leave babyjesus with her mom and go find a motel room somewhere this weekend. We’re going to turn down the lights, turn on the TV, and crank up the a/c.
And just to keep the universe in balance - Phoenix in August had a high of 85 a couple days ago. I think that’s that’s coolest it’s been here since February.
PAH! CNote - spare me - humidity in the mid 70’s? Try Mid Michigan where it’s currentl going to be about 88 degrees and (ahem) 90 - 100% humidity all week. BAH! and me with my steam heater malfunctioning so that one or another of the heaters in my office building decide to start emiting heat…
Finally we have relief here. In the 80s with bearable humidity, but only because it’s rained the last couple of days. This is much better than what we have been having.
Right now,we have 60% humidity,which isn’t bad. Problem being, it’ll get up to 100+ and the humidity will plummet. sigh I’d love something nice and cool… say the mid 80’s. Too bad it gets down that low at night.
Dallas may make 108[sup]o[/sup] today, but the weekend may be down to 100[sup]o[/sup]. With that kind of temperature drop, obviously, fall and winter are just around the corner.
We don’t have any humidity. If we had humidity, we might actually get rain. The long range forcast is giving us some good chances of rain around Thanksgiving.
Houston(where I’m originally from) routinely has humidity in the 50-100% range, temperatures in the upper nineties, and dewpoints in the seventies.
Dallas(where I am now) has humidity in the 20-30% range, but temperatures about 10 degrees hotter than Houston.
It’s a toss-up. They’re both oppressively hot in the summer.
I’d count myself lucky for daytime temperatures in the eighties with dewpoints in the 70’s. That’s how it is at 2 AM in Houston!
I would say something about “you Yankees”, but then again, you’d get pissed if we were having the flip side of this conversation in January. “Damn it’s cold! It’s actually BELOW freezing here in Dallas!”
Another Michigander speaking up. The reason wring is complaining is because this summer has been pretty strange around here. It has barely gotten up above 80 degrees all summer. Summers are normally 85-90 degrees with high humidity. In the spring, they were complaining about the drought we were having because we really didn’t have much of a winter at all earlier this year, so the lake levels got really low because there wasn’t any snow melting into them. But the summer rains have more than made up for it. It only actually rains maybe once a week, but we’ve been having some really heavy rainfalls this summer. We are talking 20 minute rain showers that produce 3-4 inches of rain, which is extremely abnormal for this state. Anyhoo, after having a rainy and somewhat cooler than normal summer, suddenly this week it has shot up into the upper 80’s and low 90’s with these really high humidity levels. Since nobody in the state is used to these temperatures after the summer we have had, it just seems so much hotter than it actually is.
I know most of the country is having it worse than us (especially northern Texas, I feel so sorry for you guys), but this week has just been almost unbearable for us cold-loving folks in the Great Lakes.
Ah, this thread reminds me of the good old days in Central PA…where the temperature never seemed to be below 90 with 90% humidity, but only on days when I was working outside.
Now, living here in the UK, 75 and sunny is considered a good summer’s day. Wanna trade?
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*Originally posted by CnoteChris *
**Ahh, cmon you guys! It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.
Here in North Florida, we say, “It’s not the heat… it’s the STUPIDITY.”
In Iowa it has been 109 with the heat index. My husband is a roofer and they say it is 20 degrees hotter up there.
His crew was on the local news last nite talking about the heat they deal with and how to stay alive and sweating. One of the guys actually stopped sweating yesterday and they had to take him off the roof.
They have also declared a heat emergency in Illinois and have been letting the kids out of school as soon as they can so they get full credit for the day.
I live in the Quad cities so I get to hear about both Iowa and Illinois.
Actually, I was kind of joking when I made that post. You know the joke, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity!
But on second thought, I may not be that far off.
Some posters’ are confusing humidity with dewpoint. I don’t know jack about humidity. I do know about dewpoint.
Dewpoint temperature seems to be a better representaion of the actual temparature than humidity. That is, the higher the dewpoint, the worse it feels. Alot like the windchill factor. What it is and what it feels are two different things.
Ironically enough, a friend from Dallas, Texas, was here last week and commented on the heat. He was here in Mn. on a fishing vacation.
I commented on the fact that it was 105 in Dallas. He said it seemed worse here than down there. It was still bad all the way around, but seemed worse here. He said it remimded him of Florida, where, apparently, they have the A.C. going year 'round because the dewpoint shoots into the seventies on a daily basis.
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