Hiding out in my back home office with the air conditioning on. Temps are predicted to remain the mid-nineties here in NJ until Sunday. I’m going to bathe the Maine Coon later tonight to help cool her down.
It’s actually kind of nice here today… 75 and overcast. This extended rain seems pretty atypical for a north Texas summer- typically it just doesn’t rain from early June through late August/early September. And if it does rain, it’s for like 15 minutes.
The UK is currently experiencing a heatwave. I’ve been spending my summers in Northern Ireland for the past five years, and I’ve never seen anything like it. We’ve gone a full week without any rain. Still, “heatwave” in NI is a relative term. I had to laugh at the weatherman when he said something like “it’s going to be 15C tonight (59F) so you might be a bit uncomfortably warm.” Yeah, I think we’ll survive. And my mother in law complains about the heat when it’s 24C (75F). In Seoul that would be positively pleasant.
Spending my lunch hour settled into a lounge chair directly the sun with an iced drink in my hand. Unfortunately I’m still not breathing well enough for it to be a fun iced drink but I’m loving the hell out of the heat. I swear the sun is fueling my recovery.
It was 97 degrees and 50% humidity yesterday afternoon at this time, and our swamp cooler was blowing warm damp air. Right now, it’s 73 degrees (and about the same humidity, but who cares?) and I’m loving it. It’s been overcast all day, and we’re all just having a generally good time. It rained last night, too! We got 3/4 inch at our house, which is more rain than we had from January through June.
It’s not as hot (ironically) in South Florida. It’s 82 degrees right now.
I’m dealing with it the best I can. I have two kegs of cold beer on tap, and two kinds of home made ice cream in the freezer. I lowered the hot tub to 95 degrees.
(I probably need to be ready for a parade of Dopers showing up…)
Then you can’t come visit sparky! or me in NH. Humidity’s been in the 90s forever. I’m not exagerating by much, it’s always humid during the summer here.
Uh oh, you’ve become one of those old people now! From this point, its just a few more degrees before you start wearing those face visors that old asian women wears!