The AP is reporting Northeast braces for temps near boiling point, which does indeed sound hot. :eek:
WOW! :eek:
I mean, that sounds like it would be a record, doesn’t it? 
Have we ever had a recorded weather temperature of 212ºF (100ºC) before? :dubious:
I wonder if we’ll see a headline in winter that a cold wave is coming and expected to bring the temp down to absolute zero? :rolleyes:
:smack:
That quote does not appear in the link you provided, someone may have caught the error.
Perhaps the writer meant the boiling point of the people? I’m pretty close to mine; I’m ready for winter.
I can tell you we’re already above the boiling point of nitrogen. Damn, is it hot!
I wonder how that happened. Do you think somebody got confused by temperatures reaching 100ºF and thought it meant 100ºC?
According to this CNN headline, they are baking under a dome of heat, not boiling.
East Coast bakes under dome of heat
Sounds terrible. Hope everyone’s AC is in working order.
Looks like it. Some sources that have reposted the AP article have missed it, though.
I originally thought it was supposed to be hyperbolic, but the “…near and above boiling point” language sounds sincere. I vote for a stupid journalist who doesn’t know the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit.
You can come shovel my driveway 212 times next year, then. Please don’t rush it!
Whom or what are we Pitting here?
The Associated Press, of course. Who do you think controls the weather?
Possibly also people who don’t own air conditioning systems.
I don’t have an air conditioning “system”! I have AC in two rooms of the house, that’s it. If you want to play on the Xbox these days, you sit three feet from the box fan. 
Quite possibly you if you can’t figure this one out.
I’m just sayin’
I have heard many people make the same mistake, so yes, I’m sure that’s what happened. 100 F is very hot indeed so that number gets tossed around when there’s a heat wave, and 100 C is water’s boiling point (at sea level blah blah blah) so people sometimes get a little confused.
It’s like in poker. If you sit down at a table and, within the first five minutes, you can’t tell who’s being pitted, the person being pitted is you.
Screw that. Move the Xbox and Tv into the bedroom!
Ah, yes; Ptolemy’s lesser known theory of “Hemispherical Sun”
You’re good, kid, but as long as I’m around, you’re only second best.
Stranger
Hottest recorded temperature on Earth:
57.8 °C (136 °F) Al 'Aziziyah, Libya 1922-09-13.
BTW: That’s approximately what household hot water tanks are set at!
Oh! Well, that’s pretty easy to fix, now isn’t it?
(Besides, Yancy, you keep shoving all your money in on draw plays, you ain’t gonna last long…)
Actually I do have a TV in the bedroom already, but it’s way too much trouble to move it! Everything’s hooked up to a receiver and I am emphatically not allowed to touch.
Move in with me. It’s even hotter here, but I have air conditioning. 
Of course, so does my wife.