75, to me, is the perfect summer temp. Once you start hitting 79 I am a big whiney wuss.
It was 110° here in Boise a week ago and for almost a week straight we had highs above 100°. Boise’s all-time recorded high is 111°, so we came close. At these temperatures what difference does a degree or two make anyway? I hated every minute of the oppressive heat wave we suffered through last week. It never got cool enough at night to sleep comfortably. I woke up tired, grouchy and sweaty every morning. Last Sunday morning I was sick to my stomach because the heat was taking its toll on me. I hate the summer anyway and I can’t stand the hot, sunny days. I long for cold, snowy winters. I can handle cold over heat any day. At least when it’s too cold and there’s not enough heat you can always bundle up or sleep with more covers. When it is too hot there is no escaping the heat if you don’t have air conditioning (and I don’t 
). I envy the people in Seattle who call 90° a heat wave and seldom see such temperatures. A friend of mine actually *likes * hot weather. He likes to go out on his boat on hot days so he can then cool off in the water. I just don’t understand what the point is in going out in the heat in the first place just so you can cool yourself off again. The first day each fall that I have to close my windows because it’s getting too cold to leave them open is a day I often celebrate.
Ontario? Is no part of the world untouched by the angry sun? First, the Alaskan glaciers are melting, now it’s really freaking hot in central Canada?
As FairyChatMom said, Florida is horrible. First, the summer starts out as one long drought. Humidity is bearable, and the heat’s not too terribly bad as a result. Grass and stuff dies, ponds dry up and brush fires are commonplace. Then the rains start. Humidity goes off the charts, and it feels icky. Puddles everywhere, so mosquitoes the size of thumbnails of full-grown elephants swarm, and they’re hungry. Pure hell. Dante must have taken a summer trip here for inspiration.
Non-US Dopers? How 'bout you guys? I bet it’s hot over there too, unless you live in the farthest stretches of Ultima Thule where the ice caps never melt and the sun shines for only ten seconds of the year.
This has been an unbelievable summer for sure, from the east coast to the west coast, this has sucked bug fucking time.
We can get 90º temps here but it’s not a normal aspect of our lives here. The afternoon rains usually come to relieve us of the hot temps. This year, not.
It’s still 81º in my office and I can’t go to bed with temps like this, this is ridiculous. If I could prevent the onset of ants I would sleep out on the patio but there are so many of those fuckers (as I witnessed today) that there’s no way in hell I will attempt it.
I just want some fucking rain in the afternoons to offset the heat in the day. But NO, the monsoons have to by-pass us and leave us to swelter.
Again, if you are born and raised in a moderate climate, temps like this are bothersome. Everyone I know that has lived here for a long time is grouchy and snotty.
I know a lot of my fellow westerners are in the same boat so I am not poopooing them but those that are used to hot summers and the A/C is a standard appliance, go away. You have no value in this thread. Many places like I live do not have A/C or even swamp coolers because it just normally doesn’t get this hot.
And for my house to be registering in the 80s at 1:45 am should be a clue as to why this sucks. If you are sitting happy and shitting coins because you have temps of 76º in your home because of A/C, screw you. We normally don’t see these temps and your telling me that your living in a place that has 95% humidity and 95º doesn’t help me any because you have fucking A/C. We don’t…so if you can’t be sympathetic to that, kiss my big fat butt.
That and the A/C broke in my fucking car.
I am not in the happy-go-lucky mood that I might be if the daytime temps were in the low 80s. This is ridiculous. I have lived here most of my life and it’s fucking annoying. When you are used to a certain climate, you are used to it. Many of our Canadian friends are going through a similar issue. The heat is oppressive (sp) this year and it’s getting old.
So don’t tell me what it might be like in a humid and hot place, you expect that, I don’t if you have lived there for a while. This is not the world I am used to, I was born and raised here, this plain sucks. This is not what my life and my body are used to.
Face it, after 33-34 years of living in a similar climate, your body becomes adjusted to it. For this heat, as minor as it seems to some, it sucks and it is none-the-less but something to rip out the hearts of your fellow human beings when they piss you off.
Fuck this, I wish for this drought to be over, for us to get some rain (desparately) and this winter to get a shit load of snow. God my skin cracks and this time of year is usually the highest in terms of relative humidity. The relative humidity in my house has been an average of 22%.
Damnit.
Here in Ohio it has been very hot. While we locals are proud of our “reason for all seasons” we generally don’t like extremes. This summer has caused crunchy brown grass which will not be greened by three afternoons of thunderstorms. We can’t even really complain. A month ago we had rain to the point of flooding. Take it or leave it. As we like to say, “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.”
I am going to bed and it’s 79.6º in my damn house.
FUCK.
I can only hope that I actually fall alseep and get a good night’s sleep.
This sucks.
originally posted by Muffin
Why doesn’t women around here ever go topless in 95-degree weather? That’d at least provide a reason to look forward to summer 
It’s still nice in London, also in Northern Maine.
. . . and someplace to stay away from.
Tucson, me 8 months pregnant, August, cooler on:
111 outside
103 inside
I’m soooo glad I don’t live there anymore.
(and if you start with that dry heat bullshit I’ll hit you. It was August. That is monsoon season. it WAS humid. Top that off with an evaporative cooler that blows damp air into the house all the time, and you have Hell in a Can.)
Maybe a window A/C unit for the bedroom is in order? You can get a new one for under $200 that should work wonders.
If your house is under 80 F without A/C, you’ll probably be able to get your bedroom down to meat-locker temps with even the smallest of units.
(Ahh… 79.6 F without A/C- must be nice. My A/C runs about 50% of the time just to keep my house a frigid 78 F. Any cooler and I’d have to put on a sweater.)
A few weeks ago, it hit about about 42ºC (107ºF) here with the humidity factored in. I didn’t think temperatures like that were possible. I was actually happy to be working extra days, because we had an A/C unit.
I’m going to smack the next person who jokes that global warming is a good thing. :mad:
It has been in the high 90’s-low 100’s here in Kansas this past week or two…It’s miserable. Just walking from my house to my car gets me sweating. Kansas is usually pretty mild in the summer but this is the hottest it’s been all summer. On the other hand, it’s just now getting hot so we’ve been pretty lucky in that aspect.
Chicago checking in. At 1050 AM it’s 90 degrees with a heat index of 100. I have no AC and can’t get one as it would blow multiple fuses. (old building…a neighbor got one and we all went without power for several hours after she turned it on.)
IOW, techchick, I feel your pain.
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I don’t remember it getting that cool one a June afternoon when I lived in Colorado Springs. Of course I moved from there to Dallas in 1987 so I have no real concept of the temperature being in the 60’s in June. And yes I about died during my first summer in Dallas.
Marc
I feel for you, techchick. I’m a recent transplant to AZ from Wyoming. When it got above 80 in Laramie, the Walmart would sell out of fans. I was used to pretty cool weather.
Now, I endure 106 degree days. (Actually, it has cooled down quite a bit. For a while there, it was over 100 every day. I think we had a few days last week when the monsoons finally hit that only reached 98.)
And I’m a guy that really, really sweats. I mean gallons. But I love the heat. It gets monotonous at times, and fairly uncomfortable at nights, but I am thriving in the hot temperatures. You don’t get used to it, you just learn to ignore it.
After 15 years of it, I never got used to it. I hated every minute of it, too. I HATE HEAT!
The showers cool it to that low but after they pass it warms up again. But yeah, typically as the thunderstorms pass over the temps are 50-65 degrees. That’s why you rarely see people playing in the rain here.
Ultima Thule lurker checking in. Well, more or less - Europe, Estonia. We’ve been having temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius constantly. Don’t really know what it makes in Fahrenheit, but it’s a bloody pain. You dizzy and wanna throw up, and all this sun makes the skin itch.
Summers used to be so much colder, when I was young. The world is changing, I tells ya. 
Darn engrish attack. Last post is missing ARE. Oh well, back to lurking.
It’s 6:00 am, 69 degrees Farenheit, and 100% humidity. I’m going to need a shower the minute I step out of the door. Yes, it’s too damn hot, which is why I’ve also quit complaining about cold weather. Now to figure out what I can wear to work which I won’t swelter in.
A beseiged CJ