# How hot is hot where YOU live?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2000, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553 "2000-06-16T05:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/41 "2000-06-17T04:55:27Z")
It was cooler today only 106. Hey I don’t want to be raisin ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/42 "2000-06-17T05:42:50Z")
The Bay Area heat wave has finally gone away, whew. It was 106 (about 40 C) the day before yesterday, but today I was able to wear jeans comfortably. Fortunately, we have fairly low humidity here in California - I think it was about 22%. That’s about as much as I can take. I lived in Haifa, Israel for two months in the summer of 1998, and that was truly awful. I don’t think it ever got below 90 degrees once, even at night, and the humidity was just awful. A fried of mine actually got so physically ill from the weather that she had to leave the program. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/43 "2000-06-17T06:11:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh My God. > > When the temperature hits over 20 celcius here in Ireland us locals are in shorts and t-shirts… Hey that sounds like here! 20 C is just nice I think. Its when it starts to hit above 30C that I go crazy. I remember it was getting up to 36C one summer. I ran around in shorts and a sports bra. Then also last winter it was hitting 20C here. Of course I had gone visiting so I was where it was cooler. It didn’t get up to 20 but it did go around 15. Christmas we didn’t have snow it was totally weird. But then the previous July we had gotten snow… just for a day is all. Crazy place we live. ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/44 "2000-06-17T11:33:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Oh My God. > > When the temperature hits over 20 celcius here in Ireland us locals are in shorts and t-shirts… > \*\* Same here in Finland, though not TODAY. It’s +9 celsius (48 Fahrenheit), godammit. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/45 "2000-06-17T13:56:42Z")
Today, it is freaking hot. Low to mid-90’s. Humid enough that we have had thunderstorms pretty much every day this week. Last weekend I rode in an MS-150 (150 mile bike ride for the Multiple Sclerosis Society) from Pittsburgh to Conneaut Ohio on Lake Erie and it was in the low 90’s. Last spring I was on a plane to Orlando. There was a nice Irish family sitting beside me. The wife asked what temp I thought orlando would be that day as the pilot neglected to do so. I said: “mid-70’s.” She stared at me and said: “What is that in Celcius?” I explained that we only use centigrade in chemistry class. Of course in Great Britain they still measure weight in stones. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/46 "2000-06-17T14:27:52Z")
I’m not sure if anybody from Michigan checked in yet, so I guess I will be the first. Today, it is only going to get up to 78 degrees, but yesterday it was 86 and the day before it was 90. Our idea of a heat wave is 85-90 for more than a couple of days straight. It will hit 100 degrees maybe once a year, but that’s about it. We really don’t need the heat though because the humidity is enough to do you in. Average humidity index is in the 75-80 range. Like I said, yesterday the temperature index went up to 86, but with the humidity, it felt like it was over 90. Even with air conditioning, you still feel like you could swim through the air because there is so much moisture in it. Oh, forgot to mention, it rains at least three times a week during the summer and we get some pretty mean thunderstorms around here. I grew up in California, which IMHO has the wimpiest thunderstorms around. The thunderstorms we get around here can be pretty spectacular. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/47 "2000-06-17T15:07:52Z")
Thanks, Shadowfox! We’ve been having some weird-ass weather here in Michigan the last couple of weeks. Wake up in the morning, and it’s about 60. By noon, it’s about 85. A few minutes later, it’s gray and raining, for about five minutes. Then it’s 60 again. By 5:00, it’s back up to 85. By 6 or so, there’s a thunderstorm that lasts for oh, all of 28.6 seconds, but the lightning is really cool to watch. By 10, it’s back down to around 55-60. Freaking me out, it is. It’s also dricing people with allergies & sinus problems absolutely batshit. I’ve got central air, so I can manage to stay cool when it gets really hot. But here, it’s not so much the _heat_ that gets you. I can deal with 80-100 degree weather. It’s the _humidity_ that’s a bear. Like Shadowfox said, you feel like you can just swim through the air. When I go outside, after sitting in the central air for a while, it’s like walking in to a brick wall–the air is just that heavy. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/48 "2000-06-17T15:44:18Z")
My brother is in hawaii, he said its never been more than 85 there… ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/49 "2000-06-17T18:48:20Z")
It was snowing when I woke up this morning! Yup, June 17, 2000. Snow stopped by 8:00. In the 90’s last week, and again in in few days, they say. Weird weather. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/50 "2000-06-18T03:44:43Z")
90[sup]o[/sup]-100[sup]o[/sup]F is the start of hot in the DC area. If it 100% humidity, 85[sup]o[/sup]F is hot. Sometimes I really miss the desert. I could stand 100[sup]o[/sup] there. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/51 "2000-06-18T04:21:51Z")
Toronto: anything above 30C is hot. Especially with the sunner humidity. I think I wouldn’t mind great heat (35, 45 and above) if it wasn’t humid. But I’ve never actually felt above 104F (approx 40C?) I truly do NOT understand how people can live in places like Bangkok, where it’s 35 and above and 95% humidity ALL THE TIME… 😛 Last Saturday (where I was–near Bancroft, Ontario, about three hours NE of Toronto, well away from the lake) it was around 28, 29, then there was a storm, and the next day it never got above about 12: totally weird weather. We were all dressed up even during the hot weather, but that was against the bugs… another story. ---
**Author:** ![Zion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5e925/32.png) [@Zion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zion)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/52 "2000-06-18T04:35:46Z")
I’ll chime in from Phoenix, Arizona. (That’s “hell” for you foreigners) I don’t even look at the weather anymore, since it is always over 100 degrees, from May until September. You just kind of walk outside every day, and say, “Wow, this heat REALLY sucks,” and you live with it for five months. Instead of asking myself, “How hot is it going to get today?” I say, “How much is it going to suck today?” Just for fun, here’s the forcast for the next five days here in Phoenix (June 18-22) Sun - High 107, Low 81 Mon - High 103, Low 80 Tue - High 107, Low 78 Wed - High 109, Low 81 Thu - High 106, Low 80 And every day is sunny. See a pattern here? Ok, I’ll stop complaining. At least I have air conditioning. Thank God. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/53 "2000-06-18T04:59:02Z")
I can commiserate with the bugs. This year I don’t think we’re gonna get too many cuz its been dry. It only gets bad when it rains a lot and then all the ditches are filled with water which make perfect breeding grounds for those lovely huge mosquitoes. I’ve been hiking in the mountains when those things were bad its terrible! Just to go into the tent you had to have someone brush off your back to get a dozen (or more) mosquitoes off so they wouldn’t go into the tent with you and then bite everyone at night. Same thing at summer camp. Last year the skeeters got bad and of course we play wide games at right about the time they decide to come out so everyone is running around in lots of clothes and bug spray to keep from getting overly bitten but of course it doesn’t work for the most part. _sighs_ I’ll stop now since this is supposed to be about weather not skeeters. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/54 "2000-06-18T14:23:45Z")
In the summer, southern Californias beautiful San Fernando Valley is not unlike Hades. Temps will routinely reach the 110-120 range, peaking in September. It is highly unlikely that it will rain again before October. Even lizards will seek cooler locales. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/55 "2000-06-18T17:36:35Z")
All you DC-northern Virginia people will remember a few years back . . . or not, maybe. It got up to 110 in the shade. This is not an urban legend. Maybe it was just my house, but every summer around this time they give those heat advisories about not mowing your lawn and drinking 17 gallons of water or whatever. And you think I stay inside for the hell of it? Nope. I don’t want to boil outside. If I want to be hot I’ll microwave some food. Then in the winter it gets to about . . . oh, 15 degrees in the middle of the day. Sometimes colder. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553/56 "2000-06-18T17:50:13Z")
I’m a little north of DC, but I remember that. Here in Baltimore, average temps this time of year are high 80’s-low 90’s(F). Hot is anything above 95. Like the cliche goea, however, it’s really not the heat, but the humidity, which often can make a person feel like they’re in imminent danger of melting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hot-is-hot-where-you-live/22553.md?page=2)