# It reached 123 degrees today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473 "2005-07-14T05:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/1 "2005-07-14T05:38:24Z")
According to the bank clock, that is. I think that bank clocks are specifically designed to register 10 degrees colder during the winter and 10 degrees hotter during the summer so that people can complain/brag about how cold or hot it is. According to [weather.com](http://weather.com), it reached a mere 120. It’s currently 103, and it’s 10:30 p.m. here. It’s supposed to be 121 tomorrow. Just had to share. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/2 "2005-07-14T05:42:48Z")
Jeez…it was only 103 here today. Oh, well. That’s why we have beer and air conditioning. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/3 "2005-07-14T05:44:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, well. That’s why we have beer and air conditioning. Amen to that. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/4 "2005-07-14T05:52:52Z")
You guys should expect that stuff. Up here in Central NY, where it’s supposed to be always cold, it was frickin’ 100 degrees according to my porch thermometer, for the last 3 days, and actually, for most of the past month. We are just not equipped to deal with that. I have A/C because I am a total wimp and melt in this weather, but all those other poor schmucks are sweating it out… 😃 But seriously, last summer it never really broke 90 (which I thought was groovy). This summer, it’s like the surface of the sun, every day. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/5 "2005-07-14T06:01:15Z")
Holy crap. It was only 107 here today, _and_ we had sprinkles. I feel lucky. Hope you didn’t have to go outside much. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/6 "2005-07-14T06:22:38Z")
It’s been a very pleasant 19C (66F) here today (Thursday). ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/7 "2005-07-14T07:13:28Z")
And I thought 117 was bad… ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/8 "2005-07-14T09:04:34Z")
Darn, you beat me by seven degrees! Well, it was humid, so it felt worse, neener neener. And just you wait till august, when we’ll really get cooking. [sup]I am not either jealous you took the misery trophy away from me[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/9 "2005-07-14T12:00:30Z")
There comes a point, somewhere after 100° that it no longer matters what the thermometer says, it’s then just.fucking. hot. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/10 "2005-07-14T15:41:53Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > Darn, you beat me by seven degrees! Well, it was humid, so it felt worse, neener neener. And just you wait till august, when we’ll really get cooking. > > [sup]I am not either jealous you took the misery trophy away from me[/sup] Woohoo! In your face! [Brandishes misery trophy, pretends to hit **Ashes, Ashes** with it, notices that **Ashes, Ashes** is miserably jealous, realizes that **Ashes, Ashes** deserves the trophy due to miserable jealousy, and sullenly hands it back to **Ashes, Ashes**] ---
**Author:** ![Poonther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Poonther](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poonther)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/11 "2005-07-14T15:51:50Z")
Yeah but it’s a dry heat. 😛 How 'bout we send u a hurricane to help cool you off? ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/12 "2005-07-14T15:52:20Z")
Yeah, but it’s a _DRY_ heat. At least that’s what they always say. But I gotta go with **RandMcnally**. Hey, RandMcnally, I used to work at you. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/13 "2005-07-14T15:53:30Z")
[shaking fist] Damn you, **Poonther**! [/shaking fist] ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/14 "2005-07-14T15:56:52Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > It’s been a very pleasant 19C (66F) here today (Thursday). But what is it in _summer_? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/15 "2005-07-14T21:13:12Z")
> [@Siddhartha Vicious](#): > > According to the bank clock, that is. I think that bank clocks are specifically designed to register 10 degrees colder during the winter and 10 degrees hotter during the summer so that people can complain/brag about how cold or hot it is. > > According to [weather.com](http://weather.com), it reached a mere 120. > > It’s currently 103, and it’s 10:30 p.m. here. It’s supposed to be 121 tomorrow. > > Just had to share. Lemme guess–Lake Havasu? ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/16 "2005-07-14T21:54:25Z")
Officially 120 degrees yesterday here. Today is overcast and sticky, may get up to 117 or so. I remember the day in 1993 when it was 123 degrees in PS - I went to 3 movies just to be inside someplace cool. This summer is gonna be a long one… ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/17 "2005-07-14T22:10:54Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > Lemme guess–Lake Havasu? Very near Lake Havasu. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/18 "2005-07-14T23:42:02Z")
[Mid 70’s. All day, every day.](http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/index.php?wfo=lox&zone=caz039&county=cac083) Ahhhhh. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/19 "2005-07-15T00:07:56Z")
117 the other day. Our weather folks, with straight faces, let us know it was going to “cool down” in Las Vegas this week to 106 and 107. Actually, I love this heat. That’s one of the reasons I moved here. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473/20 "2005-07-15T00:51:05Z")
I just got back from the city of cold herring and hot jazz, where they’ve been having what they call _REKORD VARMT._ This translates to several days of 80-83°F (mid-to-upper-20s°C) and brilliant sunshine. They’re happy as pigs in slop about it, too. At least those whose rooms don’t face west and overlook an airless courtyard. Given the typical cool, rainy summer there, a mere electric fan is a rarity. I spent most nights in a pool of sweat until about 3:00am when you finally get some breeze. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-reached-123-degrees-today/312473.md?page=2)