# June 24 Are you still waiting for the heat of a summer to start? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377 "2010-06-24T17:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/21 "2010-06-24T21:52:57Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Just hit over 75 for the second day in a row here in Portland. We’ve had about five days since September where it was above 75 and sunny. Been a cold/wet spring/early summer, hasn’t it? Please say yes, as we moved here last October and I would hate to think that this spring was typical. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/22 "2010-06-24T22:05:15Z")
Partly sunny and 68ºF here. Warm enough for me, but we’re ‘still waiting’ for it to get hot. (For me the temperature is fine, but I wouldn’t mind more sun.) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/23 "2010-06-24T22:09:11Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Dunno where you are, but you either live near me or are having the same weather. Today is _cooler_ because it only hit 99. :rolleyes: That’s with like a bazillion percent humidity, though, so it’ doesn’t count. South Carolina. The worst part is that when you work in a super-air-conditioned environment there’s just no way to dress for both. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/24 "2010-06-24T22:25:39Z")
It’s been hot (for New England values of hot) for a couple of weeks now. I like warm weather, but I’m struggling to find pants that I won’t sweat through at work, so I wouldn’t mind it dropping into the 70s for a few days. ---
**Author:** ![Like\_Fry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@Like\_Fry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Like_Fry)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/25 "2010-06-24T22:44:00Z")
And I only waiting for the heat in dread, I hate the heat. Best summer ever! (so far at least, knock on wood) ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/26 "2010-06-24T22:48:34Z")
I’m in the Bay Area (not San Francisco itself) and it’s positively cool today. I had to wear a jacket. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/27 "2010-06-24T23:04:09Z")
South Carolina, 98 here today. That’s just the temperature not making allowance for the humidity. Not looking forward to the end of August when it gets really hot around here. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/28 "2010-06-24T23:12:08Z")
It’s a million times worse downtown - it’s not so bad at home where there’s grass and trees and things, but the trip from my parking space over a vast expanse of concrete? God. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/29 "2010-06-24T23:21:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Partly sunny and 68ºF here. Like I said, 80 at 7:00 AM in central Arkansas. I hate you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/30 "2010-06-25T03:05:19Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I’m in the Bay Area (not San Francisco itself) and it’s positively cool today. I had to wear a jacket. Here in western San Francisco it’s been _cold_ all week. It’s not just the lack of sun, it’s the frigid ocean wind that’s driving me crazy. It feels like February. Unfortunately out here in the Sunset we don’t get summer until September. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/31 "2010-06-25T03:38:27Z")
It’s been a lot hotter than normal for this time of year in my part of the world. I think we’ve had 2-3 heat advisories already this month, each lasting for a couple of days. I was a pall bearer in a funeral earlier this afternoon, and the funeral director had pre-positioned an ice chest full of bottled water at the grave site. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/32 "2010-06-25T03:43:36Z")
It finally got hot this week. Normally it gets hot by the end of April. We had the longest, coolest spring ever. Today we went to the creek for the first time this summer, because it’s just been too cold. I’ve been quite happy, except for the part where the kids kept whining that they wanted to swim, and none of the pools had warmed up yet (not to mention it was raining). And playing in the creek is such a big part of summer for us that it’s been weird. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/33 "2010-06-25T03:52:59Z")
Here in the Puget Sound area we just finished 272 straight days below 75 degrees(!). Most of June has been rainy and cloudy. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/34 "2010-06-25T04:27:10Z")
113 today. Yeah, it’s here. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/35 "2010-06-25T04:30:26Z")
Ha! Our summer is in March and April. It cools off to around 100 Fahrenheit by June. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/36 "2010-06-25T05:46:47Z")
The poll answers make no sense, so I’ll just say that No, I am not waiting for the heat to start, it’s already here. Mid-90s for today & yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/37 "2010-06-25T06:42:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Been a cold/wet spring/early summer, hasn’t it? Please say yes, as we moved here last October and I would hate to think that this spring was typical. This year has been insane. It’s normally hot and melting by April and we bitch about the incessant “heat” by May. It seems like the last three years summer has started later and later. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/38 "2010-06-25T09:00:10Z")
High 90s, high humidity, not a breath of moving air for the last 2 weeks. I am not looking forward to “real” summer here in TN. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/39 "2010-06-25T11:01:13Z")
It is, apparently, 64 degrees here today, nothing like the melting temperatures we’ve been promised. Not that I’m complaining though. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377/40 "2010-06-25T11:10:39Z")
June 22 is the Winter Solstice here in the Southern Hemisphere, but it’s not the coldest time of year. Conversely, December 21 is the SUMMER Solstice, but our hottest months are Jan, Feb and even March. In December, the weather is notoriously unpredictable, with oftentimes cold, wet and even snowy times in our alpine regions. So, whatever. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/june-24-are-you-still-waiting-for-the-heat-of-a-summer-to-start/544377.md?page=3)