Hope you don’t mind, Cartooniverse, but I’ve merged this thread with another recent one about the heat.
Very beautifully put, though.
Hi- don’t mind in the least !! Sorry I didn’t see that other thread. All cool, as they say. 
Then there’s the bottlehead flies the size of cocker spaniels…
It’s so hot here two trees were fighting over a dog.
Here in Washington DC, it’s going to be creeping toward 100 as the week goes along, but I’m going to miss it!
I’m traveling to Dallas and then Memphis. :smack:
Urine humor.
Eww.
My club–deranged souls that we are–had an event on Saturday in Garland, TX. (The link shows detailed weather data from an airport about a mile from the site.)
Our events involve wearing costumes, hauling boxes and piles of props around, walking a lot, and swordfighting. We arrived to start setting up around 4:00 PM. Not being quite complete idiots, we aimed for as much of it as possible to run after sundown, but that meant we were setting things up during the heat of the day. For those who don’t care to peruse the handy link above, it was 100F and 33% humidity when we started working, and rose another degree by 5:00PM, when the first team started playing, putting the heat index at about 106F.
It cooled off a bit at around 10:30PM (well, it finally got below 90F, anyway). That was when it rained on us. Did I mention “deranged”?
Me too! Did you get any of the rain on Friday night?
I thought we had a broken water pipe or something when I could hear water splashing out of the gutters, because you know, it couldn’t be raining!
At this moment in St.Paul, MN: 96 degrees, dewpoint 79, ‘feels like’ 115.
Ah yes, the high(er) end of our >140 degree annual weather variance…
More of the same for the next 2 days, then it will allegedly cool down into the 80’s, although the Weather Channel seems to think otherwise.
About three drops of it, at our house (where it counts). Somewhere out in the metroplex, though, it poured so damn hard that it ruined our couch-crashing friend’s plans, and he came home dejected and soaked through.
“What, did you run through the sprinklers?”
“No. It’s raining.”
“Whaaa…?”
So he was 
at not getting to see his friend, and I was that my plants didn’t get more rain. shakes fist at sky
It occurred to me when I came back from running errands on my lunchbreak, panting and dripping with sweat, that if God came down from on high and proclaimed “My people, I am the One who gave you Air-Conditioning” a lot of atheists would convert on the spot in gratitude.
I assure you, it was most definitely rain. I know rain when it falls on my head. 
A player who left early told us Sunday that when the rain started, her mother asked her father what the noise was. She’d forgotten what rain on the roof sounded like.
Ugh ugh ugh. Was so humid yesterday that to sleep I had to set the portable AC on one side of the bed and a fan on the other to circulate the cool air over my bed. Still didn’t sleep well.
A tornado touched down in my hometown. Wasn’t a big one and it just brought down trees and some property damage, but that still sucks.
This simultaneously amused and horrified me …
Or the TL/DR version: & :eek:
HOW HOT IS IT?
I’m sorry, I won’t do that again.
All I know is that the heat index is over 100 and the humidity is out of control; every time I walk outside I feel like Mike Tyson just bashed me in the face with a wet blanket. I’m really glad the power went out last week instead of this. Many people would be dead. Probably not me (although I might have died of carbon monoxide from trying to sleep in my car’s air conditioning), but you can be sure I wouldn’t be sleeping in these temps and humid% without a fan.
It’s so hot at home I went to Florida to cool off.
Dearborn, Michigan: 101, with a heat index of 113.
Clearwater, FL: 81, with a heat index of 83. Ahhhh, sweet relief.
When I went out to get the mail I looked at the thermometer on my front porch. it showed the temperature as 102. I have no idea what the heat index is.
Oh yeah.. it’s egg frying conditions! :eek:
Finger Lakes of New York, up to 100 where I live, 104 in a nearby city. We are not used to this kind of heat here. I’ve got a snow on trees after a blizzard photo as a screensaver; it comforts me. A friend in Seattle who knows how much hot weather disagrees with me sent an article about the lovely cool summer there to torment me; how I wish I were back in Seattle now…
Up here in Vermont - you know, Vermont? Where we have winter and three months of bad skiing? - it was in the 90s today with humidity so thick you could swim. I walked two blocks to get some lunch, wearing the thinnest T-shirt I own and shorts, and when I got back, I had that nice little V of sweat on the neckline of my shirt. It was awful. Even now, at 7:30, it’s reading 92 degrees, with a heat index of 98.
As my favorite niece is fond of saying, “jesus balls it’s hot”. It makes me giggle every time I hear it and I have adopted it as my own. The thermostat in the back of the house in the shade reads 92 at 7pm. I shudder to think what it would read were it in the front of the house in the sun. I’m very tempted to try to fry an egg on the blacktopped driveway, my son should be home soon, I’ll see if I can talk him into it.