I’m in Phoenix, AZ. We hit 112°F/44°C today. Hotter downtown; I think they hit 117°. It’s nasty out there. We went for a walk around the block at around 5PM, and the sun was just beating on us the whole way. Even worse is how quiet it gets. Nobody is walking their dog, no kids playing, all the critters are hunkered down in a hole or under a bush.
This morning I skipped my usual Sunday hike. I was up at 4 AM, but it was 90° out. I can hike in that air, but it leaves me kind of wiped out for most of the day. I think it does more harm than good.
Rain has been the issue here too. Got woken up in the middle of the night by a tornado warning on my phone last night. That’s been a new thing in NJ. In the area where a friend of mine lives they had rock slides wiping out roads. In one way it is a good thing. Last winter there was no snow so without this rain there would have been a lot of water issues.
It’s been fairly normal for me in CO, we had much rain through the beginning of July keeping the high temps away. It is now getting hot, but that is normal for Summer, and it has been hotter, so not terrible. The biggest factor in our weather is the Monsoon, and if that kicks in, we get clouds and thunderstorms every afternoon that keeps the heat down, without it, I just hunker inside with the AC.
It’s kicking my ass. It’s regularly over 40°C/104°F in my area from late June to early September, and I’ve noticed in recent years (now in my early 60s) that it makes me stoopid. Slow, tired, fuzzy-headed and really cranky. Like nobody-should-have-to-put-up-with-me cranky. So, I stay home with the air conditioning and watch TV when there isn’t work to do or an errand to run. And TV programming is just getting worse and worse, probably contributing to my stoopidity… Really, it’s as if I could feel my intellect and energy withering in this damn heat. I like summer less and less.
Sorry for the rant! 
In NE MN it’s been a somewhat cool summer. We had a few strings of days in the 80s. I don’t remember if we reached 90. Many of the mornings have been in the high 40s - low 50s. I almost put gloves on one morning when I walked the dogs. It’s been pretty dry. There’s been only a couple of significant rainfalls. I would like it to be a bit warmer!
It’s been warm here in New England, but I grew up in Texas, so it doesn’t seem unbearable. The humidity on some days, however, is nasty.
Southeastern Georgia, here. It’s been consistently in the low-to-mid 90s, which doesn’t bother me that much, but with the ocean on the east and the Okefenokee on the west, it’s a big, wet blanket if you step outside, which does my asthmatic lungs no good.
I’ve been trying to walk a couple of miles every day, and that’s required not just my maintenance asthma med, but (after a couple of walks where I had that feeling, which I’m sure you’re familiar with) also a couple of shots of albuterol.
I’m looking into getting a treadmill to use in the utility room. I’m all for fresh air, but not when it strangles me before I exit the driveway.
I wonder if there are any malls around here that are still open? Becoming one of those “Seven AM walkers” might not be a bad idea, after all.
I’m in Houston and it’s pretty fucking hot. I’ve never liked summer (as an adult) unless I’m at the beach. Walking outside feels like getting punched in the face with a sauna, and if I step out of the shade of my patio - AAAGGGHH! Too hot!
I can water my plants (mostly on the patio) early in the morning and it’s not so bad, but I can’t stand it in the afternoon. Every day is almost 100° or more. And we need more rain! Our roads are buckling.
I feel for you. We lived in Houston for five years; when you get rain, it’s a month supply in half an hour (better pull off the road, you can’t see thru the windshield), the ground can’t absorb all that water that quickly, so it all pools in the Interstate off-ramps (good thing you pulled off the road), then the bayous all back up, then the streets. Some day, all that water might make it to Galveston Bay – LOOK OUT! – here comes Tuesday’s deluge!
Did I forget anything? 
Nope, that’s about right! 
How about “We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun…”. You’re welcome.
It doesn’t seem all that much hotter than normal to me here (NE Kansas). Usually by this time of year the grass has turned brown and I only have to mow every two or three weeks (until after Labor Day when it cools down again) but the grass is still green and I’m mowing every weekend.
Just what I was going to say about central Kansas. Right now it’s 91; the ‘normal’ high is 93 for today. We’ve had a lot of rain since May, so everything is green right now. More storms forecast for tonight as well.
I feel for you folks who are getting scorched or flooded.
I relate to everyone in this thread and appreciate the responses. I am sad nobody responded to my second question: how do you feel knowing this is going to be one of the coolest summers in the rest of your life?
I don’t remember where I heard that but it really struck me. Here in Colorado we have been relatively normal this summer, maybe even a bit below average, but the records being set world wide like 19 days above 110 degrees for Phoenix is most likely going to be a happy memory in 10-20 years. What do you think about that?
I guess it would depend on why you ask, what emotion or reaction you’re hoping for. It’s a complex topic in many ways.
I think, for one thing, that I’m not at all sure that I’m going to last another 20 years. While a few of my family were that long-lived, none of them had my heart condition.
And, for another, that while the average will be up: averages are averages. So in any given year, there’s hope that it’ll be cooler.
And, for a third: that while the Southeast’s climate may have followed me up here, at least I’m really glad that I didn’t settle any further south than I did.
And, for a fourth, what I’ve already said: that I’m afraid we’ve screwed ourselves. The question that remains is not whether we’ve done so, but how badly we’ve done so.
How about “Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies”?
Neil lately sings that as “Mother Nature on the run in the 21st century”.
Near Indianapolis, and it’s a warm -to-hot summer, but not that much warmer than normal, if at all. Rainfall’s on track for the average. I feel lucky,