its 12:28 here and its 103F the high is 106F … we might make it
It’s 34 outside, and we don’t have AC, so I’d guess about 30 inside.
Currently 102 here in the great brown wastes of northeast Wyoming.
London, UK reaches the record breaking temperature of 40.2C, 104.3F
Fortunately this is expected to be a very short heatwave, with temperatures dropping substantially in a day or two.
This in the ‘land that air conditioning forgot’ has been quite a shock. My double glazing seems to keep it cooler indoors at around 30C.
Dear. God. That is just wrong.
And 86 inside may be relatively “cooler,” but it’s far from livable.
Locally, my friend who lives in Dallas texted me last night at midnight that it was 97 there. At midnight. Wrong, too, but not surprising.
FWIW and paradoxically, there are often more heat related deaths in some of the bigger cities north in the US than in the south. The south is nigh unlivable without A/C, so there’s a fair amount of cooling infrastructure available for anybody without A/C, while this is not necessarily the case up north.
For example, the Houston region might record ~10-20 heat related deaths a year while the area around Chicago might see hundreds of such deaths, though Houston is generally much warmer.
So I really hope people are looking out for another and that there’s some kind of emergency sheltering available for those who need it. Those conditions can quickly become deadly, especially for those who are unaccustomed to it.
Yeah, there’s a fair amount of publicity here about places to go hang out during the day when it’s in the 100s-- libraries, community centers, even malls. Of course, you have to be mobile with access to transportation. These high temperatures aren’t a big surprise like they would be in London.
After a late cool/cold spring and cool early start to summer, the temps in my western Canadian city have moved upwards dramatically the last couple weeks. Sunday (July 17) had a high of 37c (about 99F) but yesterday and today (July 19) have forecast highs of 30c (86) F. However, humidity has been higher than we usually get, around 50-70% when we’re usually around 35%.
AC is set for 22c during the day and meat locker cool 18c overnight.
currently 57 degrees and sunny here in the Seattle area. Quite nice. Will get into the 70s today (thank god we have A/C 
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AC at 22C? Wow. I’ve mine set at 80F (~26-27C) and setting it to 76F (~24.5C) feels almost too cold sometimes
As an example of this, in July of 1995, Chicago had a five-day heat wave – high temperatures got to 100F and above (106F on July 13th), and due to very high humidity (dew point at 80F and above), it didn’t cool down much at night – nighttime lows were in the high 70s and low 80s.
The city experienced 739 heat-related deaths during the heat wave, primarily among poorer residents, who either (a) had no air conditioning, (b) could not afford to run their air conditioners, and/or (c) were afraid to open up their windows or sleep outside, due to fear of crime.
The city has (and, had, at that point) cooling centers that they would open up during heat waves, though it appears that they did not activate those cooling centers until late in the crisis.
Ditto that. Mine is currently at 80. I’ll move it to 79 at night. Right now it’s 86 outside, but will hit 100 late this afternoon.
Sorry, I was being a bit tongue and cheek. We don’t have our AC on today. It’s perfect temperature Just hit 70.
I’ve heard of this temperature you call “70”. The Old Ones used to speak of it in hushed, reverent tones. Before they all died of heat stroke.
71F outside my house. I popped out to the store just now and it’s 62F one exit down the freeway. Ah, the microclimates of Santa Cruz county.
The last time I encountered 70F, I was in a beer cooler. 
At 7:30pm with the Sun low in the west and a cloudless sky, it’s 87F/31C outdoors here with a dewpoint of 76F/24C and a gentle breeze; the air is just barely moving. Perfection.
It’s 10:30 p.m. and 87 degrees. The humidity is 76% so it feels like 100. This next week is forecast to be 100 or over every day. We sometimes hit those temps in July and August but very rarely for such an extended period of time. We’ve been in the high 90s since June. I’ve very glad I’m retired and can keep my ass at home.
One August some years ago, a friend visited from Sweden. We went to Beale Street one night and it was about 90 degrees around 9 or 10 p.m. As we were walking from club to club, he said “how do you live here?!”. Welcome to the South. The insects freaked him out, too. He couldn’t believe how loud they are.
Maxed at 106F here in south Dallas today, a few degrees lower than predicted. Gives me hope.
Sadly, for once the lack of humidity makes me honestly fearful. Last report from the local airport at 10PM was 96F, 28% humidity and feels like 95F. It really feels pretty nice outside, but we have wildfires/grass fires happening around the state.
Hehehe, and even if you get used to them in one part of the south you’ll get another group entirely if you move to another. I moved about 30 miles east from Ft. Worth to Dallas. In my Ft. Worth neighborhood, I got the same kind of insects I got when I was growing up in the mid cities or up in Denton. Red wasps, yellowjackets, bees, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, dragonflies, etc. Here in south Dallas, I get velvet ants/cow killers and the wasps whose larvae their young parasitizes - cicada killers.
Neither are aggressive, so I leave them be. But I wasn’t prepared for so many very large wasps dragging cicadas half their size around the yard. It’s kind of brutal to watch, and their holes to bury them in are large. I also wasn’t prepared for an amazingly colored wingless female wasp to be scurrying madly around my deck so fast that I almost suspected that two of them were scurrying around and playing a trick on me. Those velvet ants are quick!
34 C with humility gives a heat index of 47 C, which is 116 F. No clouds today so it feels even hotter.
It’s been in the mid to high 80s, though that’ll be creeping up in the next few days. It did get down to about 75 outside a couple times after thunderstorms.
And inside the house it never dropped below 80 (A/C failure). This was with opening every window as soon as the sun went down, and the temperature dropped; a big box fan in one window made that room pretty tolerable.