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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm in the Western suburbs of Chicago. It's 98 degrees with 107 heat index right now.
AKwannabe
(6,233 posts)98 feels like 108
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BeerBarrelPolka
(1,204 posts)I'm in northern Illinois. Heat index is 114F.
Shit, just checked again. Heat index is 140F
snowybirdie
(5,553 posts)in Chicago. Always a spell of hot, hot weather every summer. Wait til September!
hedda_foil
(16,481 posts)I remember a few days between 99 and 101 with very high humidity in the 50s, but almost none since then. And no A/C back then. I remember watching My Little Margie on someone's TV around 1952, when I was 7, when it was this hot.
snowybirdie
(5,553 posts)and its been I the 110s heat index or higher since May! Wish I could spend summer in Chicago these days.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,746 posts)Cadfael
(1,335 posts)Weather Underground is scaring me
Iwasthere
(3,342 posts)Yes, it was 79% humidity. An index chart doesn't exist that shows that heat feel number. Probably in the mid 140s
vanlassie
(5,891 posts)back in 1995? It was shocking, at the time. (I remember the day because I flew home to California that morning, and it was very hot when we stepped out of the hotel.) Edited to add date and number of deaths: 739 over 5 days.)
greatauntoftriplets
(176,669 posts)Fortunately, that day was cloudy and cooler, and then there was rain. That was better than the heat.
https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/general/1995chicago.htm
former9thward
(33,349 posts)I arrived at the Medical Examiner's office at 2121 W. Harrison in Chicago and the parking lot was full of trucks of dead people. Normally the trucks were used for meat storage while transporting to stores. The smell was intense even in the outside air. Bodies everywhere inside.
vanlassie
(5,891 posts)Horrible.
whathehell
(29,625 posts)I'm definitely staying inside with the AC...My weather app says it will be just as hot tomorrow.
slightlv
(4,117 posts)99 degrees. Heat Index 114.
The cats are melting all over the house... most taking refuge in my bedroom which I keep cool. Unfortunately, the back of the house with the family room (where hubs and I spend most of our time) does not have AC. When it gets too much, I head for the bedroom with the all the four legged critters (who seem to have more sense than their 2-legged "masters!"
I dread the gas and electric bill this month. I just hope my SS check will handle it, and still allow enough for Fancy Feast and a little food for us.
Be careful out there! Just a note... if you have older neighbors, check in on them. My hubby is 72, and absolutely does not feel the heat. He thinks he's just fine. We've had more than a few words as I pull him towards the front of the house where it's cooler. Older people may not feel the heat and its effects as easily as other people might. But like I tell him... it still makes you prey for a stroke or heart attack!
greatauntoftriplets
(176,669 posts)but it just went up to 99 in the near western suburbs. My condo has a full wall of windows facing west, so I will be extremely happy when the sun goes down.
vanlassie
(5,891 posts)Take it from a desert dweller.
Wet tee shirt and a fan to sleep.
greatauntoftriplets
(176,669 posts)Also AC, but it gets warm in here with the sun shining in. Now that the sun is almost gone, it's getting more comfortable.
Thanks for the suggestions.
vanlassie
(5,891 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(176,669 posts)Angleae
(4,634 posts)I love it here.
vanlassie
(5,891 posts)>>> Raymond noted that people die of heat stress at wet-bulb temperatures much lower than 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). For example, the wet-bulb temperature during the June 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave was closer to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius).
Model35mech
(2,047 posts)which is when I went into the military.
Spent roughly 5 years in College Station TX, where 100 degree days were nothing newsworthy.
When I got back to northern IL, I about froze during 'good sleeping weather' when in summer the windows stayed open overnight for lows in the mid to high 50's.
greatauntoftriplets
(176,669 posts)Going back to northern Illinois must have been a shock to your system. I love nights like that.
moonshinegnomie
(2,879 posts)the heat index in madtown and chicago (where im from) is higher than austin right now. (but weve had 2 straight months of this crap)
yesterday was the first day in 6 weeks under 100 but today its 104
elocs
(23,030 posts)Hot? Yes. But by tomorrow it will be over with temps from the 80s to 90, 91. Seasonal.
Yes, those cars leaving Chicago after work on a Friday are mostly heading to Wisconsin to escape.
roamer65
(36,959 posts)Tops this summer I have seen it this year is briefly around 90-92 deg F.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,725 posts)I'm sure I'll be griping about it, as if that helps.
mopinko
(71,526 posts)slept like shit, and had a belly ache all day.
tried to get out and do a bit of gardening late morning, lasted 10 min.
decided to try and catch up on that sleep.
Luciferous
(6,226 posts)from Lake Michigan, and our heat index earlier was 105. It seems like it's cooled off some in the past hour or so.
ProfessorGAC
(69,352 posts)Seems to be peaking in the western suburbs & north.
40 or so miles south of where you are the numbers are 94° & 101.
Ellipsis
(9,153 posts)Sympthsical
(9,969 posts)USA! USA! USA!
Enough to be somewhat meh when walking outside.
So glad I have solar. It's like forty degrees in here.
NowISeetheLight
(3,991 posts)Chicago. Heat waves equal increased shootings? It seems Ive seen this trend in the past. Hopefully it wont be bad.
https://www.businessinsider.com/shootings-in-chicago-tend-to-spike-in-the-summer-heres-why-2018-8
ananda
(30,349 posts)It'll be 105 degree weather for at least another week.
Delphinus
(12,098 posts)NE Indiana, 85, feels like 99.
Grateful for air conditioning and cooling centers they have set up in the city for the unhoused.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Where I am, the temperature has been under 100 4 times since 8 July, and the heat index being 105 or higher has been a day ending in Y for all of it.
Our low temperature hasn't been under 75 since 23 June.
98 would be a welcome change for us.