It's hot as hell!

[Liberal_in_LA]

Actually, it's over 100 right now in the Valley area of Los Angeles. How about where you are?

[tridim]

1. In Denver, working on a record of consecutive 90+ degree days.

Looks like it might hit 100 Monday. :(

It really is a dry heat though, after living in Kansas City for 18 years I can take desert heat with no problem.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. crazy weather here. It rained in Los Angeles Friday! Then got hot, so it's been a bit humid

[aquart]

2. 93 in Manhattan.

This is when I am actually grateful for a shower in the kitchen.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. shower in the kitchen?

[NYC_SKP]

27. Tub/shower in kitchen very common in NYC tenement apartments.

I had one in my Houston Street apartment.

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. I've never seen such a thing.

[K8-EEE]

66. I saw that in my friend's Battery area NYC apt but it burned down

It was a cool old building!

[NYC_SKP]

71. Tenements were once the dominant residential building type.

...most have been remodeled so you might not find many that are original.

Tenements, walk-ups, dumbbell and railroad flats, all kinds of names for what constituted mass housing.

Typically, three rooms or four rooms only one of which faced the street or the rear, the other two rooms having windows to an air shaft and view of a brick wall or the neighbor's window.

The middle plan below has four apartments on each floor, and the third plan was often broken into four apartments per floor, too.

Bathtubs were in the kitchen to keep the plumbing together.

[Liberal_in_LA]

78. I see. I think many 1 bedrooms apartments back the kitchen to the bathroom to

keep plumbing together

[Recursion]

81. I had one like that in Chelsea

People still don't believe me when I describe it.

[starroute]

86. Those cabinets hit my nostalgia button

We lived on the Upper West Side and had a proper bathroom, but those cabinets on the left look very familiar. The drawers with the curved handles that you had to hook your fingers under from beneath. The pull-out cutting-board above the middle drawer. The cubby area between the drawers and the cabinets where we kept vitamins and miscellaneous junk in a couple of shoe boxes. And the painted-over glass cabinet doors with those twisty little latches. All identical.

It seems to me at least one friend of mine who lived in the East Village in the 60's did have the tub-in-the-kitchen setup, though. The toilet -- which had an overhead tank with a pull chain -- was in a separate little room, but everything else was out in the open.

[aquart]

94. OLD railroad flat in a brownstone.

No proper bathroom. Pathetic tiny kitchen. A subway on each corner. Rent stabilized.

[AtomicKitten]

3. Here in SF, we had the heat on last week a couple times.

[dana_b]

21. wow - the Bay Area micro climates are weird!

I live in Pleasant Hill and it's been hot this last week. A/C on almost every day. today is the coolest, so far. Probably will see high 80s.

[AtomicKitten]

24. It's actually colder during the day. At night I always leave a window open.

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. It's weird how the heat builds during the night. I wake up at 4am feeling hotter than it was at 11p

[dana_b]

39. see - very different again

we are hot at 1000 a.m. It gets increasingly so until about 5:00-6:00 p.m. and then it finally starts to cool off. At 2:00 a.m. I can pull the covers up around myself.

[Odin2005]

49. LOL, you SFers have really wacky weather!

[Book Lover]

76. Almost at that point here in Pacifica

We've got an open-window system going here, where certain ones just stay open, and others have to close because of the night cold. Honestly, I feel awful saying that: I've got friends and family sweating all over the world.

[KakistocracyHater]

103. I lived there way back in the day

what area are you in, Park Pacifica, or near the beach, Linda Mar Blvd. etc. Haven't been back since 1986

[LWolf]

4. 77.

High forecast for the 80s later this afternoon; lows in the 30s.

Greatly appreciated after a few days in the 90s. No air conditioning here.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. lucky you

[LWolf]

11. Well, I lived in So Cal most of my life.

I grew up in the Valley, and lived in the AV for 25 years after that.

I moved north to escape the heat.

My son is still in So Cal. He's been taking his laptop to the library this last week to hang out, just to get cool.

[pinboy3niner]

40. It's 102 in the AV now, but shouldn't get too much higher

And tomorrow it's supposed to cool down to 97. Woo hoo! :)

[LWolf]

55. All my friends will be celebrating.

:toast:

[monmouth]

7. 87 in West Palm Beach, with a breeze..LOL...n/t

[Heidi]

8. 81 F., 51 percent humidity, 9:32 pm,

no air conditioning, Ticino, southern Switzerland.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. sounds horrible!

[Heidi]

15. Pfffffft.

It's nowhere near as bad as church camp in Oklahoma in July...in many, many ways.

[MineralMan]

37. Now that sounds like an interesting story...

Do tell.

[gateley]

9. Currently 55 and overcast in Seattle, supposed to reach about

73 -- Fine by me! We had a few days of mid 90's weather last week, we don't handle it well.

My best friend lives in the Valley (NoHo, but I'm supposed to tell people he lives in Santa Monica :7) - and he just told me he's had his air conditioner on non-stop for the past few days.

My heart goes out to you - I HATE hot weather! :hug:

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. ha ha...so much neighborhood snobbery in los angeles. lol

[slackmaster]

12. 77 and partly overcast in San Diego

Not too hot for yard work.

:hi:

[petersjo02]

14. 81 in rural West Branch, Iowa

Fine in the shade.

[Cleita]

17. 70 degrees in Pismo Beach, CA. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

18. about 68 with some overcast

The SF Valley hot is a special brand of hot. Good luck with it.

[Dogmudgeon]

19. 93 in Suburban Philly

Two days ago, it was 97, with a dew point of 72.

--d!

[tularetom]

20. 94 here at my daughter's house in the Central Valley

heading for 104 today. The low this morning was almost 80.

It gets hot at our house too but at 1800 ft altitude at least it cools off a bit at night.

[vanlassie]

83. I just came in and it is 106 in Fresno. 120 inside the car tho!

[fizzgig]

22. seventh straight day of 90+ in northern colorado

and we've been flirting with 100 the past few days. i'm completely miserable.

[flamingdem]

46. Where did you get that fuzzy animation thingy? nt

[azmouse]

23. 107

It's cooled down a few degrees from last week when we were above 112.

[Liberal_in_LA]

26. whoa!

[azmouse]

30. And don't believe the "dry heat" nonsense either...

It's been very humid but no storms are developing. July and August are the worst months in the Phoenix area.

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. I believe it. Last time I came out there, I drove to the Biosphere II, hot & not a tree in sight

BTW, I loved your downtown library. It was really cool.

[geckosfeet]

25. 87 in central MA right now. It's the humidity that kills ya.

;)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. 59 here in SW Washington. One of the reasons we bailed from L.A. in 1981.

[Liberal_in_LA]

31. come back...

prop values are dropping and they're widening the 405

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

36. The only things I really miss are Eucalyptus trees and mockingbirds.

The heat I can live without.

"I don't trust air that I can't see." Bill Russell on his radio show back in the '70s when asked why he moved to L.A.

[w8liftinglady]

89. can I come over?You won't even know I'm there...

it won't be 59 here until December...at night!

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

32. Around 92 in the mountains of Colorado - at 7,000 feet above sea level

That's hot for up here.

[Individualist]

33. 93; heat index 98.

[msongs]

35. actually, 100's is normal for so cal valleys this time of year nt

[mnhtnbb]

38. 86 in Chapel Hill, NC. Very pleasant compared to upper 90's and some 100 degree days

we've already had this summer. And it's not August, yet, when we get hottest weather.

[dsc]

82. damn 95 here in raleigh

[mnhtnbb]

92. Trees. Thermometer is in the shade. Don't know what we'd do without our trees.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

112. Wow I love Chapel Hill

I lived there for 5 years from 1997-2002. Miss it a lot.

[Steely_Dan]

41. Yeah, well

It was hotter than Hooker in Heater today and hotter than Heater in Hellmouth.
(It's hot as Hell in here)

[Odin2005]

42. Much cooler and drier than yesterday here in Fargo, 77F.

Yesterday it was approaching 90F and the dew point was a oppressive 73F.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

44. 90s and humid here, 50 miles due north of NYC. What's been unusual about this heat

is that when it's been this hot in the past, we'll have short lived thunderstorms in the late afternoon. This has not been happening this year. :(

[Earth Bound Misfit]

45. 93 with 44% humidity in Central Joisey.

[Lebam in LA]

47. Culver City about 80

Much cooler than yesterday. There is a breeze right now so that helps alot. About 5 the air just stops moving and it will get hotter

[Liberal_in_LA]

50. I was in Mar Vista Friday when it began raining. n/t

[Still Sensible]

48. In OK, 98 degrees, heat index 110... yuck! n/t

[MissDeeds]

51. Oh yeah

I'm not far from Kansas City and we are in an "excessive heat advisory" which will extend into Monday evening, making it three days running. As if the heat is not enough, the humidity is off the charts!!! We are miserable...aside from the fact that we are in red-state hell. The upcoming week is expected to be likewise hot and humid. All I want is to live in New England.

:cry:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

52. 110 headed to 114 in Palm Springs

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. ! n/t

[Zorra]

54. Sedona, AZ - About 100 degrees, clouds rolling in, monsoon season is here. nt

[Obamanaut]

56. 91, N. Fla, 4:35 pm nt

[a la izquierda]

57. 100 degrees in Norman, OK

Heat index is 105. I haven't left the house today, except to let my dogs run around for a few minutes. It's too damn hot. But this is very normal for OK in July. You just get up and do your outside stuff really early in the a.m.

[givemebackmycountry]

58. 90 even in Orlando, Fl -

Just drove back from Hudson, Florida which is north of Tarpon Springs on the Gulf side.
Spent yesterday cleaning out my Mom's gutters on her roof and was drenched by the time I was done.

The ride back home this morning was beautiful.
Drove the entire way home with my window rolled down, and my arm out the window so I have one tanned arm and one white one.

I have to figure out how to drive with my head out the window so I can get a red neck.
Maybe I'll finally fit in down here but as soon as I open my mouth...
They know I'm not from "around here".

Of course when you start every sentence with "stupid fucking Republicans" it's not hard to figure me out.

:hippie: :hi: :rofl:

BUT, my rep is Alan Grayson so it's ALL GOOD.
Love that guy.

[givemebackmycountry]

59. 90 even in Orlando, Fl -

oops, DU hiccuped!

[Urban Prairie]

60. 88 degrees, muggy and overcast here in the Detroit metro area

Canada and Europe describe their temperatures in degrees C, and using that measurement is within too small of a range, IMO. The temperature being 31 degrees Celsius here doesn't seem to be that "hot", but 0 degrees Celsius is 32 F, that seems too cold. Sub-zero cold in Celsius would be for example, -6 when in Fahrenheit it is still above zero @ 20 degrees.

[w8liftinglady]

61. 99-104 w/heat index..south of Dallas

[whatchamacallit]

62. I'm by you and it's stupid hot

I believe the SF Valley will be uninhabitable in a couple of years. :banghead:

[Liberal_in_LA]

64. Hello neighbor

[whatchamacallit]

67. Howdy!

:hi:

[K8-EEE]

63. Hey lib, sweltering along with you in steamy North Hollywood

I had to put shade cloth over my zuchinis because they were sort of cooking on the vine!

[Liberal_in_LA]

74. sweltering is the rightt word!

[tammywammy]

65. 76...

inside my house.

An awful 101 (feels like 104) outside. I'm staying in. :)

[sakabatou]

68. 74 where I live right now

[northernlights]

69. 90ish again here in Maine

warm, warm winter, early hot spring, early hot summer. Lots of raspberries, anyway.

[etherealtruth]

72. Same here in Michigan ... sans the raspberries :(

[Donnachaidh]

70. 82 and humid in Atlanta

We're catching a bit of a break, but expect extreme thunderboomers anytime now. And we're usually in the 90's around here.

[Liberal_in_LA]

73. Let's blame Obama for this weather

just kiddin'

[Donnachaidh]

77. Nah - I'll blame Sonny Perdue

That apish f*ckwit deserves to be blamed for EVERYTHING wrong in Georgia!

[hobbit709]

75. Currently 95° with Heat Index 100°

[yella_dawg]

109. We hit a heat index of 119 a couple of days ago.

Wichita Falls area. Today we're in a cooling spell. 98/114.

[Cetacea]

79. June was the hottest on record, globally.

I believe that July will do the same.

[Recursion]

80. 92 in Boston. BOSTON.

This after a June where it never got above 65. The old-timers who still have a feel for the weather say this means a very cold winter on the way.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

84. In Chicago

It's 88 and partly cloudy.

[SteveG]

85. In the mid-atlantic we are on day # 4 of 90+

So far, this has been the hottest summer on record here. We've had a couple days that have broken 100.

[boomerbust]

87. 90 in eastern Wisconsin

Funnel cloud touchdown an hour ago near Cleveland Wi. Cars overturned on highway 43.

[w8liftinglady]

88. Wisconsin is looking a lot like Texas this summer-dang!

My dad was from there

[Tsiyu]

90. low to mid 80's nice breeze, light rainshowers in between sunshine

here in the hills of Tennessee.

Been much hotter so we with no AC are enjoying the respite.


Sorry for those of you sweltering.

[MilesColtrane]

91. 99 degrees

103 heat index

[maynard]

93. Viva Las Vegas....114 degrees

We call it the blow-dryer effect.

[zappaman]

95. great

headed to vegas tomorrow.
ouch.

[MilesColtrane]

98. "Yeah, but it's a dry heat."

I've never understood that line when someone spouts it.

114 is 114!

[Bonobo]

96. 88 degrees (31) in Himeji, Japan. nt

[pinboy3niner]

97. I grew up in the Valley

Near Lassen and Balboa, in what was then called Sepulveda. We lived next to the Falk Ranch, which was owned by Betty Grable and Harry James--the actress and the trumpet player/bandleader.

We didn't have A/C, so on the REALLY hot days I'd be hanging out with a friend in my backyard, both of us sitting up against the block wall, and the conversation always went like this:

"Whadda you wanna do?"
"I dunno, whadda you wanna do?"
"I dunno, whadda you wanna do?"
"I dunno, whadda you wanna do?"

You'd be surprised how long this ritual could go on, LOL! But the truth was, in that heat we scarcely had the energy to move.

The best of the hot days were those when my dad or a neighbor kid's dad would pile a whole bunch of us in the car and drive us to a public swimming pool in Panorama City. Even the name of the pool sounded like heaven: Crystal Plunge.

Somehow, we always managed to survive the heat. And, no matter how hot it got, summer was always over WAY too soon. :)

[Liberal_in_LA]

100. I lived near Lassen and Balboa until a few years ago. I guess that area is Northridge or Chatsworth

[pinboy3niner]

104. The name changed from Sepulveda to North Hills in '91

I looked it up and confirmed my recollection (I left there 20 years before the name change, but returned to visit friends and relatives).

Residents of the western part of Sepulveda petitioned for the name change to dissociate themselves from the higher crime and drug activity in the eastern part (East of the San Diego Freeway). The funny part (something I didn't know) is that six months after the name change, the eastern residents ALSO changed their name to North Hills, defeating the westerners' purpose.

In the end, "The new North Hills would have almost the same boundaries as the old Sepulveda--Balboa Boulevard on the west, Lassen Street on the north, Pacoima Wash on the east and Roscoe Boulevard on the south."

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-22/local/me-92_1_north-hills

[Liberal_in_LA]

105. lots of areas previously named 'Van Nuys' made name changes also.

SFV went crazy with the name changes in the 80s and 90s.

[pinboy3niner]

111. Yeah. People always trying to protect their property values...

and pretending crime only occurs elsewhere. I was never sure about the Van Nuys boundaries. All I remember is cruising 'the Boulevard' in the '60's, the radio cranked, and stopping by Mike's Pizza, the hangout for us Monroe HS kids. When I moved to the AV many years later and told someone I'd gone to Monroe, their response was, "Oh, drive-by high?" :)

[JerseygirlCT]

99. Been pretty warm...

though personally if there was a hell, I know it would be cold.

Warm, I can stand. Cold, I hate.

[KakistocracyHater]

101. 99, dew point 52ish, I get wheezy when the dew point is in the 50s

& headachy. I guess I'm in the 'sensitive' class.

[marmar]

102. It finally cooled into the 80s here in SE Michigan.....

It's been around or above 90 for weeks.

[AngryOldDem]

106. In the mid-80s here in Indianapolis with high humidity.

And today, I am actually comfortable. It beats highs in the 90s with high humidity.

[Subdivisions]

107. The climate here in N. Texas has changed (or is changing)...

Usually it's hot as hell here. However, over the past few summers the climate in my part of Texas has not only cooled but the humidity that makes the heat that much more unbearable has been conpicuously absent.

Almost everyone I talk to agrees that it's much more tolerable these days than it used to be. Indeed, I don't dread having to walk my pup and it actually feels good to be out in the sun.

But then there is still August to come. If August doesn't illicit a complaint from me re: the temperature, then something definately has changed.

[shanti]

108. that's summertime normal here in sacramento

i stay inside with the AC cranked ;-)

[paparush]

110. 84 in Asheville, NC

Don't move here. Its a terrible place. Stay away, stay awaaaaay!

:-)