Enough with the HEAT!

[yella_dawg]

Our first triple digit day was May 8, six weeks before the official start of summer.

Three weeks later, it hit 109.

Fifty nine triple digit days this year so far. (Not counting today - it's 8:00 am and 90 degrees.)

All this according to official weather records.

I've had enough.

[liberal N proud]

1. I will take heat any day over this:

These conditions are right around the corner here in Cleveland, so I will bask in the heat as long as I can and not complain about it.

[yella_dawg]

2. Well! I've been put in my place, haven't I?

[Shandris]

4. I'm with ya Yella. Cold is much easier to deal with than heat IMO.

You can always put on more clothes. You can't start removing layers of skin, though. :hi:

Hang in there, and here are some Good Morning Let's Hope the Heat Wave Breaks Soon vibes for ya today!

[Odin2005]

32. HEY, that's my line!

"You can always put on more clothes. You can't start removing layers of skin, though."

:rofl: :hi:

[sammytko]

6. I also prefer the heat to the cold - it was horrible last winter

Cold and dry. Now its hot and dry, but at least I can go outside and don't have to worry about my pipes freeing up. I've been trying to spend more time outside since I feel that for me only, not y'all, I'm getting too AC dependent. I don't want to have to live in a bubble.

[Jakes Progress]

7. I call crock.

Have you ever spent thirty days with highs over 100 and lows never below 85. it is not normal, and I doubt many would do that without complaint.

Days of below freezing are also not right. Why would someone think that is not something to complain about.

If you want empathy or kudos for surviving winter storms, them be a little less clueless when someone else complains. It is unseemly.

[sammytko]

12. It happens every summer here in s. texas - August is our hottest month

July was just an appetizer.

[liberal N proud]

35. Just expressing my prefernce to hot weather over cold

Knowing the the cold will be here in a few short months.

[Jakes Progress]

43. And that you won't ever complain about it.

uh huh.

[liberal N proud]

44. Not the heat

At one time, but then I have endured too many Cleveland, never ending winters.

[Jakes Progress]

45. Walk a mile, walk a mile

I've Been there. Done that. And I'll still wager that if you spent 35 days of highs of 105 and lows of 85, you would complain. You would be perfectly in your rights. Or try a month of 95 with no air conditioning. We have neighbors who moved from the north to escape the nasty winters. Guess what. They're complaining now. They're human. You?

[theophilus]

19. Do you feel humans are causing the warming of the planet? We need

to hope and work for "normal", imo. We need to stop spewing CO2 into the atmosphere. It is turning the oceans into acid baths and raising temps and humidity levels. When someone acts like the killing of our natural world is o.k. with them if they didn't have to shovel snow in a normal winter then I wonder if that person understands the gravity of our situation. I love cold, personally but I am not rooting for 70 degree days in Arkansas in July...even though the temp would be very pleasant. Crops would fail and plant life would die, etc. Enough with the "I love heat". We need to stand united for normal.

[a simple pattern]

39. This right here.

We're literally suffocating ourselves and on the way to starving ourselves too with this insistence on fossil fuels, particularly coal.
And no, nukes aren't the answer.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. Seconded.

Give me a swimming pool and I'm perfectly fine with the heat. Cold, on the other hand....

[leftynyc]

29. Not me

And I speak as someone who spent 5-1/2 hours on a JFK runway after flying for 8 hours due to that day after Christmas storm. I'd do that again in a heartbeat if I never had to see another 90+ degree day. Heat and humidity suck.

[Odin2005]

31. During the heat wave we were WISHING for that in Fargo!

[RebelOne]

36. I'll take the cold weather any day.

I'm a winter person. I love cold weather. But living in Georgia, we do not get the brutal winters as the north does. Our weather this year was the worst since 1993 when we had the blizzard. But I didn't mind it at all. The only problem was driving because the roads were so iced over. And we don't have the equipment to salt and sand all the roads.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. We set an all time high temp record yesterday of 115F. We've also

set a new record for the most consecutive days with temps above 100F. I don't generally mind the heat, but this year is really getting to me.

[muffin1]

5. I'll take snow any ol' day over this unbearable heat and humidity!

:toast:

[Obamanaut]

8. It does get hot in July/August. I would much rather ride the motorcycle

in this weather than in temps near freezing.

But that's just me.

[CBGLuthier]

9. It rained yesterday so it only got to 107

They thought it would get to 110 and it will still be 108 today but so far it is cloudy and a cloudy day never looked better.

[Shagbark Hickory]

10. My complaint is when the overnight lows don't go lower than 70. Because that's when

it's uncomfortable 24 hours a day just about.

Out west where it may get up to 110 degrees for a high but down to 50 or 60 degrees for a low well at least you got a very comfortable overnight. Spend the day in the AC

[Jakes Progress]

16. I hear that.

DFW this week had a record high for a low temperature. We haven't been below 80 for more than a week and the 10 day forecast says the same. This is not pleasant.

I mostly feel really sorry for the parts of the country where air conditioning isn't common. Even 90 is unbearable then.

[Shagbark Hickory]

26. LAst week when it got really hot in NYC, the forecast low one night was for 87!

I guess we have it relatively good here with lows in the low to mid 70's. Especially since air conditioning is more common here.

[raccoon]

38. Just be glad this isn't the "good old days" before air conditioning.

I know I am!


Edited to add: I feel for you Texans. :hug:

[justabob]

22. It doesn't go below 80 here

It IS the worst part about the heat. I can deal with some hot during the day, but when it is 86 at dawn? Just shoot me.

[Shagbark Hickory]

24. That shouldn't be a difficult request in your state.

:silly:

[justabob]

27. true

:evilgrin: :spank:

[ensho]

11. sorry to say but the heat will continue and will get worse as time passes

global warming continues

[MuseRider]

13. I am so sorry for you yella_dawg, all of

you. All of us. Ours just broke, finally after hitting 112 day before yesterday, after an almost dry July and not much in June our rainless summer has also broken. Hopefully this will help push some of the dome around and help all the rest of you who are still stuck in it. I am not counting out the fact that it is August, plenty of time for the temps to come roaring back, but for today this is heaven.

59 is a lot of triples. We normally average 6, so far we have had 22 or 23, not even close to 59. I can't imagine.

I think we need to get used to this.

[MissDeeds]

14. I hear ya!

It was 114 here day before yesterday, and we've had 30 days of 100+ temperatures this summer. For several weeks running the temperature has been in the mid to high 90s at midnight. Really not looking forward to August which is typically our hottest month.

Hubby and I are hoping to move out of the Midwest asap to get away from the incessant heat and humidity. We love cold weather and snow!

[paparush]

15. No a.c. here in the mtns of NC. It's getting a tad warm up here too.

[Jakes Progress]

17. That's terrible.

Here in north Texas we hole up in the house all day. Sort of like the snow-bound people getting cabin fever, we get house happy.

[Jakes Progress]

18. Here's mine. Took a walk at 11:00 last night. 97 degreees.

We had 110 at 4:00 pm.

My wife and I both had ancestors who moved to north Texas farming in the 1870's. No air conditioning then. They were hardy. Or crazy. (Hell, they were probably both.)

[Rochester]

20. I hate heat

I'm north of the worst of this, but it's still been unbearable.

[justabob]

21. AMEN

It is less bad in Dallas than what you are dealing with, but dear dog, it is hot. We are a week away from breaking the record in infamous 1980. Yay. I think we are at day 34 or so consecutive, 40+ total for the year. It is just awful, and shows no signs of letting up.... ever.

[dtexdem]

23. Yeah, I don't like Miami teams, either.

;-)

[RebelOne]

37. If you lived in Miami, you would also hate that city.

I lived there most of my life until I moved here to North Georgia. The heat there is the worst because of the high humidity.

[Chisox08]

25. I hate the Heat as well.

I'll take a cold winter day over this unbearable heat any day. One more thing shoveling snow is great exercise.

[Odin2005]

30. A couple weeks ago Fargo was the most humid place on Earth.

A Dew point of 88F and a heat index of 134F.

This is FARGO, known for snow and brutal cold, not heat.

The weather has gone insane.

[hugo_from_TN]

33. Lebron is insufferable. Agreed.

[okieinpain]

34. checking this post to see if someone was going to blame

president obama for not standing up to the sun and demanding cooler temperatures. he's such a caver.

[kentauros]

40. What heat?

:shrug:



:evilgrin:

:hi: fellow Texan!

[Javaman]

41. It's something like 45 plus days of 100 plus right?

I'm in Austin, by the way. I feel your pain.

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. I agree!!! Last night at 9:00 on my patio thermometer, it read 100 degrees.

Worst summer I can recall in the 18 yrs I've lived in San Antonio.


Too damn hot to go outside.

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