I CAN'T STAND IT THIS HOT!!! (this will be a short thread,timewise, no doubt)

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It'll be about 6.30pm which is still bright sunlight and boiling hot at the moment ken!

Maybe brolly is the way to go.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems like summer is really becoming less of a season and more just the way things are. Over the past few years it sounds like cities that don't normally see many 90F+ days are getting them (and suffering since they aren't prepared.) Here winter is becoming extinct (I only wore my coat once this winter.) and summer stretches exhaustingly from March through October. I tried to find some charts are something that showed the average temperatures over the past couple of decades to see if this true but I couldn't find any. Anyone know where something like that is?

I did find current yearly info for Austin-average of 111 days above 90°F (32°C) and 198 days above 80°F (27°C). That's almost the whole year! I would like to see if this differs from averages in the 1980s though.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

fuuuuck
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8302/chicagoad3.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

In the UK I expect people are already comparing this Summer to the 'scorcher' of '76 (I think it was that year). Perhaps it will surpass that even. At least we're thwarting that third Ice Age.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

why 3rd?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

38 degrees?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Fucking LA is 23 degrees this week. Not fair.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

You and your wacky Celsius.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ts: celsius vs centigrade

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, lovely summer! Give me 100-110 degrees+ and long pants, huzzah!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate u

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Allah Frog, are you still in the tri-cities? Has this heat got to your brane yet?

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Seattle weather is always so miserable... NOT! (granted, things look a bit scary towards the end of the week, but still a picnic in comparison to the rest)

― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Still in the TCs indeed, for the moment, but I may be moving to LA springish. Heat has yet to cook my brain like an egg, but it did manage to burn my hands today, thanks to superheated metal.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i passed one of those bank signs with the temperature the other day and it said it was 122 degrees!! my own thermometer said only 110, but it's in the shade...

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

okay
twin cities = mpls-stpaul
quad cities = something in iowa
tri-cities = ?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Masala DOsaNut, you are so so cruel! But keep those temps around for August, when I will actually be there to enjoy them.

AF, we should FAP after we both have moved away from this place, to revel in the nostalgia for heat/dust/radioactive and chemical waste.

tri-cities = richland, pasco, kennewick washington (location of the Hanford nuclear reservation).

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks! is there a tri-cities minor or junior hockey team or something?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The Americans

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, really I can't wait to get the hell out of here. Nothing to do with the summer weather though, which is a treat generally. Moreso the general boringness of the area, plus all the crazyass extreme Christians/Mormons. Where're you looking at moving to, Jaq?

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

35C in Bozeman, MT right now, at nearly 6pm.

(obvious) trick: spicy food and hot drinks will cool you right off. your body overcompensates, and you sweat like a motherfucker. then, go stand in front of a fan and feel the sweet, sweet evaporation.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

36 in Charlotte NC.

Damn, I should be getting curry tonight.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

35 C in nyc

but at least i'm not in charlotte!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

40C/104F in Dallas/Ft Worth.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

[xpost]
Hey we just had that Jehovah Witness convention here last weekend - did you not get the personal invite?

Get me back to Seattle.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

39C or so here, plus high winds and dust storm just blew through. Should be well over 40C by the weekend.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Why don't national chains adapt to regional weather patterns? I walked through the mall last week and shops are already starting to hawk winter/back-to-school clothes that no one could conceivably wear for four months. It's like that every year and I assume it has to hurt sales.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

but at least i'm not in charlotte!

OUCH!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The JW's no longer bother me, after the last two to come a calling ended up buried in the back yard. Thought about just moving to Seattle myself, but I get kind of crazy when it is overcast and gloomy too many days in a row.

Upside of loving such heat: When the rest of you have been burnt to cinders by global warming, I and my reptilian friends shall be princes of the earth, lazing on our rocky thrones and soaking up the sun's glorious rays.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

was 37 C today, but 41 C with humidity factor!
i did the spicy food for dinner thing and am sitting in front of a fan - it is working!! also: cold showers. would go swimming but am full of cayenne peppered salmon and mango and avocado. which is SUMMER FOOD GLORY WOW.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I am in total denial and am chanting "Canada is cooler! Canada is cooler!". Toronto weather, I am counting on you!

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit I'm splurging on curry BIG TIME.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

with mangos for dessert!

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, factoring in the 35% humidity, the heat index today topped out at 114F/45.5C.

"If I owned Hell and Texas I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

holy crap.

this part of canada is not cooler today, jaq :( and i doubt about for the rest of the week/month too... too bad you're not going to vancouver - it's pretty much perfect there right now.

― rrrobyn sharkattack battleforcenet (rrrobyn), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

denver has cooled off to a balmy 83F with scattered showers.

it gets really hot here for like 3 weeks in the summer, but most of the time its 80-85F. which is bearable. and no humidity, which is really what makes heat fucking awful.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

oh that's really bad with no humidity mandee!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

heat w/ no humidity is GREAT. it's more of an endurance test than an annoyance. humidity just makes me lose it.

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

MY HAIR IS ALL FRIZZY

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

dear trader joe's string beans prik king: you're a godsend tonight.

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

*yawns* So the high reached 95-plus F (35-plus C) degrees. So what? WELCOME TO SUMMER. Summer is supposed to be stifling hot with blinding sunshine and nary a cloud to protect you. Actually, what I really wanted to say is "welcome to my world and the reason why I'm so grumpy throughout summer". Oh, and air conditioning doesn't solve everything, particularly when you live in a split level and/or when your car's been out in the sun so long that the a/c system doesn't begin to be effective until you're nearly at your destination. I've given up on fighting the heat, anyway. You just have to accept it, get used to stewing in it, and hope that winter will make up for it all.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

screw you, buddy

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

another solution: INNER-TUBING, BITCHES.

I've been out on the Jefferson River, floating in the sun and drinking beerz with pals basically every fucking weekend for the last three weeks. Plus: big cliff AND bridge to jump off!!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Humidex at 44 degrees today. Four days ago I was in perfect Vancouver. AARGHH.

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss my high school job working in a frozen food aisle / freezer on days like this.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

do you miss having to listen to jose féliciano's version of 'light my fire'? bastard

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

screw you, buddy

What a charmer you are.

another solution: INNER-TUBING, BITCHES.

This is a wise answer, though it only works on days when you're not at, um, work. Though could you imagine how office life could be improved if summertime meetings could be held while inner-tubing?

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

You know - I don't want to see ANY of the people I have meetings with wet and/or in bathing suits. Ever.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I am in school!

also: CURRYTIME, MOTHERFUCKA

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

This is almost Houston hot. Where da barbecue at?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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