It's hot out

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[A930Rocket]

I worked on my car today, replacing the upper ball joint on the right side. I set up a tent and also used my squirrel cage blower with a mister attached. The mister didn’t quite do what I wanted. It may have helped lower temperatures but it made everything wet. I turned the mister off.

I should’ve done it this morning, but did not start till 1 o’clock and it was blazing hot. Completely and totally wore me out.

Edit: I don’t get the sun in that area until about 5 o’clock. I wish I could build a shed roof overhang, but I’m sure the HOA would shoot my idea down.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

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I should’ve done it this morning, but did not start till 1 o’clock and it was blazing hot. Completely and totally wore me out.
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I feel you, my brother!

I've come to accept the fact that all the stuff I want to do here is going to take a LOT longer - until we get into our cooler season.

Until then I will pick and choose what time of day to do what. And also how many and how long taking a break back inside to cool my head & body back down!

Another strategy is to wait until late in the day after a nice long rainstorm. Which is what happened today. Heck, I went on a 16 mile bike ride at 6:30pm and didn't even break a sweat! Then came home and worked on a few odds and ends before finishing up right at dark. It was sublime!

Oh and yesterday my "backup" generator was delivered. Gotta have backups!

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by Baz

I feel you, my brother!

I've come to accept the fact that all the stuff I want to do here is going to take a LOT longer - until we get into our cooler season.

Until then I will pick and choose what time of day to do what. And also how many and how long taking a break back inside to cool my head & body back down!

Another strategy is to wait until late in the day after a nice long rainstorm. Which is what happened today. Heck, I went on a 16 mile bike ride at 6:30pm and didn't even break a sweat! Then came home and worked on a few odds and ends before finishing up right at dark. It was sublime!
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I’m going to replace the 3 inch level with a 4 inch spindle lift on my truck. There are some suspension issues with the level, I’m hoping the lift will correct. I have all the parts except the spindles, which should be here Tuesday.

That said, instead of next weekend, I’m going with your idea and going to wait for cooler weather in September or October. Unless a cool weather weekend pops up between now and then.

Since this is my DD for work, I can’t spread it out over a period of weekends.

[flatbutt]

I give up. I'm trying to build a small ground level deck to park my trike on. Ground level means digging and digging here is a CHORE. It's glacial till which means rocks, rocks and rocks.

I've got the digging done (that took about 15 hours spread out over several days) and the in-ground beams are in place with most of the deck planks tacked down. It's just too hot for me. No, it's 100F but it's still too H&H for me so sunset patrol it is.

Fark me running.

[craigster59]

It's been consistently triple digits here for the last couple weeks and no end in sight. My electric bill last month was $591.

I noticed the little metal "sensor" on my F150 front brake pads was announcing his arrival so need to do a brake job all around. No cooling off in the near future and I have all the pads and rotors. With the strikes going on I don't want to pay someone for a job I can do. I talked with a guy who has a warehouse I can do the work in early in the morning. Probably tackle it Thursday.

[Rawknees'Turbo]

Originally Posted by Baz

Got my utilities bill today.

$216.28 out the door.

Electric usage down from same month last year: 1,045 from 1,428 kWh

Bill includes water, electric, sewer, garbage pickup, taxes, yada yada....

Last months was $182.62.

Not too shabby......

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

CoServe here, my only choice.

Been going up $200 a month for the last couple of months.

Peaked last summer at just under $1k for utilities in one month.

Prior to the freeze debacle and all the providers having to finance the debt the most I'd ever paid in 15 years was $450.

I used 1924 kWh last month in my small, three bedroom house built in the 1960s (can't remember square footage - need to look it up), which is 42% more than similar sized homes in the area, and that is with just me here (most homes around here have families, and/or multiple adults living in them).

My daily usage graphs are hilarious as the kWh consumption is low and steady until between 1:00-2:00AM when it explodes; that is the time I have all three of my a/c units running full bore (3 ton central, 2 ton mini split, 8000 BTU window unit), and for the past three weeks or so it is typically still in the 90s at that time so it takes a lot of electricity to get this place into the deep freeze that I like.

My current billing cycle is predicted to go well over 2K kWh, which will be an all time record for me. It sure seems likely based on the burn ass forecast for as far ahead as forecasts go.

[Rikao4]

this is were folks babble bout it being dry heat and all that..
thank the deities..
I gut's a Pool..

Rika

[flatbutt]

I'm wishing I was a morning person so I could ride my bicycle. I haven't ridden in two weeks! Too hot.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It was in the 60s this morning in Oklahoma City. Just amazing weather for late July.

At 4:02 in the afternoon it is up to 87 for the high. I could get used this weather. It will be back to the 90s in a few days, so typical July weather.

Wow, nice. We've been 80º in the mornings for weeks, but for the past 4-5 days it's been 76º, and for the rest of the week, they are predicting temps down around 72-73º. Our highs are only supposed to be 97-99º too which is pretty exciting (an improvement from 100-103º).

In 5-6 weeks, I suspect the temps will start falling. I usually start to see the direction of the wind change and lower temps start showing up around labor day.

[matthewb0051]

We almost got a thunderstorm on Sunday (parts of the city were luckier than my hood). I was working on one of my kid's Land Rovers and was very happy when it rolled through and the temp dropped about 20 degrees. Almost inhabitable for humans at that point.

[Scott Douglas]

93* and climbing here in Surf City adjacent. Sun feels brutal when you're out in it.

We're closing up the house, slowly and my wife will have the a/c on when it reaches 83* inside.

[flatbutt]

Well this is nuts:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=ocean+temp+in+florida+bay&form=ANNNB1&refig=868cd4feb32e49958cb143d6f4d5d7e4

Ocean water at 100F?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Well this is nuts:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=ocean+temp+in+florida+bay&form=ANNNB1&refig=868cd4feb32e49958cb143d6f4d5d7e4

Ocean water at 100F?

I was wondering how that was possible, even in a heat wave, but in one of the articles, it said that the water in manatee bay is full of silt and muddy so it absorbs heat more readily, and the salinity is lower (I wonder if that's because there's more water coming into the bay from freshwater, inland sources). Still, that's a crazy hot temp. I certainly wouldn't want to swim in it.

[speeder]

Heat is a nasty thing and Florida is a nasty place where even the water is hot. No relief in sight.

[rwest]

I just returned from Las Vegas Thursday evening and it was getting to near 110 each day. It actually felt better than being in MN at 90 degrees. Vegas was so dry, just felt like checking the oven to see if the cookies were done- not the swampy humid air like in MN.

I did a lot of outside walking and even a 2 mile run Thursday morning making for 25,000 steps in one day!

I don’t think MN has seen 100F in the metro area yet this year, but I could be wrong.

[pete3799]

High of 82...currently 57. Ben raining most of the day....but it's a wet rain.

[berettafan]

Getting to be dangerous hot here. Got nauseous yesterday doing my short workout in garage. Had to quit and rush inside to lay down before I puked.

Played 18 yesterday (with an ex pro, really neat) and it was totally tolerable thanks to zipping around in carts. Waking 9 two days earlier was much harder.

Today went to range with daughter to shoot our .22 rifles and she got dizzy after about a half hour. Quit that immediately as well.

Tough to realize you’re at that age where you can’t just gut it out.

[KFC911]

Most just aren't acclimated to the heat & humidity either ... regardless of age. I never went to an air conditioned school until college classrooms .... and the dorms were hotter than hell in eastern NC during August ... ovens with no a/c either .... it was brutal .

Last day of 90s today .... each day this past week it kept creeping higher.... hottest day of the year each day.

Today .... ditto

It's the south... a cool 96.

[masraum]

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