It's hot out

[Racerbvd]

[KFC911]

^^^^ I just can't fathom that either ... I'm used to heat & humidity ...within reason!

What we are having here is normal for July/Aug .... it was pretty mild before July actually ... no 90s at all... odd too.

But 95 and humid is reasonably hot ... over 100 is not ....

[astrochex]

In Vegas for the weekend. No thanks to the 107 ish temps during the days and easy 90s at night.

I prefer my Florida humidity.

[Rawknees'Turbo]

Originally Posted by masraum

our forecast

I would have thought your area was hotter than DFW, as you are farther south (right?), but our same forecast here is full of 107s, 108s, and 109s, with lows in the 80s. Weird.

[rwest]

Originally Posted by KC911

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.

So true, most schools, houses and cars we had when I was growing up didn’t have AC. my elementary school didn’t have AC, JR High did, but it was located in a very affluent area. Sr High didn’t have AC either- this was mid 80’s. At our class reunion last summer we toured the HS and it had been retrofitted with AC. kids these days don’t know how nice they have it!

[Rawknees'Turbo]

Brutal here in the DFW area. All week has been highs of 105-107 with "lows" in the low 80s. Tomorrow and Sunday predicted to be 109 and all next week 108. Not a single predicted low below 83 and Sunday night's low is 85. A real ass whipper for anyone who works in unairconditioned settings (like me ).

[Instrument 41]

Im so thankful there are no disturbances in the gulf. A storm fed by this hot water would be something we have never seen before

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Instrument 41

Im so thankful there are no disturbances in the gulf. A storm fed by this hot water would be something we have never seen before

shhhh, tempt not the gods.

[slow&rusty]

Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo

Brutal here in the DFW area. All week has been highs of 105-107 with "lows" in the low 80s. Tomorrow and Sunday predicted to be 109 and all next week 108. Not a single predicted low below 83 and Sunday night's low is 85. A real ass whipper for anyone who works in unairconditioned settings (like me ).

Hang in there, this week is going to be another round of roasting

Originally Posted by Instrument 41

Im so thankful there are no disturbances in the gulf. A storm fed by this hot water would be something we have never seen before

Agreed, I was just saying this a few days ago!

Yasin (sweating in Houston)

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo

I would have thought your area was hotter than DFW, as you are farther south (right?), but our same forecast here is full of 107s, 108s, and 109s, with lows in the 80s. Weird.

Farther south, but also closer to the Gulf of Mexico. Living near water (the larger the body the better) is pretty much always a moderating influence on climate.

I think that's why San Antonio and El Paso and New Mexico are often so darn hot.

I'm ready for this to be done.


My guess is that starting around Labor day, we'll start to see temps, especially morning temps falling.

[Rawknees'Turbo]

^^^

Makes sense - I had not even considered proximity to large body of water.

I wish, regarding your prediction about labor day! Here September is a burn ass month, and so is much/most of October.

How's this for living in a godawful hell hole, in terms of climate/weather; I just left work at 12:45AM and it was 95 outside and 96.8 in my work hangar. When I went home for a few hours of a/c earlier today it was 108 outside and 111 in the hangar. Sux bigly is an understatement. I feel fortunate, however, to now be home with my trifecta of air conditioners making my KwH meter run at maximum boost.

[jcwade]

We live in Long Beach a mile from the ocean. Our hose was built in 1910 and take advantage of the prevailing winds when we open all the upstairs windows.
Really make you appreciate the ingenuity of our forebears.

Although ceiling fans and others in every room certainly helps.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo

^^^

Makes sense - I had not even considered proximity to large body of water.

I wish, regarding your prediction about labor day! Here September is a burn ass month, and so is much/most of October.

How's this for living in a godawful hell hole, in terms of climate/weather; I just left work at 12:45AM and it was 95 outside and 96.8 in my work hangar. When I went home for a few hours of a/c earlier today it was 108 outside and 111 in the hangar. Sux bigly is an understatement. I feel fortunate, however, to now be home with my trifecta of air conditioners making my KwH meter run at maximum boost.

LMAO! Enjoy your AC, sir. I don't know how you do it, working in the giant hotbox. I assume you have hangar doors open, but that doesn't really help much. I'm used to seeing the hangars like we had on the military bases that I grew up on where you could open huge doors on both sides, but I don't think most hangars are like that are they?

[Baz]

[matthewb0051]

Originally Posted by masraum

Farther south, but also closer to the Gulf of Mexico. Living near water (the larger the body the better) is pretty much always a moderating influence on climate.

I think that's why San Antonio and El Paso and New Mexico are often so darn hot.

.

I currently live in SA but have also lived in El Paso. EP is a whole different animal. It sits at roughly 4,500 feet above sea level and is over 500 miles from SA and further from the Gulf. Nearly no humidity but the temps are just as high in summer, always over 100. When we moved there our realtor told us it is cooler in the shade. Duh.

There is a mountain town in New Mexico (Cloudcroft) that sits at 8,676 feet, just about an hour from EP. We drove up once in June to collect our kid from Scout camp. We left EP at around 100 degrees and it was a nice 75 degrees. So it is possible to get away from the temps out there, here in South Texas you are just stuck with it.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

I currently live in SA but have also lived in El Paso. EP is a whole different animal. It sits at roughly 4,500 feet above sea level and is over 500 miles from SA and further from the Gulf. Nearly no humidity but the temps are just as high in summer, always over 100. When we moved there our realtor told us it is cooler in the shade. Duh.

There is a mountain town in New Mexico (Cloudcroft) that sits at 8,676 feet, just about an hour from EP. We drove up once in June to collect our kid from Scout camp. We left EP at around 100 degrees and it was a nice 75 degrees. So it is possible to get away from the temps out there, here in South Texas you are just stuck with it.

Nice!

We drove to Natural Bridge Caverns Wed, so your neck of the woods. It was definitely HOT.

[speeder]

76deg at noon in Los Angeles, going for a high of 80. Low humidity and always a slight breeze from the ocean a few miles away.

Having driven through a few other states this summer, I’m trying to calculate how much more it’s worth to live here as opposed to Texas. I’m thinking something like 100x more.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by speeder

76deg at noon in Los Angeles, going for a high of 80. Low humidity and always a slight breeze from the ocean a few miles away.

Having driven through a few other states this summer, I’m trying to calculate how much more it’s worth to live here as opposed to Texas. I’m thinking something like 100x more.

I've spent a fair amount of time visiting Cali from the LA metro area (Santa Barbara to Mission Viejo) and the San Jose / San Fran area. The weather has always been spectacular. The land/nature on the coast from Cali all the way up to Seattle is also beautiful.

The only problems are the costs of the entire west coast and the politics. Other than those things, I understand, the west coast would be perfect.

[gacook]

82 the high here in my beautiful city in Arizona. Monsoons have finally started playing nice this week; had a BEAUTIFUL downpour storm for several hours on Monday, rest of the week has had a nice afternoon/evening storm each day.

This is my favorite time of year.

[p911dad]

We are on the NC/SC line and it definitely gets hot here in the summer, always has, nothing new. And humid periods but not always. We are about 100 miles from the Appalachian Mountains and this protects this area from crazy weather most times. It shoots up along the mountains into Tennessee and West Virginia. This year is pretty much normal lows in the low 70's and highs from the high 80's to low 90's. We have had more than normal rain, it usually gets pretty dry around here in July and August, but we have been getting afternoon thundershowers maybe every 4 or 5 days. I think the peak daytime temp was no more that 94 here, maybe a bit more into South Carolina. In the mountains maybe 80 on a hot day down here at 90. We have lived here a long time and the winters are still moderate (meaning 30's - 50's can get briefly a lot colder) and the summers hot and humid. I hope it stays this way. Oh, and Carolina Blue skies many days!