BS: How warm is it where you are?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: skarpi
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:27 PM

Well if you need to cool down ,,, visit us here we havent got the summer
yet .....????'



All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:16 PM

My sympathies, Molly. I really hate it anytime the plumbing goes ka-fooze!

I just heard that yesterday it was 115^o F. in Pasco, Washington, over in the Tri-Cities area (Hanford is just up the pike a ways). I usta woik in that town!!

I remember it getting up to 105^o F. regularly during the middle and late summer. There was air conditioning everywhere and they would crank it way up. I'd leave the radio station, where the temperature was around 60^o, after my morning shift and walk out into 105^o weather. Then I'd drop into a nearby restaurant for lunch where the inside temperature would by about 60^o. Then back out into the oven, and drive to the nearby Safeway to pick up something to stock the refrigerator in my apartment. In the Safeway, 60^o. Then back outside.

A few little shifts like this and you could start feeling a bit dizzy.

Sure glad I'm not over there now!

Years ago I had a friend, Fred Melberg, who was in forestry when I knew him, but he'd worked in various capacities as a naturalist. For some strange reason, he had occasion to be up in far north Alaska during the winter. He and the party he was with got caught in the middle of nowhere when a storm blew up, and there was no shelter around. So, quick like a bunny, they started packing up snow and built an igloo. Kind of a sloppy one, but it offered them shelter from the ravages of the storm. Inside the igloo, the temperature was about 35^o F. It measured around -50^o outside. Fred had occasion to crawl outside to get something, and as he slithered through the narrow tunnel they had cobbled together, it occurred to him that, between his feet and his head, there was a temperature difference of about 85 degrees.

When he was living in Seattle, he had an interesting pet. A fully-armed skunk. But that's a whole nother story.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM

W-A-R-M is not the word for it
it is H-O-T , H-O-T, H-O-T

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:50 PM

my computer says it is 97 in the valley below here..a couple degrees cooler in the hills here. yesterday i think it went up to 107 and last night it stayed 100 until midnight when it finally dropped to the low of 72 overnight..107 is the expected high again today...yawn. it is getting tiresome..people's chickens are dying from the heat and power outages are happening cuz so many people are turning on electric fans, a/c, etc.

i have no air conditioner in my house but i do have a fan and i do have a/c in my car...and i do have a pond and creeks in which to dip.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:34 PM

relatively warm ... low 20's (celsius) ... but rainy .... rain and rain ... the never ending rain.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Tweed
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:23 PM

Low overcast sky here in West Palm Beach, with a few flurries mixed with freezing rain. A little unusual for this time of year.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: dianavan
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:20 PM

Its been in the mid-90's for about a week.

In Vancouver that means most everyone is at the beach. Others are taking refuge in the hockey rinks (especially if they have kids). Luckily, there is a strong NW wind that makes the heat bearable. The air pollution is gross.

I'm getting out of here and heading to my island paradise where I can be near the water.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:12 PM

Its been 33C or 96F for the past couple of days here on southern Vancouver Island, but it is supposed to cool off over the next couple of days to more seasonable temperatures. That's welcomed, because although I don't mind the heat in the day, I hate hot nights. The bush here is really dry, but it usually is this time of year.....same as it ever was.

I can remember times in the 1950's and 60's when the forests were closed regularly to the public nd industry here every summer because of extreme fire hazard. Also hob nailed boots were banned in forested areas because of their danger of producing sparks when walking.

Galiano Island, one of the BC Gulf Islands, has declared a state of emergency because of a, so far, uncontrolled forest fire there. Both my daughters went to film school on Galiano and we got to know a lot of people on the island. Our hearts are going out to George and the rest of the staff and hoping too that the school itself is out of danger soon, courtesy of a lot of valiant people and a few Mars water bombers. Watching the Mars in action is absolutely awesome and its too bad more bombers only carried water.

It reached 40.7 or 104.7F in Cache Creek yesterday, but it is always way warmer in the southern interior of BC. There is a thunderstorm warning for most of the interior so that doesn't bode well re forest fires there either.

Just a regular summer week in BC weather-wise by and large.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:42 PM

It's gotten to 106F here the day before yesterday; 98F yesterday, and it's supposed to hit 97F here today. The humidity stays at less than 25%, averaging around 12%.

("It's 112 degrees, but it's a dry heat, thank God!" "Dry heat my a..., it's 112 degrees!!!")

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: harpmolly
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:26 PM

Don: Seattle has been blazing the last few days, hasn't it?

A great time for my shower to suddenly start backing up through the bathroom floor basement drain...

*pacing furiously and muttering under my breath as I wait for my flaky landlady to call & tell me when the plumber will be arriving...GRRRRR!*

Luckily the girls upstairs are very kind and are letting me use their shower. Mr. Rogers would be proud.

Molly
(thanking all the gods it's marginally cooler today...)

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:25 PM

Official highs all last week around 111 - 113 F (43.9 - 45 C), although only one day I believe was a new record for the date. Up to 117 F (47 C) nearby in a few places.

A weekend of "cool weather" with highs 95 - 98 F (35 - 36.7 C), but the forcast is for more warm stuff for this coming week.

I vaguely recall one year in the late 50s when Wichita was "over 100F" for more than 30 days in a row; but during that spell I don't recall anything over about 105 F (40.6 C).

An equal concern is that although we've had about normal total rainfall it's all come in a few big storms that ran off instead of soaking in. Soil moisture is thus low, and the crops are burning.

John

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Cats
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:22 PM

Last week in Cornwall, it was hotter outside the tropical biome at Eden than it was inside!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:58 PM

Highest it's been in SE Wyoming this year is 114 F/45 C!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:57 PM

Amos (in San Diego) needs to turn over and brown on the other side now. . .

Texas has cooled a bit, down to the mid-90s after a couple of scorcher weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:56 PM

Houston:

It's cool here today because its overcast--86 degrees and 66% humidity (dry by our standards). Normal is about 95. 105+ on the pavement. And we can hit 95% humidity.

Rain doesn't help here. It just makes the humidity worse.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:53 PM

Well here in Oz of course it's a different story, being winter. In the last month or so, temperatures have varied between 2 degrees C at night and about 18-19 on the warmer days. The last couple of weeks it has rained almost every day and the cloud cover means that temperatures don't vary much from day to night - 13-16 during the day and 7-10 minimum at night.

Right now it's 11 degrees C and raining buckets. You would think that this might help break the drought. Unfortunately though, the majority of the rain is falling near the coast, and not much in the catchment area. It's usually like that, and it makes me wish they would build a dam nearer to the coast, to take advantage of all this rain running down the gutters. I was thinking large tanks on top of some of the city buildings would be a good idea too.

Reading all these posts about the really hot weather reminds me what we will be in for in a few months. I find the weather we are having now easier to cope with than extreme heat! Much as I like the long days, warm balmy evenings and the jungle of veges in the garden, I don't look forward to day after day of temperatures in the 30's and 40's combined with high humidity, such as we have in Sydney in summer!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mooh
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:44 PM

Well, it was 20C at sun up over Georgian Bay, but by 8am it was 16C. Now that I'm home (2 hours south) it's 22C.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:43 PM

Seattle. Mid-nineties yesterday. Rather uncomfortably warm. With Puget Sound to the west and Lake Washington to the east, there's plenty of water around to keep the humidity up.

Predicted to be in the high-eighties today. Pretty comfortable right now (9:45 a.m., PDT). 76 degrees.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:25 PM

My father remembered in Emporia, Kansas in the 1930s, sleeping in the front yard because they couldn't bear to be inside. Temp stayed above 95° even at night. (no decent electric fans then)...The ice man was VERY popular.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:16 PM

In the high 70's/ low 80's here. Far too hot for this part of the world (north-east UK) .... particularly at night. I have to admit - it's years since I slept in the nude but its the only way to make the night bearable.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM

Forgot to report our actual temperatures here in Montana. Daytime 90's and 100's. August is our hot month. Continuing this trend, it will be unbearable.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM

Yesterday was the one decent day we in the Wash DC area have seen in 3 weeks...temp back up to 86°F today, and to be higher later this week.

Bill's Law of Averages is again proving accurate. We had a pleasant, cool and extended Spring....now we are paying for it.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:07 PM

Yesterday morning I was on the phone with my sister in McMinnville, Oregon, a Willamette Valley town about 50 miles from Portland, where the temperature at 9:00 was already 84 degrees and they expected a high of 100.

Makes me shiver with foreboding.

Yesterday's high in Juneau, Alaska, where I live, was in the low 60s. I don't think I'd survive 'down south' these days.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:06 PM

27degrees in sunny Hull.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:03 PM

mid to low thirties here in the Coastal Carolinas

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:03 PM

Too hot. Record temperatures. Forest and grass fires.
See thread on "Inconvenient Truth". Wake up, people!

Subject: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:57 AM

The external shade temperature is currently 29.5 Degrees C here on the banks of the Tyne.
That is about average for this time of year.
Made me wonder what other 'Catters are tolerating/enjoying/enduring?