BS: How warm is it where you are?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 12:53 PM

Liz--plant it for shade! Put that sucker to work if it refuses to die for you. I don't think I've ever seen a three-foot geranium.

We can't win here--it's either 100 degrees and dry, or it's 85 degrees, raining, and everything floods. And it's 90% humidity today. My best friend emailed from Tucson complaining that it was 25% humidity and she was "drowning" and I was forced to tell her to go to Hell.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 02:23 AM

Yesterday's papers report a confirmed sighting of a shoal of Sun Fish
off the British Coast. This is believed to be unprecedented.
Temperature up here on the N.E. coast of England a refreshingly cool 22.5 degrees C.
However it is only 7:20 A.M.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:17 PM

I was in an office in that Germany yesterday with a thermomity that recorded 37 degrees at 4pm. That, my friends, was nothing compared to the holding pens in the shed at Neiderrhein airport, and the plane was ........... late.

Ryanair, you gotta love 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 06:03 PM

...well it's too fucking hot for me in Cleckheaton!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 04:39 PM

Our bedroom is presently 85F... that's going to be pleasant.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:31 PM

It's about 70F, with a very nice breeze.



From the ceiling fan. If I went outside I'd find it about 90F.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 03:29 PM

Too bloody hot!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

The Pansie is on holiday for another 3 weeks, to everyones delight.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:11 PM

I watered the geranium only this morning... with it's customary 'die you scabby little basket' greeting. It loves it. The bloody thing is 3ft tall and won't stop growing.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:50 AM

Horrible shame - passing through London - (second time since Simon and Garfunkle in the park) and the ROYAL gardens are brown and the zoo has a model display of succulents. They are encouraging Londoner's to forget their pansies and geraniums.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 01:46 AM

55 night highs low 70's day.

However, inland, less ten miles can be 105.

VERY Enjoyable summer. One of the best ever. A shame to leave Shangralai to sup at the coiffers of filty lucre.

But the Kitty must be fed.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Rumncoke
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:59 PM

Ah - Painted lady.

Thanks

I saw one on a buddlea - however it is spelt, bush the other day, and meant to look it up as I had not noticed one before.

There are quite a few of the bushes around here - I live in Parkstone, on the ridge above the town of Poole, Dorset, and some days it is hardly possible to see the flowers with the bees and butterflies on them, with more stacked up waiting to land all around.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:32 PM

Dave Swan: Yes! You know. I lie not! Indeed the same ring. Well, today is a cool snap. It only got up to 104.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 07:26 PM

Here in Indianapolis, it's warm enough that I haven't ordered anything hotter.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 05:28 PM

Slag (whose name now makes sense),

I spent January to July one year working outside in the Scottish highlands, then came back to the States and took work as a welder in Turlock, CA on July 5th. I remember driving to the steelyard and watching a time/temperature sign flickering between 108 and 110. As you say, salt rimed everything. I almost never wore leathers as the occasional dingleberry or welder's tan was preferable to another layer.

I think Delano and Turlock are located on about the same ring of Hell.

D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: DougR
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:33 PM

The highest we have had so far, 118 degrees. 116 degrees yesterday. Seems a mite cooler today. Probably 115 degrees. All F, of course.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:25 PM

The scary thought is that this may be the "good old days".

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:20 PM

Hot enough here to lie down in the shade and die.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:16 PM

Warm enough for Max the arthritic cat to throw himself into the pond at least once a week...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,workman
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM

Quite warm here in London

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: skipy
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:26 AM

at this moment 33.3 deg. C
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:24 AM

It's unpleasantly sweltering at about 90 here in central Massachusetts, but I just came home from a few weeks in the UK, where the last week was every bit as bad! It was absolutely shocking: I've spent a good deal of my life in England, and have literally never encountered such unremittingly sunny, hot, sticky, uncomfortable conditions for such an extended period.

T'ain't natural, or even marginally pleasant, to my mind; there's a REASON I travel to the UK in the summer! Add to this the fact that there just aren't the necessary infrastructural weapons (like lots & lots & lots of ice cubes, air conditioning in most public places, etc), and it makes for a pretty uncomfortable state of affairs!

Looking forward to the autumn, or at least a passing thunderstorm...

~D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Flash Company
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:07 AM

Pretty hot here in Cheshire, Haven't got the thermometer out but too hot to work on my decking project
No sleeping alone though, as my old idol Ogden Nash put it:-

Love will not wait for cooler weather,
If we must melt, let's melt together!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Scoville
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:54 AM

Houston: predicting rain today so it's still cool but 85% humidity, which is still on the low side.

Ask me again in August when we're likely to be back up near/over 100.

My brother (in Virginia) swears he's moving in near his in-laws in Minnesota as soon as he's done with grad school. He says he'll take the winters if he doesn't have to live through 8 months a year of summer.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:04 AM

Painted lady count is up to 9 now.. never seen that many single species in one place , it just doesn't tend to happen in the UK.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:49 AM

It was 79F in our bedroom last night... and that was me on my own....

Today it's hot enough that my garden is full of painted ladies. Got 7 of 'em sunning themselves right now.
And it's not even 9.00am.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Kara
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:31 AM

38° in Brittany (France) that C not F, anyway I'm going to the beach.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:15 AM

Speaking of Hell, I think I've got you all beat ( one-upsmanship!) I grew up in the welding business in Delano CA. Delano is usually hotter than just about anywhere except Death Valley and Redding on most summer days. So imagine a metal building a blast forge running most of the day, a couples of guys on the big acetylene torches putting hardface on plowshares. Somehow you got used to it. You'd drink a lot of water and take salt tablets. Your clothes stayed dry because the sweat would evaporate so fast that you really didn't see it most of the time. By day's end your boots, pants, shirt would be rimed with salt. I don't believe I could that again and live!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:11 AM

I did my main army tour at Yuma Arizona, at the desert environmental test station. For quite a few of our tests, if we didn't get to at least 105F (40.5C) we'd have to wait a day for "better test conditions." We didn't wait out too many days. One particular day when I stood in one spot too long on the blacktop tank test track, I left a rather large puddle where the boot polish melted and ran off my boots. I think the surface temp we measured on the blacktop that day was somewhere around 165F, although the air "shade temp" was only about 108F. Many vehicle surfaces (esp. sheetmetal) would blister your hands if you touched them.

When things started to cool off one fall, and we couldn't get even consistent 100F for testing, they loaded up half of the people and sent them to Wainright Alaska to run winter environmental tests. Up there, -30F (-34C) was considered the maximum temperature at which some of the tests were good, and some of them said they saw "a few days" of -60F.

I was in the middle of an 11 month endurance test on one of my vehicles, so I didn't get to go north. Just a stroke of (BG) bad luck, I guess.

I hadn't paid much attention to the humidity during our past week here, but one of the old newspapers that was still in the bin said that on a day when the high was 111F, the RH was at 87%; so I guess here it's been the heat and the humidity.

One forecaster on TV the other night was claiming that the "average monthly temperature" for every month since May has been at least 10F above the long term average for the month. Since there are several ways they can calculate those averages, and he didn't say which way he used, I'm less than fully impressed; but it does seem that it's been fairly consistently warmer than I remember from my younger lifetime.

John

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,Al Capone
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:03 AM

Matter of fact, it's hot as hell here and the company ain't the best either!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Peace
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 01:01 AM

Barely hit 37 degrees here.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 11:04 PM

Hi Kat

Well, there's a word other than romance that rings better in that expression (best left on the fireline, I suppose) which usually ends the discussion. Glad you got a chuckle. And it IS that hot.

I was issued new grass gear today (the bright yellow stuff you see firefighters wearing on brush fires) and was reminded of a friend's description of fighting brush fire. He says it's like putting on too many clothes and weeding next to your barbeque on a really hot day. He's right. I far prefer a structure, but we don't get to choose.

D

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:52 PM

LOL...El Swanno!

So was it a half-arsed romance?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:29 PM

Bleedin' 'taters. In the pot that is, not in the mold.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:08 PM

Here in the Blue Mtns just west of Sydney it should be freezing, but the Spring buds have started to appear.
Someone asked on another thread recently 'where's the global warming?' Well, it's right here.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:03 PM

In San Francisco of late it's been in the 70's and 80's. Nice, very nice. It's the first time this year I've been able to turn the heater off and wear short sleeves. I wish I were in Florida. Or even Sacramento.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 09:47 PM

With the dew point in the 60's it's hell here.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: MaineDog
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:04 PM

The hottest it's been here so far is about 85.
right now its about 69. No need for air conditioners yet. Rockland is another story.
MD, just North of Tenants Harbor

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:54 PM

"But it's a dry heat!" is a standing joke in Sacramento. You see it quoted in the newspaper all the time. Just about everybody agrees that Sacramento is miserable during the summer. We don't get it so bad here in the Sierra Foothills, but this last week has been awful.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: GUEST,mrdux (at the office)
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:28 PM

Right now in Portland, OR, it's a "balmy" 95 degrees (35 C) and climbing -- although I don't think we'll get to 100 today; yesterday it was 101 (38 C). Saturday it was only 93 (33 C), but with 70% humidity (shades of Chicago). Friday it was 104 (40 C). The dogs have been hiding in the basement. We've been hiding with them. They say it should be safe to come out tomorrow. . .

michael

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:50 PM

It has been 8-12 degrees above average in western Colorado since the first of May. For the past month it has been high 90's to mostly over 100 every damn day with little respite, though I am grateful it is still cooling down a little bit at night. This is NOT normal, except for August. I'm with Alice, see the Inconvenient Truth thread and do what you are able.

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

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:39 PM

Dave Swan, Slag, Open Mike, and I are all sweltering in Northern California. I'm a couple of thousand feet above them, but it still have been darn hot here - over 100 degrees (38 degrees Centigrade) many days over the last week. My mother-in-law lives with us, and she's 91 years old and suffering badly. She hides in the dark in her air-conditioned room much of the day. Our two little dogs keep her company, which helps a lot - but it's still really hard for her. It's hard for us to make sure she eats and drinks enough, too.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:37 PM

slag, you are in lake county?
i am in butte county...
just a couple of counties away,..

the valley heats up when chico is 115, redding
gets 120...the heat rises as if it was in a chimney..

Swan, 1/2 romanced???
well that is better than no romance at all i guess!
a fire buddy of mine got called to Idaho..
and i hear Butte County sent a stirke team out to help
somewhere last night...

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Kaleea
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:34 PM

I was up in Palm Springs a couple of days ago & it was 120. That's about 40-50* more than I care for. Now in San Diego my thermometer says 91* with 65% humidity & I'm not thrilled.
Amos-did you turn over yet?

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:30 PM

Hotter than a half romanced fox in a forest fire.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:04 PM

Here in Paris it has been around 33-38,for about 6weeks now.
This is made worse by the high level of pollution.
Two years back 15,000 people died of heat related problems throughout France.A lot of Blah Blah was spouted at the time,and a lot of embarassed faces were seen pontificating on TV.
It's true that so far, there has been an enormous reduction in casualties,but this is due to the awareness of people on the ground,lots of publicity on TV, and the media in general.
The gvt havent been exactly visible so far.No change there then!

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Slag
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 04:52 PM

Warm is a week or two in February. Spring is always a mixed bag of changability often ending in snow or hail in the first week of June then it turns hot. It's been running from 105 to 110 F, for highs around Lake Co. CA, not really unusual for us but every year people act like it's never been that hot before. When I was about seven or eight I remember a two or three day period in So. Cal when it stayed around 117, 118 F. Too bad no one had thought of global warming back then. We could have blamed it on that instead of "nature".

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 04:42 PM

It hasn't hit 100 yet but we still have had record breaking heat.

It's hotter than young love in haying time.

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:43 PM

We had a 4 degree frost here overnight and the current temp is 0C!!!
I'd better go and chip out my car so I can get to work.
Roll on summer............
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: How warm is it where you are?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:30 PM

Newton Aycliffe (sort of in the north east UK) Hello Guest.
Bloody sweaty at work. Nice later evening in the garden. Looking forward to rain.
Lord, I'm getting to be a wingebag !!!!!