too effing hot

the humidity is rolling in. : (

Hot, muggy and overcast in London today - and the kind of weather where gnats hitchhike places in your hair. GAAAAAH.

Yeah the heat puts me right off the idea of any food other than sorbet and margaritas. If I had no AC I'd probably lose 15 lbs; unfortunately, artificially cooled air allows me to eat normal human food with a near-normal appetite.

I've never entirely believed that crap about dry heat, but for a couple of days last week it could say 82 degrees on my air cond thermostat and it was still reasonably comfy if lightly dressed (without running AC). Lately, though, it says 82 or 83 and I feel like dying.

spend large parts of the year in a high humidity place where 75 degrees @ 100% humidity feels completely awful and 100 degree w/ 30% humidity (yesterday) will feel like a gift sent from God

Humidity of 95% for London at 7am tomorrow, falling to 92% by 10am. Enjoy your Tube rides everyone, I'm walking.

boys are dying on these streets

In Windsor, it is currently 35C/95F but feels like 43C/109F with the humidity. I have a fan but barely feel like moving.

Montreal is not so happy a place to be at the moment.

oh man - iirc Windsor can get REALLY humid.

we should be getting rain tho in another 24 hours...

hey wedderman, where's the FUCKING downpours you promised?

http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/grandpa_simpson_yelling_at_cloud.jpg

aaagh, $400 electric bill

Went up to 44C/111F with the humidex today.

Hate Atlanta right now. HATE IT

fucking baltimore, love it, but fuck

Yeah, I just spent a week in Baltimore last week and it was abominably hot. Esp. Thursday and Friday, I thought I would die. Every night I'd go back to my hotel, crank the A/C and just lie there in boxers on the bed for about 45 minutes.

Outdoor kids birthday party tomorrow in Sparrow's Point, basically. I only agreed to go after the parents promised there would be water balloons.

The Chesapeake Bay is a fucking armpit.

A HEAT ADVISORY IS ISSUED FOR NEW YORK CITY.

A WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTH TONIGHT. BEHIND IT...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL USHER A HOT AND HUMID AIRMASS INTO THE REGION WITH NEAR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES.

HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB INTO THE UPPER 90S ON SATURDAY. THIS...COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS...WILL RESULT IN A HEAT INDEX RANGING FROM 100 TO 104 DEGREES.

fuck a hot

http://www.theoildrum.com/uploads/12/sst_global.jpg

fuck a hot

― PappaWheelie V,

Yikes!!!

fuck watching a hot

Feels Like: 111°

in baltimore waaaahhhhhh ;_;

When I let the cold tap run in my bathroom sink, the water gets warmer, not colder.

I been drinking ice water constantly all day long, and the past few days whenever I break the ice out of the tray it starts to melt instantly before i can get it in the cup.

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so rong

wait. is that supposed to be hot?

it is pretty hot for 2am, yes

81 degrees at 4:11 a.m. (downtown brooklyn)

Ugly situation around here. Went up into the attic at 7 this morning to make sure the central air ductwork wasn't leaking cold air. It's okay until about 4 p.m., but then the front rooms of the (west-facing) house get it full blast, they get up close to 90 even with the AC working as hard as it can. The loss of our big shady oaks probably tacks on $50/month to our electric bill in the summer.

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that isnt the heat index btw

looks familiar

I think this is the first year we haven't had either had a crappy air conditioner or a broken one.

sorry if i missed it, but for what area is that horrid forecast?

Yes, please tell us so that we can studiously avoid going there.

arkansas. im sure texas and mississippi are pretty much in the same boat.

To be safe, I will avoid all three.

We're about 4-5 degrees cooler than Arkansas, but yeah, still a bad scene. Got an email this morning from my client south of San Jose -- it was 48 and drizzly there. AGHHH

update from Newfoundland: saw my breath walking home last night.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, listen. I lived in North Carolina where it barely went below 80 many summer nights (and I once saw morning fog when it was 85) and I lived in New Orleans where it was worse. But I live in Chicago, Illinois, near the lake even, and it's still 82 at 11:00 p.m. and it's been like this for weeks. This is just hateful.

i went to screening of sublime freqs doc on ethiopia and the director said you can only travel from north to south there at night because tires melt during the day

what the goddamn hell

update from Newfoundland: saw my breath walking home last night.

― kate78, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 12:48 PM (1 week ago)

this is my dream

I even wore a scarf on my walk to work today.

How delightful. *wistful sigh*

Was biking in to work today along the lakefront, there's a big time & temperature sign in front of Cleveland Public Power. It was 79F at 8:08am. :(