too effing hot

i think tonight is the night the heatwave breaks here

We didn't get a bit of rain during the 3 weeks when the temps ramped up to 100+, but yesterday we finally had a thunderstorm pass through with a 40-minute shower, and it's been rainy and reasonably cool all morning today. Finally.

Holy shit, ZS. That forecast is giving me a little mini panic attack.

100 yesterday, today, and tomorrow. HOWEVER extended forecast shows temps back down into the 80s (w/ a couple days in the 90s, and a few in the 70s) starting on Saturday and I am really really happy about that.

yessssssssssss, bcuz Saturday is my last day in Chicago.

loltimore says 109 on saturday but i know that's not even a possible temperature

DC/loltimore temperature grudge match!! who will suffer the most?!?!11

Today we had two people say they couldn't work any longer, one guy was throwing up. It was very hot.

Dropped a good 15 degrees after it rained today. 92 never felt so reasonable.

well it's only 70 degrees here but if you're near the ground or just not moving it gets hotter than that pretty quick

at that point if you can't take off your fur you have to retreat to cooler climes

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7134/7511598768_57d446b2b9_c.jpg

haha i just caught my cat in almost exactly that position laying narrowly outside my bedroom door, the single room in the apt with an AC unit

Our cat, who splits his time indoors/outdoors, has been choosing mostly outdoors the past few days, to my surprise. I don't get it. He chows down his food, begs to go out, and then immediately finds some shade to pass out in. I'm like, dude, we've got A/C! Stay in! Are sitting duck baby bunnies that tempting? (Answer: yes)

I did just read that apparently cats are really good with heat, though humidity messes them up. Also, they can get heat stroke if the temp. gets high enough and they can't find shade. I read one cat site that said one symptom of cat heat stroke is coma, and that to be safe they should avoid exerting themselves. Keep that in mind, cat people.

my cat has been laying on her back and extending her legs out straight, pretty rude

i only have a window unit in one room -- i'd find my cat looking unhappy lying in the hot room, pick him up and take him where it was cool, but he'd always go back. tbf the window unit is kind of loud, but priorities, dude

i'd find my cat looking unhappy lying in the hot room, pick him up and take him where it was cool, but he'd always go back.

yeah! what the hell w/ this

my cat usually prefers to hang out here in the bedroom with us but we get hit w/ a heat wave and she's nowhere to be found

Our cat, who splits his time indoors/outdoors...

― a horrible cat owner, Thursday, July 5, 2012 9:36 PM

come on man, nature wants to get killed, it's how cars eat

prob some rural part of Chicago i'm overlooking

Our cats like to like in the damn sun in the hottest room in the house instead of coming to the AC'ed rooms.

my parents have started drinking very hot tea during the day "to cool off"

Haha I composed a long post about the damn cats but Jeff beat me to it.

i have been telling people for years that hot coffee is good when it's hot out because the rest of the world seems less hot!

saturday -> 110

Today on my 30 minute public transit commute, it was 1) hot but not completely unbearable walking to the train; 2) pouring down rain hard enough that I got soaked running two train car lengths to the stairs at my stop; 3) kind of cool, relatively speaking for most of the walk home; and 4) a block from my house, the sun came out full force while it was still raining so it was hotter and more humid than it had been all day. Fucking creepy.

fucking hellish

Fuck this fucking fucked up shit. Every single person who is all 'ohhhh I can't wait for summer!!!' and isn't a school aged kid or living somewhere in the arctic circle can suck a dick

'ohhhh I can't wait for summer!!!'

no one says this anymore, thank god (except for canadians)

xp But there is snow! One must give summer props for eradicating snow. I live for summer and bare skin and sunshine. This IS hot but my limitless hatred of winter makes it easier for me not to complain.

^^^otm

I want to slap everyone in this building who was complaining about how cold it was 6 months ago and how hot it is now.

at least in the cold you can just keep adding layers. there's only so many you can take off in the heat.

xp Damn you mookieproof! :O

otm to sunny successor, not FFM's insane savagery

damn you all. And damn the lack of a good eye-narrowing emoticon.

you OTM'd me, no take backs

I otm ffm!

*high five*!

xpost Our cat was born on a farm, where he was rescued one fall. We kept him inside successfully for a full year after that, more or less, but it got to the point where he was literally bouncing off the walls, trying to get out, and successfully escaping several times a day, every time we opened the door. He's the best cat we've ever had, but we're resigned to him getting hurt one of these days. We are, however, not in Chicago proper, so while we have traffic, we also have yards and stuff. He seems pretty aware of the dangers, though of course not as aware as we are.

send ffm to baltimore and see if she sings the same tune

rayuela, otoh, may be some kind of fire beast

I'm not sure why I'm going to Baltimore. :( But it's pretty hot here too!

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/392955_490597707621310_1009493474_n.jpg

when its horribly humid and a hundred degrees and i see someone jogging i cry a little.

summer just scares me now. i don't know how much of it is paranoia and how much of it is real though. the sun just feels toxic and hurtful on some days in ways that i've never felt before. but maybe i'm just getting old. except you are supposed to like heat more when you get older...i dunno, i'm always wondering if people will even be able to go outside in the summer in 10 or 20 years. but i'm a doom & gloom kinda guy. farmers almanac said it would be less warm this summer! bastard farmers.

it is 20°C/68°F in toronto right now -- brutal

look above for zs's forecast for dc on saturday -- apparently baltimore will be ever so slightly worse

even with the bonkers temperatures the past couple weeks its been bearable up until yesterday and today cuz the humidity wasn't quite there. today it def felt kinda dangerous, very oven-like

this shit is fucking miserable

where is the whether NEVER like this? i'm moving there

is alaska the only option? how about sweden?

when am0n gets serious -- i don't even know

yeah, up north. for now.

pac nw, maine, canada

i live really close to the lake in chicago so we get a "breeze" but it's actually just feels like someone is following you around and holding a blow dryer an inch from your face

its cool outside right now actually. don't know how that works. supposed to be like that tomorrow too here. 90s during the day and 60s at night.

everything has gone kerblooey.