too effing hot

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.

http://img.geocaching.com/track/large/74dc5140-e511-4012-9454-2fd88ab80970.jpg

this shit is fucking miserable

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

― J0rdan S., Thursday, July 5, 2012 9:45 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

San Diego maybe

when i moved to alaska 18 years ago ppl were bitching about the heatwave when it broke 70°

they were otm, but you know global warming and shit

yes

38 of the last 49 days have been cooling days, it is hovering between 60-70 right now w/ heavy marine layer

we'll back 70-90 and sunny from late july to october though when the ocean will suddenly cool

w/ heavy marine layer

rip albert pujols

it gets down to lows forties between thxgiving and new years, brrrr

the weather in the past week has convinced me that the best part about being rich aside from never having to worry about being bankrupt by a hospital stay would be the ability to live in different parts of the country (or world) as dictated by the weather

move to dallas, buy a house with an air-conditioned garage

there's a lot of unincorporated land w/ that climate left in califonia, some places even warmer / cooler / sunnier / cloudier to your taste

job relocation is almost always expensive though, i can't afford to try portland (easy zing)

xp well it's unseasonably warm all over right now - its 85f or so in my third floor apartment and it's expected to be 40 C (104 iirc) tomorrow and ugh why am I even typing this never mind my point was that I like to appreciate heat and I'm just going to do that and hope complainers don't usher in bleak rainy months