too effing hot

Have you eaten today? Are you drinking enough water? Do you need me to come get you?

I hid in a partly cooled taqueria stand and ate ice. My brother gave me a little talk about zen attitudes toward heat.

ice = part of a balanced diet

May break records today: 36, humidex into the 40s.

(=97, humidex 104+)

http://www.cool-smileys.com/images/12-cool-shades-emoticon.gif

It was 80F in Cleveland at 6:30am today, and highs are being predicted anywhere between 94 and 106.

North American climatic temperature anomaly for June vs. a 1971-2000 baseline:

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ds:/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.CAMS/.anomaly/.temp/-9999/replaceNaN/-9999/-9999/flagrange//name//tmask/def/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.CAMS/.anomaly/.temp//name//tanom/def/DATA/1./STEP/startcolormap/DATA/-10./10./RANGE/white/purple/purple/-10./VALUE/cyan/-1./VALUE/white/white/1./bandmax/yellow/1./VALUE/red/10./VALUE/firebrick/endcolormap/:ds/a-+.tanom+-a-+.tanom+-a-+.tmask+-a+X+Y+fig:+colors+grey+nozero+contours+mask+black+thin+solid+countries_gaz+:fig+/T/last/plotvalue/X/190./300./plotrange/Y/15/75/plotrange+//plotaxislength+700+psdef//plotborder+72+psdef//color_smoothing+null+psdef//XOVY+null+psdef+.gif

Great post/display name combo!

no color bar no utility

romania was just awful this weekend. like it was amazing fun, but i am not built for those temperatures.

Everything is horrible today.

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ds:/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.CAMS/.anomaly/.temp/-9999/replaceNaN/-9999/-9999/flagrange//name//tmask/def/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.CAMS/.anomaly/.temp//name//tanom/def/DATA/1./STEP/startcolormap/DATA/-10./10./RANGE/white/purple/purple/-10./VALUE/cyan/-1./VALUE/white/white/1./bandmax/yellow/1./VALUE/red/10./VALUE/firebrick/endcolormap/:ds/a-+.tanom+-a-+.tanom+-a-+.tmask+-a+X+Y+fig:+colors+grey+nozero+contours+mask+black+thin+solid+countries_gaz+:fig+.auxfig+/T/last/plotvalue/X/190./300./plotrange/Y/15/75/plotrange+//plotaxislength+700+psdef//plotborder+72+psdef//color_smoothing+null+psdef//XOVY+null+psdef+.gif

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/.Regional/.Europe/.Atm_Temp/Anomaly.html

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/ds:/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.CAMS/.anomaly/.temp/-9999/replaceNaN/-9999/-9999/flagrange//name//tmask/def/SOURCES/.NOAA/.NCEP/.CPC/.CAMS/.anomaly/.temp//name//tanom/def/DATA/1./STEP/startcolormap/DATA/-10./10./RANGE/white/purple/purple/-10./VALUE/cyan/-1./VALUE/white/white/1./bandmax/yellow/1./VALUE/red/10./VALUE/firebrick/endcolormap/:ds/a-+.tanom+-a-+.tanom+-a-+.tmask+-a+X+Y+fig:+colors+grey+nozero+contours+mask+black+thin+solid+countries_gaz+:fig+/T/last/plotvalue/X/-20./40./plotrange/Y/35/75/plotrange+//plotaxislength+700+psdef//plotborder+72+psdef//color_smoothing+null+psdef//XOVY+null+psdef+.gif

even the freaking penguins are pissed

thanking you

humidex - that's one I haven't heard before.

(They call it the heat index down here, but humidex sounds more accurate.)

When I worked for the radio station and we had our little weather forecast, we always haggled over whether the plural of index was really indices, and if so, was it really necessary to say that.

I came over here to the business publication where I occasionally write television scripts for a business report. One of the first questions I had was whether to say indices or indexes when referring to the Dow, the Nasdaq, the S&P as a whole, and my new co-workers looked at me like I was crazy. "Indexes will be fine," they told me.

And I'm a little scared to say this out loud after all the bitching I did last month, but I'm really starting to wonder which is worse, 110º with no water or 95º with 80% humidity.

At least I didn't have to mow the damn yard while the dust bowl was taking over my zip code.

110° F with 0% humidity feels like 100.3° F.
95° F with 80% humidity feels like 133.8° F.

At least according to: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/epz/?n=wxcalc_heatindex

The converter above says that 33° C + 47% humidity feels like 96° F. The Weather Network site here says that 33° C + 47% feels like 106° F.

I'm inside, so it feels fine.

Humidex? The Weather Network?

Canada, man.

The view from my window:

http://www.mountiecollectables.com/mounties/springtime2.jpg

You should so something about the watermarks on your glass.

Or are they called "logostamps" there

It's a limited edition Arnold Friberg window, personally signed, numbered, and copyrighted. Mine's #1999 of 2000.

wow that mountie is my brother!

The Weather Network!

Not mocking Canada, for which I have only the greatest respect, but The Weather Network sounds like a fictional brand name from a TV show. Or like that one 30 Rock where Liz and Jack went to the South and brand names were all just slightly different.

What's your weather channel called in America, anyway?

The Weather Channel

now you're doing that on purpose.

I should've known. But ours networks out to all the provinces? /shrug One of those things I grew up with and thus never really examined.

Biggest pet peeve I have with the Weather Channel - How they say, "Over here in the plains, we're seeing snow." YOU'RE IN ATLANTA, SAY OVER THERE.

"Weather Network" :: German hand gesture for "three" - hope I never have to go undercover up there.

I should've known. But ours networks out to all the provinces? /shrug One of those things I grew up with and thus never really examined.

The Weather Channel is nationwide in the U.S. Though it is a cable channel, not network.

I'm not saying that The Weather Network's name is intrinsically weird, just that it sounded funny to me b/c it's so close to "The Weather Channel."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Troymcclure.png/200px-Troymcclure.png

"You may remember me from television work like 'The Weather Network' and 'Cable News Channel!'"

And yet, it's still called a Quarter Pounder up there. Outside of Quebec, at least.

This could go in the IA thread, but it's prob better here.

Yesterday and today I saw people eating on sidewalk patios in the stinking, ungodly heat; today (95F/34C) there were people sitting in partial sunlight. I was savoring my disgust at those people, and I realized it's similar to my disgust at the thought of people drinking urine. I think both are really fucking gross, but I can sort of get why some people would do it (sexual fetish, health quackery).

Canadians still weigh themselves in pounds and measure their height in feet/inches. Metric nation, my foot.
xpost

More centimeters than inches, fewer kgs to pounds, Canadians just don't want to seem like they're being misleading.

Seeing people sit in the sun on days like today just gives me the rage.

Also: haha Jesse drinks pee

Canadians still weigh themselves in pounds and measure their height in feet/inches.

Quite true for my students, anyway. They don't know Fahrenheit, and they'll estimate the length of a table or a room in metric. But with their own height/weight, they revert to imperial.

I neither drink pee nor do I sit on a sidewalk in the horrible heat!!

Honestly, all joking aside, I believe that - within in the context of a "meaningful," trusting sexual/romantic relationship - I am more likely to let someone pee in my mouth (though I would not swallow) than I am to ever choose or agree to eat and drink outdoors when it is humid and 95/34º+.

the call the quarter pounder "les quatre bouf royale kilo"

I went to a nice quebec mcdonalds and had poutine

Honestly, all joking aside, I believe that - within in the context of a "meaningful," trusting sexual/romantic relationship - I am more likely to let someone pee in my mouth (though I would not swallow) than I am to ever choose or agree to eat and drink outdoors when it is humid and 95/34º+.

― Je55e, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:11 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm just going to quietly file this away because I have a feeling it's going to come in handy some time in the future.

p. sure that's McPoutine xp

thought u were joking but nope

http://images.mentalfloss.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/poutine.jpg

when I ordered poutine in a zoo the girl laughed at my French uncontrollably - it was awkward, though she didnt come acorss as condescending. it must have been like someone saying "I may please purchase your fine and wonderous fry of france now?"

Do they do a poutine shake for Canada Day or anything like that?

they just add maple syrup

Back Bacon Shake on Canada Day, of course.

mcdonalds poutines are so terrible