too effing hot

you guys should try teaching two hour classes in unventilated rooms with 20 teenagers

my university is issuing a "let's reduce our on campus electrical demand" edict starting from 3 pm today in order to take some pressure off the electrical company as it struggles to keep people's AC going in the face of this heatwave

This has been awful...but it seems like the horror will be over by tomorrow, probably until next year? At least in Chicago. Or maybe I am just being overly optimistic and it will be 97 degrees in October.

I refuse to even contemplate such a thing.

I really don't know why I don't live in the PNW.

You Chicago summer haters got off relatively easy this year. As of 9/1, it has basically been an very average summer. The average temperature was 71.6° or .2° below average. Only 9 days were over 90 degrees, whereas 2012 had 40 days over 90 degrees.

I hope for my sake that the winter is mild.

looking forward to tomorrow killing Illinois summer dead

you guys should try teaching two hour classes in unventilated rooms with 20 teenagers

my classrooms are all a/c'ed to the maxx, whole campus is chill as fukk, when i go to work i spend 12 hours there because it's better than going back to the melty world

it's reassuring that carl and jeff can get along so well when the latter is so thoroughly wrong about weather

92 today in MAINE, christ almighty

We didn't pack for this

people in my office use space heaters during the summer, ambient temp is like 64 degrees. I love it.

Jeff OTM

Hottest September day since 2010 apparently

you guys should try teaching two hour classes in unventilated rooms with 20 teenagers

i was at a conference in lisbon in july when it was 40c out, and much worse in the unventilated classrooms we were using. it made proceedings unusually mellow, i don't think anyone could be bothered expending energy getting into arguments.

Work sent me to a customer site about 10 miles from my parents' house, so I've been staying there this week and hiding out in the air-conditioned basement. Apparently it was 97F in portland yesterday, and I'm glad I missed that. This is insane.

you guys should try teaching two hour classes in unventilated rooms with 20 teenagers

― caek, Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:44 PM (8 hours ago)

Oh, I'll see you and raise you by 4x70 minute classes with a couple of dozen tweens in a room with floor-to-ceiling windows along a forty foot wall. 107F and 99% humidity, wept so bad the grout between the cinderblocks began to weep ancient moisture

ok you win

although i would add that 18 yr olds smell appalling

Tomorrow night it is going to go down to 48 degrees! Hallelujah.

had a moment where I read that as C rather than F

It's supposed to storm and then get cold tonight THANK YOU BABY JESUS BECAUSE THIS IS AWFUL.

too effing dark

it was indistinguishable from actual dusk about an hour ago

(actually i sort of live it)

DJP are you communist, y/n?

I was in eastern Berlin less than a week ago, so kinda?

Tomorrow night it is going to go down to 48 degrees! Hallelujah.

― ashcans (askance johnson), Thursday, September 12, 2013 6:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HI FIVE!!!!!

Dark by 8pm, but still in 80s/90s UNACCEPTABLE. Come on, Autumn, I have a new jacket I wanna wear.

it's only a (horrible and evil) blip, but it's set back the cause of tolerable subway stations by ~10 days

It's 54 right now! It's going to be 64 toady! I wish I could hug this weather and tell it I love it so it would never leave.

Don't call me toady!

inappropriate imo

Totally unacceptable.

Welcome to my world of the past 4 months, x4

you chose that

i did not choose 85 in rocktober

But on Sunday the high will be 60, it will be glorious!

I chose this because I stupidly bought into the "but it's a dry heat" fallacy. 1) It is not a fucking dry heat in August and September, it is the Baja rainy season and over 80% humidity every day and 2) even if it is a dry heat, fuck you 113 F.

Supposed to have Santa Ana winds in LA today and Saturday, but so far not windy at all and not overly hot (82 w/ 30% humidty).

why is San Diego 72 every day and Baja like 40 degrees hotter? 'sup with that

at least q got a sweet tan

i need a sweet tan

::dies from lack of Vitamin D::

On the one hand, I am happy about maybe going swimming at the lake this weekend. On the the other hand, wtf

If by "sweet tan" you mean "age spots popping up all over, possibly also melanoma" then yes, I have a sweet, sweet tan.

Brownie, I'm about 1000 miles south of SD, near the Tropic of Cancer (ha!). The pool is now in the high 80s instead of the mid-90s, so I guess there is hope that I might not die.

this weather is so rude

who invited her

I'm just thrilled that in 3 months the tourists will have left NYC for the winter. End of the World Series til January 2 is the most vile nine weeks of the year.

WHHHHYYYYYY IS IT SO HAAAAWT. Ugh I want to bake things, this is terrible.

i am going to ikea :-(

It's so insanely humid today. I just slowly walked a half mile and I am covered in a visible layer of slimy condensation.

I mean, we never take the AC units out until November bc every October is warmer and grosser than I want it to be and yet I am offended to my core every time.

I'm sitting in my room SWEATING. My skin is an oil slick. Hot coffee is distasteful. It's all gone monkey-sided and I hate it.

Just carrying my laundry to the Laundromat drenched my shirt in visible sweat.

On the bright side, I am finally able to get a decent data connection here, which will surely make doing laundry more tolerable.

Well, I guess spring is finally here in sunny Los Angeles.

Dunno. Heard it was autumn, so I took out my warm pyjamas. Then started wearing my swimming trunks with a sweater and socks. Then I replaced the sweater with a t-shirt. Even in winter, I don't normally wear socks to bed, so I've no idea what I was thinking.

Actually, I've no idea what I was thinking taking out my PJs.

wow, rude