too effing hot

we have fans blowing in "cool" air all night on high speed but it is still like 80 in the apartment when we wake up at 7

― marcos, Thursday, August 20, 2015 12:02 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fans? Just fans?

Humidity and extreme heat make me physically sick. I couldn't live without AC. I don't understand fan people. How do you sleep in 80 degrees? I'd be up all night.

it is rarely hot and humid for longer than a couple days

huh? I do not agree with this at all! I think we've had it pretty lucky so far this summer but in general I think NE summers are pretty oppressive.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, August 20, 2015 12:34 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk, i didn't grow up here but i've been in new england for 7 years and ime you will have like maybe 4 or 5 90 degree days tops and then it will be 80, 85, 75, 70, and the humidity comes and goes. it is not a constant. we get warm southern air coming up and then we get cool ocean breezes. i mean the first week of june here was in the 50s!! i used to live in DC and it starts to be like 85 and humid in mid-may and then it is 90 and humid every single day until september. it is relentless. the heat is not relentless in boston when you compare it to southern cities ime.

also we def have AC units in the bedrooms. we still try to "cool" off the rest of our place with fans.

i mean in DC we need AC running for the entirety of the summer. in boston we really only need AC to sleep for maybe a combined total of 2-3 weeks out of the summer. there are plenty of summer nights in boston when it goes down to the 50s and 60s.

85 with humidity is still a hell though.

It was reading 75 when I left for work this morning and I was already sticky biking to the subway. I want to stop sweating. No sweat.

"the heat is not relentless in boston when you compare it to southern cities ime"

lol yeah well ok if you're comparing it to southern cities but I'd pretty much rather die than live anywhere where what you described is the norm and Orbit otm 85 and humid is still hell. I'll sweat if it's 70 and humid tbh. It's the humidity that kills me.

Sunny & I were still cracking up the other day about the White Horse contingent who came to Boston and sweated like pigs.

Then we fell into a fever and saw serpents since we live in one of those Southern cities you just described.

I honestly can't even imagine how awful it must be!

Deep winter is also a hell.

I've only run the AC once or twice this summer cuz 1) it's from the mid-'60s, it can't be cleaned and i am sure it's pumping awful stuff into my apartment, 2) it's expensive.

I was on the elevator returning from a lovely lunch-time stroll and the elevators are really stuffy and gross (also really dark because I guess the building turned down the lights to save energy which is great but also made me feel a little crazy until someone explained why it was so dark) and this woman in the elevator pulled her jacket tight around her and complained about how cold it is today.

She should move to where WmC lives and thinks that temps in the 80s is cool enough for making gumbo and leave the northern cities for the rest of us sweaty broads.

That's nuts! I was looking around at people while waiting for the train the other day (at park street lol) and pretty much dying of the heat when I noticed that there were people wearing long sleeves and one person had on a jacket. Clearly they must have been ill.

I was on the elevator returning from a lovely lunch-time stroll and the elevators are really stuffy and gross (also really dark because I guess the building turned down the lights to save energy which is great but also made me feel a little crazy until someone explained why it was so dark) and this woman in the elevator pulled her jacket tight around her and complained about how cold it is today.

Did you not see me cross my arms across my body at lunch because I had a significant chill?

I thought that was from all the ghosts in Corner Bakery.

From my co-worker from Chicago -

80 degrees in LR: "wowww it feels like fall it's so nice out"
80 degrees in Chicago: "it's so hot let's go to the pool"

That's about right.

ok enbb you are right it is only like 80 right now but i can't fucking breeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaathe it is so gross

dew point 73 degrees
humidity 91%

Ew!

Right?! It's so bad out today.

The weather guy said high of 80 but I didn't hear the humidity part and I wore jeans and I was DYING on the way in even though it's not even hot. It's just sticky and disgusting. I had to go to park street earlier too and it was awful.

I think something's wrong--I'm now freezing at 69-70 degrees and I didn't used to be.

Hey Christine. How's it going?

the on-off rain has turned boston into the shittiest hottest suckiest bunch of suck today

^^ this

yea it is so bad today

i am home with the kids today and keeping a sweaty infant and a cranky toddler happy is just too much

However, NYC area comparably much much better than the past couple of days.

I spent last week on the east coast and I gotta say I had forgotten what that shit was like, glad 2 b back in Seattle

come on now

HORRIBLE

last day for this. low tonight is 74

:/

fluctuating between 93 and 97 all day today, only 1 more day of 91 before the sweet release of a 70 degree weekend, or possibly death before that who knows

Central Park has broken a record for a high temperature on this date by reaching 97°. The previous record was 93° set back in 1919.

also like 62 straight days over 80. and yeah 80 isn't crazy but not even one day in the 70s for two months? rude

I've lived in NYC since 1986 and for some reason this was the most annoying summer heat-wise in memory...first of all, it's been humid--feels like 90% of the time; second, as Mookieproof said, it's the numbing regularity of the heat, day after day. I've never been so glad for winter (we haven't had spring or fall as distinct seasons in like 10 years--9 months of freezing and 3 months of this shit)

not leaving this office tonight til it cools down to 90

hurricanes keep passing by and sucking up all the trade winds. it's deathly still, absurdly humid, and the ocean is so warm it's creepy. can't remember the last time i saw snow on the mountain. yearning for our other season, if it still exists.

that post was so poetic I read it three times

It's going to be 92 again tomorrow but thankfully it gets a lot cooler after that

I'm fully ready for fall and tired of this bullshit.

did not need to blush under these circs

If today's weather means one less day of 22 degree temperatures in the winter it's worth it, because the latter is infinitely more uncomfortable to me.

Admittedly it probably doesn't mean that, and we're all in for more extreme temperatures and unpleasantness from now until the time we die.

that was some serious alabama type stuff yesterday. if i had wanted to live in alabama by gum i would have moved to alabama.

for the record, i live in massachusetts the official home of never living in alabama.

Sweat Home Alabama...

my dad was gloating yesterday because it was cooler where he is than it was here in MA and he lives in FLORIDA ffs

i went to vegas in the middle of august and walking around in 106° heat with 9% humidity was a PLEASURE compared to nyc subway platforms this summer

radio this morning: surrounding ocean now "6 degrees warmer than normal", coral reefs expected to undergo "mass bleaching event". on land tho rain did cut the heat some last night.

46 / 115 with 70% humidity in Abu Dhabi today. I will never complain about a London summer again.

Well, I will complain, but with less justification.

dont u just get ferried by golfbuggy from subterranean airconditioned mall to airconditioned hotel etc

Seventy percent humidity in the desert. That's nuts.

Hope to live long enough to see complaints of fog in the city by 2050.

desert right next to the warmest sea in the world