too effing hot

i have been jogging more or less daily for the past month in prospect park, doing the loop
when it was at max, i would come home feeling like i might die
it's been better lately. not today. today was a "i might die" day

I'm like minus three nights sleep at the moment.

wtf! bring on October

the president of my university just authorized all personnel to leave work by 16:00 today because of the dumb Parisian heat (high of 32 today, 11 degrees above normal). I was going to give my first class of the year, but now I can roast at home instead.

I gather it's hot in the UK today too? this weather is ridiculous. though highs will be in the teens here by Friday thank goodness.

it's hot in the UK today too

Not in Scotland.

It's BOILING in London. However, if you're within shouting distance of a Waitrose, Haagen Dazs is on offer for £2 today so GET IN.

X-post, I wore shirt sleeves today because it was meant to be hot (I never wear short sleeves because of scars, but it was unpleasant yesterday) and it's not that warm! It was warmer, muggier yesterday.

it's very hot and humid in the north. I'm drenched with sweat after cutting my hedges, because of the inline I live on some sections are 12 ft high and require site prohibited balancing on the top rung of wobbling steps type doings. A nice cold tyskie has been a good tonic, but need to try not to drink any more till later because I have a curry to cook.

Drunk cooking is the best. I woke up this morning to find I had made stuffed mushrooms with couscous, peppers and Brie. Was a nice surprise.

drinking and cooking is a heavenly combination, it makes me feel like a sophisticated bon vivant - rather than the alcy disgrace I really am :p

Only low 20s in Exeter, but overcast and muggy as hell with occasional peals of thunder.

i can confirm it is also very very hot in the middle of the uk

Drunk cooking is the best. I woke up this morning to find I had made stuffed mushrooms with couscous, peppers and Brie. Was a nice surprise.

― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, September 13, 2016 8:26 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

drinking and cooking is a heavenly combination, it makes me feel like a sophisticated bon vivant - rather than the alcy disgrace I really am :p

― calzino, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 8:31 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

prob my favorite time to cook tbh

uh i mean favorite time to drink

or cook i guess that too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsUv2OoWIAAkM98.jpg

what a fine end to the uk summer.

Huge storm last night in southwest France, rained all day today

UK = WINNER

I wish we were getting the huge storms up here. Paris was burning again today. The metro smelled...well you already know.

22 and rain tomorrow though. Autumn can't begin soon enough after this ugly late summer.

Dutch records broken for September yesterday and today, never been this hot on these dates, 28-31. I'm ok with the heat, but it feel so weird with these temperatures that it gets dark so "early". Read a book (!) outside till one last night, dark from 20.30 on already. Times is weird.

ALLEGEDLY GOING DOWN TO 58 TONIGHT, MOOK

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/video-tornado-touches-down-in-sheffield-as-thunderstorms-rage-across-city-1-8123399

I could see that storm approaching yesterday eve from the direction of the Skelmersdale wind turbines, it was probably weaker when it hit here. But it was very abrupt and conditions seemed to change from calm and balmy to wind, lightning and torrents of rain in about 20 seconds.

my dad in sheffield wrote to me and described it as the biggest storm he'd ever seen (and he lived in jamaica for a while)

The last year or so in London I've definitely seen bigger storms than ever in my life. Maybe like a year or so ago there were storms so loud it felt like mechanical things breaking - way way way beyond what I've ever known in the British Isles.

It was definitely quite extreme for these parts and there was some beautiful rapid multiple lightning strikes. I'm sure glad as hell I had already walked my dog on the tops half an hour before it arrived.

The worst storm I can remember was in the early 90's, it sounded like artillery bombardment for about 2 minutes. The lightning must have struck some telecom cable that didn't have any overcurrent protection because my brother's shitty archimedes pc with internet 1.0 plug in connection got fried.

Got woken last night up by the loudest thunder clap I've ever heard in my life, it was a sort of double clap, it was like a fucking nuclear explosion.

LaGuardia set a record high temperature for today of 93 earlier this afternoon. This breaks the old mark of 90 last set back in 1974.

— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) May 17, 2017

:)

Spouse just flipped on the AC for the first time this year, which gives us both the phears because what if it doesn't work?????

This is where I complain about it being 14C (about 58F, I guess) in Scotland, which is too hot with the amount of moisture. I can't function.

would trade

You're alright. I think I would just die over there. I spent a couple of months in the US (during a heatwave) about 20yrs ago and have stayed in Scotland since. (Also I hate flying). But I can't stop sweating - two showers before lunchtime.

Take that same amount of Scottish moisture, and then make it about 40º C.

"scottish moisture" is the name of my new band

'the boy with the scottish moisture' is the name of my next album

'Two Showers before Lunch' is the name of the western I'm directing

we went from needing jackets in NYC at the start of the week to needing AC

sick of this heat - a couple hours of rain in the whole summer here, what a tease

tell me about it. it's predicted to be 98F today. we've since exactly 0.05" of rain since about the middle of June. the entire state is covered with smoke from wildfires and at noon the sun looks orange. if I liked this sort of shit I'd live in California!

^ shit man

eff this

Yesterday was ridiculous

this is well and truly Fucked...

chinese hoax

"Never been a heat wave of this duration and magnitude this late in the season," reports NOAA.

https://thinkprogress.org/september-heat-wave-noaa-ca21143e97e1/

this is ridiculous

i've lived in the NYC metro area my whole life and never has there been an October 8 where I haven't yet seen a yellow or brown leaf... til now

Sitting in the dark in shorts and a tank top feeling sticky. This stupidity is depriving us of a fall in which you can look forward to putting on a sweatshirt or drinking tea. Being hot and sweaty makes me very uncomfortable and sick-feeling but I'm actually more angry at being denied seasonal experiences.

one of my co-workers is a runner. his rule of thumb is that if the (fahrenheit) temperature + dew point > 150, it's too unpleasant and borderline dangerous to run.

that sum was 151 this morning at midnight on october 9