too effing hot

Look how people dress in Arabia and the Sahara. Staying cool is not necessarily about exposed skin, but a circulating layer of airflow under loose fitting robes. As the continental interiors become humid deserts some of us will adapt, so there may be hope for redheads. Personally, I have some thawbs, which make nice nightshirts.

Meanwhile:
Death toll jumps to 33 as heat wave continues to bake southern Quebec

Sahara has like zero humidity.

the fetid swamp i live in is not going to become a humid desert anytime soon.

it seems weird to die of heat in canada where it gets -1,000 degrees inwinter

yeah but that's celsius

As long as this is made of cotton and has pockets, this is my ideal garment:

http://serenecomfort.typepad.com/.a/6a014e8b59f04c970d01b8d197be6b970c-pi

My goal in life is to look like a Dominican abuela.

As the continental interiors become humid deserts some of us will adapt

please stop doing this

it seems weird to die of heat in canada where it gets -1,000 degrees inwinter

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Thursday, July 5, 2018 1:22 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a lot of places with cold winters have hot summers.

i love posting really obvious things, it's enjoyable

highs of 24 in vancouzy

never leavin' the best coast

😎

forecast here is 108 (aka 42) tomorrow.

oy

All time record highs within reach with forecast highs today of 113 at Burbank (all time record 113), 117 at Woodland Hills (119), & 105 Sandberg (106) in SW #CAwx. Many daily records will be broken. See a compiled list here! #LAheat #SoCal https://t.co/lYdy9Tdt1t pic.twitter.com/sGgk1nZxsL

— NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) July 6, 2018

damn

here in ohio i woke up and it feels incredible, back to 70 and a dewpoint of 59. so refreshing

i can dig the heat but this week was rough at times

RIP LA

high of 23 in Leipzig today after 31 yesterday, feels like a good dream

So much for "So much for global warming!"

I'm going to be in LA in a few weeks please god let it be a lot less hot than that jesus christ

Say prayers for my fridge/freezer, everybody

I never forget the fellow black Labrador owner telling me how her dog kept opening up the freezer and using it as ad hoc air-con while she was out.

117 °F here according to the nearest weather underground station

good news though it's a dry heat so it only feels like 117 °F

Hows arizona treating ya

Just like in Vancouver, people are saying the summers are gonna be hotter and winters colder in LA

It’s still 108 but it’s a dry heat

sounds nice

Incredible temperature gradients in LA County. *32 degree* difference right now between @UCLA campus (111) and the Santa Monica Pier ~5 miles away (79): a gradient of 6.4 degrees per mile over just 400 feet of elevation gain. (Remarkable vertical inversion too!) #CAwx #LAheatwave https://t.co/U2QYu5xmC7

— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) July 7, 2018

So joking aside, now I’m actually curious as to why that happened

I had a friend text me about the temperature in LA today and was actually pretty shocked

The broiling temperatures were the result of a strong high-pressure system combined with offshore winds blowing from the desert to the ocean

Interesting

I’m actually relieved it’s not due to global warming

Well, it can be both, right? Global warming leading to those conditions.

<i>please stop doing this</i>

Just reporting the [bad news](http://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552.short). First spots to become surface uninhabitable, at least seasonally, will be coastal areas of the Persian Gulf, with the densely populated Ganges basin not far behind. But the shocker for me is how much worse wet-bulb temperatures in the Midwest will be compared to say current deserts the US West or the Atlantic coast at the same latitude.

http://web.science.unsw.edu.au/~stevensherwood/images/twmax_highresmap_hot_sm.png

Anyone sleeping more in the heat? Slept like 13 hours last night

No, it goes like this:

Sleep 12am-3 or 4am, up for 90 minutes then either:

Fall back asleep until around 7.30/8am OR
fail to fall asleep, grumble, get up and do some freelance work, then nap for around 90 minutes at some point in the afternoon when the property programmes are on.

we totally wimped out and got ac, screw making it through the whole summer without

Why would anyone even attempt to torture themselves that way??

it's been in the mid-80s in London for the last 2 weeks or so and i haven't wanted the AC. it helps that it's not very humid i guess.

today's plunge into a more ordinary UK summer 20 degrees c is quite a relief tbh. Been loving the summer, but it's nice to able to cook a curry without feeling like your in the engine room of a steam ship.

Would never eat or make curry on a warm day

That is torture

Warm days call for salads or lighter fare in the infinitiverse

for some reason the heat has been making me crave spice, I think my body wants to enter full sauna mode

1. Spices have antimicrobial and anti parasitic properties, and help protect people from meat and other protein that spoil rather quickly in a hot climate. They also help to mask off flavors of meat about to go bad. From an evolutionary perspective, the people who prepared spicy dishes had a higher chance of survival, and instructed their offspring to use spices as well.

2. Spicy food causes people to sweat, which is the body’s way to cool off. More precisely, the spices trigger an increase in the metabolism, which raises the body’s temperature a little bit. This induces sweating as a mechanism for cooling off.

3. Hot weather acts as a natural appetite suppressant; spicy food acts as an appetite stimulant.

Capsaicin(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-2XWDkPfB2OUFNfTlpKT1U5QXc?usp=sharing), the pungent compound from hot peppers that mimics heat, is a vasodilator. Like alcohol, this warms skin temperature in cold, but it also helps to dissipate excess. Also, may modestly extend lifespan.

God damn hot. Glad I shaved my head and beard, rocking just a moustache. Crows are going crazy today

Fuck this.

It is awful and I am considering moving to California but uh fire

90 degrees @ 9pm

:(

lol california including the ocean is in the grip of a heat wave too

my AC bill for august was 2x what it was last summer :(

enough

brownie ive been dying

I've been hiking in 30+ (90ish) heat for a few days and I am not looking fwd to returning to my chilly, dank island home

It's brutal marcos. I found an Asian Tiger Mosquito in my GF's backyard in Lakewood.

i wanna fight the air