too effing hot

Anyway yeah I was gonna guess that places that have historically been very hot also have specialized architecture, traditions, social mores, cuisine, blah blah to help mitigate the discomfort and even danger--

Yes. One of the problems in US "Sun Belt" is the amount of people who moved from totally diff climates who put little to no thought or effort into altering a lifestyle and design philosophy that makes no sense there. Def making progress wrt tho. I remember driving around wealthy neighborhoods in Phoenix at end of last century and nearly every home had a ridiculous green lawn with sprinklers going nearly non-stop. Now those are the exception.

OH YEAH, definitely a pox on lawns.

88 degrees and 70% humidity in my apartment right now.

Every fan I own is now in operation.

I biked 20 km today in the middle of the day. It was very hot and I was over it after 4km. My sweat made a white salt Rorschach on the back of my blue trousers.

I am done with biking for another 5 years.

It was ugly in the city earlier but now I’m in Brittany and it is a relief

I'm in Beaune and it's too much sun for me.

Nice! Lovely little town.

Have only driven through (by?) Beaune, never visited.

I’m on the coast of Finistère in a small village, 20 degrees all week, before going back to the boiling capital for ordinary life again. I have to go to Prague in August and I am dreading the heat.

I still have never been to Bretagne. We biked on the bike road from Beaune to Santenay to Chagny. It was pretty.

pretty hot.

There's a place in Volnay past Pommard called Le cellier volnaysien that makes a mean coq au vin, if you're into that kind of thing. The setting is gorgeously rural and feels like a (very slight) respite from Beaune's bougier leanings. You could easily bike there, but you'd have to be in the mood for a few spells of uphill pedalling.

Yeah there was a lot of uphill pedaling that made me feel how out of shape I am. We went through all the grand cru villages in cote du beaune but didn't really stop except to get a glass of wine in meursault.

ok I gave in. Well, my thermostat did. Have it set to 82 and AC finally came on. Hottest day so far though at 103/39.5.

We (my daughter and I) just watched "Do the Right Thing," and the debilitating, apocalyptic heat wave in that movie is I think 94 or 95 degrees, and we thought, how quaint. It's at least that right here right now!

'this is fine'

I just saw DTRT again and i don't think a temperature is ever mentioned.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/16/heat-wave-could-cause-power-outages-new-york-city-chicago-d-c/1749257001/

Everything here is so damp.

It was 82º when I got home yesterday, but it felt like 106.

Low of 80 degrees for the rest of week.

xpost I take it back, when Mister Señor Love Daddy gives his Jheri curl alert, he says it's going to be over 100. I must have been thinking of something I heard/read about the real life weather of 1988, when Spike was writing the movie. Just looked it up and summer of '88 in NYC there was a 23 day July streak of streak of temps in the 90s.

Records in Toronto today--supposedly, in weatherese, going to "feel like" it's 47. ("You're going to have a great day tomorrow, and it'll feel like you're happy.")

I don't understand the heat index or wind chill. Well, I sorta of do. It has something to do with how well your body does or does not deal with sweat and moisture, right? Like, it'll be 95, but your body will have trouble sweating efficiently (or something) so it will "feel" like it's 110? Or, it's 20, but it will feel like 0, because the wind will wick away moisture faster?

heat index has to do with humidity in that when the air's really moist already, evaporation takes place more slowly or not at all --- so the cooling effect of perspiration evaporating off your skin is gone. you still sweat just as much.

Gotcha, thanks. Yeah, I knew it had something to do with that. You get soggy with no benefits.

I stepped out for coffee this morning, and it does hit you like a truck. The temperature's just around 30, but it feels like there's no air.

Pssh, I say there's *too much* air!!!

Pitchfork Fest gonna be a blast.

Basking in the bliss of the temperature and humidity having fallen to levels allowing for some kind of regular functioning.

No AC here (UK) and we're on an upper floor with southern facing windows and a flat roof. If it ever went over 38° C outside there would be genuine danger inside.

Two fires at power substations here, no one has power downtown, all the traffic lights out. Fun!
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/thousands-without-power-downtown-following-explosion-fires-at-mge-transmission/article_89ebfcd0-8a8c-5278-91bc-988ef36fd8ba.html

xpost, looks like it could get very toasty from mid-week.

We appear to have fairly strong agreement on 850hPa temps nearing or reaching the 20°C mark for at least 2 days next week across the south, with no strong negative factors at the surface (i.e a strong wind) or cloud, there's no reason we shouldn't nudge a mid 30's in London/SE pic.twitter.com/5NBldWgj7u

— Official Weather UK (@Official_WXUK) July 19, 2019

fukkkin 39C next week here, canicule alerts, nique mon identité

It wasn't until I moved to AZ, after 35 yrs of life, that I 1st experienced sweating actually cooling me off. "Ohhh THIS is why we sweat! Neat."

Two fires at power substations here, no one has power downtown, all the traffic lights out. Fun!

Stayin' cool by blowing through intersections at 50mph with the windows rolled down

summer music fests sure to fall by the wayside in many regions over the next decade

Heatwave after heatwave in different parts of the world and Lisbon has steered clear of them all. We hit 31C next week and we had a couple of 30+ C days in May, but other than that Northern Russia has been hotter for nearly 2 months.

Tomorrow we're the same temperature as Norilsk

The stat I just heard was that 90% of the population of America will be enveloped in 90-plus weather over the next two days.

93F and 56% humidity, fucking great

4 of the last 5 days here we hit 100F/38C, my sister's Eurokids visited and expected we would walk everywhere (having only visited Texas in December before now) but the heat + humidity just demolished them.

we've deforested pretty much everywhere, we don't have a night-market or after-dark social culture

This is my dream, that my office will let me work a second shift during summer, and retail/dining/etc establishments will extend their hours to accommodate evening/night workers... I would bike far more in Austin if I could do stuff at night when it's "only" 85-90 degrees outside, and no punishing sunlight. But it would need a whole constellation of changes to social practices.

my sister's Eurokids

Briefly misread this as Ewoks.

91f / 33c in ottawa seems pretty crazy

deforestation is sure to effect the ewoks though.

they are kind of muppety! especially when they're being theatrically exhausted.

When I lived in San Antonio it seemed like a relatively unusual number of businesses were open 24 hours. Bars still closed at 2am but they were regularly packed after midnight. It was a pretty night-oriented place ime

also wonder how feasible continuous shade structures for bike lanes would be. would keep the rain off, too. I've never seen one, so I'm guessing it's not practical for some reason. but it's not like roads in general are practical either.

we have those on bike trails. they're called trees, though

well, we cut all those down here

LA should put elevated trains down all the major boulevards for the shade.

this is excellent btw https://placesjournal.org/article/shade-an-urban-design-mandate/

especially as the palm trees are due to die in the next decade or so iirc?

they offer almost no shade now so them dying off is no great loss