too effing hot

for real though i kind of suspect we'll start seeing various official sources lying about the weather in the coming years.

just outside my house (or a mile or two anyway) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-62219162

Swaffham Bulbeck and Stow cum Quy, you say?

Stow cum Quay is a few minutes up the road, as you drive in there's a sign saying "STOW ᶜᵘᵐ QUAY" like they hope nobody will notice the cum.

it's 40.5°c rn. A couple of degrees higher than what bbc weather is showing. There is a steady breeze but the air is so hot it doesn't bring any relief.

got chubby rain here

had a round of golf today but teed off at 5.30am so it was manageable. still amazed to see joggers towards the end of my round just after 8am when it was getting p crispy.

This is so horrible. Curtains closed all day for the last three days, trapped in an endless cycle of sweating, crying and drinking water to try to replenish my hydration. Everything feels awful. The only okay thing is that the cats seem to be managing alright and are enjoying the novelty of playing with ice cubes.

I am dying for a storm right now.

A2 Southbound by M25. pic.twitter.com/LzyAbeqbgV

— efenda (@efendaTv) July 19, 2022

my poor labbie just gives up and looks despondent, genuinely sadness in his eyes. My son can't cope either and it's much harder to deal with his meltdowns in this heat. Cold showers have been useful though.

Good luck dealing with this calz and other UKers.

thanks PBKR. it's alright now where I am, it dropped 10+ degrees between 3.30 - 5.30 and has rapidly cooled down since then. I feel for people who have to live in these infernal conditions for months at a time.

we have raindrops in stratford

after a day of boiling temperatures the flat is now full of barbeque smoke from somewhere. earlier, at 18:15 in fact, we had fireworks.

Stow cum Quay is a few minutes up the road, as you drive in there's a sign saying "STOW ᶜᵘᵐ QUAY" like they hope nobody will notice the cum.

I’m assuming that podcast is racist I’m not gonna listen to it

I'd guess you are probably not missing much

https://i.imgur.com/frqgKUq.gif

Still 98F outside at 10PM

that's the thing -- it's not even so much that it gets hot as that it never cools off

today was the 40th consecutive day over 100° F in austin, texas

the high lows are the creepy thing, definitely

xp jesufuckingcristo

Meanwhile in Melbourne where it never gets that cold/never goes below freezing or snows, its been below freezing 2 days running. Whee.

mail me ice plz thx

El Niño coming. Get ready.

This is absurd. We are just blowing away global sea surface temperature records and we will continue to do so. https://t.co/qUmDzlI7w2 pic.twitter.com/NG5og7u0iO

— Ryan Stauffer (@ryans_wx) April 1, 2023

may and june were delightfully mild in NYC

and even now it hasn't been that straight-up hot -- upper 80s at most

but also it's like 12 straight days with a dew point over 70F and i've become So Angry at . . . fucking People

no doubt just as well that i barely leave the house

We're hitting 91-95F (33-35C) between today and tomorrow, the season until now was fine after a coldish wettish spring. Apparently 4th July was the hottest day ever recorded on earth, although that's a bit of a strange statistic and can't be easy to determine.
Our summer vacation will be North. First time in ages I'm travelling in July-August, off-season just had become the default to avoid heat/mass tourism or to go Southern hemisphere.

xp no joke i marveled at how lovely the early summer months were and over the span of the pre-July 4th weekend it turned into the moments of August that i hate dealing with.

In Greece right now and it's effin hot.

I was just in Greece two weeks ago, yeah. Hot! We got like one little drizzle of rain the whole 10 days.

Came out of the gate the first week of summer on fire. Got annoyed looking at the forecast, thinking, I hate it when they use the heat index instead of the actual temperature. Then I realized, oh no, the forecast really is 105° (41°C).

But now here we are on July 10, and the low this morning was 65° (18°C). So muggy, it still felt like 85°.

I didn't think it was that muggy here, but then I noticed that opening the freezer created this little rolling cloud of vapor in front of it

Speaking of Greece, we are only going to be back in Athens for a day, but it's supposed to hit 106 or something there, as part of this massive European heat wave. Where we are now is cooler but still effing hot.

This is the definition of compound, concurrent heat extremes! What you're looking at is the pressure pattern & wind flow at the 500mb level (5600 m, 18K ft). This is why Death Valley hit 129, the Med may hit 118, Iran heat index 152F and China hit an all-time heat record of 126. pic.twitter.com/qlXnoaAMmq

— Jeff Berardelli (@WeatherProf) July 17, 2023

Really striking how in sync these are and how long they're sticking around. And in most cases this isn't even the effects of the latest El Nino yet.

Iran downright muggy.

To reach a heat index of 152°F (66.6°C), Persian Gulf International Airport had to hit the following trifecta:

Temperature --- 104°F (40°C)
Humidity ------ 64.5%
Dew Point ----- 90°F (32°C)

I not-so-randomly looked at Louis Armstrong International Airport outside New Orleans for comparison. Right now, their heat index is "only" 108°F (42°C) with the following conditions:

Temperature --- 92°F (33°C)
Humidity ------ 64%
Dew Point ----- 78°F (26°C)

And let me tell you something, New Orleans is dank and steamy enough already.

long term forecasts for the the north east are not nice.

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looks like 2+ weeks of 90+ degrees for basically everywhere east of the Mississippi and if you trust the models out to July there's forecasts for 105+ all time highs in the mid-atlantic.

https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2024-06-13-record-heat-forecast-midwest-northeast?cm_ven=hp-slot-3

i cry foul! massachusetts should not have ANY deadly purple in it. its bad enough that most of the state is "major". look, i didn't move to kansas or texas or any other godforsaken tornado alley of a state. i'm supposed to live in a civilized state with civilized weather that is mostly filled with mud and every hundred years a sad old storm of the century shuffles through and we just buy some more cedar singles in bulk from Canada for our Cape houses in exchange for geese pelts. okay, fine, they are asphalt shingles now and not cedar. canada has the best asphalt.

greenfield is now purplefield, sorry

"heatrisk" is a weird new one from NWS btw https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/.

What's a heatrisk do, mark a footnote about electrical storms?

Good luck USA

feel very lucky that most of the summer in the UK has been in the 60°F+ range at best recently, you'll never hear me complaining about dark grey skies and rain

Until last week's rains we had 105+ heat indices two weeks ago in South Florida, unheard of this time of year.

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i don't think i've ever felt 110 degrees. that must feel pretty hot.

There's an old Frontline episode (I think it originally aired in 2000) where a climate denying scientist says even if it happens, global warming isn't a big deal because people prefer hot weather. Thought about that guy today and if he's still alive I hope he's f-ing roasting outside.

i haven't gone outside today. probably pretty hot.

My mom, who lives in the woods in NJ, texted to tell me it was 89 degrees near her yesterday but her little house wasn't hot enough to require the AC yet. Meanwhile, it was 47 degrees when I went out to pick up lunch (tacos al pastor). 47 degrees. In June. The heat in my apartment came on last night. Summer is gonna be about six weeks long here, I think - mid July to end of August, and it'll be snowing again by October.

No reading by the pool for you.

Thought about that guy today and if he's still alive I hope he's f-ing roasting outside.

He died in 2020:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer

From the Frontline episode:

FRED SINGER: We have to ask what are the impacts of a warmer climate? What is the impact on agriculture? The answer is, it's positive. It's good. What's the impact on forests of greater levels of CO2 and greater temperatures? It's good. What is the impact on water supplies? It's neutral. What is the impact on recreation? It's mixed. You get, on the one hand, perhaps less skiing. On the other hand, you get more sunshine and maybe better beach weather.

Let's face it, people like warmer climates. There's a good reason why much of the U.S. population is moving into sun belt, and not just people who are retiring.

Currently 32C with a "feels like" of 42C here (that's about 90F / 108F). I'm fine indoors for now, but I guess I'm going to have to install my window air conditioner tonight. I gotta go outside in a about 20 minutes to go pick up my kids from school (~10 minute walk), will report back.