too effing hot

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.

was outside a bit, can confirm that it is effing hot and humid. I smell bad now.

you'll never hear me complaining about dark grey skies and rain

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, June 17, 2024 5:09 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Geniune question - you don't find it depressing?! I used to love rainy days but I'm at my fucking wits end here. This is not a summer. The sun was out for 1 hour yesterday and I was happy by the afternoon I was ready to sleep it all away again. This is just so miserable this year.

I guess if you grow up here you're used to it. I used to defend UK weather but I stg the sun came out more 20 years ago. It completely sucks now. It's just so grim all the time.

Not saying I'd rather be in a near 100 degree heatwave that's nuts/.

We had a mostly really cool and grey June back in 2016 here in London and this feels like the worst one since that. Looking better next week though.

Extremes with nothing in between is pretty much the normal now and I'd rather it was grey/rainy and 20C than 40C+

I hate the heat BUT the humidity here is the the worst part of “summer”, easily. Would rather a dry 30C than a humid 22C any day.

I don't mind the 20C at all. I like cool weather. It's the grey/rainy part that has been really tough for me.

Agree with the humidity though. It is by far the worst part.

Hate hot weather but today is a bit too cold for June, yesterday was fine when I was out at lunchtime.

It hardly ever rains in London anyway, it could do with some

????

xps to ENBB

there was a stunning thunderstorm here yesterday, the heaviest rain I've seen in a long time - it was awesome - the kind of weather that makes me happy. Hot sunny days make me lethargic and long sustained periods of hot summer weather (thankfully a rarity in the UK) always seem to coincide with periods of depression, and heatwaves are an absolute nightmare to me, torture. That 40° + day a couple of years back, I had all the curtains drawn and windows shut and was just about coping with a fan cooling me and then I had to do some cooking and didn't have a microwave at the time. lol, I was on the verge of crying.

Yesterday had more than 1hr of sun but it was all in the AM - luckily I was on Hampstead Heath supervising a whippet zoom call, so got vitamin D and endorphins.

I’m going to Washington and Annapolis in about 10 days to see friends and part of me is dreading the extremes of heat and humidity.

London is a pretty dry in comparison to a lot of other capital cities. Certainly in comparison to other cities in the UK.

They must be unbearable.

Xpost - it might have even more than an hour but not much. I only got an hour in it cause I was working. By noon it was grey again.

I'm with everyone on the heat - I just miss the sun.

Yeah idk it's getting to 20-21 deg pretty regularly. Some thunderstorms, some cloud cover, but the sun peeking through every now and then. That's June weather isn't it? July and August are suppoed to be the hot months.

No, I know. Hopefully not too hot. We were just having a convo at work about how dreary to feels like spring/early summer have been so I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Maybe the sun is planning big things for those months.

It feels like it has been a pretty grotty year in the UK. I know it's always unsettled but it feels particularly unsettled this year. We will usually have had at least a couple of periods of extended high pressure by now. Ugh.

Yeah that's how it's seemed to me.

I have mostly been in the US during the most recent UK heatwaves, but we haven’t had a wet June like this for years! This time last year, we were sweltering.

Last year we had a good May-June, garbage July-August and a finally some days over 30C in September. Most of Europe seems to be having a fairly normal one so far tbh.

Brutal heat... New Delhi, India 🇮🇳 just recorded its hottest night on record at the Safdarjung Observatory (data since 1901).

The heatwave has been rewriting many records. New Delhi has hit 40°C or greater for 37 consecutive days now. pic.twitter.com/eTkzwIpGkD

— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) June 19, 2024

jesus, 35 degrees at night.

All of the current “thinking” on immigration and the role of government is going to be very outdated.. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives

it's been 17 years and i still cannot get over gregg easterbrook's (atlantic, obviously) feature wondering aloud who will 'win' and who will 'lose' global warming

sure, a billion people in south asia and africa might die, but think of the opportunities created by an ice-free arctic! shipping costs could be slashed in half!

this forecast for tomorrow just makes me think the entire town is going to disappear in a cloud of steam.

"Scattered showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 97. Heat index values as high as 102. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms."