too effing hot

i'm pretty sure it was 100% humidity yesterday. it was so gross. also we got a tornado warning.

it's raining here tomorrow and "mini-heatwave" is forecasted to be over by wednesday and it doesn't get any hotter than mid 20's in the north.

The app I use is giving an average high of only 27C in central London this week but it's a different model they use, I expect it will go a little higher here and there.

Yesterday in Washington felt not as bad as it could have been it was overcast and there was a steady wind.

Good luck a large chunk of America (this will be a daily post).

Oakland about 85F* right now, no complaints on my part

NYC 85 too
It’s fine

Palm springs just hit 120 degrees and peak temperatures won't even be reached til 4pm. The all time record of 123 is very much in reach! #CAwx #PalmSprings #Heatwave #SoCalwx pic.twitter.com/hRhUOwllVl

— SoCalWeather.net (@SoCalweathernet) July 5, 2024

Holy heck, Baltimore County was rough today. Brutal humidity.

I took my usual 30 minute walk late in the morning and it was hard to get through. Am just now starting to feel myself, and that’s after hours in the house with AC and glasses of water.

I was texting with an ex in Arkansas yesterday and she described the 'heat index' as being 112* - is that like the inverse of wind chill? heat + humidity + lack of a breeze?
She said she couldn't even go outside

it was so humid here today. yuck. luckily we are now getting another 10 inches of rain. it never rains a little when it rains now. just buckets.

110 in Sacramento today & tomorrow

help me i am in hell

Now 122 in Palm Springs but the heat index is just 111.

‘Just 111’!

There we go. 124 f/51 c. That’s the all time record as of 20 minutes ago. 5pm hour usually the hottest our so maybe still a couple of degrees to go. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=33.82219&lon=-116.50431

I picked a fantastic time to be out of California, but at least SF is still low/mid 70s!

117 F here in Phoenix

at what temp does flesh melt

it's hit us here in Oregon as well, finally, peaking at 99 today

Rumor has it it's gonna be 95 by me on Wednesday and Thursday. But I'm not sure I believe that.

It’s been 103-105 for a week, down to 93 today and it felt so good in comparison.

Stepping into 105 completely saps my will to live but at least I can function in the mid 90s.

currently 86°F with 72% humidity and a 76°F dewpoint

i don't recall ever seeing a dewpoint that high; it is deeply unpleasant

Helping me not spend money because I refuse to leave the house, my air conditioned box of not dying.

Declined to go to an outdoor party last night. Nope, not for me.

it was 113 in Sacramento today, so we headed to a friend’s house in Concord an hour away since they have a pool and slightly cooler

but traffic was fuxking horrific and it took over TWO HOURS to get there and our car’s A/C busted on the way so we were crawling along I-80 with the windows down drowning in sweat omg i have never sweated so much sans exercise

never have i been so glad to swim in a pool

Stay safe, everyone

Blows my mind it's twice as hot in Bakersfield as in LA (in celsius)

ConEd keeps texting and emailing me to tell me to reduce consumption during peak hours but, just as a particularly NYC-centric example, fuck off out of here until you dim the lights in Times Square and every corporate office that's air conditioned down to 57 degrees (on a SUNDAY, mind you).

^^^my current stance as well

to be fair, lots of corporate offices I'm sure don't want to pay extravagant power bills. They shut AC off in my building on Sunday.

92, ain’t no thing

I'm loving the heat in Portland (highs around 100 yesterday through Tuesday). Dry as a bone, not a cloud in the sky, air quality seems good.

I like not even having to think about wearing a long sleeve whatever later

It’s so hot in NYC that the Third Ave Bridge over the Harlem River can’t fully open/close because the heat has expanded the steel. We saw workers using a saw to shave part of the steel down & fire boats shooting water on the bridge to cool it down @nbcnewyork #nbc4ny #nyc #heat pic.twitter.com/lAxdyXNHEP

— Jesse Hamilton (@JesseJHamilton) July 8, 2024

It’s 83 in New York right now so I’m not convinced but could be!

Improvised bridge maintenance seems like it could be problematic.

i'm assuming it's not so much the high temp today (which is not that high) but the sustained heat of the last few weeks that has caused the bridge to accumulate enough heat to be stuck open?

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It’s really not that hot

balmy 75*F in Oakland right now, but it's supposed to heat up again later this week

DOT says it was heat https://gothamist.com/news/third-avenue-bridge-in-the-bronx-gets-stuck-due-to-heat-dot-says

it's too effing hot imo

Really?

Las Vegas whooee (I'm not there, but it's effing hot)

https://abc7.com/post/las-vegas-shatters-hottest-day-record-120-degrees/15041684/

Heard an NPR report about people showing up at the Vegas hospital with burns from the pavement.

calstars if you wanna be a high-temp hardman, maybe keep it to an nyc thread

https://i.imgur.com/onVes4O.png

K

It's a refreshing 72 degrees here.

Nice weather for July, if you're able to ignore the residual Beryl blasts and tornado warnings.

I mean, it’s not even August…

it's not even close to August

Summer starts in fucking May now