too effing hot

working up a sweat after 5 mins of jogging >>>>

I lived in south Texas for four years, there were no joys in sweltering at 40C+. one of the many reasons I came here was to avoid usa midwestern summer heat, but as gyac notes there is no escape from global warming. gonna make granitas now.

Y'all need more of this in your lives and you'll come around:

https://www.mtlblog.com/u/2019/01/15/26250906cbc6dda0cc8d726846e735eb849086a5.jpg_1200x630.jpg

also helpful: I (currently) live in a basement apt, the only upside of which is it's always cool inside #basementprivilege

shoveling snow is the only part of winter I actually enjoy

I don't love it but I don't hate it either. Fuck slush, though.

i have lived in anchorage, minneapolis and montreal, and i will never come around

the only slush I like is in the granitas I'm currently making

Fair enough, seethe away.

xp

I think experiencing a week of Winnipeg in February made me a pro-summer radical forever tbh

Québec City in early January is the worst I’ve experienced but I hear Winnipeg is on another level altogether, so: respect.

I honestly have no fucking clue how anyone lives there.

Just came here to say, "It's like a fucking oven out there", but I see I've been beaten to the punhc.

I don't mind the heat so long as it's dry. Been 109F/42C here past few days and I'm just like pffft is that all ya got, Sun?? But one day recently it was 90ish and just humid enough for me to feel it (weather app said 36%) and I hated life.

"...but it's a dry heat."

lol, xp

WTF why can't we just have one week of 22-24 degrees, sunshine, and no miserable pissy rain.
That's all I ask for.

it's dropped to a more manageable 25 degrees here and dark storm clouds are on the horizon, that's more like it

i just made gazpacho. currently in the freezer until the second before it freezes. i will know when that is just by..... knowing

Heat has dropped six degrees in less than an hour, that’s a storm on the way, right?

Windows open front and back because the resulting breeze is the only way this is bearable. Flat now smells of next door's BBQ.

I can take bbq smells, but the smell of weed from the wanker next door penetrating every room in the house is enough to turn me into a cold-blooded murderer.

the smell of weed from the wanker next door penetrating every room in the house is enough to turn me into a cold-blooded murderer

Bought this air purifier (Pure Enrichment Pure Zone 3-in-1 Air Purifier, if the Amazon link doesn't work) two years ago and have gotten amazing results.

I don't think it would help with how powerful and pungent the aroma of weed is these days, when he is smoking it at the back of his house he might as well be sat in my kitchen. I am just going to wear the bastard down through attrition and noise, because he started a war with the wrong person here!

one for the trouble with neighbours thread really, but when it is hot the troubles feel somewhat intensified and ready to burst into deadly violence!

Today would have been the day for a giant zoot, were I still having zoots generally.

i will take heat over cold anyday

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I can't think of anything worse on a very hot day other than sitting next to a wood-burner full of industrial waste.

I was grilling the other day. Flipped open my digital meat thermometer, which causes it to turn on, and thought it was out of calibration because it read over 100F just from the air temp. Then I realized uh wait that's correct. It didn't feel that hot out! My house was blocking the sun. I've now grilled in 0F and 100+F and will take 100F all day every day.

Some spectacular skies this evening.

A one day heatwave. This weather is weird.

ok wtf how is it hotter here than Phoenix?? Never seen that happen. 2000 ft higher elevation, 100 miles further north.

someone's been sleeping with demons

110F/44C but 7% humidity so feels-like temp is a crisp 103F

I prob should raise my thermostat a few degrees so AC doesn't explode

People who love hot weather and are like ISN’T THIS GREAT, especially when the weather is only going to get even hotter and eventually kill us all, are the worst. No questions at this time.

You think clearly and are of sane mind. You may proceed with living your life.

I lived in south Texas for four years, there were no joys in sweltering at 40C+. one of the many reasons I came here was to avoid usa midwestern summer heat, but as gyac notes there is no escape from global warming. gonna make granitas now.

This is also a rational mindset. Thank you very much for your contribution to this thread.

Those of you actually embracing the summer heat: do understand that as a native Texan (and someone from a Mexican family) I automatically see you as having something wrong with you and needing to seek out professional help. I've already lived a lifetime's worth of heat and sun, as have my antecedents. If I had the ability to live out the rest of my life in a location with a paucity of both and leave places such as the U.S. Sun Belt to those of you lacking sanity, I would.

Move up north in January, then we'll talk.

Wasn’t it 54C in Iraq this week? 20C hotter than London today.

Here's our low temperatures for tonight. 60ºF = 15.5ºC....... 70º=21º

https://i.imgur.com/1qd6h8y.png

Maybe I'm on the wrong thread though. :-P

De Queen and Texarkana are awesome toponyms.

mostly pleased that the capital didn't shy away from the 'little rocker' demonym

Presumably less contentious than Little Rockist.

I can't stand heat. Not sure why I live in Florida, lol.

When I start fantasizing about winning the lottery the main reason is to be able to buy two homes, one in Tampa for the 65 degree F (18 C) winters, and another one in Portland, OR for the 75 degree summers.

I automatically see you as having something wrong with you and needing to seek out professional help. I've already lived a lifetime's worth of heat and sun, as have my antecedents. If I had the ability to live out the rest of my life in a location with a paucity of both and leave places such as the U.S. Sun Belt to those of you lacking sanity, I would.

Here's the shitty thing about a lot places that are cold af in winter, the US Midwest in particular: it also gets uncomfortably warm and muggy in the summer! You spend winter fantasizing about how nice it'll be once it's not freezing, all the stuff you'll be able to do, you get a couple nice weeks of Spring weather, and then the heat, humidity, and bugs descend upon you and you fantasize about the arrival of cool Autumn weather! At least here in AZ I merely have to wait until the sun goes down to get relief.

Been thinking a lot about northern NM for that reason.

one undeniable upside of heat is that cold showers are wonderful. whereas exiting a hot shower in winter is one of the worst casual sensations in existence

Preach it.

Lukewarm showers work better for me for some reason, but the pre bed shower is a classic.

Winter is for baths.

The place we recently moved into only comes with a shower, so I can no longer pretend that I'm finally going to pick up my love of baths where I left it off, uh, 25 years ago.

sunburnt ffs

The only thing getting me through my 18th DC summer is the conviction that I will not be enduring a 19th.