too effing hot

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.