Should get to around 103F today, 104F tomorrow if the projections are accurate. Well, okay, it ain’t Fresno, but it’s major hotness seldom beknownst in Minnefunky. Been in the upper 90s all week. My cat’s been trying to lethargically melt into the floor, but she sure has a fund of energy when I open the fridge, heh.
I knew I should’ve installed ceiling fans this year.
I have to sit in front of a fan to practice, but that means flute is out. Oddly enough, my reed is still doughty and happy as a clam. How DO you do it, JES?
Yes, and all the crap weather you are having is headed my way. Thenk yew, sooooooo much! Reports indicate a good dose of rain Wed-Thurs will finally break the back of this spell, but summer is long from being over yet. :crap:
At least it’s windy today and tomorrow! That helps. The last few days it’s been still as still could be. “Stifling” is a word that fits the case, but inadequately. Been drinking a lot of water, eating a lot of oranges and melons.
It sounds like you’re in for a bit of what we had out here for nearly two weeks. In my area, we’re back to a normal low-80s pattern, but we were in triple digits for way too long. None of us, at least none of us here close to the coast, have a/c, because our weather is supposed to be too perfect and temperate-mild to need it. And because I live in an older, poorly insulated house, it stayed around 90-something even indoors. Miserable.
They’re attributing something like 150 deaths to the heat out here, so be careful! At least we didn’t have to contend with high humidity, as well, as you might experience.
I mostly just sat around, with a fan pointed right at me, occasionally with a damp towel around my neck (that helped). Also spent a lot of time browsing in bookstores and the like, just to take advantage of their a/c. Hardly ate at all; I’d just stand in front of the fridge, then shake my head and just drink water. Funny how heat saps your energy so.
A couple of my friends in Arizona called me and told me I was a wimp, but they’re all sitting in their air-conditioned houses and offices all day, so the only time they experience the heat is in the sprint to their cars to get from one a/c’d environment to another. I reamed 'em for that one.
Yes, I was watching the west coast (dreams of moving out there some day). Is mid-90s here, low 100s with the humidex, but the humidity is so thick we get thunder storms and funnel clouds each afternoon from daytime heating. Not fun. Too hot to even think of playing. A/C is for the very rich. I’m starting to get … surly.
What’s really weird is that we’re in a drought right now, and yet the humidity in my apartment reads at 79%. The semantics for chances of rains hereabouts have been long changed from “threat” to “opportunity”. I look at the gentle, puffy clouds and ponder the irony of such apparently beautiful conditions.
It rained today in southern California. I went out for my Sunday bike ride and had to put on a rain jacket. Its about 70F and 40% humidity as I type. The hot spell should be over, hopefully.
Some years back there was a lengthy heat wave that affected me the same way. Due to how I felt in the heat, I almost stopped eating altogether (yes, it was ill-advised to say the least), and I lost so much weight that my acquaintances were truly alarmed. Nowadays I make a point of eating stuff I can keep cold in the fridge like pasta salads and especially lots of fruit if nothing else. I find that if I eat, I’m more inclined to do so again no matter how hot it is. And fruit can’t be a bad thing.
Eating a chilled pasta salad as I type this. Trying, anyway: the cat is after a handout as usual, and is satisfied to eat the peas, but she leaves me with little time to see to my own gastronomy. Still, it’s such a friendly look she gives me…
Man, Steve, I am so with you on this. Can’t stand cold pasta. Not that I have to worry. Its so hot in here my little fridge just can’t keep up. I just bought a 2L carton of 2% milk last night, and this morning its curdled already. No fear of anything being kept cold around here!
Its 15°C in Ucluelet today, according to the weather channel. Why can’t I live in Ucluelet? No, I had to choose the armpit of Ontario, with the hottest muggiest weather in the country for four months every summer. :swearing:
Here in the Nebraska panhandle, we’re in a drought too, with temps in the 100s.
These are photos of one of the 5 big wildfires still burning around Chadron, where I live. The first photo was taken Friday night as the one dubbed the Spotted Tail Fire topped the ridge behind my house, which is near the Chadron State College campus. The second photo shows the fire approaching the college. This particular fire barely missed the college…and my house. It is burning east of Chadron now. All 5 fires were started by a thunderstorm Wednesday night that produced no rain but lots of lightning.
It’s cooled down now, with a good change in wind direction. The temp last Monday was ‘hotter than a snake’s asp in a wagon rut’, and the fire I was working went from 2 to 62 hectares pretty quick. On a small island.
The panic on Galiano Isle is over now, but there was some adrenaline. Nothing like working under two Sikorski Sky Cranes and two Martin Mars waterbombers. I know 60ha is small as forest fires go, but it was going up to Rank 5 (Rank 6 is, like, Dresden…) and heavy ground equipment was tough to get. One never has a Cat D9 when one most needs it!
All went well, no lives or structures lost (stopped it 40 feet from a cabin), but it was hot enough to melt my bootlaces and turn my plastic watch crystal rainbow colours.
Chiffed, I have read that the Stoney tribes have made a big deal of how they used to do controlled burns long before the whites came. If you are part of the fire crews out there, I wondered if you knew if controlled burns have been re-introduced or if there are any plans to do so. If not, have you heard why not?
