Holy hot foot batman.
I just checked the temp and the heat index here is 112deg with the actual temp at 100 and 43% humidity. Maybe I shouldn’t have left my whistles in the car!
Mark
P.S. if anyone is seriously bored and needs way more exacting weather measurements than the weather channel for Lincoln Nebraska…
On 2002-07-09 17:53, markv wrote:
Holy hot foot batman.I just checked the temp and the heat index here is 112deg with the actual temp at 100 and 43% humidity.
Mark
Is that all? Sheesh, what a wuss.
Post again when the Alligators start breaking into YOUR house in an effort to cool off…
Loren
Last check here in Phoenix, Az…
114 degrees, 19% humidity.
Blagh.
Aodhan
Yeah, but, it’s a dry heat.
Some years back, I was offered a job in Phoenix. Since summer was near (June) I got to make my checkout visit in what was almost the hot season. I didn’t accept a very nice offer.
Don’t let anyone give you that ‘dry heat’ bs. 102F at 2AM is still HOT!
This afternoon, I went out to sit in the shade and practice. I lasted not quite five minutes. Even in the shade it was too hot to breathe for myself, much less for a whistle.
You guys think you got it bad, it’s 110* and I had to work at Girl Scout Day camp all day. Even worse I was helping in the cooking unit. Oh well, it’s way too hot. But I feel really bad for everyone in 114* weather.
Caryn
I was on vacation on the coast of MAINE last week and it broke 100 degrees. I went there to get away from the heat, but it was only 96 back here in DC.
Charlie
Yeah, I’m here in Southern Ontario(where we went straight from winter to summer)and it was 100 with a humidex of 105…
Gee…why don’t you all come to NS and visit!!! It was only about 75 here today and it even came out sunny!
Deb
It was only 94 here today..but with a 100% humidity. Makes sweating kinda pointless.
On 2002-07-09 18:31, TonyHiggins wrote:
Yeah, but, it’s a dry heat.
Yeah, blast-furnaces are a dry heat too, but I don’t see anyone lining up to get into one. 
Besides, it’s not always dry. We’re just getting ready to head into the monsoon season here. The temperature stays high, but now we get humidity too.
Joy.
Oh ya. Try beating 126F. Oh you say “It doesn’t get that hot.” And I say “you ever worked a kitchen with bad ventalion because the building is over 100 years old.” Our kitchen is not only hot but greasy. Which makes you feel like someone dipped you in flour, egg and breading and then tossed you on the grill. Beat that.
Jack Murphy
C’mon guys stop complaining. Get in the SUV, turn up the airconditioning, and drive around for a few hours.
Steve
PS My sources in the oil industry tell me that global climate change is a myth.
Stevie
And we’d never question the paragons of virtue and free enterprise who make up the oil industry, would we?
Hundred-year floods every 3 years in the Midwest…
Thirty inches of rain in a week in parts of Texas that only get 10 in a year…
Ten straight years of increasingly warmer and snow-free winters in the Corn Belt…
The Antarctic ice pack melting back over a mile in the last couple of years…
Another El Nino forming in the South pacific…
Nah, there’s no truth to global warming. But for those seaside city folks who don’t like wading to work, the time might be coming to move inland.
Well this morning it’s a nice 77deg but the humidity popped up to 88%.
As for “it’s a dry heat”, it really does make a huge difference. The western part of Nebraska has significantly lower humidity than eastern NE. I’d much rather be out in 105deg weather there than 90deg with 90% humidity here.
I was trout fishing in a spring fed creek (water temp around 55deg)with a friend of mine from Texas last week. He couldn’t stand to be in the creek without waders for more than a few minutes but I was loving it! I guess it’s all what you’re used to.
Mark
On 2002-07-10 02:22, MurphyStout wrote:
Oh ya. Try beating 126F…
Jack Murphy
When I moved out of Palm Springs in 1979, It was because it hit 127 in the shade. I moved to the high desert where it is much cooler.
It only hit 110 yesterday. At 9:00 PM it was down to 82F. Brrrr!!! I need a jacket!!
Gary
It is really hot out. I’m glad for the air conditioning --though some air conditioners are having trouble keeping up, in the heat we’ve seen lately. Still, I’m glad I don’t have to worry about slipping on the ice.
When I lived in South Texas near the Gulf Coast, there was a 4:30 am temperature of 103 in OCTOBER. By the mid-day, the heat index was 135. Try peddaling a bike around in that. 
Well, gee guys, it’s only 65 degrees here with a light cool rain and a pleasant breeze…
Current Conditions (12:00 CDT):
Temp. 92 F (33 C)
R/H. 62 %
Heat Index 106 F (41 C)
Whew!
