OT: Tooooo Hot

Whistle
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It is tooooo hot to whistle outside.
I want to throw a temper tantrum.

I want to play in the park. I’m tired of breaking records for the heat.

Today it was 98 here in DC with the heat index of 105. I looked at the 10 day forcast, seeking releaf. Very hot today and tommorrow with more hot the rest of the week. Next week a day of just hot then back to very hot.

The forcast for tonight at 11pm is 82 degrees! 11pm! 82 degrees !!! Heat index of 86! 11pm feeling like 86!!!

Sorry to rant, but this northern mountain boy just wants those cool breezes back where you can sit out on the back porch and just …

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Temp this morning at 6am? 91 degrees. Forecast for the day? 114 degrees.

Of course, it’s a dry heat. (But dry heat is still hot!)

Aodhan (In Phoenix, Az)

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Goodness, I feel your pain. :smiley: Seriously, I do. It’s been one of the hottest summers here in Utah ever, which is something to say since it is normally way hotter here than I can take. Today it’s “only” supposed to be 93…which normally feels like a frying pan…but we are grateful because a few weeks ago we had several days in a row of 105 or higher!!

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You could be in Europe: Land under in Austria, Germany, Czech Rep, Ukraine, Slovenia… 70 dead so far from drowing. Poor folks over there. :frowning:

Can you imagine living at an elevation of 1500 feet and your car is being washed down the street in a flood? Landslides in the Italian alps, a village washed into the Caspian Sea.

Sweating really isn’t that bad.

Stay cool! :slight_smile:

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I think maybe a little personal context is in order here.

When I was in Junior high we had a couple of cooler summers in a row. My mom made it a house rule that me and my younger brothers were not allowed to ride our bikes down to the public pool if it was less than 45 degrees. Although this may seem reasonable to most of you folks; we, my brothers and I, argued often that this rule was unfair, since the water temperature in June was probably 50-55 degrees and we would be spending most of our time there in the water so what was the problem. Mom held firm, and even made comments that blue lips were not attractive, and that our growing interest attracting girls would prove her right.

46 degrees, all four of us were out the door.

My metabolism has mellowed with age, but I still prefer my ideal summer with highs in the 70’s and overnight low’s in the 50’s…

11pm and still in the 80’s? Useless.


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Enjoy Your Music,

Lee Marsh

[ This Message was edited by: leemarsh on 2002-08-14 17:15 ]

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You Know It’s Too Hot When…

16). Your ice cream melts before you finish paying for it.

15). The water coming out of your sprinkler systems is steaming.

14). Your rubber sole shoes stick to the asphalt in the parking lot as you walk to your car.

13). You get into your car after work but can’t drive away because your steering wheel is too hot to touch.

12). It’s 11 o’clock at night and you’re still driving around with the air conditioner on.

11). The makeup that you put on while you were driving to work, is running down your face by the time you get there.

10). You use your blow dryer as a fan because it’s cooler.

9). The Sizzler sign has both neon nd “Real” flames coming off of it.

:sunglasses:. You come home from work and the note on your refrigerator says “On strike”.

7). You go outside to leave work and the tires on your car have melted off.

6). You pull up to your house and the HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning) guy is waiting outside your house with a smile on his face.

5). You get into your car and go to turn on the Air-Conditioning and a voice comes out and says deposit 25 cents.

4). Your building access card you accidentally left in your car now looks like a pretzel.

3). The heat waves in front of you aren’t from the road, they’re from your dash.

2). You can cook a turkey inside your car faster than you can inside your oven.

and the number 1 way to tell when it’s too hot…

1). The little guy on top of Foster’s Freeze is missing.

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On 2002-08-14 16:49, Gary wrote:
You Know It’s Too Hot When…

Corollary to #13

You see someone driving while wearing oven-mitts, and think to yourself “that guy’s a friggin genius!”

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Well at least we have the bush admin. on top of the global warming problem.

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When it gets really hot or cold I check out Irelands weather on the web.70f summer 40f winter and cloudy 5 days a week, it doesn’t get any better than that.
Take care, Johnz

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Shucks, son, down here in TEXAS I don’t stick my toe in the pool unless it’s AT LEAST a chilly 78 degrees (water temp, that is!). And on the Gulf Coast we measure humidity in “inches” and our rain in “feet”. And the wind in terms of “tropical depression”, “tropical storm” and “Hurricane class 1-5”! On the good side I wear short sleeves through the “winter” when you “northern” boys dress up like polar bears! :wink:

That said, it hasn’t been as hot tis summer…maybe it’s “El Nino”, or something…

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On 2002-08-14 16:34, LeeMarsh wrote:

46 degrees, all four of us were out the door.

My metabolism has mellowed with age, but I still prefer my ideal summer with highs in the 70’s and overnight low’s in the 50’s…

11pm and still in the 80’s? Useless.

I agree with you there. I grew up in Denver, Colorado (And may get to move back next year…woohoo!), and I loved the snow and the cold. Mid 70’s is the perfect high for the year. :wink:

Aodhan

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Just spoke to my sister who lives in Blythe, California. They’re enjoying 118 degrees almost daily there. Typical for that area. When I asked her how they do yard work she replied that you don’t - no one plants flowers - there is either lawn or rock/gravel. Nothing else grows in that kind of heat. They will start their vegetable gardens in about a month to harvest in October/November. They turn off their air conditioners for January and February only. Now that’s HOT!
Susan

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Y’know, If I was really a nice guy I wouldn’t do this, but what the hey…

Just got back from spending the day at the Illinois State Fair. Twas rainy this morning after a big cold front passed but by the time I got there it was just overcast. By 2pm, that passed and the sky was a clear, cloudless blue. The temperature peaked at a nice, comfortable 78 degrees F. All in all a perfect day, which was downright amazing after the overheated greenhouse of the last three weeks.

Ah, well, you’ll just appreciate the nice weather even more if it ever returns.

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I know what you mean about that infernal heat. It must have climbed into the 80’s around here for a few days. Could’a died. Boy, I sure got grumpy. Now, everything’s back to normal at low 70’s and evening fog. There’s this old woman who lives near me who won’t go outside unless it’s heavily overcast and cold.

I thought people lived inland or on the East Coast because they Liked hot weather or something.
Tony

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Its even hot in Canada.

Question for johnz…where does that rhyme come from at the bottom of your post?

liz

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When we drove to Calgary at the end of July, we packed almost no cool weather clothes, since they’d been having a heat wave. Well, it turned cold the day we arrived. We visited the dinosaur museum at Drumheller on the second of August, and drove back to Calgary through a snowstorm! Of course, regular summer weather returned the day we had to leave.
In Vancouver now we are having pleasantly warm weather. I wouldn’t live anywhere else. But it’s probably only a matter of time before the polar ice caps eat up my home. It’s time to start paying attention to our environment.

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I think for the Brits, it’s the humidity that irks, plus the general inconsistency of the weather.

My week off in early July was mostly washed out with torrential rain. Now we’re having a week of temperatures still in the 80s at 8pm.

Still, as Bloomy said, it could be worse. Flash flooding seems to be happening every year somewhere in Western Europe, and it’s a killer. Plus for those who survive, homes and posessions are wrecked, insurance premiums go up, and the shine is generally taken off for a while.

So I count my lucky stars that I’m unlikely to be flooded where I live, and can watch my ice cream melting while I wait for the steering wheel to cool.

The Game’s afoot!

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In Oklahoma we have frequent deaths from heat. Frequent deaths from snow and cold. We have drownings from floods. More than our share of deaths from violent storms and twisters. Top that off with 0 visibilty from fog, 100% humidity, and (in the west) quite a bit of drought. On the positive side, it’s a great place for meteorologists.

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Death from cold reminds me of a Foaflore story I read awhile back. It goes something like this…

An Old lady in (insert Scandinavian country) was discovered dead on her balcony during the Spring thaw. Paramedics concluded she died of hypothermia while watching a fireworks display the previous November. Neighbours had seen her there, and had not worried that she was sitting on the balcony for over 5 months. As the corpse was frozen solid in -40 degree temperatures, there was no decomposition to give the game away.

The Urban legends experts will be able to correct this, but that’s how I recall it.

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Hey Liz, that’s from Bob Dylans song Desolation row, from the record Highway 61 Revisited.If I was on a desert island and could only have one artists recordings Bob Dylan would be it.He’s got something for almost everybody, blues, country, folk, rap, rock, religious and every combination of the above.
More on topic, I always thought that the Final Theme from his album Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid would sound great played on whistle.
Take care, Johnz

They all play on penny whistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

[ This Message was edited by: johnz on 2002-08-15 16:13 ]