Holy CRAP it's hot

[pitw]

                                                                           

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[Okanagan]

Yes, it is HOT today.  It is 70 degrees F at five till ten, and that is HOT in our area.  It may get close to 90.  We don't have AC and don't need it at all some years.  Other years, like this one, it would be nice on the long evenings with the sun against the side of ths house, but it cools off.

This was my view last week, where we stayed at a friend's house on Orcas Island, WA.  Taken off the deck.  The salt water is COLD!!!  Wetsuit needed.  Watching the night grow and the stars come out it was so hot that most evenings sitting on the deck a T-shirt was about right with no need to throw on a flannel shirt on top.



From the deck of our house we look out at the view below and could drive to snow within an hour,  ...and may do this afternoon if it stays hot later than usual!

[FinsnFur]

Kinda got the best of both worlds going on right now, dont ya Okanagan?

It sure looks like a peaceful time. Enjoy yourself, and stay safe my friend.

[Okanagan]

Kinda got the best of both worlds going on right now, dont ya Okanagan?

It sure looks like a peaceful time. Enjoy yourself, and stay safe my friend.

Yes, we've been blessed and joking aside, I probably shouldn't brag on it nor make fun of people living in real heat, as any good things we have are nothing of my doing.  Life has ways of evening out.  We are renting our place and waited long enough to buy again that we've probably missed out.  A long time friend whose dad made big money invited us to spend a few days at his "other" place on Orcas Island last week, and we loved it.  Way beyond my pay grade.  But we get to live year round in a fabulous place for hunting and fishing, but work sure gets in the way of doing it.

I declined to go to West Africa this summer and so missed some big time heat with no AC etc.  The Pacific NW is one of the nicest places to live that I've seen on earth, great place to come back to from hot nations, though it can and does rain for months on end sometimes.  For the past three days I've had some kind of bug, sore throat and chest so sore I wince to even think of coughing, didn't sleep at all last night, so bad that I am missing out on the sockeye run in our local rivers.     and that's bad sick!

I love to see pics of other places, Mississippi River, eastern hardwoods and fields, desert, etc.  and may post some of the San Juan Islands.

[FinsnFur]

I don't envy that feeling though. There's been some crazy stuff going around despite the oppressive heat that really gets a guy scratchin his noggin.

[HaMeR]

Any of that rain help you fine Southern folks out  or was it just enough to raise the humidity again? 

[Carolina Coyote]

We got 2  1/2 inches of rain this past weekend at my house, chance of scattered showers all week, it helped cool off some bit humidity is still high, but good for the Peanut Plantation.  cc

[HaMeR]

I was hoping it would give some relief. Sorry it didn't. I'm glad the peanuts are faring well tho!! 

[FOsteology]

Quick, someone send some rain my way!! We need RELIEF.

Currently 102 degrees. 114 Heat Index. 

[pitw]

What is a heat index   Sounds like you can look it up at the end of the day .  Kinda/sorta sounds about as dumb as the wind chill factor up here.  I go by what the thermometer says and today our high was 68F .  I saw two people with toques on .

[FinsnFur]

When the humidity gets high accompanied with high temps, thats where you get your heat index.
Basically the temperature is just that, what ever the temperature is.

If the humidity is high it pretty much magnifies the temperature, but a thermometer cant read it since the air temps remains the same. Living things can feel it though.

Thats why when you look up the weather, and there is a high heat index or high humidity, they will say, "Temps in the mid 90's feels like 115"..
The heat index is actually what we feel. Not the thermometer reading.

Pretty much the same for windchill factors. The thermometer cant feel the chilling effects of wind force but we can.

[FOsteology]

Jim nailed it.

Take a trip to Las Vegas in the summer. Thermometer lets say reads 115, and there's extremely low humidity. Then fly out to my area of Texas with the thermometer reading 102 and moderate humidity.

Guarantee you WILL notice and feel the difference! 

Folks I know out towards Kingsville routinely have days during the summer where the heat index creeps over 130. 

[slagmaker]

Go to Palm Springs in mid July. 118* with a air as dry as a cracker fart. Lay in the shade and bake and never form a drop of sweat. Then jump on a jet and come back to 98* and 100% stupidity. Feel like and elephant sitting on your chest.

[HaMeR]

93* & 12hrs on the roof today. Luckily we had about 8 minutes of shade this afternoon to get us going again. 

[pitw]

33F here at 5am.  I was sleeping in the tent and woke up to just start  thinking of Jimmie being up here.

[FinsnFur]

Nice and cool here but not quite THAT cool...yet

[Jimmie in Ky]

With my brains and pocket book, you aint going to catch me up there.    I might actually freeze my fanny two months of the year, that's enough for me.  I like pictures of snow and that is about it. And that spell last year withthe ice storm was enough winter to do me for several more years.

I'll stick to changing clothes a couple of times a day if nesescary  Jimmie

[JohnP]

I like pictures of snow and that is about it.
I'll stick to changing clothes a couple of times a day if nesescary  Jimmie

Exactly the way I feel also.

[cb223]

It's starting to cool down here mid 50's or 60's at night 70-80 during the day. Best of all the humidity is going away!!!

I'm looking forward to below freezing temps, I want to go ice fishing

[pitw]

  Frost on the windows of my truck this morning.  Not good.  Sure glad I covered the wifes cucumbers last night.