I thought we might be spared the heatwave from the west.  No such luck.  Here in W. Mass. the temperature is in the low 90s and climbing!  It's not even 1300 hours yet!  Heat indices for today and the next two will feel like it's as hot as 108 F.  Unlike in the arid Southwest, it's humid as hell too.  I tell you, I hate this weather more than any other kind!

I heard they're predicting 100 F. at Mackinack Island, MI.  That's north of the lower peninsula in the middle of Lake Huron.  There's something not right here!
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It's 91 right now, but with the craptacular humidity, it feels like 101.

I'm not used to this stuff. I want my California fog! :D

bout 95 degrees here in OHIO

Having struggled through a couple of heatwaves here in Britain recently, you have my every sympathy!

82 degrees in Honolulu right now, with humidity at close to 70%!  :P

I thought we might be spared the heatwave from the west.  No such luck.  Here in W. Mass. the temperature is in the low 90s and climbing!  It's not even 1300 hours yet!  Heat indices for today and the next two will feel like it's as hot as 108 F.  Unlike in the arid Southwest, it's humid as hell too.  I tell you, I hate this weather more than any other kind!

I heard they're predicting 100 F. at Mackinack Island, MI.  That's north of the lower peninsula in the middle of Lake Huron.  There's something not right here!
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   With love from Californee...

   And you thought we forgot about our right coast... :P

   Out latest heat wave took over 120 lives.  Children and the elderly suffer most...

   go ;)...

   With love from Californee...

   And you thought we forgot about our right coast... :P

   Out latest heat wave took over 120 lives.  Children and the elderly suffer most...

   go ;)...

Haven't had the opportunity to travel widely, but I know my geography pretty well.  I know it gets into triple digits inland as far north as Sacramento, but 122 F in Stockton had to be overwhelming for all!  122 is even a bit toasty for even Death Valley!


Having struggled through a couple of heatwaves here in Britain recently, you have my every sympathy!

When I was in London in the summer, I remember three things different from home:
1. Usable daylight until 10:00 p.m.
2. A spot of rain just about every afternoon.
3. Never so hot you'd sweat like a beast during the day, nor so hot you couldn't wear a light jacket at night.
So when the news broke over here that the temperature rose to 97 F in southern England, I knew the Brits would broil!  My fellow Yanks seemed puzzled the pavement buckled at such a low temperature.  Different engineering for different climates.  I did like the story about the zookeepers keeping the lions cool with blood-soaked blocks of ice! What lion wouldn't like a blood popsicle?
;D


82 degrees in Honolulu right now, with humidity at close to 70%!  :P

Sounds like heaven just about now!

it's not hot! ya damn libs. heat is a commie conspiracy.

gonna be around 100 here tomorrow, something like 112 with the heat index. well, they did say it'd happen all at once, if you'll recall. y'all was warned!

here's some more good news from that same news service i mentioned before...

***

NORMALLY REGIONAL HEAT WAVE & DROUGHT NOW GLOBAL

TIMES, UK - Hot, arid weather is afflicting millions in America and in
dozens of countries across Europe and parts of east Asia. The
phenomenon has surprised meteorologists who are used to seeing drought
as a regional, not global, problem. This weekend they said early
analysis of the hot weather, together with the size of the areas
affected, suggested it was linked to global climate change.

"Greenhouse gas emissions raise the likelihood of heatwaves like this
one," said Dave Griggs, a Met Office representative on the Joint
Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme. "By
2040 this will be just an average summer and by 2060 it will be a
relatively cool one." . . .

In California the temperature in Death Valley reached 56.5C and in
many west coast towns it exceeded 40C. An estimated 130 people have
been killed by the heat and demand for power to run air-conditioning
overloaded power stations, leaving some areas without electricity for
up to three days. In South America, mid-winter temperatures in
Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Brazil are up to 7C higher than average.
The accompanying drought has reduced the giant Iguazu falls on the
Brazil-Argentina border to a trickle.

Temperatures are averaging 7C higher than usual across southern
England and Scotland. Casualties are expected: a similar hot spell in
August 2003 caused 2,071 deaths, according to estimates by the Office
for National Statistics.

Even Mediterranean countries were caught unawares. Last week Spain and
France, hit by temperatures 7-9C above average, had to shut down
nuclear power stations as the rivers supplying water for cooling
became too warm.

Pakistan, Bangladesh and southern India hit 3C above normal and much
of central China was up by 5C. A drought, the worst for 60 years, is
affecting the Chongqing region, leaving 2m short of water.

The most comfortable places, at least in terms of temperature, were
western Russia, North Korea, Siberia and Japan, which were 3C cooler
than usual.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2291760,00.html

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AMAZON RAINFOREST ON BRINK OF BECOMING DESERT; WOULD BE A GLOBAL
DISASTER

INDEPENDENT, UK - The vast Amazon rainforest is on the brink of being
turned into desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's
climate, alarming research suggests. And the process, which would be
irreversible, could begin as early as next year. Studies by the
blue-chip Woods Hole Research Centre, carried out in Amazonia, have
concluded that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive
years of drought without breaking down.

Scientists say that this would spread drought into the northern
hemisphere, including Britain, and could massively accelerate global
warming with incalculable consequences, spinning out of control, a
process that might end in the world becoming uninhabitable.

http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=6016&method=full

It stays around 100 every day here in Georgia, and the heat index is always over 100 :(

It stays around 100 every day here in Georgia, and the heat index is always over 100 :(



Where are you in Georgia?  Up here in Alpharetta it hasn't hit triple digits in air temp yet.

Where are you in Georgia?  Up here in Alpharetta it hasn't hit triple digits in air temp yet.



Further south around Albany. It's been quite hot down here as of late.

Yeah, alot of it is to do with humidity. 100F in summer here is no big deal, but due to the low humidity and sea-breeze it's usually not a big deal. We're pretty acclimitised to the proverbial 'scorchers', though on average summers are actually quite mild, with a median maximum of about 30C (86F). Though it's winter here, atm, and it must've been about 20C (68F) and partly cloudy. Very nice.

it's not hot! ya damn libs. heat is a commie conspiracy.

gonna be around 100 here tomorrow, something like 112 with the heat index. well, they did say it'd happen all at once, if you'll recall. y'all was warned!

here's some more good news from that same news service i mentioned before...

***

NORMALLY REGIONAL HEAT WAVE & DROUGHT NOW GLOBAL

TIMES, UK - Hot, arid weather is afflicting millions in America and in
dozens of countries across Europe and parts of east Asia. The
phenomenon has surprised meteorologists who are used to seeing drought
as a regional, not global, problem. This weekend they said early
analysis of the hot weather, together with the size of the areas
affected, suggested it was linked to global climate change.

"Greenhouse gas emissions raise the likelihood of heatwaves like this
one," said Dave Griggs, a Met Office representative on the Joint
Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme. "By
2040 this will be just an average summer and by 2060 it will be a
relatively cool one." . . .

In California the temperature in Death Valley reached 56.5C and in
many west coast towns it exceeded 40C. An estimated 130 people have
been killed by the heat and demand for power to run air-conditioning
overloaded power stations, leaving some areas without electricity for
up to three days. In South America, mid-winter temperatures in
Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Brazil are up to 7C higher than average.
The accompanying drought has reduced the giant Iguazu falls on the
Brazil-Argentina border to a trickle.

Temperatures are averaging 7C higher than usual across southern
England and Scotland. Casualties are expected: a similar hot spell in
August 2003 caused 2,071 deaths, according to estimates by the Office
for National Statistics.

Even Mediterranean countries were caught unawares. Last week Spain and
France, hit by temperatures 7-9C above average, had to shut down
nuclear power stations as the rivers supplying water for cooling
became too warm.

Pakistan, Bangladesh and southern India hit 3C above normal and much
of central China was up by 5C. A drought, the worst for 60 years, is
affecting the Chongqing region, leaving 2m short of water.

The most comfortable places, at least in terms of temperature, were
western Russia, North Korea, Siberia and Japan, which were 3C cooler
than usual.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2291760,00.html

||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

AMAZON RAINFOREST ON BRINK OF BECOMING DESERT; WOULD BE A GLOBAL
DISASTER

INDEPENDENT, UK - The vast Amazon rainforest is on the brink of being
turned into desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's
climate, alarming research suggests. And the process, which would be
irreversible, could begin as early as next year. Studies by the
blue-chip Woods Hole Research Centre, carried out in Amazonia, have
concluded that the forest cannot withstand more than two consecutive
years of drought without breaking down.

Scientists say that this would spread drought into the northern
hemisphere, including Britain, and could massively accelerate global
warming with incalculable consequences, spinning out of control, a
process that might end in the world becoming uninhabitable.

http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=6016&method=full






this is extremely disturbing.  do you think it's true or are these people extremists?

this is extremely disturbing.  do you think it's true or are these people extremists?
well, i've never heard of "heatisonline.org" but the UK times is a pretty middle-of-the-road mainstream british paper.

well, i've never heard of "heatisonline.org" but the UK times is a pretty middle-of-the-road mainstream british paper.


The times is a middle of the road paper.. plus, isn't it still owned by that Canadian guy, or edited by him or something.. all Canadians are honest.

Having sweated my way through the killer European heat wave (I'm about to return to 110 degrees in the US) I can tell you that this is not normal.

When temperatures touched 100 with the humidity factor.. there was obviously something wrong.

The town I am currently in is on the same sort of level as Saskatchewan. (However you spell it)

although this heat wave, which is lasting longer than last year's heat wave (NYC hit 104 last year) it is not humid.
i was outside for lunch yesterday and today and it was alright.  i feel for people who have to tolerate it in the midwest or inland- at least i have an ocean breeze.

it's really insane.

It's 91 right now, but with the craptacular humidity, it feels like 101.

I'm not used to this stuff. I want my California fog! :D
You said it! it's been cool in the paxst few mornings,but igt was over 110 in the backyard during the heat wave!

Where are you in Georgia?  Up here in Alpharetta it hasn't hit triple digits in air temp yet.


hey i used to live in alpharetta. for about 3 and a half years. how odd. were so different.

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hey i used to live in alpharetta. for about 3 and a half years. how odd. were so different.



What does being different have to do with living here?