Posted on 07/07/2010 12:29:37 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
WASHINGTON - Another record-breaking day of heat is roasting the D.C. region Wednesday.
Reagan National Airport has recorded a temperature of 102 setting a new record for July 7. BWI-Thurgood Marshall has also sent a new record by going into the triple digits.
The heat index will make it feel like 105 degrees. A heat advisory is in effect until 11 p.m. Wednesday.
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Can you imagine how hot it will be in DC when we "turn up the heat" on the DC critters on November 2?
Hell, even the Dow’s in triple digits today!
Here in Toronto it’s been above 35C (~95F) every day since Sunday.
92 degrees here in Michigan but the humidity is killin us.
I was outside a bit ago and it even sounds hot out there.
I turned on the ball game yesterday and noticed that it was nearly 10 degrees warmer in Detroit than it is here 70 miles to the west.
One more reason I’m happy I don’t live in town.
It’d be tough without air conditioners.
Better them than us. I’ll take a rainy, humid, mosquito-ridden, moldy summer over a hot, dry one any day. I have a feeling that the big dome of high pressure will be moving west in a few days and then it is our turn.
haven’t been outside since the sun got high, but understand we’ll hit 99 today in Atlanta.
Hope that is a sign that some think Obozo's regime is melting. That is the only prescription that will give a recovery. There can be no financial/economic recovery until his is removed from office.
Heat island effect with all the concrete. That is where the thermometers are and hence why we have globull warming.
“It’d be tough without air conditioners.”
I was just talking to my mom the other day how spoiled we’ve become with a/c. I said we didn’t have it as a kid only fans and my mom said she didn’t have electricity as a kid growing up in SC.
Well, it’s 66 and overcast here in California (Santa Barbara). Even rained night before last, something almost unheard of in July.
In my part of Texas we have had a very cool/wet year so far. Way ahead in rainfall and abnormally cool up to this point. We are due some hot weather.
All those buildings probably knock down the ground level winds pretty good too. One thing I have is a breeze which helps a lot. Some clouds moving in too so the front will move through during the night and cool things down considerably by tomorrow.
I’m sure the White House is a comfy 72 degrees...can’t let little lord fauntLEROY sweat, now can we?
63 and cloudy here in San Diego. :/
The old houses were much cooler. My grandmother’s 150 year old house doesn’t have A/C and really doesn’t need it.
She lets some air in at night and closes the house up during the hot part of the day.
That's very true. We didn't have AC until I was 21 yrs old with my own place.
It would get so humid in the house here in Baltimore that the mirrors would fog. :)
Nothing like the summer of 2007. One of the wettest and coolest on record for us (northeast Texas).
The dew point here today is up around 75 degrees.
We didn’t either, and I’m in the lower San Joaquin Valley. Big adobe houses made sense!
It is 92 here in HSV.
I am not sure but I think it was my siding buckling because of the heat
I checked and haven't lost any siding but I can't figure out what else it might be.
Yuck. That's just nasty.
Where’s HSV?
Word is he canceled one of his golf games the other day because of the heat.
Might be your siding buckling just enough to make the pop but not enough to do any damage. Good thing its pliable in this heat.
I was watering plants yesterday evening and sprayed some water up on the roof just on a whim. I had steam rising off the roof afterward. That got me to wondering about the potential cooling effect of the water on the roof.
I'll take it. If we see 92 down here before late September, it'll be because a cold front was able to push through briefly, like the one we have today.
Real sorry about those Orioles by the way. ;~)
Seems like HELL has come to DC. Fitting place for it. Nice comfortable 81 in Socal.
You really think he would do anything that might actually look like WORK? Sweat is a curse word in that cucumber's mouth.
In Philly slabs of concrete are actually buckling because of the heat.
91 in upstate NY.......
You mean “The Blows”?
At least they got to watch Johnny Damon get hit number 2500 and a walk off home run.
Actually they haven’t played terrible ball in Detroit.
Nowadays, everybody is cocooned inside with their AC, watching television. I took the dog for a walk last night and there was nobody on the streets at all.
Also, I'm thinking that we are making too big a deal out of this heatwave. It's July. Guess what, it gets hot in July. It's NORMAL for temps to climb into the 90s from time to time during July and August. Just like it's normal for it to snow and go below zero in January and February. Yet they always make a big deal out of that as well.
The beautiful city of Huntsville, AL.
Driving from Vermont to Connecticut yesterday, the thermometer in my car that records the temp outside hit 103 on Interstate 91 a little above Bradley Int. Airport at 2pm.
A record for what we’ve observed in the car, though when we went out to dinner about 6pm, it read 106, but I think that was just the engine heat from the long trip as it quickly dropped to 99.
Vermont was miserable, temps almost at 100 with high humidity. We had no running water or AC (We rough it) I couldn’t wait to leave so I could get into a car with AC!
Heavens it gets hot in Huntsville. ;`)
Several weeks ago, I made the mistake of going outside barefooted. I quickly got off the driveway and onto the grass. Even the grass was hot. It is 94 now.
A farmer down the road from me had a couple of acres in pop corn. It got so hot that the corn popped right in the field.
A flock of crows flying over saw all that white pop corn on the ground, thought it was snow and promptly headed south for the winter.
several years ago a big turtle, 3 feet long maybe, was crossing the road here in Buckhead, Atlanta, and the road was hot! Every so often that turtle would settle on his bottom shell and lift its feet off the hot pavement.
I kid you not!!!
Even the animals get too hot here in the South. My dog will not stay outside for very long. We really need rain. My fig trees are loaded this summer but they need a lot of water. Can’t wait until they get ripe.
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