It is definitely HOT locally (central AL). Hitting the mid to upper 90s with high humidity means you’re soaking wet in short order. Inability to have effective evaporation means you just stay hot and wet. Thankfully we have a pool that I can use as a cooling tank. Typical MO is: working outside in shop or yard till I get hot. Jump in the pool to drop my core temp for 10-15 minutes, dry off some, re-insert ear buds, work in the yard… lather rinse repeat. Drinking plenty of fluids and prior conditioning over many years helps a lot.
Trying to be much more conscious about parking the car in the shade if I have to go anywhere.
This was yesterday, just North of DC. And it’s only getting hotter the next two days. It’s already in the 90’s at 10:30 am. Friday is going to be unpleasant.
@capnjb@njfan I think we may not be far from each other geographically. Can vouch for your Friday prediction. I needed to work under my truck this morning for about an hour. Had a plug-in fan and drank a fair amount of water. Toward the end it was getting kind of sucky and the sun was brutal. Even the insects seemed pissed off. I resolved not to spend more than 15-30 minutes at a time outside for the rest of the day.
@mehcuda67@njfan Yeah, doggo got a walk at 5AM this morning… heh. And it was above 80 degrees even then. Still above 100 right now but hoping for some rain
@f00l my friend who used to live in California but now lives in Indiana the Lord save her, sent me a message that said take back your Fahrenheit. I laughed told her she can keep it for a little while it’ll come home when it’s ready
This has been a very wet spring. So July and August temps prob won’t be chasing Phoenix.
High ground water table usually means a much cooler summer.
If we’re lucky there might be 2-5 weeks above 100F. This is somewhat more likely for 2026.
If we’re unlucky we might have 6-12 weeks above 100F.
If the daily high doesn’t still regularly hit 100+ in mid August it’s a great summer. That means an he daily heat cycle is already stepping back from the July & early August peak.
Hot here every year, but usually not up to Phoenix or Presidio level heat. There, sometimes, things you’d think wouldn’t melt on the surface of the sun can start getting a little pliable.
Funny thin … when I was a kid we were out all day every day.
I never remembering back then even thinking the summer heat was a big deal.
I guess I just got way too accustomed to being indoors most of the day
@unksol she’s basically a gay asexual. But it has been a very unusual July so far, if you look at a 3-day sample. We still have June gloom and it’s in the '80s instead of triple digits
@Cerridwyn our triple digits are rare but the dehumidifiers and AC are worrying the last couple days. Acclimatization is definitely a thing so I try not to set it so low that you die stepping outside where shit needs done lol.
But I also have an emporia cause I’m that kind of dork and when you jump from $3-$4 a day to $10-$11-$15.
@unksol Yah
when you are used to summer being high 90’s+ and it’s not, you notice too.
Usually by now I recite something that was in a local SCA newsletter 50ish years ago:
Hotter than the winds of hell
Sauron’s home since Mordor fell
@Cerridwyn@f00l It really is NOT so much the heat but the Heat Index. I remember doing a job in Boston, Mass. Late July (before Covid)Yes the Temps were in the Mid 90’s w/ low humidity, So it was Nice for me, especially being from the Mid Atlantic area. people the stores were complaining about the Heat, I told them it was NOT that Hot, as I am from the South. I did comment that they would make FUN of my in the Winter months, that is as their temps get much lower than I am used to!
I’m actually cold laid in the hammock under the trees. It’s been stunning today. Thankfully it’s been raining for the last 5-6 days. It’s supposed to get warmer but thankfully we’re not seeing silly numbers yet. Mostly in the 60s and 70s. I think we see 80-85 next week.
@f00l Thanks. It’s a love/hate relationship. I’ve been working to make it a real sanctuary for us. Thankfully the Englishman is pretty patient and trusts my vision, even when he can’t see it.
@f00l@sillyheathen@unksol that place does.look beautiful and the trees definitely help make it cooler. I am just NE of Portland across the river. Has been “not bad” but Summers used to be a lot easier. Afternoons hot for me; older house in direct sun makes it cook. But yes still lucky to live here.
Oregon Trail game oh yeah! You can visit a lot of original and route sites East into Idaho. You visit or even camp at Three Island Crossing state park. AI says “one of the most treacherous, yet historically significant river crossings on the Oregon…” later on there is Farewell Bend state park, one of my favorite camping sites by the Snake River, where the travelers finally had to say “screw this” and had to go overland because the river then became Hell’s Canyon, appropriately named. So “farewell” was a wise choice. So much history, amazing what history drove people to do, often with children or pregnant wives.
@f00l@sillyheathen@unksol Ok a musical interlude (sorry). One of the best and least known Natalie Merchant songs, applies to the Oregon Trail. She was (and still is) amazing. Key phrase: “The land was free, and the price was right” but also later… “and it cost our lives”
@sillyheathen I figured you must live somewhere in the PNW. The tall trees were the give away. I used to live in Seattle where the only major sports team for the longest time was the Seattle SuperSonics. (At least Portland still has their Trailblazers.) Back then we were considered the boondocks. We told out of towners, you don’t want to move here. All it does is rain.
@Kyeh@sillyheathen Close. Rainy season is considered October to March. Surprise, surprise. Seattle is not the rainiest place in the U.S. Even Chicago has more annual rainfall than Seattle. The weather is overcast a lot and there is a drizzly damp foggy feel on those cooler days. https://seattletravel.com/seattle-rainy-season/
@f00l@pmarin@unksol I love NE PDX. We lived off Alberta when we first moved here. I had a really difficult time selling that house. Not because of the market, but because I loved living there. So many wonderful memories.
@f00l@sillyheathen@unksol We have moose & elk here too, a little closer to where you are. In fact there’s a tourist spot that’s so overrun by elk that sometimes they have to close the golf course
When the zombies hit the east coast there may be groups of mideastern mehtizens coming your way. Don’t trust the shirts. They may have gotten to @narfcake strategic stock pile. Only the breakfast octopus. Zombies can’t coordinate both hands. And the general public… Well at least the zombies will purge silicon valley and the AI
@f00l@Kyeh@narfcake@unksol I can make a huge IRK flag from all the bags to fly as a beacon to the mehtizens. You’ll be greeted my me in my technicolor IRK coat. I really am making one in a few weeks once the studio is set up!
Houston: Pretty much normal for this time of year, hot and dry after a couple of months of almost uninterrupted Wet. If the drying continues, we’re going to see epic levels of fire hazard in the rural areas before the end of the month. The long term forecast is indeterminate; some models say we’ll see a scattering of days with thundershowers, others say maybe not. Much may depend upon how fast El Niño hits.
@werehatrack I always found Houston so hot. Even for the south. I have family there and we always called it the concrete jungle. It always felt like the city itself was amplified by the heat and humidity. I don’t envy you for having to endure that. Especially when you add in the mosquitoes.
@Shoebox23
Areas like the Northeast are just not accustomed to those kinds of temperature cycles. France (and a lot of Europe) is having record high temps. This in a country with marginal frequency of AC availability. Doesn’t bode well.
How many have access to A/C even in public places where they can hang out? How many have serious fans or even multiple fans in every room? How many know the techniques for getting thru each day and the one after that?
How many know how to use a fan and evaporative cooling to their advantage?
How many live on stifling top floors?
How many have good attic insulation?
At least in hot climes people have centuries of accumulated experience in dealing with it
France and Europe in general didn’t need AC as much but neither did Northern America. The UK especially doesn’t have much AC but shits changing. Heat domes happening etc
1936 North American Heat Wave: This remains the most severe and widespread heat wave, with temperatures reaching 121°F in North Dakota and 120°F in Oklahoma.
@unksol Ok, just as good as I expected. I think the first expensive(?) thing I bought was a pancake ceiling fan. Did I buy it in 1985?!?!? I can’t remember. Still have it. Works great.
I did NOT know I was at the tail end of a fashion trend. I just like the cooling effect.
@cfg83 we had ones that resemble them but to my knowledge never that design. Don’t recall dad filling the oil in them as I could reach the reverse switch in my teens.
If I were building a pole barn I could see putting them up down the middle
But we also had one “window” AC in that house that was just in a wall to the uninsulated garage from the kitchen.
This was fine in the 80s/90s. The decades
. You still went out and played cause it’s hotter in the house than in the shade with the hose…
Night you open the windows turn the ceiling fans on
Kind of gross today, and we’re looking at a big storm this evening. At this point I think I could leave raw coffee beans outside and let them roast themselves.
Big storm might knock some humidity to the ground? But that’s a relative term. Where you live and what your big storm is… Is it a typhoon or a hurricane or a big thunderstorm. Or it’s just gonna dump rain/cause floods
@unksol Surprisingly, it’s not terribly humid. Only about 35% right now… but still about 100 degrees. I imagine the humidity will change dramatically when the thunderstorms roll in tonight.
@capnjb just to be clear if you can’t sweat… Cause there is no where for the moisture to evaporate. Because the air is the same temp and humidity…Gonna die. quickly.
I just think it’s one of those situations where repeatedly saying “wet bulb” 30 times… Ok. I got it. If I turn around and say “dude you got to get in side there or a wet bulb event, you’re gonna stroke out”
“Nah I am fine… Hits the floor” which I have seen happen 20 years ago… It is getting worse
If heat index does not cut it. IDK what to call it. Unless they start firing the warning sirens for a heatbulb event. Which may be warranted in some areas
@mycya4me oh yeah I forgot about mental self-care by blaming the GOAT! I might need it about now.
I was GOAT myself a while ago. (It seems most of us were based on icons). It was fun and I took it srsly. Sorry for those of you who didn’t feel my Goat blessings; I really tried! Realize now I did not burn sage while reading the posts — that might have been the problem!
@mycya4me@pmarin I think it’s extremely important on the blame thread that the GOAT is able to shrug it off. There’s always the risk of overwhelming someone but for the most part seems to have been ok
We’re having a bit of a mixed bag. Currently in Colorado with the grandkids. 94 when I picked up my car in denver. 54 for a low overnight at the cabin we rented!
It is definitely HOT locally (central AL). Hitting the mid to upper 90s with high humidity means you’re soaking wet in short order. Inability to have effective evaporation means you just stay hot and wet. Thankfully we have a pool that I can use as a cooling tank. Typical MO is: working outside in shop or yard till I get hot. Jump in the pool to drop my core temp for 10-15 minutes, dry off some, re-insert ear buds, work in the yard… lather rinse repeat. Drinking plenty of fluids and prior conditioning over many years helps a lot.
Trying to be much more conscious about parking the car in the shade if I have to go anywhere.
Hotter than snot on a glass door knob.
@medz I’m not asking how you know that.
This was yesterday, just North of DC. And it’s only getting hotter the next two days. It’s already in the 90’s at 10:30 am. Friday is going to be unpleasant.
@capnjb is it true it’s supposed to t-storm on Saturday pushing back the fireworks to 11pm?
@capnjb @njfan I think we may not be far from each other geographically. Can vouch for your Friday prediction. I needed to work under my truck this morning for about an hour. Had a plug-in fan and drank a fair amount of water. Toward the end it was getting kind of sucky and the sun was brutal. Even the insects seemed pissed off. I resolved not to spend more than 15-30 minutes at a time outside for the rest of the day.
@mehcuda67 @njfan Yeah, doggo got a walk at 5AM this morning… heh. And it was above 80 degrees even then. Still above 100 right now but hoping for some rain
@Kyeh
KuoH
@kuoh I do love that song.
Coolish for late June. Mid 90s.
I’m sure far worse is around the corner.
@f00l my friend who used to live in California but now lives in Indiana the Lord save her, sent me a message that said take back your Fahrenheit. I laughed told her she can keep it for a little while it’ll come home when it’s ready
@Cerridwyn
This has been a very wet spring. So July and August temps prob won’t be chasing Phoenix.
High ground water table usually means a much cooler summer.
If we’re lucky there might be 2-5 weeks above 100F. This is somewhat more likely for 2026.
If we’re unlucky we might have 6-12 weeks above 100F.
If the daily high doesn’t still regularly hit 100+ in mid August it’s a great summer. That means an he daily heat cycle is already stepping back from the July & early August peak.
Hot here every year, but usually not up to Phoenix or Presidio level heat. There, sometimes, things you’d think wouldn’t melt on the surface of the sun can start getting a little pliable.
Funny thin … when I was a kid we were out all day every day.
I never remembering back then even thinking the summer heat was a big deal.
I guess I just got way too accustomed to being indoors most of the day
A/C is a Good Thing.
/giphy air conditioning
@Cerridwyn is she single though? Lol it’s damn hot out but at least wildfires are not a threat here.
Maybe a grass fire now and then.
@unksol she’s basically a gay asexual. But it has been a very unusual July so far, if you look at a 3-day sample. We still have June gloom and it’s in the '80s instead of triple digits
@Cerridwyn our triple digits are rare but the dehumidifiers and AC are worrying the last couple days. Acclimatization is definitely a thing so I try not to set it so low that you die stepping outside where shit needs done lol.
But I also have an emporia cause I’m that kind of dork and when you jump from $3-$4 a day to $10-$11-$15.
Ya start doing some math lol
@unksol Yah
when you are used to summer being high 90’s+ and it’s not, you notice too.
Usually by now I recite something that was in a local SCA newsletter 50ish years ago:
Hotter than the winds of hell
Sauron’s home since Mordor fell
@Cerridwyn lol someone read the books then
@Cerridwyn @f00l It really is NOT so much the heat but the Heat Index. I remember doing a job in Boston, Mass. Late July (before Covid)Yes the Temps were in the Mid 90’s w/ low humidity, So it was Nice for me, especially being from the Mid Atlantic area. people the stores were complaining about the Heat, I told them it was NOT that Hot, as I am from the South. I did comment that they would make FUN of my in the Winter months, that is as their temps get much lower than I am used to!
I’m actually cold laid in the hammock under the trees. It’s been stunning today. Thankfully it’s been raining for the last 5-6 days. It’s supposed to get warmer but thankfully we’re not seeing silly numbers yet. Mostly in the 60s and 70s. I think we see 80-85 next week.
@sillyheathen
Just gorgeous.
@f00l Thanks. It’s a love/hate relationship. I’ve been working to make it a real sanctuary for us. Thankfully the Englishman is pretty patient and trusts my vision, even when he can’t see it.
@f00l @sillyheathen I’m jealous. Northwestish? Had a coworker in Oregon who retired a while ago. They had Moose and Elk still around. Pretty trees
@f00l @unksol yep. Just SE of Portland in the Oregon City area at the end of the Oregon trail.
@f00l @sillyheathen so I can play Oregon trail to find you if I can avoid dysentery and river crossings?
@f00l @sillyheathen @unksol that place does.look beautiful and the trees definitely help make it cooler. I am just NE of Portland across the river. Has been “not bad” but Summers used to be a lot easier. Afternoons hot for me; older house in direct sun makes it cook. But yes still lucky to live here.
Oregon Trail game oh yeah! You can visit a lot of original and route sites East into Idaho. You visit or even camp at Three Island Crossing state park. AI says “one of the most treacherous, yet historically significant river crossings on the Oregon…” later on there is Farewell Bend state park, one of my favorite camping sites by the Snake River, where the travelers finally had to say “screw this” and had to go overland because the river then became Hell’s Canyon, appropriately named. So “farewell” was a wise choice. So much history, amazing what history drove people to do, often with children or pregnant wives.
@f00l @sillyheathen @unksol Ok a musical interlude (sorry). One of the best and least known Natalie Merchant songs, applies to the Oregon Trail. She was (and still is) amazing. Key phrase: “The land was free, and the price was right” but also later… “and it cost our lives”
/youtube Merchant Gold Rush Brides
@sillyheathen I figured you must live somewhere in the PNW. The tall trees were the give away. I used to live in Seattle where the only major sports team for the longest time was the Seattle SuperSonics. (At least Portland still has their Trailblazers.) Back then we were considered the boondocks. We told out of towners, you don’t want to move here. All it does is rain.
@rcwbbb @sillyheathen I loved the bumper sticker I saw years ago:
“Seattle Rain Festival - November to May”
But it seems like that’s no longer true?
@Kyeh @sillyheathen
Close. Rainy season is considered October to March. Surprise, surprise. Seattle is not the rainiest place in the U.S. Even Chicago has more annual rainfall than Seattle. The weather is overcast a lot and there is a drizzly damp foggy feel on those cooler days.
https://seattletravel.com/seattle-rainy-season/
@f00l @pmarin @unksol I love NE PDX. We lived off Alberta when we first moved here. I had a really difficult time selling that house. Not because of the market, but because I loved living there. So many wonderful memories.
@Kyeh @rcwbbb it’s more like Nov-June/July.
@f00l @sillyheathen @unksol We have moose & elk here too, a little closer to where you are. In fact there’s a tourist spot that’s so overrun by elk that sometimes they have to close the golf course
@f00l @Kyeh @sillyheathen k. So just so we are all on the same page…
When the zombies hit the east coast there may be groups of mideastern mehtizens coming your way. Don’t trust the shirts. They may have gotten to @narfcake strategic stock pile. Only the breakfast octopus. Zombies can’t coordinate both hands. And the general public… Well at least the zombies will purge silicon valley and the AI
@f00l @Kyeh @narfcake @unksol I can make a huge IRK flag from all the bags to fly as a beacon to the mehtizens. You’ll be greeted my me in my technicolor IRK coat.
I really am making one in a few weeks once the studio is set up!
@f00l @Kyeh @narfcake @sillyheathen but the zombies might hear. The wooters might see. Careful
Houston: Pretty much normal for this time of year, hot and dry after a couple of months of almost uninterrupted Wet. If the drying continues, we’re going to see epic levels of fire hazard in the rural areas before the end of the month. The long term forecast is indeterminate; some models say we’ll see a scattering of days with thundershowers, others say maybe not. Much may depend upon how fast El Niño hits.
@werehatrack I always found Houston so hot. Even for the south. I have family there and we always called it the concrete jungle. It always felt like the city itself was amplified by the heat and humidity. I don’t envy you for having to endure that. Especially when you add in the mosquitoes.
It hit 104 by my house in Central NJ with a heat index of 112 (high humidity), so hotter than the devil’s pajamas
@Shoebox23
Areas like the Northeast are just not accustomed to those kinds of temperature cycles. France (and a lot of Europe) is having record high temps. This in a country with marginal frequency of AC availability. Doesn’t bode well.
@chienfou @Shoebox23
I feel bad for Europeans over this.
Apart from whatever long term consequences
Prob most are not acclimated.
How many have access to A/C even in public places where they can hang out? How many have serious fans or even multiple fans in every room? How many know the techniques for getting thru each day and the one after that?
How many know how to use a fan and evaporative cooling to their advantage?
How many live on stifling top floors?
How many have good attic insulation?
At least in hot climes people have centuries of accumulated experience in dealing with it
@chienfou @Shoebox23 it used to get that hot in the 70’s and 80’s (between DC and Boston). Things just gradually cooled off in the 2000’s.
@chienfou @f00l @Shoebox23 it did not get this hot at these latitudes this often.
France and Europe in general didn’t need AC as much but neither did Northern America. The UK especially doesn’t have much AC but shits changing. Heat domes happening etc
@chienfou @f00l @Shoebox23 @unksol
1936 North American Heat Wave: This remains the most severe and widespread heat wave, with temperatures reaching 121°F in North Dakota and 120°F in Oklahoma.
I decided to spit on road asphalt. No phlegm.
I don’t think the water hit the pavement before it disappeared.
/giphy frying egg
@pakopako
I was born in St Louis in early July in the mid-50s. Mom always said there were reports of people cooking eggs on the sidewalk that summer.
Overcast with clearing later and high in mid-70’s F today (Friday), clearer skies predicted for the 4th, with similar temperature. (NW Oregon)
/youtube technology connections ceiling fan
Just cause
@unksol Oh, mannnnnn, I haven’t watched that one yet. Gonna watch it now.
@unksol Ok, just as good as I expected. I think the first expensive(?) thing I bought was a pancake ceiling fan. Did I buy it in 1985?!?!? I can’t remember. Still have it. Works great.
I did NOT know I was at the tail end of a fashion trend. I just like the cooling effect.
@cfg83 we had ones that resemble them but to my knowledge never that design. Don’t recall dad filling the oil in them as I could reach the reverse switch in my teens.
If I were building a pole barn I could see putting them up down the middle
But we also had one “window” AC in that house that was just in a wall to the uninsulated garage from the kitchen.
This was fine in the 80s/90s. The decades
. You still went out and played cause it’s hotter in the house than in the shade with the hose…
Night you open the windows turn the ceiling fans on
Kind of gross today, and we’re looking at a big storm this evening. At this point I think I could leave raw coffee beans outside and let them roast themselves.
@capnjb I mean it’s not a competition
Big storm might knock some humidity to the ground? But that’s a relative term. Where you live and what your big storm is… Is it a typhoon or a hurricane or a big thunderstorm. Or it’s just gonna dump rain/cause floods
@unksol Surprisingly, it’s not terribly humid. Only about 35% right now… but still about 100 degrees. I imagine the humidity will change dramatically when the thunderstorms roll in tonight.
@capnjb I mean. Gotta expect fireworks today lol
/youtube PBS Wet bulb
IDK that I like “Wet Bulb”. Big I don’t do the science. The graphics a bit much too lol
@capnjb just to be clear if you can’t sweat… Cause there is no where for the moisture to evaporate. Because the air is the same temp and humidity…Gonna die. quickly.
I just think it’s one of those situations where repeatedly saying “wet bulb” 30 times… Ok. I got it. If I turn around and say “dude you got to get in side there or a wet bulb event, you’re gonna stroke out”
“Nah I am fine… Hits the floor” which I have seen happen 20 years ago… It is getting worse
If heat index does not cut it. IDK what to call it. Unless they start firing the warning sirens for a heatbulb event. Which may be warranted in some areas
Way too Hot. stuff is being Canceled due to Heat & Bad Thunderstorms upcoming.
Where is that darn GOAT! I want to blame them!
@mycya4me oh yeah I forgot about mental self-care by blaming the GOAT! I might need it about now.
I was GOAT myself a while ago. (It seems most of us were based on icons). It was fun and I took it srsly. Sorry for those of you who didn’t feel my Goat blessings; I really tried! Realize now I did not burn sage while reading the posts — that might have been the problem!
@pmarin what is July’s Goat name so we can properly Vent!
Yes I had FUN as the goat of the Month. I forgot when!
@mycya4me @pmarin I think it’s extremely important on the blame thread that the GOAT is able to shrug it off. There’s always the risk of overwhelming someone but for the most part seems to have been ok
@pmarin @unksol Hey I did that when was the GOAT. But people stated the GOAT took it all, regardless! I had A lot of fun as the GOAT of the month!
@mycya4me @pmarin true but there have been some things that I would not share as blame.
Death of a loved one has happened a few times but you wouldn’t want to blame someone for that. Might want to blame the universe/shout about it
We’re having a bit of a mixed bag. Currently in Colorado with the grandkids. 94 when I picked up my car in denver. 54 for a low overnight at the cabin we rented!