OT VERY hot here

Same here in Wisconsin. I'm watching the radar and some bad weather is heading our way. We had to have had 100 plus today. Carol In WI

When in doubt, water! pools, run in the sprinkler, walk along side the river..... Cheryl

Last night we had some major rain. The thunder was horrible and woke everyone up. It feels a little cooler this morning but it doesnt take long for things to heat up much.

Shannon

thats what we were attempting. But even that was difficult, no one wants to move lol....

DH heard on the news that we are to have a break in our heat on Wednesday with it climbing to only about 95 here in MD with high humidity. Everyone keeps asking me how I am handling it so well, being

Maybe I'm just a summer-hound! If I didn't have to worry about DD, I'd be laying out in the sun or sleeping by the pool all day!!!

Dannielle

gyrlcentric wrote:

ahhhhhhhhh to have a pool, lol. we have sprinklers!! its 8 am and I just checked the weather.......its already 31 with the humidex. this is going to be another long day, no time for stitching either!

DH and I just returned from 5 days in Colorado. We stayed in Winter Park -- 9110 feet elevation! In Denver, it was over 100 F for several days and they are at 5280 feet. It never got much above the mid-80's in the areas we were visiting but it was *still* quite hot! There were no clouds and I swear, being that high up you are a lot closer to the sun :-). Fortunately, there was no humidity to speak of! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

For a quick cool off while I'm in the garden, I go stand under the sprinkler. Feels great!

Unfortunately it is a public pool, a part of being an apartment renter, but it's better than not having one at all!!!

Dannielle

shan wrote:

Air conditioners aren`t all that common in private homes here - to be honest we rarely need them - but we have ceiling and floor fans in every room. I gave my oldest daughter a fan yesterday and told her to stand a frozen coke bottle of water in front of it - she says it works a treat! Her apartment has the sun full on it during the hottest part of the day.

We`re not taking the dog out until the evening while it`s as hot as this, either. It`s amazing how many people you see with their dogs, though, in the hottest part of the day, with their dogs` tongues nearly touching the ground, poor things! Ours is flat on her back on a nice cool leather sofa with a fan blowing across her tummy. She just gets up for a drink every so often.

What wouldn`t I give for a good old thunderstorm! Unfortunately that possibility seems to be receding as far as we`re concerned. The West Country should get some tomorrow, though.

Pat P

It's in the upper 90's here in NC, very dry with air pollution in the Orange-Red zone. Meaning people like me with asthma had better *not* go exercise outside. I hope Tropical Depression #2 aims at us and gives us some relief!

Hi,

The weather is horrible here in GA. I'm taking a tip from DH's time in the Mediterranean and getting up early, napping through the heat, and staying up till the wee hours.

Jessie

We`ve had tewmperatures in the high eighties/nineties - even the low hundreds here in the UK for a couple of weeks. Huge thunderstorms in some places - four minute showers here (twice!). They promise us 104 deg.F later this week! The humidity is getting more unbearable each day, too, although, being on the Suffolk coast, we at least get a sea breeze from time to time. Not today, though.

Yesterday a regatta just North of here experienced a sudden violent storm that had the Lifeboat service trying to rescue 80 yachtsmen who had all been thrown out of their boats! Fortunately, all were OK, but there is a distinct possibility that the same thing might happen again this week.

For us, temperatures in the eighties are about as high as we can expect in a heatwave, so there are warnings issued at the moment, particularly for we "Oldies". We take the dog out late at night as it`s far too hot before then.

I wish it would SNOW!

PAT p

Pat, I'm thinking of you! When I went over the first time it was this time of year, and according to Claire, it was a record breaking heat wave then. Claire has some "thing" at the top of the steps that she called an air conditioner... sure wasn't MY idea of what one does! I found it to be hot, but manageable, since it wasn't nearly as humid there as it is here. And of course, I've never understood how we can be so humid here in the middle of the country... the lakes, maybe? Tegan

Pat P wrote:

We just took the dog out and sat under a tree for a while - it`s a beautiful, comfortably balmy evening. I whizzed off on my new toy with Maggie in hot persuit. It`s going to be awfully good for her waistline (Cavaliers are notorious for putting on weight, particularly when speyed).

Was it a couple of years ago you were last here in the summer? I recall a previous very hot spell.

Pat P

I'm glad to say that this bit of the UK has not been suffering the high temperatures experienced by those folk living "down south". Although we've had some pleasantly warm weather last week we had 3 or 4 days of continual fog.

If there's an ice skating rink near you, go visit them this afternoon. If anyone asks, you're a doting auntie come to watch the nieces and nephews practice ... and, gosh-darnit, the day you come out, is apparently the day the little dears decided to skip practice.

Take a jacket, they're usually quite chilly even in the spectator seats. Much nicer than melting at home.

I have a sudden urge to apply for a job at the ice-packing plant myself.

It's just hit 100 here. Where my colleague is, an hour south of here, it was 106 by noon already. But she has long since decided that she's not setting foot out of the house till Thanksgiving, and will place a standing order with Safeway.com to deliver a case of assorted ice cream every week from now till then. She's got more brains than I do -- I've actually gone out in it a couple times the last few days.