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outdoor job has been good to me so far but no more.  pound the blacktop at 115 if you're lucky.  coconut water binges give way to a next-day non-induced hangover.  and, repeat!

It's projected to be in the 90s for the next few days over here. Ugh.

I was outside all day and it was hot as f**k.

Long live the public service. But it's like 35c in my room, inside, right now. This country sucks in the summer.

     It's been ridiculously hot around here lately. At least I got some actual water in me today rather than more soda.

I have a job canvassing.  I ducked out today due to heat/insomnia, tomorrow is projected to be 99F.  I'll probably try to tough it out for the net $~70.

90s and 100s? Ugh.

It's in the low 80s here and I don't remember that range being that bad, but it is.

It was cooler in Oklahoma than in Pennsylvania today. Jesus.

It's gonna be in the 90s for a few more months here. Quit your bitching.

Just freeze your coconut water and use It as ice on your whiskey. You shall not bother with heat anymore.

Yeah, it was 95 here yesterday. Supposed to be 97 here today. I'm giving the ACs a little break now while it's (relatively) cool.

LOL

Yeah... even if you live far enough north to avoid the heat, you have to deal with mosquitos. And in Vancouver, you get rain. :/

It's pretty hot these days. I can't imagine how much worse it is in the US right now.

I quit drinking

If you ask me I wish there were a heat wave.

I've had enough of rain.

Had to walk 35 minutes home from a friend's house this morning. My shirt was drenched in sweat, it was nasty.

I'm black.

Thus conclude my ruminations on the weaher.

Suppose to be 98F tomorrow, 100F on Saturday and 99F on Sunday.  At least the humidity is less than 15%.

It'll be mid-60s for most of the next week here. lol.

Northeasterners complaining about the mid-90s are adorable.

This is our forecast for next week:

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^Lief, I guess this quote could apply to the opinion of Texas as well

General P. Sheridan:

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.

It was 96 here today and 95 yesterday and 92 the day before.

But it stormed, a cold front has rolled on it and tomorrow the high is supposed to be 77. Back to normal :)

By the way, running 10 miles is really horrible when it's 95 outside.

Is your name Ollie Williams?

Thankfully our house has a great air conditioning system. I feel okay as long as I stay indoors.

Carrying sheetrock across the roof of office buildings in Atlanta in July was one of the top three reasons I joined the Air Force.  Eff the heat.  Eff the heat in it's ass.

Lulz! Glad I don't live up there anymore.

you should not live in an area unfit for human habitation.

At Reagan National, it reached 98 on Wednesday, 99 on Thursday, and 96 on Friday.  Combine that with dewpoints in the low 70s (that's our famous summertime humidity I'm talking about), each of these past three days felt like it was over 100.  

And it's only June....  :P

Where do you live? (not creepy)

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As for me, today was more bearable. More or less because I spent all day drinking iced coffee and smoking cigarettes with friends, but it was still pretty decent.

Reading this thread has been a rather interesting experience. I thought yankees liked that kind of weather (certainly seem to be a lot of them in Florida when the temps are like that).

Austin, TX

Oh jesus.

I was so used to the DC avatar.

I went to undergrad in DC, I'm back home for the summer with my parents in Austin, I'll be moving to NYC in August.

Or, worse, at midway, you have the heat and the mosquitos.

Nice. Where in NYC?

That's in winter, though, when the Canadian snow demons invade the city.

I think he is referring to the fact that a lot of Northerners flock south to Florida even during the summer months.  

I wonder (http://www.universalorlando.com/Home.aspx) why (http://www.awesomeflorida.com/florida-beaches.htm)...

By far up north, surely you don't mean northern Ontario right? Because it's hot up here.

We officially broke 104F here, beat an old record.

Yes, but the heat in Colorado is an entirely different beast than here in the Mid-Atlantic and the South. Your triple-digits there are more bearable than the triple digits we experience here. 

I flee Florida for the Smokies during the summer (mostly because I know the climate). Canadians are during the winter, people with children are during the summer; tourism levels are basically level. Sometimes the Canadians go swimming in the winter, even when the Gulf gets down to the 60s.

Morningside Heights.

I remember being in Sacramento and it was 110 degrees. I thought, "This isn't so bad". The same in Texas and Mexico; 105 in those places felt better than 95 in Georgia.

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The next five days:

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Y'all are complaining about a "heat wave"? I'm getting beaten with a tropical storm, AND the lows are in the 80s. My 5-day forecast includes highs around 85, lows around 81, and rain chances of up to 100%. Winds are in the 30 MPH range. This is current conditions around here:
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Law school

Temps are expected to hit the 35-36°C again here this weekend (about 95-97°F).

I'm lucky though that I took a week off for vacation, so I better head for the swimming lake in the next 4 day's afternoons ... :)

Was 100+ in Omaha today..and of course, our A/C stopped working.  Ya know how you're supposed to hose off the unit each spring?  Yeah, I never do that.  So I gave it a good hosing and it started working again.  Just like a woman.

Chicago is forecast for 101 F, which would be the hottest day in seven years. Then again we've been so unusually warm this year it may not feel as hot as it would in another year.

No, and we never did, but we remove it each fall and reinstall it each spring (as we want to reinstall the window and I doubt than A/C would like the snowstorms and the minuses cold), so, it's perhaps not needed?

Probably not.  The issue with mine is, I'm assuming, all the dead leaves and other plant matter clogging up the vents and what not.  It's a central unit, so bringing it in really isn't an option.  I supppose I could get a cover for it (or remeber to hose it off each year).

We hit a record high today at Reagan National: 104 degrees, beating by 3 degrees the old record set in 1934.  Add the humidity, and the heat index was near 115 degrees.  And with the clock nearing 9pm, it is still 98 degrees.  

Today and tomorrow will be the hottest days for this year so far.

38°C (100°F) are expected in some places:

http://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/Samstag-ist-heissester-Tag-des-Jahres/70664414

We'll be having a high of 66 tomorrow in Seattle. So hot!! :P

Well, what about Nunavut? I'm sure the bugs're bad there but it's not too hot. Northern Ontario is in that in-between zone that Max was talking about. Hot and skeeters! :(

Neusiedl am See in Burgenland has just broken the June record for Austria:

37.4°C (ca. 100°F)

The old record for June was in the year 2000.

http://www.krone.at/Nachrichten/37.4_Grad_Celsius_Neuer_Hitzerekord_im_Juni-So_heiss_wie_nie-Story-326221

The high today is 106 F, same as yesterday.  Humidity is 38% last I checked, so it should feel about 120 F.  To all of my fellow southerners, stay inside today!  People die in this kind of heat.

90/75 F here.  Humidity at 65%. Living near the ocean has advantages & disadvantages.

Vienna's 1st district measuring station even beat that officially with 37.7°C ...

http://derstandard.at/1339639437145/377-Grad-Es-ist-der-heisseste-Junitag-seit-Messungsbeginn

Our law school?

The Columbia one, yes.

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We were hotter than Spain today.

What is 'coconut water' Tweed is talking about?

Here it is only averaging I guess around 85-90 for highs lately - yes it is rainy season now. We had our couple of months of high-90s-to-100 in April and May.  It is still a bit hot/sticky sometimes but really not bad.

It's a clear liquid found inside young coconuts. High potassium/antioxidant/mineral content, low carbs/calories/sodium & no fat.

Really?  They sell that all over the place in the streets in Bangkok.  I had no idea you could buy that fresh in the USA.  I also thought it had a lot of fat - and surely it must contain loads of sugar as its very sweet.

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+ an air quality alert.  I like to go exert myself outside just for kicks.  pretend I am a pitcher on the old baking artificial turf of 80s-yesterday, burned feet, thermometers reading 140, Barry Larkin doubling off me to left-center.

100's in the forecast here, for the desert devoid of much (intelligent) life.

It just hit 105F here (http://www.wjla.com/weather/).  Another degree higher and we could tie our long-time record, set in 1913 and 1918.

Not too bad here, about 95 or so.

I was always under the impression it's suppose to get cooler as you move closer to a pole. Apparently I was mistaken, cause I'm in Carolina an it's a good 10 degrees hotter than Florida.

I don't know where you are exactly, but it would make sense that it would be hotter here in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York-Boston corridor than more rural areas given the urban heat island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island) effect.  

Last day of this historic heat-wave.  Official high before the storms roll in: 102F.