heat wave

[MaxQue]

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.

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?

[dead0man]

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).

[Frodo]

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.  

[Tender Branson]

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

[bgwah]

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

[Hatman 🍁]

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

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.

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

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!

[Tender Branson]

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

[Yelnoc]

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.

[Donerail]

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

[Tender Branson]

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

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

[Simfan34]

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.

Nice. Where in NYC?

Morningside Heights.

OMG WE'LL BE, LIKE, NEIGHBORS!

What brings you there?

Law school

Our law school?

[Lief 🗽]

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.

Nice. Where in NYC?

Morningside Heights.

OMG WE'LL BE, LIKE, NEIGHBORS!

What brings you there?

Law school

Our law school?

The Columbia one, yes.

[Simfan34]

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.

Nice. Where in NYC?

Morningside Heights.

OMG WE'LL BE, LIKE, NEIGHBORS!

What brings you there?

Law school

Our law school?

The Columbia one, yes.

[Tender Branson]

We were hotter than Spain today.

[opebo]

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.

[Donerail]

What is 'coconut water' Tweed is talking about?

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

[opebo]

What is 'coconut water' Tweed is talking about?

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.

[© tweed]

[© tweed]

+ 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.

[LastVoter]

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

[Frodo]

It just hit 105F here.  Another degree higher and we could tie our long-time record, set in 1913 and 1918.

[AndrewTX]

Not too bad here, about 95 or so.

[Donerail]

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.

[Frodo]

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 effect.  

[Frodo]

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