It has also been very nice here in Chicago the last couple of days. Low humidity and 70s. I walked down to the river yesterday and stood and watched the boats go by. It's like a mini-vacation.

There's a hurricane coming up from the Gulf. Won't really affect us, other than keeping the current thunderstorms going all through 4th of July weekend.

In Dallas, we whined that hurricanes blew the "painful, biting" mosquitoes up from the Gulf. Of course, the resident blood suckers didn't bite at all...

Low humidity and low 70s here too. We pool people prefer nearer 80s and a little less breeze, but we'll take it....

Local temps creeping up into the low eighties inland, the coastline where I am consistently at least 5 F cooler. It now being July, perhaps we might dispense with the "June Gloom," daily overcast, O Lord? And get some real summer goin'?

Anthropogenic Global Warming doesn't seem to be really pushing matters around here the last few years. It feels like there are more cooler days than there had been.

KYW said nice and cool today and tomorrow, then heat and humidity rising over the weekend, going to 96 and muggy again on Monday.

...with no precipitation in sight.

high of 66. rained overnight and this morning. cloudy now. again. still. duh.

bad link Jim - try this one instead

high of 62 deg.

steady rain.

The most rain I have seen all year so far.

rain yesterday, and too cold to do yardwork in a tshirt when it wasn't actually raining. not raining now/yet but still cold. I mowed yesterday but the rain picked up when I broke to reload the string trimmer, so I quit for the day. I'll have to wear a jacket or sweatshirt and a hat to go finish this morning.

It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty...

Monkey's bum. . . makes one helluva fondue!

Summer? Pffft. We never even got a spring.

June in SW WA was reportedly the second wettest June EVAR. :eyebrow:

Since the first day of summer, it's been cloudy, overcast, damp, drizzly, and chilly, just about every day.

My garden is a pile of shit this year and I'm none too pleased about it.

Not to mention, the odd weather has, for unknown reasons, increased the number of %$#@! critters around my place. The deer have been here pretty much daily, eating my 30+ rose bushes down to sticks (in the years prior to this, deer had foraged my yard precisely three times). The rabbits and rabbitettes have consumed all my hostas. The coyotes have grabbed seven of my hens. The moles have turned my raised beds and my lawn into a freakin' moonscape. And the chipmunks (which were something of a rarity around here) have had an astounding population explosion - I've caught five and killed another six. Finally, gray squirrels have arrived. Never saw them in this neck of the woods before.

Fuckers!

Oddly enough, the snakes and voles seem to have disappeared completely. Weerie.

Dang Glinda you need an Australian Cattle Dog. They love to hunt!

QUICK GLINDA!!!

GO OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW!!! I just saw my shadow! I'm sure it was my shadow, I looked it up on the intarwebz. So cool!

Second 90+degree day on the run here.... several more forecast. Swim-A-Thon tomorrow may not need to be postponed due to weather for the first time in recent memory....

59 deg now, and clear and sunny. predicted high of 77! waaahhhhhoooooo!

ferfuxache Its already in the mid 90's and supposed to stay there thru Thursday.
Well, at least I can feel like I'm in a tropical paradise.

It's pretty hot here. But it's not humid. Rather unusual.

92 F out, dayamn it is getting serious. Forecast says 98 is tops for today. It is 100.3 at Kopernik Observatory (local weather station).

Bring on the heat! This week upper 80s. I am going to love some sustained warmth.

Heh. It is now 8:30 PM, mostly dark outside... and it's still 89 degrees.

It's 87 here, rfn.

The TV station was running a poll... would you rather have 100 degree heat, or 2 feet of snow? The results were 50/50. Are you fucking kidding me? If it's 100 degrees for a day or two, then it cools off, and you don't have to shovel it.:rolleyes:

I vote snow!
We have heating here but not air conditioning (generally)

It's been hot and dry here by English standards.
Hose pipe bans being mooted.
Today it's overcast but still 24.8 according to my thermometer (76.6)
Yes - this is hot, actually.
I'm happiest around 18 (64.4). With a breeze.

But we're being promised a BBQ summer.
Sigh.
Ah well, we got a snowy winter. I s'pose I shouldn't complain.

I'd rather have the heat, but it seems to get more annoying as I get older. How do all those old people move to FL? Maybe I have hot flashes in addition, and when I'm older I'll want to move to FL too.

Heat advisory next two days, like many of us in this section of the US. Drink plenty of water, folks!

Gimme snow!

Yesterday the AC seemed to fail about 5pm. Indoor temps climbed ten degrees. I rebooted it and it seemed to start working.

Any power trouble yesterday UT?

We don't have AC here since we think we live in the North... Time to start pricing property closer to Canada. Hmmm... Canadian banks are solvent.

I didn't think to measure the line voltage... actually come to think of it, my voltmeter is lost!

golf wave

I bet you were browning out.

Me too! I couldn't get a "heat day" from work if I tried. "snow day" ohhh yeah!


:headshake not touchin that one. :headshake

If you'd rather spend the day shoveling two feet of fucking snow than go to work, you should be looking for a new job... seriously. :eyebrow:

My power was down to 112 volts RMS yesterday, and seems to be the same today.

I have been - just unsuccessfully. I much prefer the cold to the heat. I can always add more clothes to keep warm.

Anyway - the official reading here at the moment is ....

Temp - - - - -100.6 °F
Heat Index- - 105 °F

69 deg when I woke up. expected to reach 89 later todayayayay!

Looks like summer.

Mexico and Central America are cooler than much of the US.

Hot. Friggin' Hot. With an extra side of even more Hot.

feh.

AND i'm going camping starting tomorrow.

real camping, with tents and stuff.

RTFnow.

But those word-shaped bits in Canada are 130 degrees Farenheit!

On my way home at 5:45pm

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Can't fool us. That's the radio station. You're listening to Hard Rock 101 FM.

85 degrees inside and the voltage is 120.

Mebbe I got a problem

Now it's 81, and the pipes are a little hot/cold WTF

Whats going on? Which pipes are hot? IS there cold air blowing? Icing up anywhere?

When it stops cooling, the input and output pipes are the same temp... now the hot pipe is hot and the cold pipe is cold and it's 5 degrees colder than it was when I first reported in, although it's still about 6 degrees hotter than it should be and it's 9:30. I haven't taken off the thingie to check for ice but that is a good idea.

I keep wondering whether it would help to spray down the outdoor coils with water. I hear this is a new technology, heat pumps that help themselves cool with a mist.

is it a new system? Whens the last time the coils were cleaned?
Had a recharge recently? Are you checking at the outdoor unit or the blower?
How is the air flow -does it feel like the normal amount coming out and is it cold?

At the blower, I just took off the thingie and the coils are cold but not ice-cold. Airflow is pretty normal but maybe warmer than it should be. It was recharged last year, both outdoor and indoor unit are like 10 years. The thing is a fuckin' nightmare and always has been.

♪♫ Summertime, and the volts are 120. ♪♫

Yesterday's high of 90 surpassed the old record of 88 set in 1953. Today we're expecting to reach 94 degrees, just before the city bursts into flames.

Just been sat outside with the 'rents.
Was a horribly low-clouded humid day earlier, but we had sunshine from about 16.00 - which is when the sun finally hits the decking here.

About 27, (82) but curiously felt okay.
Probably because we were drinking Pimms and lemonade with lots of ice and fruit!

95 f. right now! whoo hoo.

and again...

Very grateful it didn't develop! I was half-expecting to come out of the hospital at the end of the day to find my car upside down somewhere in the football stadium (the football stadium is at the end of the hospital parking lot). And that'd be the least of anyone's worries, of course. So, glad it failed to come together.

I'd just arrived here last year when the superstorm that apparently was a derecho came through. We were at a welcome party for all the new residents, sitting in a faculty member's backyard under a big rented tent that accommodated 100, with rented tables, chairs, etc. We saw the storm coming, looked at each other, said WTF and repaired to the basement. Some of the tables were flung against the fence at the edge of the yard and remained, but the chairs went awol and the tent simply disappeared. And we lost power for more than 24 hours and I got to use my hand-cranked radio for the first time! Even better, it worked. :)

We had a nice storm last night. Nothing as severe as what I remember from Kansas City growing up. But there was lightning and hail and wind. It was nice. No damage to speak of, so even better.

Hunker down, Cellar peeps. It's going to be a wild one.
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