You know it's hot when

[Cyclone792]

I don't mind hot weather, but the humidity is just brutal. Fortunately it looks like we'll get a break from the humidity after today, and it'll be nice to maybe crack open a window during the evenings this weekend.

[RichRed]

Highs of 100 with a heat index up to 108 here in Norfolk today. I'm going to say it: I'm ready for fall.

[reds1869]

Originally Posted by RichRed

Highs of 100 with a heat index up to 108 here in Norfolk today. I'm going to say it: I'm ready for fall.

Correction: fall with a Reds postseason!

[RichRed]

Originally Posted by reds1869

Correction: fall with a Reds postseason!

Indubitably!

[Unassisted]

Now you all know what the normal summer weather is like here in south Texas. High of 95/Low of 75... day after day after day.

This summer, we're averaging about 3 degrees higher than that for both.

The key to coping is to try to do everything that involves going outside closer to the 75-degree part of the day (morning) than the 95-degree part of the day (4-5pm). Then you spend the rest of the time in air conditioning.

[BuckWild03]

After last year's very cool summer, Chicago feels like an oven this summer. Damn global warming.

[texasdave]

Originally Posted by Unassisted

Now you all know what the normal summer weather is like here in south Texas. High of 95/Low of 75... day after day after day.

This summer, we're averaging about 3 degrees higher than that for both.

The key to coping is to try to do everything that involves going outside closer to the 75-degree part of the day (morning) than the 95-degree part of the day (4-5pm). Then you spend the rest of the time in air conditioning.

I live in Houston and I would say we have had a pretty average summer so far. I am not sure if it has gotten to 100 here this summer; although we have had a fair share of upper 90s days. I consider mid-to-upper 90s and humid par for the course in the summer. I moved here in late 1979 and the first full summer spent here we had two or three weeks of 105-107 every day. I thought people were crazy to live down here. But you get used to it to a certain degree. If you're going to live in Houston you really have no other choice.

[remdog]

Coldest summer in SoCal since the 1930's.

Where's gobal warming when you need it! Get Al Gore on the phone!

Rem

[oneupper]

Summer in So. Fla. is unbearable. 90 degrees plus. Humidity at infinity.

Got back last week from Iceland/Norway. Highs in the mid-60s, sunny (uncharacteristic, they say). 20 hour plus days. Loved it!

[vaticanplum]

My face has already melted off about 16 times today. This weather is making me so cranky I don't even want to be alive.

[cumberlandreds]

Heat index in DC today is supposed to be about 108! This has been one of the hottest summers I can remember while living in this area,20 years. I know it broke a record for 90 degree days in June and I think we are very close to the record for the entire summer. Fall can't get here quick enough for me.

[BuckeyeRed27]

Originally Posted by remdog

Coldest summer in SoCal since the 1930's.

Where's gobal warming when you need it! Get Al Gore on the phone!

Rem

It's been very weird. I don't mind the cool weather, but we have been getting that marine layer in almost every night and its been in the 50s a couple times.

Last summer was super hot though. Was in the 80s and even the 90s a couple times by the beach so I guess we're just making up for that.

[GAC]

Originally Posted by westofyou

But you can keep the humidity, I left the MW because of that horrible weather factor.

Yeah. Here, the humidity and heat index is what is the killer. I get up for work around 4:30 AM and I can already tell it's gonna probably be a scorcher when I step out onto the back porch to enjoy my morning java.

And it really has, as of recently, sparked some nice T-storms as of late too.

I'd have to say Fall is my favorite time of the year weather-wise. The sad part is that it's a precursor to what is to come.

[Razor Shines]

Originally Posted by texasdave

I live in Houston and I would say we have had a pretty average summer so far. I am not sure if it has gotten to 100 here this summer; although we have had a fair share of upper 90s days. I consider mid-to-upper 90s and humid par for the course in the summer. I moved here in late 1979 and the first full summer spent here we had two or three weeks of 105-107 every day. I thought people were crazy to live down here. But you get used to it to a certain degree. If you're going to live in Houston you really have no other choice.

I really haven't minded the weather this summer. It's been 97-100 degrees everyday for the past couple weeks, but we still go to the park and do stuff outside. I take the boy to the pool 3 or 4 times a week.

[TheNext44]

Originally Posted by paintmered

I was in Vegas last week. It was 104 degrees....at 11:00pm. The following day, it rained. Even the rain was hot.

I'm fine with 90s, but not with dew points above the mid 70s.

In Vegas it's a dry heat.

I'd rather deal with 110 degrees in Vegas than 90 degrees in Ohio because Vegas has legalized gambling.