<p>How miserable is it in your town? Know anybody working outdoors?</p>
<p>In my town right now at noon it is 91- “feels like 112”- and the dew point is 81. My kid is at day camp but they pop into air conditioning regularly.</p>
<p>Everyone should come visit Seattle!
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<p>Read more: [How</a> much summer have we had? 78 minutes - seattlepi.com](<a href=“http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/How-much-summer-have-we-had-78-minutes-1470646.php#ixzz1SZbV74oq]How”>http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/How-much-summer-have-we-had-78-minutes-1470646.php#ixzz1SZbV74oq)</p>
<p>You don’t know miserable until you live in Palm Springs. There are 116 days where it is over 100. 120 is probably the highest it gets. May-October is soo hot. But the winters are gorgeous so i can’t complain too much!</p>
<p>I think that’s 78 minutes longer than it has been above 80 in Vancooler :-(</p>
<p>Can I whine that is it noon and only 59F, I know every one else is suffering under heat, but we have not even had ANY summer, a couple of days over 70F, mostly grey, 50-60s and rain…hadn’t heard Vancooler, but yeah, that is the truth!</p>
<p>lol emerald kitty… i just emailed my son and asked if he would trade weather with me…melting here in alabama while he is loving his seattle weather…</p>
<p>My daughter said it was so humid in DC today that her computer/tote bag was wet when she got to work, and it wasn’t raining! She has about a 10 minute walk to the bus, and this was at 7:30 this morning.</p>
<p>DD is dreading her Seattle trip in a couple of weeks. She hates being cold and 60s in August is cold. We much prefer our almost 100 degree days here in the south.</p>
<p>I don’t like being cold, but I confess I’m getting very weary of the triple digits. 18 or 19 days in a row over 100 degrees so far, and no relief in sight for the foreseeable future. It’s mentally and physically draining.</p>
<p>I don’t even want to think about the electric bill this month.</p>
<p>More than 30 days of 100+ weather so far this summer, and we’re in extreme drought. But today, we got a very brief rain shower and that lowered the temp to 85, so it feels like heaven right now. Albeit a very humid heaven.</p>
<p>We haven’t had a heat wave (3 days of 90+ temps) in Maine yet this summer. It’s 82 right now, at 6 pm. It’s supposed to be in the 50s tonight (some spots will get down to the 40s). It’s beautiful.</p>
<p>Toronto hit a record on Sunday for that day at 96, feeling 108 with the humidity. A heat alert has been issued for this week, meaning that city employees are hitting the streets to hand out cold water to the homeless and to anyone without A/C. Cooling centers have been set up all over the city, buildings with A/C where people can gather and keep cool. City pool hours have also been extended so that they’re open til midnight. They’re predicting 101 for Thursday, without taking into account the humidity. I know it’s hot when my dogs don’t want to go outside.</p>
<p>When I got in my car after leaving it parked in the grocery store lot for an hour or so today, my car temperature thing said 112. It cooled down to a crisp 96 once I started blowing down the road. It’s supposed to get hotter every day this week right through the weekend. We’re in NC.</p>
<p>My D showed goats all day yesterday and cattle today at the 4H fair. 97 degrees both days; heat index higher. No kids or animals dead yet, but pigs are tomorrow…</p>
<p>It’s the humidity that’s so oppressive though. Sit still and do nothing other than breathe and the sweat pours off–yuck. However, I’m in the “I detest winter” camp and Dec-April stinks here. I’ll suffer through some of this and I’ll certainly take it over NW freezing in the summer. I want to know summer is here!</p>
<p>In central Illinois today, it was 94 with a heat index of 116.</p>
<p>Twomules, I live where you live… and my central air bit the dust yesterday late in the day. Repair guys coming tomorrow… I schlepped the furry creature at my house off to the air conditioned kennel for a couple of days, and escaped to work and the movies today. Sleeping in the basement tonight, and hoping the repair guys get here tomorrow for sure.</p>
<p>I am a lifeguard in Michigan. Almost 100° today and supposed to be hotter tomorrow. Super humid on top of that. They cut our shifts by 50% and gave us free ice cream and wet towels every hour. Lifeguards are being treated like royalty in this heat.</p>
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<p>hot and humid is the norm in mississippi</p>
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<p>You’ll appreciate this… the drastic temperature shifts between Lake Michigan and a few miles inland created fog today along the lake so bad, that the lifeguards had to order a swim ban because they couldn’t see people in the water. All along the lake there was a dense fog advisory (just a few miles inland, there was no fog):</p>
<p>[Chicago</a> area braces for even hotter mid-week temps - chicagotribune.com](<a href=“http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-area-braces-for-even-hotter-midweek-temps-20110719,0,4943055.story]Chicago”>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-area-braces-for-even-hotter-midweek-temps-20110719,0,4943055.story)</p>
<p>If you link this story, there’s a time lapse video of the fog rolling in.</p>
<p>101 when I left work this afternoon. Don’t know what it was with heat index. It took a full 10 min before I could even contemplate driving because the steering wheel was too hot to touch. Saw three places where the street had buckled because of the heat. Dog doesn’t even want to go out to do her business.</p>