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It feels like summer left the northeast US a week ago.
Isn't it great? Very limited amount of sunshine the past several days, overcast, foggy, and damp. The only thing I don't like is the humidity since the temperature are still relatively mild (70s).
Although earlier last week was beautiful when it was dry and cool (60s to around 70) for a few days.
Meh. It was a good relief at first, but I'm a bit tired of gray skies and would like it to be a little bit warmer. Today was the first day in the last week that's gone above 73 or so. It doesn't feel humid or at least sticky since the dewpoints are in the mid 50s to low 60s feel dry to what we had before (mid 60s to low 70s). I hope those don't come back.
The AZ summers are rough. You stay inside, befriend someone with a pool, and try to get out of town as much as possible. This June has been relatively mild with this past Saturday being beautiful with even a few sprinkles in my neck of the woods. Right now, the mornings are staying nice and cool, but the day quickly heats up. I water my gardens twice a day. I'm scared to see what my electric bill will be this month.
Dry heat or not, pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees and put your face down by the oven door as you open it. That is what it feels like when it is that hot. There are some days when it physically hurts. But when the monsoons come, there are a handful of times when I will open up my windows and enjoy the monsoon winds even though the temps are still somewhat high.
I was watching Youtube last night and came across this forecast for Lake Havasu City from about 2 years ago. Nope, can't complain about it being hot anymore!
Feel free to post other extreme forecasts if you'd like!
By the way, that 92 degree reading was at 2:30 AM!!!!
you are more than likely to get the people that say, "its a dry heat,its not that bad" or " its only 180 degrees with no humidity,its bearable". Humidity or not, hot is hot, wether its 95 or 105.
I've never experienced temperatures that hot so I can't say how I'd respond to being in that sort of environment. Although I'd imagine that it almost feels like being in an oven. As much as I hate heat and humidity, I think I'd rather deal with 90 F and humid than 120 F!
It was interesting to read and listen to the local forecast. I've never heard that voice guy say "High 120". Or "High 100" for that matter!
Where in the world do you live??? Even though I live in the South, our temperatures locally rarely hit the century mark. Last summer, the hottest temperature was 96 degrees. Back in '07 when we were in the midst of that big drought, we had six 100-plus degree days and tied our all-time high temperature, 104 degrees, two days in a row. That last day, the Weather Channel man called for 106 degrees. It looked funny on our screen--I was like, "Man, that never happens here--we'll probably never see that again!"
From the way things have gone so far, we may have another summer like that. We've hit 90 nine days straight, so we're deep in a heat wave. The next 7 days call for no temperatures below 90.
The AZ summers are rough. You stay inside, befriend someone with a pool, and try to get out of town as much as possible. This June has been relatively mild with this past Saturday being beautiful with even a few sprinkles in my neck of the woods. Right now, the mornings are staying nice and cool, but the day quickly heats up. I water my gardens twice a day. I'm scared to see what my electric bill will be this month.
Dry heat or not, pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees and put your face down by the oven door as you open it. That is what it feels like when it is that hot. There are some days when it physically hurts. But when the monsoons come, there are a handful of times when I will open up my windows and enjoy the monsoon winds even though the temps are still somewhat high.
Let me ask you, what's the threshold temperature for y'all in which it's no longer comfortable and just flat out hot? Someone in another forum said it was about 105 degrees. Is that accurate?
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Originally Posted by desert sun
you are more than likely to get the people that say, "its a dry heat,its not that bad" or " its only 180 degrees with no humidity,its bearable". Humidity or not, hot is hot, wether its 95 or 105.
I love our spring days here, particularly in April when the temperatures start to creep into the 80s but the humidity hasn't sunk in yet (that usually occurs in May). The days we reach the 90s, it does start to feel like we're being oven-baked, but it's still tolerable. You are right, though....hot is hot, whether the dew point is 10 or 70 (like it was half of last week here).
Where in the world do you live??? Even though I live in the South, our temperatures locally rarely hit the century mark. Last summer, the hottest temperature was 96 degrees. Back in '07 when we were in the midst of that big drought, we had six 100-plus degree days and tied our all-time high temperature, 104 degrees, two days in a row. That last day, the Weather Channel man called for 106 degrees. It looked funny on our screen--I was like, "Man, that never happens here--we'll probably never see that again!"
From the way things have gone so far, we may have another summer like that. We've hit 90 nine days straight, so we're deep in a heat wave. The next 7 days call for no temperatures below 90.
Northwestern New Jersey. Record high here is 102 F. We've reached 100 F+ a dozen times (at least since records have been kept). Last time was in 2002. I may be wrong, but I don't think a weather station was established here until the late 1940s or early 1950s. Whatever the story, the max temperature we see most summers is around 95 F or so.
I've never experienced temperatures that hot so I can't say how I'd respond to being in that sort of environment. Although I'd imagine that it almost feels like being in an oven. As much as I hate heat and humidity, I think I'd rather deal with 90 F and humid than 120 F!
It was interesting to read and listen to the local forecast. I've never heard that voice guy say "High 120". Or "High 100" for that matter!
Lol I know right, I've heard it only a couple of times. It sounds awkward though, he says it fast lol.
That weather forecast looks like paradise to me... 120F .. bring on the heat!!!
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