Summer 2013 Thread — Northern Hemisphere (hot, temperatures, Chicago, days)

[chicagogeorge]

Originally Posted by Weatherfan7

Uh oh the latest GFS is a complete and total train wreck for the UK's weather. A massive breakdown to cool temperatures now brought forwards all the way to tuesday, with loads of heavy rain, and cool temperatures thereafter. What a sad way to end this but it couldn't go on forever. Still I don't know why the GFS had to be so progressive. Seems very determined to screw the whole summer up.

GFS and the Euro are going to kill our hot spell too.



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Took this a few minutes ago infront of my house

[memph]

Crappy cell phone pics...

Beginning


Peak (those ambiguous shapes are trees and sheets of rain)

[Cambium]

10pm still feels like 90sF out there. Dewpoints in the mid 70s

Temperatures in NYC still in the 90s in some areas.

[Infamous92]

Heat Index still in the 100's at Newark and LaGuardia.

[Cambium]

Sitting on deck. Holy steaming bath bubbles!! There's no air out here.

[chicagogeorge]

Earlier today at my sister-in laws house

concrete/cement holds heat....




oh and so does sand the thermometer says 130 degrees

[nei]

My bedroom has cooled down to 87°F. What's the point of sheets and covers on a bed. I'm going to toss them to the corner.

[Bottletree]

Originally Posted by nei

My bedroom has cooled down to 87°F. What's the point of sheets and covers on a bed. I'm going to toss them to the corner.

I wouldn't be able to stand it... HATE hot temps when I am sleeping. wow that is brutal but I guess you are used to it.

[chicagogeorge]

Seriously roads melting in 86F/30C ( not to mention the sun angle is very low at this latitude) temps? What are they made out of ice cream! :lol:

It comes as the black tarmac on a newly-resurfaced £300,000 road in the centre of Cambridge has begun to melt, collecting in a large wave at the side of East Road.

"The heat must have been very intense to have melted the tarmac, I've never seen it happen before."

A spokesman for the local council urged drivers to "take extra care during the current weather", with a week of temperatures of more than 30C.

Heatwave: city centre road melts and wildfires blaze across Britain - Telegraph

[B87]

The ground temps on a normal sunny day in summer reach about 60C (especially on a dark surface - I recorded 56C once at my old house on the patio slabs), you can get 30C temps in the sun in February and it doesn't melt then.

I wouldn't say the sun angle is 'very low' either. In summer it reaches about 63 degrees.