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Could be our first heatwave since July 2013. Last 2 days have been 90 and 91. Also, could be our second 70 degree night this year, hasn't dropped below 72 yet today. After weeks of being "abnormally dry", we were upgraded to D1 status today. Grass is very brown and crunchy. Hope this heat and drought keeps up, I've been loving this weather and I don't care if the grass is green or not (and it's interesting to experience weather events such as drought).
Yeah, lol. I see these people saying that 90 is like death, none of them would last even a Spring or Fall here let alone a Summer. Today is supposed to get up to 107, which is our norm for the day, here.
I never said it is like death. I just don't like it cause it comes with high humidity usually. We get plenty of 90F plus days a summer. We don't live in a giant sprawled out city like you do. Try block after block of very dense rowhouse hoods combined with dewpoints in the 70'sF.
I was in Seville, Spain when everyday was close to 100F and dry. In the shade felt fine. High humidity makes all the difference. This weather feels hotter than Seville for sure.
1. It's not "normal" and we aren't used to it nor like it.
2. It's a different feeling.
I asked my cousin Sal what he thinks about something because he owns a business in Florida and travels there a lot in all seasons. He lives in Southern NY. Take a look for yourself what he said.. (in blue)
So not only there is lack of breezes here (or in region here) but it DOES feel worse here. So perhaps we aren't comparing the same thing OR perhaps what we experience is simply just worse than what you guys experience using the same conditions. I always felt that was the case and he confirms it for me.
I still think soil type and density of trees or hills plays a big role too.
FYI -- He is a heat lover. HATES the cold with a passion.
They are also forgetting something else which applies to where I live. It is far far more dense than their sprawling cities with everyone in a single house with a yard. We have all these black roofs just trowing off heat, the AC throwing out hot air from houses, street after street baking black, etc. etc. It is a joke to compare Philly at 95F with high humidity to someone sitting in their backyard in the shade with their swimming pool shimmering in the sun in Phoenix.
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I never said it is like death. I just don't like it cause it comes with high humidity usually. We get plenty of 90F plus days a summer. We don't live in a giant sprawled out city like you do. Try block after block of very dense rowhouse hoods combined with dewpoints in the 70'sF.
I was in Seville, Spain when everyday was close to 100F and dry. In the shade felt fine. High humidity makes all the difference. This weather feels hotter than Seville for sure.
Not the whole area is like that, I live in the city center, mostly apartment buildings, and pop density is around 10k/sq mi in my neighborhood
Seabreeze in Florida summers only affects areas that are within 5 miles of the coast. Even then, you're talking about wind blowing off 85-90 F waters. Honestly, I'm surprised New England averages as cool as it does during the summer. I imagine if Canada's Hudson Bay and Labrador current didn't exist, summer temps would average far warmer up there.
Why would you expect New England to be warmer?
Right now the current conditions are reporting wind variable 6 mph.
Dean, it is usually, but not in freezing winter and with this 90's stuff. I know I am an outlier but I like good ol avg temps.
I can imagine such a busy, dense city is suffocating with the heat and humidity you're currently getting. Your normal summer averages are very nice, but what you're getting now is a bit much.
Dean, you should visit Philly someday. We have neighborhood after neighborhood with streets just like that. That street shot is certainly not unique here. We are just an old English colonial city, unlike our Western cities sprawling for miles from the city centre.
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