Another scorcher of a day . . . (Haverhill, Salem: hotel, homes, movies)

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Pool and AC.

I broke down and ordered a portable so I could enjoy my basement, which gets intolerably hot due to the dehumidifier.

I've also decided with next year's income tax refund we are getting a mini split ductless AC system for the whole house.

Not really enjoying the heat but whatever, looks like the rest of the month will be cool (judging from Accuweather).

Remember this 5 months ago?

[Justin Sparks]

NOAA CPC has the next two weeks continued HOT and above average for the northeast.

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[magicshark]

All I can say is YUCK! I have been camping out in the AC, it's so hot that we are only using the pool at night.
Oh how I miss the snow! Both me and my son are winter people, never could understand people's obsession with hot weather. And I really don't get why they act like you are crazy for loving winter.

[xo_kizzy_xo]

Originally Posted by cb2008

They don't do much and what the y do t hey do it slowly. Seriously.

:nodding: The very first time I visited relatives in FL (this was way back when), it was around this time of the year. They never went to the beach, never spent any time outside. Nearly every clerk in every store we went to moved as slow as molasses. It completely confounded me until the morning I decided that yes, I was going to go to the beach because, hello, I'm in FL! I lasted something like 15 minutes. My relatives got a good kick out of that.

Really, my aunt said that most people spend time indoors at this time of the year. She had had a small skin cancer on her shoulder removed as proof.

[Parsec]

I feel like I'm adjusted to the heat now. Spent all day at the beach yesterday and got burned all over my shoulders and back. Then today I just spent 2 hours outside doing yard work and the heat didn't bother me.

[Newdaawn]

As my relatives in NC say about the heat and humidity "At least you don't have to shovel it". But hey - you shovel for an hour or 2 and then it's done. Not so much with the heat and humidity, which they seem to have from May to Nov.

The heat and humidity has been here in central Maine for a few days now - but it's "Summer" and love to have it - for a while anyway. Won't be that long - before it really cools off again. Yard this year and all the perennials are outstanding. Climbing rose bush up one side of my porch has more blooms that ever - so sweet smelling too.

[RiverBird]

Originally Posted by Justin Sparks

Surfing the various weather sites last few days, it's been more humid in MA than in southern states of LA, AL and GA with higher heat indexes. The jet stream is pumping heat and humidity out of the GOM and with local coastal ocean temps as warm as they are, the northeast is getting blasted. It was over 90° in Bar Harbour, ME on the 4th.

Taking into account the kind of winters we have to put up with and now this kind of summer warming going on, it's pushing my personal climate 'misery index' off the chart. Cooped up a lot in winter and more and more now in the summer as well. JMO, YMMV and all that but looking to make a change and not at all sure what that will be.

DH refuses to move South because of what he says is brutal heat and humidity. I proved to him that it's worse here in WMass by going onto accuweather and posting the temps, "real feels," and humidity levels in Knoxville TN, Athens GA, Charlotte NC, etc. He had nothing to say in reply and stands his ground, but we here know better.

[seeriously]

We've lived both, Florida and Massachusetts. There's little difference whether you stay indoors during the winter or the summer months. Negatives about the north is the snow and ice. Positives about the north, summer lasts a nanosecond. Next week it'll be 72 degrees and todays temps will be a fading memory.

[cb2008]

Extremes are never pleasant. But between the two I prefer warm. I am happy until about the first week of Jan when I keep telling myself days are going to get longer, any day now. They get only shorter. And darker. If only we can ban the months between feb and may, and double up on may and June I will be happy.
Today has been ok. Spells of cool breeze and less humidity. I might even go out and work in the yard.

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by Parsec

I feel like I'm adjusted to the heat now. Spent all day at the beach yesterday and got burned all over my shoulders and back. Then today I just spent 2 hours outside doing yard work and the heat didn't bother me.

I did six hours of lawn mowing and other yard work over the past two days. It was a bit uncomfortable but otherwise not too bad.