don't move to wisconsin (Milwaukee, Plain: moving, air quality, swimming pool)

[ranger17]

yeah i think someone is using "heat index" for the high. That value is just as important as wind chill when considering affects on one's person, but neither is the actual air temp

[atler8]

Probably a wise choice there Mase...
Honestly, in a typical summer, I long for the passing of a cool front down here, something that is usually quite rare down here but somewhat more of the norm up there in the Midwest.
The beastly heat of last summer in the Midwest was hopefully just an anomaly but certainly not the standard against which their norm should be measured.

[ranger17]

Originally Posted by atler8

The beastly heat of last summer in the Midwest was hopefully just an anomaly but certainly not the standard against which their norm should be measured.

that's like our last 2 winters back in the Madison WI area just a few years ago, one was the "once in a lifetime over 100" of snowfall..... just to have that limit hit again the following year. Both were much higher then the norm which i believe is closer to 46-48", but it's those record setting extremes that people tend to remember the most. As i'm sure it's the same with the locals up there after the last summer's heat wave

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Enders-1

We had several 110 degree days.

Thanks for confirming for us that you're FOS.

Seriously, if you think summers in lower Wisconsin are unbearable, you have no effin' clue. What's the expected high today in Madison? 71 degrees, in the third week of June? Wow, I bet people in Tulsa and Little Rock and Memphis are just melting at the mere thought of such kiln-like heat.

[ranger17]

Originally Posted by Drover

Thanks for confirming for us that you're FOS.

Seriously, if you think summers in lower Wisconsin are unbearable, you have no effin' clue. What's the expected high today in Madison? 71 degrees, in the third week of June? Wow, I bet people in Tulsa and Little Rock and Memphis are just melting at the mere thought of such kiln-like heat.

LOL.
After we had a 98 degree day last week, the weather dude said it was going to cool down. Upper 80's I guess was cooling down....

[Drover]

Originally Posted by ranger17

LOL.
After we had a 98 degree day last week, the weather dude said it was going to cool down. Upper 80's I guess was cooling down....

You know how many times it's hit 90 degrees in Madison so far this year?

(HINT: it starts with a "ze" and ends with a "ro")

Yeah, the summers are just murder up here. I've run my A/C one whole day so far this year. It's stifling, I tell ya.

[ranger17]

Originally Posted by Drover

You know how many times it's hit 90 degrees in Madison so far this year?

(HINT: it starts with a "ze" and ends with a "ro")

Yeah, the summers are just murder up here. I've run my A/C one whole day so far this year. It's stifling, I tell ya.

and i bet i have family there still complaining about the heat lol. ohhh if they only knew......

when Madison area has a hot enough summer to heat Mendota temps into the hi 80's/low 90's (near surface of course) where swimming truly feels like a bath and you dont cool off even diving deeper (assuming algae isnt covering the water like usual lol), then i will admit they've had a hot summer. I dont ever recall Mendota hitting that temp area in all the years i was on it.
2 years ago we had a record summer here, over 100+ days above 90, the lake we're on (6 times Mendota's size) had those hot water temps, and even the ocean was in the mid+ 80's by the beach. That my friends is a hot summer


i'll add we have co-workers in Dallas, who in the same period had the month+ of 100's. They too know what a hot summer truly is lol

[northnut]

Originally Posted by Enders-1

We had several 110 degree days. And then you look at the winter, where we get to -10. Toss in the consistent cloudy weather, and you're looking at a place far worse than Seattle weather-wise.

No, we didn't.

[northbound74]

Originally Posted by Drover

Thanks for confirming for us that you're FOS.

Seriously, if you think summers in lower Wisconsin are unbearable, you have no effin' clue. What's the expected high today in Madison? 71 degrees, in the third week of June? Wow, I bet people in Tulsa and Little Rock and Memphis are just melting at the mere thought of such kiln-like heat.

Oh yeah, no kidding.

I spent the vast majority of my life in that region you just described. They'd laugh at the attitudes towards those short little micro-bursts of heat some Wisconsinites have.
Summer in Milwaukee=spring in Little Rock... even with the occasional 100. Wisconsin barely has anything they'd recognize as summertime weather down there. All this is vise-versa for winter of course.

[Enders-1]

Looking forward to this string of 100+ heat index days.