Summer Heat

@baz mentioned in a thread that it's hot in the UK now.

In Northern Virginia, we are expected to be over 90F for at least the next two weeks, Sunday is expected to be 99F and we will likely soon have a triple-digits day and plenty of humidity on top of that! 10:30 this morning and the "Feels Like" is already 91F. Not even summer yet! We're having August weather in June - supposed to be nice in June!

For those that use the wrong temp scales 32C to 38C actual temps for the next two weeks here. "Feels Like" 35C to 41C over the next two weeks here.

What temps are you seeing?

When I lived in Germany (1993-2001), very few homes had air conditioning. I lived in a brand-new house - lots of big windows but no air conditioning and I only missed it one or two days a year. I think the UK was the same. Is that still the case?

marshg246 said:

@baz mentioned in a thread that it's hot in the UK now.

In Northern Virginia, we are expected to be over 90F for at least the next two weeks, Sunday is expected to be 99F and we will likely soon have a triple-digits day and plenty of humidity on top of that! 10:30 this morning and the "Feels Like" is already 91F. Not even summer yet! We're having August weather in June - supposed to be nice in June!

For those that use the wrong temp scales 32C to 38C actual temps for the next two weeks here. "Feels Like" 35C to 41C over the next two weeks here.

What temps are you seeing?

When I lived in Germany (1993-2001), very few homes had air conditioning. I lived in a brand-new house - lots of big windows but no air conditioning and I only missed it one or two days a year. I think the UK was the same. Is that still the case?

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It's 68f where I am at moment so not really hot
I don't know anyone with Aircon in their houses over here

baz said:

It's 68f where I am at moment so not really hot
I don't know anyone with Aircon in their houses over here

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Flaming June

Here in East Texas, we are having a relatively cool spring. That may be due to the abundant rains this year.
So far, no high 90's Temps yet, that would be 35 to 38 C.

I have long said "Never bitch about the rain in Texas, because after the rain stops, it may be 3-4 months before you see another drop. "

Slick

Grew up in VERY regular 100s and teens ALMOST year-round in South Texas. Central Texas is about 10 degrees cooler on any given day...

Hot ??? not here it's 20 / 68 * in Wales now ..... up to 24 / 75 * for 2 days this week ...... then back to 20 / 68 * for over a week.

Suits me fine

grandpaul said:

Grew up in VERY regular 100s and teens ALMOST year-round in South Texas. Central Texas is about 10 degrees cooler on any given day...

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Am I correct that other than very South Texas, the humidity is low? 100F with low humidity is way easier to deal with than 100F with high humidity.

marshg246 said:

Am I correct that other than very South Texas, the humidity is low? 100F with low humidity is way easier to deal with than 100F with high humidity.

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Laredo runs in the teens for humidity, it's almost 200 miles from the coast. Austin is similar at over 300 miles inland.

Low 90s F here in New Hampshire. Warm for this time of year but not unheard of. I remember February of 92 or 93 seeing minus 28F and by July seeing close to 100F. Quite a temp spread in just a few months.

PS: At minus 28 the Ford Tempo still started...reluctantly, but it started!

Many years ago, I was on Dunk Island which is on the Barrier Reef off the Coast of North Queensland. On a warm day, there was a Danish couple there who were really red in the face, for them it was so bad they had to leave. I was an idiot, I could not think of what to do to help them, but keeping your face wet when it is extremely hot, can help, and you need a fan. If you have enough hot weather, you become acclimatised and don't feel it so much. It has to do with the arterioles under the skin - having a lot of fat on your body is bad. In South-east Australia, we have had 45 degree days, but last summer was not so bad. It is strange - Northern Australia is tropical, and the extremes are not so great, but there is more hunidity, so the evaporation rate is decreased.

I live in SE Queensland (sub tropics) so our summer temps are between 30c and 38c most days and very humid, even worst after rain, we have had a few days when the northerly winds blow it gets hotter over 40c, but living on the coast and I live 1 km up high from Moreton Bay so we get good sea breezes in the afternoons when a good SE breeze is blowing, its now winter here but the days are great between 20c and 25c days and cool mornings down too 9c this morning, but for me best time of the year, the Norton loves the cooler days, but we are use to hot days as we have hot days right up to late autumn and even early spring things start to warm up, we have a very mild winter up my way.
Most of Australia's population, 70% or more live on coastal areas, inland Aus is way too hot and temps can get well over 50c in summer, we live in one of the dryest countries in the world, but last summer we had a good wet season, but things can get bad when in droughts and average wet seasons and this year is the first time Queensland (my state) is completely drought free, first time in a very long time, many years in fact.
A lot about climate change but too me it's just the norm here in Aussie land, we have years of good wet seasons and we also get years of bad seasons, droughts, floods, bushfires, it's all part of living in Australia, that's life down under.

Ashley

Grandad said:

Hot ??? not here it's 20 / 68 * in Wales now ..... up to 24 / 75 * for 2 days this week ...... then back to 20 / 68 * for over a week.

Suits me fine

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I know what you mean
I like the cool mornings and evenings
And so do my bikes particularly my triples love the cool air
It's the deluge of rain that pisses me off

Baz , I installed a/c unit in bike shed several yrs ago makes things enjoyable again in the old shed as our world heats up …. forecast today here in for 42C temps , even basement gets uncomfortable in that …. One of best improvements to date other heat for winter work

I finally finished painting the house this afternoon and was going to go for a ride. But it was just too hot for me and any of the old bikes. 70F in the shade in the front garden some clouds mostly sun light breeze off the channel. You have to watch
these hot days they can overwhelm you. Took the dog to the sea for a swim instead. Her, not me, shock of the cold water
is just too dangerous...etc..

Here in the Western US the heat is coming up also -- 86 F, 30C, all afternoon yesterday at 2400 ft. elevation 50 mi from Canada. And with the heat comes low humidity. And with low humidity come fires. A major fire has started to our south, probably from lightning. I watched the smoke come up over the ridge last evening. This morning it's overcast and I see no smoke. The Forest Service says the fire is now 3,000 acres and is in rough country, too rough for ground work; so, they plan to let it burn till it snows in late October.

When there was a fire a few years ago, on the other side of the lake where there are orchards and structures, they fought the blaze with aircraft by scooping water from the lake. This time, if the fire tops the ridge and burns downhill, the homesteads along the Twisp river will be toast. We've had other fires that ended in catastrophe. In one, a fellow's shop burned, consuming several Nortons.

In summer 2004 Forest Service contractor, Butler Aviation, retired their biggest fire-fighting plane, a Douglas DC6. For those of you never to have flown on such an airliner, they came with 46 L, Pratt & Whitney R2800 engines of 2,500 hp each, times four. These are supercharged radials of 9 cylinders around and 2 deep. They use a lot of gasoline.

The following year, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management did not renew contracts for several large air-tankers because of fatal structural failures where the wings broke off of a C-130 Hercules and a Navy derivative of a WWII B24 bomber, modified for air-tanker service. Flying fire duty is somewhat like aerobatics for which these planes were never designed. Plus, the C-130 built in 1957, had 21,500 hours on the fuselage. In the absence of a coordinated inspection program the government determined that such service for WWII & Korean War-era aircraft was too risky and terminated the contract.

I remember this because at the time the company I worked for had 2 tanker trucks running daily from Seattle to Redmond Or. each hauling 11,500 gallons of LL100 avgas. The man receiving and testing the gasoline told me that one tanker fed the DC6 and the other fed all the other planes. One trip was on the day of a wake for Mr. Butler and I got some cake and a tee shirt out of the deal, still have the tee shirt. That day topped 100 F by 9AM. To get the planes in the air at all, they had to be off the ground by 6AM or the air density would be too low even with a long runway and 10,000 hp.

My truck did not have air conditioning and after unloading I felt sick. So, I called dispatch and told them I was getting an air conditioned motel and I'd make the 5-hour trip back when it cooled off. I got back about midnight, having left the yard at 0400. When the Governor called a fire emergency we put a placard on the radiator saying "Fire Load - Do Not Delay." This exempted us from hours-of service regulations but not from the usual harassment by the cops. Idaho has been the worst for that.

Right now a 1:20pm, it is 96F with a "feels like" of 104F in Northern Virginia. Later today 99F with a 107F "feels like" is predicted. Tomorrow was supposed to be hotter but the heat got here today. Also, the pollen count is 99 out of 100 today. Not a good day to be outside! The strange thing is no t'storms predicted - strange for Virginia when the heat and humidity are high. Yes, I know there are places in the US that are often higher temps, but usually lower humidity.

Woweeee !! Just seen the BBC News ....... US bakes in heatwave ...... 124 F 51C in Palm Springs ... yikes !


tarmac melting stuff .... I wonder how we adjust tyre pressures to compensate ... Lol !! ... Stay safe and find a cool bar with cold beer

It all depends on where you live and how hot it gets whether it's a dry heat or a humid heat, hot and humid can be a bit unbearable if over 35c but not as bad if it's a dry heat, up in the top end of Aus and up at Dawin way in the tropics it's over 30c all year round including winter and most travelers go troppo from the hot humid days as well nights, best houses are the high house with full open verandas, high ceilings and fully open windows to let the air flow through the house, but they also get lots of cyclones up that way in the summer months, Cyclone Tracey wiped out whole of Dawin back in the 70s on Xmas eve, my brother and family was right at the front of it when it hit, the joys of living up the top end of Australia.
They are big beer drinkers up in the tropics lol.

I grew up in Central Africa, Zambia. No rain at all from Feb to November (I recall it always raining on Guy Fawkes ), October was known as suicide month due to the 35+ degrees and the longing for rain. One good thing though was the smell coming off the ground on the first rain of the season. Once smelt, never forgotten, impossible to replicate. In the wet season (no summer or winter, just dry or wet!), it would rain hard for an hour or so then the sun would come out. Damn near perfect!

Then we moved to the east coast in South Africa, summer (especially Feb & March) was 30-35 degrees, humidity around 100%, rest of the year was 18-25 degrees, wit ha surf temperature of 18 in winter (brrr!) to 23 odd in summer with some of the best surfing waves, but with a very corrosive salt atmosphere since we were right next to the beach.

Now living in Denmark, were a poor summer is colder than a mils African winter, and the sea never goes much over 18 degrees - and there's no waves either!

Well, here in the U.K. even our ‘climate disaster’ obsessed media couldn’t spin their way out of the fact that we just had one of the coldest Junes on record.

And they will try any which way of spinning / massaging / fabricating data to suit their narrative… so it really must have been freakin’ cold !

So, when you’re ready, be good chaps and send some of that summer heat over here will you?!