I knew it was hot...
 

...but not THAT hot. That's right, we just had "the warmest first half of any year since records began in 1895." You can read the whole analysis at this NOAA site:http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2663.htm

http://www.wildfreshness.com/brian/archives/smog.jpg

Here in Hotlanta, it's been running about 6 to 8 degrees above normal for the last few weeks, and they say we'll have more of the same. And then there's our famous smog; OK, it's not as famous as LA smog, but were trying really hard:

Why do they say 'warmest' when they mean 'hottest' ?

Because if you average over the whole Earth, it's very nice!

Because they're climatologists, and they want to use the same word when describing winters too. After all, the "warmest February on record" probably doesn't actually qualify as "hot" at all...especially if one is referring to, say, Maine.

On the other hand, you could assume it's a conspiracy to cloak global warming too...you know..."global hotting"?

move to South Dakota...

oh, maybe not: Pierre yesterday at 117 deg. (all-time record high!)

117
 

But that's a dry heat:angry:

Thank you for being so weather-wise , MaggieL . Pangloss is therefore not a climatologist , and he does not know what he is on about .

What?
 

Huh? What kind of construction is that?

Actually, weather and climate are areas of interest for me. In fact, I'm going to experience some adiabatic cooling after work today.

British. "on about" means "talking about".

It's f*cking HOTT here in OHIO (four-five days in the nineties) you can't even go outside. You can't even poke your nose out the door.

I'll take winter any day over this.

British
 

British. Figures. Like saying: "Buddug is a wanker for saying I don't know what I'm on about." ;)

The thermostat on the bank across the street is reading 115...to hot to be true even in Kansas? Doubtful, if you add the heat index. I'm glad I have an inside job.

C-mon' down to Central FL (no off-shore breeze here), we'll have a stogie while tending the BBQ out back & talk about heat.

I wasn't trying to debate that we are the hottest here in Kansas...just merely being thankful that I'm inside.
...if you're offering an invitation...
So...exactly how hot is it in Central FL where there is no cool offsetting breeze from the ocean?

Oh toughen up, I mowed the lawn today, it was lovely...
Actually it sucked, but I was preparing myself for tomorrow, when I get to go do a major cleanout at school - with no a/c and no running water. Woohoo... :greenface

Was at the pool at my in-laws yesterday and it said 95, humidity was in the high 90's, then it rained, so you get the sauna effect.

:rolleyes:

yeah, and so's a furnace, but i wouldn't wanna be there either

There was a tourist couple from Phoenix in my neighborhood pizza shop recently, and they were telling the local guy working the counter that it was 112 degrees in AZ that day...and he sincerely responded, "Oh, but it's a dry heat!"

We laughed and laughed and laughed.

Of course, he wasn't the one who questioned the diction. :-) Specifically he says Atlanta is hot right now, and I'd take him at his word on that point.

"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."

It is very different than a humid heat. When we were in Death Valley hiking and it was over a hundred it was NOTHING like a hundred in FL. MUCH easier to deal with.

Here's an Uncomfortable Truth: (With a little TMI at the end.)

My sister was getting out of the subway on 23rd street and as she ascended the stairs she passed a woman who must have weighed about 350#. As they passed the woman looks at my sister and says:

"It is so hot, my pussy's melting." and just keeps on walking.

Perhaps she had an ice sculpture of a cat in her purse?

We can only hope.

Must be hot, my voltage was steady at 111 yesterday, down from a normal 128 volts. :sweat:

Fascinating, Bruce. I had no idea the global warming concern dated that far back.

Oh baby hot hot hot.
 

I can't remember where I saw that article before Bruce, but its prescience struck me as both ironic and sad. I saw a hurricane conference on CSPAN not long ago (http://www.flghc.org/) and there was this old-school climatologist who completely dissed the notion of human-induced global warming. He came off as a crank, but he did have some good historical data to back up his claim that GW is cyclical in nature and that the present warming is not because of us. I don't know. I tend to believe the Navy guy from 1953:neutral:

Hiking in over 100 degree heat?! :mg: :crazy:

It's not the voltage, it's the amps baby.:p

WTF! Oy vey! I would have laughed my ass off...and been grossed out at the same time. I wonder...nevermind (I have to stop myself before I say things I shouldn't). But, speaking of...not the heat or anything like that, just funny/random things people say. Last night I was riding with my neighbors mom up to the QT to get some refreshments...she's getting out of the car and her phone rings, she turns and says "Oh! You've gotta be fist-fucking me!" and answers her phone...

My &^%%$ is melting.
 

Those are both pretty funny. When I read the one about the big woman I cracked up. That other woman at the QT? Where the hell did she get that?

But hiking in 100 degree heat is not that crazy as long as you keep drinking tons o' water. With that dry heat, your sweat evaporates as soon as it comes out of your pores.

Dry heat can git cha.:angry:

Yes, but too much demand for amps pulls the volts down.

Yes, it's even older than the "new ice age" scare. :-)

I was making a joke, and I assume you are too. Only I don't get yours. It's a heat induced sleep deprivation thing.

Admittedly, my joke wasn't really all that funny.

OK...didn't get your joke to the level of realizing it was a joke. Xob was pointing out that the voltage supplied to his house was just barely making it above 110vac, as an indication of how PECO is browning folks out because the demand for power (measured in watts...or amps at constant voltage, which this as it turns out is not) is so high. So you don't get my joke because I wasn't making one.

Monday in CA...
Santa Cruz = 71°
Half Moon Bay = 69°
San Mateo = 94°
Santa Rosa = 100°

So, then, we're even, right?:confused:

Not the draw of the A/C........I don't think.:unsure:

Naw, RMS Volts.

Actually the demand for watts pulls the voltage down and pushes the amperage up. :haha:

OMG, I cant find my *spraying tea everywhere smiley*...I've never heard that one before and I can sooo see it popping out when I least want it to. :blush:

It was good stuff. Caught me off guard too...only I didn't have tea in my mouth. :) I've adopted the saying myself...just for shock value I think.

We just had a couple of days in the low nineties and loved it! I had been as high as 107 last week. Miserable. Glad I have an inside job too!

Fresno plummeted to 98 yesterday, down from 113 a day before. I think I may live through this yet :neutral:

P.S. T'Pau, Queen of the Universe, wants to know what's so funny about a melted pussy? It was a serious problem for window-sitters here last week :worried:

The level of nerdi-ness that one must get to before they say "Naw, RMS Volts" is something I don't want to know. Ditto most of xob's other posts.

But, ya know I luv's ya, right, brucie! ;)

Not very nerdy... one step beyond, the electric bill comes once a month. :lol: