Time to talk about The Weather
 

I mean, WTF? risk of frost in August? Did I relocate in my sleep? Am I actually now in Wogga Wogga, Australia or BFE Alaska?

These temps are in centigrade, people, lest you think it's even colder than it is. which would be almost freaking impossible.


WORST. SUMMER. WEATHER. EVER.

well, at least since I moved here. humph.

I'm sure any one of our Texan or Arizonan dwellars would be happy to trade for a few days!

You betcha! God, I am soooooo tired of the heat. And we didn't even get much rain this summer to cool things off.

Sooo tired of HOT, dammit!

i'm sooo ready for our week of winter down here! last month prepping a cessna 172 for painting i thought i was gonna die! it was around 100 degrees or more daily. i think it averaged 103 with heat indexes of about 115. almost heat stroked a couple of times....

We just didn't get "hot" at all this summer. great news for the electric bill, but otherwise.... :( i've gone all nesh yankee now -I used to think 60 was hot and a cue to wear shorts. now I'm contemplating sweatpants when it gets as low as 75 :lol:

Not only is it hot, but we're in such a drought that the city council ruled that starting August 24th, restaurants must not serve water with meals until the customer requests it.

wow, that's insane

To be fair, it's pretty much standard practice here to serve a big 24-36 oz. glass of water to everyone at the table, but then most people order a soda or whathaveyou anyway, so it is a fair amount of wasted water. Plus, you know, it's Austin, so they're all into the symbolic gestures.

they should place a bottle of water, and then if unopened they can reuse it. In biodegradable environmentally-friendly recycled-paper bottles of course ;)

It's been cool in Chicago. I'm enjoying it. I prefer cooler weather.

5 centigrade in August is not cool. it's cold. it's 40 degrees in your strange American units. 40. as in 8 above freezing. in August. usually, we still have to sunblock the kids and make sure their shorts are long enough to meet regulation as they go back to school -which doesn't happen for another two weeks!

But that's the low, isn't it? That's the temperature at 5 AM.

yup. Should be about 70 then.

ok 60. I just checked and 60 is the average low. We may even set a record -the lowest on record is 39 for this time of year! Set in 1915. I told you it was cold!

I just checked. Ann Arbor is just a little farther north than Chicago -- and our forcast calls for lows ~ 60F. I wonder why you guys are so much colder? Are you normally colder than Chicago?