Too Hot To Work

[pdub]

It's been cloudy and cool here

Hopefully it will warm up soon although I'm sure some of you
would enjoy this weather compared to the heat some of you are
suffering through. Here's the 10 day forecast for the Portland area.

 

[saltysam]

cloudy and cool here

Pdub.........all of here in the midwest would love to have that kind of weather right now......

 

[tolivac]

The ehat is also giving us trouble with our transmitters-and its HOT working in one to fix it-working against hot parts is no fun!The tubes and other parts store heat and takes a long time to disapate.So far one still down but working on it-fixed one yesterday.A bad circuit board-probably heat related.

 

[58limited]

I'm outside working on a storage shed that I'm building. Temp is 100 degrees with 45% humidity (thats low humidity for here, folks). I work about 20 - 30 minutes, then come in for about 20 minutes and drink lots and lots of water. Honestly, we usually don't get to 100 that often here near the coast. Tomorrow is supposed to be 103 - hottest its ever been in the eight years I've lived here, and I'll be roofing the shed - with black shingles! Oh, Joy!

To think, 20 years ago this month I was in basic training at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, wearing dark green battle dress uniforms in the 115 degree heat (at least it was a dry heat). Amazing how an extra 20 years can change how well you tolerate the heat!

 

[appnut]

Currently it's 98 witha "feels like" temp of 107. Forecasted high is 102, the hottest day of the year. All the rain is gone, which had kept temperatures down.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Relatively nice summer weather here now, August usually is more comfortable than July with the sun thankfully not setting at 10pm anymore there is less time to heat up the city. Now I get to look forward to my most favorite months, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec and Jan are the ones I look forward to and enjoy weather watching the most.

About 3am on Saturday morning we woke up to huge constant flashes of lightening and loud thunder that last almost an hour. I just love wild thunderstorms, granted they are more fun when they happen at 7pm so you can watch them coming.

 

[~sudsshane]

Those temps sound so nice Robert!

Still incredibly hot here in Florida!

 

[~sudsshane]

South Florida is not as hot..

But, I know that after living in Ft Lauderdale for several years.

 

[whirlcool]

Yesterday we went to see the Harry Potter movie at the local IMAX.
1:50 minutes into the movie, the theater goes black. A few minutes later the house lights turn on and a guy comes in the back of the theater and tells us that the theater is now running on emergency generators and that if the power doesn't come back on within 10 minutes, they will issue us readmittance tickets good for a showing on another day. Well, the movie never did come back on.
The worst part about this is that we have to sit thru the movie again just to see the ending! Oh well. Maybe we'll catch things in the movie the second time around that we didn't see the first time.
What I thought was kind of neat was that the theater had about 80% of it's lighting on during the power failure. Usually in places you just get a light or two during a power failure. But when we got out of the theater, the IKEA next door also didn't have any power as well as all the street signal lights.
I guess when it's 102F outside, the power grid really takes a beating!
BTW, has anyone here seen this movie in the IMAX 3D version? How good are the 3D effects? The movie quit just before we got to that part.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Ohhhh we are just about to get slammed, the lightening is just starting to get intense and the storm is still 30 miles out! I LOVE THIS!

 

[decodriveboy]

South Florida Humidity and Heat!

It is funny--we are warmed by the Gulf Stream in the winter, and cooled by it in summer down here. Temperatures in Miami/Fort Lauderdale hover around 85 degrees more or less year round, with a significant drop in humidity during the winter months. Summer nights can actually stay in the 80s as well; winters they are in the 60s and 70s.

I am a person who loves hot weather, which is one of the reasons I moved here, but this summer has been brutally steamy and unbearable to the point where I wont leave my house until late afternoon on some days. Even then, it's still excruciating until after the sun sets.

 

[petek]

Thankfully it cooled off a bit today mid 70's. Sunday afternoon/evening was awful, not that it was hot hot maybe in the mid to 80's but the humidity made it probably one of the worst days so far I think.. Reethy cancelled her show in Detroit Sunday night. Two people here in our little berg died the previous weekend when the temps were in the 90's helped along by the fact that neither had an a/c. They were both on disability and lived across the hall from each other..It wasn't that they couldn't afford the airconditioners, people had offered them, but here in Ontario landlords can tack on an additional $50 per month to the rent in the summer if you run an air conditioner and those folks couldn't afford it.

 

[sudsmaster]

I can't complain...

But today (the first day of a 1 week vacation) I set about clearing out the clutter in the carport and shop. So I was working outside a fair amount, moving heavy washers, old gas ranges, and shop equipment around, and actually got overheated. Temp here was in the 70's.

Tomorrow is supposed to be a bit warmer but I think it will be just fine. My main worry is getting everything reorganized and cleaned up so I can start using the workshop as a workshop.

 

[Unimatic1140]

OMG THE STORM IS SO INTENSE, look at the picture I just took, the hail is pelting the house and the lightening is coming one every second or two!

 

[DADoES]

<blockquote>...but here in Ontario landlords can tack on an additional $50 per month to the rent in the summer if you run an air conditioner and those folks couldn't afford it.</blockquote>I assume that means the landlord pays the electric. If the tenant pays his own electric, and the landlord can still raise the rent ... that ain't right!

 

[sudsmaster]

I love lightning too...

But we only get it at most once or twice a year. Often this will happen in August or September, for a late summer storm. Not a lot of rain, but dramatic thunder and lightning. Usually in our winter rain storms, there's no lightning. Which is fine with me, as it reduces the chances of power outtages and phone line surges.

Right now I have half my collection out in the open, outside, and the other half will follow tomorrow. So if there's no lightning or rain for the next few days... that's just fine with me!

 

[DADoES]

Still kinda warm this eve. 10 PM, 86°F.