US warns of 'dangerous' heat-wave

[kaneohegirl]

I have the same thing...

If its getting too warm I just go look at the the thermostat and decide if I want to overide it and if I do I push the button it doesnt make much difference in the coolness inside the house but it seems to help with the bills

[rb.]

Some relief may soon be coming to those of you to the east of me. Strong NW wind continues to blow, clear, cloudless skies, temp of 24C, humidity only 67%.

The humidex factor is 29 C
The humidex factor is 84F

[CanadaSue]

113 here with the humidity. I've never experienced that before in my life - don't think I care to again. Unfortunately, tomorrow we may see the same thing. My wo day jobs were hell - especially the afternoon... a/c was broken & they live in a heat sink. It was 104 in the house.

Int the shower - leave for my final job today in an hour. We're all crashing in my SD's room tonight. She's got the a/c.

[Exodia]

We are sitting at 104 right now. Still a couple of hours of afternoon sun to go. Think we already shattered our record for this date.

[flourbug]

DD says it is 106.3 where she is at the moment, in Nutley, NJ.

81 here in FL... our afternoon rainstorm is strolling on by.

[Exodia]

PECO took my company offline, so we are on generator...which means no air. Getting a little "close" in here.

[rb.]

Originally Posted by flourbug

DD says it is 106.3 where she is at the moment, in Nutley, NJ.

81 here in FL... our afternoon rainstorm is strolling on by.

Seriously? 81? It's 90 here right now, and we're out of the atrocious humidity for the moment. I never went to Florida in the summer because I thought it was too hot!

[flourbug]

Seriously. Storm just rolled through. At noon it was 95 with a 112 heat index, 57% humidity (which is pretty much normal for this time of year). Now its cooler but muggy. It will go back up to mid 80s - 90ish in an hour or so.

Summers up north SUCK. I was born on Labor Day. It was 102 F. My daughter was born Aug 13. The year she was born we had 14 days in a row when it was over 100 F. This heat is nothing new. It is actually cooler and definitely nicer (IMO) in Florida - our summers just last twice as long.

[flourbug]

Carlstadt, NJ, Temperature: 102.F Heat Index:142F
Montclair, NJ Temperature: 113.5F Heat Index:134F

At what point does blood boil?

[penguinzee]

Reports of outages in NYC, where it's 102°F, highest ever recorded temp... check that, 104° with a heat warning as of this posting...

And yeah, while it's been VERY hot up north, it has been warmer than normal down here too-normal is 90-91, and there's been a lot of 93, 94, 95s lately, along with the humidity...

I'm going up to Montreal next week, I'm hoping it'll have cooled off a bit by then...

Franc (penguinzee)

[rb.]

Don't know about boiling blood, but a doc on the news said heat stroke starts when the body reaches 40C, which is 104F. Just don't know how much the humidity accelerates body temp's rise. You would think day after day of it, with no nightly relief, would do it eventually. And he wasn't talking heat exhaustion, he was talking heat stroke, as in death.

[rb.]

Franc, don't count on it being much cooler...Environment Canada says the central part of the country is in for a long haul with this heat...right through August.

[Exodia]

INSIDE conditions of 84F, 76% humidity. The hallway floor is becoming pretty slick.

[Twoolf]

Originally Posted by flourbug

our afternoon rainstorm is strolling on by.

They are getting drenched 2 miles from here, but not a drop for us. At least we're used to the temps and humidity down here. Those poor folks up north.........

[CanadaSue]

Franc - showers Monday & Tuesday; highs respectively 75 & 70. Nightly lows in the mid-60s. Mixed sun & cloud Wednesday. Here's the Environment Canada forecast page for Montreal:

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/forec...?qc-147&unit=i

[Auburn Boy]

Has anyone heard that Rush Limbaugh claims this is nothing "unusual?" That the heat index was invented so the lefties could inflate the supposed dangers of "global warming?" Shudder...,

[Ought Six]

Originally Posted by Auburn Boy

Has anyone heard that Rush Limbaugh claims this is nothing "unusual?"

He is quite correct.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/0...e-perspective/

[flourbug]

The highest I recall in NJ was 110. It broke that record today with 113 in Montclair. But 100+ temps are NOT unusual at all. In fact every few years we seemed to get a few days of 100+ temperatures. I was born during a heat wave. I very distinctly remember a severe heat wave in 1972 and 1984. I'm not talking about a day or two, these were a week - 10 days with 100+ days and nights over 75. As bad as it was on the east coast, the midwest fared far worse. A heatwave killed hundreds in 1988, and 750 people died in Chicago alone in 1995.

[rb.]

I remember a night in the mid 80s where it was 34c/93F, out at the airport station, long after dark. That was pre-humidex days. I also remember stretches in the summer that were so hot that even out in the country, Mom had to give me Nyquil to be able to fall asleep. That would have been early 70s. I spent a good part of the summers in the 70s suffering from what Mom called sun stroke.

[Mama Alanna]

And here I was going to fuss about a little sunburn crossing Colorado/Wyoming.

Gods only know what the house is going to feel like when we get home.

[Auburn Boy]

Originally Posted by flourbug

Carlstadt, NJ, Temperature: 102.F Heat Index:142F
Montclair, NJ Temperature: 113.5F Heat Index:134F

At what point does blood boil?

Blood is thicker than water, so I hear..,

[Auburn Boy]

Originally Posted by Ought Six

He is quite correct.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/0...e-perspective/

"Quite correct."

About the invention of the heat index. Maybe.

About this NOT being an extraordinary heat wave. He is so full of it I smell it from here..,

Simply the sheer number of local records broken this week IS unusual, and possibly extraordinary.

[Auburn Boy]

Heat Wave Shatters 2,852 U.S. Records, Kills Eight

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/...s-kills-eight/

I like the picture of the record locations they post..,



Another article calls this:

US Heat Wave Worst Since 1995

http://www.newser.com/story/123932/u...ince-1995.html

I thought 1995 was pretty bad.

And there's:

Deaths mount in US heat wave

Well, it's not 800 deaths, or the 750 in 1995, but that's credited to better communications and dissemination of the warnings..,

http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/wave-j22.shtml

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but sounds a bit on the "extraordinary" side to me..,

I'm glad we're living where we do and it's only 90 deg and 35% humidity here.

[Auburn Boy]

And I'm not the only one thinking Rush Limbaugh is a bit on the crazy side.

So, the heat wave is a government conspiracy? The "heat index" is a tool of the left to hype global warming..,

Limbaugh: The Killer 116° Heat Index Is ‘Manufactured By The Government’

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/...he-government/

I was listening to Limbaugh the other day when he ranted this rant..,

Read the article, you may see my point. (Or maybe you won't. I'll flip a coin..,)

[rb.]

Originally Posted by Auburn Boy

"Quite correct."

About the invention of the heat index. Maybe.

About this NOT being an extraordinary heat wave. He is so full of it I smell it from here..,

Simply the sheer number of local records broken this week IS unusual, and possibly extraordinary.

However...if you look at the heatwaves over the last hundred years, or so, you should take migration patterns into account. With those migration patterns come larger cities, therefore larger heat islands. A heatwave in the 1930s for many(rural) wouldn't reach the temps the cities did, as there was little around to hold the heat, allowing it to build day after day. Forget global warming and carbon emissions...maybe it's all the fault of we urban dwellers, with our concrete and asphalt.