North American Heat wave

[Codythemonkey 0]

Sorry if this topic was brought up already but if you live in North America, the heat is rising. 

The Western part of the United States got hit with tepmeratures over 100F (over 37C) 

Both Coasts are breing affected. The heat is spreading toward the east giving New York City and Washington D.C. a temperature of 100F. 

Reno, Nevada, reached 108 (42 ºC) on July 5 breaking the previous record of 100 ºF (38 ºC).

At 116 (47 ºC), Las Vegas, Nevada, was one degree shy of its all-time record set in 2005 and 1942.

St. George, Utah, unofficially reached 118 (48 ºC) on July 5, which would be the highest temperature ever-recorded in Utah.

Eastern Oregon set 15 different record highs on July 5.

The combination of conditions have forced major freeway closures, animal and human deaths, evacuations, and destruction of property.

In central Utah, the largest wildfire in state history has consumed 283,000 acres (114,526 hectares) and forced the closure of I-15 and I-70.

I live near New York city and they are saying the high today is supposed to be 99F

It will cool down by wednesday but this heat wave is sizzling alot of the US.

[manimal_uk 0]

Thats some crazy weather!

some sun and hot weather sounds ideal to me at the min, being in the UK we have had some crazy weather. Dryest and warmest April since records began in 1659, South-east and eastern England had next to no rain, prompting fears of another drought.

Totals for April were 2mm, around 5% of average rainfall and then we had the wettest June ever but with June temps still above average.

[Codythemonkey 0]

texas had some heavy rain too and that caused alot of flooding. They finally got everything under control and the waters are staring to recede.

[MrFingers 0]

I live in manhattan and it is definitely warm.

[jimmy92233 0]

I am a southern Californian and OMG it's HOT...todays high is expected to be at 110 degrees, but that's normal around here. I just don't want August to come around because that's when it gets the hottest and most humid. The weather here in the summer is UNBEARABLE! If you live down here, you can always expect the mercury to reach well into the 120's during the summer...

[Jazzmaster 716]

I'm living in Florida where half the year (or more) is like a heat wave. If it makes its way over here I might scream. Ah, well. I'm off to take a mid-afternoon bike ride now!

[blueflame13 1]

I live in eastern Idaho and ya the temperatures here have been in the 90s or 100s almost the whole summer.

[hawkpride147 1]

last week las vegas hit a new all time record high temperature...128

[Za 164]

Dang, and I thought it was HOT here. I'm up by L. Ontario in New York and it's over 90 in the shade. In the sun, it's probably near 95. Here, it rarely gets over 95.

[Micah 16]

I live in Texas so I never complain. I always (always!) ride my bike everyday from around 7pm to about 9pm and even though it's cooking outside, I don't mind. All I do is wear sunglasses, bring a bottle of flavored water, and I'm set! But to tell you the truth, it's actually been below temperatures down here. It's mainly been about 83 to 87F this whole summer. However, it appears that the everyday rainfall will leave this upcoming week which means smoking hot temperatures.

[Codythemonkey 0]

Originally posted by: Micah I live in Texas so I never complain. I always (always!) ride my bike everyday from around 7pm to about 9pm and even though it's cooking outside, I don't mind. All I do is wear sunglasses, bring a bottle of flavored water, and I'm set! But to tell you the truth, it's actually been below temperatures down here. It's mainly been about 83 to 87F this whole summer. However, it appears that the everyday rainfall will leave this upcoming week which means smoking hot temperatures.quote>

 

well last month it was below average in texas but they predicted above average around most of the US.

[Easy Bakes 253]

After 40 somthing straight days of rain in N texas the last few days have been

more normal temps.

but much more humid and mosquitoy.

[confused04 14]

It got up to 99 in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area before a SWEET round of thunderstorms moved in and dropped the temperatures to normal, and now they are falling below normal. The weather is fantastic.

[Codythemonkey 0]

Tomorrow there's supposed to be rain here and cool it off down to the mid-80's  Thank god.

As seen as you go outside it's like you just walked into an oven

[Haljackey 17,270]

Holy Crap! In the Great "White" North (AKA Canada), temperatures hit 43 degrees with the humidity where I live. My little Igloo is melting LOL... Thats global warming 4 ya!

[ExiL3 10]

well you lucky bastards, the weather over here sucks sooooo bad.

[Godzillaman 21]

Its hot in southern Ontario (Canada)!

[spa 968]

I wish just a taste of that would make it here to Atlantic Canada. In Nova Scotia it has been a mix of sun and cloud every single day it seems for the last few weeks. Chance of showers is just perpetual. Hard to do a day at the beach when it could alternatively cloud and rain or clear up at any moment.

[Duke87 1,070]

When I went outside at about 8:50 this morning to walk to class and noticed it was already hot out, I knew today was gonna be a hot one (I'm in The Bronx).

Still, there were a few days in August last year where it broke 100.... but that was August. It's only July 10 now.... so normally that'd mean the worst of the baking is yet to come.

I know up by my house (In Stamford, CT, not that far from NYC) in the woods there are these crazy 2-3 feet tall weeds that pop up all over the place in April-May every year. Very green, and with small white flowers on top. Then, come August, they all die, lose their leaves, and go brown.

See, the reason August tends to be the hottest month around here is not only because then it's had all summer to warm up, but because it's generally drier, so not as much rain to cool things off.

[hawkpride147 1]

luckily, here in north texas, we have yet to hit 100...i hope it stays that way all summer. now if we could just get the temps back into the 80's where they were or get rid of this blasted humidity. lol.

[writingliberty 0]

I live near San Diego, CA and last week was really hot - the last couple days have been cooler but still over 95 once you get a few miles in from the beaches....

The odd part is that usually this type of heat comes with our "Santa Ana" windstorms (which are reverse direction of our usual wind pattern, a very strong wind off the desert instead of a soft breeze from the ocean). With this heat wave, though, the wind is almost nonexistent, and what we do have is still coming from the ocean.

It's also been very dry - I heard on the news last week that Los Angeles (about 125 miles northwest of me) had less than 25% of its average annual rainfall over this last winter... about 3.2 inches (about 10 cm?) instead of 14 inches (about 40 cm?). And that San Diego actually got less than that (because sometimes winter storms slide north-to-south along the coast then deflect eastward over the land, and occasionally San Diego will get one or two storms less than L.A.)

[Codythemonkey 0]

Well storms are starting to move in for the eastern part of the US. A storm is heading for my direction. It will finally start cooling down

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Duke87 I know up by my house (In Stamford, CT, not that far from NYC) in the woods there are these crazy 2-3 feet tall weeds that pop up all over the place in April-May every year. Very green, and with small white flowers on top. Then, come August, they all die, lose their leaves, and go brown.

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Sounds like wild carrot.

 

[+Guest]

I live in northern Idaho and by thursday we are supposed to hit 105 which is about the high that it gets in august but then by next thursday its suppose to be about 85 with thunderstorms. My prediction is that once this heat wave is over then fairly major storms will be bombarding the whole west coast. Its bound to happen with all that heat warming up the ocean, where will all the evaporation go?

And bluflame13.. what city in Idaho do you live in? I live by Coeur d' Alene in the panhandle.

[DuskTrooper 314]

OMFREAKINGZOYSIAGRASSANDOOMYCETES! Al Gore was right!

/sarcasm

Anyway, on a serious note, the three straight weeks of rain finally stopped, and the ground is drying up now. We had temperatures approximately 10 degrees below seasonal averages during the rains, but now, we are nearly back to normal. Thankfully, however, we are not experiencing record highs like most of the rest of the nation.

[Sirithil 1]

Originally posted by: haljackey Holy Crap! In the Great "White" North (AKA Canada), temperatures hit 43 degrees with the humidity where I live. My little Igloo is melting LOL... Thats global warming 4 ya!quote>

No... no it's not. As any environmentalist will haughtily point out when you mention the winter we had, weather is not climate.

On another note, any word on where exactly that ridiculously busy hurricane season is that all these climate wizards were breathlessly insisting we would have this year? ...or, for that matter, last year?

Wow. Maybe the models are...wrong?

[autoVino 26]

Maybe the hurricanes just got mighty scared of all this hot weather...

But where I live, we get rain, and once it passes, it's like 33 degreese c with 99% humidity... can't breathe outside with that much water

[Codythemonkey 0]

lol they did predict a severe hurricane season for 2007. Wonder what happened?

[Barbarossa 51]

It seems to me (and no, I am not trying to engage a Global Warming conversation), that things are going a bit haywire. Some places are getting excessive rain (OK, TX, MO, etc) and others are facing drought and extreme temperatures. Yet others are seeing amazing typhoons and hurricanes. I don't know whether we are doing it, or if it is a cycle, or even if it is a cycle that is being enhanced by us. I just think that we have to get ready for it to be a regular occurrence. Don't like the heat? Don't like the rain? Maybe we should just get ready to deal with it.

BTW, when I say weather is getting irregular... It has been very erratic in the East Bay (CA). One day, it was 104, the next day it was 99, then, strangely, on the third day, it was 72. Go figure, I sure can't. In fact, today it is cloudy... in July... this is totally abnormal. I mean, clouds, in California, in Summer!

Barbarossa

[Codythemonkey 0]

we finally have a front moving into the east coast and mid-atlantic area. It will vring temps down to the mid 80's