Not here in Florida, it's only 93, but other places. People who don't know complain about how hot it is in Florida. Fact, it's never been over 99 degrees in Tampa ever.

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98' with fairly high humidity. After work , the thermometer in my truck (parked in sun all day) said 130'.

94 here, 62% hunidity, no palmetto's

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99 degrees and 70% humidity!

Hot enough for me!

rags

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I just looked. It's 100 degrees but only 16% humidity. Looks like I'll be weedeating late tonight.

102°, feels like 112°, hot!

I think your humidistat is broke! Or we're in a vein of humidity from hell! Should be better tomorrow. If it ever gets back down to 80F it'll feel like 60!

rags

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"You know something’s wrong when getting rid of Palmetto bugs shows up in the “home safety” category".... Now
Welcome to Florida>>>>

And you thought I was going to post a picture

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I keep ALL my humidity in one place..

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It's 75 here in Murfreesboro. We just had a much needed shower and the temperature dropped from 97 to 75 in about 30 minutes. Don

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It is 94F with 65% humidity a dew point of 78F and it is a level orange ozone action day. Bubble head on the TV weather says it feels like 105F. So hot the chickens are laying poached eggs

Nope. It is unusual for around here but it's been a clear blue sky all day. Both my dial and digital read 16%. It's now 101.3 degrees.
The heck with the weedeating! Got the AC running and it's a cool 76 degrees inside

Aw darn Sal, now you've gone and done it. Your pool is prettier than mine. Makes me so mad I think I'll go out and squash some palmetto bugs. Mike, you wanna join me?

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Damn! That looks inviting!!

rags

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Whatcha' vacuuming up there Sal?

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They're too crunchy, thanks, but I'll pass.

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I was going to complain about the heat then I realized: 1. it isn’t 125 degrees; 2. I’m not 5,700 mi from home; 3. I’m not dressed in a full ACU uniform & helmet and carrying 70+ lbs.; 4. I'm not eating MREs (I can stop at any restaurant or grocery that I want); and 5. it's unlikely that anyone will shoot at me or that I might drive over a bomb in the road today! Thanks to all who serve. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

HEAT WAVES CAUSES RANCHERS TO SELL BARBECUE DIRECTLY FROM THE FIELD

Ranchers in southern states hit be sweltering heat are selling
fully cooked barbecue right from the livestock.
"We let the customer choose the cattle and then we hose it down
with sauce and send it out into the fields. Within twenty minutes
the barbecue is piping hot and ready to eat," said a Texas rancher.
Barbecue restaurants are crying foul over the direct sales of the
product to the public.
"This damn heat wave is killing the cattle and our business. We
can't compete with the lower overhead of the rancher when we provide
our customers with a table, chairs and fan as well as swat flies,"
said waitress Flo Moore of the "Greasy Fat Dripping Spoon" restaurant
in Amarillo.
The heat has also changed business for farmers who are using their
former crop fields as giant baking pans for brownies.
"It's the only way I can put my land and this hellish heat to any
use so I'm baking white chocolate, espresso brownies with macadamia
nuts for those rip-off coffee houses, said a farmer in Oklahoma.

GF

The local news station (WTOP) in DC spent all day today telling people how dangerous the heat was today ("it's 95 but feels like 119") and all I could think of what Gun-runner posted. Maybe putting the heat into perspective would give everyone a better appreciation of the sacrifices our troops are making over there.

I went through worse in SE Asia 1968-1969 and didn't get to sleep in an air conditioned bedroom then.
It's been so hot here in Central NJ that it reminds of a Paul Bunyan (?) story I read as a kid. One summer it was so hot they sawed the heat into blocks, stored it, brought it out in the winter for warmth.
June 28, 1778-the Battle of Monmouth was fought in 90 degree heat.

It's cooling down a bit but a couple days ago it was so hot slurry bombers were spreading fire retardent on my property, we were ordered to leave, and fire units were stationed at every house in the canyon which was surrounded on three sides with a forest fire.

After watching the volunteer firemen in 100 degree temps, whom don't know me from squat, volunteering to keep my home safe, at risk to their own lives while I set in an Air Conditioned Camper at the fair grounds, I'll never complain about the heat again.

It's so hot the Texas Legislature has passed a law adding saying "Hot enough for ya?" to the list of legal reasons to kill someone.

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Just walked in from grilling lunch , and the thermometer said 106' in the shade. The air conditioners are having a tough time of it , especially on the sunny side of the house.

Here in central NJ ,( I'm 1 1/2 miles from the ocean) it's 100 w/ 47% humidity, with a heat index of 117.

94 here with 65% humidity.
A fellow just told me the chicken farmers are giving the chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs....

65 degrees, and on off raining for the last week. Washington, the evergreen state

I have had to turn the heater on, two cups of coffee. Makes reading my Economics book a joy.

here on the east coast (DE) it is usually pretty humid this time of year, but this is ridiculous - I watered the tomatoes etc, walked around the yard a bit and was soaking wet with sweat - now just hunkered down in the AC, hoping that we don't lose power.

Here's a local weather screen shot from a few minutes ago - happy to see that we'll be cooling off down to 90 deg tonight!!

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its so hot here the birds are eatin worms with oven mittens!!!!!!

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110 degrees...3:00 pm

I am with Diamondbacks on this one. I used to complain about how hot it was in central fL, AND THEN I WENT TO RICHMOND VA. All around, the worst climate I have ever lived in, including the Me Kong Delta. The reason being, it is not only extreme-both summer and winter-but unpredictable and unstable. In the middle of the day-let's say fall-you can go out for a MC ride in shirt sleves, and within an hour-it's 20-30 degrees colder! It's nothing to see 100 for 10 days at a time in summer, and in the winter, it gets 5 degrees with 95% humidity-and that's without any real precipitation-just kind a bone chilling haze in the air. Anyone who does anything outside in the winter has to be totaly clothed in Thinsulate-from the draws out, and even then it's rough. I kissed the ground when I got back here after 11 months, and I haven't fussed about the weather since that I can recall. People who have lived here a long time, as we have, get spoiled and take for granted what other people travel long distances to pay long bucks to experience. Nuff said. Flapjack.

Thanks flapjack, that's exactly what I meant, but you were so much more eloguent in stating it. I've lived in several places in the USA, mostly in the midwest and east and on a yearly basis, I will take Florida weather any day, hands down. My granddaughter was down here for a weeks vacation in Jax and Clearwater (Snot didn't stop by to see her Grandma or me tho) and it was cooler here all week than in her hometown of Baltimore. Go Gators!

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News said that the overnite low is gonna be about 87'.

I'm with ya 'Flap', can't complain about the heat here in FL. I've spoke to friends back up in NY in March, it's nice about 80 here in FL, it's 40 and drizzling back there, "I'm glad I'm down here where it's nice and warm", speak to the same person a few months later, it's 90 here, it's 100 or better up there, "I'm glad I'm down here in FL where its cooler"

Yes it's hot here in So.Fla.The humidity is high and we're getting T-Storms.Usually we get a beach breeze but this time of year not much.Today my white T shirt was soaked from sweat to the point that I wrung it out.

Yep,It's a wet heat.

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You live too far south. I live in central Florida and it never got over 89, then when the showers came through this afternoon, it was down to 75. I love it!

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Just drove from SE Tennessee to Michigan. Temps have been in the mid 90's in TN but was 102 when we arrived in MI. The difference was humidity. MI was hot, but low H and there was a breeze. I was comfortable! All in all, I prefer the 'Deadly Heat Wave' in the midwest to a normal Tennessee summer. Bunchasissies!

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About 107 today. Will be in that range for the next two months or so. Califonia desert. It is only when it gets 117 for 2 or 3 days in a row that it really starts to be a big drag.

It's so hot that my neighbors cow spontaneously combusted.

It's so hot and dry here that, yesterday, my buddy caught a catfish that had ticks on it ! ! !....

During one of his tours in Iraq, my son sent me several pictues that included a thermometer showing 119 degrees and those kids going about their daily tasks in full battle gear. And the tv talking heads stir panic over weather in the 90's....

It's so hot down here that I saw 2 trees fighting over a dog..
Hell, everything's so hot the squirrels are burning their paws when they pick up their nuts.

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