Stupid Summer Heat, But It's Almost Fall???

[the ringo kid]

It really has not been a bad summer here just outside of Houston this year. A couple of days over 100 but none of the "let's see how many days in a row we can hit 100+" weeks like we normally have. Humidity is just a fact of life here, and it sure makes for a wonderful feeling when we get the first good front of the fall and have a few days of lower humidity.

I think it was 2014? when my area hit over 100++ for about three weeks in a row. Thankfully that Winter was just as cold as the Summer was hot.

I lived in Houston 14 months and couldnt believe they could be even more humid than Corpus.

 

[the ringo kid]

Well we actually got some rain the other night. The mountain behind the house had snow down to 6000 ft... Was 42 degrees this morning at about 0430, But it got to 82 today..61 right now at 2230. Going to be 70s this week till Thursday then the high will get to 50 or so. This summer we got to 100 about 4 times..but 66-70 at night by mornin.. We don't have or need A-C cept in the vehicles. We live right at 4200 ft and the sun can be brutal.....300 or more sunny days. Luckily we have irrigation because we get less moisture(rain/snow) than the Mojave desert. BTW the days it got to 100 or more this year the avg humidity was under 10%...more like 3-4%. Winter will be upon us soon enough

Official start of Fall-at least here, will be on Thursday @ 9:23 AM. Or so the Meteorologist said.

 

[sheepdawg]

Our students here, start school now in the first week of August. I felt so sorry for them in 90+ degrees and humidity through the the roof. Allot of the schools have crappy air conditioning. I don't feel as bad for them in the winter, even with crappy heaters. They can layer up.

I didn't have an air conditioned school till I hit college. I would have loved even crappy A/C. I can't say I feel very sorry for them.

Here's a little internet site that I found very interesting. I would figure every major city in the U.S. has a similar site. It should put to rest any debate you might have on the warming of the planet where you live, one way or the other.

MemphisWeather.Net (MWN) - Temperature Records for Memphis International Airport

I also did a little searching and found out the record high for Nashville on September 16 was 98 and that occured in 1927.

We're all tired of the heat and yes it makes us a little depressed or cranky but never the less we are tired of it come middle of September. This isn't anything new though it comes and goes in cycles. The global warming crowd will get my respect when they can tell me what the temperature 10 days from now will be. Then I might listen to their predictions for 50 years from now.

 

[kwselke]

Houston has four distinct seasons. They are called Winter, Spring, Summer, and July-August.

 

[vytoland]

dont like the hot weather??....relocate...summer = northwest territory...winter = northern montana.....

 

[Arik]

Aaaaaannnddd we're back! Not as bad as it was but the 75° and sunny is replaced by 90° and moderately humid

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[Farmer17]

The weather has been weird here in Oklahoma City and the weather forecasters don't even come close on their predictions. The last two summers we've had a lot of rain and didn't need to turn on our lawn sprinklers much at all. Right now everything is green and a little soggy and it's usually bone dry and yellow in the late summer. What's also weird is the sun seems more intense than it usually does. We went to watch the OSU Cowboys play the Pitt Panthers in football yesterday and it was only 85 degrees but the sun was intensely uncomfortable. We moved to some empty seats in a shaded area and it was then quite comfortable, it was kind of like being in Arizona on a hot day, the sun hurts your bare skin but being in the shade is not bad. Maybe our Ozone layer is shot?

 

[HalfStack]

How I know when the weather will change is from night time. When the nights gets cooler so will the days.

 

[GKC]

If you think it's hot now, in 3.5 billion years the sun will be 40% brighter, and all water on Earth will have boiled away! Start saving up bottled water now!

My wife and I have very, very different issues with hot and cold. She wants the thermostat set on 60 degrees. I'm OK with that during the winter, because I can put on enough clothes to be warm...my usual winter attire in the house is thermal underwear, a sweatsuit, sweater, bathrobe, and a knit cap, while my wife is in shorts and a tank top. The older I get, the colder I feel.

In the summer, we can't afford to keep the A/C set where she wants it, so I put a window unit in the bedroom, and turn the two central units to 85. She stays in the bedroom most of the time, while I'm in the rest of the house most of the time. My wife is disabled as a result of an accident in 2003, so I do the cooking...when I call her to the kitchen to eat, I have to turn the A/C on while we are eating. When we go to bed, she's got the corner of the sheet across one toe, while I have the electric blanket on.

 

[dougb1946]

Lake Superior is warming. Some of the Minnesota lakes known for Walleye
are warming, becoming bass fisheries. Vampire bats are moving north into Texas (that could ruin your sleep). Ocean ice packs are declining .(State of the Cryosphere | SOTC: Sea Ice | National Snow and Ice Data Center)
We are lucky that global warming is just a liberal invention, or we could be looking at future problems.

 

[Muley Gil]

Lake Superior is warming. Some of the Minnesota lakes known for Walleye
are warming, becoming bass fisheries. Vampire bats are moving north into Texas (that could ruin your sleep). Ocean ice packs are declining .(State of the Cryosphere | SOTC: Sea Ice | National Snow and Ice Data Center)
We are lucky that global warming is just a liberal invention, or we could be looking at future problems.

Oh, I don't doubt the weather is changing. I just don't believe MAN is the main cause. I remember reading a year or so back that ONE volcano throws out more particles in the air than scrubbers on smokestacks prevent in ten years or more.

 

[locolobo56]

skeet, that's why i'm looking for a place i n wyoming.
2 months over 100 is too much for me.
i'm now a believer in climate change,

But 2 months below 40 is too much for me and about 5 million others!

 

[bigwheelzip]

Oh, I don't doubt the weather is changing. I just don't believe MAN is the main cause.

Assuming your right about where the blame lies, the next question should be if MAN remains idle and helpless in the face of this hazard from nature, or does MAN rise to the challenge and try to influence positive change?

 

[Skeet 028]

Positive change would be a good thing. But anything we may do the nimby's will be fighting against...telling us we're screwing up

 

[the ringo kid]

It hit 99F here yesterday-was still in the 90s at 9PM. Today its expected to pass 100 F-actual temp.