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It got up to 96 degrees in Auburn, and where I was working today in a school, I had to replace 75 Ballast in the classrooms fixtures on the 3rd floor with the sun shinning through the windows and it was 112 at 12:00 noon. I told the guys to take the rest of the day off. Way to hot.:eek:
I hear you; I take care of a 21 story office building in downtown St Louis. My chillers and cooling tower were maxed out today!
96 here in northern NJ today as well. Higher temps expected tomorrow. Wednesday will be the killer as the humidity level is supposed to hover around 85-90%...ripe weather for a really good set of thunderstorms if you ask me.
Hey could be worse, we could be in the desert like some of our buddies, the news said 116 in vegas, it was 109 in my home town in cali the other day, granted they do not have the 95-100% humidity like us fla guys have.
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Oh, yeah!! I know we're in the desert, and it's s'posed to get hot here, but this is getting sort of old. We are into our third week of 105 plus days, with the last ten all over 110 - one more, and it will be a new record for the longest stretch of +110 days. Once it gets over about 105, it is just plain hot, and not a lot of fun, anymore. And, that's just the official temp; on my patio, with the metal roof, the temper-o-meter has gotten to 120 and some better.
A very nice 88 degrees here yesterday, but Humidex readings of 105 degrees. Nice cruising weather for roadsters.
Supposed to be mid 90's in the Seattle area by tomorrow!
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Originally Posted by brianrupnow
Yes, but us desert rats don't have ice skates hanging on the back porch wall so's we can get the mail in the winter....:LOL:
Its funny---I've been a hotrodder all my life, and I could never understand why all the cars in the hotrod (read California) magazines made such a big thing about "air conditioning". I always thought "Those American boys must be a bunch of Pussies---air conditioning in a hotrod---How Ridiculous!!!!"---Then last summer my wife and I were in Nevada, California, and Arizona for 3 weeks during July and August. WOW!!! All I can say us---I UNDERSTAND NOW!!! In 61 years of living in Ontario, Canada, I have never experienced heat like that. My apologies for everything I ever thought about air conditioned hotrods.---Brian
I got off a plane in Las Vegas one time, and it was 118, but it is a "dry" heat. Yeah, so is an oven !!! :D :D :D
It's only been in the 90's here, but the humidity is murder. Every couple of days I keep refilling the fridge at the shop with bottled water.
Don
Actually, being in the commercial A/C compressor re-manufacturing business I LOVE the heat! We freeze all winter rebuilding these things just praying for a hot summer to pay our winter bills.
Here in the upper mid-atlantic it was a toasty 96 yesterday, and expecting a comforting 100 today! :eek: Tomorrow supposed to be only 94 with a fair chance of thunderstorms. I love rain, but you can keep the thunderstorms and the lightning. Two lighting strikes last year on the homestead where quite enough, thank you!. :eek:
Suppose to be 79 by Saturday, just in time for cruise night.:D :D
Itold youso, When BIL/SIL in texas tell me on 113 degree day in San Antonio"Its dry heat" I tell them tell that to the Pillsbury Doughboy in the oven.
I heard on the news yesterday, 132* in Death Valley. I've been to Death Valley once in the springtime and it hit 100+ and with the below sea level air pressure the heat it is quite different than anything you'll experience elsewhere. The hottest weather I ever experienced personally is 121* in Redding , CA.
We drove through that area one August in about 1980, driving a U Haul truck. My Son was with me, and it was like 120 degrees, with no a/c in the truck. I see him looking around on the floor and asked what he was looking for, and he said he thought he had spilled the drink out of his glass because it was gone. He hadn't spilled it, the stuff had evaporated in the heat!!!:eek: :eek: But it's a dry heat. :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hidebinder
Don
Hidebinder I know what you mean about death valley. Went there about 20 years ago just before they close it because of the heat and at the top it was 65 and on the dried floor bed it was 113.
War Stories:
When I reported to Millington, TN, at the Naval Air Station in July, 1960, the average overnight temp was in the high eighties or low nineties. There were fans in the barracks, but on my first night there, I sweat so much that I woke up and thought I had wet myself; the mattress squished, it was so wet.
In late summer of 1968, I was on a crew that was sent to Death Valley to make repairs on a power line that had been knocked down in a storm. We had to work at night with flood lights, because it was too hot during the day - even at night, on the valley floor between Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells, it was over a hundred degrees; and if the breeze got up too much, it actually felt cool.
Here's some food for thought.......How come you guys in snow country get a snow day or the city shuts down because of the weather???? we have to keep going even when people are dropping like flies here? Yeah yeah, I know it's a "dry" heat...........my butt. I don't whine or complain, I just like toying with different attitudes when it comes to the weather. Cool part is, for all of us, it still only lasts a short time. By the way, I have shoveled frozen snow and ice at 4 in the morning when the temp was 16 below with a wind chill of 36 below. I love all weather and it's changing conditions. I just don't want my premiums to skyrocket because of the claim.:LOL:
Nitro, I think you have a legitmate beef about having hot days off, but you need to take it to a different level. When it gets two hot in some areas in Florida they shut the schools down, why not in Arizona? If it's too hot to go to school, it must be too hot to work.:LOL: :LOL:
Amen brother.....why not? Too funny how this world goes around.
Thermometers in Arizona start at 100 degrees.
They do close the Phoenix and Tucson airports when it gets
too hot because the planes cant take off.
mike in tucson
I saw 215 on my car today for the first time! Running in 92 degree in the S Fla humidity (with the A/C on Brianrupnow). THis is with a headmounted sensor so its reading aprox. 10 higher than the manifold sensor mount. I just found out about the sensor location and checked it with a gun on my other car. Readings with the gun, head 210, manifold 200, top of the radiator tank 190 on a similiarily hot day.
Hot's hot - but, that humee-diddy is what wrecks me. When I was younger, it was just a bit uncomfy, but I don't think my ol' wrecked bod could handle too much of it, now; I think I'll just stick with the good ol' dry desert. ;) :toocool:
You know it's hot in Phoenix when you see a guy in a lowrider Chevy with a chain steering wheel driving with oven mitts!**) :LOL: