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I'm in NZ and I have been commenting all winter that this year has been comparatively mild. Mid-winter and I go for walks along the local beach and regularly see people in shorts and T-Shirts. Although right now it is only 12 deg C at lunch time which is somewhat cooler than the T-Shirt days I mentioned.
Well, the temperature dropped 15° this afternoon because a line of thunderstorms passed by...
I was on the North shore of the island when that happened and it rained pretty hard there for almost 45 minutes... back on the South shore where I live, it barely sprinkled for less than 10 min... but the temperatures are now in the upper 70s... still grossly humid.
Before The Plague we went to Sardinia for holiday in September a couple times. Usually somewhere at the Costa Rei and Cagliari. That part of Sardinia is closer to Africa than to Italy, which shows in the average temperatures. Staying close to the mediterranian sea made the 30°+ a very cozy thing, with cool wind coming in from the sea. And in Cagliari it was fun to run around in light summer clothes - shorts and T-Shirt - and seeing all the natives, who are used to way higher temperatures in the summer, preparing for the winder already, wearing winter jackets and scarves...
Temperatures are a somewhat very personal thing...
87F inside my house now at dusk by morning it will be 80F or a bit higher. When I lived in DFW I refused to use air conditionig because of the extreme costs. but, LOL, being in overheated steamy apartments wan't pleasant then and it isn't now, decades later. I at least have an small table model electric Hawaiian Tropic fan nowadays (that adds more to an electric bill then you'd think).
Last night, a town in the Rockies Mountains was supposed to have a high of 45F! In Denver our nightly low went to high 60sF. Today, we might reach 100F again. The thunderstorms each evening have been more irritating than wet. Except earlier this week when on hit near my home and we lost power and I had to recover two external hard drives.
But, the squirrels are 'splooting'? The link goes to 9News Denver's Weather and explains something a friend just told me about his little dog did yesterday. Winston was laying down in the wet grass of the park, rather than running around early in the morning.
I used to live in the Mojave Desert and we would do our outside work before 9am in the morning, because it would be 105F by then. Of course we had swamp coolers, and then we could go inside for housework on our days off. People whose jobs were outside, shifted work hours to extremely early, 3 - 4am.
I've watched the coverage of the heatwave of Europe and Australia's temperatures and fires. It is painful to see. I want to respect forum rules, so I will leave it at that. I am sorry.
It's a 101f or 38c Heat index makes it feel like 105f or 40c. We might get rain around Thursday. 53% of the Counties in MO are in an extreme drought.
Fascinating, about living in the desert! And I just found out also that I have been effectively creating 'swamp coolers' for my rabbits outside these last hot days, when I put the mobile laundry line with all the wet stuff on it right inside their area ;-)
90's (F) plus. Cools down around 11pm. Plus we are on water restriction in So Cal. So no misting. We have 1 sort of working a/c. and 3 fans. I do a lot of running around late evenings to open the doors I kept closed all day. I now have 5 of 9ft diameter patio umbrellas along our yard as the water restriction and the endless heat are causing our trees to drop leaves, letting more sunshine in. It's brutal in the sun. Also, UV Index consistently at the highest number 11, which is fry your skin in 3minutes. I drink water all day. Pinch of sodium bicarb and sugar in iced tea. July has been getting hotter, but we cool down about 5 to 5pm. It's August that is the cruelist month, where the evenings don't cool. It is so hot the new succents I got to replace more thirsty plants, some of those succulents just went "hell no", and dropped all their leaves and died. Don't believe that myth "they like full sunshine". No, they don't. Not this stuff we've been suffering lately.
I am in DFW and ca't live without AC, no matter the cost. I can't sleep when it is hot, have the AC crancked up with the ceailing fan and a stand up fan on me in bed and it still isn't cool enough now.
I don't know how you all afford it. LOL. I hate an electric bill over $35 but nowdays because of inflation I have to pay $55.
I can sleep through anything apparently. I still know people out there and they say the last few years have been worse than that year in '96, Jul or Aug I think, when smoke from giant fires in Central America obscurred most of Texas skies with smoke from the fires.
I'm in Serbia and it's totally insane here. It started on Tuesday and I actually ended up with a heatstroke on the next day. Nurses advised not to go unless it it utterly necessary. It will last. Seems like entire Europe is being caught on fire with southern of it having the most of it or at least that's how it looks like to me . We have meteo alarm set for awhile.
You know that there are solar storms hitting Earth today and tomorrow. We should be in the halo of a CME (coronal mass ejection) Right now.
I would kill for a $55 electric bill. Mine is usually around $130, but in the summer hits as high as $220 with the AC on all the time and fans going. My buddy has a house and his was $470 last month.
I gave my rabbits a wet (not dripping) towel for the very hot days as well, but they didn't seem to appreciate it very much
I pour water on a part of their area where there is a stone floor, and they like to lie on that once most of the wetness has evaporated. Might want to try that!
The electricity has been out for over 24 hrs.
...I'm in the Northwest where electricity supposed to be "cheap" because of all the Hydro power (...right) and my average monthly bill is 52$. I dread winter as then I have to turn on the heat (which is electric) that cranks the bill up. Thankfully I don't have an air conditioner, not worth it the short span of hot days we get here (if worse comes to worse, I'll get a day ticket and ride around on our LRT tram network which actually has good air conditioning did that when we had the two days it hit 112° and 116°).
I'm in South London, one of several fires aroud London, you may have heard about, is where I sometimes take my lunchbreak. I'll go later today to see whats's happened to it.
Had thunderstorms here too, but they are so localised and with hardly any rain that you barely notice them. At least the temps. are back in the 20's!
At one point my phone was saying, "39C, feels like 38C". LOL
wow.. that's one of those things I (and probably most germans) have not encountered in my (their) lifetime... except for those unlucky ones who got caught in severe floodings and suchlike.
Actually, out in the country where I live it's a pretty common occurence if the weather is really stormy, it just never lasts as long. The overhead power lines get blocked by trees thrown into them by the winds, mostly. Last time it happened for a bit longer was 2020 I think, no electricity for something like 4-6 hours. I went out and bought a small camping gas stove, and the minute I texted to say I was coming back from the store, electricity was back ;-)
It's bad in winter, because then the central heating can't power up either. But who has money for that these days, anyway ...
yes I do that often
yes, three days for me, and we were the lucky ones who didn't even get wet, so we could mostly laugh it away. The part of town down at the river looked really bad though, and they didn't hve electricity for two weeks
We've been mostly in the mid 80s to mid 90s (South Carolina). AC window unit running, three fans pushing air through our living room. I have a small wireless fan that I had to break out a few times. The humidity is the worst part. I think we hit 96% yesterday. Despite all the thunderstorms/rain we experienced this last week, it was miserable. I've been trying to reserve rendering for night time, when it's much cooler. And I may or may not go into another room to stay cool.
I am experiencing a heat wave as of lately, and I live in St. John's, Newfoundland. It's been hot since Friday, and tomorrow is expected to be the last day of the heat wave. It's supposed to be 30 degrees Celsius for my hometown tomororw, and on Tuesday there is a chance of showers forecasted for Tuesday and Wednesday. There is not expected to be any relief until later this coming week - and I agree, there was not much rain this month. I finjd that whenever there is a long period without rain, we will probably get payback in the weeks or months to follow - in the form of majorly heavy rain at some point. I just hope my province doesn't get what southern British Columbia ended up getting last November (they got record-breaking flooding that destroyed highways). I think this is the hottest summer my hometown had since 2018.
...one if the odd benefits w have here in the northwest us usually when it's hot at least the humids are down to around 20% or lower. I know it sounds incongruous given the "wet" reputation of the region but that is what happens during summer here.
I lived in New Orleans back in the 70s and that was like walking out in a steam bath even in the 80s. That year we had a couple days of 100° temperatures. which were unbearable with upwards of 75 to 80% humidity.
Our reputation for wetness is greatly exaggerated, anyway. Basically the entire eastern half of the country gets more annual precipitation than Washington, and Oregon gets even less. I think the reason for this misperception is that while it rarely rains hard over here, it does rain often.
I know folk that have had electric bills over $600 from heating their house that February when it dropped as low as -25 Fahrenheit and stayed below 0 (most of February).
So true as sometimes having rain can make things worse, as sometimes it depends if there is a wind blowing and the direction it is coming from.. Heck have had it so humid down here in South Australia, I often wonder if I am in the tropics.. lol
I have a friend that envies our warm weather. I said to her "Please don't!" haha. The humidity in the south can be yucky during the summer (and luckily, it's not always like that, but when it's humid, you notice!). My grandmother's old house was always humid. The humidity would get so bad that she'd have to replace the wallpaper due to mildew. Eventually, she invested in a dehumidifer and goodness, it pulled so much moisture. She'd sometimes have to dump the water twice in one day. I couldn't believe there had been THAT much moisture in the air!
I belive it! A big de-humidifier too I bet.