95 today in mid Minnesota. Feels like 100. Might cool to 85 by Sunday. Was going to the Ellsworth WI swap meet on Sunday, but might skip it. Driving 80 miles, setting up a tent, unloading boxes of parts and old literature in hot weather is something I just might avoid.

Here on the farm it's 97º right now, which means that it's well over 100º in town. The ten day forecast has triple digit highs until the end of next week when it will cool down to 99º. This is the time of year to get out and do yard work early in the morning when it's a nice cool 80º. I think I'm going to flee to the Rockies in a couple of weeks.

94° and breezey in my part of Saskatchewan today. Same again tomorrow, etc.etc.

Garnet

It's not just the temperature, it's the incredibly high dew point (record tying 81 dew point yesterday in Minneapolis).

Currently 98 in Minneapolis with 76 dew point.

When the dew point is so high and the air so humid, sweating may not help cool you off because the perspiration doesn't want to evaporate.

My son in Minneapolis told us today that yesterday's dewpoint was exceeded only by the dew point in the amazon rain forest. We met him in Red Wing on the first day of the MTFCI tour today.

Welcome to Texas! You folks are experiencing the weather we have had down here 6 months of the year for the last 10,000 years. We have been in the 90's every day for 4 months with many days near 100F and have not had an inch of rain in 165 days! Now you know why we put our older cars in the barn in late Spring just when you guys are taking yours out for winter!

"Seattle Wa." 71 deg.today and to date this year 76 minutes over 80 deg. mid 50's at night.

Bob

107 in the shade here. Working vac-pulling out old fence footings. Doing ok for an old guy of 51.

With the dew point so high, when you walk a ways, you can turn around and see your silhouette in the air.

Hot here. Current temp is 93, heat index is 102. A lot cooler in the house....

Check out my weather station anytime

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KVASOUTH4

Someone how do you post a clickable link?

My daughter's dog died Saturday night. Since she lives in rental property she has no place to bury the dog. I got up at 6am and dug the grave behind my garage. By 7am I was totally drenched like I had jumped in a lake. And that was in the cool of the morning.

Steven

104 degrees at 7 pm in N.E. Oklahoma, only 5 months till we shovel snow

101 today here in Dallas today. Nothing unusual for this time of year.

I used to live in St Paul, that's pretty warm for the Twin Cities but not unheard of. Better stock up on frosty beverages and be glad its not 100!

104 here in the Rio Grande Valley. Gosh, just wait till the warm weather gets here in August.

Lewis you did, post a click-able link.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Portland%20or

It's been seasonally mild here and very pleasant in Northern California for the last week.

Well,last week it was hot.Then from friday afternoon after a front came thru till about 12 today,it was tollerable outside.Got some cleaning up done around the shop that was in desperate need.
I actually split firewood today off and on all day.A truck load.
I wanted the logs cleaned up and gone so now there is a neat stack of wood to keep me warm this comeing winter.
.Now the 10 day say mid 90's all week.So I will be doing my thing early and then chill in the air condtion for the most of the day.
I aint been working on T's lately.Been reworking 2 old EZGo golfcarts.the 1 I use was falling in 2 again and plus the throttle stuck last month and needless to say the pine tree was the winner of the contest.So that golf cart has supplied parts to rework 2 others.
was to hot last week to work in the shop after about 11 am. I dont remember it getting so hot in there last year.
I am studieing some way of cooling it down in there some so I can work more.

I live in southwest Florida. 90 degrees with 200% humidity.

Steven, we have lived in this house for over 32 years. I can't even remember how many pets we have buried in various places around our yard. The last one was my late mother's dog, whom we inherited when she died. When I had buried the dog, someone told me that municipal ordinances now prohibit burying animals in yards. Tough! I did it anyway, but another time-honored tradition is now no longer permitted.

Dick, It taints the water table. I know. I have been told so. When I asked what happens when one of the deer herd dies, I never got an answer, just a dumbfounded look that could kill.
Been unseasonably pleasant here in the foothills. 7-day says a scorcher by the end of the week.
Drive carefully, and everyone enjoy the big tour! W2

Today in Redding Ca. it was the coolest since 1932 a record. in the uppper 70 low 80's and partly cloudy
S/b. in the 100 to 110, will be there in a few days.whew I dread it.

We are sweating up here too.....felt like 106 today with the humidex.

Dick,
With mine and my daughters finances a pet cemetery is out of the question and we wont put the dog in the trash. When I grew up on a farm we planted a number of animals till Dad found out about the rendering plant. We still buried all the pets that died over the 48 years they lived there.

Totally weird weather. The northwest hasn't even had summer even start yet. It rained here in Portland (serious pouring rain) all day yesterday with a high of 67°. I sure wish we could split the difference with the rest of the country. Sheesh!

Rendering is recycling. It yields "meat by-products" you see listed on pet food and other places. There may even be meat by-products in the shells of those vitamin and medicine capsules.

rdr

Lewis,

A clickable link is as easy as posting a picture using the commands. For a link you use the

\link{http stuff here,Title to use in post\}.

Your link would look like this when posted:

Take a look at my Lewis' Weather Center

You do have to include the "http://" part.

At 10:30 this morning, the thermometer on my car was reading in the mid 80's. Thank goodness for central air. And you know it is humid when the bathroom window (an old single pane that I need to replace) fogs up on the OUTSIDE!

I do not have central air. But we do have a big window unit through the wall in the family room, which cools about half of the house. I have double pane glass in that room. Sunday night I had fog on the outside of those windows.

ONLY 109 TODAY WITH A BIT OF A BREEZE. IT'S 10PM AND FINALLY DROPPED TO 99.....AH, LIFE IN THE DESERT SOUTHWEST...."NO SWEAT"

I lived in the Mojave when I was a kid for a few years. Loved it then, but these days? nah...I like the temperate zone here in Oregon. I feel for you guys. Hang in there and keep the ice water flowing..

I split a pickup load (1931 Model A wide bed) of wood yesterday in 95 degree heat.. Of course, I have a hydraulic splitter (1983 vintage) I use about 6 cord of wood each winter to fuel two heavy duty fireplace inserts. Helps out on cold winter evenings. Cooler here in Minnesota tomorrow.

Danial
I have done both places too.
In the arid Mojave your skin turns to leather and in Orygun your toes grow together.
Take your pick.
Ron the Coilman

My firewood policy is to use the cool early morning hours to cut down the branches and trees, and let 'em sit. After the summer heat dries them out, I'll cut up and split the wood in the cooler fall weather.

Right now, about 6:38 PM CDT, it's 99º. Fortunately, the humidity is only 33%. This old house has never had AC, but I do have an electric fan blowing on me. Just about everybody who lived here made it to their late eighties or nineties, and none of them died in the summer, so I guess if it didn't kill them it probably won't kill me. I'm just glad I live out here on high ground, and not in town.

Steve
33% relative humidity is very tolerable. When it climbs above 60% things start to get ugly.
When I lived in the low RH California desert swamp coolers made the house very comfortable day and night.
When I lived in Tehran the humidity hovered at 16%, the temperature was 100+ every day in the Summer and everyone used swamp coolers.
Orygun is soggy 9 months out of the year.
The RH is the comfort/un-comfort factor.
I hope your current RH is heading this way, I can feel it dropping in Kentucky.
My shop is air conditioned and it stays at 50% RH which is very comfortable.
Ron the Coilman

A little over ten years ago, we visited Tennessee one summer. The evening news said the temperature and the humidity were both 99. Now, THAT was nasty. It was beautiful country. Califunny could learn a LOT about highway maintenance. And I have a lot of family history there.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2

Darel,

I left MPS yesterday just after 1p.
Boy am I ever glad to be back in the cool Northwest.
Went up to Stillwater then to Iola. The swap meet guys sure didn't leave much for me....
Hope you're staying cool.........

Floyd

just got off work, and already 77 degrees.... god help me, they are calling for a high of 87, but with the humidex it feels like 105!!! Im moving to Las Vegas, humididty is horrid

Relative humidity: At a family reunion here several years ago, the relatives from Arizona were griping about the humidity and the ones from Virginia were enjoying how nice and dry it was in Kansas.

Before 8:00 am today, and a friend told me the temp on his car display was 88. Don't think I will be venturing out of the house much today.

Steve,
My dad grew up at Brownell, Kansas during the first dust bowl and when I watch the weather the map shows the same 1930's dust bowl area on 2011 TV.
Hope your doing ok out there. The heat is supposed to hit 100 with the heat index at 103 to 104 here in Independence, Missouri on Friday with a cool down to 95 next Tuesday.
I still drive my '26 roadster to work and people ask me how Sam runs in this weather.
I tell them he does fine, but it is a little discouraging when first get in the T in the morning and the motormeter reads "Normal Summer Driving," and you haven't started the motor yet.

Joe R.

Here in southwest Ohio, heat index has been 105 to 110 all week.

Yesterday it officially hit 100 degrees here in Noblesville, IN. I took Old Henry out for a romp in the heat to see how he would act. Only drove 13 miles, but he got up to operating temp and stayed right there with no problem even in traffic. No water pump either.

You guys should have been with me yesterday. Had to work at a customer that makes Cast Iron cookware. That was hot! Always hate going to a foundry. Used to have one that made railroad wheels, boy that was a hot a$$ place. But they when to China. Stay cool guys! Dan

It's pretty hot here in St. Louis....

THINK SNOW !



Harvey ......

Right now 74 50 50% humidity and tomorrow 100 and who know what it will be.

s/b only 50% humidity

The other night on the news it showed a steak being cooked on the dash of a car. it was like 190 degrees on the dash. However the guy said he was not sure if he would eat the steak.

It's sunny and 75 at the Long Beach Swap right now. Sales were brisk while I was there this morning.

There's a pleasant ocean breeze, too.

91 degree's, 12% humidity and a 8 MPH breeze from the NW at 3:45 PM. This is about as hot as we've seen all summer, about 10 degree's cooler than we normally expect this time of year. Very pleasant actually. I golf in the mornings and it's usually in the 70's to low 80's prior to noon. The T loves it this time of year.

Heat index here in Fredericksburg VA was 123 - 117 right now - hottest to date this year. Of course today was the day we moved all the T parts into the garage from the basement. Lost 3 pounds.

Dear diary, just moved to Texas


Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.

June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:
The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least, it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the community pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:
I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag, then popped like a water balloon. The car now smells like Kibbles and Sh**s. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again.

July 25th:
The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as he**. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:
Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now, $225,000 house and I can't even go inside. Lomita is the lucky one. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:
Its 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate this stupid state.

Aug. 8th:
If another wise acre cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

Aug. 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my butt was on fire. My skin melted to the seat. I lost 2 layers of
flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and butt . . . Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried butt, and baked cat.

Aug 10th:
The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do crap for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn state? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

Aug. 14th:
Welcome to HE**! Temperature got to 115 today. Cactus are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and guess what he asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?" My sister had to spend $1,500 to bail me out of jail. Freaking Texas . What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?? Will write later to let you know how the trial goes.

Think they broke a heat record today in N.Y. that's stood since 1937. Reached high 90's in my part of N.J. but it was overcast.

LUCIA'S DIARY

DEAR DIARY

AUG 12 Moved to our new home in central Pennsylvania. It is so beautiful here. The mountains are so majestic. Can hardly wait to see them with snow on them. I love it here.

OCT 14 Pennsylvania is the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves are turned all the colors and shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through the beautiful mountains and saw some deer. They are so graceful, certainly they are the most wonderful animal on earth. This must be paradise. I love it here.

NOV 11 Deer season will start soon. I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill such a gorgeous creature. Hope it will snow soon. I love it here.

DEC 2 It snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed with white. It looks like a postcard. We went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight (I won), and when the snow plow came by, we had to shovel again. What a beautiful place. I love Pennsylvania.

DEC 12 More snow last night. I love it. The snow plow did his trick again to the driveway. I love it here!

DEC 19 More snow last night. Couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work. I am exhausted from shoveling. Frigging snow plow.

DEC 22 More of that white caca fell last night. I've got blisters on my hands from shoveling. I think the snow plow driver hides around the curve and waits until I'm done shoveling the driveway. Pendejo!

DEC 25 Merry Frigging Christmas! More friggin snow. If I ever get my hands on that pendejo who drives that snow plow, I swear I'll kill the hijo de puta. Don't know why they don't use more salt on the roads to melt the frigging ice.

DEC 27 More white caca last night. Been inside for 3 days except for shoveling out the driveway after that snow plow goes through every time. Can't go anywhere, car's stuck in a mountain of white crap. The weatherman says to expect another 10" of the caca again tonight. Do you know how many shovels full of snow 10" is?

DEC 28 The sonso weatherman was wrong. We got 34" of that white caca this time. At this rate it won't melt before next summer. The snow plow got stuck up the road and that pendejo came to the door and asked to borrow my shovel. After I told him I had broken six shovels already shoveling all the mierda he pushed into the driveway, I broke my last one over his ugly head.

JAN 4 Finally out of the house today. Went to the store to get food. These red-neck gringos don't sell tortillas or mole or even menudo. And on the way home, a danged deer ran in front of the car and I hit it. Did about $3,000 damage to the car. Those frigging beasts should be killed. Wish the hunters had killed them all last November.

MAY 3 Took the car to the garage in town. Would you believe the thing is rusting out from that frigging salt they put all over the road?

MAY 10 Moved back to Dallas. I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would want to live in that God-forsaken state of Pennsylvania.

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It's cool here at the coast near an ocean of some size.

Long Island:

On Thursday evening, I drove to the local weekly cruise-in and the temps were so oppressive, it was... well, pretty miserable. Went home early.

On Friday, my thermometer peaked out at 104 degrees.

Forecast for Saturday isn't encouraging, either. Maybe I'll go to the movies and see Capt. America.

Bob

Minus 3c here downunder. Heavy snow forecast. Brrrrr!

I'm sure glad there's no such thing as global warming....

We are just now noting the existance of summer. I am glad it came on my weekend off this year. Should be low 80s and we are going on a club T tour today, yaahoooo. Must see if I can find any shorts to wear.

Just another typical summer day down here in southwest Florida. The clouds fill up with so much humidity, they can't hold it. It rains every afternoon about 4, you can almost set your watch by it. When people ask what summer is like where I live, I tell them get up in the morning, get all ready for work and just before you walk out the door turn your shower on hot and jump in fully clothed, because that's what you're going to feel like once you go out the door.

It's this hot in St. Louis


Herb

Anyone want some of this? I took these pics last night and this afternoon. (Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand).

I saw a sign yesterday that said:

THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT FRY MEN'S SOLES

So many great postings! I laughed so hard I had to wipe my eyes to finish reading! (Thank you, I needed that!) I almost cried, my heart almost melted. I laughed again. Great stuff.
I just wish my ###### family would quit screwing up their lives and wanting to move to find "a better place where we can be happy". I have too much stuff to move. I gripe about the heat because it is near 90 with moderate humidity (talk about spoiled). Last winter we had near record snow. As long as I leave my vehicle at the top of my driveway, there was not one day when I could not drive out and go anywhere in town I wanted to. (I ain't no dummy, I got a STEEP driveway!) I didn't even have to shovel snow. The snow always melted off the roads within two days (except for some higher hills outside of town).
I think we need a few hundred model T owners to move near here. Now if we just had jobs and a state budget that worked.
Thank you all.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2

106.5 degreeees 7:00pm 7/25/11 in the shade 15 miles north east of Dallas.