thompson
Certa Bonum Certamen
Lordy! I didn't remember that, but wow.. can only imagine what that was like.
WEATHER Relentless heat wave about to bake most of the country for multiple weeks.
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ginnie6
Veteran Member
Sounds like summer in the South! I'll be outside every morning working in the garden till I am dripping sweat, cool off in the pool for awhile, then can whatever I've managed to pick that morning. When the sun gets off the garden I will water, just like I do every year when the temps get this hot.
lonestar09
Veteran Member
Today is the first day of low humidity here with over 100 degree Temps. This weekend is supposed to be the worst
SSTemplar
Veteran Member
Yea. I remember that year. Worked outside that whole summer and not a shade in sight.
BornFree
Came This Far
"And with the heating influence of greenhouse gases building up in our atmosphere, Masters says it's just a matter of time before 1930s heat records tumble. "
That's where it all turns to BS.
That's where it all turns to BS.
What a blessing it is to have air conditioning period.until 1981,i never had air conditioning,most people that i knew didn't either.We were tougher then.Had to be to make it through Alabama summers.
TheSearcher
Are you sure about that?
100+°F? Heatwave? Death & Destruction™? Nah, just another July in Texas.
Yep. It's been unseasonably cool this year, now that Summer is here, it's a crisis?
TxGal
Day by day
Very smart! I ordered new car window shades from Amazon last week, thank heavens. Front and back.
SquonkHunter
Geezer (ret.)
As was I. Driving a truck delivering heavy items outside, mostly unloaded by hand - mine. No A/C in the truck, none in my car either. I was working outside Wichita Falls the day it hit 116 there. Most miserable day of my life. Thank God I had youth and strength in abundance then. Not so much now. That was where a good bit of it went.
rob0126
Veteran Member
Same here, but in south Georgia.
Fans blowing in the windows at night was our a.c.
At school, it was open windows and fans blowing.
Every once in a while, when I went over to my uncles house to visit (who had central air) I would sit by the vent and just soak it in.
How did we all survive before a.c.?
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I called off working a job 50' up in a billboard today.
Supposed to be a few degrees cooler tomorrow.
Maybe the A/C fails will let me get to it.
Absolutely miserable.
Supposed to be a few degrees cooler tomorrow.
Maybe the A/C fails will let me get to it.
Absolutely miserable.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
How did we all survive before a.c.?
Our weather was a little different in the 60s up until about the mid-70s in Michigan.
June through mid-July had daytime temps in the upper 70s, low 80s. There was little rain but also little humidity. Nights would cool off into the upper 60s.
About mid-July, the humidity would start to creep in. Temps would rise into the mid-80s but it would feel hotter. There would be thunderstorms about every 5 - 6 days. It was a cycle: heat up, rain, and cool down. If it went to 90 degrees, that didn't happen until at least mid-August and only lasted for two days in a row, none of this prolonged 90s stuff for days on end.
Right about Labor Day, it was like someone flicked a switch and the air dried out (lots of Canadian high pressure systems) and the temps dropped back into the upper 70s/low 80s.
After the mid-1970s, the weather patterns started drastically changing. One example was going right from winter into summer: 50 to 90 degrees in May. And violent storms, many with high winds. 1978 was that winter with the blizzard and high snow totals.
And things remained much different. Worst was losing the long, pleasant springs and falls with dry weather. Ugh!
Jubilee on Earth
Veteran Member
We sold off all our stuff and packed up last fall to move down to southern Missouri to get out of the northern Michigan winters, anticipating the solar minimum in years to come. What a nightmare this summer has been. We can’t even stand it anymore. Every day it’s over 90 degrees, and the long-term forecast shows much of the same.
We’ve decided to move back north. Found an old fixer-upper farmhouse on 20 acres with good bones for $70K. It’s got a wood stove, state forest nearby, and a root cellar. The property has apple trees, berry patches, an asparagus patch, a chicken coop, and an established garden plot. We’ll find out this week if our offer has been accepted. I don’t give a flying flip about the solar minimum. We can’t do anything in this heat. Especially with the high humidity. The garden is suffering, the chickens are miserable, and just going outside for a few minutes leaves us dripping with sweat. At 45 years old, my body is acclimated to a northern climate and I’d much rather have snow and cold than this crap. If the grid ever went down and we couldn’t run our A/C unit, we’d be screwed. At least up north there’s an endless supply of wood to burn in the stove.
This is our forecast for the week. I plan on doing nothing but sit in front of the A/C unit, weeping and gnashing my teeth.
Jubilee on Earth
Veteran Member
FaithfulSkeptic
Carrying the mantle of doubt
It's been pretty warm here going on a couple weeks, with a bit a reprieve the last two days with a reduced dew point. I don't mind it that much, but I could do without the deer flies it brings.
psychgirl
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I’m with you!! I love my tan and around 80’ but that’s my limit.
Indiana has beautiful seasons but I consider August h%^* on earth.
Your new place sounds divine! Hope you get it!
And yes, I also love fall and early winter, too.
FaithfulSkeptic
Carrying the mantle of doubt
100% agree.
Jubilee on Earth
Veteran Member
I’m with you!! I love my tan and around 80’ but that’s my limit.
Indiana has beautiful seasons but I consider August h%^* on earth.
Your new place sounds divine! Hope you get it!
And yes, I also love fall and early winter, too.
Thanks! That was also one thing that surprised us living down here. There was no fall to speak of. It went from around 85 degrees down to about 50 and rain. Lots of rain. I missed those crisp, sunny 65 degree days in the north, with cider mills and pumpkin patches and hikes through the forest with scarlet-colored maples. No maples down here.
I’ve whined about the lack of seasons down here before as well. In normal years, the Austin area has to seasons: blast furnace and thermonuclear fireball. What’s laughingly called “winter” here is 60° for lows and 72 for highs. If it gets down to 50, I actually see people with scarves, gloves, parkas and snowboots. I am not making that up. I’m in a t-shirt, shorts and sandals. They look at me like I’m insane. I feel perfectly comfortable.
That being said, this past winter was QUITE pleasant. Midday temps in the lower to mid 50’s most days, with lows in the mid 40’s. Refreshingly brisk.
That being said, this past winter was QUITE pleasant. Midday temps in the lower to mid 50’s most days, with lows in the mid 40’s. Refreshingly brisk.
Signwatcher
Has No Life - Lives on TB
It's CRIMINAL!
michaelteever
Deceased
Here in Buffalo, NY, we just had 8 straight days of 90+ degrees, longest streak ever. The backyard pool got up to 98 degrees, the highest I've ever experienced since we got it 15 years ago. Usually we would go in to cool off, now we get out to cool off. We have a three days of comfort, then it appears that it's going to be in the high 80's and predictions that we will hit 100 degrees within a week.
Thankfully we have central air and a couple of canopy's in the yard.
Long range forecasts that indicate that August will also be a scorcher.
Add in the water bill which will be probably be enormous with all the water we're using to protect the flowers, veggies and grass from dying.
Michael
Thankfully we have central air and a couple of canopy's in the yard.
Long range forecasts that indicate that August will also be a scorcher.
Add in the water bill which will be probably be enormous with all the water we're using to protect the flowers, veggies and grass from dying.
Michael
Texican
Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
Thompson,
It dry heat so not so bad. Oops, forgot College Station is between Austin and Houston. You can be grateful that you do not live in Houston. Been in Houston when there was 100% humidity and it was not raining.
Texican....
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Texican
Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
A fine reward for the Austin leftist liberal socialists.
Maybe again this year.
Texican....
Texican
Live Free & Die Free.... God Freedom Country....
I spent time in the Austin area managing cell site construction in the early 2000's when the AC compressor failed in my raised top van. Quotes of nearly a $1,000 to replace. Bought a new compressor, flush gas, freon and vacuum pump and did it myself. Cost less than $500.
Changing an AC compressor is not that hard, even standing out in the sun to do it.
Texican....
I needed multiple sections of high pressure tubing as well. Not just a compressor. Those had to be routed around the engine compartment.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Thank you! If it’s God’s will...
Prayers from this corner! I can't deal with prolonged spells of heat and humidity, either. I've been trying to deal better with it this summer with more water and more time outside (sitting, not working!) but I do better with cooler temps.
I miss the wind! Normally, Iowa is a wind tunnel. Unless a storm is coming in like yesterday, the the wind has died down to almost nothing. Yuck.
I want my country and my traditional weather back!
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
How far north are you going? Back to the UP?
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
One time in August in the 1980s, I had to layover at DFW airport. As I walked from the little plane to the terminal across the concrete, I thought someone had tossed me into a 400-degree oven. The wonderful beef dinner I had almost made up for that heat, but I had to wonder how native Texans stood that. I was glad to get back to Ohio.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
This is nothing, as far as no wind... we had a spell like this back in the 90's after Mt. Pinatubo blew it's cork and then we had the flooding and the heat and the humidity and no wind, OMG. Talk about freaking miserable, even with the AC on, the air just clung to everything.
Profit of Doom
Dismember
I’d be leery of putting too much stock in that.
ainitfunny
Saved, to glorify God.
So far, I pray for days when it gets up to 70 in July in Western Washington state. I am still wearing long johns because my area tends to run about 5 degrees lower than the surrounding Tacoma and other areas. (some kind of terrain phenomena) kinda like the weather "convergence zone" running from Tacoma to N of Seattle.
Anyway, I see in a couple of weeks it may even hit 80 here, but I'll believe it when I can take off my long johns and jacket in the house and just wear a sweat suit in July. Today I've only got knee socks, sweats and a tshirt under the sweats, no long johns and I'm freezing. I'll put my jacket back on, it's easier than undressing enuff to put long johns on. With this dumb back injury even dressing is a very painful task.
It's like you keep WAITING FOR SUMMER TO ARRIVE HERE, and then suddenly it is fall. I still have my Eddie Bauer down comforter and a wool blanket underneath, on my bed. (not counting the flannel sheets.) It still gets to the low 40's at night occasionally.
Anyway, I see in a couple of weeks it may even hit 80 here, but I'll believe it when I can take off my long johns and jacket in the house and just wear a sweat suit in July. Today I've only got knee socks, sweats and a tshirt under the sweats, no long johns and I'm freezing. I'll put my jacket back on, it's easier than undressing enuff to put long johns on. With this dumb back injury even dressing is a very painful task.
It's like you keep WAITING FOR SUMMER TO ARRIVE HERE, and then suddenly it is fall. I still have my Eddie Bauer down comforter and a wool blanket underneath, on my bed. (not counting the flannel sheets.) It still gets to the low 40's at night occasionally.
