To Hot and To Humid Out

[GF]

Yesterday it was 102, today is expected to be 105.  Looks like 100+ for the next several days.  The past three mornings its rained also, it has been making it very hot and humid.  :-\

Heat indexes are 108 to 111 with the humidity.

[Tom]

Y'all are having a cold front move through, eh?   :D

[GF]

You go outside and do nothing and its instant sweat.   I was splitting firewood over the past weekend, it just aint right splitting firewood when its close to 100 degrees.   Apparently there is alot of hot air coming in from Texas (imagine that).   :D ;)

[Tom]

Yeah, we should be out splitting firewood too.  100 degrees is getting pretty close to needing a fire in the fireplace.  These lingering winters and frigid summer days have caused us to run out of firewood too.  Usually a good Fall Stocking will get us well into July.

[brdmkr]

Yeah, I hear you Tom.  I'm planning on sawing tomorrow.  The HI is supposed to be around 115.  With that, I may have to wear a jacket.  Maybe, I'll just light a small fire to keep my hands warm.  I'm looking forward to sawing, but not the heat

[Quartlow]

yeah I broke  sweat today just tieing up tomoto plants  :D

[bedway]

you people are sick ,,sick,,sick! when the temps start pushing the 80s i get uncomfortable

[twoodward15]

80's?  I get hot over 70 and would prefer a steady comfortably warm 30 degrees year round.........................farenheit that is!!!!!!

[WH_Conley]

Should we wear hip boots when visiting Florida? Sounds like it is getting deep. :D

[UNCLEBUCK]

I am experiencing a full major drought here and no relief in the 7 days ahead . 100 for the weekend , fencing as fast as I dare , cows have ate everything they can reach , even the leaves and twigs above their heads .

Hay prices are expected triple .

Only thing to do until about 5pm everyday when the sun isnt so bad is hide . Hope the pictures  explain it all .

      smile_banjoman                      

[Jeff]

Its been in the 90's here thelast two days, Saturday and Sunday are both expected to have heat indexs of between 100-110. Poor phisically fit Jeff the admin and Jeff the stump jumper will be out in it torchin and weldin on the new forum pig roaster. Well, I'll be watching and supervisin but I'll be hot just the same.  Tammy and Stacy got stopped on thier flooring project in the shed though as we have some big thunder boomers coming through and all cutting operations are outside.  THey almost have it done. Maybe 25 or 30 square feet to go.

[isawlogs]

  I was puting a brake band on the doser today , this working in the heat is insane ...     I am doing this over at my sisters , she has a pool and my BIL came in from work and jumped into the pool to cool off ...  Then it registered ... POOL  didn't take long to jump in that after thinking about it  : :  Here I have been going at this for two days and there is a pool right there not 100 feet from me .  :

[woodmills1]

yes, Mr. sun just tore me up today.

[Don_Papenburg]

Wow a hunert plus degrees .   I don't like it when it gets past the get nekid ninties.

[Woodcarver]

Upper 90's, maybe a hundred, here the next two or three days.  Virtually no rain for the last month.  'Bout like your area, Uncle Buck.  Second crop hay won't amount to anything, except where it's irrigated.  Corn and soybeans are in bad shape, too. I'm happy not to be a farmer.

The lady carver is a partner in a small family farm down in the southwestern corner of the state.  They have heavy clay soil down there and they've been getting more rain then then they need. I keep telling them to send some our way, but it ain't happening.  :(

[treecyclers]

The HI is supposed to be around 115. 

Yer a big BABY!
In Phoenix today the temperaturmometer on my truck read 121 at 2PM, meaning that it went up at least another 5 degrees by 4P, the hottest part of the day.
Though I spect my tires might melt if it were any hotter....dry heat my EYE!
I had to use oven mitts to open my truck door and grab the steering wheel!
SD

[Mr Mom]

     Upper 80's yesterday and very humid out. Went to cut firewood and pulled the saw two times and put it back.
     It's the humid that get me. I can work when it is hot  but when it get humid out i done.



     Thanks Alot Mr Mom.

[woodbeard]

It's been in the 90's here, not so bad, temperature-wise, but the humidity is getting to where I am considering getting me some scuba gear.  :

[Norm]

We had some 90's earlier this summer but it was real dry so the humidity was low. Not real bad to work in if you took breaks but this stuff lately is with high humidity. They had a dense fog advisory this morning for our county, windows were running with water on the house.

Our area was very close to losing a bunch of crops because of no rain but in the last two weeks we've received something like 5"s of rain. The curled stunted corn grew like crazy. They used to call that a million dollar rain, must be inflation because I heard a couple of comments about the billion dollar rains we've had. :D

[Tom]

We use the humidity in Florida to our advantage.  It's a lot safer to swim up onto the roof than use a ladder, so we wait til summer to do most of our roofing work.

The tree surgeons are catching on too.  They can swim into the top of a tree and float the trimmings to the truck.

I went fishing with a friend of mine back in the '70's.  That's back before the turn of the century.  We were using my little 14' flat bottomed boat.  Someone had stolen my motor a few weeks prior and so we were using oars.   It was pretty foggy when we got up at our campsite on Boggy Creek and we almost didn't go fishing.  We weren't going to miss a chance at some early morning bass, so we rowed up the creek and cast to where we thought the bank was.    It was no time before we limited out on bass and headed back to make a pot of coffee and clean fish.  The boat got hung up and we couldn't get it to move.   We pushed and shoved and nothing happened.   As the fog began clear a little bit, we saw that we had been rowing around on top of it and were hung in the top of a little oak tree not too far from the bank.  We got off of the tree but had to wait till the fog went out before we could get back to camp.  

[Woodwalker]

I was gona post something, but just don't think I can top Tom's fishing story. From what I've heard, fishing ain't that good on Boggy Creek.

[Den Socling]

I can't believe the heat and humidity and mosquitoes and black flies. It is miserable outside in NE PA! I have been installing and moving AC's and my back is killing me!.  :(

[woodbeard]

The air was so still today, I hung a toe tag on it.

[Paschale]

I tell you what...I'll take the 95 degree temps we had today over blowing, blustery snow, ANY DAY of the week! 

Gimme 95 over 15 anytime.   8)

[SwampDonkey]

Rains here every other day. Humidity 80 + and temps in mid to upper 80's for the last few days and the next few ahead. I think friday was hotter than today, and tommorrow is suppose to be in the 90's. Picked 14 litres of raspberries this morning before lunch. Got sun burned the first time this year. I usually wear long sleeves in the bush and when your under forest cover your not as easily burned by the sun, just the skeeters and deer flies. :D Some of you guys are right about the black flies to, they are out early in the woods, but when it's hot the biting flies ('cept deer flies) disappear and the blow flies come pestering.

[Corley5]

When it's 15 degrees in January I NEVER wish it was 90.  Sixty five or 70 yes but not ninety.  A few snow flakes in the air today woulda been fine with me ;) >:(

[SwampDonkey]

I'de like to see an average of 50 F. No flies, no snow, no heat. ;D

[WH_Conley]

I can usually put on enough clothes to stay warm. I can only take off so many til I get a really embarassing and painful sunburn. :D

[Onthesauk]

65 degrees and clear as a bell here this morning, will probably get up to high 70's mid-afternoon.  But just heading out the door for Las Vegas, up around 112 and hazy from the CA fires.  Don't leave your air conditioning unless you have to.

[thecfarm]

It's been in the 90's here for 4 days now.Look likes about 3 more days of it before it starts to cool back down.Nights are still cooling off.Which is a big relief.

[Dan_Shade]

i was tackling a whack of logs yesterday, wow, it was too muggy to sweat properly....  today wasn't much better, but it wasn't muggy.

yesterday, I spent the better half of the afternoon trying to recover from my morning, i've never been effected by the heat like I was yesterday, i guess i'm out of shape too.

[getoverit]

We had some rain here this afternoon for a change.. it did manage to cool things off to around 85 degrees..... I plumb got a chill ;)

[mike_van]

I've worked outside 40+ years, year 'round.  From -25f to 100+.  Just amazing what we can adapt to.  Never been so cold I thought I would drop dead, but  more than a few times the heat has made me feel that way.  I like the smell of wood smoke in the morning mutch better than the DEET for the ticks, gnats, deer, horse & black flies, mousquitos and all the other flying biting pests. Oh, and I forgot tourists - Not many of those in the winter either. Happy to be in New England though, 'cause by the time you are absolutely positively sick of the weather - it changes................ 8)

[Stephen1]

It was some hot on putting up the porch posts on the cabin. Just got to start early and finnish earlier when the heat comes.

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah, my best thinners start at 5:30 or 6:00 am and work til 2 or 3 pm in the heat of summer.

[flip]

One of my technicians in the shop was kidding around and put his 2 thermometers on his tool box both are at 100.5.  The radio said heat index of 105-109. I LOVE THIS WEATHER !!!!!!!!!!!!! : : >:(

Flip

[Don_Papenburg]

I hate that stupid heat index  . All I need to know is the real temp . We never had that thing when I was a kid and we didn't need air conditioning cause noone knew that it was hotter than what the thermometer said . and besides you had to work anyway there was not time to look at the thermometerexcept at nite or early in the morn.

[SwampDonkey]

Don that index thing is just another way to sensationalize the news, in this case the weather. Big numbers get people worked up. ;)

[GF]

Our real heat yesturday was 106 degrees, weather man said it still going to get hotter before a cool off on saturday. today temp is estimated to be at 108 and tomorrow 110 degrees, these temps are in the shade above grass.  Saturday its supposed to be 96, might have to get a jacket out.  :D

[SwampDonkey]

They called for 85 today, but it is barely 70 already. If it don't bugde any higher, that'l suite me just fine. ;D

[sawguy21]

Been very warm here for the last few weeks too. The forecast is for high thirtys to low fourtys celcius this weekend. That is around 110 south of the 49th. Too DanG hot for me.

[Bibbyman]

102 with a heat index of 108. 

We're not doing anything outside we just don't have to.  I worked out on the yard this morning until about 11:00.  The heat index was 100 then.

Dad says it's nothing compaired to back in '53.  It was over 100 for two weeks and over 110 a number of those days.  He remembers his highest was 114.  Others around in the area seen 120.

[Modat22]

Been a bit hot in KY the past few days, I don't mind the heat but the humidity sure gets me down.

[Tom]

We called for 85 too, but, nobody was listening.

[beenthere]

Supposed to get up to a high of 75 tomorrow. 

[Bro. Noble]

We're not doing anything outside we just don't have to. 

We didn't either-------but------swe had to bale hay and I had to go outside the milkbarn this evening to cool off :D :D   You talk about hot and humid,  try working in the barn with eight stoopid hayburners :

[UNCLEBUCK]

When it gets hot and very dry here the grasshoppers hatch but I have not seen many . About 10 years ago there was a grasshopper hatch so big that cars were actually skidding through the stop sign up by my shack ,the hoppers ate all the leaves off the alfalfa and clover and even ate holes in window screens ,they were huge . The little hoppers make good bait for catching sunfish . 

It has started to rain here finally and the temps have gotten down into the low 80's ,not bad at all but it will take some time for the grass to turn green again

When my grandpa milked cows a long time ago he had a wooden tank he would set the cream cans in after milking and it was full of cold well water on its way to the stock tank.  I think there were more Hamm's beer bottles floating in that tank than I could ever count  :D

[asy]

It has started to rain here finally and the temps have gotten down into the low 80's ,not bad at all but it will take some time for the grass to turn green again

It's the cold dead of winter here. It was 77F here today. You guys are funny.

asy :D :D :D

[sawguy21]

Six months from now you will be moaning too. :D :D :D :D :D

[Corley5]

It's a very pleasant partly cloudy 69 degrees here.  The last field of hay isn't gonna be too bad  8) ;D

[Modat22]

thunderstorms here today.

[SwampDonkey]

80 and showers here, but not enough to fill the pale under the gutter pipe. ;D