HOT Today

[Magicman]

Thankfully I am not in a heat race with anyone......just ain't working past noon.  8)

[caveman]

It's not the heat it's the humidity.  I'm just kidding.  It has been hot in a lot of places and really hot in some others.  I guess it has just been hot here and I have reached a point in my life that if something is not broken or I'm not getting paid, I'm not working in the heat of the day.  There was several days this summer that I worked until noon or one and hung out inside until it started cooling off around 6 pm and then plugged away for a few more hours.  

Three shirts a day was not uncommon this summer on work days.  Several years ago, I remember MM mentioning some Gold Bond Powder.  Good call.  There is another product called Anti-Monkey Butt that also seems to be useful this time of the year in the nether regions.

Pedialyte is a product JMoore used last summer after the bear got after him one hot July morning.  He said it kept him out of the emergency room.  The heat is no joke and as we get older, it seems to get after us a little bit more.  Water is good but sometimes it is not enough.  

Some of you will see snow before we see a daytime high of 85°.  Stay safe.

[petefrom bearswamp]

Cool and wet here for most of the summer since a dry spell in June
a few days in the mid to upper 80s, no 90s here at my place roughly 1200 ft elevation.
69 in the house this AM 55 outside.
I have actually run my heat pump a few times when house temp gets to the mid 60s.
humidity high a lot, the dehumidifiers in the house and my shop run constantly keeping it to mid 40s RH.
with all the rain I have to mow the lawn about every 5 days.
Wish I could ship some-of this cool stuff to you over heated folks.

[Magicman]

Today was our 16th day of over 100° and we have another week forecast.  No rain in sight and the state is under a burn band.  



 
A little known fact about Mississippi.  :-\

[Percy]

Today was our 16th day of over 100° and we have another week forecast.  No rain in sight and the state is under a burn band.  



 
A little known fact about Mississippi.  :-\

Oh I feel for you guys. That is hot. We are getting it here In the great white north too. Kelona( city in our province) is burning up. Homes burning faster than mill slabs. And way up north, a city of 20,000 people has been evacuated because of a monster wildfire. When the snow's finally arrive. I promise not to complain 😜

[jpassardi]

Yesterday was in the 70's with low humidity for the first time in a while here. That's my kind of weather!

[Magicman]

We have an all time record breaking 107° forecast for Thursday.  Yikes !!!

[Crossroads]

Glad this heat wave is pretty much behind us, too bad my sawmill jobs were last week and I had to suffer through 100° temps. Most of this week will be spent on the excavator in the smoke from all of the foredt fires in the region. 

[GAB]

We have an all time record breaking 107° forecast for Thursday.  Yikes !!!

To all Mississippians:
Based on the above statement:
You folks might want to consider watering your chickens with ice water so they do not lay hard boiled eggs!
GAB

[Nebraska]

Supposed to hit 107 Tuesday  and Wednesday up at the cabin, 103 here.  99 tomorrow. It's not hard boiled eggs I fear, it's precooked steaks.

[TimW]

Yesterday was 107 in the shade on my back porch.  Today it is 111.  Two days ago, I started watering a huge White Oak tree near the driveway to my barn.  The top leaves are turning orange(ish) brown.  I noticed an elm and sweetgum turning brown at the top also.  As of August 17, there have been 37 days this year where the temperature has reached at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Conroe, Texas. In 2011, 52 days over 100.  No wonder I am only outside 2 hours each morning!

I was visiting with my outdoor equipment dealer last week.  He remarked he remembers the hottest part of the day, while growing up, was 3pm.  Now it is hottest at 5pm.  I said that is right, as Mom wouldn't let us go swimming between 10 am and 5pm.  We were always in the pool at 4:59 and 59 seconds!
hugs,  Brandi

[doc henderson]

107° here now.  Brandi, was that to keep you from sun exposure?  It is always fun to hear the rules we all grew up with.
Hugs, Doc!

[SawyerTed]

I sawed today from 9 a.m. to 12:30 pm and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.   

My tail gunners were a friend (customer) and his son-in-law.  Apparently the SIL (35 years old) got too hot cleaning up AFTER the sawing was over.  He took a trip to the ER.  My friend is 48 and I'm 60.   I'm thinking the SIL didn't drink enough water.  

I'm sure the heat index was upper 90's on the gravel pad where we were working.  

Be careful out there!  The heat can overwhelm quickly and without regard for age.  Maybe knowing how to live to fight another day comes with age?

[Larry]

Bella Vista had a heat index of 131 today.  Unheard of, I'm about 30 miles south and heat index here was 111.

[Ljohnsaw]

We got that tropical wind bag Hillary hitting southern California spinning bands of clouds and humidity up here in Sacramento. Only hit 85 or 90 today but our normal 15-20% humid must have hit 80% today! I was pouring concrete under my house, drinking a LOT of water and I was totally soaked in sweat. I kept seeing drops of water and I was thinking it was raining. No such luck, just my sweat. Even my leather belt was soggy.

[doc henderson]

I thought you were referring to Mrs. Clinton. :D :D :D

[jasonb]

Finally, gonna be in mid 70s this weekend down here in south Louisiana.  Then back to mid 80s next week.  This summer has been brutal with no rain, no clouds and just sun beaming down all day.

[fluidpowerpro]

49 for a high up here tomorrow. Perfect sawing weather!

[trapper]

sweatshirt felt good while sawing today.

[caveman]

Still 86° here now.

[SwampDonkey]

I think summer is coming to an end here. The tropical storm is suppose to collide with a cold front and make lots of rain and drop the daily highs 20 degrees by Monday. A normal October temperature range. But it was not unusually hot in my area, a little more rain than normal, only had AC on in July, nothing hotter than 85F except a couple days in the spring hit 90F. I've seen snow lots of Octobers on Canadian Thanks Giving (this weekend) and we would be hunting birds, and Sunday morning be towing a trailer home through 6" of snow on woods roads with 2 wheel drive. :D Never even had a frost locally yet. They'd predict 30's for some mornings, it would be mid 40's here and I wondered where the heck they was. :D The last two weeks of weather have been great with the leaves changing.

[Magicman]

It looks like our Summer and HOT weather has broken and is gone with the highest 10 day forecast temp @ 85°.  That is good but the drought persists in hanging on.   We have a 25-50% chance of precipitation later next week.  

I am disking and planting simply because I am running out of time.  I hope my seeds see some of that 25-50%.

[jasonb]

Looks like I spoke too soon.  Cold front did not push down far enough.  82°F today and 77°F tomorrow.

Still better than 100°F.

[Sixacresand]

Pretty dry here.  A customer dropped a cigarette butt in a patch of old sawdust and it smoldered for several hours before I discovered it.  Luckily, it was not near anything.  

[Jim_Rogers]

Pretty dry here.  A customer dropped a cigarette butt in a patch of old sawdust and it smoldered for several hours before I discovered it.  Luckily, it was not near anything.  

That customer, at my sawmill yard, would get a good talking to about smoking on site. Basically, at my yard there was no smoking at all. If they wanted to smoke, they'd have to sit in their car/truck and left the butt in their ashtray.
Jim Rogers