104 Degrees, Hottest Day of the Year, and............

[WDH]

You guessed it.........  My air conditioner went out :-\.  The temperature in Warner Robins, the nearest weather station, recorded 104 degrees.  There has been no rain for weeks, my garden has burned completely up, and now, a mechanical challenge decides to take root.

At least it was cool at the Pig Roast :.

[DanG]

Yep, it was wicked hot here too.  The local weatherguesser said the heat index was 114.  I just came in from the shop and it was still 90 degrees in there at 8:30, and that was with the fans running!

I went up and spent part of the afternoon with Mr. Hootie and the gang.  His nephew, Danny was there, as was his lovely Wife, Miss Bonnie and his youngest Grandson, Jim. We had a great time sitting under the air conditioner and talking about electric motors and phase converters and Grandkids and last week's auction and next week's auction and rockin' chairs and a bunch of other stuff.  Me and Danny and Jim went out to explore the electric motor pile, but decided it was too DanG hot for sensible people to be out and about, so we went back to the office.

I feel for ya with yer air conditioner out and all that.  That's gotta be miserable.  Our old window units are taxed to the max, but it is a lot better in here than out there.  This heat is supposed to break by the weekend.

[Mooseherder]

What a time for no AC. I feel for you. Ours is runnin 24hrs constant. Just came in from my hour window to get stuff done so I don't keel over from heat stoke. Shirt is soaking wet and it didn't take much effort.

[Dave Shepard]

Anything over 70 is a heat wave, far as I'm concerned. I wish I could hibernate this time of year and wake up when it's cool enough to do something.


Dave

[rebocardo]

Yep, our sun flowers aren't flowering anymore, even with water. I think they have had it.

[Mooseherder]

I talked with My sister and BIL a little while ago from Northern Maine.
It is gonna be 47 degrees there by morning. : :P 8)

[sawguy21]

How did anyone live in the south east or the west before a/c? Man, 114 is bad enough then throw in your humidity. YIKES. It's funny, here it is in the mid 20's C and the locals are yipping about the heat. I think it's great, a LOT better than -20C. I've had enough of that.

[PineNut]

Good luck on getting that A/C repaired WDH. I have a Carrier and it goes out about every two years. Same problem every time (one of those unnecessary electronic modules) and it takes from three to six WEEKS to get parts for it. I have installed a backup A/C because of problems like this.

[Radar67]

I talked to an old fellow standing in a line one day. He said he never had AC and never had a problem with the heat. I got to thinking about this and figured if you never had it, you wouldn't miss it. The body self acclimates to its surroundings was my conclusion.

Danny, pack up the family and come on over, our AC still works and we are a few degrees cooler than over there.

Stew

[scsmith42]

WDH - I can relate.... Like you, we were over 100 yesterday with 70%+ humidity.

Yesterday afternoon, around 3, an incredibly loud noise started emanating from my attic.  The wife thought that it was the washing machine downstairs, but I knew better.

Yup - it was so hot that the frame on the attic fan warped and the blade started hitting the sides of the frame.  

At first I figured that I'd put it off until it cooled down, but then started worrying about a potential fire hazzard.  So, up into the attic I went...

Must have been 140 or better up there, and I thought that entering my kiln was bad!

The good news was that I was able to shim the fan and get out of there in less than 10 minutes.  

I think that I had it better than you though.  My AC went out about 6 weeks ago on the saturday before Fathers Day.  It was only in the low 90's then.  About 3 in the morning I finally figured out what was wrong, and started removing parts.  Thank goodness Graingers has the "after hours and weekend service" - got some parts and had it back running by mid morning.

Scott

[Dodgy Loner]

Been 100+ in Athens for the past two days.  I was spoiled in Michigan for 3 days.  At least it'll be 60 degrees here in December while they're buried in 6 feet of snow ;D.

Which A/C went out, house or car?  At least you can roll the windows down in your car.

[DanG]

I think it was the house, DL.  I notice that WDH is offline, so they're probably out riding around in the car. :D :D

[Lanier_Lurker]

WDH, I'm right there with you.  The AC in my car crapped out.

Driving in stop and go afternoon Atlanta traffic in this heat with no AC will really test one's patience..... 

Rolled down windows don't do much when you are going 5-10 mph.   >:(

[pigman]

104    and I am heading down that way this weekend. It was only 102 here today.  ;D

Bob

[WDH]

With 115 heat index, it is hard to remember when it was hotter.  We got the house all bottled up and the ceiling fans running full tilt, so we are coping.  I had to cut the computer off because it generates a lot of heat :-\.

Terry, school started this week.  Otherwise, we might be making full tilt toward Collins. 

It seems that this summer is going to end up with a dry hot bang.  Well, I am headed to Texas next week, so I am sure it will be raining cats and Texas Rangers.

Pigman, I don't envy you moving furniture in this weather.  The good thing is is (!!) that the Dodgy Loner is nearby and he can step in if you fall out from the heat ;D.

[Corley5]

I'll take 6' of snow and negative temps over that kind of heat anyday.  In fact I'm ready for frosty mornings after all the upper 80s and low 90s temps we've had this summer.  When it's 10 degrees with a wind driven lake effect snow in January I never wish for 90 and sun. 

[WDH]

Thanks Corley,

Thinking of that cooled me off a little :.

[Radar67]

Terry, school started this week.  Otherwise, we might be making full tilt toward Collins.

Well we got school over here too,  ;) we got outta them backwoods a few years back.  :D :D

Stew

[Corley5]

We're "downstate" near Imlay City right now and it was pretty DanG hot here today.  We were at the Eastern Mi Fair and it was 90 in a JD skidsteer I was checking out but the humidity made it seem a bunch hotter.  My brother and sister in law were with us and were in a hurry and Doug had a black t-shirt on  :  I told my father in law and he agreed that they were gonna burn out the way they were moving.  They did less than 2/3s through the midway they left saying their kids were too hot.  Their kids were doing fine, Zach was fine and another cousin wasn't any the worse for wear.  It was the parents that over did it.  We stayed, drank lots of fluids, took our time, covered the whole thing and enjoyed ourselves.  

[Modat22]

I picked the wrong time of the year to build a new wood working shop.... :

[pappy]

Like Corley5 I'll stay with the great white north any day ;)

Hey mooseherder check out htis weather report fer da county  8)  8)  8) 


Northern Maine Weather Forecast

Issued: Thursday, August 9, 2007 450 am EDT

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Weather Forecast Discussion:

A sunny and windy day is on tap for northern Maine today with high temperatures in the low to mid 70s. North to Northwest winds will blow at speeds of 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 to 35 mph. These windy conditions will blow around dirt and other particles and allergons causing anyone with allergy problems to suffer more than usual today. On Friday, high pressure will provide a partly to mostly sunny day to northern Maine with high temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s. On Saturday, expect partly sunny skies with high temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s. Partly sunny skies are forecasted to continue on Sunday with high temperatures in the low 80s.
Weather Forecast:

Today: Sunny. Highs 72 to 75 Degrees. Winds North to Northwest 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 to 35 mph.
Tonight: Clear. Lows 45 to 50 Degrees. Winds Northwest around 5 mph before midnight and Light and Variable after midnight.
Friday: Mostly sunny in the morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs 77 to 82 Degrees. Winds West around 5 mph in the morning and West to Southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday night: A mix of clouds and stars. Lows 50 to 55 Degrees. Winds Light and Variable.
Saturday: Partly sunny. Highs 79 to 83 Degrees. Winds Light and Variable in the morning and Northwest 7 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday night: Partly cloudy. Lows near 55 Degrees.
Sunday: Partly sunny. Highs near 81 Degrees.
The next weather forecast will be issued by 7 am Friday.

FF menbers welcome to tent or park a camper outback in the field to escape da heat,,, No Charge 

[WDH]

Forecast here today......

Today Dangerously hot under hazy, partly cloudy skies. Highs in the low 100's with heat indicies near 115. Isolated storm possible.

No relief.......

[tcsmpsi]

Next week, huh.   

Don't look at the forecast, then.   You won't want to come.   You would be pleased to stay there, where it's nice and pleasant. 
                                              :D

Yeah, I'm back.  And...I didn't even shoot not narry one real, live human type person.

[TexasTimbers]

It's still downright tolerable right now. 96 so says the mercury. Not supposed to get over 100 until Friday. There is only a very slight breeze right now, which is rare on my little hill as it is usually nice and breezy, so I do break into a sweat. Then, when I am working in front of the fan which is running full tilt, I get a chill that is just nearly too much to take.
No complaints from me at all. My feet are loving this heat! 8)

[flip]

Here in the butt crack of the US it was 104 ;D

[Dodgy Loner]

Milled some walnut logs this morning.  Thought I would get out early and beat the heat.  It was over 90 by 8:30.  By the time we got done at 11 AM, it was 98.  Looks like its going to be another record high.

Pigman, lemme know if you need any help.  At least if I'm moving furniture, I'll be in the air-conditioning half the time ;).

[Modat22]

I look back in time and remember sleeping in front of a fan in a house with the windows closed because my dad was worried about burglars. I don't think I owned anything with A/C in it till I was 18 and bought my first car and even then my dad was trying to talk me out of the A/C option because he said it wasn't worth the 1000.00 add on the price  :D

Now My dad keeps his house A/C on 75 all the time  :D

[customsawyer]

WDH if you get to hot over there you can came over and tail some boards for me. It was a nice cool 103 degrees at the saw mill this afternoon. I only made it till about 2:30 and that was when I finised melting into my boots and said enough of this, loaded up for the house. Don't take near as much time for a man to get all he wants this time of year.

[TexasTimbers]

I look back in time and remember sleeping in front of a fan in a house with the windows closed because my dad was worried about burglars. I don't think I owned anything with A/C in it till I was 18 and bought my first car and even then my dad was trying to talk me out of the A/C option because he said it wasn't worth the 1000.00 add on the price :D

Now My dad keeps his house A/C on 75 all the time :D

:D

[Patty]

We are supposed to see 100° here by Saturday,  just in time for the state  fair.

You gotta love Iowa...100° in August, -20° in January.  :

[Mooseherder]

Today was worser  ;D than yesterday.
Pappy, I'm there in spirit. ;)

[WDH]

Me too, Pappy, and I ain't never been there ;D.

Jake,  If I get all my paperwork finished tomorrow (in the cool air conditioned office), I will surely come tail boards for you :.

[Mooseherder]

WDH. You'll have to come up.
My cabin doesn't have runnin' water but Pappy's Outback does. :D

[TexasTimbers]

Hey Pappy that 40 and 50 degree nightime temp is actually having a winter during the summer. No way Jose. You need several pairs of thermal socks for that.
i can handle the 70s and even the 60s to a point but 40s and 50s heck that is wintertime.

[pappy]

kevjay,
40s and 50s ....That's no t-shirt weather,,, when it hovers around 32 now it's time ta get the t-shirts washed cause ya need sumpin ta keep ya warm  ;D

Just ta take ya mind off da heat check out this local IP place,, they keep a web cam going with a ther mo meter in view  ;D least ways ya know there's a place on this planet where there is reasonable temps  ;) :D

http://www.sjv.net/community.htm

[Mooseherder]

It's a different kinda 50 kevjay. :D  no really
50 in Florida is FREEZING.  50 in Maine isn't.
Hard to explain. It's a dry cold. :D
Pappy, I was born in dat der place Fort Kent dare. ;)

[pigman]

Pigman, lemme know if you need any help.  At least if I'm moving furniture, I'll be in the air-conditioning half the time ;).

I wonder if it is too late to talk my daughter into studing at the University of Maine. I know they must have bugs in Maine for her to study. ;)   Thanks Dodgy, but most of her furniture is not verry heavy and her big strong Forester boyfriend is supposed to be there helping. ;)


Bob

[pappy]

Hey Bob,

"I know they must have bugs in Maine for her to study."  Oh ya we guts plenty a dem bugs up here and some I've never seen before  ;D and she has a "Forester boyfriend" well we got plenty trees ta do his thing !!!!!!!!!!  Sounds like a win win ta me .. 8)

Just a side note,,, Swamp Donkey posted over in the  Job Opportunities section for a forester position in NW Maine ( can you say boonies w/ lots a bugs  ;))  for the Huber Corporation... My nephew works for them in the Shin Pond, ME district,, is doing very well with them and likes it loads...

Here's da link...
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=26583.0

Tim the doughnut maker  ;)

[Nancbee]

It was 62 when I got into my car at 8:15. It's supposed to get into the high 70's today but a beautiful breeze is blowing through. This is Maine. The way life should be. If only it would stay for the next 6 months...Looking forward to cool September morns and eves.

We had 90's and high humidity for a week about a week ago. That's all of that I can take!

[Lanier_Lurker]

It's a different kinda 50 kevjay. :D  no really
50 in Florida is FREEZING.  50 in Maine isn't.
Hard to explain. It's a dry cold. :D
Pappy, I was born in dat der place Fort Kent dare. ;)

You got that right.  Temps in the 40s along the Gulf Coast, panhandle, and Big Bend areas will freeze you right to the bone.  It *is* hard to explain, but I know exactly what you mean.

[Fla._Deadheader]

First winter Ed dove with me, gathering logs, in Central Florida, he was wearing 2 wetsuits, and came up blue after only 2 hours. Took all night for him to get warmed up again.  :

[WDH]

It was 62 when I got into my car at 8:15. It's supposed to get into the high 70's today but a beautiful breeze is blowing through. This is Maine. The way life should be. If only it would stay for the next 6 months...Looking forward to cool September morns and eves.

We had 90's and high humidity for a week about a week ago. That's all of that I can take!

Here is the Forecast here in Mid-GA today.....

Friday, August 10, 2007...
Today Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and storms. Excessive heat warning with highs around 104.
Click For Full Forecast

[TexasTimbers]

Yeah we gave all the heat warnings and stuff too. My shop kiln is too hot. I got to cut a hole in the side and vent the heat out of it instead of recirculating it.

[DanG]

You got that right.  Temps in the 40s along the Gulf Coast, panhandle, and Big Bend areas will freeze you right to the bone.  It *is* hard to explain, but I know exactly what you mean.

I've had visits from some of our Northern members over the last few winters.  I don't get much static out of those folks about our "mild" winters, anymore.

[Corley5]

I was wishing I'd a grabbed my Carhart Blizzard Coat outta the truck before Dee left  ;D ;D   After the sun went down if it wasn't for the fire in the Dodge wheel I'd a froze  ;D ;) :D 

It's pretty DanG warm here today at 85.  I've only seen it over a 100 once and that was in Imlay city 10 years ago.  The bank thermometer read 103.  The hottest I've ever seen it here at home was 97.  That was actual air temp without any hummugity figured in.  Stay  8) 8) fellas 

[WDH]

105 degrees was the high.  It was 92 at 10:00 p.m.  Simply awful.  Supposed to cool down to the high 90's next week.

[jjmk98k]

Ill bet it's hotter here where i am at!!!!

I've seen the thermometer hit 130 already!, and that was IN THE SHADE

[DanG]

I didn't figger we'd be getting much sympathy from you, Jim. : :D :D :D

[scgargoyle]

Greenville, SC (my future home) hit an all-time record 105 Friday afternoon. Maybe I'll build the whole house underground, instead of just the basement....

[WDH]

Jim, you have to be in the hottest place in the world right now.

[pigman]

It was very hot in Athens, Ga. on Saturday and Dodgy Loner would not answer his phone when we called for help in moving furniture. :( ;D ;D  Thats ok Dodgy, we got everything unloaded and were resting in the cool air by 4pm.


Bob

[WDH]

Now Pigman has a Bulldog in the family 8).  Now that is COOL ;D.

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

After a one-day respite, it's about to be even hotter in Dublin, GA.

Predicted actual for    Tuesday:         105 F
                                Wednesday:           107 F
                                Thursday:   103 F

Any volunteers to help me start a new sawing job on Wednesday?  It's not much,
just a bunch (40?) of short logs, loose bark logs, and miscellaneous left-behinds from
a clear cut.  Plenty of cat faces in the bunch too! Oh, did I mention they all are to be cut into 1X6s?

Phil L.                         

[Larry]

Neighbor found out I was on the prowl in north Missouri so he asked me to help him house tobacco.  Forecast was for a heat index of 117...it never made it that high but I still quit at noon.  He called me a pansy. ;D :D ;D :D

Still, right across the Missouri river in the foundry at Atchison Casting I would guess the heat index bumping 150 degrees or higher.  No wonder so many quit round this time of year.

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

I'm thinking that Wed. saw time may be from 6:30 AM, til about noon.

I stayed with it until 3:00 one day last week.  Heat index was 119, actual 103.
Took a long break, then tuned a piano.  I went back to stack lumber from 7-9 PM.

I couldn't get to sleep that night until my legs had wound down a couple of hours. 
Must have been "Restless Leg Syndrome."

(See illustration:   8)  )

That was a little much.  TOO much!

Phil L.

[pigman]

Larry, you sound like a smart pansy to me. On second thought, you might be less than smart for even helping to house tobacco at all. :

Bob the former tobacco farmer

[dail_h]

   Hey Larry,
   What kind of tobacco you guys grow in MO,and how do you house it? 1inquring mind here in N.C.,home of flue cured wants ta know

[pigman]

dail_h, I am not Larry, but I do know they had and I assume still have a burley market in Weston Mo. I think some  burley tobacco farmers moved to that area way back and took their tobacco growing expertise with them.

Bob

[Larry]

Dail, Bob was right about our market in Weston.  Only two counties in Missouri and one county across the river in Kansas grow it.  We air cure our tobacco by hanging it on sticks from rails in very tall tobacco barns.  There might be three or more men handing the tobacco from the wagon, hand over hand until you get the rails filled at the top of the barn.  Hot nasty work. 

Neighbor had a crew hired, but there was couple of no-shows which is pretty typical on hot days or for a few days after they get paid. :(