This is It - Hot!

[digitS']

Our climates are different but this week is usually the hottest everywhere in this part of the world.

After a cool spring, it has taken awhile to warm up here. There is yet to be a 100F day. Not that I'd really miss that much heat if it didn't show up . . . and some years, the thermometer falls short of that 100 mark.

The Weather Service says 97 tomorrow and that's coming close.

If you live in the US, you can start here to find your average temperatures: http://www.weather.gov/climate/

Click on the map for your closest weather station.
Choose NOW/Data. Then
Product, Daily/monthly normals
Location
Max temperature
Highest

The average high is 85F here for the last 2 days of July and the 1st 3 days of August. Of the 10 record "extremes:" 7 have been in July. (I was around for the extreme 106 on 26 July 1984 but elsewhere for the 109 in the 1960's . . . !)

It isn't now or never. Some of you have been having record heat for early July and those temperatures may well have exceeded what you will have for the remainder of the summer. I bet you are hoping so.

Still, this is it -- the hottest time of the year, on average!

Steve :coolsun

 

[curly_kate]

That's funny because today our heat wave finally broke! We have been in the 90s with massive humidity the past week or so, but now it's "cooled off" into the mid-80s.

 

[digitS']

Yes, our humidity has been rather high for this time of year, Kate.

It's probably because of the 3" of rain we had in June and some wind bringing in air off the Pacific, several hundred miles away.

Yesterday afternoon, humidity was 20%. I'd certainly expect it to drop well into the teens every day this week.

Steve

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I'm sick of the heat. I can't do anything outside, even with a wet towel around my neck. Yesterday, inspite of frozen bottles of water and being fully shaded, my bunny died. And I've got a chicken in my bathtub with leg injuries. She was too hot in the run. Damn heat, and I expect two more months of this.