Now This is Rediculous

[Muddy Creek Sam]

Heat Index: 144 °F

[Moonman]

Sam,

Sounds like a better day to drink a cool one rather than smelting and casting.

[Finster101]

Come to Florida where it is a nice cool 94 today.

[runfiverun]

it's just over 60-f and raining here.
good thing too i just washed and waxed the mustang,i hate wasting a good 5 hrs on sunshine.
i love summer...

[Mk42gunner]

What's this rain stuff you speak of????

103 here according to the local radio station. My Mom, Daughter and I took a trip today and we agreed that the pastureland looks like it is the end of August not the first part of July.

Soybean fields that were planted 5-6 weeks ago are maybe 4" tall. I saw some the plants were about 8" and already turning colors, I hope everybody has crop insurance.

Robert

[Bad Water Bill]

Heat Index: 144 °F

Sam I am afraid your thermo meter bit the dust.

[BD]

I feel your pain Sam, of course these days I'm feeling it from northern Maine, were it's 70 deg
BD

[Gelandangan]

gee.. a few more degree your lead would smelt itself..

[Shooter6br]

I use an old outdoor spa with a roof rain gutter to collect rain water.Holds 300 gallons.My garden would wilt away without it.I have township water but prefer free water from on high.Will have 11 day heat wave.Lucky humidity is as low as 30% somedays.Need to put freon thur my rifle barrels to shoot......Rick

[Blacksmith]

They are calling for 103 degrees here tomarrow and the heat index will be more. But we didn't complain when we had a very mild winter.

Stay cool all and if it gets real bad go sit in a bathtub full of water because that will transfer the heat quicker than humid air. Some folks in Maryland and Washington DC still don't have power since last weekend.

[Bret4207]

I was thinking the same thing as Blacksmith- no one complained last winter when we had essentially no winter!

I spent the other day working on my stock trailer axles. No breeze and mid 90's (very warm for here) with humidity in the 80% range. Drank 4 liters of water in 7 hours and then more later. At least I know my kidneys work.I don't mind the heat as long as there's a breeze, which there usually is since there's not much between me and Lake Ontario. OTH, the pool looks like a swamp!

[41 mag fan]

Calling for a 110* here today.....Alaska sure looks more lucrative with each passing year.
Keep telling the wife, I could go work in the mines up there during their spring, summer and fall and some of their winter, then come back and work for McDonalds, till the next spring.

So far she's not bit that fish, but i'm still baiting the hook and dangling it out there for her.

[Bullfrog]

Feeling all the heat and pain you all are experiencing. The smoke is still heavy in areas here from the wildfires and we are still under a statewide ban on about everything fire related. It was over 100 degrees here for over two weeks and we are finally scheduled to get some much needed rain. Highest recorded out here was 106, but we have constant wind usually and it destroyed the prairie grass I graze my goats on. This is an incredible year of drought for the entire nation.

[44man]

Hot here too but most storm cleanup is done.
I put the window unit in the garage for the dogs. Protect your animals, the heat is hard on them.

[waksupi]

I just saw some pictures of a dog's feet, that had been walked on asphalt. The pads are burned away to bloody mess. Don't do this to your dog, keep them on grass or dirt. Even dirt is very hot. Better to keep them shaded up until sunset, then walk them.

[garym1a2]

Gee, in Florida we are only getting up to low 90's so far. Of course its not the heat its the humitiy.

[err.gray]

Our dog Blondie is part of the family and stays inside with us.

[blackthorn]

Quote "Heat Index: 144 °F"

What is a "heat index"??? How do you figger it out??? I have never heard of this until today.

[Muddy Creek Sam]

Heat index is the feel like temperature, it is calculated from the Temperature and the Humidity. That one came from 97 °F and a humidity of 85%.

Sam

[Bad Water Bill]

The temp was 104 and the humidity was 75% and no breeze.

No idea what your gadget reads but it was plain miserable.