primitives discuss hot weather

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1396781

Oh my.

To lead off, the skidmarked underwear primitive, the disconsolate older farmwife in eastern Iowa:

Skidmore  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:04 AM
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How hot is it where you are today?

We're to hit the upper 90s, with heat index pushing 110. It didn't get below 80 during the night. And it is suffocatingly humid.

franksolich regretfully reports the same weather circa 400 miles directly west of the skidmarked underwear primitive.

FSogol  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:05 AM
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1. 79 here in Northern VA. Supposed to get up to 86.

Not too humid.

The carpetbagging maternal ancestress of the Bostonian Drunkard:

Raven  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:07 AM
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2. 64 here in swNH. Go figure.

Brickbat  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:08 AM
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4. Shouldn't get higher than 75 here next to Lake Superior.

I love my big natural air conditioner.

hifiguy  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:09 AM
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5. Minneapolis is supposed to hit 94-96 today, with a heat index of around 105. The one lung air conditioner in my apartment can't even keep the living room comfortable, much less cool. The rest of the apartment is uninhabitable when it gets this hot and muggy. Blech.

patrice  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:09 AM
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6. 76 in KC, supposed to get to 99.

KansDem  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:10 AM
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7. Suppose to be 99 degrees in Kansas City today...

Feels hotter!

MineralMan  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:11 AM
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8. In Saint Paul, MN, it's supposed to be 94, with very high humidity. 

Hotter than the portals of Hades!

Stickier than gum on a sidewalk!

Thank Carrier for my A/C.

ChairmanAgnostic  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:11 AM
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9. 98, very humid, Chicago

We may start talkin' "Houston" if this keeps up.

Greybnk48  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:13 AM
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11. N.E. WI @ 91-95 today with a heat index of 108.

The humidity is awful already @ 9 a.m. I saw Fargo was at 97 yesterday and the Twin Cities were at about 95.

Wow!

notadmblnd  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:14 AM
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12. right now it's 67

supposed to get up to 87 and tomorrow 90. This is pretty normal weather for Michigan this time of year. Humidity is also normal for us living in this big swamp of a state.

Viva_La_Revolution  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:17 AM
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13. 78 for the high in PDX, 50 right now typical late May weather

Okay, this primitive is going on franksolich's shit list for being so pretentious.

What the **** is "PDX"?

How hard is it to spell out the name of a city or area?

pipi_k  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:21 AM
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15. It's 65 degrees at 10:xx AM in Western Mass....

Yesterday it was 70 with lots of sunshine and breezes. It felt almost like September weather.

OTOH, we have also had some very warm weather.

The other day I was looking through an old diary from 2003. At this time of year the honeysuckle along our fences was just coming out.

This year they have been in full bloom for two weeks.

Something is definitely happening...

RC  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:28 AM
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16. Kansas City Heat index readings today 103° to 108°

High today 97°+. 87° at the moment.

Well.....what's 0bama going to do about it?

[Ralph Wiggum]

In all honesty, yesterday was one of the most oppressive days I've ever spent on a golf course.  And it had nothing to do with my play.

It reached a high of 96 degrees and for most of the day the humidity was at 85%.  It was windy, but it was a hot wind.  The only way to cool down was to ride around in the golf cart and keep draping a wet towel on the back of my neck.  I've played in Houston in the summer and it didn't seem as bad as yesterday.

[Rebel]

98 is hot?

Pussies.

[MASHLover]

Well it IS summertime, imagine that, it gets hot in the summer.

[GOBUCKS]

In all honesty, yesterday was one of the most oppressive days I've ever spent on a golf course.  And it had nothing to do with my play.

There's no such thing as an oppressive day on a golf course.
 

[Ralph Wiggum]

There's no such thing as an oppressive day on a golf course.
 

Point taken.  I had fun, but the heat/humidity compounded my comedy of errors & bad luck.

[franksolich]

Okay, so "PDX" is Portland, Oregon.

Pretentious primitive, the "Viva_la_Revolting" primitive, thinking it's so smart, so cool, so hip, calling Portland and the surrounding area "PDX".

A good piece of writing doesn't demand that one consult google all the time to find out what's being said.

[GOBUCKS]

A good piece of writing doesn't demand that one consult google all the time to find out what's being said.

Nadin does it so you don't have to.

[franksolich]

Nadin does it so you don't have to.

It's too late, sir.

franksolich now has a personal vendetta, something he's never had against a primitive before.

I'm going to do my damnedest to get this pretentious "Viva_la_Revolting" primitive into the Top Ten of 2011 now.

[debk]

Here in TYS (sorry, Frank, couldn't resist  ), we're in the upper 80's with humidity into the 60+% range today, but tomorrow the super heat and humidity are due in with heat indices to go into the low 100's, at least through Monday, when storms are due in, again.

Air Quality is already at "bad for sensitives", and getting worse. There's already a lot of mold, from all the storms, and the heat is going to make it awful. Between the AQ and the mold, it's going to suck.

Up until a few years ago, we never had AQ reports, because the local Powers that Be, were afraid it would affect tourism. Got to the point where they didn't have a choice, particularly since anyone flying in could see the layer of bad air laying over the valley, or if they were up in the mountains looking down. We don't have the industry or the population that is usually associated with poor AQ, instead we are in a valley surrounded on 3 sides by the Cumberlands and the Smokies, and the junk in the air gets trapped here, especially since we normally don't have "wind" or even much of a breeze. Until this year, when it seems we have at least a breeze most of the time. But nothing about this year's weather has been typical. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Here in TYS (sorry, Frank, couldn't resist  )

Some of the Airport Codes are downright confusing.

[franksolich]

Some of the Airport Codes are downright confusing.

I know, I know.

It's just really pretentious--something of course for which the primitives are known--to do this stuff.

It's like the "Viva_la_Revolting" primitive is trying to one-up the other primitives--"oh look, I've flown in an airplane before."

Whoop whoop de doo.

Yip yippity yay.

I imagine I've probably flown somewhat less than average, especially considering I've never flown on business (i.e., on someone else's dime), only for personal reasons (i.e., always on my own dime), but I'm not exactly a novice at it.

When scanning the maps of the United States and the world:

I've flown in or out of LBF and GRI and LNK and OMA and MDW and ORD and MCI and DEN and CLE and PIT and MDT and BGM and AVP and ROC and JFK and LGA and EWR and BOS and ABE and BWI and (whatever the designated code for Indianapolis is; I can't remember them all).....and LHR and BRU and CDG and ORY and FCO and KBP and HRK.

These are all beginning of, and ending of, trips, not any of the intermediate stops.

Whoop whoop de doo.

Yip yippity yay.

I wouldn't dream of trying to impress by using, for example, FCO for Rome.

This is just pretentiousness, nothing more than that, using "PDX" instead of "Portland;" the primitive's just trying to one-up the other primitives who probably haven't flown around.

I don't suppose anybody's ever noticed that reading franksolich doesn't necessitate looking up something on google or reaching for a dictionary.  That's the difference between good writing and pretension.

[GOBUCKS]

I don't suppose anybody's ever noticed that reading franksolich doesn't necessitate looking up something on google or reaching for a dictionary.  That's the difference between good writing and pretension.

The best example lately was when nutcase nadin went on her kick of talking about "parenteral" radiation exposure.

After dozens of posts where she lectured the DUmp about parenteral this and parenteral that, it suddenly became obvious she didn't know the definition of "parenteral".

Her lovely meltdown ensued.

[debk]

I've come to the conclusion that seriously hot weather, high humidity, potential flooding, and intermittent severe storms....makes Frank very feisty. 





I say that with love and appreciation of his always terrific writings....

[JohnnyReb]

  Most of my flying time has been spent flying into and out of fields that didn't even have a formal name. Most were just called so-and-so's cow pasture. ...and the most dangerous part of flying was the zig-zag takeoff/landings trying to dodge the fresh cow patties. If the plane doesn't have wheel pants, you don't want to run thru fresh cow patties.

[Evil_Conservative]

About 105 (maybe warmer) in Vegas, but it's a dry heat. 

[GOBUCKS]

I've flown in or out of LBF and GRI and LNK and OMA and MDW and ORD and MCI and DEN and CLE and PIT and MDT and BGM and AVP and ROC and JFK and LGA and EWR and BOS and ABE and BWI and (whatever the designated code for Indianapolis is; I can't remember them all).....and LHR and BRU and CDG and ORY and FCO and KBP and HRK.
Whoop whoop de doo.

Yip yippity yay.

I wouldn't dream of trying to impress by using, for example, FCO for Rome.

Coach is trying to make Cyrano feel bad about being on the no-fly list.

[franksolich]

I've come to the conclusion that seriously hot weather, high humidity, potential flooding, and intermittent severe storms....makes Frank very feisty.  

Quite possibly it does make one grouchier than usual, madam.

It's hot and humid here now; the misery index is 110 degrees.

But not to worry; I aerated the house with the electric fans the way you suggested it about three weeks ago, followed your instructions to a "tee," and the past three days it's worked better than anything I ever did.

[debk]

Quite possibly it does make one grouchier than usual, madam.

It's hot and humid here now; the misery index is 110 degrees.

But not to worry; I aerated the house with the electric fans the way you suggested it about three weeks ago, followed your instructions to a "tee," and the past three days it's worked better than anything I ever did.

Oh good!! I was wondering if you did. Growing up in SD, IA, and IL, it's how my dad always cooled the house, as we didn't have AC. Years ago, even after I got married and we moved to VA and NC, we cooled that way as much as possible, because to run the AC constantly was more than we could afford.

[IassaFTots]

Some of the Airport Codes are downright confusing.

Some are indeed.  Here in DFW we just observed the hottest June since 1980.  Lord help us. 

[Karin]

Frank and debk, I missed those instructions.  Are they locatable?  

hifiguy  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jul-01-11 10:09 AM
.....can't even keep the living room comfortable, much less cool. The rest of the apartment is uninhabitable when it gets this hot and muggy. Blech.

It gives me great pleasure to see a guy with a Karl Marx picture in deep discomfort.  Excellent.  

MineralMan  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:11 AM

Thank Carrier for my A/C.

   Oh my God, that's a CORPORATION!

eta:  Thanks, Frank for below.

[franksolich]

Frank and debk, I missed those instructions.  Are they locatable?

debk's instructions are in the Health forum, madam, in the thread "hot spell."

You might also want to check out the Automotive and Home forum, for "for those with wood-burning stoves".

<<promiscuously publicizes own threads.

[jukin]

MineralMan  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-01-11 10:11 AM

Thank Carrier for my A/C.

And the taxpayer for subsidizing your electric bill. Plus AC kills mother gia.

[Ralph Wiggum]

About 105 (maybe warmer) in Vegas, but it's a dry heat. 

I'd take your 105 and dry heat.  I just went out for lunch, and it is currently 96, feels like 104, "only" 44% humidity.

[AllosaursRus]

It's a whoppin' 67º here in God's country! 4th of frikkin' July, and it's 67º! Must be all that glowball warmin'!

We've had all of one day in the 80's! Tell me again how we're causin' climate change!