So... hot enough for ya?

[RickOKC]

YIKES! It hit 111 deg F here today! (But it's a dry heat so it only felt like 108. )

I came home after work and it was 87 degrees in the house due to my crappy, leaky, super-inefficient, 50-year-old windows and my worn out 15-year-old air conditioner. I'm SUPER fortunate to still have a portable AC unit in my possession that I'd borrowed from work last year. I moved it to the living room and ran the exhaust out the doggie door. A half hour later, it's already down to a chilly 84 degrees (shiver!)

SO what are my fellow VX friends going through? I'm sure it's even more awful somewhere else and I'm looking forward to others making me jealous because they aren't living in an oven today!

[Triathlete]

No sympathy from me...thats just a normal summer day here

[RickOKC]

Gulp! I'd never thought about that before - do you go out and run in this heat you crazy VXer??!?!?!

[Scott Larson]

It reached a "balmy" 84 degrees here today, kinda humid, but the air con kept things a more respectable 74 in the house. No complaints here..wait a minute, I lied; I'm more of a "64 and sunny" kinda guy! Best of luck to all of you in the "sunbelt"...

[tjh]

9:58 pm 86 degrees 72% humidity. Rather pleasant by Louisiana standards.

[Triathlete]

Gulp! I'd never thought about that before - do you go out and run in this heat you crazy VXer??!?!?!

I generally try to get all my training in (done) before noon so I usually beat the 100 degree mark. But on those days that I have long rides it is not always avoidable...on those days I just take in a LOT of fluids and do what I have to do (there are a few convenience store clerks that know me well). After 40+ years in the desert you "kind of" get used to it

[tom4bren]

SO what are my fellow VX friends going through?

Things have mellowed out here in VA this week. Not quite as hot but threatening rain every day so you still sweat buckets as soon as you walk outside.

I picked up a portable airconditioner a few weeks back. We use it in the RV though & haven't needed it in the house. It works OK but not as well as I'd hoped. If yours can cool your living room down 3 degrees in 30 minutes, it's a keeper.

[evillecutter]

it hasnt been bolow 95 here (100 with the humidity) for like the past two months - its like breathing water sometimes outside here in the armpit of the ohio river - at least i dont have to cut my grass seeing as its all dead now - our humidity here is rarely below 75% and sometimes 100%, which i never understood because isnt 100% humidiy just water?

[Scott Harness]

Here in Dallas.it really hasn't been that bad this summer.This week looks like it will be hot!
I'm like Billy.just get out early

[MSHardeman]

It's been sweltering up here in the mountains. We've been hitting the low 80's during the day with high humidity (65%ish). It's been raining every afternoon which helps to cool it down at the end of the day, but keeps the humidity up. Getting down into the upper 50's at night. It's a sauna I tell you!

[BigSwede]

our humidity here is rarely below 75% and sometimes 100%, which i never understood because isnt 100% humidiy just water?

No...100% relative humidity means the air cannot hold any more water vapor at that temperature.

[WormGod]

MD has been in the dog house for over a month now. Heat ranging 95+. Little or no rain, and when it does, it's massive thunderstorms that come and go, leaving a huge mess.

Just got back from Florida where it was more comfortable. That just isn't right....

[tom4bren]

Wormy,

Brace yerself. I just heard today that we are in for another week of 100 deg days.

Tom

[BigSwede]

Our predicted high for Sunday: 78F

We have had a lot of 90s this year though.

[JHarris1385]

Eville - same deal here...

Terrible humidity along with high temps.
We hit 115 a week ago with high humidity.
Ohio valley is bad.