Terence McCann Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Hot water now comes out of both taps. It was so hot in Palm Springs the Betty Ford Center said, "Screw it, open the bar. Drinks for everybody. It's so hot I saw squirrels fanning their nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jim Morrison Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 It hit 97 in Boston today with the dew point in the mid 70's. Tomorrow's forecast is: "It's going to feel like two rats fornicating in a wool sock." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 It hit 97 in Boston today with the dew point in the mid 70's. So, it's like wicked haht out theh. It's lawts coola down cella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bain Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 The heat indices--the new favorite word of the local weather dude who supplements NPR--around here have been in the low hundreds (If we trust the weather dude's figgers). The instant I walk outside, my glasses fog up. I took a ton of shit photos the past few days 'cause the camera lens gets foggy, too. But . . . it beats what we have in January when it seems like the short, gray, freezing days will never end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillip Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Last week here upper 90's and it hit a 100. heat index 110 t0 120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allseason Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 It's so hot one of my chickens layed the same egg twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 I never thought I'd see a day when Boston was 10 degrees hotter thus us down here in Louisiana. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 The attic I was in last Saturday was 164-degrees. NO ... I did not stay in there to socialize [:-bigeyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Hockstein Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 My air conditioning is running so much that I can use my electric meter as a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale McNutt Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Just curious. When I do my next vacant house in the desert and the interior of the building is well over 100, what trick would be the best for checking the operation of the gas furnace? I don't think a thermostat will set above 90. Possibly the the "canned air" sold to clean keyboards and computers? Maybe a good long blast of canned air would lower the thermostat to get furnace ignition for verification? Some of these vacant homes are so hot that the walls, floors and ceilings will radiate heat for many hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Just curious. When I do my next vacant house in the desert and the interior of the building is well over 100, what trick would be the best for checking the operation of the gas furnace? I don't think a thermostat will set above 90. Possibly the the "canned air" sold to clean keyboards and computers? Maybe a good long blast of canned air would lower the thermostat to get furnace ignition for verification? Some of these vacant homes are so hot that the walls, floors and ceilings will radiate heat for many hours. The canned air might work. However, you can usually jump start the furnace directly from the control board. I know it's not for everyone, but it can be a very useful trick. By the way, I can sympathize with you guys across the rest of the country. The high temperature in Portland today was 68 degrees and I almost perspired a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence McCann Posted July 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 It was so hot today that Dick Cheney waterboarded himself. It's so hot I'm sweating like a priest at a little league game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Morrison Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 When the temperature inside a house is above the highest set point of the thermostat, I either jump start the furnace a la Katen, or more often, I take something out of the owner's freezer and ask the broker to hold it directly on top of the thermostat. If you know you are going to a vacant house, maybe you could bring one of those reusable freezer pack things in a cooler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Download Attachment: DSCN9234.JPG 152.32 KB 1:10 PM Brookline, MA... hot has Hades out and I'm in the boiler room.. 60's multi-apt bldg.. I drank a lottah wattah... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Download Attachment: DSCN9275.JPG 175.7 KB Over 100 on the EPDM... nice view to the SW though.. We is lucky here in Boston area... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Bain, gotta get yourself one of them there Pentax W-90's. Mine is working great in the heat and humidity. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Inspectorjoe Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 I read about that incident. Luckily, the ice cream man made it out in time. He was last seen chillin' in a pool with a cold Yuengling. Smart man. Click to Enlarge 65.56 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale McNutt Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 "By the way, I can sympathize with you guys across the rest of the country. The high temperature in Portland today was 68 degrees and I almost perspired a few times." The last time I was in Oregon was August of 2004. It was 105 in Eugene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randynavarro Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I'm a week late to this one, but summer hasn't really hit us in the northwest. It sucks. Today is forecast to be about 65 deg. Yesterday morning, my furnace kicked on. I had the t-stat set at 58 thinking that would be fine for the summer. I'm appreciative of the cool weather especially in the attics, but this is almost unbearable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 Yeah, Randy is on the money. My brother drove out to Boise last week to pick up a spare set of wings for one of his planes and he decided to drive the rest of the way to Seattle and spend some time poking around the area with his grandson to see the sights. Days were decent - in the high 60's to low 70's and sunny or partly cloudy most days he was here but at night the temps dropped way down and they were complaining about how friggin' cold it was. He left here Sunday morning and called that night from Bozeman where he said it was over 100 degrees. The sky is kind of dirty bathtub white today - no clouds, just constant cloud cover that really doesn't look like clouds so much as it looks like a dirty sky. I'm sitting here typing this in the ground floor office on the west side of the building which won't get warmer until the afternoon sun is coming from the west above that cover and it's cool enough inside that I'm just a little bit chilly. It's 9:30 and the dew is still on the grass and there's dew clinging to leaves and fir needles in the trees outside my window that hasn't evaporated yet. Weird the way the high center of the country is hotter than the south and east coast. Maybe that caldera is heating up in Yellowstone and we're getting ready for the big blow they've been predicting for so many years. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 I'm also a tad late but that's because I was was on vacation last week, basting in my own juices in Gettysburg, DC and Hershey. Driving home through Chambersburg, PA on Saturday afternoon the thermometer in the car said 103. It didn't dip below 90 until we got as far North as Warren, and we got there at dusk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted July 27, 2011 Report Share Posted July 27, 2011 This will be back way too soon and for way too long for me to wish this little heat wave away. Click to Enlarge 22.49 KB I like this much better. Click to Enlarge 35.96 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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