Don't tell anyone, but it's the perfect temperature here in Puyallup; 69 right now.
It's been comfortable here for quite awhile; I heard it only got to 90, twice this year. always cools to the mid 50's at night.
Not much rain thought, lawn is looking brown; but I'm not complaining.
Stay cool everyone; I remember, as a kid, we'd run cold water over our wrists. Not sure it really worked, but we thought it did...
I hope everybody is having a great weekend, I know I am!
Dougie
Coworker claimed he hadn't called because his phone was too hot. Said he was going to take a trip to Hell to cool off over the weekend.
It's so hot here the corn in the field started popping. The horse thought it was snow and froze to death.
The heat index was around 109°F yesterday afternoon. In the early evening, we had a thunderstorm roll through while I drove out to look at a house. The outside temp on my car dropped to 72° within an hour.
Yes hot and humid. We look to get a break this coming week. Friday the internal temp of a r12 hit 112 in grass next to a lake. That was 2pm. We have seen over 100. Plus high humidity. I had to count the cattle in woods last few days. They are grazing at night and early morning late afternoon. They are staying in the shade lol.
Meanwhile in Kansas
Last evening we had a ten inch rain in about ten minutes time.
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The drops were all ten inches apart.
Meanwhile in Texas.
Cooling off his regeneration station in the mud.
Nah, it's been cold all year, it's pushing up into mid 90's once in a while, forecast is mid 90's early this week, mid 70's for highs later in the week, basically a cool summer. It's already August and haven't had the hot spells we usually do.
It is hot outside, even in the shade. My thermometer (in the shade) says 88° with 70%+ humidity. No wind to speak of, just thick, hot air. It's the kind of heat that has the cicadas singing and the people staying indoors in the A/C. This morning, following a several hour power outage, our A/C decided it was not coming back on, ever. It is supposed to be our family day. Funny, even the offer of free pizza isn't working to get the kids/grands over in this heat.
We just had a week in the 90s which I had been waiting on to extract honey from the bee frames. Honey flows much better on a hot day. I have big fans to keep my garage cool but they stayed off until all of the honey had been swung out of the frames, filtered, and bottled. Otherwise it would have been like that old ketchup commercial where the kid is sitting there waiting for a dollop of very thick ketchup to drop onto his plate.
Over the weekend I talked with a buddy that lives down in Morgan City, LA. He said the weather was pretty much "standard" for this time of year. He called it "95-95-95"...meaning it's 95 degrees with 95% humidity 95% of the time. 😉
Extracted from the Johnny Cash song A Boy Named Sue, about half way through the song:
Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
It's all relative. If you live in a cooler climate, 60s feel warm. Personally, I think it's way too hot when it gets over 76 or so, and I'd prefer it just hang around in the mid to high 60s all the time.
There was a serious heat wave in the Portland area last summer, but this year has been about average with highs -mostly- in the low '80s. So far.
This was my instrument panel on July 27, probably about 1530 in the afternoon. It has been even warmer depending on various locations. The speedometer was obviously wrong.
When I lived in Southwest Michigan I learned the locals were about to die if the temp ever hit 90. Very few had air conditioners in their home.
The speedometer was obviously wrong.
LOL. I looked at that and though 84° - that isn't too bad. Then did a double take and realized you were working hard to make the speedometer match the temp for a more aesthetic picture!
