This Heat is UNbelievable!
 

man it's so hot here at the airport, the devil called and placed an order for a new A/C unit!!

latest weather info here at KLVJ - KLVJ 021953Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW060 36/20 A2985

pearland: 7/02/05 at 1953 zulu - auto observation - wind: calm, visibility: 10 statute miles, sky: few clouds at 6,000 ft., temp: 36 celcius, dewpoint 20 altimiter: 29.85

97 degrees!!!!! wtf!!?! someone PLEASE turn on the A/C! I did a fuel ferry flight an hour ago and probably sweat off 5 pounds off of my already skinny ass! this sucks! at least we bought a margarita machine today that we'll try out after the flying day is done. that's something to look forward to.....

97 degrees? You're kidding right? What kind of sissy are you?

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yeah, but hauling fuel around running from airplane to airplane sucks! it was over 100 yesterday and i bet it gets there today. not to mention the thermal turbulance up there right now. it's just not comfortable.

It's fantastic in my part of the country... low 80s, little humidity, nice breeze. We suffered the hot crap last week. I hate hot weather, I hate summer... and I read in a magazine that you can get Seasonal Affective Disorder in summer... I think I may have it. if fall and winter could hurry up, I'd be much happier.

93,000,000 miles away and it's still uncomfortably warm ...

77°F, 47% humidity.

When, oh when, will winter finally arrive?

*Gasp*
Blasphemer! I've barely tanned...

well my day of flying is officially done. appropriate for the heat I just had my first um well, I don't know the name....it's ice, vanilla blue bell ice cream and rum. pretty tasty! :yum:

In New York in the summer it's 98 degrees and in California it's 76.
In New York in the winter it's 38 degrees and in California it's 76.
In New York there are 6 million hard working people and in California there are 76.

Here also, and I picked today to change out my ac. More in my thread about Lowes & Whrilpool

oh boy, i feel for ya on that one busterb. my flying may have been done but i had to fuel 3 airplanes and pull one around the ramp to the staging area for someone who's taking it in an hour. oh well, at least the heineken is cold!

Rock: good one!

60 deg, cloudy some rain. I love june

*GASP* I never knew anyone else who felt that way but me! Summer in the friggin' valley that is Ohio sucks. It's too hot to even GO OUT from noon to six! It's like winter only you feel guilty for not going outdoors to "enjoy" the weather.

If it's 97 on official temp, what is it on the runways and aprons? :confused:

about 105. i seriously worked my ass off today running around this tiny, overcrowded ramp. i'll try and remember to bring my camera as to show the ramp/area that i operate, for free mind you, well actually i get free airtime. oh, actually if you look quickly at the end of the take off run in the take off run video from the yak attack thread you can see our ramp just before we go almost verticle....but i'll grab a pic anyway......

oh, .MOV on that file link, and kinda big too.

Careful, you might get Lookout and I talking about what it takes to live through the summer in Phoenix! Anything under 110 is doable, after that requires more extreme measures. Look', were you there in the summer of either 1988 or '89 I think it was, when we hit 123? I'm still sorry I didn't buy one of the T-shirts from that event.

Hollywood Tans is open year round.

yeah but that was a "dry" heat ;)

i wasn't there for 123, but i was playing flag football in 1993 when it hit 122 and they had to shut down sky harbor airport.

this weekend was beautiful. 110-113 degrees. i was never more than 15 feet from my swimming pool or a margarita.

this weekend was brutal. with the heat and other things. on one flight that i had sunday, i lost my vacuum pump which powers the artificial horizon and heading indicator. thank god i was in visual conditions. helluva learning experience though. i got to see first hand how the instruments react when they loose the pump. i remember looking down at the AH and it was telling me i was in a dive when in fact i wasn't. heading was way off too so i looked over at the suction guage and it read zilch.

then last night i had a sight seeing flight for fireworks, lost my panel lights, had numerous bogeys in the sky and had to deal with every redneck on that side of town shooting wannabe sam's at me. (at least it seemed that way). shheesh, it was a long night. on the bright side, the 3 major shows were spectacular!

Me three. September to December is my season. June's okay too. But screw this sweating business.

Bullhead City, AZ. Where I went to high school.
Consistantly records hottest place in Arizona (along with Havasu).

High school ditch day involved foil, frozen pizzas, big coolers filled with icy refreshments and the Colorado River, which varies 5 degrees from 52.

125+ temps plus 52 degree water plus instant immersion = shock

The pizza was good tho.

I recall the thermometer on my porch getting stuck at 126 one day. Broke the thermometer.

"But it's a dry heat".

Broiled or Braised, you're still cooked.

I'm told that much heat affects the brain. :eyebrow:

whimps! alright... today it's rather pleasant for Kansas in July... but we ought to be hitting the 100+ mark which isn't so bad.. it's the 98% huimidity that can be a little much.. then again I work in a kitchen, where I fully expect it to break the 120 degree mark.. soon.. then again I try to think positively about it.. some people PAY to go into saunas.. me? I get paid for it.. now where did I put that bodyfat. . .

maybe so but this is at 6:00 p.m.......rediculous! and i'm getting ready to go to an icehouse (ha!) and play in a hold'em tournament....sheesh. at least it's open and a nice hot breeze will be flowing through there.....

I like the birds. Do the pictures correspond to the numbers? Like, that's the temperature that species dies at? :lol:

add more rum and a dash of milk and you have Moose Milk!!!!!

:yum: !!

yeah, mrN if not the heat then the west nile virus! :D

Well---it's getting up there. We're supposed to hit 95 and feel like 110 due to humidity. It's miserable--can't even go outside. Whew! Staying indoors where the
A/C breathes that cool, cool air, eating popsicles.

i'm getting ready to go to the airport and we have an afternoon forecast of 95 with a heat index of 106. and it's humid. today shall suck moving planes around the ramp. sounds like we almost have the same forecast Bri....

pussies, I've done outdoor construction work in 107 of your funny fahrenheit things.

Mad dogs and Englishmen, then.

how about working on the flightline with engines screaming, wearing full BDU dress out, and 118 in the shade? been there done that. when it gets that hot, standard procedure is that when the third person passes out, everyone calls it quits.

You know what's really funny? On the local weather report yesterday, they displayed the temperature as such:

Temp: 102
Wind Chill: 97

at least someone knows what i'm talking about :cool:

edit: last weekend i damn near had a heat stroke putting the interior back in a piper aerostar. that was brutal. i didn't even see it coming. i went in the office to get the dvd screen (mounted behind the pilots, flip down screen) for the passangers and when i got the the office i went light headed and things started to get very dark. i had to rest in the office for about an hour before i could complete the installation.

wind chill? in austin? in july? now THAT'S funny!!

Try stacking bales of hay in a 140 deg F hay loft and the dirt and dust that was plastered to you starts dropping off because you've stopped sweating.
Grab a drink and every pore bursts open like a dam dumping out the amount equivalent of what you're drinking. :sweat:

I know exactly what you're talking about.

Oh, I forgot.... after the hayloft, the next time you blow your nose, don't use anything you're not going to bury or burn. :lol:

Then there is crossing the continental divide seven times in one day on your bicycle, not peeing once the whole day because you never had to, and when you finally do, it's almost as dark as coffee. 107º

Yesterday we were 106 with a heat index of 115........

Jag i see your construction in 107 , with tearing down a burned out lumber yard at 114-8 standing temp , I don't rember but it set a record in Memphis , coated in black dust ,I have NO idea what the heat index was , but it was BRUTAL !!!!!!!

Bruce , never stacked hay but try working on a man lift 40+ feet up next to the roof of a whear house , you can actualy tell the temp by watching cigerette smoke ,
if its floating up , hell its cool
if its hanging around your head , it starting to get hot
if it is flowing DOWN , well it is HOT !!!!!!!

Most of the work i do now days is out side , i had to paint my hard hat silver to help shed some heat ( and yes it DOES make a slight difference ) , and my boss wounders why i carry a fan !!!

Oh yeah...it's easy to see why those roofers would lie, cheat, steal and even kill to get a job in the union hall. Those roofs are hell on earth.

Somewhere around here I have a white, broad brimmed, linemans hard hat. It's a lot better than a bump cap in the sun. :)

"about 105. i seriously worked my ass off today running around this tiny, overcrowded ramp."

Hmmm..
I don't want to get into an I can outdo you war, but heres my job: I work in a hardware warehouse. I'm in the shipping dept. We load trailers every day. More than half are floor loaded (not palletized). Several each day are calculated to be at 100 to 120%. What does that mean? It means you are stuck inside a metal can where the temps will routinely be 20-30 degrees (or more) higher than the air temperature. There's no air flow. And you are loading cases of paint and nails to the ceiling of the trailer. Not to mention pipe, concrete, fence post, barbed wire and the other 65,000 items in this warehouse. We had many days over 90 last summer and uncountable days in the eighties. And lest I forget...you better hustle. Big brother is watching your line count.

All of the above working conditions totally suck and you've my sympathy. I used to be a nurse in a steel mill. I'll bet they're falling out today. Gonna be 110 degrees and it already feels like it at 11:00 in the a.m.

What Greenhouse effect?

yeah, all of these conditions suck. hands down.

This heat is why I suffer from seasonal affective disorder in the summer... it's so damn hot!!! AAAAHHHHHH!

Not a war, just commiserating and informing so when you see people doing the jobs described, you can appreciate they're earning their money.
I've always maintained that people that work outside or even semi-outside like you do are only to be envied about 5 days a year. :biggrin:

can't really complain, since i'm a paper pusher in an air conditioned office right now. although, when i was working my way through college i worked at a power plant as summer help. they had us do all of the crap work (surprisingly) and one of the jobs was cleaning out the seventh floor of the power station........which was the boiler room floor where the coal dust conveyors came in. you had to wear every type of personal protection available, goggles, respirator, ear plugs (it was LOUD) hard hat, paper suit, gloves, you name it. all in 110-115 degree temperatures. was fun, especially when you blew your nose at the end of the day and black stuff came out.

right now, i'm loathing leaving work because i have my muay thai class tonight and the weather report says its 110 with humidity here in pa. we practice in an upstairs room with, of course, no ac or fans.

Oooow, power plants. That sucks big time. :dead:

According to local news, we're supposed to have a front come through central illinois sometime tuesday night, wednesday... bringing much cooler temps for the rest of the week.


all i can say is - BRING IT ON!

I saw my cousin baling hay for his dairy the day before we left for Costa Rica (I kept a safe distance). Our last night in CR we stayed at a dairy farm outside San Jose at 6,000 ft. The cattle graze year round at temperatures that are mid-Spring here in PA. That's right, dairy farming without making hay. What will those crazy Ticos think of next?

Better milk year round too. :thumb:

We're in a code red emergency at least through tomorrow.

mowed the overgrown lawn today, wasn't too bad. only had to stop twice but it was way to damn hot to mow NBN's also......(yeah, i'm his "lawn boy") :help:

oh, here's a fun thing. it seems seems I have gotten behind on my electricity bill, to the tune of 59.21 so a couple of days ago the fucking westar enegry guy has started coming around wanting to shut off my electricity.. well... seeing as how it's been an average of 108 or more.. means of course I've been running my A/C.. (not so much for me.. I mean I work in an enviroment that is that hot or hotter, so it doesn't bother me that much..I do have a 16 year old cat though and I don't think he would survive.. ANYWAY! ) I call them and try to work out a deal.. I mean I get paid of friday.. one week from when they started this bullshit (yes I know.. I was/am later on my bill..but not even 60$!?!?!) so. not that it ought to cause any of you any distress, If you don't hear from me for about a week.. well.. I'll be slumming it at the library. I know there are laws against shutting of peoples power in this kind of heat.. but damn.. what the fuck.. the guy is I dunno... angry at me for not being able to have my power shut off... it's weird. (heh, the fun thing is that I talked to an old friend of mine who used to work for them, it seems the trick is to go to the 'fuse box' and pull out the little peice of plastic they put between the connections... and walla! power! the only thing about that... is that they drive by to make sure you have no power... fucking weird...

The saved max temp on my thermometer is 112 degrees F. I'm not sure if that was today or yesterday. It is now 69 degrees and dropping. The front was noisy and wet but I'll take it.

That wasn't the front, just a line of T-storms! Front comes for us tomorrow late afternoon-night.

It came through here about 6:45, 7:00 tonight. We even had to go into the basement as the tornado alarms were going off. I haven't had to do that in ages.

Bakeries in the summer.

Always the contrarian. Well here we are in my kind of weather (no -that's not satin; its pronounced satan). Been doing quite a few bike rides routinely beyond what I originally planned for - because it is so nice. I love this weather. Has not yet gotten hot enough (for me or the computers) to power any air conditioners. (BTW this is also the best weather to test your computers so that hardware problems can be identified and eliminated before problems cause data loss).

To justify a bike ride, first an objective is defined. One place has great chilli. Right there is ten miles one way. Two days ago, I rode a long circular route that probably turned a 16 mile trip into something like 30 for some diner coffee.

We ran a roofing company in my high school and college days. 100 degrees? No problem. We moved to the less sunny side of that building and just kept working. Walking on a roof when hot tends to do more damage to the roof.

While drinking that cup of coffee, someone desperately asked the waitress for something liquid and replenishing. Apparently he had suffered heat dehydration two days ago; so bad that he still had the headache today. All that gatorade, ice tea, orange juice, etc had done nothing. Of course. Long before gatorade was sold in bottles, we were buying it in powdered form - $1 per 1 gallon packets. And yet on the roof, gatorade was about as useful as coke for quenching a thirst.

I would come home bloated in fluids and yet still be thirsty. One gets that thirsty not due to insufficient water. The need is for salts and minerals; and not sodium. The only fluid that replenishes those salts is milk. Skim milk. At least one quart - usually two. Within half hour of drinking lots of milk, that headache is gone.

When doing house framing in this weather, I also drink a whole quart of milk for lunch. They wonder where I get the energy? I keep telling them. Don't believe the propaganda from gatorade and bottle water companies. Water is important. As much as one pint every hour the way I would work. But especially so are the salts and minerals. There are little in gatorade, Mountain Dew, and all those other hyped drinks. The guy has a headache for days because he was still short of whatthings that milk provides.

Another important fluid is orange juice or things that also provide those necessary minerals - ie bananas, or peaches.

Tonight is so pleasant that I may take the bike out for a near midnight ride. Good time because roads that I normally avoid due to heavy traffic are all mine this time of night. We just don't get enough days and nights like this. As usual, the contrarian. It implies what my real religion was. But then I learned how easy this weather is air conditioning is completely avoided in April, May, and June. Drink the right things such as a couple of tall cold glasses of milk. Avoid fluids hyped by commercial propaganda.