|
|
Post by simnettpratt on Jul 16, 2018 17:52:39 GMT -5
Just looked at the forecast for my town for the next week. I can't wait for autumn.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jul 16, 2018 18:33:49 GMT -5
Look out. The forecast is for an extended heat wave for both of us for the next couple of weeks. I was just in your neighborhood (Tyler) this weekend and I thought I might not make it. Getting up at sunrise tomorrow to fix the lawnmower, but I might not live to finish it.
On a positive note, the mosquitoes seem to be dying off. I am otherwise staying in my 64 degree home for the duration.
|
|
|
|
Post by simnettpratt on Jul 16, 2018 18:49:41 GMT -5
No kidding; I'd say 106° qualifies. My A/C can reduce the temperature by twenty degrees and that's it. 100° outside means 80° inside, with the poor A/C puffing away. It was new maybe five years ago, too. 87° at midnight??
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Location:
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 19:04:15 GMT -5
WOW....and I thought we’ve been hot here in NC! Just stay hydrated and out of the sun as much as possible!
|
|
|
|
Post by AJ on Jul 16, 2018 19:53:04 GMT -5
WOW....and I thought we’ve been hot here in NC! Just stay hydrated and out of the sun as much as possible! Ted that heat wave will probably be over us next week. I've seen temperatures as high as 108 degrees during the day and 89 degrees at midnight. I think that heat wave lasted 4-5 days. It can get miserable where we live. Just pray we don't get 75+% humidity if we get hit with that heat wave. AJ |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Location:
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 20:15:11 GMT -5
WOW....and I thought we’ve been hot here in NC! Just stay hydrated and out of the sun as much as possible! Ted that heat wave will probably be over us next week. I've seen temperatures as high as 108 degrees during the day and 89 degrees at midnight. I think that heat wave lasted 4-5 days. It can get miserable where we live. Just pray we don't get 75+% humidity if we get hit with that heat wave. AJ AJ, I remember the summer was had here just two years ago. Many days here in NC reading three didgets. Not even close to the 116 degrees in Libya, that’s for darn sure! |
|
|
|
Post by simnettpratt on Jul 16, 2018 20:24:09 GMT -5
I bought a game on eBay from a woman in Barrow, Alaska (northernmost US town). We had a fun conversation. I asked if it was cold and she said 'No, it's only twenty below. This time last winter it was fifty below; now that was cold!'
Whaling season had just started and they were cutting up whales on the ice; she said they were stinky.
|
|
|
|
Post by roadsdiverged on Jul 16, 2018 20:24:29 GMT -5
We're actually getting a break from the heat this week. Mid to high 80s for highs, mid to low 70s for lows. Humidity is high during the day and it slaps you in the face when you walk out, but it's perfect smoking weather outside right now. 77, clear skys, very very light breeze. It's odd that it's not 100+ here in mid July.
|
|
|
|
Post by simnettpratt on Jul 16, 2018 20:27:18 GMT -5
Ideal outside temperature for me is about 50° - even 77° is way too hot 
It's cold. [puts on coat] Not cold.
It's hot. [takes off coat] Still hot.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Location:
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 20:35:21 GMT -5
When it’s cold you can wear all thermal clothing and stay very comfortable up to 20 below easy. If it’s hot even walking around neked won’t help.......you’ll just burn faster!
|
|
|
|
Post by roadsdiverged on Jul 16, 2018 21:02:00 GMT -5
Oh dont get me wrong, I LOVE cold weather. This is just the coolest it's been here in a long time. Our spring lasted a total of a week, but spread over 3 weeks. It went from cold to hot in no time.
Our days are coming. When people talk about south Georgia's summer, I have NEVER heard them say "the heat and humidity is just lovely!"
I spent my work day in a small attic spreading insulation. Went up dry, came down soaked.
The US is hot all over, water, water, water...
|
|
Florida
Junior Member
Posts: 133
First Name: Joe
Favorite Pipe: Meerschaums
Favorite Tobacco: All of it
Location:
|
Post by Florida on Jul 16, 2018 21:20:12 GMT -5
Amazing! I'm going to bookmark this page and save it for January when everyone is complaining about the snow storms and freezing rain. 😂
|
|
|
|
Post by just ol ed on Jul 16, 2018 21:25:57 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by simnettpratt on Jul 16, 2018 21:38:52 GMT -5
You won't see me complaining about freezing rain and snowstorms - I love that stuff When Galveston would get it's half inch of snow, all the schools, banks and shops would close, all the cars would crash, and all the adults were outside trying to scrape together little midget snowmen.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Location:
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 21:41:01 GMT -5
Batavia NY......Sylvania Country....you been living there that long? |
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jul 16, 2018 21:52:50 GMT -5
No kidding; I'd say 106° qualifies. My A/C can reduce the temperature by twenty degrees and that's it. 100° outside means 80° inside, with the poor A/C puffing away. It was new maybe five years ago, too. 87° at midnight?? My AC is 12 years old, (knocking on wood), and it's still cooling well. Our home is completely shaded all day. Makes all the difference. Previous homes in the sun couldn't be cooled more than 20 degrees. |
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jul 16, 2018 21:54:31 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by toshtego on Jul 16, 2018 22:01:17 GMT -5
Heated up to 78 today, the it rained and has been for some hours. About the mid 60s now... Yawn.
You Texas boys have all my sympathy.....
OK, we paid dearly for this interlude- high 90s and 7 percent humidity at 7,778 feet is not fun.
The scorch will return here.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jul 16, 2018 22:19:15 GMT -5
Heated up to 78 today, the it rained and has been for some hours. About the mid 60s now... Yawn.
You Texas boys have all my sympathy.....
OK, we paid dearly for this interlude- high 90s and 7 percent humidity at 7,778 feet is not fun.
The scorch will return here.
You got several hours of rain? Congratulations! I hope it was enough to make a difference. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Location:
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 23:04:07 GMT -5
Look out. The forecast is for an extended heat wave for both of us for the next couple of weeks. I was just in your neighborhood (Tyler) this weekend and I thought I might not make it. Getting up at sunrise tomorrow to fix the lawnmower, but I might not live to finish it. On a positive note, the mosquitoes seem to be dying off. I am otherwise staying in my 64 degree home for the duration. Tyler? Did someone say Tyler? That's where Barbara Bush said she and GHWB were when JFK was assassinated. No intentions implied or meant. Just found that out from a quote in her book. Weather has been miserable here, though not as high as that. I remember the Summer of 80, where the temp didn't dip below 100 degrees at midnight for two weeks. The hawkers were selling Tee's with "So, who's afraid of Hell? I spent the Summer of 80 in Saint Louis." Should have bought one. Sure to be a collectible. |
|
|
|
Post by monbla256 on Jul 16, 2018 23:10:05 GMT -5
Any of you Texas boys remember the summer of '81 when we went 60 days straight of temps over 102? Had a break of some days of the high 90's then back to the 100+ days for another 10 days! Supposedly was the hottest summer on record !  |
|
|
|
Post by simnettpratt on Jul 17, 2018 1:22:31 GMT -5
Yes, I remember that summer. I was in High School about 25 miles south of Fort Worth, so young and tolerated it better than I could now.
|
|
|
|
Post by toshtego on Jul 17, 2018 3:25:49 GMT -5
Heated up to 78 today, the it rained and has been for some hours. About the mid 60s now... Yawn. You Texas boys have all my sympathy..... OK, we paid dearly for this interlude- high 90s and 7 percent humidity at 7,778 feet is not fun. The scorch will return here.
You got several hours of rain? Congratulations! I hope it was enough to make a difference. Thanks. We surely needed it. The Rio ran high and muddy. The ground really sucked up moisture. |
|
|
|
Post by Legend Lover on Jul 17, 2018 6:46:49 GMT -5
Our 'heat wave' of around 75f has subsided. We're back to more manageable temperatures and rain again.
I couldn't cope with that heat.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Location:
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2018 6:47:28 GMT -5
Hang in there boys summer in Texas ends on Halloween. That's when we get to see those cool pictures of people smoking in there garage in a Artic parka.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
Location:
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2018 7:10:13 GMT -5
Our 'heat wave' of around 75f has subsided. We're back to more manageable temperatures and rain again. I couldn't cope with that heat. Rain, rain, rain.......that’s all it did in the U.K. whenever I had the pleasure ( except for one time I had a nasty cabby, I refused to take his 15 minute tour of London, to this day I can here him mumble “ f—king bloody Yank “! At the end I paid my fare, he had the “ unes “ to say “ what, no tip “! I said sure...” plant your corn 🌽 early “! ) The last decent Summer in the U.K. was back in ‘76 as I was told by a Brit enjoying a pipe at a local B&M in London. |
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jul 17, 2018 7:24:40 GMT -5
Any of you Texas boys remember the summer of '81 when we went 60 days straight of temps over 102? Had a break of some days of the high 90's then back to the 100+ days for another 10 days! Supposedly was the hottest summer on record ! I remember it. Luckily I was working in a darkroom on the 4th floor of a 10 story building. I did have to re-light the boilers every evening at 8 pm for the AC because they automatically shut down. I remember a summer in the early 60's that the temp was 106 to 111 every day for a week in Houston. That's when I did the egg frying thing. Mom bought a second window AC that year. Before '61 we just had an attic fan. |
|
|
|
Post by simnettpratt on Jul 17, 2018 8:56:20 GMT -5
Holy crap, it's getting worse; 86° for a low?? C'mon stupid weather.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ronv69 on Jul 17, 2018 9:33:23 GMT -5
Look out. The forecast is for an extended heat wave for both of us for the next couple of weeks. I was just in your neighborhood (Tyler) this weekend and I thought I might not make it. Getting up at sunrise tomorrow to fix the lawnmower, but I might not live to finish it. On a positive note, the mosquitoes seem to be dying off. I am otherwise staying in my 64 degree home for the duration. Tyler? Did someone say Tyler? That's where Barbara Bush said she and GHWB were when JFK was assassinated. No intentions implied or meant. Just found that out from a quote in her book. Weather has been miserable here, though not as high as that. I remember the Summer of 80, where the temp didn't dip below 100 degrees at midnight for two weeks. The hawkers were selling Tee's with "So, who's afraid of Hell? I spent the Summer of 80 in Saint Louis." Should have bought one. Sure to be a collectible. Tyler is a very nice small city about a hundred miles east of Dallas. Famous for it's roses and beautiful women. Just don't visit in June, July, or August. |
|
|
|
Post by pepesdad1 on Jul 17, 2018 10:55:28 GMT -5
Here in north Fla. it is 87 feels like 95 with 65% humidity...storms predicted for later. A/C on high.
|
|
