It's disgustingly hot here this week. High temps around 100F with heat index (real feel) values of around 110F. When I got in my car yesterday afternoon at 3pm, this is what my dashboard thermometer registered:
The actual temperature wasn't quite this high. This is the result of my car sitting and baking in a mostly empty parking lot with no trees and no shade while I'm at work. I think it was really more like 101...still awful. The humidity makes it 1000x worse. Then there was today...
It's like getting into a furnace to drive home.
Tonight is supposed to be the last night of this heatwave, and as I'm typing this at 6:30pm a nasty looking storm is brewing outside. There have been warnings all afternoon that there's lots of "storm fuel" in the atmosphere after three days of such heat. There's a threat of hail, high winds (that's already happening), dangerous lightning (I hope not), and torrential rain.
I'll be glad for the rain, at least, and a return to normal summer temperatures tomorrow will be most welcome.
Crossing my fingers!
Normal is a thing of the past. Adaptations are in order for the next long time. Optimistically speaking, as though there is a "long time".
ReplyDeleteThat would be way too hot for me! Did you need to wear oven mitts to handle the steering wheel while driving, lol?
ReplyDeleteWe tried to have a getaway but the "feels like" temperatures are in the 100's and it's too much for us. We drove our air-conditioned car home early. We had a thunderstorm but it is still stinking hot.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain; we had 110 feels like temps, too, but tonight the rains came and we are cooling a bit.
ReplyDeleteI hope the storm and its companions didn't cause any damage to your house and in your immediate neighbourhood, Jennifer.
ReplyDeleteVery early this morning, at around 4:00 am, I woke up because of the wind picking up so much that I felt it safer to shut all the windows except for the bedroom; it was a shame to shut out the slightly fresher early morning air from my flat, but I really didn't dare leave everything open. It didn't rain, so I opened all windows again at around 5:30 am. It is just gone 8:00 as we speak, and I am on my way to shutting everything against today's heat - no A/C here, so heat management happens the old-fashioned way, but of course we get temps in the 100s Fahrenheit not quite as often as you do.