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.
Such is the wrath of The Lord! You bombed Fordo in Iran - killing a goatherd boy on the mountain. His name was Jesus. He was sheltering by a boulder, looking up at the night sky.
ReplyDeleteThat heat is too much. I hope it breaks soon and cools down, and that the rain is of sensible proportions and not Biblical.
ReplyDeleteHorrible! So glad the heatwave is supposed to pass. Hope the storm isn’t all that bad and the rain is refreshing.
ReplyDeleteToday is our last day for extreme heat. Tomorrow the high is only 91! I hate it when it gets this hot!
ReplyDeleteWe've only hit the high 90s (F) and I've avoided driving anywhere because sitting in an oven until the A/C kicks on is not my idea of fun.
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