It’s actually kind of overcast and dreary this morning, but the humidity is pretty bad. It will get worse, though:
Parts of 32 states plus Washington, D.C., were under heat advisories, warnings or watches Wednesday as a deadly heat wave that has blasted the Midwest expanded eastward.
Actual temperatures in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York were expected to flirt with 100 degrees in the coming days.
AccuWeather meteorologist Henry Margusity said that it could feel like 110 degrees in those cities.
Along with the heat, patchy but severe thunderstorms were forecast across the upper Midwest, through the Ohio Valley and into the mid-Atlantic region.
Where the storms hit, humidity could become even more stifling afterward, Chris Vaccaro, a National Weather Service spokesman, said Tuesday.
Last night I walked the girls around the block and it was so muggy it was like trying to breathe through a wet wool blanket.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
this heat is destroying my mojination.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
even though mojination is a wolfism, not a tunchistration.
beltane
It’s lovely here in Vermont. Remind me to shut up come March when I’m complaining about the neverending winter.
gex
I have a nordic dog here in MN (American Eskimo). With heat indexes up to 115 these last few days, I couldn’t even walk him. When it starts to get in the low to mid 80’s he can barely handle it.
Gus
Phhht, that’s for babies. 120 in Minneapolis.
General Stuck
Not too bad here. It starts out hot, then gives way to clouds that is normal for our two month monsoon season. Not a lot of rain so far, but that is supposed to change soon.
I hate humidity in the heart of summer. When I lived in Biloxi, I used to sweat while sleeping with the air conditional turned up to boogaloo.
shortstop
We had a bizarrely severe storm at 3:00 a.m. along the lakefront — the third baseman said the doppler showed it being only about 30 city blocks in size. The dog, who is a generally timid type but was always down with organic sounds before, has developed a thunder phobia in the last few weeks. Her trainer tells us that she’s seeing this happen to many dogs right now. Obviously, these pooches haven’t listened to Lord Monckton and don’t realize that all the severe weather events this spring/summer are just a fluke, or perhaps all in our heads.
Mr Stagger Lee
In the tradition of Denis Leary’s I’m a A–hole, the Tacoma area is to reach a high of 68 and cloudy today. I think we had only two days of reaching 80.
Maude
@beltane:
Not to worry, I will.
It is not nice here in NJ. My friend and I walked a bit and the humidity irritates her asthma.
MikeJ
@Mr Stagger Lee: KING-5 the other day said we’ve had a total of 70 minutes at 80 or above this year.
Poopyman
@gex and @Gus:
Hot and humid is the norm this time of year here in the DC area, yet the bump to 100 this week is giving the weatherfolk on TV weathergasms. I can only imagine what it’s like for folks in the midwest who are getting hit worse than we are. And I can NOT imagine being a farmer in this weather.
moe99
To be fair, MikeJ, Seattle has had 18 hours over 70 degrees this summer so far. Today’s high is predicted to be 66 degrees and cloudy. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
I can assure you that the river area of the Ohio Valley is horrifying. But Al Gore is fat.
Morbo
I’ve seen people in the south saying we have no right to complain about the heat. Yes we do, the hot summer is why we don’t live in the south. Well, OK, not the only reason.
Violet
Those of us who live in that kind of weather from May through September every year scoff at your whining. Welcome to the sauna.
artem1s
It’s been fairly typical hear on NE OH. 90’s with humidity. But not too bad as it has rained a couple of times and knocked the temp back a bit. We haven’t gotten to the 90+ days when the afternoon sprinkle does nothing but ramp up the humidity another 5%. As long as we get some air off the lake there is at least some relief at night.
We’re suppose to get a cold front over the next 24 hours that will take up back into the high 70s. Nirvana.
Mary Jane
I realize 2 1/2 years of teabagger nonsense has made me a mean person. My step-brother believes climate change is liberal rubbish and that Lord Monckton is “brilliant”. He works outside in Ohio and I don’t give a shit if he’s miserable.
It’s warm but not uncomfortable here in Southern California, home of Hollywood elites and undocumented paid-to-vote Mexicans.
Paul in KY
Extremely hot weather is a great excuse to drink beer.
So there’s that.
Violet
@Morbo:
Of course you have a right to complain. I live in this misery every summer and I complain every year. Can’t stand this weather. Right now I’m just holding on until October when I can breathe again.
Paul in KY
Gen Stuck, just read you lived in Biloxi for a while. I spent 8 months there at Keesler AFB. 1982 time frame.
The only city 2 miles wide & 20 miles long!
artem1s
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I did my graduate work at OU in Athens. One July it was so humid there were days it didn’t really rain in the middle of the afternoon as much as the air would start forming water droplets all around you. It was very weird. But that winter was the first time I ever heard thunder during a snow storm too. But I still love it there.
Linda Featheringill
@artem1s:
Your weather forecast for NEO [north east ohio].
I don’t think so, dear. It will probably drop into the 70s at night but is predicted to be over 90 degrees until next Monday, when it will drop down about 5 degrees.
I got my information from weather dot com.
MikeJ
@moe99: Got new sunglasses from zenni the other day and haven’t had enough sun to use them.
Chris
I live in DC and bike to and from work every day. HOLY SMOKES. “Heat wave” doesn’t even begin to cover it. It’s like showering in human sweat. Going to work isn’t too bad (downhill and early morning), it’s the way back that kills me.
martha
Currently 85 in Madison with about 80% humidity, aiming for 99 with 85% humidity today. So supposedly that equals a heat index of 110 or so. Yes, the doggie got walked at 6. It’s summer, so I’m actually loving it. But then, I’m not a construction worker.
Comrade Javamanphil
@beltane I have successfully made it this far without putting in the window AC units but I suspect tomorrow night’s predicted low of 79 will force my hand. Pity since it will cool right back down again into glorious VT summer.
Linda Featheringill
Also, too. Those folks who say we yankees don’t have the right to complain never complain about anything themselves, do they?
No complaints, no criticism, no arguments. Nothing but sweetness and light.
Hmmph.
scav
shortstop: Seriously, that was only 30 blocks ?! I saw the radar throwing it toward us from WI after midnight but it shrunk down to that? Because that was a stunning example of concentrated thunder and every single inch of it went over my head for which I am well pleased (I have no traumatized pet to worry about, only some very flattened poppies).
Mark D
While it always gets hot and muggy here in KC, I can’t remember a stranger summer — mild and wet at first, and now weeks of 95+ degree weather with no rain in sight.
I’m ssssoooooooooo glad we bought a small pool (just 10′ round x 32″ deep). Can’t do laps, but can cool off quite nicely … especially after driving home since my car’s AC died (which sucks as much as it sounds; as soon as I come to a stop, it’s just absurdly hot).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and… fucktwits gonna fucktweet
h/t watertiger
Teak111
Lovely here in SD, going to be great weather for Comic Con. Sorry the rest of you are roasting and sweating. Come on out, love to have you.
Monkey Business
Last night at 12:30am, I went outside for a cigarette. It was still so hot and so humid, despite only wearing a pair of boxer shorts, I was positively dripping with sweat after five minutes.
I made the joke that I don’t need to go to the gym; I’ll just go outside for fifteen minutes and that’s all the sweating I’ll need for the day.
Poopyman
That’s true, but what does that have to do with the weather?
RIMSHOT!
(I get to say this as a native Pittsburgher.)
Rosalita
I’m still emotionally scarred from last winter so I can’t bring myself to complain about the summer yet. Contractors are coming to finally repair my ice damming damage on Monday.
adolphus
Wow, and it isn’t even supposed to break 100 here in my neck of Florida. I was thinking about breaking out the parkas.
Lee
My and the family just got back from a 12 day vacation in San Francisco. We came back to the 100+ heat of North Texas.
The high for the entire time we were there was something like 72.
We are ready to go back.
gex
@11 Poopyman
I am fortunate that I get my weather information from a phone app, and don’t have to deal with the inanities of the local weather forecasters going nuts over the weather.
I can tell that it is insanely hot because when I get out of the pool there isn’t even a little bit of a chill, even in the wind. And usually the pool makes it so you don’t even notice how hot it is. Not so this week.
DBrown
Be grateful for it being only a heat index of 100 – 104 in DC for this is the GOOD weather that you will tell kids about ten years from now – AGW is a bitch. Thanks to all the ass wipes for denying it and carrying all the water so others could profit with no effort.
satby
For a good chunk of this last heat wave, Chicago and SW MI have been hotter than my mom’s home in St. Petersburg, FL.
But global climate change is a hoax so it’s all good.
Poopyman
Not to minimize the issue, but this is the statistical peak temperature for the summer according to NWS.
jman
You guys are stealing all the heat! The forecast says 74 degrees today here in the PNW. I should be able to ride without arm warmers this afternoon.
CaseyL
The generally cool, generally overcast climate is one of the things I like best about Seattle, and always have. I get nervous if it’s too sunny for too long, and downright cranky when the temperature goes above 80.
The Pacific NW is going to be the last habitable spot in the continental US in about 30 years, when we will be overrun by folks fleeing the blizzard-drought-monsoon cycle in the rest of the country.
shortstop
scav @28: Yeah, according to 3B. He grabbed his phone off the nightstand and took a look (while strapping the little miss into her thundershirt) and said it was a narrow strip running from California Ave. to the lake. It was mighty strong, yes.
Linnaeus
I generally like the mild climate here and the rainy season doesn’t get to me too much, but I must say that summer so far has been a disappointment. They’re usually quite glorious, but summer this year feels like it’s been a slightly warmer version of March. I’m actually looking forward to visiting the family in the Midwest next month and getting a little more heat.
DBrown
Poopyman – try reading outside your box. I’ll cut and paste my other post:
The NYT just wrote that the NOAA has calculated (from over 4000 US stations) our average temp for this decade and it is 1.5 C (2.7 F) increase over the previous time frame (based on a thirty year average so the comparison is to the 1970+ time frame, not the last decade.) That is a huge difference and explains the heat waves and their terrible effects across the US.
One location avearge that you use for a given area does not add any useful information relative to what we are having . The temps are higher not just for summer but for all year long.
magurakurin
Not questioning the heat your feeling, but according to the NOAA calculator that would be a heat index of 161.
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/heat.php
Weather smeather. We had over 1000mm of rain in Japan the last two days as a typhoon passed over. It slammed into the mountains of Shikoku, the island I live on, just about 50 kilometers south of me. That’s 39 inches of rain. 3 more than Seattle averages in a year. And humidity, we got that too. In spades. But it is actually rather pleasant tonight since the storm is now well and truly gone. A beautiful starry night and a relatively cool breeze. Tomorrow it will back to our standard hot and humid weather.
daverave
“Last night I walked the girls around the block and it was so muggy it was like trying to breathe through a wet wool blanket.”
Trying that little Hitchens waterboarding experiment, JC?
Poopyman
@DBrown:
I blew that one. I meant that it’s the week of the maximum, not the temperature, which CLEARLY is not the norm, but (in DC) near the record high.
R-Jud
I was going to moan about our chilly, damp, not-summer, but I prefer it to extreme heat and humidity. Like living in a dog’s mouth.
RalfW
All time record dewpoint of 82 deg yesterday in Minneapolis. This is a dewpoint that is unheard of (obviously!) and causes significant heat stress to people, and leads to major flash-flooding potential, among other things. Plus it just feels debilitating.
RalfW
Yeah, and it snowed in the winter, and the deniers went nuts about how that proves lubrul people lie.
chopper
@Gus:
120? fuh. a town in iowa had a heat index of 131.
icedfire
Moorhead, MN had a dew point of 88 and a heat index of 134 yesterday afternoon. All-time state records for both, and at the time it was the highest reported heat index…in the world.
I thought the unofficial 84 dew point in Minneapolis yesterday was bad…sheesh. The freak supercell hailstorm and descending wall cloud that hit at 11am only gave more water to evaporate into the air and make our lives miserable…
Heliopause
Here in beautiful Washington state our near-record cool spring and summer is continuing unabated. Therefore, global warming is a hoax.
DBrown
Poopyman – if I counted the number of times I made mistakes … better not – others may write that number down and remind me.
fuyura
This is the kind of weather I’ve always called cream of oxygen soup.