Hot enough for you?

It was 85 here earlier, but our damn dew point is so high, it feels at least 10 degrees warmer. It sucks when you look at the current temp and get excited that it's not as hot as it has been, and then have to realize it's miserable anyway.

 

Summer finally decided to show up in West Texas. We are supposed to be in the mid-90s for the next 10 days at least. I have a feeling this is going to be one of those years where fall doesn't hit until Thanksgiving.

 

95 degrees in early August? Gotta be global warming.

It's August ... it's supposed to be hot. Just coat your body from neck to toe in Johnson's baby powder and everything will be OK.

(Truthfully, I cut grass for 3 1/2 hours in 97-degree heat Saturday and I thought I was going to have a stroke. Supposed to play golf Tuesday with tee off scheduled for 12:30 or so. Forecast is calling for it to be 98 that day).

 

Yep, it's hot enough for me. Friday and Saturday it was hot enough for me to park the canoe and go for a swim in the lake. After I got over my usual fear of potentially brushing up against a living creature in the water, I had a lot of fun. I boldly went where I hadn't gone before.

 

But I can put on a mock, fleece or jacket of some sort in the winter. Can't peel skin when it's hotter than hell.

 

I'll take hot over cold any day.

 

F*** a bunch of hot. Perfect is low 80s during the day with it cooling off at night down into the 60s
At 2:19 a.m., here in the sweaty South, it is 83 degrees with a heat index of 87.

 

Supposedly, Halifax's summer is supposed to end in the middle of August. David Phillips from Environment Canada says that BC and Nova Scotia will experience cooler than normal temperatures for August and September.

All I say is bring on the Fall, because it's my favourite season. Can't wait to go to Cabot Trail and Glooscap come October. I hate the summer.

 

Yes I am. ;D

 

For virtually the entire month of July, it rained here in East Texas. Suddenly, the rain's stopped for the most part and Old Man Weather is deciding to punish us with extra humidity (on top of what we've come to expect). It freaking sucks outside.

 

That's the fun part. I like it when minnows think my leg hairs are worms and they come up and nip at them. It tickles.

Yes, it's hot. It's also August on the Plains. It's also the first time in memory that we haven't officially registered 100° on the thermometer yet. We usually hit that in late May or early June, but we haven't hit 100° yet.
Gonna get close this week, though, with highs forecast at 98° all week.
I don't know how those cavalry guys made it through this what with all those wool uniforms and such.