That's hot

[BrianGriffin]

But in places like South Dakota and Minnesota, that crap is ridiculous

Not really, it's regularly in the 90s in the Dakotas and Minnesota in July and August.

Experienced a 140-degree temperature differential virtually every year in North Dakota; 100+ in the summer, -40 in the winter.

...so that's why nobody lives there

 

[BrianGriffin]

I'm kinda enjoying this. Now everyone up there on the eastern seaboard and in the NE part of this country knows what it's like for us EVERY SUMMER in Kansas/Oklahoma/Texas. There's a reason why we all have central a/c in every building.

The heat wouldn't be so bad here if we had any humidity whatsoever in the air. No humidity + 100+ degree temperatures every day + zero rain = massive wildfires. I wonder if some of the people who complain about how humid it is would rather have their house burn down. Me, I'd take humidity over this godawful drought.

Hmmm...to get the humidity you get down here, you have to live in a subtropical climate. And to live in a subtropical climate means you are prone to tropical cyclones.

So it's a trade-off.

My European mother always tells me that North America is an awful weather continent compared to Europe. We all have our rough weather except for the west coast, and they are all an earthquake away from falling into the Pacific

 

[suburbia]

I would love to live in Seattle. 80 degrees in the summer is considered unseasonably hot out there. And I'll take rain over 2-foot snowstorms in the winter any day.

 

[suburbia]

Summer arrived today in Microville. Mid-80s, low humidity, nice breeze. Sometimes it takes a while to get here but there is no nicer weather in the country than an averasge PNW summer/September.

I've never experienced better summers than in Flagstaff, AZ. Usually 82, sunny, 8-9 percent humidity. Every. Day. Rarely goes over 85. Nights cool into the high 50s. Rains a bit in July, but usually just quick, heavy thunderstorms.

I've been in Flagstaff twice in the summer and concur. Such are benefits of being almost 7,000 feet above sea level.

Of course, I don't imagine the winters are nearly as pleasant.

 

[Football_Bat]

Summer arrived today in Microville. Mid-80s, low humidity, nice breeze. Sometimes it takes a while to get here but there is no nicer weather in the country than an averasge PNW summer/September.

I've never experienced better summers than in Flagstaff, AZ. Usually 82, sunny, 8-9 percent humidity. Every. Day. Rarely goes over 85. Nights cool into the high 50s. Rains a bit in July, but usually just quick, heavy thunderstorms.

I've been in Flagstaff twice in the summer and concur. Such are benefits of being almost 7,000 feet above sea level.

Of course, I don't imagine the winters are nearly as pleasant.

Flagstaff gets 100 inches of snow a year. Needless to say, it's ski country. But if I were ever abducted and forced at gunpoint to live in Arizona against my will, Flag or Sedona is where I'd want to live. Beautiful.

 

[Spartan Squad]

It's weird reading all these posts about how hot it is in the East and Midwest. Out in the CA desert, we've had a mild summer. We haven't had a week of 110 yet.

 

[Cosmo]

Summer arrived today in Microville. Mid-80s, low humidity, nice breeze. Sometimes it takes a while to get here but there is no nicer weather in the country than an averasge PNW summer/September.

I've never experienced better summers than in Flagstaff, AZ. Usually 82, sunny, 8-9 percent humidity. Every. Day. Rarely goes over 85. Nights cool into the high 50s. Rains a bit in July, but usually just quick, heavy thunderstorms.

I've been in Flagstaff twice in the summer and concur. Such are benefits of being almost 7,000 feet above sea level.

Of course, I don't imagine the winters are nearly as pleasant.

Flagstaff gets 100 inches of snow a year. Needless to say, it's ski country. But if I were ever abducted and forced at gunpoint to live in Arizona against my will, Flag or Sedona is where I'd want to live. Beautiful.

We had prep softball state tournament games in May get snowed out ... and then have it be 75 the next day. Also got hit with a 34-inch snowstorm on March 31 once there.

 

[YankeeFan]

I can't imagine what my electricity bill is going to look like this month.

The saving grace is that I haven't lost power despite some pretty severe storms.

 

[Bodie_Broadus]

"Tomorrow it's going to rain, but if you have an umbrella, it'll feel like it's dry."

RIP Greg Giraldo.

 

[apeman33]

This part of Kansas has been as hot and as dry as it gets. So what happened here today? A monsoon strikes at about 3:15. It forced the cancellation of the third-place game of the 9-year-old baseball state tournament here. Then they decided that they couldn't get the field dry, either, since it's a softball field the rest of the year, so it doesn't have infield grass. Championship game canceled, too.

They couldn't postpone the games to tomorrow because the champion and runner-up have to check in at the regional tournament in South Dakota Wednesday. So the state association declared them co-champs but the hometown team will get the higher seed in the regional because it beat the runner-up earlier in the tournament in pool play.

The thing was, they broke the tie for third based on pool play results, so the hometown team coaches were pissed they didn't use the same logic to declare their team state champs outright.

 

[93Devil]

It was amazingly hot on Saturday, so hot that I invited friends over for a "cold" dinner of chicken salad, fruit and cucumber salad. During the meal we got a wrath of God lightening and thunder storm that knocked out power for 3 1/2 hours which is a long damn time for where I live.

Crazy fing weather.