Hotter Than Hades Today

MrKalashnikov · 06-30-2018, 01:19 PM

My gawd...it feels like tropical heat & humidity here in sunny NE Illinois today. Actual temp is hovering around 100 degrees: with the 85% humidity or so the heat index is up around 115 according to the weather geeks on TV. I normally like warm to very warm weather but with all the damn moisture in the air it's like going into a steam room at the gym when I walk outside from the AC.

This AM I was listening to our local weather talking head saying part of the high humidity was due to the extensive corn crops in our part of the midwest. Apparently corn plants soak up a LOT of rainfall when it comes down, and we've had record-breaking rains over the last couple of months. Combine that with intense heat like we're getting this week, and you have the corn plants releasing huge volumes of water vapor into the atmosphere due to heat stress.

I have never heard of this corn / humidity correlation before. Dunno if it's just some made-up BS for the masses or if there's real science behind it. I might have to blow in a call to Big Al Gore, and have him give me the skinny on it all.

c0dy33 · 06-30-2018, 01:25 PM

We got a break today. It's been raining but it's been hot as shit lately.

I keep looking at the temps where my uncle lives in Glomfjord, Norway... lucky son of a bitch.

Carne Frio · 06-30-2018, 02:38 PM

Fairbanks, currently 61.
High will be 70 with a low at 55.

Konstantin · 06-30-2018, 03:19 PM

Nice here finally. 78 degrees, overcast, and a nice breeze. Been high 90s low 100s past couple of days. Central New Mexico

MrKalashnikov · 06-30-2018, 04:41 PM

I just came in from watering my garden boxes and new shrub plantings. I cannot remember being this hot since moving here in the early 1980's. It's reached the low 100's before but not with this crazy kind of humidity...must be what southern Mississippi or Louisiana is like in summer. Dang.

ColonelKorn · 06-30-2018, 04:58 PM

I was building and painting doors to go on my garage.

Diesel 88888888 · 06-30-2018, 05:51 PM

64 degrees in Seattle, with a light rain sprinkle...gad, I do love this weather.

cerberus · 06-30-2018, 06:08 PM

FORCRYINGOUTLOUD.
You sound like a commercial for OWLdicklickerGOAR.
Hush up and have a lemonade.
You're just getting old.
cerberus

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Originally Posted by MrKalashnikov

My gawd...it feels like tropical heat & humidity here in sunny NE Illinois today. Actual temp is hovering around 100 degrees: with the 85% humidity or so the heat index is up around 115 according to the weather geeks on TV. I normally like warm to very warm weather but with all the damn moisture in the air it's like going into a steam room at the gym when I walk outside from the AC.

This AM I was listening to our local weather talking head saying part of the high humidity was due to the extensive corn crops in our part of the midwest. Apparently corn plants soak up a LOT of rainfall when it comes down, and we've had record-breaking rains over the last couple of months. Combine that with intense heat like we're getting this week, and you have the corn plants releasing huge volumes of water vapor into the atmosphere due to heat stress.

I have never heard of this corn / humidity correlation before. Dunno if it's just some made-up BS for the masses or if there's real science behind it. I might have to blow in a call to Big Al Gore, and have him give me the skinny on it all.

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Originally Posted by MrKalashnikov

I just came in from watering my garden boxes and new shrub plantings. I cannot remember being this hot since moving here in the early 1980's. It's reached the low 100's before but not with this crazy kind of humidity...must be what southern Mississippi or Louisiana is like in summer. Dang.

44044 · 06-30-2018, 07:09 PM

Hot and Humid here

96*

MrKalashnikov · 06-30-2018, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by cerberus

You're just getting old.
cerberus

I suspect this is part of the problem. I used to love hot weather all my life until the last couple of years. Still, this damn HUMIDITY is unusual for my AO...OwlGore or not.

And I've been drinking big glasses of ice water with squeezed lemon all day.

GBob01 · 07-01-2018, 10:35 AM

For all of you complaining about a little warm weather...

Welcome to my world; everyday, all summer long, year after year

Diesel 88888888 · 07-01-2018, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by GBob01

For all of you complaining about a little warm weather...

Welcome to my world; everyday, all summer long, year after year

I love the people of the South, really I do...but I can't stand their weather for all the reason you state and more; it's 57 degrees here in Seattle as I write this, might get to 65 by noon and my tomatoes are doing just fine.

At the end of the F&I war my ancestors were 'disarmed' and then rounded up and brought to LA...before it was a state...on the British Slope Endeavor according to the historical passenger list showing their arrival. An old story continues even today about how the lobster migrated down with them and the further South it got the smaller...the Spanish gave us a gun and piece of land and four years later we deposed the Spanish governor in favor of France...only to be sold with the land in the LA Purchase deal...some of us have managed to escape the place and get back to the cooler north country...and guess what; there be mud bugs here too.

Angry White Trash · 07-01-2018, 10:48 AM

We had that shit on thursday! Good God! It felt like Bangkok.

MrKalashnikov · 07-01-2018, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by GBob01

For all of you complaining about a little warm weather...

Welcome to my world; everyday, all summer long, year after year

I suppose if you live in it long enough you eventually get used to it...hot weather or cold.

c0dy33 · 07-01-2018, 02:52 PM

I've lived down here almost my entire life and I never got used to it. I lived a couple years in Illinois and got used to that. Heat is just miserable.

06-30-2018, 01:19 PM	#1
MrKalashnikov Deplorable Join Date: May 2008 Location: Behind The Iron Curtain Posts: 8,059	Hotter Than Hades Today My gawd...it feels like tropical heat & humidity here in sunny NE Illinois today. Actual temp is hovering around 100 degrees: with the 85% humidity or so the heat index is up around 115 according to the weather geeks on TV. I normally like warm to very warm weather but with all the damn moisture in the air it's like going into a steam room at the gym when I walk outside from the AC. This AM I was listening to our local weather talking head saying part of the high humidity was due to the extensive corn crops in our part of the midwest. Apparently corn plants soak up a LOT of rainfall when it comes down, and we've had record-breaking rains over the last couple of months. Combine that with intense heat like we're getting this week, and you have the corn plants releasing huge volumes of water vapor into the atmosphere due to heat stress. I have never heard of this corn / humidity correlation before. Dunno if it's just some made-up BS for the masses or if there's real science behind it. I might have to blow in a call to Big Al Gore, and have him give me the skinny on it all.

06-30-2018, 02:38 PM	#3
Carne Frio Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Near Fairbanks Posts: 1,427	Fairbanks, currently 61. High will be 70 with a low at 55. __________________ I'm thinking that we are going to need a lot more rope before this is over.

06-30-2018, 04:58 PM	#6
ColonelKorn High Priest of Honkydom Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Cheetahstan Posts: 9,542	I was building and painting doors to go on my garage. __________________ I am an enraged asswipe

06-30-2018, 05:51 PM	#7
Diesel 88888888 slug Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 35,825	64 degrees in Seattle, with a light rain sprinkle...gad, I do love this weather. __________________ Diesel 88888888 Duty is Action; Fight Or Die! Fight Or I'll Kill You Myself!

07-01-2018, 10:35 AM	#11
GBob01 Coonass Crusader Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: backwoods of south Louisiana Posts: 4,491	For all of you complaining about a little warm weather... Welcome to my world; everyday, all summer long, year after year __________________ I do not believe that the Democrats are single-handedly destroying this country. I know that they, like the Republicans, are using both hands! *III DEO VINDICE*

06-30-2018, 01:25 PM	#2
c0dy33 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,471	We got a break today. It's been raining but it's been hot as shit lately. I keep looking at the temps where my uncle lives in Glomfjord, Norway... lucky son of a bitch.

06-30-2018, 03:19 PM	#4
Konstantin Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Copperhead Road Posts: 782	Nice here finally. 78 degrees, overcast, and a nice breeze. Been high 90s low 100s past couple of days. Central New Mexico

06-30-2018, 04:41 PM	#5
MrKalashnikov Deplorable Join Date: May 2008 Location: Behind The Iron Curtain Posts: 8,059	I just came in from watering my garden boxes and new shrub plantings. I cannot remember being this hot since moving here in the early 1980's. It's reached the low 100's before but not with this crazy kind of humidity...must be what southern Mississippi or Louisiana is like in summer. Dang.

06-30-2018, 07:09 PM	#9
44044 slug Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: swampeastmissouri Posts: 50,933	Hot and Humid here 96*

07-01-2018, 10:48 AM	#13
Angry White Trash slug Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Ice Station Zebra Posts: 15,403	We had that shit on thursday! Good God! It felt like Bangkok.

07-01-2018, 02:52 PM	#15
c0dy33 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 2,471	I've lived down here almost my entire life and I never got used to it. I lived a couple years in Illinois and got used to that. Heat is just miserable.