Extreme heat!

[Miles]

Yesterday it was in the low 90's F. and today the heat index is supposed to top 105 F. I am offically a prisoner in my house as I fall into the small children and physically challenged catagory. Fortunately we have AC and I did stock the fridge with beer.

It is currently 7:21 am and 73 degrees. Damn I used to work outside in this kind of weather now I can't even walk half a block to the store in it. I don't mind getting older but I DO mind doing it poorly.

[Sue U]

Here in South Jersey the temp is supposed to go over 100 today and the humidity is about a million percent. It is just nasty out there! Glad to be spending the day in a well-cooled office. (No beer in the fridge, though, just bottled water.)

[Aard Vark]

I would send yopu some of the cold from here if I could.. Last Thursday was a -6 we had frost on the ground till 9am. I live in sub tropic it's just wrong.
Good luck in the heat I wish I was there

[Guinevere]

We're in the 90s here now, and pushing 95-98 for the next few days. Heat index is already at 99, may get to 105+ later. And the breeze is as hot as the air. UGH. This is a world without a lot of AC (I don't have any). Heading to the beach and a cool soak in the salt water, as soon as I get out of the office!

[Liberty1]

90 deg in Albuquerque and extremely humid (for here) at 30%. At least we have a chance of rain, we have had 0.2 inches for the year so far and our monsoon season is getting a late start. We've usually had 5 inches in the year so far.

Yes, you read that correctly.

[Rick]

I don't check the temp any more.

If I don't know what it is it's not near as hot...

[oldr_n_wsr]

The temp here on LI is over 95°F and it's so humid I swear I saw a fish swimming by my window.

[Crackpot]

I stopped looking at 99 and was working on low voltage and assorted odds and ends in my house that's being built. (very limited power, no HVAC)

[Gob]

Canberra: Summary
Min 0
Max 13
Early frost. Mostly sunny.

Canberra area

Mostly sunny. Areas of frost early in the morning. Winds southerly and light.

[Gob]

[Long Run]

We'll gladly take 10 or 15 of your degrees. Hasn't topped 70 for most of the past week. Some summer.

[Miles]

Well, it's 7:37 pm and 96 F. I spent about 10 minutes outside and the wind which is blowing at about 10 to 15 miles per hour felt like I was sitting beside a very hot grill. Damn, I love hot weather and can't deal with the idea that I can no longer enjoy it first hand.

[Lord Jim]

We'll gladly take 10 or 15 of your degrees.

Ditto.

Hasn't topped 70 for most of the past week.

Gee, what did you do to rate that kind of balmy Caribbean weather? It's barely broken 60 here for the past two weeks....

57 currently...might hit 70 on Saturday....

[Jarlaxle]

98 by the thermometer on my garage, opressively humid.

Loading my truck today, I went through:
Two quarts of Gatorade
Seven quarts of water
One pint of Powerade

I am SO happy the truck I have this week has air conditioning. It has no BALLS, but at least it has A/C. (I want my truck back!)

[Gob]

Swap you for this!!

Sunday 24 July

Summary
Min -3 c (26 f)
Max 12 c (53.6 f)
Sunny.

Canberra area; Sunny. Light winds.

[Sean]

23c here in Brisvegas today...

That'll do.

[Sue U]

The 113 is sitting right on my house! I didn't need to see that. Gah!

[Guinevere]

106 sitting right on mine -- that is super extreme for up here (and yes, 113 is extreme for Jersey, too)! I've been making homemade ice cream to cool me off in the evenings

[dales]

We'll gladly take 10 or 15 of your degrees.

Ditto.

Hasn't topped 70 for most of the past week.

Gee, what did you do to rate that kind of balmy Caribbean weather? It's barely broken 60 here for the past two weeks....

57 currently...might hit 70 on Saturday....

Come out to east CoCoCo, Jim......it's been around 90F.

[Gob]

US and Canada heatwave worsens in eastern regions

A gruelling heatwave has intensified over eastern parts of the US and Canada, with Friday expected to be the region's hottest day yet.

Temperatures feel as high as 46C (115F) in places along the crowded east coast, with no relief expected until after the weekend.

At least 22 deaths have been blamed on the heat, and 223 heat records have been breached across the US alone.

As much as 45% of the US population was under a heat advisory, officials said.

Meteorologists have put the temperatures down to a "dome" of high pressure in the atmosphere.

Many regions in the central US and parts of the eastern seaboard have seen heat indexes - a combination of temperature and humidity - topping 43C.

In New York, though, residents were warned to stay out of the water at city beaches after sewage was pumped into the Hudson River.

The blistering heat has also hit parts of Canada, with temperatures in Toronto expected to top 35C on Friday, according to Environment Canada.

At 38C (101F), Syracuse in New York State has already witnessed its hottest day since 1936, forecasters say.

"This is an exceptionally strong ridge of high pressure that really has an exceptional scope and duration," Eli Jacks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, told the BBC.

"The air is sinking, as it sinks it compresses and gets warmer. It also dries out, so few clouds form to block the high early-summer sun," he said.

The combination of high heat and high humidity make it hard for the human body to cool itself - because sweat does not evaporate efficiently, he added.

Across the central and eastern US, people and animals alike have been struggling to keep cool amid the oppressive heat and humidity.

As the heat peaks in major population centres on the east coast, the number of deaths is expected to rise, officials warn.

Officials in the central state of Missouri say 13 people have died, and there have been fatalities in neighbouring Oklahoma, including a three-year-old boy.

In the town of Hutchinson in Kansas three elderly people were found dead in separate homes.

States more used to cold weather, including Minnesota and North Dakota, have been hit hard.

In the south, more than three-quarters of Texas is suffering from drought amid the worst dry spell in the state for decades.

Urban areas have opened cooling centres for the poor and elderly, and the National Weather Service has warned people in normally cool areas to be especially cautious.

As New Yorkers roasted in the heat, health officials warned them to stay out of the water at four beaches on New York Harbor after a sewage treatment plant damaged by fire began pumping raw waste into the Hudson River.

Electricity company Con Edison said scattered power cuts were likely in New York in the coming days amid a surge in usage of air conditioning units.

The city's fire chiefs have hired additional crews and officials have placed mobile fountains around the city to allow people to refill water bottles.

Philadelphia has deployed police officers to manage hot, irritated crowds at the city's public swimming pools.

In Nashville, Tennessee, hospital staff have reported several cases of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

Chicago is experiencing unhealthy smog levels caused by the heat, with residents asked not to mow their lawns and to switch off idling cars.

Forecasters said the damage caused by the heat could be worse than that brought about by a heatwave in Chicago in 1995, when more than 700 people died over three days.

Asphalt and concrete pavements and buildings in cities were "re-radiating" the heat, forecasters say.

High temperatures - the number one weather-related killer in the US - claim 162 lives on average in the country each year.

The most severe heatwave in modern North American history took place during the Great Depression in 1936. The heat that summer was blamed for more than 5,000 deaths in the US and Canada.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14252768