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Southern Vajenya has been in a heat wave last few days. High 90s to low 100s with corresponding Southern humidity. It was 101 at noon here at the house. Severe thunderstorms headed this way; temp has dropped to "only" 85! 🥵
Just hopin' these storms don't knock the power out.
Yeah I know it's summer in the South, and time was I'd have spent the day in tobacco fields and not thought anything of it. But this is middle-of-August weather 3 weeks early. It has fooled my crepe myrtle into blooming, and it has reliably bloomed 2nd week of August for 50-some years.
I hear you. I'm about 200 miles South of Chesapeake on the NC coast. It is hot, oppressive and sweltering. Crepe myrtels all bloomed here about one week ago. Humidity is out of control. Honestly, the past three years have been crazy weather - Florence, Dorian, heat & humidity.
Yeah. We just broke a record here in the DC area. So far, 27 out of the 29 days in July have been 90+ with that wonderful DC humidity thrown in to boot.
Very doable here at 3500' elevation. Mornings in the low 60's afternoons about 88 or so and about 40% humidity. I can live with that and only run the swamp cooler in the afternoons. Should it get a little hotter (does sometimes) I'll kick on the AC and give the swamper a rest....Tedd
Three things that I'm used to around here. Could deal with more of the heat if it wasn't like a damp sponge. Just walk outside and the moisture just hangs like a sauna. Hard to tell if my shirt gets damp from me sweating or from absorbing the moisture out of the air.
Maybe that Summer high will stay over there where it belongs each year. When the humility is at 70% and its
108* or more down here in early July and the blocking high is sitting on top of us in TX. Ugg....
At the same time, in the freaki'n desert, where you guys live, remember the old days of 118* to 122* ?
I don't care if it's 0% humidity, that's way to damn hot for man or beast, keep it please. I see some of our neighbors
are getting a taste of this years bitch. Enjoy it boys, those big H's suck.
Hard to tell if my shirt gets damp from me sweating or from absorbing the moisture out of the air.
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I hear ya! I grew up and lived on the southwest Louisiana / southeast Texas Gulf Coast for 30+ years so I am intimately familiar with year-round high humidity. I had to keep my bicycle in the back bedroom to keep it out of the elements, and I would put my cycling shirt on the handlebars after it came out of the dryer. I grabbed my shirt one day and it was damp - it absorbed moisture right out of the air. And that was inside the house.
So far we've had 27 days of 110 and above, and according to the forecast we are very likely to break the record of 33 days before this is all over and done.
Well whaddaya know, the NWS is actually explaining that the average temperature increase means that the overnight lows are not as low due to urban sprawl/heat island effect, and not that the temperatures are actually getting hotter (as in higher high temperatures).
