Houston hits record high with 104 degrees

[Onkel Neal]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/06/25/heat.wave/

Houston, Texas, had a record high temperature Wednesday as a heat wave continues to grip the nation's midsection, the National Weather Service said Thursday.
The city sweltered with a high temperature of 104 degrees Wednesday, a record high for June 24, forecasters said. The previous record high for the date was 99 degrees, set in 1980.

And, I might add, even more significantly, at 60+% humidity. :cool:

http://www.kwtx.com/weather/headlines/49040706.html
Unofficially, temperatures of 109 degrees or higher were reported in some areas Wednesday



Experts say those without air conditioning should close window shades and use cross-ventilation and fans to cool rooms, however they say electric fans won’t prevent heat-related illnesses once the temperature reaches 90 degrees.

Ummm... those without A/C are DEAD! :o

It's gonna be a long, hot summer. My biggest fear: I will take a spill on my Suzuki and end up unconscious on the asphalt. I'd be fried to death.

[FIREWALL]

ADVICE: Buy lots of ICECREAM. :yep:

[mookiemookie]

I've been fighting with my apartments for the past week and a half to fix the damn A/C in my apartment. It works, just not at 100%. :dead:

I'm painfully aware of how hot it is. The Allen Brothers sure picked a dumb place to set up a town. :88)

[Frame57]

I have a neighbor who like to BBQ only when it is about 100 degrees outside. Cracks me up because it is too damned miserable to be outside to enjoy it. :woot:

[SteamWake]

Been in the 100's here for nearly a week.

Still not a record which was set back in 1944... so much for GW conspiricay. :rotfl:

[Max2147]

I was in Paris back in 2003 when that huge heatwave hit. It was above 100 for the entire week I was there.

Now I can here the Texans and Floridians here scoffing, but remember that there is no air conditioning in Paris. In the entire week we spent about 2 hours in an air conditioned place (the Louvre). At night some people resorted to dousing their sheets in water to try to stay cool. It was brutal.

[AVGWarhawk]

It has been in the 80's here in MD. Usually it is in the upper 90's with mad crazy humidity.

[FIREWALL]

June gloom here. :wah:

[Task Force]

Lol, 104... around here in june it can get into the 109 degrees, I think it has gotten as high as 111-112 degrees. lol.:shifty:thought it usualy starts about july... still in the 90s here...

[roman2440]

104 - lol.
109 - lol.

Here today its supposedly going to hit 106, and we're enjoying it. 106 at this time of year is waaaay low for Phoenix, normally we're in the teens by now, its been quite cool for us.

I remember the year we hit 123 degrees. In fact I was in a hot car in the middle of the day without air conditioning on that day. Now that was hot!

[Aramike]

It's gonna be a long, hot summer. My biggest fear: I will take a spill on my Suzuki and end up unconscious on the asphalt. I'd be fried to death. Funny you say that. Last night here in Wisconsin a highway was shut down for repairs after a couple of motorcyclists crashed due to the road buckling ... as a result of the 90+ degree heat.

Be very careful out there... :cool:

[mookiemookie]

104 - lol.
109 - lol.

Here today its supposedly going to hit 106, and we're enjoying it. 106 at this time of year is waaaay low for Phoenix, normally we're in the teens by now, its been quite cool for us.

I remember the year we hit 123 degrees. In fact I was in a hot car in the middle of the day without air conditioning on that day. Now that was hot!

You also don't have the humidity that Houston does. 104 degrees with 40% humidity that we currently have gives you a feels like temperature of 119. (http://www.maineharbors.com/weather/convert3.htm)

[Task Force]

yea, the humidity up here can make 112 feel way hotter.

so its 104... in houston... up here that means severe thunderstorms in the after noon.:yep:

[Sledgehammer427]

its still a pleasant 75 in New Haven CT :o
anybody up for the famous "Texas Asphalt Fried Eggs?"

[OneToughHerring]

It's going to be an interesting hurricane season for the Gulf Coast. :03:

I hate really hot & humid. Then again we have snow on the ground up to seven months per year so we don't really get hot weather here. It's pretty warm now though, about 77 Fahrenheit. Maximum heat here like, ever, has been around 95 deg F.

[SteamWake]

It's going to be an interesting hurricane season for the Gulf Coast. :03:

I hate really hot & humid. Then again we have snow on the ground up to seven months per year so we don't really get hot weather here. It's pretty warm now though, about 77 Fahrenheit. Maximum heat here like, ever, has been around 95 deg F.

The uhhh hurricane predictors actually have predicted a mild season with fewer storms.

Which of course means its going to be one rough summer ;)

[Onkel Neal]

Ummm... those without A/C are DEAD! :o



typo corrected

[Onkel Neal]

I was in Paris back in 2003 when that huge heatwave hit. It was above 100 for the entire week I was there.

Now I can here the Texans and Floridians here scoffing, but remember that there is no air conditioning in Paris. In the entire week we spent about 2 hours in an air conditioned place (the Louvre). At night some people resorted to dousing their sheets in water to try to stay cool. It was brutal.


Yep, I understand, without having A/C to rely on, a week of 100 degrees in Paris is hot!

[Onkel Neal]

Lol, 104... around here in june it can get into the 109 degrees, I think it has gotten as high as 111-112 degrees. lol.:shifty:thought it usualy starts about july... still in the 90s here...

around here...where??

[FIREWALL]

This will fix you up NEAL. :har:


http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6516/b02538d.jpg

[Task Force]

around here...where??

The lovely state of virginia.:yeah:

[Sailor Steve]

And here in Salt Lake it's a balmy 90. And our average annual humidity is only 15%.

Of course we also only average about 15 inches of rain per year.

That was the first thing I noticed when we were all in Houston - the humidity. Wet, wet, wet.:nope:

[geetrue]

I'll never forget going broke in Houston back in 81 ... I had gone to high school in Houston and lived in Houston before, but when I went broke all I had was my van.

I would park it in the middle of an empty shopping center parking lot with the windows down and pray for a breeze. Sometimes I couldn't go to sleep till 3am in the morning.

I could never figure out how the first Houston natives made it to the airconditioned homes and buildings they have now.

I use to work in Seabrook, Texas just southeast of NASA on Galveston Bay and many times would need another shower before noon.

[Murr44]

We had our first extreme heat alert of the season yesterday here in Toronto. It was so miserable that I didn't bother to go outside. My a/c & pedestal fan have been going pretty well non-stop. Had a severe T-storm come through earlier today which washed some of the humidity out of the air. It's still pretty unpleasant outside (hot) right now...

[Rilder]

its holding about 85 Here in Wisconsin during the day.

Torturous for me really, once it gets past 70 I pretty much break down.

No A/C either.

[Platapus]

All I can say is that it serves you right for living in texas. :nope:

Spent way too much time in texas in the military, could not wait to unass that state.

I am sure there is some advantage to living in texas but damn if I could ever find it.

But to each his own. :up:

[Onkel Neal]

Well, where else are us Texans gonna live? Ohio? Vermont? Oregon? Hell, we wouldn't be Texans then, and what would be the point of living?:shucks:


The lovely state of virginia.:yeah:

Wait, what part of Virginia gets to 112 ??

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Toronto: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/24/toronto-heat.html

So, 30C = 86F ?

[Torplexed]

Well, where else are us Texans gonna live? Ohio? Vermont? Oregon? Hell, we wouldn't be Texans then, and what would be the point of living?:shucks:

Y'all can move on up to Alaska. It's not so dang hot and you get the "who's got the biggest state?" bragging rights back. ;)

Don't mess wit Texalaska.

[Onkel Neal]

Y'all can move on up to Alaska. It's not so dang hot and you get the "who's got the biggest state?" bragging rights back. ;)



Pshaw! If all the ice and snow melted in Alaska, the remaining land mass would be about the same size as South Dakota :O:

[Task Force]

Well, where else are us Texans gonna live? Ohio? Vermont? Oregon? Hell, we wouldn't be Texans then, and what would be the point of living?:shucks:




Wait, what part of Virginia gets to 112 ??

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Toronto: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/06/24/toronto-heat.html

So, 30C = 86F ?

eastern virginia... its hot, the air gets humid, get a ton of rain at times (5 inches in 2 hours last week), and has lots of water.

one summer during july acouple of years ago it got up to 112.:yep:

[Buddahaid]

Don't get the heat with humidity here in northern coastal CA much, but when I was is FL, what I hated more was that I was too cold inside, and too hot outside. I was only comfortable right after I came in or went out.

Buddahaid

[SteamWake]

Don't get the heat with humidity here in northern coastal CA much, but when I was is FL, what I hated more was that I was too cold inside, and too hot outside. I was only comfortable right after I came in or went out.

Buddahaid

I live in the part of florida which is notorious for beint the hottest part of florida. Early this week we had one day which topped 106 at a RH of a little over 70%. How it dident rain Ill never know but the heat index was 114 :o yes thats in the shade.

[Platapus]

one summer during july acouple of years ago it got up to 112.:yep:

Don't think it got *that* hot. Highest temperature recorded in Virginia was

110F on July 15, 1954 at Balcony Falls and even that record is disputed. The highest undisputed temperature recorded in Virginia were 109F on 20 July, 1930 at Woodstock and the same temperature on 10 July, 1936 in Lincoln.

Source: http://climate.virginia.edu/va_extremes.htm

It gets hotter than the hinges of hell here in Virginia, but not quite up to 112F.

[Task Force]

well, it felt like it with the humidity and all... Last summer was crazy, with that fire down in N carolina... the smoke, humidity, and heat made it where people could not go outside.

[roman2440]

You also don't have the humidity that Houston does. 104 degrees with 40% humidity that we currently have gives you a feels like temperature of 119. (http://www.maineharbors.com/weather/convert3.htm)

We hit 112 yesterday with 40+% humidity. Summer monsoons - sadly it hasn't started pooring yet, but its kept humidity up - and yesterday the clouds cleared for awhile which led to the 112 degrees despite the high humidity (40% is far higher than it normally is here).

According to your converter that equals 141 degrees F. I spent 3 hours in the early part of the day at the zoo, I thought I was going to die by the end of it.

[Task Force]

Lol, I can imagine you were by the end of the day.

[Onkel Neal]

We hit 112 yesterday with 40+% humidity. Summer monsoons - sadly it hasn't started pooring yet, but its kept humidity up - and yesterday the clouds cleared for awhile which led to the 112 degrees despite the high humidity (40% is far higher than it normally is here).

According to your converter that equals 141 degrees F. I spent 3 hours in the early part of the day at the zoo, I thought I was going to die by the end of it.


Hmmm....that must have been uncomfortable. Weather in Phoenix was 106 and 14% humidity today.... (http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/interstate/local/USAZ0166?from=yest_topnav_driving)

When I was in Phoenix in the summer, I enjoyed the heat. Your body works well in 120 degree heat as long as the humidity is low--the sweat actually cools you off more than 100 degrees and 70% humidity. In Houston, your sweat never evaporates, you just get coating by hot, sticky insulating sweat.

It hasn't rained here since the end of May (when I took my motorcyle trip to Chi-town). We may possibly get some rain today. It is thundering like hell now... and I think the dark clouds have really confused the local environment. I can hear cars honking, dogs barking, rednecks shooting off their guns at the sky. They probably forgot what those drops of water from the sky mean... :haha:

[Task Force]

Unlike you... I work like crap in heat... I perfer the cold...:haha:

[TarJak]

Sounds like good BBQ weather to me.:haha:

[nikimcbee]

Unlike you... I work like crap in heat... I perfer the cold...:haha:

nevermind, I misread this, I thought you wrote "I work in crap", to which I have to say is: I hope you was your hands before you post.:yeah:

[nikimcbee]

Now is this >100 degree heat going to be the feature of the emergency subsim meetin'? I need ya'll to come out here, it was sunny and 75:yeah:
Poifect dogpark weather.