103.0°F–2 hours after posting that, 104.4°F–at the local high school weather station. “Heat index” of 111 (110, 2 hours later, so less humidity? Yep).
Working inside today.
"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Damn right. Stay out of that killer heat. 105 here as I type this, heat index 112. The heat index a couple of days ago was 121. Nastiness!
Blah. Our heat index was only 109 today. they threatened 118 but I don’t think it made it to that.
Well, Nicole, factor in
1. You’re almost 190 miles North of America’s Third World County (north=lower temps, generally), offset by
2. Major urban area (=more heat generation locally as opposed to my semi-rural locale)
And your temps/heat index aren’t all that bad. I can recall temps/humidity, etc., in the late 70s/early 80s in KCMO that were pretty darned horrible.
Mostly, in my wimpy mind, over 100 is freakin’ hot. 🙂
I agree with Nicole. I don’t know how you can really say that her heat indexes aren’t that bad. Temps, maybe, but if they say “but it feels like 109,” then it’s bad enough, even without the humidity. Go check out the car-fried chicken on my blog, btw.
Well, Mel, of course I’m not that kid any more (not by a few decades ;-)), but 109/110 just doesn’t seem all that bad after the summer “that kid” spent doing manual labor at White Sands, N.M., lo these many years ago, with actual temps well above 110. After that, hot weather’s never really been a problem for me. Still, I hate genuinely high temps combined with high humidity. Not so much because of the heat but because all the sweat has virtually no place to go. *heh*
And that’s the real reason I now avoid high temps. “Sweat like a river” that just hangs and drips, instead of cooling as it should. Tacky. 🙂 (Dehydration? Never. I learned that lesson draining two five gallon kegs of water a day at White Sands. ;-))