100-degree temps cook Eastern U.S.

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Washington Times

Another wave of oppressive heat clamped down on a broad swath of Eastern states on Saturday, with temperatures in the high 90s and 100s and residents scrambling for shade or just staying indoors.

In the Mid-Atlantic, already the locus for brutal temperatures several times in July, weather experts warned of the dangerous conditions and residents resigned themselves to coping with the discomfort.

"Oh, it's disgusting. It's already really hot," meteorologist Heather Sheffield of the National Weather Service said of morning temperatures in Washington, D.C.

One possible weather-related death was reported in Maryland, where paramedics said the high temperatures and humidity likely played a role in the death of a 20-year-old man who was biking, went into cardiac arrest and hit his head on a tree as he fell.


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/24/100-degree-temps-cook-eastern-us/

[aquart]

1. I wish to live in a temperate zone.

Not Death Valley. Is this what summers are going to be like?

Manhattan had a TORNADO WARNING last night!

[glinda]

2. No. They are going to get worse. Much worse.

[KittyWampus]

3. Global Climate Volatility means we might plunge into an ice age...

so they might get worse but in different ways.

[glinda]

34. Think of it this way: when a person is dying their breaths are

extreme, deep and labored. I predict the hot and cold will swing sharply and then eventually level out when living creatures are dead.

[Jennicut]

7. We HAD tornadoes in Connecticut a few days ago. The worst one was in the town next to mine in

Bristol. Only an EF1 but the gas station roof down the street from me broke in half, trees and power lines were down everywhere and trees were on top of some houses. Yikes! CT does not get tornadoes too often.

[Maine-ah]

26. in Maine too

probably the same storm that moved up the coast

[Jennicut]

28. It was scary.

I don't want to be dealing with tornadoes. We are a very congested state and a small tornado can do a lot of damage here.

[Soylent Brice]

4. feeling it here in Cincinnati.

yesterday they said it was 93, with humidity 104.
today was worse.

garden here at the house is taking a beating.

in all the years i've lived out here i can't remember ever having heat like this, and this frequent. it's unreal.

[DebJ]

5. I love to garden, but not this year. Just let it all go. Lawn is

all weedy, flowers shriveling up and dying. Bad thing: looks terrible. Good thing: I'm NOT going to go outside to even look at it! (Here in south central Pa.)

[Soylent Brice]

24. you just described my garden.

Haven't had any deaths reported on the news here like this story though.
Dangerous heat, and most people in areas like ours aren't used to it.

[Nay]

27. Here in Richmond, VA, too -- was 105 yesterday. I've let the lawn and

garden go, pretty much. I water the tomato plants. Today it's supposed to hit 103. We just stay inside.

[LostinVA]

29. There was a RACE along the James this morning

About 9:00. I was leaving to go run errands. It was still going on when I came back about 10:30, so it wasn't a 5K. It was about 95 already. I loathe the treadmill, but that's what I'll be using this afternoon.

[Nay]

32. A race??!? I try to walk every day by the James at Robious Park, But

I'll be damned if I'll do it in this heat.

[LostinVA]

33. Downtown, underneath the trestle heading to the canal

[Tunkamerica]

6. Supposed to be 103 here in Raleigh/Durham

A record if we hit 101 which we almost did today (and tied a record).

[The Straight Story]

8. Who wouuld have thought - cold in the winter, hot in the summer

:rofl:

[aquart]

17. Oh, you thought it would reverse. No, that's a completely different process.

Try to keep up.

[Historic NY]

22. You might be onto something there......

:smoke:

next thing it will be daylight follwed by darkness.

[LostinVA]

30. Discounting climate change?

How surprising.

[Historic NY]

9. I sure hope it cools down soon my blacktop driveway is melting.

[Duer 157099]

10. Here in California it's been unusually cool and wonderful

There've only been a couple of days where it got over 90. This is very unusual. I read that because of the intense heat in other parts of the US, California is actually cooler because... well I can't remember the reason but it was connected to the heat in the East.

I'm loving it. I hope it stays this mild all summer here.

[stopbush]

11. Yes, it's been great. It's due to El Niño which is producing a low pressure system

that is causing the marine layer to last late into the day.

I work in Laguna Beach where we've had maybe 10 days of real CA sunshine this summer. The rest of the time, it's overcast.

I live 6 miles inland in Laguna Niguel, where the sun has been out a lot more as the marine layer can't quite make it past the hills along the coast. Still, we're usually in the high 70s. We've had a few days where it's shot into the 90s for an hour or two, but that's it.

I am saving so much $ on AC this summer that it's nuts.

[JI7]

15. i get cold easily and have felt the need to turn on the heater

[Tunkamerica]

18. fuck all y'all

sounds like bragging to me

[lynne]

23. I thought it was the Bermuda Azores high pressure system causing this mess -

- and I understand that even this horrid summer doesn't compare to the heat wave of 1936. That heat wave followed a particularly brutal and cold winter, much like the one we just got through.

El Nino or Azores, whichever one it is, I'll be glad when its gone!

[Ter]

16. Eww, I hate mild Summers

Last year in NYC I was cursing all Summer, saying 80 degree days in July are unacceptable.

[handmade34]

12. in a parking lot in Houston, Texas today

saw a car with multiple bumper stickers.. the first one:
the rest were too offensive to describe... lucky for me the owner wasn't there...

[boppers]

13. Stay healthy, folks!

One thing I learned growing up in Arizona, and dealing with out-of-state tourists, is that many people have *no idea* how to live in the 90-120 range. With that in mind:

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/heat_guide.asp

[Rhiannon12866]

14. +1. Good advice. Thanks...

I'm in NY, worked outside in the summers while I was in college, but it was never like this... x(

[Tunkamerica]

19. i experienced 120 degrees in arizona years ago

has nothing on 100 degrees in the southeast

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Exactly.

Experienced 120F in Kom Ombo, Egypt in late July.

120F in desert where dew point/humidity = 50F/10% <-- :evilgrin:
100F along East Coast where dew point/humidity = 72F/40% <-- :evilfrown: :banghead:

Any place that will get COOLER when adding moisture (e.g., use of a swamp cooler) doesn't cut it compared to already saturated air at the same temp. :P

[JonLP24]

21. I don't buy that at all

It rarely does get that high but 110+ is common in the summertime. When it gets over 110 it is so unbelievably hot outside. Plus I don't have a working AC so I'm hot all the time as it is. It is like a oven. If you really experienced "120" it would be so extremely hot outside you couldn't think of any place hotter.


I'll say the hottest place I ever been is Kuwait. They average 117 in the summertime.

[Tunkamerica]

36. It was 119 when we went to the Grand Canyon in the early 90's

It was definitely hot, but not unbearable. I can't say that for the last few days here.

[LostinVA]

31. It's always very hot here in the summer, and humid

But, it's 10-15 degrees above normal, and it started about six weeks early. Junie is usually pleasant, July starts ramping up the heat, and August sucks. This year, August started the first week of June.

[rainbow4321]

25. My daughter has been thru both extremes in the last year

She was up and down the East Coast (job related) last winter, including getting stuck in that first Washington DC blizzard. Since she settled into NYC in the beginning of the year she is now going thru the heatwave there.
The job she starts in September will have her going up and down the West Coast, primarily in California but with a few pitstops in nearby states. She said after the temp extremes of the last several months, any weather/temps in BETWEEN those extremes will be wonderful and tolerable.

[Odin2005]

35. But, there were SNOWSTORMS lat winter, so Global Warming is a Libreral LIE!!!

:sarcasm: