DC area - Saturday temps around 100F w/heat index 110 - 115F

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Top story on local news.

11pm and it is 90F.

Warnings to watch for roads buckling.

[jxnmsdemguy65]

1. Burn baby burn....

Burn all those rightwing politicians and corporate lobbyists.... give 'em some foretaste of the afterlife!

[customerserviceguy]

6. They're in air-conditioned bars, having a drink

on our money. I feel for the people whose electricity goes out this weekend, and they aren't lobbyists or politicians of any political ideology.

It's going to get damned hot up here, as well. I just hope my A/C and the power to run it holds out.

[krispos42]

2. But it snowed last winter, so global warming is a myth.

Remember that, folks... :rofl:

[nevergiveup]

3. Paging Senator Inhofe

[AmericaIsGreat]

4. I'm supposed to go biking tomorrow afternoon

And I'm starting to think it may not be a great idea

[elleng]

5. JUST watching story about hwys/crosswalks, road buckled in GA.

Not planning to be outside Saturday, here in MD.

[nickinSTL]

7. nearly that in St Louis

high around 98 and heat index around 105-112.

I'm going to be helping a friend tear down part of his house - been doing that for a couple months now (he's doing some demolition in preparation for building a garage) - I suspect we may have to take it a little easy this weekend.

Today I mowed the lawn after work - it was only 90 with a heat index of 104 at the time.

[elleng]

8. Oppressively hot weekend helps establish July as one for the record

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072305207.html?hpid=artslot

[w8liftinglady]

9. Ok ...I grew up in Ft Meade,Md...I don't EVER remember that heat...

granted,I was a kid who went to the pool every day,but still...

[Urban Prairie]

10. Great Lakes are getting warmer as well

Great Lakes Warm Up, May Hit New Highs

Lake Superior was always numbingly cold when I waded in it back in the 70s. Northern Lake Michigan was often too uncomfortably cold to swim in for very long, until early July, each summer that I have been able to vacation up there since my childhood.

[Neurotica]

11. What exactly is a "buckling" road?

I saw/read the same thing. Crazy!

Even the pool isn't a good option during the middle of the day. I have been taking the kids in the evening instead when the sun isn't blistering hot anymore.

Oh, for the days of Snowmaggedon!

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. I had to look at this map twice to believe it.

These are the LOWS for Sunday ( starting at midnight Sat.)



These are the highs expected for Sat: