oh dear weather God, send me a frozen woolly mammoth and a tubful of ice, please stop the heat wave, send in the thunderboomers and I won't complain!

Shower.... dress in a wet T-shirt and place that fan in front of you !

Thunderboomers are nice and lull us into the false belief that it's cool out there.

I kind of miss them. We haven't had rain here in a long, long time it seems..

yes.....................

"Shower.... dress in a wet T-shirt and . . ." your husband just might misinterpret what he sees. (I did :-D))

I can picture the wet T-shirt, but it won't help the humidity. July & August so far here in MN has been fabulous! We've had a few great thunderstorms at night - I love nature's fireworks. The temps during this whole period have usually been 75-82 degrees with cool, clean, dry Canadian air. Below normal, & I LOVE IT!

hahah.

I'm moving in, Jim.

I can relate to that...let's do a rain and cool temperatures dance!

yippe hippe yippe

7:33 PM, 96 Degrees, 51% Humidity and this is after we had a small T-Storm earlier today.

ooooh.........

I doesn't likes thunderboomers. They skerrs me

u speakin lol catz? lol dogz?

woof! yipe! yipe! *hides under bed* lol

woof

The heat has been unrelenting this summer. Thankfully I have air conditiong, although I am dreading the next electric bill and wondering how I'll pay it.

ouch

cool

not cool enough

i meant the post
cool
77 f at 6am

at 7:33 it is 78 f in my house, after having open windows all night. just closed the windows. THIS is comfortable.

now it is 78 outside with 80 percent humidity. Today 86. WHAT A RELIEF.

IT HAS BEEN 95 F with 80 percent humidity!

We have had such a lousy summer I am trying real hard not to complain about the heat and humidity.

i know, but i really hate heat. utah and montreal and toronto, not that bad. utah hot but dry, not bad at all. it is the humidity here. nevah moving further south of heah. never.

We had thunder boomers last night. Today wasnt too bad. It was nice at the track, there was a breeze. Tonight isn't too bad yet, I'm out on the porch on the laptop and there is a bit of a breeze.

All of my cotton nighties are long, so I just shower, put on a wife beater and really thin, short cotton boxers and sit in front of the fan, or watch TV in the bedroom with the AC on.

thunders coming my way.

Kathryn, haven't you heard? Global warming is all in your head, it's getting COOLER all over the planet. According to certain folk here on Gather.

ohohohh hahahah

no I am not serious, in case you wondered.

Before you know it,you'll be shoveling snow. As I tell everyone,I'll take the heat anyday. You don't have to shovel heat!

you are so right

I've prefer shoveling to the heat any day, you can keep yourself warm with layers in the cold but you can't take the air conditioning everywhere!

That's one of the biggest reasons we migrated up here to Alaska!

hahah joyce. but it is dark........ remember, i've been there.... and didn't like it that much...even in summer. 60 in august. yuck.

Sure, complain when its warm, complain when its cool. Ha.

wow! that's hot.

we had central ac for 10 years, and oooh how it miss it. summer is never a problem with central ac....gee. we have central heating....we need central ac....

I love central ac too. It covers every area of the house. You are right. Hang in there my friend. Soon it will be winter.

give me central ac anyday...we did have central once upon a time....

If I had central AC, I'd probably never leave the house. I HATE to sweat unnecessarily.

me, too.

We live close enough that we ought to be getting the thunderboomers, which will NOT cool a damned thing down, as it hasn't yet. Haven't gotten them either. Get in a tub of cold water. It'll work for about five minutes until the HEAT warms it up.

Marilyn

ouch.

Quitcher bellyachin.

ha

i'll sick sumsing on ya.

Okay.

I'm going to sick my two huge and furry kitties on your sidey...

Aren't warm showers/baths supposed to cool you more than cold ones?

It has been a weird weather summer, for sure.

My husband runs the central air all summer, and my daughter and I freeze. He went out to a meeting earlier, so we took a dip in the pool, and came in and turned off the air and opened the windows.

I miss the sounds of crickets and peepers with the air on all the time.

there is that point made in scientific circles, but it is really an academic point, since only scientists believe it, my parents having argued that with me for years. I tired it, didn't like it.

i love the cool ac...

Ok, where ya want him?

wow, you really deliver hon. right next to me in bed. thank you very much.

Hahahahahaha! That Cathi, watta gal watta gal!

i am so in love with woolly mammoth......

Ok Kathryn, what ARE you going to do with that frozen wooly mammoth? If you hug him for a while, he won't be frozen, and soon you won't like the way he smells.

I like summer outdoor adventures, but for extreme hot or cold, I prefer cold. There are multiple devices and activities to warm oneself, but when it's hot--you can only take so much off without running out of items to remove and still be sweltering. In a locale with four seasons, spring and fall are the ideal temps. I'm glad I get some of each.

Utah is not that bad.......

Nah, dry heat is more tolerable--unless you get to the St. George, Vegas, Phoenix level of heat--where they just stay indoors unless they're in the car or in the pool. I think St. George hit 109 last month, and I'm pretty sure Vegas and Phoenix topped that. Those places are a great place to visit when the rest of us are in winter though.

that is hot. when we were passing through in '89 and stopped in calico, a tourist ghost town, yeah, it was 114, which was hot and between that and our 95 plus humidity, the discomfort is about equal.

I do remember just lying around in salt lake when it was 105. it was only a week. and i was miserable. but never more miserable when we went to phyilly and my dad said, oh it is only 75. I jumped for joy until i got out of the car. COULDN"T BREATHE.

And here it does not cool down at night much at all.

in the house it is between 78 and 85 WITH FANS. The only cool room is the bedroom with AC. Back there in a minute.

aww i hope it gets better soon

yeah ouch.

Oops, I shipped our Florida weather to the wrong Gather Friend. My sorry. One "extra frozen wooly mamoth" coming up.

Though, with two you, get a side of of tusks.

oops. a coupla extra woolly mammoths.

side of tusks welcome.

i got 3 hurricanes comming my way, by any chance do you want me to send them your way, will do,and one is cat#4and raising!lol!

triple ouch.

what would you say to a nice massage while lying naked under the spray of a cool misting fan?

hahah

not cool enough....i am staying away from ALL contact with mammals, cats included. The cats want to be shaved.

We've had 40+ days of 100 degrees or higher!! Cold showers, frozen margaritas, and my AC is the ticket for me!! Ahhhhhh!!!!

AC all the way.

that is the reason i live in the supposed north lands.

Oh, yeah!!

Is it really that hot there. I guess you have a lot of humidity compared to Colorado

Boston surprises people. It is worse south of DC, even DC is humid. St. Louis is worse, but people expect that just because we get tons of snow, that summers are not bad. Summers are bad. HUMID.

Taking an optimistic view of high temperature, it does help in "sterilizing" a person against bacteria, viruses of different kinds and also kills the mosquitoes and insects. The person becomes "clean" and his/her thoughts "pure". Good for "Romance writers"!

that is very interesting. never thought of it that way. the AC forces me to spend time in bed awake and reading, but soon I am taking my manuscripts to a library because I cannot write in this room until it cools way way down.

heat addles my brain. tons of freeze pops, but the Edy Real Fruit Lime has made my upper lip swell. Looks sort of cute.

actually, heat allows bacteria to thrive. no bacteria in anarctica.

Kath! I found a very interesting fact in the research reports in medical microbiology. Several bacteria were subjected to a range of temperatures and the growth rates are shown in the table below. The temperature are in degrees centigrade. The general conclusion seems to be that, higher the temperature, the lesser the growth rate!

Optimum = Temperature at which the bacterium grows most rapidly
Minimum = Temperature below which no growth occurs
Maximum = Temperature above which no growth occurs

Psychrophilic = Cold loving; optimum growth at 15 - 20C
Mesophilic = middle living; optimum growth at 30 - 37 C
Thermophilic = heat loving; optimum growth at 50 - 60 C

Psychrophiles are commonly isolated from cold waters and bottoms of lakes and oceans. Many grow well at 0 - 4C and some at -7 if solutes added to depress freezing point.

Mesophiles are the the most common bacteria. Saprophytes grow best around 30 and the parasitic species aaround 37C. Every species grows over a wide range. Saprophytic have a wider range than parasitic species. Two species may have an optimum at 37, but one may grow from 5 to 45 and the othr may only grow from 25 to 40.

Thermophiles were first found in hot springs and heating piles of hay and manure. They are fairly widespread in nature. They present a problem in pasteurizing milk because they grow at the temperatures intended to kill. Some cause canned foods to spoil because they produce highly thermo-resistant spores.

Actually, the temperature vs growth rate graph is parabolic, with a cut-off at low temperatures, as well as, a sharp cut-off at high temperatures. I'm unable to upload this graph into the comments. So, Antartica refers to the lower cut-off and the Boston temperatures, the higher cut-off!

No ac for me, hit the sunny beach. Hot summers are wonderful.

It has been 95 F plus 80 percent humidity.......

Sorry, sounds perfect with the low humidity.

I'm laughing right now, because when I was younger (much younger mind you) this kind of weather was known as F*** like a bunny weather, and we did!!!!

Now, that thought doesn't cross mind. Only cool showers and ice cubed drinks when I'm melting now :)

the key word was YOUNGER.....I do remember those days...Now 60-80 F and dry and sunny is MY weather. San Francisco here I come.

Try Edy's Fruit pops - really good. Freal fruit. My upper lip is swollen from the lime. Now to eat my limes and begin my day. Cooler. Thank the weather god.

Our days are always like that. My old electric fan rattles to bring me joy. Today no rain has washed my dreams.


I saw me asleep

:)

I love thunder storms in the heat. I like to play in the rain when it's hot.

ooh i love thunder storms........

Me too! :-)

you'd be cooler without the cotton nightie~ just a suggestion =D

Yeah but I have to walk around the house. I don't wear the cotton robe over the nightie because yeah, it retains heat, but the cotton is cooler than my polester faux satin nighties, spring or fall.

Thanks for posting to GutterGirls~

:)

Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 89. South southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 77. South southwest wind around 5 mph.

Friday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 89. West wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. West northwest wind around 5 mph.

Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 90. Northwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

oh doc, so

unds like not that fun. Sounds like what we have......Sounds like so much of what we have. Before I moved to Boston, I went to Key West and that was fine, but there was central. Then a week later in Boston, I said: OMG my hair is so curly, the sink never dries and the sweat is pouring off me, and it is so humid. Our being on the coast plus other factors makes for our strange weather, strange for our lattitude.

LOL Kathryn! you are too funny this morning! It's been the same here....HHH...hazy...hot as hell.....and humid!.
It does wear one down after a few weeks. I've been washing my hair everymorning and putting it up in a bun wet......seems to help....it's like having a wet rag on my head all day and when I take it down at night it's still wet! Also, I always keep cold water in the tub.....that seems to help keep it cooler in here. I live upstairs and it's gotten pretty intense even with a/c in the livingroom area...you can only take so much of that too!
We've been getting the thunderboomers but they come in quick as a flash and leave just as fast.....the winds violent enough to rip pieces of house off and powerlines down. BUT relief is coming for us being "baked" on the east coast. This weekend is supposed to be simply divine with temps in the 70's and low humidity with tons of sunshine.

hhh oh yeah.... i put mine up every day, too. use conditioner every day, shampoo once a week.... and well, you have more hair so yours is wet. 2 showers a day. when it gets hotter, i take three.

thunderboomers soon...

80 percent humidity with 95 yesterday, and 88 today. much better today, actually.

Yeah it's not really the heat so much......the heat makes my old bones feel younger....but it's the dang humidity.....here it's been around 90% for a couple weeks now and THAT'S what makes us feel soooo sick.

Weather channel just said hurricane Bill is heading our way......youre closer than I am........and there's supposed to be 30 foot waves off the coast of Cape Cod on Saturday......WOW I'm picturing the National Seashore near Wellfleet with waves like that! I go to Cape Cod every September and last year there was another tropical storm off the coast making waves about 15-20 feet high and that was the first year I had seen sooooo many surfers at National Beach.

Hey Kat...here's another hot weather trick I use when I HAVE to put street clothes on go out in this.....I put my clean, dry bra and panties that I want to wear that day in a ziplock freezer bag and put them in the freezer hours before. That way when you put them on you get a cooling chill......
Heck if I had a freezer big enough I'd hang all my clothes in there!

Well.....almost couldn't get back in here cuz the thread is getting too long....sooooooo have a good Thursday and keep it cool babyyyyyyyy lol

COLD PANTS!!!!!! THANK YOU...I will NOT tell my family what is IN the ziploc!!! but I WILL Tell them NOT to LOOK~

Wow, Kathryn, it's only 72 degrees here today.....incredibly beautiful, with a soft, gentle breeze.......guess I need to turn the air conditioners off.....LOL! This weather here seems too good to be true, but i sure am not complaining! Tomorrow it's only going to be 70.....even better!!!!
Hope you get some heat relief soon......those scorching temperatures are no fun!

send it to me! you are lucky


hugz

Keep the mammoth. Too hot, but I'll share the ice.

haha

:)

kinda short on ice down here...

have a freezer?

"Shower.... dress in a wet T-shirt and . . ." your husband just might misinterpret what he sees. (I did :-D))

oh yeah.

It's 110 out there in my driveway....and almost time to pick Danielle up from school.

The lounge chair would be out and occupied.

our lounge chairs are not much comfort in this weather.

Gisela, there is school?

Yup! We have a modified school year schedule. Danielle went back at the end of July.

You will never hear me complain about the heat. I can't take the winter, so I don't care how hot or humid it is right now.

okay...

Have someone to spray you down with a water hose. If you are east of Michigan rain is heade east, rained here today for a hour. was supposed to have thunder showers today.. maybe even tonight.. scattered showers tomorrow..

sounds real gooood.