WE HAVE ANOTHER RECORD, PEOPLE! THIS NEXT FEW DAYS OF DEADLY WEATHER-Coming to your area soon!

Could you possibly elaborate please, UK?

BTW, here in the PNW it's been so cold and rainy that my poor tomatoes are still barely over 1 foot high, no flowers yet (which is ok since I've noticed very few bees, and they are the type with no stingers). Not that I would like to see the high, hot temps (and the weather guys are saying ninety by next Tuesday) but it WOULD be nice to see a LITTLE sunshine. Our "state birds", the banana slugs, are having a field day with my poor little garden.

Hey, UK, why all the hatin'? What have we, as a people, done to you personally? While I agree with you that our leaders ARE a bunch of ass-holes and deserve any and all bad things with no pity, they do not represent US! We look at them (especially OBAMA) with the same mixture of horror and disgust that the rest of the World must be feeling!

That would be like blaming the whole UK for Brown!

It's the south. Not just heat but also humidity. It's 107 but feels like 120.

Quite true - humidity can make all the difference. My parents used to talk about Annapolis, Maryland in the summertime - apparently you'd be drenched in perspiration just going from your front door to your parked car.

Exactly, Lady Ivory.

Thanks for the vid link, btw.

Kansas here - we are in the excessive heat warning - it is 106 degrees right now. Luckily we have many tree's shading the house - I am trying to keep my electric use down.

I am cooking dinner in the crockpot so I will not need to turn on the oven or the stove. I am not doing any laundry today. All of the blinds have remained closed and I am running a ceiling fan and a floor fan so I can run the a/c less.

Last night I ran the ac to cool it down at night - this morning the inside temp was a nice 68 degrees - the ac has came on only twice today and it is still a comfortable 72 degrees - I will continue this way until bed time and then bump it down so it can cool down over night again. Stay safe everyone - especially those of you that have to be outside!

yea..its really horrid..and I did get out the foil..tacky, but hell man..its helped.

YVW..I subscribe to him..he's a hoot ;)

Wow..my ac is running alot..and I have it set on 80..I have to say, though, since I darkened the windows with foil..its really cooled off..

New Orleans is the worst.

Glad to hear the foil is working some for you. I have also had the lights off all day and tried to limit my opening of outside doors. I think the trees and keeping the blinds all closed has helped tremendously as well as running the fans - plus all of our windows are on the north and the south side except for the front window which is on the West side - so we will heat up inside a little more now that the late day sun will be shining on that window. Good luck to you and hopefully the foil will help and your ac can get a bit of a break.

Im sorry..if its worse than here right now..I truly send you my sympathies.

Yes..thank you...its a bit tacky looking, but it helps ;)..as long as the cops dont drive by and think Im cooking meth now or something..lol

Sorry you guys are having wicked heat! Here in the Pacific Northwest, we are much cooler. My house has had clouds over it for the past 3 days. Sure would love to see some sun. At least it is supposed to clear up a little by the 4th :)
I would send you guys my clouds if I could. Peace :)

OH..thank your lucky stars that you are cool and cloudy..hopefully you wont get any of the sun's wrath..:):)..happy 4th to yoU!

And a Happy and COOL 4th to you!

Yeah, alcohol isn't a great idea.

If you've got humidity, I guess the best thing would be to get in a swimming pool or take occasional showers. If it were dry like Arizona, the advice would be to keep drinking (non alcoholic stuff) even before you're thirsty.

Ive always heard that once you ARE thirsty, it's already into dehydration. SO, yes, you are right.

Whenever I drink beer, I always drink a bottled water before and after..the key is to hydrate, at least IMO :)

If the GFS model is right, USA is going to have one of its strongest, hotter and lenghtiest heat wave in the following days.
2011 is set to become the hottest year in US so far!
And the summer is just starting!!!

[link to www.weatherzone.com.au]

Take a look at OKLAHOMA temperatures.
Many cities are going to break daily (or monthly) records today!!
Some have already broken it and it's only 3pm!!!!
[link to www.weather.gov]

It is not a normal summer. I always work outside in oklahoma in the summer, winter, etc. I never remember it being this hot.

Heat never bothers me that bad. I can weld in long sleeves when it is 100 outside. This year is different. Normally at night you get some relief, but has not been that way. I was cutting the grass the other day at 8:45 at night and was soaked from sweat. It was so hot, It actually bothered me.

All our grass is dead or dying. One of our trees is loosing leaves and dying. Our garden is dying, despite watering everyday. Watermelon normal growing season is summer. Ours died and yes it was planted in sandy soil.

My dad has lived here all his life. I asked him and he said the only time he remembers it this bad was I think 1980. He said then all the tanks on the ranch dried up and all the grass died. They were feeding hay.

So maybe one of those 1 time in thirty year things or something is up for sure.