you know it's been a hot summer when...

[lagilman]

They announce that it's 102 outside, and nobody seems shocked by it.

They announce that it's 102 outside, and you just yawn.

They announce that it's 102 outside, and the cats don't have any more fur to shed.


Did you know that it's 102 degrees outside?


(heat index of 107, but at this point, who cares?)




Heat advisory, duh. We also have a severe thunderstorm watch on until 10pm. Bring it on, baby, bring it on....




and, in the spirit of the weather; words you never thought you'd hear yourself say:

"f*ck. my cell phone's covered in chocolate."

Comments

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the average summer day in Texas. I have no idea how people lived down here before air conditioning.

[azang.livejournal.com]

Geez! Sounds like you're back here in Phoenix Az!
Angela

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Please tell me there's a story with the chocolate and cell phone love affair.

[lagilman]

Nothing too interesting beyond my own carelessness in leaving a piece of foil-wrapped chocolate in a side pocket of my backpack and then placing my cell into the same pocket.

Thankfully it was less extreme than it sounds. But the initial WTF moment was... interesting.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Heh, and is the cell phone okay? (They're remarkably hardy--I recently dropped mine into... a lot of water. It went into a coma for about 24 hours and then woke up.)

[janni.livejournal.com]

I've been in the Southwest long enough that the phrase "only 102 outside" actually makes lots of sense to me.

It's 46F Here

[shadowhelm.livejournal.com]

And I have to wear a sweatshirt. But I'm at 8500 feet and there's no oxygen or so everyone from NYC says. But now I bet you hate me.

[david-chunn.livejournal.com]

That's a fairly typical summer day where I grew up and where I live now. Actually, the temperature is rarely that high. The heat index, on the other hand, is always like that.

Here in B'ham we have 2-3 thunderstorms per week in the summer, at least. Where I grew up further south, it's pretty much everyday in the summer. Not that you get hit each time, but there's always one passing close-by or overhead.

But you know, I really do like it. There's just nothing quite like the feeling the air gets after a thunderstorm has blown over.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Homer: MMM chocolate covered cell phone...ahhhhhhh...

[lagilman]

That's a fairly typical summer day where I grew up and where I live now.


Thunderstorms happen in the summer when heat and moisture fronts mix overhead, and as such are standard phenom up and down the Eastern Seaboard. It's not even unusual (sadly) to have temps in the upper 90's. What's unusual here is the length of time the extreme temperatures have persisted.

Personally, I'm ready for it to all end, now, and Autumn to come in. But looks like we have at least one more day of it to go before a cool-off.

Re: It's 46F Here

[lagilman]

Thre's a technical term for a post like that, but what you need to know is that it often leads to the poster being beaten to a virtual pulp...

And actually, no I don't hate you for your weather.

[lagilman]

Yeah, it's fine. Was actually only lightly marked with chocolate, and no, I didn't lick it off. Ewwww.

[newroticgirl.livejournal.com]

LMAO... chocolate phone... i TOTALLY would have licked it clean!

I think the A/C was on the fritz at newark airport yesterday... i was dripping sweat by the time i reached the gate for my flight to seattle. (then i found a vent to sit under and got blow-dryed.)

I know, I know

[shadowhelm.livejournal.com]

Does it make you feel any better that we had those 102F days back in July or that we'll see our first snowfall early September? Or that I'll pay for my smugness with several days of below 0F weather sometime in January? To be honest, I prefer the cold. But then, that's why I'm a musher too.

Hoping it cools off a bit for you!