Only early July and we've already been over 100 about 15 times. Heat index value today expected to be 110-112 (actual temperature around 105). 15 day forecast has 12 days of 100 plus (the "easy" days show a high of 99). August is typically our hottest month. Not out of the question for 100 degree days to linger into September (i remember a summer in the early 2000s when it was 100 plus for the first 14 days of September....105-110). Not a "dry" heat around here either. Yuck.

i blame al gore, who flies all over the place in his giant private plane, driving to functions with a fleet of suburbans, to complain about our causing global warming

is it sad that I enjoy that type of weather? Of course I don't get that many days in a row where I am so I may think differently if I lived it daily.

I honestly didn't mind it as much before becoming the owner of multiple (6) dogs. I worry about keeping them cool in it.

i run 5 miles every day...in south louisiana...in 90+ degree heat with 85%+ humidity. yesterday was only 87 with 58% humidity, it felt like winter!

Forecast highs for the next 14 days: 103,101,102,102,102,104,105,104,104,103,105,106,104,106.

my sister is in AZ and when we talked at 10:00 AM her time monday it was already 114. i reminded her that she moved there on purpose. she then told me she hated me!

The thing is....we get actual winter here too (not Minnesota winter...but definitely worse than most other places in this country that consistently get over 100 degrees)......i'd be more ok with our summers if we got Phoenix winters.

It's so hot, I can't even cool off in the pool. The water is over 100 degrees unless the sun is down.

Triple digits temps expected here in SW KS for next 14 days, with no rain. My kids in Texas are over the triple digit temps too. Heading to Hartsel CO 75 day temps and 55 night temps, thinking about refusing to come home until September. LOL

We've gotten about 1/10 of an inch of rain in the last 30 days, which is about 3% of what it is supposed to be this time of year, according to our weatherman.

80's and a little 90's here in MI. If it hits above 99 I don't see the sunlight till its over.

SteveDave is spot on for here in MI. Today it's sunny and temp high should be 81 in SE MI. The dog days of summer are fast approaching, but normally that puts us in the low to mid 90's. I truly love the 4 seasons here and wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

I don't complain about the heat until the temperature or heat index reaches 100. I'd kill for some 90 degree days right now.

oh man, our heat index has been 100 or greater since early June, and that is early even for us.

Same here. We set a record in 1980 with 69 days over 100 degrees. I think that record is in danger this year. I don't have an official count, but i think we're probably in the 25 range already....possibly more than that. I looked at weather.com and their extended summer forecast....we're in the "much warmer than average" category for August too.

some goober here turned off the AC in our building yesterday evening. Walked in to a sweltering 83 this morning. I'm glad i get here early, i cranked that puppy down to 68 and got some fans running, took about an hour but finally a tolerable 73...and i also just reprogrammed the AC controllers so they can no longer shut off.

I just started working from home this week and my office is on the 2nd floor of my house. I've got an extra portable AC and a couple fans to keep it tolerable in the afternoon.
Our extended forecast has NO high temps under 105.
I usually love the summer but this is a bit much!

Yes, i noticed they updated the temps for next week......a 109 showing up next week.

Updated 15 day forecast highs: 106, 112, 109, 102, 105, 104, 106, 107, 107, 104, 104, 102, 102, 102, 103.

I'm not used to those numbers....how do you get anything done outside? or do you go from your car to the building or car inside the house? Can you even enjoy a pool with temps like those?

When it's like today, high expected to be 111-113...you just try to stay indoors as much as possible. I typically have some outdoor work i have to do in the evenings around 6:00 (not super strenuous stuff, and typically takes 30 minutes or so) and i'm completely drenched in sweat when i'm done. Never been more ready for fall.

hey, but it's a dry heat, right?

Forecasters are calling for a one-day reprieve tomorrow, before the 100 degree plus train returns. Crazy how excited i am for 97 degrees.

90's here in Michigan this week, just had to go to the basement here at work due to a tornado warning.

Don't you guys get normal weather there or is normal weather just a tornado?

We get about 3 months of nice weather a year (i'm trying to be realistic....i've X-ed out "6 weeks" and "2 months")......from about March 1 to mid-April and from about October 1 to mid-November....although April is tornado weather and October 1st can still be 95 degrees.

SC gets pretty hot inthe Midlands (100+). On a triple-digit day, my daughter brought a baking sheet to work, put some cookie dough on the tray, put it on the dashboard and rolled-up the windows.

For the afternoon break, there were 24 perfectly baked chocilate chip cookies for her group.

I think I would go for a dashboard cookie over a sidewalk egg if I had to choose.

Me too!

i saw a recipe for "mailbox lasagna" where you essentially cook the lasagna in a pan in your mailbox. been hot enough here to do that, for sure.

with my luck, the mailman would take before it was ready, eat it, get sick, and sue me for food poisoning...lol

We got a hundredth of an inch of rain the other day, so optimism abounds.

way too much rain here this year, raining 5 of 7 days for the past 2 months, we are 10+ inches over normal YTD amounts

No idea just how much rain we've had, but this has been an exceptionally wet summer for us. We, too, are getting 4 - 5 days of rain every week.

Have more rain in the forecast this evening, then Tuesday through Saturday.

Lots of crispy grass here...pretty severe drought.

Forecast for today: 100% chance and 1.17" of rain. Under a flood warning. Uggghhh

Clear skies and sunshine today, high in the upper 90's. Did have some hail over the weekend but it didn't make it my way.

Our area was slammed by flooding Wednesday night into Thursday. My family and I escaped with some superficial property damage. We have a lot of clean up ahead of us, but others weren't so fortunate.

Lightning sparked multiple fires around us last night. The closest was about 1/2 mile away and burned about 80 acres. We didn't have to evacuate but we packed the car just in case.

Not saying this is an accurate reading of yesterday's temperature, but it does show that it was HOT....yesterday when i jumped in my truck to leave at quitting time, the computer in it showed a temperature of 121....highest 'in vehicle' reading i've ever seen.

Calling for 104 today and tomorrow, BUT the forecast shows the pattern breaking some after that......starting next Monday, highs from 86-90 and several chances of rain. The drought (and heat) have been severe. Really looking forward to a change.

Reading this makes me glad to live a little farther north. Today is 71 and sunny

I'm coming to visit hmdagal.

We were in Knoxville, IA, last week. It was warm during the day (upper 80s to low 90s), but the difference in humidity level compared to Georgia and Texas was wonderful. And it was breezy and down in the low 70s at night!

It's crazy how excited i am at the prospect of 88 degrees.

i feel your pain, today makes 2 entire days in a row we have not had rain over the past 60 days...essentially it has rained daily since the end of May...i'll take teh warmer weather for a few days if it lets us dry out...

Yes, it's crazy to me that we have this extreme drought and places just a couple/few states away have had these crazy flood events. Neither is ideal....wish we could all just get the amount of rain and heat we need.

75, sunny & dry here on the Delmarvelous Peninsula...

a lot of people are going to dislike you!

A lot of people already dislike me. I am a compliance officer: :

Overcast and 86 here today......wonderful weather, after the last 2 months.

Forecast highs for next work week--99,100,99,99, 99....yep, that's right....99 degrees on the first day of fall.

RJ, have you considered moving out of the dustbowl??

LOL....i have....there are things i like about living here......but this summer's weather ain't one of them.

We are going to have a crisp 42 degrees tonight. It's sweater weather here in the Northeast.

::envious::

Not exactly sure where you are located but I bet I am envious of your winters!

I'm in SE Oklahoma.....i'm sure your winters are more severe than ours....but we're definitely not Phoenix, Arizona when it comes to winter....we get them....we don't get much snow, but we do get ice. But generally speaking, yes, our winters are milder than yours i'm sure.

Yup, winters are very long, snowy and cold here. That's why when I retire, (which is very soon) I'll be hanging in Ft Lauderdale for the winter.

we are back to mid-90s this week...i won't complain too much, the high pressure heat dome is keeping the hurricanes away from us

Just another sign of how crazy the weather is here in my part of the world.....had a seriously early first freeze last night, with lows hitting mid to high 20s......high friday is calling for mid 80s.

Big tornado risk in this part of the world today...everyone be safe.

Well, it's been just normal hot here for about the last 3 weeks...highs around 90. Next week, the forecast shows the 100s coming back .....5 straight days at 100 or better (presumably beyond that...that's as far as the forecast goes). All of this before the official beginning of summer. Last year's summer was really bad....not ready for another one like that.

If you're experiencing more pleasant weather, please post...i'd like to live vicariously through you.

A little cloudy today - high of 78. Mostly sunny for the next week with the highest temperature of 85. Tough living at the ocean.

Low 70's here with a little bit of wildfire haze. It's been unusually dry, but we have a good chance of rain over the weekend and until early next week

Ya'll and your reasonable weather.

it was 92 yesterday, but our humidity has been unseasonably low, just 51%, so it only felt like 95 instead of 105. it is currently raining, so the temps have dropped to low 80s for the moment. once it stops and the sun reappears, back to 90+

We had our summer at the end of May-first of June (sunny and warm). Since last Friday it has been rainy and in the 50s. We are supposed to get a bit of a break in the weather Sunday-Monday, but then it is back to rain and 60s the rest of the week.

The only good thing is, I think the low pressure system parked over our neck of the woods is keeping the Canadian smoke away from our area.

i'll see your worst summer and add how ours is going:

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/...289-b05bf230-047f-401c-830e-014dd27128fc

We must live in the same neck of the woods...Thank goodness the smoke is gone (for now)

I had golf ball sized hail and a lightning strike in the back yard this morning.

Yikes! Darkest i think i've ever seen it at 9 this morning, but ultimately just rained really hard. Potential for more storms through tomorrow morning.....then 98s and 99s (they've dropped it from the low 100s) beginning Friday for many days.

I think i was premature last year....looks like this year could be even worse. Only June, and the 15 day shows 99-104 every day, with heat indexes in the "warning" zones (over 105) pretty much every day. Heat index tomorrow here is supposed to be 111...and again, it's only June. Hard to imagine things getting better in July and August. We would occasionally get summers like this back in the 70s and 80s, but then we'd get a milder summer somewhere to make up for it. Every summer nowadays is super hot....abnormally hot.

i heard the excessive heat in summers was caused by 2 things - big SUVs and people who need to quit dipping and haven't...

Lol...touche

had a soccer match at 7:00 PM last night, heat index was 95 at start, 89 at finish, lost 7 pounds in liquid over a 2 hour period...just brutal...come o Saharan dust to provide cooling coverage!

Heat indexes have been running 5-17 degrees hotter than the actual temperatures the last couple of weeks. Here are the forecast high temps (actual temps, not heat indexes) in my little town for the next 15 days:

101, 98, 101, 101, 98, 100, 104, 102, 102, 101, 102, 103, 102, 101, 100......that gets me to July 10th.

Heat indexes been moving below 100 about 10 o'clock at night.

Haven't had a 90 degree day here yet, but over 7 inches of rain so far this month and 14 inches since the beginning of May. We have had a heat index 1 day go over 90. I have heard the number of 90 degree days will be less than average here this year. (We live about an hour north of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

We were really rainy in April, May (but that's typical and we'd be hurting otherwise, since summers are extremely dry here) and even the first half of June (not typical). Honestly, if it weren't for my dogs, i'd just shrug my shoulders and say "it sure is hot" and go on.....but the heat is really rough on my dogs.

In the interest of fairness, i feel obligated to say: it's been hot so far this summer, but not as bad as i was anticipating (banging hard on wood, since August and September and even October are still ahead). The best thing is....we might get 7-10 days of hot weather (i'm calling it hot if the heat index is over 100)....but then we get at least a few days of relief. For example, heat index was 108 on Tuesday........but supposed to top out at 91 today, and even chances of rain this weekend. Highs for most of next week look to be high 80s...that's called relief around here.

Last July was definitely worse than this month has been, so i'm counting that as a win. Hopefully, i can say the same thing about August.

ETA: Oh...and i don't know if i have ever seen it so green in mid-July. Farmers and ranchers around here have to be happy.