ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area So how's your summer?

We just had another amazing downpour here:



It's been like this for the past couple of weeks--unbearable humidity, not extremely hot but just uncomfortable. Then the sky opens up, and then back to the sticky weather.

This reminds me of when I visited Disney World (Florida) about 20-something years ago.

Posted by WARREN1

Well then I guess its time for someone like me to give you a response.

Words By Dennis Leary


For the complete uncensored lyrics go here
http://www.endor.org/leary/

Bob

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Now here's a story for the history books:

UK hits 100F for first time


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At least some are enjoying the heat.

Paul what is the average temp you are accustomed to.

We have 100F once in a while where I live.

Bob

People vote thier wallets on sound bites and bumper stickers WARREN1

so as long as Joe-Bag-O-Donuts or your garden variety soccer mom hasn't got it any worse, S/He won't be too worried about our children being enviromental paupers.


btw~
Leary (IMHO) even makes the right wingers look bad

In general, we don't have anything like the extremes of either heat or cold that many parts of the U.S. experience.

Here are the Monthly averages for Gatwick Airport , in the southeast of England.

Statistics don't always tell the full story though. A constant topic of conversation in Britain in the way the weather is so changeable. The average July high may be in the low 70s, but we can have a day or two up to 80, then the next few days it's gray and miserable and the mercury struggles to reach 60.

But certainly anything above the low 80s is unusual, even in the height of summer.

So 100F has got to be really hard on people.

That is pretty scary about the French having to resort to "external cooling methods" for their reactors.

Bob

A problem for anyone who doesn't like the heat is that air-con is considered a luxury here, at least in private homes. The average summer temperatures just don't warrant the expense.

There still seems to be quite a discussion going on as to whether this year "beats" the long hot summer of 1976. The absolute maximum temperature records have been broken, but 1976 had weeks of consistently hot weather.

Anyone of my generation who grew up in England will remember 1976 for the weeks we spent sleeping in tents in the back yard! (Great fun, as I was 10 at the time ).

i checked it a coupla days ago and it was at 92F. Today our high was only 94 with a heat
index of 101F. We are finally starting to see a few thunderstorms in our area. There were a few around Houston Friday with 89MPH winds.

Donnie,

Whoa!
How does it feel when the water's that hot?
I always thought of jumping in a pool to cool off, but that's getting close to Hot Tub temps!

Bill