It hovers around 110F when I go jogging - at nine pm.

/but it's a dry heat

It's only been up to about 96 here in central Indiana this year.

But it's a wet heat.. a wet nasty sticky humid life-sucking heat that will melt your soul

Rift activity to blame?

/Go Cardiff Torchwood!

I just got back from Phoenix last week when it hit 112°. Fun times.

GLOBAL WARMING!!! OH NOES!!!

That's about what it is up here in northern Sweden. It's pretty hot. And that's coming from a guy who has lived in New Orleans. Your body acclimates itself, though. 85 here feels a lot warmer than it would in, say, Kansas.

I always thought it was crazy when my buddy in Thailand would post pictures of him out at a bar at night. He and his friends were all wearing sweaters because it got down to 90^o.

84 degrees in Phoenix means the air conditioning is on, an amenity a muggy, sweaty, stinky London often lacks.

What is it with the Arizona/England thing?

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I went to Sao Paulo last year during their 'Winter'. It was something like 65 (real degrees, not that ghey celsius crap), and parents were bundling up their kids like they were going out in an Arctic storm. Funny stuff for a Michigan boy...

To be fair, that's 183.2F. I know I'd consider that hot.

That may not be hot where you live, but nobody here has air conditioning.

Where I am:101 right now. Tomorrow will be 104.

/this is why I'm hot

I drove to Phoenix last summer at night, got there at four in the morning. I stepped out of my car and it was HOT.

My friends bragged about their 600 dollar rent for a three bedroom apartment, then I saw their 500 dollar utility bill and laughed at them. Hey, if you want to live in hell, be my farking guest.

/Her teeth are straight
//Nothing useful to add really ...
///Carry on

Hell Chicago gets hotter than that

This has been the coolest summer in Phoenix that I can recall, and I've spent many summers here.

Don't think it's even cracked 113 yet... let alone 118.

Where is the snarky global warming headline?

Redscum: That may not be hot where you live, but nobody here has air conditioning.

In fact we're /setting/ our A/C to 84º, because it's nice and cool. Outside? 100º

eyehate: It hovers around 110F when I go jogging - at nine pm.

/but it's a dry heat heave

Sorry. Pet peat.

wait...84? I need a jacket and pants for that being the high.

Oh I miss Vegas, although I'd go jogging at 1am since the temp would drop to 90F. Dry heat helps since you don't sweat either, until you get back into a nice cool airconned house and within 2 minutes you're covered in sweat.

Mind, the summer here in the UK has been crap (I missed the floods last year) especially when you consider that we'd always been having heatwaves and hosepipe bans since the early 90's.

beoswulf: 84 degrees in Phoenix means the air conditioning is on, an amenity a muggy, sweaty, stinky London often lacks.

AC doesn't go on until roughly 100 degrees outdoor temp, up to 105 is tolerable with the ceiling fan.

After a week of temps in the mid-90s (for those of you who go by Farenheit), it was only 80-something here (Jerusalem) today, and dry with a cooling breeze...

I want to move back to Tel Aviv but don't think I could handle the summers - hot and 70% humidity.

I've heard stories from people who work at the theme parks out here in Southern California that they have problems with British and French babies dying because their parents don't know what to do in our heat and literally let their babies fry in the sun. It's horrible but every story I've heard of this involves French or British babies.

LordBollocks: /Her teeth are straight
//Nothing useful to add really ...
///Carry on

Looks like its a tit nipply out there.

wwtsomifitsd: I drove to Phoenix last summer at night, got there at four in the morning. I stepped out of my car and it was HOT.

My friends bragged about their 600 dollar rent for a three bedroom apartment, then I saw their 500 dollar utility bill and laughed at them. Hey, if you want to live in hell, be my farking guest.

That's odd, I live in Tempe, i keep my AC at 78 during the summer. My bill never breaks $200. Your friends are doing something wrong.

Yes stepping out of your house and feeling the 90 degree heat sucks and this time of year we have some humidity too.
ugh.

I believe Phoenix temps are measured in the shade...

"real degrees, not that ghey celsius crap"

Real men use Kelvin - it was 300K today.

The Candy Store in North Phoenix is kept around 68 or so. It's a bit nippy there.

beoswulf: 84 degrees in Phoenix means the air conditioning is on

That means the heater is on in my house.

My favorite comment FTA:

Rain in the morning then cloudy all day. Did see a bit of sun after tea... cloudy again this morning

- Carol, Swansea Wlales, 26/7/2008 09:07

Simply adorable.

Phoenix totally sucks.

E.S.Q.: muggy, sweaty, stinky London often lacks.

AC doesn't go on until roughly 100 degrees outdoor temp, up to 105 is tolerable with the ceiling fan.

That must the exception. Usually the only time people aren't in air conditioning in Phoenix is when they're going from their air conditioned cars across the parking lot to the air conditioned stores or work. Even the home garages are air conditioned so residents don't have to break a sweat waddling down the drive way into the house.

the adjustment's a biach. After 2 semesters in Colorado Springs, Fort Worth seemed like hell, but now it feels fine.

It's 94 here in Houston right now, but it's a wet heat.

beoswulf: That must the exception. Usually the only time people aren't in air conditioning in Phoenix is when they're going from their air conditioned cars across the parking lot to the air conditioned stores or work. Even the home garages are air conditioned so residents don't have to break a sweat waddling down the drive way into the house.

You are insane.

I am outside quite often during the summers and very active as far as running and hiking. They are plenty of us out and about during the day.

But as with any city, there are the loafers and whatnot, I am sure it is the same where you live.

Bacchus-ette: Where I am:101 right now. Tomorrow will be 104.

/this is why I'm hot

Yep...just checked the thermometer...101 in Arlington.

I moved to TX from California in the spring of '80. Then came the "heatwave" of 100+ days of 100+degrees. OMG! I never heard of heat index until then. Bought a new truck before we left...A/C?..oh no...who needs that additional luxury....mistake.

That summer Europe was having their own heatwave of 80+ degrees and people died of heat stroke.

I am used to the heat now but I still hate it.

Real men use Kelvin - it was 300K today

Winnah!

/I love the English countryside. Going back in the fall.
//will continue to visit until Nanny gets unbearable

chiark: "real degrees, not that ghey celsius crap"

Real men use Kelvin - it was 300K today.

Amatuer.

We use the Rankine scale in Australia. At the moment it is 496.8ºRa

p00p6 2008-07-26 06:56:30 PM
the adjustment's a biach. After 2 semesters in Colorado Springs, Fort Worth seemed like hell, but now it feels fine.

A couple of years ago I was in Fort Worth in Sundance Square at 10 PM. It was like 95 degrees. It ain't supposed to be 95 degrees anywhere at 10:00 at night. Hot night in the city indeed.

Motorcycle weather!

The Candy Store in North Phoenix is kept around 68 or so. It's a bit nippy there.

The wine store where I work is always at 72 and it's "nippy" in here too. Is that why sales go up on hot days?

What's bad is that it gets so hot that I get used to it, and then when cooler fall weather rolls around I freeze.

I was in Phoenix last year in August. I went outside the airport for a smoke. It was like walking into a pizza oven.

They don't do daylight savings time, which farked-up my connecting flight.

Cyborg77: LordBollocks: /Her teeth are straight
//Nothing useful to add really ...
///Carry on

Looks like its a tit nipply out there.

Winnar

eelcat: chiark: "real degrees, not that ghey celsius crap"

Real men use Kelvin - it was 300K today.

Amatuer.

We use the Rankine scale in Australia. At the moment it is 496.8ºRa

I prefer the OIFH scale. Touch your car door handle and scream, "Ouch it's farking hot"

Global Warming strikes again

84???

We keep our A/C/ set on 85 during the hottest times of the summer to save money.

im in my underwear in my berlin apartment with all the windows open at 1:15am sweating like a hog so im not getting much of a kick out of these replies.