Sizzling Heat Wave Fries Most of U.S.

[Lawreston]

Yeh-yeh-yeh. Well, a few days of it is better than going to get my mail in........

HR

 

[RogerT]

Well I can handle the heat .. I HATE the cold and snow. Each additional
year here in Nebraska just reinforces my being out of here the day after
I can retire.

Sat and Sun the heat index was around 115. Sat I spent the day out
in my hangar working on my plane .. and Sunday I went home about mid
afternoon and did my yard work.

What's a little sweat.

RT

 

[JRitt]

I just moved from Alaska last year and I am cooking (and not on the stove either). I can wait till Oshkosh. Its supposed to be in the low 80's there next week 30% chance of light rain/Thunderstorms this weekend.

Sat 22 Jul

82° F | 58° F
28° C | 14° C
Sun 23 Jul

82° F | 60° F
28° C | 16° C
Mon 24 Jul

82° F | 62° F
28° C | 17° C
Tues 25 Jul

83° F | NA
28° C | NA

 

[Ken Ibold]

I can wait till Oshkosh. Its supposed to be in the low 80's there next week.

Brrrrr! Thanks for the warning! I'll make sure to pack some long pants and a sweatshirt.

 

[bkreager]

I would LOVE to see 80 degree highs right now. Density altitude here is 3400, about 2600 feet above field elevation.

 

[astanley]

Give me snow any day. Yes, it makes riding my road bike a chore, but here is the thing about cold: I can keep adding layers and generating heat. Generating cold is expensive, hard, and there are only so many layers of clothing I can remove before the police come after me.

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[SkyHog]

Man, its only 96 degrees outside, but feels so much hotter than that. Ugh.

 

[Darrell111]

Here in Dallas we are sitting on a 102F temp (feels like 105) and im about to go run 4.5 miles in it!! LOVE IT!

 

[woodstock]

I'd like to jump into that snow bank right now.

I've decided it isn't the cold so much as the lack of light. if it stayed light until 9 PM all winter I wouldn't fret about it so much.

 

[astanley]

Yeah, the winter makes riding with lights nearly mandatory for all after work stuff. I can leave work at 6, pound out 35 miles on the road bike, and be eating a nice relaxing dinner on the deck at 8:30 with a cold beer and the sunset joining Jessie and I!

I rode 67 miles yesterday and it was bleeping hot. There was one point where it literally felt like my skin was frying.

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[Ghery]

Last I looked it was around 80 degrees with a light breeze in Princeville on the island of Kauai. They don't call this place "paradise" for nothing.

Next week I get to go to Washington DC and Boston. Hope it cools down in the next week.

 

[Bill]

I rode 67 miles yesterday and it was bleeping hot.

Push bike or motor?

 

[astanley]

Push bike or motor?

Push bike...

Last year for Adam's funeral, a bunch of us met up at MotoMarket and rode down to the cape. The thermo on the bike reported a 130F deck temp, which I think was a little out of whack. But, I did wear my CamelBak on the bike that day, and I froze about 50oz of water in it the night before. I drank through 3 of them (100oz) over the 9 hours we were out that day... I've never been that hot in my life (Vanson perf. leather be damned)

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[astanley]

Last I looked it was around 80 degrees with a light breeze in Princeville on the island of Kauai. They don't call this place "paradise" for nothing.

Next week I get to go to Washington DC and Boston. Hope it cools down in the next week.

Hey Ghery, if you have the time while you are here, the beer is on me (or the non-alcoholic beverage of your choice). I'm in Boston pretty frequently....

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[fgcason]

Full blown blizzard, send one, quick, PPLLEEAASSEE!!

Snow? BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!! LOTS OF IT...NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

90+F for weeks now. 100 for at least 2-3 days that I checked. It's like sitting on the sun. Even going up in the forest to 11400+MSL didn't help at all the other day.

I'm totally done with bake your brains out heat.

 

[woodstock]

Yeah, the winter makes riding with lights nearly mandatory for all after work stuff. I can leave work at 6, pound out 35 miles on the road bike, and be eating a nice relaxing dinner on the deck at 8:30 with a cold beer and the sunset joining Jessie and I!

I rode 67 miles yesterday and it was bleeping hot. There was one point where it literally felt like my skin was frying.

Cheers,

-Andrew

I hope you wear sunscreen and have plenty of loose fiber clothing on. they make sunscreen clothing now too. (higher SPF - I know all clothes help to an extent).

 

[poadeleted3]

98 yesterday, 99 today. Starting to warm up nicely, spring must be just around the corner .

I actually aborted a takeoff Sunday because the plane couldn't get off the ground as quickly as I'd like. First time I've ever done that except once in training. Actually, she'd have broke ground before I ran out of runway, but the powerlines and trees at the other end kinda bugged me. Almost 3000 ft of runway, but 95 degrees and a bit of an uphill run was just more than the old girl could handle, I guess. We got to the halfway point and still hadn't broke ground, so I gave it up. Surprised the heck out of my wife, who quite kindly kept quiet until I'd slowed the plane. Aborted, taxiied back, put 10 degrees of flaps in and 18E managed to get the job done. Shouldn't have tried the first takeoff without the flaps, in retrospect. They can make a difference in a Skyhawk.

 

[astanley]

I hope you wear sunscreen and have plenty of loose fiber clothing on. they make sunscreen clothing now too. (higher SPF - I know all clothes help to an extent).

I wear sunscreen on my head and arms, but on Sunday I sweat so much I lost the sunscreen on my arms - hence my "cyclists tan" got a bit deeper. It's like a farmers tan, except there is a very clear and sharp line between "no color" and "tan".

I was wearing a Vermarc Duvel jersey, like this:

which has a 15 SPF rating built in. My skin under that is as white as snow. The biggest downside is my hair is (sadly) starting to thin, and it while it doesn't look thin, some sun gets through the helmet vents and I can get a scalp burn. I haven't figured out how to prevent that.

I generally slather some on my legs too, but the new shaving lotion I use also has some SPF in it, so I didn't this time (don't want to clog up my legs and leave them unable to sweat), but legs came out none the worse.

I bagged my 35 miler tonight, the air quality is just too bad to be out climbing my arse off. The PMC is in 3 weeks, and I'm not going to blow it just for a dinky training run.

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[DeeG]

Andrew,

Pete has same problem with getting little vent shaped burn spots on his head. I know there are some stores/catalogs that sell lite weight microfiber hat thingies that you can wear under the helmet. petes got one, I can't remember where he got it from, though.

 

[DeeG]

I've never been that hot in my life (Vanson perf. leather be damned)

Cheers,

-Andrew

Try an Aerostitch Darien jacket/pants. Darien Light jacket (Hi Viz yellow color)arrived yesterday. I normally wear mesh (either Joe Rocket or Triumph) when it gets about 75F. Opened all the vents on the Darien and took a ride around town. I was shocked and surprised at how cool I stayed, even when sitting in the parking lot at the grocery store. I've got leathers, but I only wear them on cool days.

Pete wore his Dariens on our trip to SoCal a couple of weeks ago. Average tempt was ~95F, with a high of 115F in Central CA. He says he was confortable, but having a Joe Rocket Sahara evap vest would have made the ride perfect.

If I'm on the pedal bike, I have a Pearl windbreaker that I put on (after I've soaked it) and I re-soak during the ride. And I always have a CamelBak on, and if needed, the three bottle cages are occupied as well.

 

[Bob Bement]

We had 104 in Vale Or. yesterday, I thought that was hot. It felt like a blow torch. It is supposed to be cooler today.

 

[Bill]

Push bike...

I really should start riding the bicycle again someday...

 

[HPNFlyGirl]

Here in Dallas we are sitting on a 102F temp (feels like 105) and im about to go run 4.5 miles in it!! LOVE IT!

Darrell....DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!!!!!

 

[astanley]

I really should start riding the bicycle again someday...

You've got some pretty roads down there Bill... Lance did some off-season training up in the Smokies, and one of the epic climbs of the US is Brasstown Bald down in Georgia...

Not sure about the hick quotient (I live in a "hickey" area of Central MA), but that can negatively affect your safety... as you have experienced on the bike, imagine.

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[ScottM]

Darrell....DRINK PLENTY OF WATER!!!!!

My story of my 75k bike ride on Sunday at an easy pace. http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=103172#post103172

First time the heat beat me.

 

[Michael]

you big babies. Its been pushin 120 here for a month straight. Sheesh....we know when to turn the air on and stay inside

 

[fgcason]

you big babies. Its been pushin 120 here for a month straight. Sheesh....we know when to turn the air on and stay inside

Whatcha gonna do if the power goes out?

The AC is on. It's not doing squat except tripling the electric bill.
Besides, staying inside isn't any fun at all.

Give me 20 below any day over this. If I wanted this torture, I could just set the knob on my oven to "melt rock" and climb in.

 

[Ghery]

Hey Ghery, if you have the time while you are here, the beer is on me (or the non-alcoholic beverage of your choice). I'm in Boston pretty frequently....

Cheers,

-Andrew

Thanks for the offer. I get in Thursday night, have meetings for my fraternity (Phi Kappa Sigma, in case there are any other Phi Kaps out there, I'll be at Grand Chapter) all day and evenings Friday and Saturday and then have an early afternoon flight out on Sunday. Not sure when we'd get together.

 

[astanley]

Whatcha gonna do if the power goes out?

The AC is on. It's not doing squat except tripling the electric bill.
Besides, staying inside isn't any fun at all.

Give me 20 below any day over this. If I wanted this torture, I could just set the knob on my oven to "melt rock" and climb in.

I like the way you think Cason. Man has been keeping warm for thousands of years. Man has only been making cool for a couple hundred... Give me the cold!

Cheers,

-Andrew

 

[ScottM]

you big babies. Its been pushin 120 here for a month straight. Sheesh....we know when to turn the air on and stay inside

I lived in New Mexico for a while and it gets hot there as well. Hotter than the midwest but it really is the humidity that makes the midwest uncomfortable when hot.

Last summer I was in Las Vegas for the 120 spell but I could still do work outside, if it had been 95 and 95% humidty in Chicago I would have been completely running for the AC shelter.

 

[Tom-D]

77 here today.. mild sea breeze

Wed forcasted to be 80, by the weekend it will be 90+.

We will still have the sea breeze.

AS soon as the mainland starts to warm up, the warm air rises and is replaced by the cooler air off the water. that cooler air must cross Whidbey Is.

Do weather for zip code 98277

 

[DeeG]

Whatcha gonna do if the power goes out?

My ex boss has a place in Bullhead. Spent many days there.

Land as quickly as possible. Open doors, vents etc as you taxi off runway. Taxi as fast as you can down to parking w/o catching brakes on fire (IFP has a WONDERFUL taxiway.... I hear that it may be used as a 'mountain stage' in the next Tour de France).

If you don't have a/c, you get your lawnchair and a 12 pack of your favorite beverage to the waters edge as quick as you can. daybreak is good, cause its already 96F out by then. Set chair in water so when you sit in it, the water comes up to your chest. Place beverage in water next to you. Drink as needed. Don't move until the sun goes down.

 

[Michael]

My ex boss has a place in Bullhead. Spent many days there.

Land as quickly as possible. Open doors, vents etc as you taxi off runway. Taxi as fast as you can down to parking w/o catching brakes on fire (IFP has a WONDERFUL taxiway.... I hear that it may be used as a 'mountain stage' in the next Tour de France).

If you don't have a/c, you get your lawnchair and a 12 pack of your favorite beverage to the waters edge as quick as you can. daybreak is good, cause its already 96F out by then. Set chair in water so when you sit in it, the water comes up to your chest. Place beverage in water next to you. Drink as needed. Don't move until the sun goes down.

IFP hasnt had that taxiiway in over a year. There is a chillies resturaunt there now. Now you get to taxi to the east and wait at the gate in 120 heat untill some decides you can leave the airport and they open the gate for you. I refuse to goto IFP any more, at least untill they get another FBO there.

 

[poadeleted3]

Whatcha gonna do if the power goes out?

snip.

Exactly. Last night here, good strong cold front met lots of very hot humid air. The results were predictable, and impressive. Sky turned green, had me and Cathy looking for tornados and listening for the the horns, then all the trees about got flattened (actually, it turns out a sizable number DID get flattened), the sky turned black, and we were surrounded by non-stop lightening right over the house. Very impressive, very noisy.... house very dark, and quickly very warm We spent the next couple hours on the porch watching the backside of the storm as it moved to the east. Impressive, and beautiful. Towering clouds constantly being lit up from inside by the lightening. Really pretty.

House was still dark and warm this morning. PECO says at least tomorrow till we have power back. If we get it then we'll be grateful, because they are saying some folks won't have it back until the weekend. According to the news on the radio this AM, we had hurricane force winds. Royersford is certainly a mess.

 

[Skip Miller]

House was still dark and warm this morning. PECO says at least tomorrow till we have power back. If we get it then we'll be grateful, because they are saying some folks won't have it back until the weekend.

Sorry about losing power, Joe. It makes us realize how dependent we have become on things like electricity. We had the same front come through here last night. We did not lose power, but some friends of mine in Westchester County lost power for about 6 hours.

The lightning show was spectacular indeed!

-Skip

 

[Frank Browne]

Exactly. Last night here, good strong cold front met lots of very hot humid air. The results were predictable, and impressive. Sky turned green, had me and Cathy looking for tornados and listening for the the horns, then all the trees about got flattened (actually, it turns out a sizable number DID get flattened), the sky turned black, and we were surrounded by non-stop lightening right over the house. Very impressive, very noisy.... house very dark, and quickly very warm We spent the next couple hours on the porch watching the backside of the storm as it moved to the east. Impressive, and beautiful. Towering clouds constantly being lit up from inside by the lightening. Really pretty.

House was still dark and warm this morning. PECO says at least tomorrow till we have power back. If we get it then we'll be grateful, because they are saying some folks won't have it back until the weekend. According to the news on the radio this AM, we had hurricane force winds. Royersford is certainly a mess.

Ouch! Good luck with the outage situation Joe. I hope they get your power back on soon. As dangerous as an electrical storm is, they are quite beautiful to watch. Something stark and primal about them.

 

[Anthony]

you big babies. Its been pushin 120 here for a month straight. Sheesh....we know when to turn the air on and stay inside

Yeah, but its a DRY HEAT.

We set a record in Denver last weekend. 104 F.

 

[Anthony]

House was still dark and warm this morning. PECO says at least tomorrow till we have power back.

Joe, you will quickly learn that what PECO says and PECO does are two very different things.

 

[poadeleted3]

Thanks, Skip and Frank. The power outage isn't a big deal, aside from the fact that we've lost this week's food. We'll have to shop day by day, and cook on the grill or camp stove till we are back up. Last night, we just fired up the Coleman lantern, read "The Chronicles of Narnia" to Sean and put him to bed, then spent a couple hours watching the storm in the distance, watching candles dance, and hanging out with each other. It was very relaxing, actually. Only thing I'm really worried about is the dog. Huskies just aren't made for the heat. We'll hose her down in the back yard along with each other when we start getting a tad warm.

And yeah, Anthony, I'm not really taking PECO at their word. We're kinda making our plans on the assumption we'll be without electricity through the weekend. Hey... think I can get them to reimburse me for the lost food and the inconvenience of sweating?

 

[poadeleted3]

Yeah, but its a DRY HEAT.

We set a record in Denver last weekend. 104 F.

Yeah, and so is this...