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Title: It's too darn hot!
Post by: William on June 22, 2009
It's 101 with a heat index of 105 here in Texas right now, with record temps predicted for the rest of the week; that's right, it's supposed to be HOTTER (105 degrees Wed & Thurs) than today!   :o

I don't even feel like going to the range, I'm afraid the bullets are going to melt.....

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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 22, 2009
I hear ya!!   I too live in Texas northwest  of DFW   it was 100 here today    I feel the brunt of the heat everyday as   I work in a metal building with no  kind of A/C  it's normally5-10 degrees hotter inside then it is out    We just open the two 10x8 sliding doors and  turn on a large fan and work thru it. Today  i looked liked i had taken a shower with my clothes on.. Not looking forward to the rest of this week much less the whole summer if this is what we is gonna get Im gettin to old for this .....
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Post by: old salt on June 22, 2009
Just got back from watching the gramd son play ball, temp was 99 at 6:40 PM
In South Central Kan
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Post by: DMShook on June 22, 2009
We live about 35 miles south of Dallas and it was the same here...gonna be out in it for a few hours Wed afternoon, walking back and forth...


Might get up early and go to Navarro Mills Lake and try the crappie fishing before it gets too hot.
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Post by: Red Badger on June 22, 2009
I'm just outside of Tulsa and it busted 100 today here at the house...  Extreame heat warning for rest of the week accrding to the news tonight....

I'm thinking Road Trip to Alaska or maybe the south pole!
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Post by: Razor on June 22, 2009
We got up to 72 today... WHEW !!
Good thang I work in the shade and got a big fan. dntn
Shore do feel sorry fer you boys tho.
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Post by: bull frog on June 22, 2009
Got pretty warm where I live this weekend, Sunday, 100.0 so I did the only thing I could do.  Went to the coast.  In the 60's here in Morro Bay, down on the beach, in the 50's.  Go back home tomorrow to the heat, hope it cooled down some.  How was the mountains DB?
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Post by: Dryball on June 22, 2009
About like the coast.
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Post by: NW Wildman on June 23, 2009
68 and cloudy blah
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Post by: kit_carson on June 23, 2009
awe! poor people, 72 degrees, and heres the good bit! 31% relative humidity. and heres where it gets good,the wind off the lake, the worlds biggest swamp cooler! i had to put on a sweatshirt yesterday about 2pm cuz i wuz cold
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 23, 2009
Quote from: crow killer on June 23, 2009
awe! poor people, 72 degrees, and heres the good bit! 31% relative humidity. and heres where it gets good,the wind off the lake, the worlds biggest swamp cooler! i had to put on a sweatshirt yesterday about 2pm cuz i wuz cold
blah
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Post by: kit_carson on June 23, 2009
hey we also got snow 5 months outta the year
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 23, 2009
Quote from: crow killer on June 23, 2009
hey we also got snow 5 months outta the year

I'm lucky if i see snow twice a year  and then it only last a day before it all melts....
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Post by: DMShook on June 23, 2009
You see snow...we get ice for a couple days maybe...
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 23, 2009
Quote from: Roaring Bull on June 23, 2009
You see snow...we get ice for a couple days maybe...
we get our share of that too!!!
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Post by: William on June 23, 2009
Quote from: Razor on June 22, 2009
We got up to 72 today... WHEW !!
Good thang I work in the shade and got a big fan. dntn
Shore do feel sorry fer you boys tho.
I hate you......
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Post by: Bear Medicine on June 24, 2009
Yep, too hot in North Texas.  So I'm heading to the Buffalo River in Arkansas for the 4th.  Fishing, fun in the sun, 3-4 days of paddling and camping, yee-haa!
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Post by: Red Badger on June 24, 2009
Quote from: Roaring Bull on June 23, 2009
You see snow...we get ice for a couple days maybe...

And we get if for 10-20 days.... then we get these summer months of 100 + heat day after day after day after.....

Why did I ever leave Colorado Springs??? The mountains, the rivers, the Elk, the Bears, the Tourists, the Prices... oh yeah now I remember
Title: Re: It's too darn hot!
Post by: William on June 24, 2009
Heat index at the moment is 105 and we will have a high above 100 degrees every day through the weekend.  Stage II water conservation has kicked in meaning we can only water the lawn one day a week according to street number.  I'd venture a guess that we will loose 75% of all crops that depend on natural rain this summer.  It's as bad as I've ever seen it in my lifetime.
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Post by: William on June 24, 2009
Quote from: William on June 24, 2009
Heat index at the moment is 105 and we will have a high above 100 degrees every day through the weekend.  Stage 3 water conservation has kicked in meaning we can only water the lawn one day a week, every other week.  I'd venture a guess that we will loose 75% of all crops depend on natural rain by Monday.  It's as bad as I've ever seen it in my lifetime.

It is 100 on my covered patio with the ceiling fan on........   :o srndr
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Post by: kit_carson on June 24, 2009
its 76 degrees and 31% realitive humidity, and the wind just started off the lake! wheres my sweat shirt?
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Post by: William on June 24, 2009
Oh, now you're just rubbing it in!
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Post by: DMShook on June 24, 2009
105 here and just finished walking back and forth for 4 hours in it...
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Post by: William on June 24, 2009
Quote from: Roaring Bull on June 24, 2009
105 here and just finished walking back and forth for 4 hours in it...
I'm holed up here at home listening to my A/C strain to keep it at 78, how can you stand to be outside walking around in this heat?!?  :o
Title: Re: It's too darn hot!
Post by: William on June 24, 2009
Quote from: crow killer on June 23, 2009
awe! poor people, 72 degrees, and heres the good bit! 31% relative humidity. and heres where it gets good,the wind off the lake, the worlds biggest swamp cooler! i had to put on a sweatshirt yesterday about 2pm cuz i wuz cold
Ha-ha!  Your humidity is higher than ours, only 23% right now.   ;D
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Post by: Spitunia on June 24, 2009
Makes me recommember what my grandaddy said..."Boy, get an inside job".
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Post by: voyageur1688 on June 24, 2009
  Been about 90 or so here for the last few days and we have had a relative humidity of about 90 so we be sweatin  big time.   Thats one problem with living in the land of 10'000 lakes in the summer-- HIGH HUMIDITY and lotsa skeeters.
Voy
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Post by: William on June 24, 2009
Having lived in the Phoenix area I can attest to the difference of the "dry" heat, with humidity as low as 4%.  There's so little moisture in the air that any sweat or condensation evaporates immediately which fools you into thinking that you aren't dehydrating as quickly as you really are.  Still, hot is hot and you can't mess around in such conditions no matter where you are.  I just hope we get a break along with much needed rain as ASAP.
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Post by: NW Wildman on June 24, 2009
today it was 58 and raining dntn
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Post by: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
Like 104 yestarday, supposed to be the same for the rest of the week. Even the radio weather guy said that "This weather is as ugly as rosie o'donnell".
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Post by: DMShook on June 25, 2009
Quote from: William on June 24, 2009
Quote from: Roaring Bull on June 24, 2009
105 here and just finished walking back and forth for 4 hours in it...
I'm holed up here at home listening to my A/C strain to keep it at 78, how can you stand to be outside walking around in this heat?!?  :o


Gotta go walk my picket line duty to get my measley $200/week strike benefit and insurance...
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Post by: kit_carson on June 25, 2009
burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i got the heat on!
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Post by: Red Badger on June 25, 2009
If it wasn't for the FACT that this is a natural cycle about evry 100 years or so... I'd start to think that that Gore guy just might be right about this global warmin thing..... hdslp
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 25, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
Like 104 yestarday, supposed to be the same for the rest of the week. Even the radio weather guy said that "This weather is as ugly as rosie o'donnell".

He better be careful  Talk like that  might make the weather really mad !!  ROFL
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Post by: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
LOL! Aint it so!
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Post by: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
103 as I write this. Usually isnt this hot until first weekend of august here............... but it will cool down, and rain............
some day...........................
we hope.........................
we pray......................................
Title: Re: It's too darn hot!
Post by: ThunderHeart on June 25, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
103 as I write this. Usually isnt this hot until first weekend of august here............... but it will cool down, and rain............
some day...........................
we hope.........................
we pray......................................
the same here  103 with an index of 107.  106 in the shop  but it aint to bad  i have big big bertha plugged in today!!   so i have a nice 25mph breeze on me  ;D   She had been down with a bad motor  Mr. fedx  brought me the new one this morning   dntn
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Post by: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
Was doin vehicle maintanence this morning, was supposed to be workin on an axis deer mount but will wait till this evening to start on that. Looks like thuner heads are building though.
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 25, 2009
keep you fingers eyes and toes crossed  they bring ya some relief .....  We had some building around here yesterday  they seem to have stayed north of me dang it !!
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Post by: William on June 25, 2009
Officially it is 107 w/ heat index of 115.....Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun have come to visit like an unwelcome cousin-  :-\
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Post by: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
106 right now. Kinda not condusive to good hog hunting.
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 25, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 25, 2009
106 right now. Kinda not condusive to good hog hunting.


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Post by: DMShook on June 25, 2009
oh that's gooood!!
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Post by: old salt on June 25, 2009
It must be really hot out here to day. Watched the old dog chase a cat out of
the yard it only took about ten min. and a stop at the bird waterer to get across 50 ft. ROFL ROFL ROFL
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Post by: William on June 25, 2009
 ROFL
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Post by: Micanopy on June 26, 2009
only 9:54 CST and its already 92.7 degrees. I think maybeso its gona be warm today. But I could be wrong.................................
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Post by: kit_carson on June 26, 2009
turned the heat on this morning, and put on a sweatshirt,,,,,,,,,burrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Dryball on June 26, 2009
Jean...shame on you! Your going too far now! Just think of those poor, suffering  jackasses what don' know the pleasures of California...earthquakes, smog, illegal aliens, high gas prices...why, I could weep for those poor people, suffering a temporary heat wave!

Dennis
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Post by: Red Badger on June 26, 2009
Quote from: Dryball on June 26, 2009
Jean...shame on you! Your going too far now! Just think of those poor, suffering  jackasses what don' know the pleasures of California...earthquakes, smog, illegal aliens, high gas prices...why, I could weep for those poor people, suffering a temporary heat wave!

Dennis

ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

Just remember what goes round comes round!  Next time your all complainin about those nasty winds and fires y'all get we'll be very sympathetic.....

Basic Human trait - If they ain't gripin they ain't happy, it's when their quiet ya have to watch em....
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Post by: kit_carson on June 26, 2009
its warming up now, turned the heat off, gonna be 75 today and 28% humidity. might go for a swim in the lake today
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Post by: forrest on June 26, 2009
Quote from: Dryball on June 26, 2009
Jean...shame on you! Your going too far now! Just think of those poor, suffering  jackasses what don' know the pleasures of California...earthquakes, smog, illegal aliens, high gas prices...why, I could weep for those poor people, suffering a temporary heat wave!

Dennis

        Here in South Carolina 98, humidity between 75&80. the same for tomorrow, and I have a BBQ to go to, they just don't get it's to hot they should have it in the fall, say mid. Oct. last year 3 of the older ones past out do to heat.

           Forrest
Title: Re: It's too darn hot!
Post by: ThunderHeart on June 26, 2009
Quote from: forrest on June 26, 2009
Quote from: Dryball on June 26, 2009
Jean...shame on you! Your going too far now! Just think of those poor, suffering  jackasses what don' know the pleasures of California...earthquakes, smog, illegal aliens, high gas prices...why, I could weep for those poor people, suffering a temporary heat wave!

Dennis

        Here in South Carolina 98, humidity between 75&80. the same for tomorrow, and I have a BBQ to go to, they just don't get it's to hot they should have it tn the fall, say mid. Oct. last year 3 of the older ones past out do to heat.


Yeah, Gotta keep a close eye on our older folks in this heat, and even the young ones too ..
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Post by: DMShook on June 26, 2009
Quote from: ThunderHeart on June 26, 2009

Yeah, Gotta keep a close eye on our older folks in this heat, and even the young ones too ..

We have been walking pickets for almost two weeks now and the union posted this TODAY...a little late, huh?


PLEASE DRINK PLENTY OF WATER 24 HOURS PRIOR TO YOUR PICKET DUTY AND BE SURE YOU DRINK WATER DURING YOUR DUTY!



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Post by: Ironwood on June 26, 2009
About 2:15 this afternoon it was 103° in Sam's parking lot!  Official from the county airport is 99°.  Wow!  The humidity is only 34%.  I'm sure glad it's not the normal 80 or 90%.
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Post by: Oldnamvet on June 26, 2009
94 yesterday but only 85 today.  About 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal.  And that is in central Michigan just 20 minutes from Saginaw Bay.  Just a few weeks ago we were still getting frost warnings.
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Post by: William on June 26, 2009
It's only 101 right now, compared to yesterdays 107 it's a cake walk....... srndr
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Post by: Micanopy on June 26, 2009
Usually isnt this hot until August. So we have July an August to look forward to.............................. srndr
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Post by: voyageur1688 on June 26, 2009
  I'm about ready to go NORTH for the summer if things dont cool down around here. I am only about 15 miles from the canadian border, but we have so many lakes and rivers around here that the humidity is usually pretty high and when the temps hit 90 we are cookin.
Voy
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Post by: Red Badger on June 27, 2009
Hurrah!  We have a COLD Front forcasted for Sunday, 40% chance of showers and dropping down to a cool 93 degrees!
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Post by: Micanopy on June 27, 2009
0940 hrs, 92 d. already. Supposed to hit 107 this afternoon. I am trying to get some taxidermy work done, as this axis head is way over due. However I may just put the hide back in the refer untill zero dark thirty in the morning. Dont need the hair slipping on me. Gona be a long summer.
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 27, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 27, 2009
0940 hrs, 92 d. already. Supposed to hit 107 this afternoon. I am trying to get some taxidermy work done, as this axis head is way over due. However I may just put the hide back in the refer untill zero dark thirty in the morning. Dont need the hair slipping on me. Gona be a long summer.

I fear you may be right Bro...  long and hot!  I was gonna take the two oldest girls fishing this morning   But i forgot to set the alarm to get me up at 6 so we could be out there early  fish 2-3 hours than head for the house   Guess we will go this evening  instead......  Its done already 95
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Post by: Micanopy on June 27, 2009
99.3, went ahead and got that axis head put together, figured that might as well get it done so I can start on the moccasin tutorial and stay in the shade.
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 27, 2009
101 in the shade ....  I hada fix five cracked windows in the back door  been puttin it off for ever . I swear the silicone  was dryin faster then i could smooth it !
I checked my mater plants ,bean, peas  and I seem to have lost the peas  and i been waterin em    didnt water yesterday  and it cost me  Lost the peas completely the beans  may or may not make it and the maters  they was crying .   Now i remember why i dont plant gardens  as much as i would like  everytime i do  we end up gettin a heat wave and  i loose a bunch of my garden.. srndr
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Post by: Micanopy on June 27, 2009
106.9 Thats a record!
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 27, 2009
Ouch   not far behind ya   at 104 ..   I dont think i ever remember  it being this hot in June     the odd 100 degree day yes  but not a string of em and not over the 100 mark either like it is now.  gonna make for a miserable summer if this dont let up  .. They say tomorrow thur monday we have a chance for some rain  s slime one but a chance..   and it will only be 94-97 monday  tuesday  then it starts to climb again ...
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Post by: Micanopy on June 27, 2009
When I was a boy, before my father went on the journey, we were out in the glades one day and it was hot. I asked him how hot it was, he said he did not know but we could find out. We had an old paddle with a metal blade on it. He laid this paddle out in the sun for some time and then put a bacon on it. in a short while he took the bacon off and fried an egg on the blade. He said that would mean it was at least 112 degreese.
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Post by: William on June 27, 2009
We hit 104 today but it's already cooled of to 100.  20% chance of thunderstorms on Tuesday. My A/C is struggling to keep it below 80 inside.  Whewwww it's hot!  :P
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Post by: forrest on June 27, 2009
      Here in South Carolina, it hit 104
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Post by: DEADDAWG on June 27, 2009
William, You need to feed those chipmunks more so they can turn the fans faster.

Rick
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Post by: old salt on June 27, 2009
Quote from: DEADDAWG on June 27, 2009
William, You need to feed those chipmunks more so they can turn the fans faster.

Rick


I agree with Rick
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Post by: William on June 27, 2009
Quote from: old salt on June 27, 2009
Quote from: DEADDAWG on June 27, 2009
William, You need to feed those chipmunks more so they can turn the fans faster.

Rick


I agree with Rick
Feed them?!?  I've already got a gun to their heads!  couch
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Post by: DEADDAWG on June 27, 2009
Come on guys, you're breakin' my heart up there in the hill country. I spent the last eight years of my Air Force career on the Medina Base firing ranges outside San Antonio. 100+ days in a row at the end of June are not unusual. 120 during July and August were not unusual on the ranges. Basic trainees passing out all over the place. Hill country is pleasant compared to being donw on the flat land to the south. Put your coat on and head to Natural Bridge Caverns for a while if it gets too hot.

Rick  blah
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Post by: Micanopy on June 28, 2009
8:06am, 80.8 degrees, supposed to be a repeat of yestarday........................wonderful.
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Post by: kit_carson on June 28, 2009
7:21 am and 51 degrees burrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 28, 2009
On the bright side  The catfish are still biting  caught a nice mess yesterday afternoon   ;D
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Post by: Red Badger on June 28, 2009
Quote from: crow killer on June 28, 2009
7:21 am and 51 degrees burrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!

hdslp hdslp hdslp hdslp

At least the cold front came through here this morning, it's down in the 70's now... looking at more heat tomorrow...
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Post by: DMShook on June 28, 2009
Quote from: ThunderHeart on June 28, 2009
On the bright side  The catfish are still biting  caught a nice mess yesterday afternoon   ;D

Me and the boy are going tomorrow morning...being on strike does have a few advantages...
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 28, 2009
Quote from: Roaring Bull on June 28, 2009
Quote from: ThunderHeart on June 28, 2009
On the bright side  The catfish are still biting  caught a nice mess yesterday afternoon   ;D

Me and the boy are going tomorrow morning...being on strike does have a few advantages...

cool deal!!   
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Post by: William on June 28, 2009
We hit 105 again today but it's cooled off to 99.  I'd go fishing but I like my catfish fried, not boiled..... ROFL
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Post by: kit_carson on June 28, 2009
well its 82 here and thats hot!
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Post by: NW Wildman on June 28, 2009
YOU GUYS NEED TO MOVE 65 TODAY blah
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Post by: William on June 28, 2009
Quote from: NW Wildman on June 28, 2009
YOU GUYS NEED TO MOVE 65 TODAY blah
Move to that glacier filled yankee country, I don't think so! &)
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Post by: NW Wildman on June 28, 2009
Yankee IM NO Yankee CONFED ALL THE WAY KEEP IT FLYING
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 29, 2009
Rain  sweet Rain  and 75   !!    high today only suppose to be 91
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Post by: Red Badger on June 29, 2009
Braggart! 
We were supposed to get it yesterday but it missed me by about 5 miles.... did get cool though high was only in mid 90's.  Wife got outside after all this heat to find her roses were gone, even though we were watering as much as we could.... She's bummed,

but I cheered her up with the idea of re landscaping the rose bed and putting in a below ground trickle water system I had drawn up... I think it will work, and keep the water under her rose plant leaves to prevent them from getting the black spots....
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Post by: William on June 29, 2009
Quote from: NW Wildman on June 28, 2009
Yankee IM NO Yankee CONFED ALL THE WAY KEEP IT FLYING 
Anywhere North of Dallas is yankee country!  bs  ROFL
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Post by: kit_carson on June 29, 2009
y'all need to come to big bear! gonna be 80 today with 31% humidity. also traditionally confederate!
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Post by: old salt on June 29, 2009
Confederate or Yankee is a state of mind not location. Me. I am an even tempered RedNeck, I stay mader the hell all the time. blah blah
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Post by: Micanopy on June 29, 2009
gona be a scorcher today. But we do have a slight chance of rain...............
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Post by: Hanshi on June 29, 2009
I'd have to think twice, no, make that three times before I'd move to ANY Yankee state.  And if I did I'd still be the burr under the saddle blanket.  Give us some yeast and the South will rise again!!

Here in the Blue Ridge area of Virginia it will be 82 today.  I think I'll take "Rocky", my flint squirrel rifle, out to the range tomorrow.  Yes, we still get some of those hot, humid days even here, but back in Ga. it was like that May through September and sometimes October!  Not as "buggy" here, either.  More pleasant shooting days available in the mountains.
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Post by: Ironwood on June 29, 2009
The big ol' thermometer out back on the shed is showing 107°.  The birds are really hitting the birdbath and the shallow pan I have under the air conditioner drain.  Going to put a tub of water out for the deer and critters as soon as it cools down a little this afternoon. 
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 29, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 29, 2009
gona be a scorcher today. But we do have a slight chance of rain...............

we have had light showers pretty much all day   the high to this point and time is 77  Hope ya get some showers too  lord knows you could use em!
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Post by: Micanopy on June 29, 2009
108.9 at 2:45pm. My maters and peppers are shrivlin up, goats are barely breating, horses are sweatin just standing in the shade. Will the owner of the high pressure zone parked ontop of us PLEASE COME AND REMOVE IT!
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Post by: DMShook on June 29, 2009
well, here in Waxahachie, its 89 deg and cloudy...we might get a drop or two
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 29, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 29, 2009
108.9 at 2:45pm. My maters and peppers are shrivlin up, goats are barely breating, horses are sweatin just standing in the shade. Will the owner of the high pressure zone parked ontop of us PLEASE COME AND REMOVE IT!

Thats suppose to happen this coming weekend   at which time it will slide off into the Gulf  and start pumping mucho amounts of gulf moisture north ward.

so its either gonna set us up for some nice rains  or Just be muggy and hot as hades! Im hoping for the rain thing ....
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Post by: Micanopy on June 29, 2009
I'm prayin for the rain thing. Trying to remember what it is, exactly, .................................
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Post by: DMShook on June 29, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 29, 2009
I'm prayin for the rain thing. Trying to remember what it is, exactly, .................................

MEEEEE TOOOOOO!!!!
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Post by: Micanopy on June 30, 2009
Wholy Moly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
74.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3/4 of an inch of rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeeeeeeeeee Hawwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: DMShook on June 30, 2009
thunderin' like crazy, and cloudy, but no rain yet...only 86, too
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Post by: Micanopy on June 30, 2009
This I can deal with!
I'm singin in the rain
just signin in the rain.........
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Post by: DandJofAZ on June 30, 2009
Hot right now..84--where I live..Now at work it's a little different....110 when I got off yesterday at 9am and went to bed..119 when I got up at 5:30.  Should be hot all week.  I live high and have to go down to 5100ft to go to work and get off at 400ft.  Then after rest return. Hate it when we break down in the heat and I have to walk a couple or three miles to fix things so we can get moving again.  Not much fun in the winter when breakdown it on top of hill at 7300ft either. Got to love the contrast at work daily .
P.S. not a good job for anybody with ear problems.
Doug
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 30, 2009
Quote from: Micanopy on June 30, 2009
This I can deal with!
I'm singin in the rain
just signin in the rain.........

Very good! I prayed real hard  that the rain i had yesterday  would find its way to you  seems i didnt pray for not!  thmbsup
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Post by: Micanopy on June 30, 2009
Many Thanks!
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Post by: Hammer on June 30, 2009
Spent most of last week shoein horses in the Texas Piney woods...Everyday over a hunnerd and no rain...I got home and it was same here...Last night it raised a ruckus with thunder and lightning...then it just spit on us...looks like a loooong hot summer here in Texas.
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Post by: ThunderHeart on June 30, 2009
Hope i didnt over do it with the prayers   I hear tell  parts of the area are now flooding   i hear  ingram got close to three inches already ......
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Post by: William on June 30, 2009
Seems it raining at least a little bit all around here but nothing so far.  Our high was only 97 degrees with a chance of scattered thunderstorms; I'm praying we get some.  Then it's back up to 101+ come Thursday, I'm melting! Melting!!!!! srndr
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Post by: voyageur1688 on June 30, 2009
  Its finally getting nice here. Its dropped down to the mid 60's.
Voy
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Post by: Micanopy on July 08, 2009
109.9 great fun. :-&
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Post by: ThunderHeart on July 08, 2009
Oh Lord  Thats HOT!!   today here it was only 100  which would seem like a warm spring day compared to that !!
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Post by: Spitunia on July 08, 2009
Talked with a fella today that was working on top of some cooling towers in Corpus Christi. He had full sun and a hunnerd degrees of MOIST heat!
Like Grandaddy said after moving to this part of the country, "Boy, get an inside job".

Last year while I was working in Montana folks often asked me what the weather was like around Houston. Told 'em it was the kind of place the French used to send their criminals.
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Post by: DandJofAZ on July 08, 2009
Cooling towers?? used to be my job to clean and repair them..Topock, 11mi. south of Needles was an ok job in winter, but summer!!! 108 at midnight-120 daytime- 100% hunidity inside with visable steam...20-30min shift and out to cool off.     
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Post by: old salt on July 08, 2009
Starting tomorrow They are forcasting triple digits temp and the heat
index form 5-8  above that In the mid west.
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Post by: DMShook on July 08, 2009
The day we landed in the Republic of Oman it was 142 degrees outside...They said "Its a dry heat"...I said "Its 142 degrees outside, wet or dry!"
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Post by: DandJofAZ on July 08, 2009
142--not for me  -Anything ovetr 121 and I'm done in.
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Post by: Micanopy on July 09, 2009
1030 am and already 95. supposed to be a repeat od yestarday.
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Post by: Micanopy on July 09, 2009
108.9
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Post by: ThunderHeart on July 09, 2009
same here  108  to dern hot for man or beast !!
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Post by: Spitunia on July 10, 2009
Bet the weather forecasters are enjoying this...they can be right for a change!!!
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Post by: William on July 10, 2009
A mere 103 today and for the rest of the week......
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Post by: ThunderHeart on July 10, 2009
109 here today  inside the shop was 114  not a fun day ....
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Post by: kit_carson on July 10, 2009
75 degrees and 21% humidity, yikes it was hot
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Post by: Micanopy on July 11, 2009
Ya ya ya ya ya..................................... ROFL
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Post by: kit_carson on July 11, 2009
supposed to be about the same today! and ask dryball about the heat up here, 75 degrees will fry you!
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Post by: Dryball on July 11, 2009
Jeans right about that...the heat may be low in numbers, but you have the effect of a much higher temperature because of more solar radiation and low moisture content...it'll fry you.
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Post by: kit_carson on July 11, 2009
and the funny thing is its cold in the shade!
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Post by: Dryball on July 11, 2009
Yeah...I think Jean planned it that way to make me suffer.
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Post by: William on July 11, 2009
9am and it's already 79 degrees..I'd better get to the range before we go up another 25!
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Post by: pathfinder on July 11, 2009
Last Wed night it was 39 degree's. Darn global warming and summer in the U.P.!
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Post by: Micanopy on July 12, 2009
Gona be up there again today, not a cloud in the sky neither.
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Post by: Micanopy on July 12, 2009
105.5 right now, 5:25 pm. Kinda sux.
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Post by: William on July 12, 2009
We hit 103 but are cooling off, it's only 100 right now.... :-\
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Post by: Ironwood on July 12, 2009
William... It's still 100 here also..... at 5:58 PM!  :(
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Post by: ThunderHeart on July 12, 2009
we hit 111 for a short time this afternoon  and now at 636 it's still 104
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Post by: kit_carson on July 12, 2009
its 88 degrees and roasting! yeah i know some of you think "big f'n deal" but up here thats smokin hot! and feels like it too!
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Post by: William on July 12, 2009
Quote from: ThunderHeart on July 12, 2009
we hit 111 for a short time this afternoon  and now at 636 it's still 104
That's miserable hot!
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Post by: Micanopy on July 12, 2009
Quote from: crow killer on July 12, 2009
its 88 degrees and roasting! yeah i know some of you think "big f'n deal" but up here thats smokin hot! and feels like it too!
I can imagine, 88 in colorado springs was the hotest 88 degrees I ever felt.
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Post by: mouse on July 13, 2009
It's been in the low 70's here in Tennessee.  Nice light breeze a blowing ........... perfect!!!!     

Until a person steps outside away from the ac and ceiling fans!   Whoa........ meltdown!
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Post by: ThunderHeart on July 13, 2009
Quote from: mouse on July 13, 2009
It's been in the low 70's here in Tennessee.  Nice light breeze a blowing ........... perfect!!!!     

Until a person steps outside away from the ac and ceiling fans!   Whoa........ meltdown!
hehehe then ya just wanna  srndr
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Post by: Ironwood on July 13, 2009
Man oh man!  How did we ever get by without air conditioning!  Y'all are probably not old enough to have tried walking a sandy dirt road barefooted in the hot summertime.  I guess comparatively speaking it was a little more like walking though one of those hot bed of coals you see on TV all the time.  ;D
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Post by: Micanopy on July 13, 2009
Indeed. Ya know, when I was growing up way down south in way down south florida, we didnt have no air conditioner. We had dirt roads, some times they was mud roads, or what once was coral rock. Had such hard feet that the boots they issued me in the boot camp at P.I. really, really hurt my feet!
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Post by: ThunderHeart on July 13, 2009
from kindergarden to the 3rd grade  we didnt have a/c in the school  and even though it was late august  when we started  it was 95 or so till about mid to late september. Then they tore down and built us a new school  with A/C  ....  At home we just had a swamp cooler  and that only works well  when it aint humid  Well  southwest Kansas in the summer was almost always to humid for a swamp cooler....  When we moved back to Texas  we lived in a house with central heat and air   thought we suddenly turned rich or something even though we hadn't  i was 12 so what did i know... lol .....
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Post by: ThunderHeart on July 13, 2009
You know it's bad when its 105 at 755 in the evening... been along time  since i seen it stay this warm this late into the evening ....
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Post by: William on July 13, 2009
Quote from: ThunderHeart on July 13, 2009
from kindergarden to the 3rd grade  we didnt have a/c in the school  and even though it was late august  when we started  it was 95 or so till about mid to late september. Then they tore down and built us a new school  with A/C  ....  At home we just had a swamp cooler  and that only works well  when it aint humid  Well  southwest Kansas in the summer was almost always to humid for a swamp cooler....  When we moved back to Texas  we lived in a house with central heat and air   thought we suddenly turned rich or something even though we hadn't  i was 12 so what did i know... lol .....
We had a swamp cooler in Lubbock as the humidity was quite a bit lower than here in Sout Central Texas.  In Phoenix the morning weather report included an estimate of how many degrees the swamp coolers would lower the temperature according to the time of day.  I remember how the concrete would radiate heat well after the sun would go down, you could feel it rising outside at 10pm.  Out there the humidity is so low that there's a mist hose outside of every business that lowered the air temp a few degrees as you walked by and you wouldn't get wet, the water evaporates too quickly.  I just never thought I'd see that kind of heat here in Texas though........just how did you old farts live without A/C?   slap
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Post by: Ironwood on July 13, 2009
William back in those days you never locked the house or closed the windows.  I guess we were just used to the heat from being in it all the time.  I guess it's called getting acclimatized.

I spent 2-1/2 years on a ship out of Newport, RI that operated in the North Atlantic.  It got very cold up there in the winter.  After I got out of the Navy I spent another couple of years in Connecticut, where Jeanne was raised.  Before we left up there I could go out in shirt sleeves at 30° with ease.  Heck, now days I'm uncomfortable if it gets below 60°.     
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Post by: old salt on July 13, 2009
I did not know what air condition was until I joined the Navy in 1965, ended up with a case of walking pneumonia
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Post by: mouse on July 14, 2009
Being acclimated to the heat is right.   I spent many summers driving a wheat truck in kansas out in the 110 degree heat, no breeze except what came thru the open windows as you were driving down the dusty country roads.  Didn't think a thing about it then.   
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Post by: kelly79852 on July 14, 2009
Hey, all you have to do is saunter down to the Guadalupe or Comal and your porblem is solved.  I got the Rio Bravo del Norte and it is hot.
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Post by: William on July 14, 2009
Quote from: kelly79852 on July 14, 2009
Hey, all you have to do is saunter down to the Guadalupe or Comal and your porblem is solved.  I got the Rio Bravo del Norte and it is hot.
I am the caretaker for my families two houses that are close to the Comal and I have to saunter down to the river every day to pick up the trash that the tourists see fit to dump along the banks.  The situation is so bad that the city is making all the parking along the streets nearby permit only.  The heat doesn't help things.
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Post by: Dryball on July 15, 2009
Guess I'm just lucky, only 108 today and we have a water cooler...no complaints.

DB
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Post by: mouse on July 15, 2009
I'm not complaining either ........... just came back from a nice long swim in the lake. 
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Post by: Oldnamvet on July 15, 2009
I feel guilty since the high here today was 79 with a stiff breeze.  Going to be around 72 over the weekend.  With the breeze and going on the lake fishing, it is cold enough that I take long sleeves to wear on the boat.  But in 6 months it will be -25 degrees while Texans are enjoying 70's.  Need rain here too but not as bad as Texas.  I hear the lakes are drying up down there.
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Post by: Dryball on July 19, 2009
A bit unpleasant here today...112 degrees...and the air is unbreathable outside. Could be worse I guess. Could be having to climb Jeans mountain! ROFL

DB
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Post by: Ironwood on July 19, 2009
We got an inch of rain yesterday.  I don't believe the temp got above 90° today! :D
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Post by: DEADDAWG on July 19, 2009
I want to know where my global warming is, we barely hit 70 today. Supposed to get into the low 50's tonight. Pretty sad when the end of July isn't warm enough for the kids to go swimming.
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Post by: Wild Ed on July 19, 2009
It has been 100 plus for two weeks here in Central Texas.  devel
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Post by: kit_carson on July 19, 2009
it was 84 degrees today, and 42% humidity! i was dying!
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Post by: Micanopy on July 20, 2009
rained a lil here yestarday, cloud cover was nice. Soons the clouds left it got real hot real fast.
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Post by: kit_carson on July 20, 2009
well its suppsed to be real f'n hot up here again, mid 80's and 42% humidity, i know this don tsound hot to y'all but at 7,000ft its smoking hot, ask dennis.
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Post by: Dryball on July 20, 2009
Yup, the little feller is right bout that.
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Post by: Doug on July 20, 2009
I agree that extremely hot or cold weather is very uncomfortable but my take on it is  "God gives us hot weather to make us appreciate the cold and cold weather to make us appreciate the hot", also makes you appreciate AC and heaters.
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Post by: DandJofAZ on July 21, 2009
Jean==7000' and in the 90's all week,  Know what you mean about sufferin'

Doug 
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Post by: kit_carson on July 21, 2009
Quote from: DandJofAZ on July 21, 2009
Jean==7000' and in the 90's all week,  Know what you mean about sufferin'

Doug 

thats what we got now! yuk!
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Post by: Wild Ed on July 21, 2009
105 on the back porch yesterday.
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Post by: ValleyBlacksmith on July 25, 2009
Y'all are welcome to come up to New York for a spell...
We are having a Canadian summer up this way, so far less than a dozen days in the 80's and rain, rain, rain. Cricks look like raging torrents of chocolate milk.
Been steamy with humidity, or as the old folks would say "It's close"...
I could stand a few straight weeks of 88 or so and NO MORE RAIN!!!
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Post by: Hanshi on July 25, 2009
Of all the things I miss about my native Georgia, the summer weather isn't one of them.  We're talking a prolonged drought in which the relative humidity is still averaging 80 - 90%, bugs so thick you can't walk without a machette and our state bird, the gnat! :-&
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Post by: Micanopy on July 26, 2009
Rained here last week, we got two inches at our place, less over at the big ranch. Dried up fast and its still in the 100's every day. Be glad when fall gets here. Still have august to look forward to, wonder what temps will be like then?
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Post by: William on August 01, 2009
We got nearly an inch of rain last night!  Now it's only a humid 90 degrees outside, what a relief!
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Post by: Micanopy on August 01, 2009
Been rainin here a lil, we got about 4 inches over the last two weeks. Humid but the temps havent been so killer for a couple days. Sure is better now.
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Post by: forrest on October 31, 2009
    Here it is the last of October, Holloween and it's calling fore 80, yea 80 on holloween, sheezzzzzz.
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Post by: hank-aye on October 31, 2009
Swap ya... we had our first snow on Tues. 4-6"  almost gone now temps. supposed ta be in the low ta mid 30's.
Or ya have what they got just East of here in the Rockies, 4-6' in the higher elevations. Skiers can NOT get to ski
resorts  ROFL
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Post by: forrest on October 31, 2009
      I grew up in Chicago IL. I'm use to cold, I moved here because I met my soul mate and she lives here, and works for the state, with only 3 years till she is eligible for full ret.
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Post by: hank-aye on October 31, 2009
Then quit yer complainin... blah Youen's can do 3 yrs. stood on yer head ROFL
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Post by: voyageur1688 on October 31, 2009
  Been rainin here for about  a week now and is startin ta turn ta snow tonight.
Voy
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Post by: redhawk on October 31, 2009
Quote from: forrest on October 31, 2009
    Here it is the last of October, Holloween and it's calling fore 80, yea 80 on holloween, sheezzzzzz.
I know what you mean I am alittle north of you and it felt like July today.  Muzzleloading season comes in next Saturday and I hope it starts to feel alittle more like huntin weather.