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samsonsamiee
July 18, 2006, 1:40 p.m.No disputing that fact! I live in Mississippi and right now it's 94 degrees but with the humidity, one would think it's well over 100!
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TimALoftis
July 18, 2006, 3:37 p.m.yea close to mid 90's in Atlanta area as well. No rain at my place in four weeks. Everything is burned up.
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NOTShane_Coffey2
July 18, 2006, 3:42 p.m.90 here in Marysville, Ohio. Have some cloud cover, so it does not feel that hot.
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Eccentric Iconoclast
July 18, 2006, 4:05 p.m.Yes, we're definitely suffering here.
I swear, whoever said that Minnesota is cold is either crazy or has never been here. A couple days ago it was near 110 and humid as anything. It felt like I was living in a sponge.
Ah, but it's finally cooled off...
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redjill55
July 18, 2006, 4:18 p.m.Many people come to southern California for the sunshine and the dry heat. Not this month. Lately it's been very humid and sweltering; yesterday and the night before that, it rained pretty hard. It's sunny now, but the heat is not that much better. There were three (THREE) tropical storms off the coast of Baja California yesterday, only one or two hundred miles away from where I am. Does that seem strange? I can't repeat this enough: global warming... global warming... :P
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redjill55
July 18, 2006, 4:26 p.m.By the way...
aksnow5224, I have a good friend here in steamy so. Cal who envies your weather predicament. He was born here and has lived in near-desert conditions all his young life, but hates sun and any temperature above 65 degrees. Go figure. :P
I have a feeling that if the Earth continues this ugly warming trend, Alaska might experience a huge population boom in a few years.
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nojunk
July 18, 2006, 4:44 p.m.Hot and Humid in DC, and now some weak cold front is moving in, but against this extreme heat and humidity (heat index over 105 today) we will now get severe thunderstorms.
What do the homeless people do???
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madamesuzanne
July 18, 2006, 4:54 p.m.Well here 72F this afternoon... This is normal for north of New-brunswick. We had bad weather during the night ! Badaboummm those lightning kept me awake !
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honest
July 18, 2006, 5:04 p.m.Well here in Damascus Arkansas according to the little temp on the corner of the page it is 100 degrees I took the dogs out to play right at sunup and we gonna enjoy the AC the rest of the day, Stay Cool all and to any construction workers or other people who work outdoors be careful, and to pet owners dogs and cats also get heat stroke so don't forget your animal friends
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NVWX
July 18, 2006, 5:17 p.m.Folks it's JULY! what did you expect? We have had heat waves before and this one is no different. I am a meteorologist and feel I can comment on this with some authority. So it was 103 here in Reno yesterday and today its supposed to be 103 again, yes its above normal but normal highs in July are in the low to mid 90s. A 10 degree anomally from normal is not that unusual anywhere in the country except for maybe Miami or Brownsville or San Diego where the ocean moderates the temperatures...
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Tall_by_Nature
July 18, 2006, 5:22 p.m.In DC it's 105 with the heat index.
Record heat across the country. Record storms. Last year we ran out of names for named storms for the first time in history (we had to switch to greek letter and got up to Zeta).
Watch Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" and you will start to interpret these changing weather patterns in a way that will be startling. Gore is funny, articulate, and the documentary is very well made.
You will leave that film ready to accept the consequences of our dangerous energy habits and eager to do your part in convincing others that if we don't act NOW to change our dangerous energy habits, the disasterous consequences of global warming will take place in OUR generation...not hundereds of years from now.
Weather patterns are cyclic, but we are recording CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere that are growing exponentially (with no end in sight).
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Tall_by_Nature
July 18, 2006, 5:26 p.m.In reply to NVWX:
You are very wrong. There are places in the North east (Maine)where there are record temperatures being set. July is not the hottest month (August is) and we are already seeing either record temperatures or near record temperatures.
Look at the places across the country that typically aren't this hot - and you will see the patterns.
Look at all the activity in the Pacific basin - typically much quieter at this time of year.
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skyryder
July 18, 2006, 5:39 p.m.global warming! What global warming?
Some body baste me, I'm getting well done!
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Everett
July 18, 2006, 5:40 p.m.I am in Memphis, TN. I use "Weather Bug" to keep up with the conditions according to the school's weather station that is down the street from my house. Until yesterday, the past 4 days have been in the upper 90's with the heat index in the low 100's. Yesterday & today (and the rest of the week according to the news) it got to 102 with an index of 105~107. You can almost smoke a pork shoulder without lighting a fire.
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NVWX
July 18, 2006, 6:50 p.m.In reply to reply to "Tall"
I just checked the National Weather Service records in Portland, ME.
The warmest month of the year in Portland is July with an average temperature of 68.7 deg F. The second warmest month of the year is August with an average temperature of 67.2 deg F.
As with most places east of the Rocky Mountains the hottest week of the year is right around the 3rd or 4th week in July.
The high temperature today (7/18/2006)in Portland was 93 which was short of the record set back in 1982 of 95.
The modern recorded highest July temperature was 99 deg F set way back on 7/21/1977.
The modern recorded highest August temperature was 103 deg F set way back on 7/21/1975.
For all you with global warming fears....if I remember right it was about that time they were talking about global cooling and another ice age.
Go figure...
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ameliog
July 18, 2006, 6:51 p.m.if it's hot, we should stick our heads deeper in the sand and hope this all works itself out naturally. a do-nothing approach. after all, what's the worst that could happen if we're wrong about global warming?
Signed,
another lemming
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tsteele93
July 18, 2006, 7:39 p.m.Solomon,
It is JULY. It gets HOT in JULY. Ok, I'll play this game. In January, when we are seeing some sort of "cold wave" across the nation, can I come back and declare global warming to be a hoax?
That is just idiot anecdotal "science."
Please!
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lam diberals
July 18, 2006, 7:48 p.m.Tall By Nature - Would that be the same Al Gore that invented the internet a few years back ??? ;-)
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wolfdogstwo
July 18, 2006, 8:07 p.m.Here In northwest okla the temp today was 112 the day befor it was 110 what will tomarrow bring.
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Huck
July 18, 2006, 8:17 p.m.Here in Ventura County,CA it is a sweltering 96-we have searched high and low for one of those hard plastic "kiddie pools" for our dog. Help....
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hotinwyo
July 18, 2006, 8:28 p.m.The place is Wyoming and the temperature is 111 degrees. The past week at 8 pm the temperatures have still been in the triple digits. No one can tell me this is unusually hot.
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duck duck noose
July 18, 2006, 9:30 p.m.when i get out of high school (i'm a junior now) and go to college i hope to study weather patterns and possibly become a meteorologist because i want to find out if global warming is just a myth or not. i say it's true. hopefully new england won't be under water in 10 years because i love it here.
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