*grumbles ominously, shakes charred fist at the flaming star of death in the sky*

Today's projected high? 118.

Since yesterday's projected high was 113 and it was actually 118, I'm optimistically assuming that it'll hit 125 today.

You know that old visual sight gag cartoons use where the flying bird bursts into flames and crash into the ground like a WW2 dogfighter? Well, that actually happens here. Ok, they don't actually burst into flames, but they do die in midair and just fall out of the sky.

Shortly I'm headed to industrial multi-ton air conditioning hardware in the form of a movie theater and a showing of "A Scanner Darkly" to hide from the rest of the day.

The best thing about the heatwave we're having in England is that I can use the phrase "I'm so hot" without people laughing at me.

It's soooo hot here that my new house comes complete with two full A/C units. Oh, wait, that's not hyperbole.

It's so hot and humid that I feel like I'm taking a shower in my clothes.

It's actually only 86 out, though. The news has been preparing us for >108 degree temperatures today, so 86 is a welcome cockup on their part.

It's so hot that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and they were both walking.

Actually it's not so bad here today - I even turned off the AC and opened all the windows.

Wow, that's horrible.

It's not so bad here, the thermometer read 37'C (about 98'F) in the shade this morning. I'm actually not minding working a full day today (partially to make up for taking Thursday off to get LASIk done) at the lab - ah, sweet sweet SCIENCE! grade air conditioning.

It is much cooler here. Cool front moved through yesterday evening. Same system that is spawning storms all over the south. Unfortunately the rain started after it passed us. I have water running in three different places in the yard in an attempt to keep everything from dying.

100 here in Eugene. . .5:30. . .we just got back from the coast (pics to come) and it was mid 60's over there. . .

a/c in a car is neat until you get out of it.

105 right now, with no hope for storming relief. no a/c, the swamp cooler is breeding mosquitos, and I'm so fucking hot my pants caught on fire riding my bike home.

a movie sounds like a good idea.

Actually, we had morning clouds and it was "cool" here today; I don't think we hit 100.

We dropped from nighttime 80s to 64 now and it isn't even midnight. Those high 90s will reappear before July's out, though, they warn.

I'd better hop to it if I want to get my concrete in.

it's so hot here that my entire exoskeleton has fused with my flesh, the way candlewax fuses with the grain in wood. I am now a shambling, lava-encrusted nightmare vision.

And no, you can't have the 50/50 Pop, we're outta the 50/50 Pop!

...that a water buffalo at the zoo evaporated.
...that my dog's fleas are using sprinklers.
...that I'm driving in oven mitts.
...that ...

OK, actually it rained today, for the first time in weeks, and my tomatoes seem very happy.

I hope your tatty isn't running, LT...

It was 70 and raining on and off today. Suck it, haters.

Thankfully, it isn't hot right now. STL was steamed over the last week, but after the storms, we're looking at highs of 90F, lows in the 60s, and humidity that's only slightly sticky.

We'd bitch about this weather in April, but it is lovely in July. Of course, Ameren's reporting that 320,000 households still don't have power, some four days after the first big storm, two after the second. So the break in the heat is good -- people would be dropping like flies if we were still fighting heat indicies in the 110s.

It was hotter than two rats fuckin' in a wool sock when I got up today.