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06 July 2010

Hot Child in the City It's 101 degrees in NYC today, and I hear much of the northeast is dealing with the same heat. How ya holding up?→[More:]The water cooler this morning had an ice blockage, so it wasn't until almost noon that I was able to have some cold water. I nearly died of thirst.
post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 14:00 | 41 comments
Love it!! Went for my usual lunchtime walk; only difference was that I brought a bottle of water, and felt more winded when I got back. 98 degrees here north of Boston; the city itself hit 100 earlier.
posted by Melismata 06 July | 14:12
My local weather conditions (in degrees F): "94; feels like 100."

We are fortunate to have a day off together at home; our apartment stays maybe ten degrees F cooler than the outside. Even so, I am lounging here scantily clad with a pitcher of ice water and occasionally gasping. The ice pack I use for my back pain will be a welcome treat today.

The Fella just moments ago put on shoes and headed out into the boiling merciless world for a secret "errand." I suspect he's getting some nice cold ice cold treats.
posted by Elsa 06 July | 14:21
I was in NYC last week, staying at a non-air-conditioned room at the Hotel Chelsea. That was kind of dreadful.
posted by roll truck roll 06 July | 14:24
We're going to be going into the 90+ range this week here in the Pacific NW, which will be rough because this entire spring and summer we've had only one day above 75 (oh beautiful 65-degrees-and-overcast, I love you...) and I'm totally not ready for heat. OTOH, everyone in the NE is having it way way worse than us, so I'll refrain from bitching.
posted by kat allison 06 July | 14:30
102 currently. HVAC in office building trying to hang on. It's not so much the heat as the drought that bothers me most. Brown. Dry. If we were getting our regluar afternoon thunder storms, it would be much better. And a few degrees cooler.

At lest I'm not performing outdoors in colonial garb like I was in the last heat wave a few weeks ago. Stupid. Stupid. Never ever ever ever again.

Perhaps not as dreadful as the Chelsea.
posted by rainbaby 06 July | 14:34
I think it's around 90 here, but I'm fine right now because I'm at work at the nice cool granite State House. My house, however, has been/is going to be stifling. It's very small and was designed with no opposing windows, so there isn't even a chance for a cross breeze. It holds the heat very very well. I am probably going to have to inflate an air mattress and sleep in my tiny exercise room -- the only room with any air conditioning. Forget about cooking, that's for sure. And my poor furry cat . . . .
posted by JanetLand 06 July | 14:36
First there were the facebook updates bitching about the heat
Then there were the facebook updates bitching about the complainers

I'm one of the complainers. Happily, our apartment holds on to the cool quite well, so I haven't had to run my a/c all afternoon.
posted by gaspode 06 July | 14:48
The internets say the local temp here is bouncing between 97-100F. It's gone up to 75 in the office but is sill around 50 in the stacks. At least the office/stack humidity levels have evened out because it was so gross to take books out of the stacks and bring them into the office and have condensation appear on them and the carts.
posted by sperose 06 July | 14:49
Heat index of 111! Actual temp of 103!

I just took a little trip to the post office, and it didn't actually feel horrible out. But if I had actually exerted myself in any way other than getting into and out of my car, I am sure I would have collapsed in a dead faint on the ground.
posted by amro 06 July | 14:55
Wow, I used the words "actual" and "actually" quite a bit there.
posted by amro 06 July | 14:56
It's the heat, amro. No worries.
posted by rainbaby 06 July | 14:57
Wow, I'll stop complaining about it being 92 here in the 'burgh. I can deal with low nineties but temps over 100 just kill me. Oddly, it's pretty dry heat here right now, only 37% humidity.
posted by octothorpe 06 July | 15:02
Oh yes, and we are having rolling brownouts! So our elevators randomly stop working! How fun!
posted by amro 06 July | 15:06
This is the kind of day I know that I've really assimilated as a New Englander, despite my intention to stay strong. I'm now one of those who feels like I'm about to collapse because it's a whole 92 degrees. But I know that is nothing compared to the 102 + swamp fug humidity that is life in NY, NJ, and Philly during these heat waves. So I'll refrain from complaining and just say: Mid-Atlantic, hang in there.
posted by Miko 06 July | 15:15
My soul is melting.
posted by King of Prontopia 06 July | 15:35
I'm running our two air conditioners, one in the living room and one in the bedroom, on high and it's still rather warm in our apartment. Course, we're on the third floor of a three-floor row house, so it's a little like living in an attic.

I want ice cream.
posted by Pips 06 July | 16:31
It's been in the mid-80s here, but so, so humid. None of my schools have air conditioning, but they do have very large windows along one wall of every classroom, and they are constantly open. Also, wearing a suit doesn't help.

The air condition in my apartment is usually on while I'm getting dressed in the morning and before I go to sleep, because electricity here in Japan is EXPENSIVE.
posted by gc 06 July | 16:53
Next time I complain about it being 'cold' here in the winter and y'all laugh at me, I'm pointing back to this thread.
posted by mudpuppie 06 July | 17:20
I was googly-eyed at the news reporters standing on the sidewalks with updates of the temps of high-90s. Welcome to Texas-weather, I was thinking, you're just missing the Shiner Beer and the BBQ.
But now I realize that some of you don't have air-conditioning? Like, at all?? Yikes! That's just brutal.
posted by toastedbeagle 06 July | 17:22
But now I realize that some of you don't have air-conditioning?

I've lived in the north-east for my whole life and only had AC for eight of my 46 years. Our house was built in 1865 and putting ductwork for a air-condition system would be more work than it's worth for the couple of weeks a year that we'd use it.
posted by octothorpe 06 July | 18:15
IT'S SO HOT I COULD FRY AN EGG ON THE SIDEWALK BUT I WON'T BECAUSE EGGS HAVE TOO MUCH CHOLESTEROLS
posted by mullacc 06 July | 18:23
MY HOUSE IS SO HOT THAT I WILL STARVE TO DEATH BECAUSE I CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO GO INTO THE HOT HOT KITCHEN AND MAKE DINNER. OH NOES!! STARVATION!!!
posted by JanetLand 06 July | 18:31
It got up to 86F/30C in our backyard today. It's supposed to hit 90F/32C tomorrow and similar temps for the rest of the week.

Not much a/c to be had in the Pacific Northwest, toastedbeagle. It's normally quite nice, we just have a few days of Texas-like weather each summer. And I lived in Texas for several years - I do not miss the weather.

Anyway, gimme 75F/23C with a nice breeze and I'm a happy girl.
posted by deborah 06 July | 19:19
I was at my bar today and when I got hold of the jukebox, I led off with this. I got a lot of hahaha chuckles.
posted by jonmc 06 July | 19:22
Low 90s here today, supposed to be hotter tomorrow and stay that way for a while. Yuck. My house is okay as long as it keeps on getting down below 65 at night - I turn on the whole house fan and it does wonders, but if it doesn't drop below 70 or so it can't do its job and oh man, it gets hot in here by the late afternoon when the sun beats down. It went from 77 in the house to 82 in 2 hours this afternoon and now it's 86.

Nobody used to need air conditioning in Asheville; there's no way to put it into my house either and window units are pointless until I can afford new windows - you know, the kind that actually open and close without 2 people and a hammer? I open my windows in April and close them in October.
posted by mygothlaundry 06 July | 19:24
But now I realize that some of you don't have air-conditioning?

Yeah, in New England it's not de rigeur at this point, though more and more people go that way every year. I just took a walk through the neighborhood and saw (and heard) tons of window units. It makes me kinda sad, because I can remember when, on a summer night like this, the streets would be just teeming with kids, people taking walks, and people on porches looking to beat the heat. It was very sociable and festive. These are the nights that the sprinklers and water balloons would come out and the ice cream man would come and we'd have snow cones if we could find some change. Now, everybody's locked up inside alone. Now that I have a bedroom window unit (first AC of my life, and I'm 40) I can't take the purist stance, but the only real reason I succumbed to that is that the bedroom is basically in an attic of an old and not-well-ventilated Victorian, and it's just an oven - a good 10 degrees hotter than outside (though in winter, it's awesome).
posted by Miko 06 July | 19:44
It's like freaking Tatooine out there. I HAVE a stupid perfectly good brand new window ac but if I tried to plug it in we'd just trip a breaker. So we have fans. Fans suck.
posted by kellydamnit 06 July | 20:32
Here in the great Pacific Northwest (aka the forgotten corner) it broke into the high 60's for the third day this year. Needless to say, all the slender young women immediately removed (nearly) all of their clothes and most people expect to die soon of heat prostration. Pray for us, New Yorkers, it may hit 70 later this week!
posted by warbaby 06 July | 20:54
I just went to the corner store and bought Mike's Hard Lemonade, a drink which I despise (almost) everything about but which is ice cold and refreshing. I saw that they now make "mixed drinks" in the bottle, like vodka and cranberry, and wished that someone had mastered the art of making a margarita in a bottle. No, it wouldn't be the same, but tonight I would go for the Mike's Hard Lemonade of margaritas.

One day back in my summer camp years, one of my co-workers said "it's days like these you could just live on Diet Pepsi and cigarettes." And I feel like that today, except now I would say margaritas and shrimp with ice bits clinging to them.
posted by Miko 06 July | 20:59
They totally make margaritas in a bottle!

They also make sweet tea vodka and lemonade, mmmmmmmm.....
posted by amro 06 July | 21:43
Welcome to Texas-weather, I was thinking, you're just missing the Shiner Beer and the BBQ.

I grew up in Houston, which is essentially Hell if Hell were built on a swamp. I remember quite well how it felt, but we did have air conditioning in schools, homes, offices, restaurants, shops, and almost everywhere else. When the temps shot up to 100F, everyone who could afford to crank the AC did so (and so did many people who couldn't really afford it), so a hot day meant an uncomfortable walk from home to the car, from the car to the building.

In Maine I rarely encounter AC outside of chain restaurants and movie theaters. A temp of 100F means it's 100F almost everywhere --- or almost everywhere I go. (That's not true for many of my friends, who are relieved to spend the day in their air conditioned offices.) It's a different kettle of fish.

And OH MY GOD do I miss the BBQ.
posted by Elsa 06 July | 22:08
Oh come on! No one has posted this yet?
posted by arse_hat 06 July | 23:10
I was at a conference today. The university had to reduce power because the electric co. has to send power to NYC. It got very warm. I've had better days.

Favoriting Milo's post really hard.
posted by theora55 07 July | 01:05
We haven't had air conditioning in our office since last Wednesday. Yesterday I walked in and at 8 a.m. it was already in the 90s (32/33C) in my office. I called emergency maintenance and left a scathing voice mail, and by 8:30 the airco guys were on the roof. They still didn't fix it by the end of the day, and my coworkers were so grumpy I wanted to kill them all. Luckily I've got meetings/trainings/presentations out of the office today until about 3, so I'll only have a few hours in the heat, assuming they still have not fixed the air. Today it's getting up to 101F/38C.

A large part of me thinks we should have closed the office and rescheduled all our patients. The other part weeps for the loss of revenue that would cause.
posted by Stewriffic 07 July | 06:10
At least I'm happy to go to work in the morning so that I can sit in the AC.
posted by octothorpe 07 July | 07:16
I miss the BBQ too. And boudin.
posted by Miko 07 July | 09:07
102ish. Heat index = the surface of the sun.
posted by chewatadistance 07 July | 09:11
There's a BBQ place a about a mile away, whose smokers we can smell from our back yard when the wind is right and luckily it often is. They have these fantastic coolers on the patio that spray a fine mist of water into bag fans. Awesome place to sit and have cold beer and listen to live music. Come on down, y'all.
/derail. Sorry.
posted by toastedbeagle 07 July | 14:30
91 degrees here in the Chicago area. I'm in my lovely air conditioned house. : ) My poor dog is not enjoying the heat - every time I let him out he comes back in hacking.
posted by sisterhavana 07 July | 15:40
I am not complaining about the heat for the rest of today. I spent most of the past three hours in the laundromat, where it's easily ten degrees hotter than outside. I feel for the staff working the place. My apartment feels like a breezy dream castle in comparison.

Also, I had a slushy. I offered to buy the laundromat lady a slushy, but she just laughed.
posted by Elsa 07 July | 15:40
The online newspaper hasn't posted the temps, but several communities here hit record highs, including the town I live in. *whimper*
posted by deborah 07 July | 20:25
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