Gotta love living in the Midwest:

[Ocelot II]

January:


or

Today:

[madaboutharry]

1. The heat index where I live is 114 F.

The humidity is ridiculous.

[dflprincess]

2. Just checked, the heat index in Minneapolis

is 113.

[madaboutharry]

3. I don't remember it ever being like this.

[Ocelot II]

6. I do, but it was in the late '80s.

I remember being just exhausted by the heat that summer ('88 or '89) - hasn't been quite that bad since.

[question everything]

11. 1988 set a record 44 days above 90 (according to a forecaster a few days ago)

Average - 13.

So far this year - 23.

[rurallib]

9. We took our kids to the state fair in Des Moines

somewhere around 1990 and the temp was 107.

And I recall that the Minnesota state record for THI was 137 (note that is THI) in Moorhead a few years ago when daughter #1 was living in Minneapolis - she's been gone from there for 5 or so years. Minneapolis hit a THI of @120 that day.

Fortunately these days are pretty infrequent up this way.

having a heck of a time finding any stories about that THI record.

[rsdsharp]

4. The heat index heat has exceeded the limit of our weather station.

It just says “High.”

No shit.

[stuck in the middle]

5. It's like that every year.

Stranded In Iowa - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

[LAS14]

7. :-) - Reminds me of my childhood. nt

[IA8IT]

8. SW Iowa National Weather Service Feels 119F 48C

97°F

36°C
Humidity 60%
Wind Speed S 12 mph
Barometer 30.07 in
Dewpoint 81°F (27°C)
Visibility NA
Heat Index 119°F (48°C)
Last update 22 Aug 3:55 pm CDT

[GenThePerservering]

10. Did RAGBRAI in 2002

and the day we arrived it was 104. We're Pac NW people and we had left about 65 degree temps and wondered if we would survive or turn into bubbling pools of protoplasm. The next day it was in the mid-90s, and it actually felt cooler, and it was no problem doing the 60 or so miles we had - particularly with all of that tasty corn and the church bake-off PIE.

[electric_blue68]

12. Well, woah! ...

Here NYC I'd say anything below 25°F, definitely below 20°F is close quote occasionally to rare-ish.

We have had some summers with maaaaybe 30%+ over ? 90°F, ? 8% over 95°F. 100°+F maaaaybe 3-5 days at most w/o the ?heat index stuff.

We rarely get above ?2 ft of snow in the last 8 - 10 yrs.


If I remember correctly at least until now The Atlantic Ocean acts both as a warming influence in the he Winter and cooling influence in the Summer.

[Archae]

13. Tomorrow here in Sheboygan WI it's supposed to get up to 97.

Add that to the oppressive humidity, and it's miserable.

[pansypoo53219]

14. shit changed around 1985. we will finally get over 90 in milw. nice after 70's + low 80's this

summer.

[Emile]

15. Hotter than a popcorn fart here in Indiana this week.

Too damn hot to do my yard work. I don't know how people down south stand the heat.