Heat wave!

[Craig Maire II]

Well its 11:43am and already we are at a sultry 86F with a dewpoint of 72F, forecasted high for today is 92F! Lately, between the hordes of mosquitos and the muggy stagnant air it has been pretty uncomfortable here in the good old state of Iowa. Temps are forecasted to stay in the lower to middle 90s until Monday so it looks like the dog days of July are here and its time to crank up the air conditioners, jump in the pool, etc.!!!We have reached 90F here in Waterloo and in many other parts of the state the last 2 days and looks like we'll do the same today and once we do, we will "officially" be in a heat wave. :D

[Steve Miller OK]

I was just taking a look at some temp forecasts for today. Las Vegas' high for the next three days is 116. In Death Valley the temp should reach 126 today.
Now, I realize this is the desert but geez, these are pretty impressive temps for this time of year in that area.
Currently it is 89 in Tulsa at noon... In comparison to the temps listed above, I am thankful!

[Craig Maire II]

I agree Steve! Humidity or almost no humidity, 116F is still hot!!! :D

[Tony Laubach]

Here in Denver, we've been running quite a string of days of 90 plus degree temps. Today, we've already tied and may break the old record of 101 at DIA. Been dry for the most part, too! :cry:

[Susan Strom]

116 for PHX tomorrow. This heat is way above normal, but 92 degrees was lastnight's LOW. Cheers...(lifting my margarita glass) :)

[Craig Maire II]

Susan,
you call 92F a low!!!?? :lol: :lol:
Today in Cedarfalls Iowa, we are headed for a high in the mid 90s! :cry: :lol:

[David Draun]

Here in Iraq, it's been 125 a few days, and last night's LOW was in the upper 90's!! :shock: :shock: Now that will make you sweat your arse off! :lol: Try wearing the combat uniform and the body armor, then you'll really complain how soaked you are!

[Charles Kuster]

Death Valley/ Furnace Creek is supposed to have a high of 130F today and 128F tomorrow! :shock: I was in 128F once and it was hot, 130F must be crazy. Here in Leadville we are having searing hot temperatures of 80F-83F! :lol: Today we should be in the upper 70's. I guess the heat wave does not apply to us. :lol:

Edit: They changed the high temp for Death Valley to 128F for today but that is still extremely hot.

[Tony Laubach]

Originally posted by Tony Laubach
Here in Denver, we've already tied and may break the old record of 101 at DIA.

We did end up breaking the record of 101 on July 16. The new record high has become 102.

Here is a PIS from Denver about our latest heat wave. (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin-den/showProduct.pl?title=Another+90+Degree+Streak+For+ Denver&product=pnsden.txt&backto=3)

[Chris DeRosier]

Yesterday (Sunday) the Duluth Sky Harbor airport, which is next to Lake Superior downtown (the official temps come from the Int' Airport and NWS which are at the top of the hill away from the lake:

High temp of 99 ! In Duluth! This was after the wind switched to the south.

[Craig Maire II]

A cold front passed through Iowa last night and besides a few storms etc. it brought a short reprieve from the hot/sultry weather! This will be short lived though because by the middle of the week temps should be back in the lower to middle 90s with high dewpoints.... :cry: Thank god for the pool and awsome air conditioner at our new apartment!!!!! :D :D

[joel ewing]

I own a business where I work all day / 5 days a week in the sun. Today it was 107 with a mid 50 dew. Been 34 straight days of over 100...which is second place all time in Az. Also...been 22 straight days of 104 plus....also 2nd. place alltime.
A dry heat?? Haha. Come hang with me and you might just melt!

[Craig Maire II]

How's your electric bill Joel??? :lol: If it was that hot hear I dont think I would ever go outside... :lol:

Joel ewing wrote:
I own a business where I work all day / 5 days a week in the sun. Today it was 107 with a mid 50 dew. Been 34 straight days of over 100...which is second place all time in Az. Also...been 22 straight days of 104 plus....also 2nd. place alltime.
A dry heat?? Haha. Come hang with me and you might just melt!

[Kevin Bowman]

Chicago is in a extreme drought right now, the stretch of hot weather crazy right now. Sunday at 97 was the hottest day since 1999, they are predicting 100+ on both sunday and monday.

from WGN

from June 1- July 18

Driest on record (0.89)

5th warmest (85.6)

15th with amount of 90+days (13) with 5 predicted through monday

We have had less rain since march 1st than the really bad 1988 drought


We have had terrible luck with rain, on the 4th storms moved 1 mile to the north of me. All the MCS clusters died over northern illinois due to the dry ground. this has been the year that Chicago continually misses rain, today was a perfect example of what has happened most of this summer. Storm form on a cold front about 15-20 miles se of city and we are left bone dry.

the only good thing is that the dew points are unusually low for the heat we have. 90+ in chicago and you think 70+ dewpoints but with the ground being so dry the dewpoints have stayed in the low 60's

[David Draun]

Holy $h!t!

Chicago goes from no summer at all in 2004, to a hot, sweltering drought.
Oh, the occaisonally unpredictable Chicago weather.

Here in Iraq, it's really predictable

Next 15 days: Partly to mostly sunny, highs 115-130, lows 85-100.

[joel ewing]

Hi Craig! Oh dude....the electric bills here are outta site, as you might imagine. Of course, most of it is due to the heat. And incredibly, most all of the new homes being built around here have these really high vaulted ceilings.....I mean really really tall....which makes zero sense at all. And as you know, heat rises, and it gets stuck up around the tops of the rooms and just sits there and doesn't get moved out. These new homes (thank God mine isn't) that people are moving into here in Arizona need a massive amount of air conditioning to negate all that hot ceiling air, and they pay through the nose for it.
But yeah, it's hot here, but I was raised part time in Nebraska too, and the heat that you guys get in Iowa is just like Nebraska....and it ain't no party either. I can remember as a kid my uncle coming in at lunchtime (back there it's called dinner) after being on the old Allis all morning (Allis Chalmers-tractor) and just sprawling out on the farmhouse floor in front of an old rotary fan...just dead to the world from the heat.
I guess I should make it very clear that he was hot and tired from being on the Allis..........not being ON ALICE...lol. Yee haw.

[Craig Maire II]

Joel, checkout these links to local NWS offices in my area:

Waterloo: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?....x=281&map.y=90 (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?MapType=3&site=DMX&CiTemplate=1&map.x=281&map.y=90)

Cedar Rapids: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?...x=337&map.y=160 (http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?MapType=3&site=DMX&CiTemplate=1&map.x=337&map.y=160)

There definitely will be some heat advisories issued later this week!
As for vaulted ceilings, we just moved into an apartment with a vaulted ceiling but it has a ceiling fan and a kick a-s air conditioner!! :D :D

[W. Grant Dade]

Did you see that the low in death valley this morning was 102 and the low Monday was 104. At least those are the lowest temps on the two day history. What a way to start off the day.

[Craig Maire II]

Just imagine leaving you car windows closed all day there and then getting right in and sitting down in shorts.... :lol: :shock:

W. Grant Dade wrote:
Did you see that the low in death valley this morning was 102 and the low Monday was 104. At least those are the lowest temps on the two day history. What a way to start off the day.

[Mark Farnik]

Well, it's been terrible hot the last two weeks here in northeastern CO. We had 12 straight days of temps above 90, most of that being in the upper 90's, from July 5 to July 17,(it was a long stretch, but not quite as long as the 17 day stretch in 2000, that was a hellish summer and a half) and then we had a nice, two day break when we were in the upper 80's (Sunday and Monday). Then that heat ridge rebuilt and out here at our place we hit 104 degrees about two o'clock in the afternoon. Denver even hit the century mark. We're predicted to stay in a temperature range from 98 to 102 degrees all the way to Saturday. God it's going to be miserable. :evil: Well, at least it's a dry heat, so it's more bearable than that luverly humid heat everyone east and south of North Platte, Nebraska has to deal with, poor suckers he he he... :) But I feel really sorry for Joel, Susan, and anyone else living in Arizona. That must be like living in a blast furnace day and night. Hoping and praying that Emily's remnants kick the monsoon in the tail and get the moisture streaming northwards by early next week. God only knows the entire Desert Southwest and Inner Mountain West needs it. :evil:

[B Ozanne]

Las Vegas tied their all time record of 117 yesterday.

Although, their average is 105.

Something about 102 for an overnight low in Death Valley, now that is interesting. And everybody is always told that deserts are supposed to be really cold at night. All that daytime heat must be stored in the ground. With depoints in the 40's or lower you'd think it would be cooler at night.

[David Wolfson]

... Just took a Kestrel reading outside the office (at 12:23 p.m. MST). T = 102F; Dp = 67.8F

Ah! Summer in Phoenix! :roll:

[Craig Maire II]

Its 95F right now with a dew point of 76F!! in Iowa City, Iowa.......

[Doug Lee]

The forecast highs for Tulsa the next two days is 100! :evil:

At least I've just about licked my car's overheating problem. 8)

[Dan Cook]

We just got rain! First time in 2 months. :D

Supposed to be 100 this weekend though. :(

[Tony Laubach]

Today, at 11:50 something this MORNING (yes, before noon), we tagged a new all-time July record at 104 degrees here in Denver. The all-time record high set in August in the 1870s was 105, which we have a good ahcen of knocking out tomorrow. I wrote an exceprt on my blog which goes into details..

http://www.tornadoeskick.com/blog.html

[Tony Laubach]

We tied the all-time record in Denver... here's the excerpt from the NWS bulliten this afternoon...

Originally posted by NWS Denver

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOULDER CO
358 PM MDT WED JUL 20 2005


...ALL TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR DENVER TIED AT 105...
...HOTTEST JULY DAY IN DENVER HISTORY...
...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET FOR JULY 20TH...


AT 337 PM...THE TEMPERATURE CLIMBED TO 105 DEGREES AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS TIES THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN DENVER WEATHER HISTORY. THE LAST TIME 105 DEGREES WAS REACHED WAS 127 YEARS AGO ON AUGUST 8 1878.

IN ADDITION...THIS IS ALSO THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED FOR THE MONTH OF JULY. THE OLD RECORD HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF JULY WAS 103 DEGREES SET ON BOTH JULY 8 1989 AND JULY 6 1973.

THIS ALSO SETS A NEW RECORD HIGH FOR JULY 20. THE OLD RECORD WAS 102 DEGREES SET IN 1939.


STAFF

Its possible to accomplish the same tomorrow, perhaps even break the 105 mark. High temps expected to climb to 100 and beyond. Clouds limited heating today in some cases; tomorrow expected to be less so its likely to see temps the same as today. With a daily record breaking high before noon this morning, wouldn't be surprised to see the all-time record fall tomorrow!

[Mark Farnik]

Well. we are in Day 4 of our 100 + degree heatwave in Colorado, with highs expected to climb once again into the low 100's. On Wednesday the high in the little town of Sedgwick, just west of Julesberg, reached 114 degrees! :shock:
This tied the all time state record. There were only two other occassions when it got this hot in Colorado: at Las Animas on July 1, 1933 and also at Sedgwick on July 11, 1954. So it hasn't been this hot in over 51 years. I don't know what it is about Sedgwick that makes it so hot, but with it now holding the all time state high temp record two times running, it is officially the Colorado Hotspot. Cripes! This is ridiculous. We hit 106 degrees at my farm yesterday and we're predicted to hit 105 today. Even though it's a dry heat, their has been a near constant breeze out of the east/southeast that just makes it feel like a blast furnace. We only go outside when we have to. I can't wait for this heat wave to be over; it's been absolutely miserable! :evil:

[Craig Maire II]

A heat advisory has been issued for a large part of Iowa from noon Saturday until 9pm Sunday, temps should get into the middle to upper 90s tomorrow with dewpoints running in the 70s to around 80F! :shock:

[Tony Laubach]

4th day in a row and 5th time in a week we've broken the daily high temp record! Denver is sizzling! :oops:

[Mike Peregrine]

Just finished a round of KC video this afternoon in triple digits ... went to a local waterpark and was dying to get in the water myself, but probably wouldn't have worked too well for the camera. This was the closest I have been to passing out in a long time. If I hadn't gotten inside with air conditioning this afternoon I probably would have wound up in a doctor's office with a ton of other heat stroke victims.

Wish this was me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/mikeperegrine/water2.gif http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/mikeperegrine/water3.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/mikeperegrine/water1.gif

[Joel Wright]

103° officially in Moline today. 104.0° here at my house. Chicago's midway airport hit 104°. For many of us this is the first 100° temp since 1995.

I haven't seen a thunderstorm in about three months. I can't remember what a cumulonimbus cloud looks like.

We don't have grass here anymore, just dry white needles mixed with wilting weeds.......

[Anthony Silver]

It doesn't look like this extreme heat will be going away anytime soon. :x I just checked up on the latest NCEP discussions and they're forecasting another ridge to build in the west by late week and it will likely be moving back over the central U.S. :( For everyone in the path of the northern/central plains cold front...enjoy it while you can...the temperature gauge will be on it's way back up eventually.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/pred...ts/threats.html (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/threats/threats.html)

[David Draun]

I haven't seen a thunderstorm in about three months. I can't remember what a cumulonimbus cloud looks like.


Speak for yourself. I'm in the land of no clouds! But I am glad I'm not in the Midwest right now, dry heat is a lot more tolerable. :wink: