While it is ok for me to announce that it is fucking hot outside, just for the sake of complaining, it is not ok for news programs to act like this is the most astounding breaking news in the last ten years and lead off every newscast with the temperature and do fifteen segments on what humidity means and why you should drink a lot of water and OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE IT’S THE HELLISH HEATWAVE, ’07!
It’s July.
In New York.
It’s hot.
This is NOT news.
NO REALLY, IT’s HOT. I’m gonna live-blog it.
it’s a pretty weird July when New York is hotter than central Texas.
Well, Dave, I’ll tell you it’s not a dry heat up here.
same thing’s happening in d.c., michele. it’s just an excuse for these freakin’ weathermen to utilize their doppler “toys”, you know?
they also cause full-fledged panics in the winter, acting like any snowflake is the precursor to a blizzard that will bury us all alive!!
and yes, it is fucking HOT down here, and it is not, by any means, a dry heat.
have a mentioned how much i hate the east coast, and how i cannot wait to go home to california? ugh
Hmmm kinda like how in Feb they come on and tell you all about how COLD it is and we’re all gonna FREEZE TO DEATH so you better have plenty of blankets.
In Feb, we’re all going to have heart attacks while we shovel our snow.
I daresay carin.
how do you guys live like this?
i don’t get it.
i don’t understand it.
i come from Norway!
where punk rockers go out with punk rock girls!
or else go out and do homosexual activity with each other…
this is a gross heat
oh
and i can’t wait to get back to california either.
11 days and counting……
It’s dry here in Boise, but breaking 100 almost every day. It’s kinda weird when 80 feels cool at night.
I grew up in Sacramento, where a summer without 110+ degrees was considered evidence of a coming Ice Age. 80 degrees at night happened fairly often during those spells.
And the first place I ever lived that had air conditioning is the house I’m in right now, in metro Atlanta, that we moved into in December 1999.
Suck it up, you wussies.
What is it with the news thinking they need to announce to us what the weather is like outside, as if we’re all agorophobes with no windows? And not just during the weather segments – in L.A., when there’s any deviation in “slightly cooler/warmer than absolutely perfect,” they practically interrupt scheduled programming for a breaking! news! announcement. Complete with field reporters asking “the man on the street” how he’s coping with the terror of the two inches of rainfall. It’s obnoxious.
Oh great. Just what Todd needs. Sacramento backup.
oh, i’m afraid i have to add to the sacramento back-up. well, sorta…
my mom & dad live an hour north of sacramento, and an hour south of lake tahoe, so i visit.
however, when hubby & i move back out west (in september, god, allah, buddha, ganesh, whomever, willing), we will be going a bit more southern, and a lot drier – think las vegas or phoenix, where it is a dry, DRY 115+ degrees.
Ooh. And in the Sacramento Valley, the farther north you go the hotter it gets. Lovely downslope winds out of the north, the valley’s own Santa Ana — and too far away from the Carquinez Strait to get those cooling Delta breezes when the valley’s natural air conditioner finally kicks in after two or three weeks.