What’s your heat index

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The weather here this year is really out of control. Everyday in July has been over a hundred degrees with no end in sight. How does it feel to be in 104/105 weather? Well it’s so hot that when you walk out the door the hot is so in your face that it actually takes your breath away. It feels just like when you open the oven door to check on the cake baking. I have to have a soil that can cope with the extremes in temperatures that I have here. Winters are California mild but summer, ain’t no fun. A979BD73-DD5E-40B8-83C6-7631F16E77E9.jpeg
 

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The weather here this year is really out of control. Everyday in July has been over a hundred degrees with no end in sight. How does it feel to be in 104/105 weather? Well it’s so hot that when you walk out the door the hot is so in your face that it actually takes your breath away. It feels just like when you open the oven door to check on the cake baking. I have to have a soil that can cope with the extremes in temperatures that I have here. Winters are California mild but summer, ain’t no fun. View attachment 201145
Where is "here"?

In MD we've seen a break in the last couple days, but for a week or 2 before that, we were indexing at similar temps, even higher...one day was 111, followed by a 109....I was working in DC on rooftops fixing stuff....I can measure 130+ actual temp up there.....its horrible.
Its discusting with the high humidity as well.
 
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Where is "here"?

In MD we've seen a break in the last couple days, but for a week or 2 before that, we were indexing at similar temps, even higher...one day was 111, followed by a 109....I was working in DC on rooftops fixing stuff....I can measure 130+ actual temp up there.....its horrible.
Its discusting with the high humidity as well.
Humidity is high this week also. About 40% which is about 20% more than I'm used to. 15 days over 103 here, and the next ten look terrible also. I think pavement is the big addition to the increased temps here. I got to find a smaller town to move to.....
 

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You guys are cute. You have explained our spring at 104-110 degrees. Right now we are looking at 110-120 every day and it isn't going to get back under 100 degrees till October. Hahahaha
And now for the last 2 weeks it has been between 30% and 60% humidity which is about 30-60% higher than normal. Lol
 

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107 seemed to be magic number this summer. Finally got some rain today. Been mild the last few days
 

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You guys are cute. You have explained our spring at 104-110 degrees. Right now we are looking at 110-120 every day and it isn't going to get back under 100 degrees till October. Hahahaha
And now for the last 2 weeks it has been between 30% and 60% humidity which is about 30-60% higher than normal. Lol
I feel for you. That is unbearable heat. Are you growing bonsai and keeping them healthy and thriving or just commenting about your miserable heat? I'd like to see what you are able to keep in that heat and how it fares and what you do to keep them?
 

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95 degrees, eleventy million percent humidity. But only nine months of summer left.
We get some winter here. About the low thirties for three months. The rest is pretty good. Had a long lovely spring this year, that was very unusual. Now paying the price of that long spring.

Elms hardly defoliate here in the winter and I have had tridents keep the green leaves all winter long, especially if they are on the ground growing out.
 

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We get some winter here. About the low thirties for three months. The rest is pretty good. Had a long lovely spring this year, that was very unusual. Now paying the price of that long spring.

Our weather is inverted. From May through October, it’s miserable. Although the heat is not that high, the humidity is unrelenting. Right now it’s 98 and 60% humidity, or a heat index of 123. And because of the humidity, the temperatures really don’t drop much at night. Generally our nighttime lows drop into the mid-low 80s, but the relative humidity jumps up to nearly 100%.

Generally, it starts cool down in November and stays pretty nice through March. That’s the outdoor time of year for me - right now i just retreat into my air-conditioned bubble and go into dormancy. But November-March, most days have highs in the 60s or 70s. Occasionally cold fronts will come through to give us a little taste of the winter the rest of the country is experiencing. But most of the time it’s pretty nice that time of year.

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This has been the summer of rain. Some days the temps are 90+ with humidity almost as high but so often we get afternoon storms so it knocks the temps down. Yesterday we had a 3" deluge and there have been several far worse this summer. I guess the heat index is 100+ for parts of most days. I just got back from being away for 2 weeks (automatic waterer) and my tress have exploded with growth. August is our worst month. We will still have the heat and humidity but a lot fewer showers.
 

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Our weather is inverted. From May through October, it’s miserable. Although the heat is not that high, the humidity is unrelenting. Right now it’s 98 and 60% humidity, or a heat index of 123. And because of the humidity, the temperatures really don’t drop much at night. Generally our nighttime lows drop into the mid-low 80s, but the relative humidity jumps up to nearly 100%.

Generally, it starts cool down in November and stays pretty nice through March. That’s the outdoor time of year for me - right now i just retreat into my air-conditioned bubble and go into dormancy. But November-March, most days have highs in the 60s or 70s. Occasionally cold fronts will come through to give us a little taste of the winter the rest of the country is experiencing. But most of the time it’s pretty nice that time of year.

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It's those 80 deg dewpoints that really do you in. Up here we rarely get those kinds of conditions, in fact the average daily high temp during the peak of summer is only 81 or 82. This July has had a few days over 95 with dewpoints around 70 for a heat index of 102. Probably the worst I ever experienced was living in Virginia, the first week we moved in it was 104 with a dewpoint of 80 for a heat index of 127. That was brutal! I've also experienced 104-105 deg temps in Denver and it's a different kind of brutal. Someone mentioned it feeling like being inside an oven and that is a good description as the heat radiates at you from every direction. Dry heat...still heat! Andit literally sucks the moisture right out of you.
 

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It's those 80 deg dewpoints that really do you in. Up here we rarely get those kinds of conditions, in fact the average daily high temp during the peak of summer is only 81 or 82. This July has had a few days over 95 with dewpoints around 70 for a heat index of 102. Probably the worst I ever experienced was living in Virginia, the first week we moved in it was 104 with a dewpoint of 80 for a heat index of 127. That was brutal! I've also experienced 104-105 deg temps in Denver and it's a different kind of brutal. Someone mentioned it feeling like being inside an oven and that is a good description as the heat radiates at you from every direction. Dry heat...still heat! Andit literally sucks the moisture right out of you.

Now I recall a certain visit to Rochester for a certain Bonsai exhibition that took place in September 2016....

I was looking forward to a break from the heat and humidity, but I seem to recall that it was hotter there than it was here in Houston. I’ve never quite forgiven Bill for that.
 

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June 26 1990 Phoenix high temperature 122f. TheY closed the airport because planes had never been tested at that high temperature before. I was mowing lawns as a landscaper working my way through ASU.
 
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