I hate when a thunderstorm kills a good heat wave

[liberal N proud]

The first time since we moved to Cleveland, it was actually "HOT" in Cleveland.

97 yesterday, today 73 and rain.

Of course, I know local Clevelanders who would tell you this is still hot.

[SpiralHawk]

1. That proves global warming

is caused by Rush 'Draft Dodger' Limbaugh's oxycontin FARTS (R). Just as all honorable Americans already suspected of the grossly overpaid drug-abusing BLOWhard propaganda pimp.

[Creideiki]

2. Here in Denver we keep getting told that the heat will last today and end tomorrow

And then tomorrow comes and we get told the same thing.

It's like a minimalist symphony (and I'm not a fan of minimalist music.)

[kestrel91316]

4. They do that to us all summer long every year in Los Angeles, lol.

Cooling trend will start tomorrow.

:rofl:

[Tesha]

12. Increased chocolate rations too! (NT)

[Warpy]

6. They keep saying it will drop down to the low 90s five days from now

and it's been five days from now since the first of June and hasn't happened yet.

I figure that forecast will be right sometime in late September.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. We get told, here in Houston, that the "cool down" is coming at the end of the week...

(if it's the middle of the week) and/or at the beginning of the week if it's the end of the week. The "cool down" usually means it will be 90-94. :)

I do miss the first crisp days of fall.

[Igel]

9. So do I.

I've been here 7 years. Have yet to find any first crisp days of fall. Things cool down in November, but it's not the same.

Then again, my last town had the first crisp days of fall in late summer and that's just too early for crisp. Rochester, NY. By the time it's cooling down a bit here, in Houston, it's snowing up there.

[damntexdem]

3. And then it gets even worse:

the grass grows and one has to mow again. ;-)

But here in North Texas, it's all normality: 100s today and for days to come, continuing a nice, stable record-breaking streak.

[Warpy]

5. I'm spoiled now. I'd prefer a dry 97 to a sopping wet 73

Living in the desert gets like that. Plus, there are no bugs.

[liberal N proud]

8. Yea, but this is where the job is

As soon as I can retire, if ever, I am out of here.

[Igel]

10. So move to Houston, avoid both problems.

First, there's no good "heat wave" here. It gets hot. That happened in March this year. It stays hot. I'm hoping that doesn't last like it did one year, into December. It was just wrong to go to the beach over Thanksgiving weekend or see the temperature go into the low-mid 90s on Thanksgiving Day. Seriously, who wants turkey and dressing and all the trimmings when you really want is a margarita poolside?

It's a wave in the same sense that the Pacific Ocean at high tide is a "wave."

And thunderstorms have one of two effects: They cool things down by 5 degrees, but crank the humidity from 65 to 100%. Or they don't cool things down at all, but crank the humidity from 65 to 100%. If you're really, really lucky they also knock out the electricity for 6 hours, so that it's as warm and sticky and suffocating inside as it is outside.

Ah, 73. I know parents who put winter coats on their kids if the high's only going to be 73. Or, indeed, if the morning temperature when the kids are sent off to school is only 73. They'd freeze their tails off, no doubt, in one of those states in the far, frigid north like, oh, I don't know, perhaps Virginia or Maryland. The Great Lakes snowbelt? May as well be Yellow Knife.

[freshwest]

11. And it's where the money is.