Heat Wave!

[randomness]

Some selected predicted highs for Tuesday, 19 July 2006, from weather.com:

Boston: 97F (36.1C)
New York: 99F (37.2C)
Washington, DC: 96F (35.6C)
St. Louis: 96F (35.6C)
Atlanta: 97F (36.1C)
Houston: 95F (35C)

Relatively cool are:
Denver: 91F (32.8C)
Miami: 91F (32.8C)
Chicago: 83F (28.3C)
Los Angeles: 89F (31.7C)

And for Wednesday, 19 July 2006, from www.bbc.co.uk/weather:

London: 36C (96.8F)
Cambridge: 36C (96.8F)
Oxford: 35C (95F)
Birmingham: 35C (95F)
Cardiff: 35C (95F)
Liverpool: 34C (93.2F)
Edinburgh: 33C (91.4F)

(Yes, Miami will be cooler than London today and tomorrow. [91F/85F vs. 33C/36C])

Edit: And, just to make it clear: this heat isn't confined to the UK.

Paris: 37C (98.6F)
Amsterdam: 37C (98.6F)
Brussels: 38C (100.4F)
Berlin: 34C (93.2F)
Vienna: 34C (93.2F)

(Again, all from www.bbc.co.uk/weather.)

Comments

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

A couple co-workers were without power last night and now have to submit claims to NStar for everything that was in their fridge. At 7:15 this morning, T and I thought we had been transported while sleeping to Savannah . . . since when does Boston have a subtropical climate??

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

You can submit claims for food lost to power outage? I've never heard of such a thing!

Luckily I haven't had that problem for a while....

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

Supposedly. That's what my co-worker said, at any rate.

Con Edison allows you to submit claims--of course, they denied all claims in the NYC blackout because they weren't at fault. But it's neat that they even offer it to begin with.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I wonder if my little hometown largely-hydro power company does that. I don't know if National Grid, my old company, did.

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

From the very limited research I just did, it looks like claims for spoiled food may be determined by state and that home insurance policies cover it if specifically added to coverage.