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

[puffydrake.livejournal.com]

Heh. Heh heh.

Good thing about living on the equator - here, we only have to build for the heat (i.e air-conditioning. And lots of it!)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and you even have a power grid which works reliably, unlike some places I might mention...