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

[apintrix.livejournal.com]

*dies*

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Wow...that's just disgusting. Those poor Brits must be utterly miserable. If might be a degree hotter there, but we here in Boston are used to this crap, sort of. Which is not to say we aren't miserable as well.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Chicago is now bearable again - and we're a day ahead of you in this weather. So there is hope!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yah...I mean, most of them don't have air-conditioning. Youch.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly hoping! (I'm also joking that I went to DC because it's cooler here than Boston. :) )

[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....

[cubes.livejournal.com]

And you all laughed at me for moving to Florida...

[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.

[monkeygod.livejournal.com]

LOL - at 30C (86F), who would have thought that Singapore would be the 'cool' place to be ... :P

and yes I know we're *constantly* hot, but I'm so glad we don't get heat waves ... now if we could just get rid of the damn haze ...

[malkin.livejournal.com]

I'm in Austin. It's summer. The heat is merely redundant.

[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]

:(

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Consistency can sometimes be useful. I mean, I *always* know what the weather is going to be like when I visit. :)

Good luck with the haze.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

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

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

True enough.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

:(