Temps cool slightly, but U.S. still roasting

In South Bend, Ind., serious kayakers took to the East Race Waterway, a 1,900-foot-long manmade whitewater course near downtown.

"A lot of times I'll roll over just to cool off," said Robert Henry of Carmel, just north of Indianapolis. "The biggest challenge is walking coming back up carrying a kayak three-eighths of a mile in this heat."

In Manhattan, customers who stepped in to see "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" at an IFC movie theater were there for more than entertainment.

"Of course we came to cool off!" said John Villanova, a writer who was on his second sweaty T-shirt of the day and expecting to change again by evening.

He said that earlier, he rode a Manhattan subway back and forth for a half an hour, with no destination in mind "because it really keeps you cool."

In Chicago, street magician Jeremy Pitt-Payne said he has been working throughout the three-day stretch of triple-digit temperatures, but acknowledged that he might doff the Union Jack leather vest by the end of the day, even though it's part of his British magician character along with the black top hat.

His trick for beating the heat? He starts his shows at 2 p.m., "when the Trump Tower is gracious enough to block out the sun" along his stretch of sidewalk.

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[occupy_cbs]

douxs: "More inconvenient truths: As The Washington Times noted this week, the National Climatic Data Center shows that Colorado has actually seen its average temperature drop slightly from 1998 to 2011"



LOL! Nice cherry-picking of data using an extreme La Nina year of 1998 which set records, as the starting point, and nicely excluding 2012 which broke all-time records in Denver in June, for the highest 5-day highest temperatures recorded.

[tafhdyd]

Latest from NOAA.
The extreme hot temperatures over the past week plus have been linked to a massive hot air release by the hot air buffoon, Rush Limbaugh. It all started when the SCOTUS decided the issue on the health care act.

They said the hot air seems to have subsided for now but cautioned that Rush can refill on a moments notice and could explode again at any time.

[Jaylah54200]

Why on earth would anybody leave a 4-month-old or a 16-month-old in a car for any length of time, regardless of the outside temperature?

For those attempting to justify such behavior by saying their parents "forgot" they had them in the car, here's a great tip:

When you put your child in a car seat in the back seat, lay your purse, or billfold or laptop or cell phone, or something you always have with you on the back seat, too.

If you stupidly drive to work or wherever instead of dropping your child off at daycare first, you'll reach for that item, and will realize your child is still in your car.

[IPonUall]

The deniers of global weather changes are about to be converted.

In the near future, whole nations will be in famine because the vast numbers of people that depend on glacial water which is in retreat everywhere.
Show me one glacier in advance.
When (not if) this happens war will break out, which is one reason we must for the good of all eliminate all nuclear weapons.

Las Vegas will be history along with lake Meade.
Florida is destined to sink into the sea, but it's not happening as predicted, instead sea rise is being measured north along the east coast instead...maybe its' the oil spill?
Many nations will die.
By then I only hope we've found a way to synthesize water from the environment around us to sustain our sweltering nation for the day when the survivors find a way to bring back a cooler planet without endangering our lives.
One theory is set off a nuclear bomb to create a nuclear winter....not too smart but there is a posibility.

[IPonUall]

Latest Weather Service Report......

The next Ice Age is cancelled due to extreme amounts of greenhouse gases man is putting into the atmosphere.

We could get some cooling with a volcanic eruption or comet impact. Both are not likely in the near future.

[112844]

All of this wierd, wild, weather we have been having for the past few years can't possibly be from Global Warming. They talk about it all of the time on AM talk Radio. These people say Global Warming is just a Liberal Lie. Now everybody knows that AM Talk Radio knows everything and they only tell the TRUTH ??????

Now for my straight talk instead of my satire. I have read Carl Sagan's explnation of what's happening. The man was a genius and I believe what he has to say.

[IPonUall]

Didn't Carl Sagan die before global warming was an issue?

[credibility2]

At least I was able to turn my a/c off...I'm dreading next month's bill...I'll be surprised if it's under $350...ran almost constantly and I had the thermostat at 76, which was uncomfortable...

[knewsteerrrrr]

76 is uncomfortable?
I don't find 80 uncomfortable at all, unless the humidity is up like above 50%

[knewsteerrrrr]

If your A/C cant keep up and you fear a $350 electric bill, then you obviously don't have enough insulation. I have an 8,000 btu window a/c that cools my entire 1,000 sq ft house to a comfortable temperature and takes the humidity out, it uses a max of 750 watts.

The key is I have R-100 worth of insulation in my atic, and my exterior walls have R-27 insulation (they are 8" thick) and I have dual glass argon filled, low E windows.
I also have an atic fan.
The temps were around 100 outside, bright sun, inside I was very comfortable as are my 3 dogs.
Y'all needs to get some INSULATION in that atic of yours! The piddling R-21 or whatever most atics have is far substandard and the majority of the heat in the winter is lost thru the ceilings, and in summer the 150+ degrees atic radiates that heat DOWN into the rooms.

Get a couple feet of blown in insulation in there and an atic fan.
I got the blow machine from the lumber place free to use when I bought the insulation which cost about $100 to do the entire atic. It was messy, dirty, and a pain, but once in it's there for good, and it's waist-high in my atic.
That's why, even here is the Mid-West I can gas heat my house in winter to 75 - leaving the thermostat at that setting 24/7, electric (including runnin) 2 servers and 1 computer that are never shut off) gas hot water, and my A/C and my entire utility bill right now is a little over $109 a month on the equalized plan. Thats a plan by Mid American energy that takes your annual use and divides it by 12 and you get billed that amount each month.

This way you don't have a bill one month for $32 and another month is $745.
You get reviewed each quarter and they adjust up or down as needed, my last review saw a reduction to $109.
Still, that's about $1300 a year for gas heat set at 75 degrees all winter 24/7, gas hot water, A/C washer, gas dryer, electric, and running 2 servers, a computer and stereo amp 24/7

So if your bill is out of sight you are doing something wrong!

[hypnotoad72]

15F is not 'slightly'... depends on your POV...

[kidsgardener]

One fun thing our family does on these hot days is to plant a TickleMe Plant. They are the only plant that will close their leaves and lower their leaves when tickled. They are a very heat tolerant plant and will produce pink flowers in this weather. Search TickleMe Plant to get a greenhouse kit to grow your own. They are tropical so this heat suits them fine.

[douxs]

More inconvenient truths: As The Washington Times noted this week,
the National Climatic Data Center shows that "Colorado has actually seen
its average temperature drop slightly from 1998 to 2011, when data is
collected only from rural stations and not those that have been
urbanized since 1900."

[hypnotoad72]

"Climate change" supporters might find ways to inconveniently put merit back into their claims, just in case you hadn't thought that far ahead...

I'm an agnostic - it might be real, but there's not enough SOLID information. But pollution, which is claimed to contribute to climate change, is an actual, tangible, and proven problem. Yet we do nothing on pollution...