FUCK SUMMER

[jm]

9.5" of rain so far today, second highest one-day total in my area since record-keeping started. Still raining. My street is a lake.

That's funny, my basement was a lake!  Maybe they know each other!

[morgan]

Crazy flooding all over the place this year, wtf.

[davy]

What the hell man. Athens is back in the mid-90s for no reason.

That was 8 days ago. Now I'm sitting here in a hoodie, thinking how I wouldn't be upset if they turned the radiators on a little early this year.

Not much porch weather in 2010 I guess.

[Thermofusion]

9.5" of rain so far today, second highest one-day total in my area since record-keeping started. Still raining. My street is a lake.

That's funny, my basement was a lake!  Maybe they know each other!

Starting to get a little apocalyptic here. Over 15" of rain since Monday, with "an additional seven to 10 inches expected through Thursday." Work let us go early, commute was royally jacked. Like a moron, I drove through a creek that was up over the road and gave myself about a 50-50 shot at making it. That road is now closed.

[Greg Nog]

I just got a new electric bill, and am delighted by how low it is!  Winter bless us, every one!

[davy]

$31 over here!

[peacocks]

I want to hang on to summer for dear life.  It is really nice right now but I dread humidifier and space heater weather.

[alex]

I just got a new electric bill, and am delighted by how low it is!  Winter bless us, every one!

As a non-user of fans and air-conditioning*, it would have never occured to me that an electricty bill would be lower in the winter than in the summer. The opposite would be the case for me: more need for electrical light, space heaters**, and infra-red lamps whenever I catch a cold vs. none of all that in the summer time. And that's not counting (since it doesn't go on the electricity bill, strictly speaking) the cost of central heating***.

* to be fair, we have two small fans (but no air-con) in my office, which I turn on a few times a year. To be even fairer, the weather here is generally a bit more moderate than seems to be the case in large parts of the US.
** I'm a non-user of those right now, but I always enjoyed the luxury of having one in the bathroom at my parents' place, so I think I'll join the ranks of the users again at some point
*** currently dysfunctional at my house

[edison]

Yeah, in the winter, I pay up to four times the amount that I pay in the summer months.

[davy]

My August bill was $120. My October bill was $31. The only alteration in power consumption between those two months was the usage of window unit air conditioners.

I'd be more horrified by that number if I didn't factor it into my annual power bill budget.

[Anne the Man]

YEAH, summer! Yesterday I was walking around at 7.15pm or so in a T-shirt with bare feet. Today it's all hot also. Means me and boy can do summertime things whenever we get around to sorting shit.

[clare]

Gah, it is so fucking humid here today. I hate it. And it's not even summer yet. It's the first hot spell we've had, and it's been raining like a bastard too, so it's muggy. Yuck. I hate summer. Make it stop.

[Thermofusion]

GUYS HEAT WAAAAAVVVEE

YALL WANNA TALK WEATHER WITCHA BOY????

[Thermofusion]

how are YOU preparing

[Chet]

guys, it has rained for basically the whole of fucking june here.

super depressing.

[Thermofusion]

When it rains in England you just put on Rain in England and everything's cool, though, right?

[edison]

The heatwave is on here: http://www.meteociel.fr/accueil/humidex.php?archive=1&jour=29&mois=6&annee=2012&heure=15&mode=&sub=OK and as ever I am still firmly in the "FUCK SUMMER" camp.

[Thermofusion]

Damn, Alsace looks like an oven!

[Chet]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643123?day=1

joy

[Greg Nog]

High of 96-plus-humidity here, and eff that, but should be slowly dropping back into the mid-eighties soon.  I went for a run early this morning, before the heat kicked in too badly.

[Thermofusion]

I think the forecasted temperatures are gonna be about the same here, Greg. I don't think it's going to be too bad where I'm at, because the forecasts never account for the constant sea breeze. But go ten miles inland and they're talking about heat indices near 110 over the weekend. They said something about bringing your animals and your old people inside so they don't spontaneously combust. You don't want gramps or Mr. Tickles catching fire on the porch.

Chet those temperatures are pretty nice IMO.

[edison]

Damn, Alsace looks like an oven!

Yep, we get very high temperatures in the summer (with generally a very humid, heavy atmosphere and huge storms breaking out now and then) and very low in the winter. I have to admit that so far apart from the last few days it's been fairly pleasant this year, so I shouldn't complain too much.

[Chet]

but....all the rain.

it still feels humid and muggy and that combined with rain is the absolute worst kind of weather.

[davy]

.. HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 THIS AFTERNOON... ... FIRE DANGER STATEMENT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR NORTH AND PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...

... HEAT WAVE TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND...

MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WILL CLIMB INTO THE LOW TO MID 100S ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WITH HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES. ALTHOUGH THIS DOES NOT MEET HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA WITH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW 70S... AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE DANGEROUS. THESE HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO LAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND... ALTHOUGH WITH INCREASED MOISTURE... THE HEAT INDICES WILL INCREASE TO 105 TO 110 FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT YOURSELF... FAMILY AND PETS FROM THE HEAT ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE SPENDING TIME OUTSIDE. LIMIT OUTSIDE TIME AND WHEN POSSIBLE... RESCHEDULE EVENTS FOR THE EARLY MORNING OR EVENING. KNOW THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF HEAT EXHAUSTION AND HEAT STROKE. WEAR LIGHT COLORED CLOTHING AND LOOSE FITTING CLOTHES WHEN POSSIBLE AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER.

[elpollodiablo]

Yeah but you live in Georgia. You're asking for it.