How is the summer heat where you live?

Summer in the city - Hot summer days.
United States
June 25, 2007 11:05pm CST
Boston is in the middle of a heat wave! Today was the first day and we're expecting 3 more days of 90 degree weather. Now I like summer but I definitely don't like heat waves. Not only does the temperature rise but the humidity gets high also and that's what does a job on me. I'm not a beach person so I won't go and sit by the ocean and bake myself dry. My way of getting through it is sitting inside with my AC on as high as it goes and staying comfortable. If I have to go to the store for anything I wait until the sun is just about down and then I'll go out but not a moment sooner. What's the temperature like where you live? Is it getting hotter or are you lucky and live in Australia where it's winter now? If it's hot do you go out in the heat or stay in with the AC on? How do you get through it?
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@naty1941 (2336)
• United States
26 Jun 07
I live in California where it is hot and dry. I am used to hot humid wheather as I am from Puerto Rico. I don't like the dryness of California. I don't mind the heat but instead of AC I prefer fans. LOL they don't use that much electricity.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
Ooh hey we're almost neighbors! I'm from the Dominican Republic. Yay for the Caribbean! :D
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@naty1941 (2336)
• United States
26 Jun 07
We have the same weather in PR and the Dominican Republic. I have lived in Miami and it is very humid too. I love the Dominican food. We had a lady that helped my parents from Santo Domingo and she cooked deliciously...
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@tina12679 (1126)
• United States
26 Jun 07
I think that we are going through the same heat wave that you are I live in a small town in eastern PA and it was HOT today and very hummid i am not sure what the temperture was because i went out once at 11 am to get the mail and it was scortching then so i stayed in the AC all day. We are supposed to get a few more days like this one as well. But i guess i cant complaint to much becasue it has been very nice here. Not too hot and not cold
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@tina12679 (1126)
• United States
27 Jun 07
I do know where Mars is. I dont think that it is too incredibley far from where i live.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
I have relatives in Mars PA if you've ever heard of it...nobody I know ever has. My niece called my mom last night and said it was just as hot there as it is here. We usually have similar weather.
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@usmcsgtwife (4997)
• United States
26 Jun 07
I live in Oceanside Ca, it is about 30 minutes north of San Diego, the weather here has been the same sunny and between 70-73.. We get a nice cool breeze from the ocean but I wish the weather was warmer
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• United States
26 Jun 07
Yes, I remember that you live in my beloved Oceanside. How I miss it there! The weather was always perfect year round.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
26 Jun 07
It is very hot where I live. It is rainy season here now but most of the time it is very hot. I suppose the cold climate makes living more comfortable. I have not experience how it is like to be living in cold country.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
It seems that when it rains it always feels hotter afterwards...here in Boston anyway.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
Last year I retired after 28 years working in a Plastic Factory..We made parts for cars..plastic gas tanks for cars and trucks..plastic bumpers..facia's and so forth..but even in the winter of michigan where the temperature is about 20's it was very hot at work..in the summer the temp..is about 80+ on an average day but in july and august it was very humid and very hot..working around the various injection molding presses and blow molding and twin sheets was even worse..i had to go in the ovens and the heat was very bad..and on top of the presses too.. So last summer was the first summer the heat never bothered me..since I did not have to work in this environment ..even the hottest days were tolerable but I live in Southeastern Michigan on Lake Erie..we have a good breeze all the time...but my wife is from the Philippines and that climate is hot 12 months a year..so i have spent one Christmas (December) in the Philippines and that climate is very very hot..all the time..except rainy season..and then it is hot and very humid...Boston is on the ocean..so I think you should have a few months of hot weather but how would you like 12 months a year of this type of heat? lol..no I don't think I would either..but with global warming???
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• United States
26 Jun 07
I'm getting so that I can't handle heat at all. I'm sure it's an age thing!
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• United States
27 Jun 07
I work in a nursing home and the eldery residents all want the A/C turned off..even on the hottest days. The nurses and cna's are sweating rivers but the residents are in their rooms with no A/C and the windows clossed and they are wearing sweaters witht their blankets pulled up and still complain its too cold...I guess their circulation is bad but since the medical staff is there for the comfort of the residents the staff has to put up with the heat..
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@jazzygdc7 (285)
• United States
26 Jun 07
it feels like florida when we get heat waves. I live in New York and it certainly gets hot indeed.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
Your not that far from me so I definitely know what your talking about. It made it to 100 in Boston today! Tomorrow morning breakfast will be served on the sidewalk in front of my house....sunny side up eggs! lol...and the bacon will sizzle.
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• Philippines
27 Jun 07
oh, you made me laugh there, last summer here in the Philippines the reporter of one news program tried t show it by putting an egg white & yolk in an 'owner' car, then see if it will be cooked, what happened when it is so thin it was somewhat cooked, but that temperature i suppose is very much far from the very hot temperature you are in, what is it again?100 degrees celsius or fahrenheit, we use here celsius, i think it 38 - 40C, hehe..^^
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
26 Jun 07
A week or so ago we here in Minneapolis Minnesota ahd 5 days of over 90 degree days with high humidity. Now we have got that all back yet worse in a sense. We have now had 3 days in a row over 90 with hu=igh humidity again and no relief expected till Wed or even Thursday. I can't stand the humidity with my asthma. The heat is fine but that humidity compresses my chest too much. I will sit at a lakes beach as long as the humidity isn't high. My wife and father both hate the a/c and or fans but I yell at them both not to turn them of or I'll be in the hospital next. HAHA!! HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
• United States
26 Jun 07
I'm with you in the asthma dept. Without my ac I would be living in the hospital. As it is when I have to go outside as soon as I get back in I have to hit the nebulizer...sometimes a double dose!
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• United States
26 Jun 07
i live in the southwestern corner of Arizona. today i believe we hit 106F. and according to the local weather report on the news..we are expected to hit 111F for the rest of this week. thankfully we have a dry heat, and nowhere near the humidity that the eastern half of the country seems to be bogged with. how do i get thru it? i worship the A/C!! and never go anywhere during the day unless its an absolute MUST..especially since i dont have a/c working in my car. late night trips are much cooler, but by no means "cool".
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• United States
26 Jun 07
My daughters inlaws live in Scotsdale and as many times as my daughter has visited there she can't get used to the horrible heat. I don't know how people live there!
@winky73 (1404)
• United States
26 Jun 07
The heat never bothered me all that much....it's the humidity that gets to me. For the last few years we didn't get much rain here in Denison Texas....so it was hot but dry.Now this year we've had more rain already than we had total last year and with temps being in the 90's....talk about hot and humid.Even with the AC running full blast it doesn't feel all that comfortable in the house.The thing I hate the most is.....I take a shower and before I even get out of the bathroom....I'm already sweating again.I try to get most of my running around done before noon.....because due to all the rain....if you go out at dawn or dusk.....you get bombarded by Mosquitos. I feel realy sorry for my family in Germany....because they are having about the same kind of weather as we do here......but it's not normal for most people over there to have AC's.I don't think I could do that any more.....I guess I got spoiled living here.
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• United States
27 Jun 07
Isn't it always that damn humidity? Global warming or not there's always been humidity and here in Boston it's always been the worst part of summer.
• United States
26 Jun 07
I live in Miami, so it gets very hot and sticky and humid. Usually around the upper 80's to mid 90's. But the weather here is pretty much summer all year long so I'm quite used to it and it doesn't bother me. A/C is permanently on at home, in the car, at work...I'm patiently waiting for the day someone invents portable A/Cs.. hehe!
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• United States
26 Jun 07
Portable AC's...hmmm very good idea but I'm sure it won't be invented in my time.
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@blueyesco (156)
• United States
26 Jun 07
Thankfully the humidity is not too bad in Denver but the temps have been 99 - 100 recently. Way to warm in my opinion.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
I never realized that Denver got that hot. As long as the humidity isn't high I can handle the high heat.
@helenying (120)
• China
26 Jun 07
You are more lucky than me. I am living in China. The summer is very hot. But now I have no AC in my living room, just a fanner. You can imange how hot it is. I don't hate summer but I really hate the hot weather. It makes me feel uncomfortable. I'd rather stay in my house than go out, just like you. If I need go shopping, I will chose to do it in evening.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
I guess your right...I am luckier than you. I've heard that China can get very, very hot and that's just not my thing.
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@gunny685 (50)
• Mexico
26 Jun 07
I live in Mexico, and it has hit triple digits for the last 3 days! I normaly take care of outside trips, and chores early in the am, or later in the, evening.
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• United States
26 Jun 07
Another horribly hot place to live! Early am and evenings are the best time to get our chores done. I'm beginning to feel like a vampire....
• Philippines
27 Jun 07
oh, here, i think it is getting better since rainy season is in but rains is very very uncommon i don't know why, every year when the month of may enters expect that when its end is to come, rain will come but it is the END OF JUNE and only few drops, whoa!!i have experienced here very hot temperatures maybe if compared in your place's temperature it is very low, but still hot!!, oh my gosh but i have read from yahoo that it is not an effect of global warming since our weather is changing if we will base it on past records, that sometime it is very early or not, but i think this occurrence has something to do with the mere fact that global warming is trying to enter our lives, poor people we are if it really invades:(..thanks..
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• United States
28 Jun 07
don't you get tired of hearing about global warming? It seems every little temperature change or weather event is blamed on it.
• Philippines
29 Jun 07
yah, i have heard of that i just don't know the figure, maybe .1 or .01 of degree Fahrenheit, yes global warming even though it is vey slow to be felt, maybe a couple of years its effect is really tremendous which can kill not just thousand but millions and millions of people especially those near the sea shores, thanks..good!!^^
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@ozkid92 (549)
• United States
26 Jun 07
here in kenosha wisconsin, the weatherman is messin with us. it always says that the forecast for the next few days or up to the next week are going to be very hot and humid, but when the day comes its not. so we go back and check the weather and they have changed it. Theres just no tellin around here! Today it was the opposite. yesterday they expected low temps and wind. Its 90 degreez, humid, and no wind at all! Oh well. cant control the weather. im just happy i have central air conditioning =)
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• United States
27 Jun 07
I gave up on weathermen a long time ago. It makes me wonder what kind of schooling they need if any! They are never right here in Boston and it's sort of a standing joke with the people here.
@punkish (424)
• India
26 Jun 07
well heat sucks here,,it wuiet hot n humid out here...u just csnt live widout an air conditioner......the emp here a day ago was 45.6 C....its a lot man to live ...the humidity here is quiet high also...but now we have bconme acustomed to it
@punkish (424)
• India
28 Jun 07
well by accustomed i mean dat we now dont feel dat mych uncomfortable which i used to feel in d starting:)
• United States
27 Jun 07
I don't think I could become accustomed to humidity no matter where I lived. It's the most uncomfortable feeling in the world for me.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
26 Jun 07
I too don't like the heat and humidity which we're also getting here in Michigan - I would much rather be cold as you can always put more cloths on to warm up but there is only so much you can take off to cool down - and even then your still hot. I however am a beach person, love the water, and don't care much for air conditioning plus we don't have any now. 3 foot pool will be where you'll find me most of the next few days.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
27 Jun 07
Oh I do feel for you not having any place to put even a little kids pool - I've used them often just to lay in and cool off. Grandson and I just blew up air-mattress and floaty toy - told him Grandma has to do a little work then we're out to the pool. Most likely for the day as weather here is predicted to be the same as the last few days - hot and humid :( Never really even cooled off last night,, that's rare, usually we'll at least get releif with cool nights.
• United States
27 Jun 07
I would give anything to have a yard to put a pool in! I wouldn't care if it was only 2 inches at this point. Anything to cool off would be welcomed.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
26 Jun 07
well its about 90 and with the humidity it feels about 104...and yes folks, i live in canada...so, there is not snow here 365 days of the year!!
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• United States
27 Jun 07
lol....I didn't think there was snow 365 days a year but I didn't realize it got that hot in Canada. I learn something new every day here on mylot.
@dlkuku (1935)
• United States
26 Jun 07
It's hot, way to hot. I can't stand it. My husband will sit out in the sun and I don't know how he can stand it, it makes me sick after a few minutes. I never sweated till I moved here, you don't even have to do anything, it's so hot and humid that you sweat from doing nothing.
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• United States
27 Jun 07
I'll never be able to figure out how people can sit and roast their bodies in the sun. Not only is it not good for us but it's so uncomfortable.
@PunkyMcPunk (1477)
• Canada
26 Jun 07
Right here we have the heat wave too. Today is supposed to get up to about 98 degrees Farenhiet. I live in Ontario Canada. I love the heat but can't stand the humidity. It does horrible things to my asthma. Normally it should only be around 80 degrees around this time of year. I don't get time to park it on the beach because I work a lot and it is during the day so by the time I get done the sun has set and it is a little too cold to swim or the mosquitoes are out and thats just not fun.
• United States
27 Jun 07
I didn't realize that Canada even got that hot. I'm not a very traveled person and have never been there. It is awful when we have to deal with asthma too isn't it?