Ms. Spam Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I heard today Seattle set a record concerning 10 straight days of 90 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 IT'S UNPRECEDENTED!!! I am LOVING this Summer! I've been working a split shift this week (we have AC at work) so it hasn't been a big deal for me. We still get into the 50s at noght and we have low humidity. But pretty sure the kitties are hating this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 HA! I bet it's like shed on contact. Bob's been shedding. Nanners already ripped most of her hair out. We finally broke 100. This summer has been fantastic. I'm going to the pool in a little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I think it's 10 days total over 90, not 10 in a row. I heard we had rain this weekend, so I doubt it broke 90 that day. In all seriousness, I would love one rainy day. The grass needs it. So glad I was not home on maternity leave this summer. Last summer was hot enough. And poor Ethan is such a pacific northwest kid, he hates heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 Aw. It has to be tough on babies. Especially little ones who have to visit eye doctors and such. I bet poor Isis just wants to lay around too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Isis wants to be in the garage all day because it's cool. It also has the added benefit of no small children to annoy your old lady self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Yeah-not in a row. Ten days in one year and we're yelling about it-that's how temperate this area is. I don't think we got to 90 yesterday but I haven't heard of any rain. Roy and Jesús lay as flat as they can on any hard surface they can find-Roy, usually on my receiver (which I'm sure is GREAT for it) and Jesús either on the dining room table or atop the fridge. This is the first year I've ever seen most Seattlites allow their lawns to rest. Usually they'll water the bejeeziz out of the grass the minute they see yellow because they're so used to everything being green all year. Businesses do but most homes here do not have AC so the whining makes a little more sense. I'd be fine with a rainy day about now, too. I have no grass or gardens to care about but I miss it a bit. My menopausal body would like some serious cool, too. It's 65 already when I get up at 3:30 to go to work. But I'm not complaining. We get so little of this. Soon enough it'll be 52 and rainy for months on end. Leaves are falling off trees and skittering around on concrete as if it's Fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 I kind of like heat. Mostly when I'm sore. I go sit in the seats of my car and they work like a hot pad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 (we have AC at work) Statements like this amuse me. Only extremely poor homes don't have AC down here. Everywhere else does. And when the AC breaks for any reason, there's a rush to fix it, replace it, or find somewhere with it. AC is just a given. It tripped me out when I moved to Boston and so many places didn't have central air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I NO RITE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 The invention of AC actually caused a population boom in the south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny Skywalker Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 There's some bitching up here about the yellow lawns, but the funny part is that it comes from the newest, most affordable neighborhood so they're all pretending to be yuppies since I'm sure a lot of them are first time home buyers or normally couldn't afford this area. Watching them go all HOA patrol about lawns is hilarious. Our HOA decided not to enforce the green lawn rule this year. I may have been one of the more vocal people pointing out that it was environmentally irresponsible to try to keep our lawns resembling putting greens when the state is in a drought. Out backyard is completely torn up right now, we're strongly considering putting in turf, or we'll just wait until the rains start to reseed. I'm tired of Isis destroying it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Lawn grass is so over-rated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 At one point we went like 34 days of rain. Wish I could have sent it to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Living in Arizona and Southern California my entire life, I'm not sure I've had 34 days of rain in my 32 years on this Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 I can come pee on you and call it rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 We went 40 days without rain once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLA Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Living in Arizona and Southern California my entire life, I'm not sure I've had 34 days of rain in my 32 years on this Earth. As a fellow southwesterner, I feel this! What is this rain people are speaking of?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalcedony Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 90 degrees is a welcome relief in Phoenix. When it's regularly 110, 112, 115º, there's no relief from the heat. I wait till the sun goes down to go shopping, and it's still in the upper 90s. I keep the AC off at night as much as possible because it's too expensive to run it all the time, so at night, my thermostat reads 86º. That's about the coolest it ever gets at night in the summer. What a miserable place to live. The desert is a STUPID place to build a city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 That is what I keep telling my Mom. But she comes back with we have beautiful sunsets. Chalc, you should leave the AC on and set it at 78. The AC has to work harder to cool when you finally turn it on and sometimes it costs more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 MOST places have beautiful sunsets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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