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[RainCityGirl]

Yep, Tansy and I are experiencing some high 80, high humidity weather in the Puget Sound. I just got back from Vegas Tuesday night, and the dry heat of 105 in the desert was quite stifling. No matter how hot it gets here in Seattle, I love it. There is nothing more beautiful to me than sunshine in the Pacific Northwest.

[Marienkaefer2]

On 7/13/2014 kittymomNC said:

On 7/12/2014 Marienkaefer2 said:

On 7/12/2014 kittymomNC said:

On 7/12/2014 Marienkaefer2 said:

Well, it says it's 77 here, but I think it's at least 80. Which is pretty hot for us.

Oh my, I should be so lucky!

You've got to remember, our average temp in the summer is 68.

It's all relative!

That's exactly why I should be so lucky...in my opinion, if it never got over 70 degrees, I would be a happy camper. And if you're in the San Juan Islands, even luckier! I forgot to ask, do you get snow in the winter? If so, I may need to move there!

Sometimes we might get a bit but it doesn't last long. In fact, there will be predictions of snow in the region, and I'll talk to someone in another city and they'll have snow and we don't, and I'll be jealous.

[lilypadfrog]

Not as hot as I was when I was in my twenties

[Burnsite]

It's always stifling in South FL in July. But at least the streets are peaceful and there is no jostling in the supermarkets, b/c the snowbirds have flown for over a month. Love the peace of summer here, but I wish my home air condiitioner worked a little more efficiently. Very hot always at this time of day in my house.

[chickenbutt]

Over 100 here. blech! I hate summer so much. I really never did like the heat but since I've had this auto-immune thing I'm really struggling to deal with it. Every year it seems to be getting more difficult. I get sick very quickly if I go outside and it's even near 80, not to mention 90 or 100+.

As a general rule, our humidity is in the teens or less. But lately it's been sometimes in the 40-70% range. That's just too much, along with heat, for my lungs to take. Yeah, I'm whiny. I hate hate hate summer. I loved it when we used to only have a couple of weeks in August, here, that it was really hot, and we had really long, long, cold, snowy winters.

Wahhh

[just bee]

On 7/13/2014 lilypadfrog said: Not as hot as I was when I was in my twenties

[sylviahomeatlast]

mr Sylvia thinks so...

[CouponQueen]

Thank goodness for Central AC!! It has been muggy a lot this past week or so..AC running nonstop on the North East. I don't even want to look at the electric bill..

Our power went out last night for about 10 hours from 630 pm to 345 am and my daughter wac complaining about the heat....It was 84 in her room and 74 in ours..for some reason hers is the warmest room in the house in the summer and coldest in the winter..

We have a generator but we don't have it hooked up yet to the electric box to power more then what we can off extension cords..it is on the list for this week..Our nephew is a electrician and he is doing some outlet work for us..so I text him this mornign asking to put that on his list of things to look at..give me an estimate on the cost..I want it done regardless! I am not sure how much we can power on a 9500 watt generator but I was told at least the fridge, furnace/ac, tv and a light..we shall see..

I told her this morning..we had no AC as kids and we survived just fine..she has lived in a home with AC all her life...and a dishwasher..

When she was little..not too young though..eightish..we were visiting my aunt and she blurted out.."How do you do dishes Auntie...you have no dishwasher.." OMG!

[CouponQueen]

On 7/12/2014 BonnieBelle said:

We're about 79, warm and humid, but I can deal with it. A little breeze. Not putting on the AC! We are supposed to get the polar vortex back again this week, temps down to 40. I am glad! I went walking today, felt like I sweated off a pound, LOL!

I had to look at the date you wrote this..temps in the 40's...what state?

We have humidity in the NE another couple days..the other morning after it broke..after oppressive..it felt chilly the next morning at 65 and no humidity lol..

I don't mind the humidity outside if I am in the pool ..but I don't want to do anything active in it though.

[Grade1Teach]

Since having my second baby in April, I have been nothing but hot. This happened with my first daughter too. Hopefully it will go away by fall.

In terms of our weather -- Yes, it's hot, but it's the humidity that makes it a million times worse. However, I can't say that this summer is as hot as past summers on Long Island.