What other States are baking?

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

We are melting in southern California the last few days and it feels like we are in Puerto Vallarta with the heat and humidity. We live very close to the ocean and it was 98F in the shade. I took our aquarium thermometer outside that I used for our koi pond and it read 104 degrees F in the sun or 40 degrees C as that is as high as it will go on this thermometer. When we had the koi, we had to put shade over the pond with three big parasols so the water wouldn't get too hot for the fish but that is a long time ago and didn't happen too often.

We used to use our A/C only about a week or so in the summer because of it being too hot and humid but the last two months the A/C has been on practically every day. I hear from some people that their A/C is cycling on and off and it is off when it is needed most so we decided not to participate in this Edison plan. This must be really hard on the people who are living inland as their temperatures may hit the 110 or higher degrees. I heard 119 degrees F mentioned for this week. This may be normal in Arizona but not in this area.

How is it everywhere else?

[Luanne Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Luanne]

Very pleasant here in Santa Fe. Low to mid 70's, maybe up into the high 70's a few days. We'd like more rain though.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

It was 53 degrees when I went to work this morning. The high was 71 today.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Colder and drier than normal in New England, with a frost already in the north country and a possibility of frost here at the end of the week.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Luanne, we need rain badly. It was on the news this morning that, if the wind would come up and a fire would start right now, they will not be able to take care of it because it will burn so fast and explode the timber. Very scary so hopefully no idiots will start a fire on purpose or careless people starting a fire by accident.

September is one of our worst months for fires and October could be too or even in November. I remember the November fire in 1961 and had to leave my job immediately in Bel Air and take all the account ledgers with me. It was dark in the middle of the day. I just looked it up and found some tidbits about it still. When I arrived home in Malibu, we were also evacuated for three days so had to sleep in a motel. Neither structures burned so we were lucky but it was very scary to see the fires on the news and not knowing if I still had a job to come back to or to our little home in the Canyon. I only had been in this country since July that year. These fires do not exist in my native country.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Tony, I read somewhere that this will be one of the worst winters with lots of snow. I don't remember if it is because of El Niño or La Niña. I would have to find the information again. It sounded rather serious and I don't wish it on you as you had a bad winter already last year.

PS. I can't find the information that I read before. It may have come by email but I found two links where it is mentioned too. I feel for you guys back East.

http://farmersalmanac.com/weather/20...nter-forecast/
This seems to be a well-known website

http://theweathercentre.blogspot.com...ate-first.html
This one, I don't know.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

September almost always has a very hot spell about now so this is not that unusual. We have had some areas that have had a lot of rain and flash flooding which is very rare.

What has been very unusual this summer is the lightening storms and days with high humidity. Lightening storms are pretty rare in Southern California except for the desert areas.

[Hobbitess Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hobbitess]

http://farmersalmanac.com/weather/20...nter-forecast/
This seems to be a well-known website

Farmers' Almanac claims they get their weather predictions right up to 85% of the time, but independent studies show they do about as well as anyone else. In other words, you'd generally do about as well flipping a coin. I don't know of any weather predicting source that does much better than chance once you get more than a few days or weeks into the future. I've been getting the Old Farmer's Almanac faithfully for decades, but it's because I enjoy the publication, not for their weather predictions, because their predictions are usually off. For instance, they predicted this past winter would be mild; it was one of the coldest winters since we've been here. Spring and summer were closer to average, I think, and our fall seems pretty typical so far.

Sorry to hear about the fires in your area. Hope you get some precipitation soon.

[Pstreet1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pstreet1]

Arizona is hot and muggy and we're getting ready for more severe rain storms, like we just had.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

It's in the 90's here but it's always in the 90's here.
Our AC never goes off year round.

[RESORT2ME Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RESORT2ME]

In upper to mid-70s the rest of week, just right for tending to garden and yard. Had rain often enough that lawn is as lush as ever.
Good time to visit NC before winter arrives.