It just hit 108 in Kansas City and my power just flickered off and back on.

Whew, that was scary. :scared:

I wonder what all the climate change deniers here think about this lovely weather?

can't imagine no power too... hang in there! :hug: :scared:

The Midwest is apparently the new Death Valley.

I'm hoping the grid holds. No idea what everyone will do if it goes down. It would be a disaster.

:shrug:

A lot of people aren't able to get around though, so yeah, it'd be a catastrophe.

... expected to peak at 107. Snark.

Getting close to ALL TIME record temperatures.

my next big worry..... at least until this baking in the mid section of the country is over. I seriously dread the next electric bill at our house!

The corn fields here are completely brown..... if it wasn't irrigated it is dead. And the weather guy says it should continue for the next 3-4 weeks, at least. Groan. :grr:

A private contractor working for for the utility told me, "Hey, it's hot! ... And the equipment's old."

And then he was gone.

energy used (and the expense to me) and I just can't justify it. I did run it once - when I had been driving all night in the heat and I got in at 7AM. I started it when I got in and turned it off when I woke up 5 hours later.

I am lucky though - I live in a ground floor condo with good shade trees and a big screen door. I try hard to trap as much of the cool air as I can in the cooler mornings. It usually gives me an extra day of cool when the heat waves hit but it certainly doesn't last the whole heat wave.

My power has now gone out a couple of times. I can't imagine what we think we are doing running all this electricity to keep cool. 2nd law of thermodynamics and the climate crises both point towards trying as hard as possible to use as little AC as possible.

It's about 65 degrees right now and was down to a chilly 54 last night!

2 months. Over 100 and the last 3 weeks over 105. I am so tired of it.....

That is a lot of days to have those temps. We are at 22 or 24 days now with triples with one cool day of 98 thrown in there somewhere. Much better than what you are experiencing but I do understand, it really weighs on a person after a while.

In other word...SUMMER. Jeeze.

We were shooting for the all time record of 114 but sadly we will not make it. PLEASE let this break. Cold front tomorrow? 98 degrees, will be welcome.

The only positive is that it's a "dry" heat, so at least the normal 98% Kansas humidity isn't adding to the misery!

busy non-stop. I had to use the internet to get the temperature, because I can't get through on the "Tme and Temp" line.

The one and only benefit of watching my crops dry up and the ground crack is that we can actually breathe outside. Normally the 90's suck all the wind out of you with so much humidity. The wind is up and it is dry and hot. It feels kind of alien to me. After being out all morning and part of the afternoon in it my skin looks like it could blow away in it. Hydrating as fast as I can.

twice last week I came home and the power had gone out. Of course, we haven't been told we have been having brown-outs....