Summer at Last

[MikeL]

You wouldn't know it from the temperatures we've had the last two months, but summer has only now arrived in the northern hemisphere. It's the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. It's always amazed me that all the hot weather in July and August occurs as the days are growing shorter. Doesn't seem logical somehow. Keeping cool in Music City...

 

Hope you have a great summer.

 

 

Edited June 20, 2012 by MikeL

[TetRefine]

We rung in the first "official" day of summer with 101 degrees here in New Hampshire. Thank god for air conditioning. This northern boy is an absolute weakling in extreme heat.

[Zombie]

Happy Summer Solstice Mike We're having a weird summer so far in the UK - cool, rain and more rain. And it's Wimbledon next week. So that means more rain

[Benji]

.........Bah! 107 here in Vegas, I really don't mind the heat, but the power bill!!! Mike, it was explained to me years ago that the seasons have to play catch up, so even when summer solstice occurs it takes awhile for summer to really kick in.

 

BTW, I was married 29 years ago on Summer Solstice 6/21

[K.C.]

BTW, I was married 29 years ago on Summer Solstice 6/21

 

Awesome Benji, Congrats!!

 

Yeah, hot as hell here today too. It was 102 when I got in my car afterwork but then me and a very cute doctor both got caught by a red light and he grinned and took his shirt off **drool** Yep, me liking the heat

[Daddydavek]

94 degrees here in the American midwest, but the promise of rain tomorrow!

[CassieQ]

100 degrees today, but this Southern girl loves every minute of it!

[TetRefine]

100 degrees today, but this Southern girl loves every minute of it!

 

Haha, you are tougher then me then.

[Y_B]

I need a lemonade just reading this thread.

[W_L]

Haha, you are tougher then me then.

 

Yeah, she's way tougher than me and I like the heat.

 

I think we hit 95 in Boston, probably more with humidity today.

[Cyhort]

Almost 100 today and most of it was spent in an 8 hour car ride from NY to Ohio on three hours of sleep. I hate summer So hot. So sticky. Come back winter! I love youuuuuuuuuuu!! ;_;

[Bill W]

Damn, didn't know all you people were living in hell. Was only in the upper eighties here in Georgia.

[Y_B]

Welcome to TX

 

[Ashi]

Can I have a cookie?

[Bill W]

How do they keep the critters from stealing those cookies? lol The heat explains some of the political ideas coming out of Texas though. Guess the politicians forget their hats from time to time and end up brain-fried.

[Mikelaing74]

It's currently 55 degrees and raining. So where's summer ?

[Canuk]

when are you Americans going to join the rest of the world and use celcius?

[TetRefine]

when are you Americans going to join the rest of the world and use celcius?

 

Fahrenheit gives you a more accurate description of the temperature. And we are on our way to the third straight 100+ day today. I will be hibernating in my air conditioned room for the remainder of it.

[Zombie]

Yeah, and "100" is a nice big macho number

 

38, or whatever, is just so .... so wimpy!

[MikeL]

when are you Americans going to join the rest of the world and use celcius?

 

Anders Celsius wasn't an American. When I was in elementary school - 60 years ago - we used all the metric system measurements in our science classes in the certain knowledge that the US would soon convert from the British standard to metric. It has never happened. Metric is used almost exclusively in science and medicine - all my pills are in milligrams - but in the everyday world we hold onto the old standard. It's one of the few British things we really cling to. Despite all our technological advances, we haven't decided - our politicians haven't decided for us - to make the switch. I understand the British have switched as part of their EU membership. The US isn't the only western nation which uses Fahrenheit; there's Cayman Islands and Belize.

 

It's really no big deal; it's easy to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius: [°C] = ([°F] − 32) × ⁵⁄₉

 

Now that I think of it, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit wasn't American either.

[TetRefine]

Yeah, and "100" is a nice big macho number

 

38, or whatever, is just so .... so wimpy!

 

We wouldn't be Americans if we didn't like big things.

[Arpeggio]

It's been in the high 90's. Definitely my favorite weather. I hate the cold.

[MikeL]

It's been in the high 90's. Definitely my favorite weather. I hate the cold.

 

That's why you no longer live in Boston.

[W_L]

That's why you no longer live in Boston.

 

Yes, we're only in the mid 90's,

 

Lacey come back home, Boston misses you.

[MikeL]

It's 108°F here today. The forecast calls for 111°F on Saturday and Sunday. Hot, hot, hot!