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Current temperature: 104 F

I fucking HATE summer. Our poor little trees are cooking. The leaves are shriveling up and falling off even though I've been giving them water every night. Oh, and have I mentioned that our house is being invaded by ants looking for food and water? They're coming from every door and window they can squeeze through. I keep seeing ones crawl out of my keyboard. :(

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Date: 2008-08-04 12:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miraje.livejournal.com
That's the one tolerable thing about Oklahoma. It hasn't rained for so long that the dew point was only in the 50s to lower 60s today. I think the highest heat index reported in Norman today was around 107.

I think the temperature hit 100 (or damn close to it) on only one day in the entire time I lived in Iowa, but it happened while I was living somewhere with no A/C. The combination of the heat and humidity literally made me feel sick after awhile, so I ended up spending the rest of the day at the library just to cool off. It sucked hardcore.

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Date: 2008-08-05 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hankdmoose.livejournal.com
Ames is surrounded by corn, yes? Being in Iowa, I think it'd have to be...

We ended up with a dew point of 79°F this afternoon. Fortunately we fell 4°F short of our predicted high of 94, so our heat index was a chilly 106°F :)

I have a feeling the dew point will hit 80 tomorrow they've revised our high from 95 down to 90... We'll see if that holds true, since the Lincoln office can't even forecast what happened 2 hours ago.

I did the last 2 summers with nothing more than a window A/C in my bedroom and ceiling fans. I'm so freakin' glad to have central air this summer.

August is the worst month, ever! I'll take hypothermia and frostbite over heat stroke any day.

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Date: 2008-08-05 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miraje.livejournal.com
Yes, Ames is completely surrounded by corn...so much so that the meteorology program at ISU has graduate degrees in agricultural meteorology.

Speaking of horrific dew points in Illinois, I just saw the weathernerds post about the ILX sounding with 8000 CAPE. That's certainly the highest I've ever seen.

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Date: 2008-08-05 05:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hankdmoose.livejournal.com
Yeah, sounding of doom! That's the sort of CAPE we tried to get while playing with NSHARP in Analysis and Forecasting, until we decided to see just how high we could get the CAPE to go :)

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