Yesterday was 109 degrees. One station had the heat index of 117. Today isn’t supposed to be much better, and is supposed to break a record of 104 set in 1936. The next 4 days are supposed to be over 100.

I’ve been refreshing the water in the bird bath 3 times during the day. There’s always a bunch of little birds around the edge.

Supposed to be 108* today.

70s thanks to all the smoke in the air. It's a trade-off.

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Originally posted by CharlieSW:
Between 107 and 109 here today in middle America.

Actually got to 111.

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Originally posted by Muddflap:

I can relate. Truck yesterday was reading 113 here.

Heading to 111 again today

Had a brief but glorious glimmer of fall last week, with two days of highs in the 70s. I even got to sleep with the windows open at night, with overnight lows in the high 50s and low 60s!

But now back to our regularly scheduled summer programming of 100+ degree days all week long. Calling for a record high today, and a heat index of 118!

Texas hot as others have posted, hot enough for our electrical provider to message us a warning to expect our next bill to be as much as 50% higher than the previous billing……

In the 90s all this week. 98 for Thursday and it's too damn hot to sleep. Worked out in my friends jungle all day today and the mosquitos were on the attack. I sweat the Deep Woods Off spray right off.

Was driving home from my parents house at 10 tonight, and the car temp reading was still 100 outside. Now, that's just crazy.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Was driving home from my parents house at 10 tonight, and the car temp reading was still 100 outside. Now, that's just crazy.

Saw 108 around 5pm
The rain that was forecast for Tuesday has all but evaporated & those low 90s highs are back to triple digits.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

Saw 108 around 5pm
The rain that was forecast for Tuesday has all but evaporated & those low 90s highs are back to triple digits.

Yeah. I'm seriously concerned about wildfires at this point, especially now that all that tropical rain will be going south of us...

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Originally posted by tigereye313:

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

Saw 108 around 5pm
The rain that was forecast for Tuesday has all but evaporated & those low 90s highs are back to triple digits.

Yeah. I'm seriously concerned about wildfires at this point, especially now that all that tropical rain will be going south of us...

Agreed, there was 1 in Livingston last week, 256 acres, quickly contained.

Looks like there's 1 active near Nacogdoches, 500 acres, 35% contained as of 5pm yesterday.

This is uncommon... temps this high, that many days in a row, this late in the summer.

IIRC, the FM show I listed to in the morning said today will be the 24th straight day >100* for Houston, getting close to the 2011 record which was something like 34 days.

We're also >40 days with no rain.

98 deg. air temp . Bone dry .

South Texas may have some relief coming...

https://www.accuweather.com/en...3550#google_vignette

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
The rain that was forecast for Tuesday has all but evaporated & those low 90s highs are back to triple digits.

As of 2:16PM, the Terminal Area Forecast (TAF) for Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) still states VCSH, which is Showers in the Vicinity, pretty much from 4:00AM throughout the morning and from 2:00PM through about 7:00PM. I would translate this as scattered to widely scattered showers around the airport area. Some gusty winds cranking up mid-morning. All times in ZULU time...

KIAH 211916Z 2119/2224 10010G17KT P6SM SCT080 BKN250
FM220100 12010KT P6SM FEW040 SCT060 SCT100
FM220900 09008KT P6SM VCSH FEW025 SCT040 SCT090
FM221500 10014G24KT P6SM VCSH BKN050 BKN100
FM221900 13015G25KT P6SM VCSH SCT050 BKN150

The caveat...a TAF only covers a 5 statute mile radius around the midpoint of the airport. One can still hope...

It is currently 100* in my neck of the woods.