Oy. It is 97 degrees here

[hifiguy]

with a heat index of 113. One thing about Minneapolis - you get the worst of both extreme seasons. 21" of snow in one fell swoop in the winter, often followed by bone-cracking subzero temps and brutally humid heat in the summer. Why the hell did anyone stop here and not continue on to the west coast??? :shrug:

[SCantiGOP]

1. South Carolina

We set an all time heat index record last week. Mt Pleasant, an upscale suburb of Charleston on the way to the barrier islands, recorded a 126.
I live in Columbia in the middle of the state, and we hit 113, but the projected temp at midnight was going to be 85. 90 degrees and 90% humidity make the outside unbearable.
And, the onlt reason I can think they settled there is that they came from places like Norway and found the weather quite pleasant in the winter.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Nasty, isn't it?

I can't remember the last time it was this bad - maybe in the late '80s. There was a bad drought then, and it was very hot, but I don't recall it was this humid. This is just awful.

[hifiguy]

3. Oh yeah, the summer of 1988

I graduated from law school that spring and took the bar in July. Brutally, hellishly hot for weeks and weeks. Walking out of the ice-cold Wilkins center into the heat after the bar exam was like getting hit with a sack of wet sand. And then it just broke and was beautiful the last few weeks of summer.

There were a couple of horrid weeks in 2001, too. That was the year Korey Stringer of the Vikings died from heatstroke. I was moving at that very time. Cranked the air con in the house I was moving into down to 68 as it was over 100 several days running and made sure to sit down and rehydrate when I started getting the spins from moving several tons - literally - of LPs from the old place to the new one.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Taking the bar exam was like getting hit with a sack of wet sand

irrespective of the weather. Took it myself in that same place in 1981. It wasn't as hot but I remember the entire experience as one I'd rather not repeat.

I don't remember what year it was (probably right around 1988), but I nearly got heatstroke at the Oshkosh Airshow.

Now I make a point of not going outside at all when it's really hot.

[rurallib]

4. don't complain - bottle it! You will want it next January.