107F today. Heat index of 112F

At 2:00pm. Set an all-time high for this day in our area.

Too bad noone yet figered a way to run a/c on anthracite.

Oh my! I kinda want to ask....any survivors? I'm pretty sure that that temp woulda killed me!

We saw 94 here. That's about 20 degrees too hot for me.

I'm refinishing a cedar deck! I didn't know I could still take it like that. It's brutal as it is, let alone this heat. You're not supposed to apply the finish "in direct sunlight." WTF I waited until 4:30 and the sun was just going behind the trees. Sweat was pouring off my head onto the bare wood and I was worried it would spot I must have drank a gallon of water, I had a salt shaker in my truck and ate some salt a few times

9:30pm and still 90F. I couldn't get any outside work done until after 8:00pm

It was hot here of course too but we're up on hill so it's a few degrees colder, no urban heat island effect, usually a little bit of breeze and I live in cinder block house that is painted a light color. It stays surprising cool inside. I have this weird situation of deciding whether or not to close the windows when it starts to heat up in the morning.

That's what I usually do. I don't open any windows - otherwise it would get even hotter inside - but I leave the porch door open so the cats can go in & out as they wish. By 2pm the house starts roasting, so I close the door & fire up the A/C. Stays pretty comfortable in here most of the morning.

Yesterday it hit about 90°. Spent most of it under that damn Trooper trying to get the damn splines to line up on the tranny. What a waste of a day. Got hot, sweaty, & covered in grease .... and all I accomplished was to make EVEN MORE work for myself by busting a couple stupid coolant lines ...

Here in WNY, we were around 91.

homecomfort wrote:Too bad noone yet figered a way to run a/c on anthracite.

It could probably be done using the same type of system a gas or kerosene refrigerator uses.

How well it would work and how economical it would be I have no idea.

homecomfort wrote:Too bad noone yet figered a way to run a/c on anthracite.

can you say absorption system ammonia has been used for years for ac or more so chillers we been using ammonia or lithium bromide for decades primary heat is steam but what heats the water to make steam coal ?

Wood'nCoal wrote:It could probably be done using the same type of system a gas or kerosene refrigerator uses.

I don;t know what happened to it but I had this little refrigerator that might hold about a six pack designed to be mounted under the dash of a car. It was probably from the 50's or 60's. Brand new still in the box, you had to splice into the gas line. How is that for safe having a gas line running into the interior of the car?

We hit 98 degrees here yesterday. That was our high for the year (so far). A chilly 84 degrees here right now.

I can't imagine 107 degrees.

I've seen consistent temperatures like that in Arizona and Alabama. Arizona wasn't bad at all because there was 0 humidity but Alabama........... I don't know how they live with it. You'd walk out the door and it was like someone putting this giant weight on your chest.

Yeah been warm up hear too but i cant begin to fig out Alabama if we get to hot we jump in lake or pool or ocean cools you down quick. I have never been to Alabama but i here pools are hot, lake's got big thing with teeth think we are lunch and ocean down rite hot? and might be covered in BP best sunscreen?