Record temperatures seen as heat wave plagues 15 states

There's no better time to kick back and throw some shrimp on the barbie, well, that's how we roll down here in Australia

 

That being said, it's been bloody cold here lately 18C/2C the past week or so.

You're lucky D-L.  Southerly storm for the last couple of days (Southern tip of NZ).  Expecting snow to sea level Wed, Thur, Fri.  Saturday I think we got a high of 4 degC.  Wind chill would have taken it well below 0.  Would love your 18 deg C right now 

 

We had a heat index of 37C here yesterday, but July is always the hottest month in Michigan. The real problem is this wretched humidity. Today it rained, and now it's back down to a more reasonable temperature, but the humidity is to the sky.

Way. Too. Hot. I want to move someplace cold.

CANADA!!

it's 30C right now. on average it reaches 35C here by august. that's probably about 90F to 100F in the united states system.

Its been really hot here in the west side of Pennsylvania its been getting to about 34C, can't wait till winter!

I love how everyone is using celsius. makes it easy for me to understand.

Despite its lack of use in the US I choose to use it due to its ease of use, and the fact that its more standard in the rest of the world. I also type using Colemak layout because its more efficient, I'm a man that prefers the most efficient methods of accomplishing something.

It was a mere 46C in the shade last week.

Uwah, forget the barbie, just throw some shrimp.

I love the north American heat index.

 

Every year, Toronto gets heat indexes topping 40 degrees centigrade with base, 'real' temerpatures reaching about 33 to 34. It is hot, but nothing nothing nothing like real 40 degrees at all.

 

In fact, when I arrived in Toronto on the hottest day of the year (34 and heat index of 40) in 2005, I was relieved that it was soo much cooler than Tokyo was at 29 degrees. For the first few hours, I was in paradise. Then, I adapted. That sucked.

 

Now, Kyoto gets actual 39 and 40 degrees at least once per year and those temperatures come with real humidity. If North Americans did the heat index here, they'd get tempertures in excess of 55 degrees.

 

Hot is hot, but heat index just feeds guilty egos.
 

 

Cool, so you guys do really say that