[wolfcreek]

For the whiners up North.

[wolfcreek]

We’re hot and We know it Ping!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Meanwhile, this am, it was in the high 40s here in Iowa. The farmers are sweating the crops becoming mature before the frost. I think we’re 15 degrees below normal.

[trumandogz]

Back in college I could live rather cheap in Austin without AC.

[max americana]

Now the liberals in Austin can finally bitch about global warming.

[Grumpybutt]

We’ve sure enjoyed the cool mornings the past few days. Enough so that I’ve shut off the a/c and opened the windows for a while - up until it reaches about 80 outside. I may start shutting down and opening up at sundown here soon since I’ve almost accustomed myself to sleeping at 80 degrees anyway to save on the electricity - the nights seem to be getting much cooler.

[Paleo Conservative]

But the Austinites’ brains were fried years ago.

[erman]

Just rode the Hotter-N-Hell 100 in Wichita Falls Texas... It was 64 degrees at the start and was only 90 when I finished. That's a whole lot better than 3 years ago when it was 108 by 11 a.m.

Temps vary.. I guess more CO2 emissions in holistic Austin than oil drilling Wichita Falls.

gee, go figure.

[R. Scott]

And we’ve had the coolest summers in years for two years in a row.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In winter, western cities that are surrounded by mountains sometimes get an inversion layer of smog, of warm, dirty air that cannot rise through a layer of cold air above it.

A Russian industrial city had a dangerously bad version of a winter inversion layer, and came up with a novel solution. Big, black, tethered balloons.

When the sun hit the balloons, the skin of the balloons got hot, and gave off a column of hot air that went straight up from the balloons, and punched holes through the inversion layer like a straw. The trapped warm air below followed it up, taking the pollution with it, and allowing clean, cold air to come in and take its place.

[Mister Muggles]

What a bunch of crybabies...A month ago I pulled into a Costco in Desert Palms, California to get gas. The thermometer under the pump canopy read 126! LOL!

[RolandTignor]

I wonder if they are measuring the temperature right above the concrete.

[Redbob]

News from the Peoples Republic of Austin.

Meanwhile, the rest of Texas has seen a pretty mild summer - cooler than usual, actually.

[Hot Tabasco]

For the whiners up North.

No whining here, I'll gladly take it.

Its 46 at my house right now in S.E. Mich., tying an alltime record low.......

[TADSLOS]

Yep. Temps are moderating now, though. Down into the mid to low 90s this week. The drought is the real killer. As you know, area lakes are between 20-30' below normal pool. We have several neighbors relatively new to Texas who are throwing in the towel and moving out due to the heat.

God Bless Texas!

[babyfreep]

Dallas area has not been as bad this year, I don’t think, even though we’re just a few hours away.