Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Rush Limbaugh mocks 'feels like' heat index temperatures
The Washington Examiner ^ | 07/21/2011 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 07/21/2011 11:24:36 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged

Here's the headline: "Shock Forecast: NOAA Predicts Heat Index of 116 in Washington Friday." Not temperature. So the arbitrary, "You're gonna feel like it's 116," but let me ask you, how many of you were anywhere where it was 116 in the last few years, months, to know what 116 feels like?

Why not just report the temperature of what it's gonna be? It's gonna be 100 degrees, it's gonna be 103. That happens every summer in Washington. And now it's gonna be 116! It's gonna be deadly hot, unprecedented heat, 116 heat index. More manipulation. You wait. What's predictably to follow here? Global warming stories.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drudge; heatindex; media; rushlimbaugh
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last
To: theruleshavechanged

There have been a few days this summer already whereas I was surprised at how nice of a day it was after hearing trumped up reports of how hot it was going to feel.

Then yesterday I also heard Rush speak of this ‘heat index’ reporting and I have to wonder if there is now a push in the media to make it seem as if we are having unprecedented heat this summer.


21 posted on 07/21/2011 11:45:35 AM PDT by TheBigIf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: theruleshavechanged

i’m waiting for a report of “car temperature” to further evidence global warming.

reporter: the thermometer in my car is at 145 right now, and it’s just going to get hotter..


22 posted on 07/21/2011 11:45:52 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: _Jim

This may come as a shock, but some people need to work outside. How do you think the electricity that powers your computer gets to your wall outlet? Ever think about the people who make sure it gets there?


23 posted on 07/21/2011 11:47:26 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: theruleshavechanged

All in all it has been a mild summer so far. I live in Virginia and, in the end of July, this is the first heat wave we have had this year and it looks like it will last 4 days. We have had a few spot upper 90s days, but this is the first time it has stuck around for more than a day. Last year, there were several 2+ week long stretches like this.


24 posted on 07/21/2011 11:49:29 AM PDT by wolfman23601
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jedidah

I think Mr. Limbaugh’s point is that FEELS like 116 becomes WAS 116 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT in the minds of a distracted public.

He’s just warning people that it is another subtle attempte at propping up an effort to create a worldwide common enemy in ‘global climate change’.

I’m in my home office, where it is 58 degrees fahrehheit outside and pouring down rain. I’m in sweats, with shoes on, the window open for fresh air, and I’ve got a small heater running under my desk to keep my feet warm.

It’s coming down in buckets.


25 posted on 07/21/2011 11:49:59 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: 1rudeboy

I can tell you one thing. 98 degrees is a whole hell of a lot hotter at 48 years old than it was at 28 years old.


26 posted on 07/21/2011 11:50:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: TheBigIf

The problem is that this is somewhat unprecedented: with all the recent flooding in the Midwest...this allowed for the dew points to reach near their all time record highs due to all of the floodwaters. Couple that with a large high pressure with 100° heat...it makes for a deadly combo, especially when this pattern is locked and no real relief is in sight.


27 posted on 07/21/2011 11:52:17 AM PDT by halo66
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: theruleshavechanged
I have worked in the Arabian Peninsula and on the Alaskan North Coast.

Heat Indexes and Wind Chill are real numbers that represent equivalent dry and still temperatures for the same amount of time to have actual damage to your body.

I have been in actual temperatures ranging from 127°F down to -48°F.

I was once in an actual temp of -35°F and enough wind to make it -72°F. I speak from personal experience that the -35°F (wc -72°F) was FAR, FAR worse than the -48°F and no wind.

28 posted on 07/21/2011 11:52:40 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

I can’t even go to the beach anymore. I used to live at the beach when I was a teenager.


29 posted on 07/21/2011 11:53:14 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: 1rudeboy
This may come as a shock, but ...
No!

I plan a little light jogging and a bike ride in a couple hours; thermometer here in Tejas showing 101 deg. F at the moment ..

Geesh!

30 posted on 07/21/2011 11:54:04 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs

EXACTLY! Drudge was reporting 116° in D.C., which is WRONG!


31 posted on 07/21/2011 11:54:15 AM PDT by halo66
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: _Jim

Not everyone has the luxury to stay inside like Rush or other elites. You know, the blue collar guy you pay big bucks to that knows how to fix things.Not to mention poorer farmers that don’t have heated or A/C tractors, or the plant worker dressed up in a slicker suit to fix a chemical leak at the refinery.


32 posted on 07/21/2011 11:54:35 AM PDT by eastforker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs

Where in WA are you?


33 posted on 07/21/2011 11:54:36 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: DManA
I always ask if the wind chill factor got down to absolute zero would all molecular activity stop or just feel like it did.
34 posted on 07/21/2011 11:55:56 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Those who trade land for peace will end up with neither one.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs

I just checked the weather. It is 89 here but the heat index is 105.

I’ve been in real 105 and it did not feel like this. Real 105 was much hotter.


35 posted on 07/21/2011 11:56:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: eastforker
Not everyone has the luxury to stay inside like Rush or other elites.
No!

NOT AGAIN!

I say institute a "Stupid Index"; it would solve a LOT of problems ...

36 posted on 07/21/2011 11:57:56 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: SeaHawkFan

Everett, or as I call it “Neverett”

If my wife didn’t have family here, and if I didn’t love her so much, I would have moved her somewhere sane.


37 posted on 07/21/2011 11:58:02 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: RinaseaofDs

20th straight day above 100, true temp, here.

Stock the fridge. I’m on my way!!


38 posted on 07/21/2011 11:59:11 AM PDT by Jedidah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: theruleshavechanged
I've always hated these goofball made up temperatures.

When it's 95 degrees and very humid, it feels like 95 degrees and humid. When it's 12 degrees and the wind is blowing at 40 mph, it feels like it's 12 degrees and windy.

39 posted on 07/21/2011 11:59:20 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: El Sordo

But wind chill is based on almost no clothing. Add some warmer clothing and it starts losing meaning.


40 posted on 07/21/2011 12:02:17 PM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-100 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson