EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING

[Dionne]

It would appear we have a new type of warning? It shows up as the color purple on the NWS website. I've been in the deep south since '95 and never seen this warning before. From the wording in the warning it appears that it's about heat indices, not just ambient temperature.

Yesterday it was hot enough to cause my rear view mirror to fall of my work truck.....the windows were open. Beginning in the early afternoon don't think about going outside barefoot.

Right now it's 98.5F ambient. No doubt we'll break 100F today.

[HouTXmetro]

95F 101index 12:53 Houston

[Dave]

Current advisory, watch, & warning usa map. Excessive Heat Warning - Deep purple; Air quality alerts all counties in and around Indianapolis IN.




http://www.nws.noaa.gov/largemap.php

[HouTXmetro]

97F heat index 102 Houston 1:53 PM

[Dionne]

100F 3:53 PM

Index 106

Gardens are suffering. Got the misters on ($2 per thousand)......cisterns dried out several weeks ago.

[HouTXmetro]

100F 3:53 PM

98F 2:53central, looks like you guys have us beat. lol

[Dionne]

Portions of I-55......near Hammond, Louisiana.....Interstate closed....buckling from heat. Just heard it on TWC.

[Shoshana]

So how hot does it have to get? It was 103F officially today and we have a Special Weather Statement

THE HEAT INDEX WILL REACH 100 TO NEAR 110 IN THE AFTERNOONS AND
EARLY EVENING...AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB TO BETWEEN THE UPPER 90S
TO NEAR 105.

How is that not excessive???

[vbhoutex]

So how hot does it have to get? It was 103F officially today and we have a Special Weather Statement

THE HEAT INDEX WILL REACH 100 TO NEAR 110 IN THE AFTERNOONS AND
EARLY EVENING...AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB TO BETWEEN THE UPPER 90S
TO NEAR 105.

How is that not excessive???

Each area has specific criteria for issuing excessive heat advisories/warnings. Here in Houston it starts when the hi reaches 108ºf I believe. It would be different in Austin since your air is "drier" than ours is due to our proximity to the GOM.

[Dionne]

So how hot does it have to get? It was 103F officially today and we have a Special Weather Statement

THE HEAT INDEX WILL REACH 100 TO NEAR 110 IN THE AFTERNOONS AND
EARLY EVENING...AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB TO BETWEEN THE UPPER 90S
TO NEAR 105.

How is that not excessive???

Your in Texas.

[vbhoutex]

So how hot does it have to get? It was 103F officially today and we have a Special Weather Statement

THE HEAT INDEX WILL REACH 100 TO NEAR 110 IN THE AFTERNOONS AND
EARLY EVENING...AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB TO BETWEEN THE UPPER 90S
TO NEAR 105.

How is that not excessive???

Your in Texas.

LOL @ Dionne!!!

[Aslkahuna]

Here we don't consider it excessive heat until you need to use oven mitts to drive, the seatbelt buckle becomes a branding iron and asphalt reaches its liquid state.

Steve

[Ed Mahmoud]

Here we don't consider it excessive heat until you need to use oven mitts to drive, the seatbelt buckle becomes a branding iron and asphalt reaches its liquid state.

Steve

I thought I heard something about Phoenix being way later than usual to reach 100ºF.

But I have little sympathy for people who choose to live in the desert. I spent a Summer in the Northeastern corner of the Chihuahuan desert, but people have to live there to produce the oil and natural gas.

Anyhoo, the scenic, but uncomfortably warm, sand dunes around Monahans at least have camel tourism.

[Ed Mahmoud]

So how hot does it have to get? It was 103F officially today and we have a Special Weather Statement

THE HEAT INDEX WILL REACH 100 TO NEAR 110 IN THE AFTERNOONS AND
EARLY EVENING...AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB TO BETWEEN THE UPPER 90S
TO NEAR 105.

How is that not excessive???

Your in Texas.

We have a Mediterranean climate, cooled in Summer, usually warmed in Winter, by proximity to the Gulf. Not always warmed in Winter, however, as the December 10th snow miracle proves.

[Bunkertor]

Another pic is showing Ed on his way to an Astros game...

[vbhoutex]

Here we don't consider it excessive heat until you need to use oven mitts to drive, the seatbelt buckle becomes a branding iron and asphalt reaches its liquid state.

Steve

Then we have been having some excessive heat!! Almost burned my hands the other day!

[Shoshana]

Yeah, we're in Texas, but here in Austin we don't normally see a lot of 100+F weather - we get usually get 10-12 100+ days over the summer usually in July/August ... not 10-15 days in a row in June....

[Dionne]

I've got 99.4F on the digital. Jackson NWS reporting 98F with an index approaching 106. We should top out around 6 PM.

Blueberries are burning up. We cannot get them picked fast enough.

[Dave]

Further north, here at my house in southeast Indiana - 35 miles west of Cincinnati Oh..

Temp @ 6 pm: 92 F; Index 94 F; Humidity 41%; Dewpoint 65 F; Winds: Calm

High today: 97

We normally see these temps or higher into the 100's in late july or august not june.

[Shoshana]

Temp at the house right now is 107F according to our digital readout..... we tend to run about 3 degrees warmer than AUS

at least it's a dry heat....