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Joe Diver
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Initially Posted - 08/11/2011 : 07:29:40

Free to anyone who wants to take it away: The Heat Wave of 2011.

I'll even pay for shipping.

Just come get it and haul it off. C'mon, who wouldn't want a free high pressure system? You can have this one.

Please.

Scott

When we left, we had just enough fuel to make it to San Juan. And now... we are out of fuel!

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 08/11/2011 : 07:57:37

I'll keep mine... 76 and sunny right now (11 am).

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 08/11/2011 : 10:21:45

Dave,

The weather has been brutal down here in Virginia with temps some days flirting with 100F and high humidity. But today it was around 90F with lower humidity and temps are to start cooling off into the 80s for the next few days. So...we will send cooler weather to you very soon !

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Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 08/11/2011 : 10:54:36

I want a piece of summer 2011 here please istead of cold and rainy here :(

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 08/11/2011 : 15:28:17

Shucks Tomas, you can have it all! We just had our 35th day of 100+...No rain, exceptional drought, lawns dead because of watering restrictions.
We're heading for the mountains of California next week.

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 08/11/2011 : 17:55:43

When we lived in Plano (25 years ago) we had to water our foundation or the ground would shift and cause our foundation to crack. How do the water restrictions affect that kind of stuff?

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 08/11/2011 : 21:38:54

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by RhythmDoctor
 When we lived in Plano (25 years ago)...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I spent way too much time in Plano (four clients there)... I just don't get it. Free land or something?

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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 08/11/2011 : 23:46:05

Well, someone came and got a little of it!

Only hit 97 today, so our streak of 100+ days comes to an end at 40. The great "unbreakable" record of 1980, 42 days, stands.

As the rain went by, the gust front from the storms actually cooled it down to 83 at my house. 83 at 2:00 in the afternoon! Wow...it was so nice.....

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OJ
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Response Posted - 08/12/2011 : 04:20:24

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by OLarryR
 Dave,

The weather has been brutal down here in Virginia with temps some days flirting with 100F and high humidity. But today it was around 90F with lower humidity and temps are to start cooling off into the 80s for the next few days. So...we will send cooler weather to you very soon !
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Ahh Virginia, early springs, later falls. Usually has mild winters - but man, can it get uncomfortable in the summer!

Tucson in the winter and the mountains of southern Colorado in the summer - and no lawns to mow!

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 08/12/2011 : 04:42:25

Last year we vacationed in southern Colarado and thoroughly enjoyed the climate and scenery. We visited in following order: Ouray, Durango, Mesa Verde Natl Park and Telluride. But as I understand it, things were not all that rosy in southern Colorado. The reason the Pueblo Indian cave dwellings are still intact at Mesa Verde is because the indians just got up and left for greener pastures. I guess they had one too many droughts to contend with back in those day.

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glivs
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Response Posted - 08/12/2011 : 19:23:27

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> The great "unbreakable" record of 1980, 42 days, stands. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

1980...I remember graduating (TAMU), landing my first job (Clear Lake) after countless rejections, buying a house (Galveston)and celebrating the birth of my daughter. Funny though, I don't remember the heat wave at all.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 08/13/2011 : 08:56:38

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by glivs
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> The great "unbreakable" record of 1980, 42 days, stands. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

1980...I remember graduating (TAMU), landing my first job (Clear Lake) after countless rejections, buying a house (Galveston)and celebrating the birth of my daughter. Funny though, I don't remember the heat wave at all.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Houston NWS Office as of this morning...

IAH HAS NOW GONE 12 CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH THE TEMPERATURE REACHING OR
EXCEEDING 100 DEGREES. THE CURRENT STREAK NOW RANKS AS THE 2ND LONGEST
IN CITY HISTORY.

14 DAYS 7/19/1980
12 DAYS 8/12/2011
11 DAYS 8/05/1998
9 DAYS 7/03/1980
8 DAYS 9/05/2000
8 DAYS 8/21/1993
8 DAYS 8/14/1962

IN 2011...THERE HAVE BEEN 23 DAYS SO FAR WITH TEMPERATURES REACHING
OR EXCEEDING 100 DEGREES AT IAH. THIS IS JUST ONE DAY SHY OF SECOND
PLACE IN CITY OF HOUSTON WEATHER HISTORY. THE TOP 5 YEARS WITH 100
DEGREE DAYS ARE...

32 DAYS 1980
24 DAYS 1998
23 DAYS 2011
20 DAYS 2000
19 DAYS 1901

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE SO FAR FOR AUGUST 2011 AT IAH IS 90.8 DEGREES.
THE WARMEST AUGUST ON RECORD IS 87.7 DEGREES SET IN 2010.

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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 08/13/2011 : 09:10:23

I should have specified...sorry....my "Great Unbreakable Record of 1980" is for Dallas/Fort Worth.....

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glivs
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Response Posted - 08/13/2011 : 18:42:11

hey guys....I wasn't challenging your statistics...just thinking out loud about the limitations of my selective memory.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 08/13/2011 : 21:15:13

We're now up to 13 consecutive days. If we hit 100 tomorrow (we're supposed to..) we will tie the all time record for Houston. The rest of the week it's supposed to be at or above 100 so we may really stretch out the record this year.

Looks like Joe got some welcome relief today with some early morning thunderstorms.

Edited by - GaryB on 08/13/2011 21:16:00

Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 08/13/2011 : 22:01:01

Oh yeah! It was only in the mid 80's today, cloudy most of the time. The rain came in really early so I slept through it. I went out riding last night and by the time I rolled in at 3:00 the rain was at my back chasing me in. Got a little drizzle and some drops, but felt good in the night air. The great part was the smell! I could smell the rain all night out riding...I love that summer rain smell.

We needed the break, so I'm glad I took this Swap Meet ad out....thanks to whoever came and got the dang heat wave, we needed it.....next week it's right back to the 100+ temps and sun though....but it's mid August so Fall is coming....few more weeks and we should drop down to the 90's.

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OJ
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Response Posted - 08/14/2011 : 12:49:42

Wow, watched the story about the L1011 that crashed at DFW in August 1985 due to wind sheer.

They said it was an usually hot day, 101 degrees . . .

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 08/15/2011 : 10:06:02

And the heat goes on and on and on...

Houston's Records as of this morning:

CLIMATE...
IAH HAS NOW GONE 14 STRAIGHT DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES AT OR ABOVE
100 DEGREES WHICH TIES THE ALL TIME RECORD FOR CONSECUTIVE 100-DEGREE
DAYS SET IN JULY 1980.

AUGUST'S AVERAGE TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE 14TH
IS 90.6 DEGREES WHICH IS 5.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.

IAH IS STILL ON TRACK TO BREAK THE RECORD FOR THE HOTTEST AUGUST EVER - 87.7 DEGREES
SET IN 2010.

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At Ease
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Response Posted - 08/17/2011 : 15:27:22

It's pretty bad when, at 115, you make the WX channel and are hotter than Phoenix and Death Valley.

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