:o Is 120 degree temp dangerous for HUMANS? The way I see it? It looks like the Southwest can look forward to 120+ temps in a few weeks after summer begins!!! :read:

Ten day forcast for Phoenix!!! HOLY MOLY!!!


This is CRAZY!!! Thanks alot, REPUBLICANS! You guys ignored the warnings and now we're all going to pay the price!!! :angry:

Note the DATE and TEMPS??? WOW!


Stay cool.................Andrew

Don't get me started on those white supremacist states like Arizona. Republicans will pay the price but it's a shame, so are the rest of us. :angry:

:good: The REPUBLICANS will PAY THAT PRICE come NOVEMBER......no doubt!

As will "the rest of us" :dripple: :blink: :(

Peace to ya on this Weds.........Andrew

It has been in the mid 90's this week in Central Illinois. That is something considering it isn't even June yet and some years we rarely hit 90 at all during the summer. Not this year I guess.

Stay cool Freebird! :D

:D Thanks Erin :D Staying cool will be BIG business this summer........no doubt! ;)

Have a happy on this 1st day of June........Andrew :Y:

I actually saw on the Weather Channel yesterday that temps have been BELOW average in the northeast for the last few months. We did have a very cool spring, although now it's been muggy and in the 80s for over a week, and they're predicting a hot summer. And I feel guilty using my AC after hearing Gore speak last week! My husband and I keep turning off the car if we have to sit for any length of time (like waiting for my mother or something like that). Gore made a major impression on us regarding what more we could do, and we're doing it. My husband right away went out and bought fluorescent lightbulbs and that kind of thing.

Anyway, it's going to be interesting to see how the weather is this summer. I just saw, also on the Weather Channel, that they've revised the hurricane forecast--more major hurricanes. As Gore said, he's got an unfortunate ally in his quest to educate people about the climate crisis--Mother Nature.

:D Firstly, earthmother. Let me say once again how happy I am for you that you could interact with Al Gore in a "live" setting!!! :clap: You lucky U! :rolleyes:

Secondly, we've been pretty lucky here in WV also. I think most of the middle to upper EAST have been blessed with fairly moderate weather this year (except for Boston) and hopefully it will stay that way.

We all need to do what we can but I wouldn't risk your health to make a point. Air conditioning is almost a neccesity and I'll use it so I can get a good nights sleep or to be comfortable on HOT days!!!

Here's hopin that this years storms by-pass your area :good: :good: :good:

Peace and good weather...........Andrew

I live in Chandler which is a suburban town outside of Phoenix. 120 degree temperatures are tolerable as long as you go from one air conditioned setting to another. You can function outside for extended periods, but you must be well hydrated and in good physical condition. Many folks still swim and play golf etc in 100+ temperatures because humidity is usually non-existent.

In the larger context, we basically had no winter as usually the Phoenix area experiences several sub 32 degree nights in the winter months. Didn't have any this year. We were way below average in regard to rainfall for the winter and went over 180 days without measurable rain in the entire Phoenix metropolitan area. The west in general is in a drought which has lasted several years from Seattle to Tucson. One only needs to fly into Las Vegas and look at the very noticable whitish ring around Lake Meade, created by the Hoover Dam, to see where previous water levels had been before the gradual reduction in snow melt began several years ago. The water from this Colorado River system is used to irrigate Arizona, Nevada, and California.

There is no way in my mind that man had nothing to do with this drastic change in our environment.

:( Wow Nicholus :huh: I heard about the drought situation but I didn't realize the extent and distance affected. Geez, that's scary. And, YES in one way or another HOMOSAPIENS are responsible. We can't blame "longterm weather patterns or sun surges" on everything.

NOTE: I gotta say? I can't fathom that kind of heat!!! :blink:

Question: Do ya'all ever get POWER OUTAGES???

Hey............STAY PREPARED!!! Everyone has to nowadays :(


Peace and good weather..............Andrew

I can't live without AC. I can't tolerate high heat and humidity. I feel like crap. I admit to the guilty truth of having our AC on in the house right now. I was talking about being in the car, though. I never sit in the car and just let it idle if I'm going to be there waiting for someone for any length of time, but you have to leave the car on in a situation like that if you want to have the AC on. My husband and I decided we didn't absolutely need the AC those times I was talking about. It just spews out exhaust from the car to leave it running like that.

The inconvenient truth is that most of us like our creature comforts. And for people who live in the South, where the heat is intolerable without AC, no one would expect people to do without. I will never live South of where I am now because of the weather. I can't even take Florida in winter because of the humidity, even though it's not that hot. But then we should do everything we can to compensate for the environmentally-unfriendly things we do. It's like Gore trying to be carbon-neutral. He contributes to a lot of fuel-use and pollution jetting around all over the place the way he does. But he tries to make up for it in other ways. If we all did that, we'd see some improvement.

Yes - I hate closing up the house so I can turn on the AC - I might as well sit in the closet - but down here in KY it is hot and humid - and I'm sorry I moved here. What really makes me worry is the "feedback loop" AC will eventually create. A sort of recursive program in computer jargon, that as global warming heats things up the AC will be turned on sooner and more often causing it's own need by the power needed to run it and the power generation that creates the condition that calls for it.

I put up a close line and hang most of my wash to dry now, turned the AC setting to 80 degrees, I got rid of the water cooler(I can put some water in a 2 quart container in the fridge), changed out my incandescent bulbs to fluorescent, and I pledged to drive 55mph. The only time I use the car AC is when I have to put on nice clothes to go somewhere when it is hot. I hope to do more and change my awareness of any of my uses of energy.

As far as I am concerned - Gore can use all the energy he wants to as long as he fights the good fight. :clap: