It was about 2pm when I took this picture. Our outdoor sensor is located under our patio cover on the east side of our house.
What's worse, although there has been some rain in our area we haven't received any here. The grass in my yard is brown and crunchy. At leasst i don't have to mow.
I'm watering some trees hoping to save them. We lost 5 last year due to the heat and lack of rain.



It's 2:42 now and the outside temp is reading 110.3º.

What's the weather like where you live?

_________________
2012 American Standard Precision V - Candy Cola Red
2012 Squier Vintage Modified Jazz V - Surf Green
2011 FCS Custom Classic Special Jazz Bass V - Violin Burst
1996 MIM Stratocaster HSS - Black
1975 Precision Bass - 3 Tone Sunburst

WET WET WET!!!
In the uk we have the wettest summer since record began, floods everywhere
but today it's been sunny
forcast for the next couple of days is dry!! Happy days

Funny you should ask because today is the first that I could smile (80 degrees) in about two weeks. Stay as cool as possible grho50.

_________________
you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

70 here in pgh today and feel great. Rain though but we need it.

Flew into Bangkok last night. It was still 88F at 11:30p.

Ah, I've spent time in Bangkok too. In my experience it wasn't so much the heat as the humidity that was hard work in that town. And the pollution. Though that was in winter: I dread to think what it's like in summer. Has the monsoon started yet?

I was in north-west India through a long summer one time. It regularly climbed to 50C / 122F in the shade in the middle of the day. Yikes! That's the hottest I've ever been and it really was too much.

17C / 63F here in London today. Boring - but sunny, and that's good enough for me!

Cheers - C

_________________

Oklahoma always gets the heat, still a nice place to live. Keep cool buddy.

Several days in the upper 90's and about a dozen or less days in the 100's are not unusal here during our summers. I don't recall how many 100º days we had last summer, but I do remember at one point having over 30 days in a row. Again I don't remember how many, but several of those were as high as 115º.
This summer seems to be starting out as bad or worse than last year. The lack of rain plus the high temps makes it almost unbearable to step outside, much less do any type of activity when you do. Our band discussed this last March when we started booking gigs. We decided not to book any outdoor gigs.
Actually much more of this......and the wind starts kicking up the dust......well I may just start singing Woody Guthrie songs!

_________________
2012 American Standard Precision V - Candy Cola Red
2012 Squier Vintage Modified Jazz V - Surf Green
2011 FCS Custom Classic Special Jazz Bass V - Violin Burst
1996 MIM Stratocaster HSS - Black
1975 Precision Bass - 3 Tone Sunburst

Well, for starters, it's always wet here, and it's very salty. My pineapple house is somehow still holding up, even though it's been there since 1998 or 1999. Never have too many extremes in the weather though, so that's a plus.

_________________
1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

No outdoor gigs? Good idea. I experienced the heat there. Not something you choose. i was stationed in Albuquerque long ago, it wasn't that hot but for a northern boy, it wad sweltering.

Albuquerque???? Been in the Texas panhandle a few times myself. Summers can be pretty hot and dry.

The temps and lack of rain we have experienced last summer and so far this summer is extreme for this area. We're probably cloes to 15" under our average rainfall for this time of year.

We've played lots of outdoor gigs in the past, but the temps were usually in the low 90's. Most of those outdoor gigs were played in the morning or early evening as well.

The big factor is our age. We aren't youngsters anymore. Unloading, setting up, playing the show, tearing down and then loading back up in this heat.......well it's just something we don't care to do anymore.

Hey Buxom,
I live close by a lake, but it's not much relief in this heat. Feels like your jumping into some nice warm water to cool down!

_________________
2012 American Standard Precision V - Candy Cola Red
2012 Squier Vintage Modified Jazz V - Surf Green
2011 FCS Custom Classic Special Jazz Bass V - Violin Burst
1996 MIM Stratocaster HSS - Black
1975 Precision Bass - 3 Tone Sunburst

It's relatively clear skys w/ a low of 68 and a high of 94 expected, it's 78 degrees @ 10:41 AM -- beeeeeutiful day!

_________________
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst." J. Edgar Hoover

Here in Houston Texas it's only supposed to get up to 92 today with the humidity pretty low at 57%. It's a really nice day here!

Wait 3 weeks though.

_________________
Gary

Summer temperatures are all over the place here:

20 degrees C (68 F) by day to -90 degrees C (-130 F) by night. This really wreaks havoc on guitars!

_________________
You dig?

Its fierce mild in Norn Iron. 17C roughly.

_________________
Rated "M" for meaty.