Friggin' Ridulously Hot.....Way Too Soon For " The Dog Days of Summer"

Jeez, this heat wave being experienced on the west coast travelling eastbound is a
absolute killer both figuratively speaking and literally as well. Last week there was
a news report on TV where a lady in Fresno cooks a entire meal on the dashboard
of her car on her driveway.......Yup.

For the past 7 years she has done the same thing and the news station come out and
film this. She takes a frozen roast beef and fresh vegetables and beef broth and places
in a roasting pan in a sealed cooking envelope. She inserts a meat thermometer into
the roast and actually cooks the meat......the roast came out at 168 degrees after 6 hrs
of sitting in the direct sunlight on her car's dashboard.

The 100 degree heat started 6/17 in103's and 105's. Then towards by end of the week
it went to 108 , then 109 over the weekend and this week has been 110, 109, today
106, 109-10 tomorrow and then106-07 the weekend., 103 next Mon and Tuesday will
hopefully be the 1st day under a 100 degrees at 99......Tues. can't get here fast enough.
Ugh......better get ready cuz the heat is heading your way......hope you enjoy it.


Matt B.

Nope.....just the Industrial Revolution et. al. and pretty much everthing since but certainly not that other thing you mentioned.
The weather on the west coast always heads easternly and amazingly, there's been very few power outages, at least so far.

The last couple of morning it's been mid-upper 80's by 8:30 am and just goes up from there to til 4-5 pm peak temp, least round this neck of the woods.
Just came across this article recently and it involes a horribly sad outcome for a dad and his son celebrating the recent Fathers Day holiday.....this heat kills people.


Father-Son Hikers Found Dead in New Mexico’s Sweltering Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Father-and-son hikers have been found dead in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, where temperatures
have topped 100 degrees during the extraordinary heat wave gripping the western United States, authorities said Wednesday.

The body of Robert Stuart Pluta, 57, of Corpus Christi, Texas, was discovered Monday night, and the body of his son Bobby, 21,
was found Tuesday morning, New Mexico State Police said. The bodies of Robert Stuart Pluta and his son Bobby, were found
dead this week during a choking heat wave. Peter Jones / National Park Service/ The Plutas, both of whom were experienced
hikers, had been on a hiking trip since Wednesday of last week but hadn't been heard from since they checked into their hotel,
NBC station KRIS of Corpus Christi reported. A parkwide search was launched on Monday.

High temperatures in the park have been above 100 degrees for almost a week since last Thursday, and police said Wednesday
that the heat was a likely factor in the mens' deaths. The park confirmed the men's deaths Wednesday.

"It was a father-son bonding trip on Father's Day weekend," the family's pastor, Mark Behrendt of Galilean Lutheran Church in
Corpus Christi, told KRIS. "This was something that they had looked forward to, they'd been trying to plan on and off, and finally, it happened."

The National Weather Service warned on Tuesday that the heat smothering the West this week carried "major potential for heat-related illness
and even death." The temperature at the national park on Wednesday afternoon was 103 degrees, and the park remains under a heat advisory
through at least Thursday night, the weather service said.

Well, for sheer discomfort, hands down.....my daughter in Baton Rouge will testify to that.

Late Wednesday afternoon, officials confirmed the heat-related deaths of two people in Santa Clara County, California.
The victims died Monday in San Jose and were identified only as a 72-year-old man and an 87-year-old woman, said
Marina Hinestrosa, a spokeswoman for the county in Northern California.

The National Weather Service warned that the heat smothering the West this week carried "major potential for heat-related
illness and even death." High temperatures reached 120 degrees in Bullhead City, Arizona; 118 in Glendale, Arizona; 116 in
Phoenix, Tempe and Scottsdale, Arizona; and 111 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.