I'm in the Western suburbs of Chicago. It's 98 degrees with 107 heat index right now.

[hedda_foil]

[AKwannabe]

1. KC MO reporting

98 feels like 108


🥵

[BeerBarrelPolka]

2. I'm

I'm in northern Illinois. Heat index is 114F.

Shit, just checked again. Heat index is 140F

[snowybirdie]

3. Grew up

in Chicago. Always a spell of hot, hot weather every summer. Wait til September!

[hedda_foil]

5. Me too.

I remember a few days between 99 and 101 with very high humidity in the 50s, but almost none since then. And no A/C back then. I remember watching My Little Margie on someone's TV around 1952, when I was 7, when it was this hot.

[snowybirdie]

6. Moved to Florida

and its been I the 110s heat index or higher since May! Wish I could spend summer in Chicago these days.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. I'm 20 minutes from downtown. It says it feels like 112 now. nt

[Cadfael]

7. Western 'Burbs as well here

Weather Underground is scaring me

[Iwasthere]

8. We got back from La Paz just over a week ago where it was 102 with 79%

Yes, it was 79% humidity. An index chart doesn't exist that shows that heat feel number. Probably in the mid 140s

[vanlassie]

9. Remember that heat wave that killed lots of elderly Chicagoans

back in 1995? It was shocking, at the time. (I remember the day because I flew home to California that morning, and it was very hot when we stepped out of the hotel.) Edited to add date and number of deaths: 739 over 5 days.)

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. I'll never forget that one. It was the year the triplets' parents got married in August.

Fortunately, that day was cloudy and cooler, and then there was rain. That was better than the heat.

https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/general/1995chicago.htm

[former9thward]

16. At the time I had a job which required me to view the autopsies of industrial accident victims.

I arrived at the Medical Examiner's office at 2121 W. Harrison in Chicago and the parking lot was full of trucks of dead people. Normally the trucks were used for meat storage while transporting to stores. The smell was intense even in the outside air. Bodies everywhere inside.

[vanlassie]

18. Oh my god. It was foreshadowing.

Horrible.

[whathehell]

10. Me too..

I'm definitely staying inside with the AC...My weather app says it will be just as hot tomorrow.

[slightlv]

11. Leavenworth KS here...

99 degrees. Heat Index 114.

The cats are melting all over the house... most taking refuge in my bedroom which I keep cool. Unfortunately, the back of the house with the family room (where hubs and I spend most of our time) does not have AC. When it gets too much, I head for the bedroom with the all the four legged critters (who seem to have more sense than their 2-legged "masters!&quot

I dread the gas and electric bill this month. I just hope my SS check will handle it, and still allow enough for Fancy Feast and a little food for us.

Be careful out there! Just a note... if you have older neighbors, check in on them. My hubby is 72, and absolutely does not feel the heat. He thinks he's just fine. We've had more than a few words as I pull him towards the front of the house where it's cooler. Older people may not feel the heat and its effects as easily as other people might. But like I tell him... it still makes you prey for a stroke or heart attack!

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Not that it makes much difference...

but it just went up to 99 in the near western suburbs. My condo has a full wall of windows facing west, so I will be extremely happy when the sun goes down.

[vanlassie]

15. A fan and a spray bottle of water.

Take it from a desert dweller.
Wet tee shirt and a fan to sleep.

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. I have a fan, should probably haul it out for use tomorrow.

Also AC, but it gets warm in here with the sun shining in. Now that the sun is almost gone, it's getting more comfortable.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[vanlassie]

32. Stay cool!

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. Thanks. You too.

[Angleae]

14. And here in the pacific northwest, it hasn't broken 70 yet today.

I love it here.

[vanlassie]

17. Are you familiar with the wet-bulb condition?

https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3151/too-hot-to-handle-how-climate-change-may-make-some-places-too-hot-to-live/
>>> Raymond noted that people die of heat stress at wet-bulb temperatures much lower than 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). For example, the wet-bulb temperature during the June 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave was closer to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius).

[Model35mech]

19. I grew up in Elgin, never a 100 degree day there between 1951 and 1970

which is when I went into the military.

Spent roughly 5 years in College Station TX, where 100 degree days were nothing newsworthy.

When I got back to northern IL, I about froze during 'good sleeping weather' when in summer the windows stayed open overnight for lows in the mid to high 50's.

[greatauntoftriplets]

31. My father was from Elgin.

Going back to northern Illinois must have been a shock to your system. I love nights like that.

[moonshinegnomie]

20. i moved to austin from madison wisconsin 1 4years ago

the heat index in madtown and chicago (where im from) is higher than austin right now. (but weve had 2 straight months of this crap)
yesterday was the first day in 6 weeks under 100 but today its 104

[elocs]

21. Western WI by the Mississippi now 102 with a heat index of 115.

Hot? Yes. But by tomorrow it will be over with temps from the 80s to 90, 91. Seasonal.
Yes, those cars leaving Chicago after work on a Friday are mostly heading to Wisconsin to escape.

[roamer65]

22. Tomorrow may be the warmest day all year in Michigan.

Tops this summer I have seen it this year is briefly around 90-92 deg F.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Very comfortable in the Detroit area today. Your weather will get here tomorrow.

I'm sure I'll be griping about it, as if that helps.

[mopinko]

24. i'm worthless today.

slept like shit, and had a belly ache all day.
tried to get out and do a bit of gardening late morning, lasted 10 min.
decided to try and catch up on that sleep.

[Luciferous]

25. I'm north of Milwaukee, a couple of miles

from Lake Michigan, and our heat index earlier was 105. It seems like it's cooled off some in the past hour or so.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. A Bit Cooler Farther South

Seems to be peaking in the western suburbs & north.
40 or so miles south of where you are the numbers are 94° & 101.

[Ellipsis]

27. Exactly 100 was we speak, 108 heat index Southwestern Wi

[Sympthsical]

28. We've made it over 103 in NorCal

USA! USA! USA!

Enough to be somewhat meh when walking outside.

So glad I have solar. It's like forty degrees in here.

[NowISeetheLight]

30. Chicago

Chicago. Heat waves equal increased shootings? It seems I’ve seen this trend in the past. Hopefully it won’t be bad.

https://www.businessinsider.com/shootings-in-chicago-tend-to-spike-in-the-summer-heres-why-2018-8

[ananda]

33. 105 here today, 98 right now.

It'll be 105 degree weather for at least another week.

[Delphinus]

35. 8:34 pm

NE Indiana, 85, feels like 99.

Grateful for air conditioning and cooling centers they have set up in the city for the unhoused.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

36. LOL

Where I am, the temperature has been under 100 4 times since 8 July, and the heat index being 105 or higher has been a day ending in Y for all of it.

Our low temperature hasn't been under 75 since 23 June.

98 would be a welcome change for us.