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Heat alerts were issued from Boston to Philadelphia as temperatures were expected to soar above 90 in New York City and along the East Coast through week’s end, the National Weather Service said.
Humidity will rise with the readings, according to the agency, and the combination of moist air and high temperatures will make conditions feel even worse. New York’s five boroughs are under a heat advisory until 8 p.m. Sunday.
“There is a big Bermuda high over the ocean and it’s pumping in hot and humid air from the south and southwest,” said Gary Best, a meteorologist with Hometown Forecast Services Inc. in Nashua, New Hampshire. “I really don’t see any records with this, but it will certainly be hot enough.”
High temperatures in the large U.S. cities can affect energy markets as more people turn to air conditioners to keep cool. Natural gas will be used to fuel about 32 percent of power plants this year according to the Energy Information Administration.
From 1999 to 2009, heat killed an average of 658 people per year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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hrmjustin
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Philly gets really hot and humid in the summer. Do we need an alert for this?
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...um, yep.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Seriously, if you can't tell it's hot out you've already got problems.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)It's a privilege.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)What has that to do with what I said?
My whole point was that if you're really old and really poor, you're probably not going to get that alert but you should be able to tell it's really hot.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Especially since Reaganism is the norm in both parties and teabagging is waxing. There's going to be a lot more of this as time goes on.
Demit
(11,238 posts)tsk. If you live in Phila you know why it's good to put out an alert.
I was sort of being facetious.
REP
(21,691 posts)Unusual here, and alerts are needed - while it does get hot, that hot is dangerous, no matter where it is.
Where I'm from routinely gets long spells of 90s with high humidity (and last year, a month of 100+; I'm from the Midwest). Warnings are useful because we kind of get used to the usual awful weather and many forget just how dangerous it can be (not me; it's always made me sick).
If I'm taking you too seriously, my apologies. Still recovering from the heat 
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Yeah, it's a bit warm here in the PC room. 87 outside, 83 inside.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)Seems kinda backwards. Damn its hot!
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)got during the day, you could always sleep in cool weather at night. Hope it's still that way.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)71 degrees. Tomorrow night: 67. ahhhh. Once the sun goes down and we turn the fans on, its perfect.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)Hands down. Damn snow. 
WestStar
(202 posts)Can you imagine the carbon being pumped into the atmosphere from the power required to run all those AC units? Why aren't they all required to have solar panels on their roofs?
Maybe it's offset by all the carbon spewing in the winter to heat those same dwellings.
What an effed up place to inhabit, doesn't look like a suitable place to live to me.
cali
(114,904 posts)is so sustainable.
I love Arizona and think its beautiful (though its politics are pretty wretched) but I'll take the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont any old day of the week, harsh winters and all. I'll never have to worry about water sources.
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)The fact that humans live here in SW Arizona (it hit freaking 116 last week, when it wasn't even July yet) is ridiculous, really. I read an article a couple weeks back listing the places in the US that are most likely to be hosed by GCC, and this hell-hole was listed #1. If this entire region wasn't AC'd (or at least swamp-coolered) people would drop dead like flies every single day from mid-June to Mid-September.
Someone from this area railing about the unsuitability of the 'habitat' of the Eastern Coast for human life has GOT to be high, stupid, and/or joking! We had no business building a metropolis of 4M people in this environment.
Personally, however, I think the effects of Peak Oil will hit this area harder, and sooner, and within 10 years people will be moving away in droves, esp. since right-wingers are mostly in charge here so they'll never spend the money to get a good public transportation system set up before oil starts getting scarce and the cost of it skyrockets. And when oil starts getting scarce, the cost of electricity will also rise accordingly even though we don't burn oil for power here ... oil being in shorter supply globally will raise the cost of all energy sources, and it's already really tough for many people here to pay the SRP bill in the summer ... $350/month is not uncommon, even for a smaller single-story house from July-Sept.
cali
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PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)including me. It usually cools down enough at night so that fans are sufficient.
As for heating, most of us use wood- a renewable resource. Either solely, or in combination with something else. Additionally, our homes are well insulated.
And finally, very few of us have swimming pools. We have lakes and rivers to cool down in during the day. No water issues here.
cali
(114,904 posts)and even less so now that it is the worst aggravating factor for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)
redwitch
(14,944 posts)Miserable.