7 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

Just a note to those who are experiencing higher than normal temps, it might be good idea to have your AC serviced.  Nothing like losing your AC in a record breaking heatwave.  Went to my daughters farm last night for her birthday and for one of her gifts, I bought her a commercial very large pedestal fan for her horse barn.  She has box fans above every stall but nothing for the center isle.  I cleaned up the downed tree in my side yard and will now not venture out unless absolutely necessary.😂

Keep an extra capacitor on hand, they are like $6 and repair man usually charges $300-$2000 to change them out 😂 

 

just make sure you discharge them by touching both terminals with something plastic handled, they can bite a little 

I was on the beach yesterday.  good thing my wife and I brought hoodies.  got downright brisk!!  about 50deg.  it was blissful. 

 

4 hours ago, TOXIC said:

it might be good idea to have your AC serviced

 

I get mine serviced every spring.  Same with the furnace in the fall.  Preventative maintenance is a lot cheaper than servicing repairs or replacement.

 

Another item I'd like to add here with AC units.  If you have cottonseed trees in the neighborhood, make sure you clean the outside of the unit every once in a while.  That stuff clogs the air flow and makes your unit work harder.  Just make sure you use a low-pressure water nozzle.  High pressure can damage the unit.

I fished a tournament this past weekend and it brutal. It was about 95 degrees and over 100 on the boat. I brought ice packs and cooling towels. I also kept my self soaked in water all day.  Most important thing was keeping my body covered in as much light weight moisture wicking clothes which meant pants and hooded fishing shirt.  My fishing buddy thought I was crazy. He wore a cotton t-shirt,  shorts and no sunscreen.  He was done fishing by 10am and was absolutely spent. He was lucky he didn't get heat stroke.  I was fine all day but definitely hot.

Right now where I live in NJ with the heat index it is 103. The heat and sun do not like me.

Same here in NJ for me Ike, cut the lawn earlier this morning, after I was done went to take a shower and could barely get my t-shirt off, it was pretty much fused to me 

I don't feel too bad, neighbor is having his roof done, their doing a total rip off, guys have been working on it all day !

It's summer,  It's hot.

 

Surprise, surprise.  

 

It was hot last summer.  It will be hot next summer.

 

78 of them for me.

 

Tomorrow, the 24th of June, some parts of Maine will be hotter than where I live in TX

On 6/22/2025 at 11:28 AM, Darth-Baiter said:

I was on the beach yesterday.  good thing my wife and I brought hoodies.  got downright brisk!!  about 50deg.  it was blissful. 

 

Wow, 50°.   It must be all that extra ice out there.

Meh. This is a normal summer for us down here in Florida.

This was last week. 

 

A front slid through today here, offering stunning relief. It feels amazing out. Far less humidity and much lower air temps.

 

I could go without any more days like that the rest of summer. I would literally never go outside in conditions like that.

4 minutes ago, gim said:

A front slid through today here, offering stunning relief. It feels amazing out. Far less humidity and much lower air temps.

Just in time for me to do another morning of shore fishing tomorrow.

 

Last time I was out there, one guy got his limit of eating-size walleye there....maybe I'll luck out as well.

6 minutes ago, gim said:

I would literally never go outside in conditions like that.

Did all my yard work between 5am-8am today. It was high 80s already by then. Tomorrow is calling for a high of 101° and a “feels like” of 112°. 

2 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

Did all my yard work between 5am-8am today. It was high 80s already by then. Tomorrow is calling for a high of 101° and a “feels like” of 112°. 

Intolerable. Uninhabitable. Miserable. Unbearable.

 

You get the point.

 

When I would let me dog out to pee, she came back to the door panting. Literally under 2 minutes and she is already too warm.

9 minutes ago, gim said:

Intolerable. Uninhabitable. Miserable. Unbearable.

Last Thursday hooked the 5th wheel to the DMAX, and then the Lund behind the camper...and headed to Central Nebraska to camp. Huge thundercell missed us Thursday night...Friday was triple digits...camper's AC worked hard to get us to 80 degrees inside(!) Wind blew hard all weekend.

 

Caught a couple of nice walleye, and spent good time meeting my daughter's fiance's parents (they have a permanent campsite for their bumper-pull). Great people! 

 

Driving home was an adventure...headed east...and south winds 20-25 MPH with gusts to 35 MPH. Truck pulled just fine for the three hour drive home. 

 

Was cool and rainy today...and will be most of the week. 

 

Stay safe out there people!

Spent early morning couple of days ago cleaning up storm debris out at 8am done by 10.  It was miserably hot and worse yet, humid.  I went through a gallon of water.  The plus to be under all of the trees is that the house is shaded most of the day and that helps the AC units.  We have one for the main house and one for the addition.  So far they are working well with the thermostats set at 75.  I have no plans to venture out unless absolutely necessary.  😜 

My neighbors are also getting a new roof. Meanwhile my dogs are inside chilling in the AC, hopefully behaving . They usually roam the backyard and sleep on the porch in front of a fan. Little too hot today , once again the dogs have it better than us humans 😂 

5 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Little too hot today , once again the dogs have it better than us humans

 

Honestly, to leave a dog out in this for more than a short period of time is inhumane.  Even a chihuahua from Mexico is going to suffer.

58 minutes ago, gim said:

 

Honestly, to leave a dog out in this for more than a short period of time is inhumane.  Even a chihuahua from Mexico is going to suffer.

My beagle/basset will find the sunniest hottest spot in the yard and lay down in the dirt, his ears cover up eyes like sunglasses. The other two like shade and AC and box fans 

 

he does it inside too