Too stinkin’ hot!

[Hulagn1971]

I'm done with this heat. Cut my grass Saturday (commercial walk behind, not a rider), trimmed and cleaned the property. Every piece of clothing was soaked and dripping. Riding one of my bikes is only fun when at speed, sitting in traffic with the engine heat sucks. Cooler temps are coming though. I'm done with summer, it can kick rocks.
EDIT: I also do my best to stay hydrated. I add LMNT to a big bottle of water and it helps.

[Dewesq55]

The party of my deck closest to the house is in the shade in the afternoon, so I sit there at the picnic table unless I have to go to the grill or smoker. It's not unbearable. Of it gets too hot and humid, I'll go on the house and monitor my Fireboard on my phone.

[Michael_in_TX]

Absolutely. I had a meeting run super, super long so I didn't get to HEB until 3:30 pm, when the heat index was 106 F. Walking from my car to the store, I actually felt like I was melting!

[Jerod Broussard]

I don't blame ya. If my bicycle ride was another 1/4 mile the rest of the humanoids could have had the 110 heat index today.

[Lynn Dollar]

When younger, and I had the energy to fish, I would get to the lake at dawn. To take advantage of the early morning bite. And I found that being out on the water all morning, I would slowly become acclimated to the heat. It was very tolerable. In the afternoon, I would drive home with the windows down.

But once that early morning bite was over, the fishing was never very good here in August.

Walking out of an A/C house into high heat is sort've a shock. And sitting inside hearing and reading about how hot it is, and getting warnings to stay hydrated, makes it seem hotter than it is.

[Uncle Bob]

I've never thought of myself as an "iron man", but you guys are making me rethink that. I grill at least twice a week through the summer. Now, the patio is on the east side of the house and some trees shade it during the day, but it's Texas..............of course it's hot. Today I'm setting up the offset to do a cook on Thursday.........any of you fellow Texans are welcome to come bye to help keep the fire going all day.

[Oak Smoke]

I agree, it’s hot, but it’s summer. It could be much worse. If my memory serves me correctly in recent years we’ve been above 110 F this time of year. I grilled steaks Saturday but other than that I’m moving my shop tools and supplies this week. I will admit that the shower feels oh so good after a day out in this stuff though.

[Panhead John]

There’s Texas hot…. and then there’s Houston, Tx. hot. Living here in Texas most all of my life, I’ve become acclimated to it for the most part but, with our combination of heat AND humidity, there’s days where you don’t even wanna walk outside. Just 5 minutes outside and you’re drenched in sweat, doing nothing. You guys with a backyard and shade trees are lucky IMO….😎

[Michael_in_TX]

One of the first assistants I hired was from Alberta, Canada. His first summer down here, he literally did not leave his apartment unless absolutely necessary during that August and September. (That was 2005, so he also got the full Hurricane Rita evacuation experience, too!)

[jayjordan]

Well, there’s hot and then there’s Texas hot. It’s been hot here in DFW but there hasn’t been a long stretch of days when it’s been 100+. It’s past mid-August and I’ll take that. Was telling the wife last night before I turned off the light, “going to be cooler next week, highs just in the low 90’s.”

[Panhead John]

Yeah, this summer really hasn’t been that bad, for the most part.

[dpearce]

Been moving my youngest and her next oldest sister into their campus apartment. After moving clothes (how many bags do you both have???), TV, kitchen stuff and mattress in last night around 7pm (the dresser, bed frame and night stand and my middle daughter's furniture was already there), we met her roommates parents.

I said, "Pleased to meet you. You don't have to shake my hand, I'm all wet"...

They were from Florida, so they weren't surprised with the heat index here yesterday.

I think I lost a couple pounds.

[Spinaker]

Man, I remember those days........always seemed like it was the hottest day of the year.

[Purc]

What no help? Upper classmen would always be available to help move in, aka check out, the freshmen and returning women at both my sons' colleges.

[dpearce]

Purc Thankfully a couple of her guy friends, who live close by, did help me get the mattress up to the apartment and into the room, but the bags, baskets, and such were on me, the wife and two daughters. Did I mention it is a second floor apartment?

[jfmorris]

Texas Larry I find that in the heat of summer, I would rather SMOKE something than GRILL something. With the kettle especially, I can have charcoal lit and dumped in the SNS with minimal time out by a hot grill, then drop some meat in the indirect zone, and monitor it with my Smoke remote thermometer from the comfort of the indoors, or the swimming pool.

When it is 90+ outside, no one wants to stand over a hot grill or griddle flipping burgers. I guess sweat = free salt though?

[TripleB]

In my opinion, it has been a reasonably cool summer here in SoCal so far. Being in the foothills, we're between the temps of the Valley and the Beaches. So we've been around 89-91 degrees so far. But it is supposed to get up into the 100's by the end of the week.

So I've been doing my fair share of grilling

[Murdy]

"Cooking in the cold" ?? You're from Texas; where do you go to do that?

[Texas Larry]

Well, it’s what we call “cold” 😂.

[Huskee]

I turned 45 Sunday, and I too hate the heat, even in Michigan. Anything near 85 and beyond and I have zero interest in starting a fire. This summer has been really hot (for us 90+ is hot cuz it's always humid too), we've been teetering either side of 90 since late June and I'm not loving it. This week is finally an exception. I too prefer the cold.

So no, you're not a wuss, and it's not your age!

[Michael_in_TX]

Our first week of classes is generally the last or second to last week of August. Students can start moving into the dorms the Wednesday prior. We have a tradition in which the faculty and staff help the students move in. I did it for fifteen years, but the heat finally has gotten to me so I have ceded that activity to my younger colleagues.

It was always easy to tell the freshman from the seniors. Freshman bring everything, and sometimes literally the kitchen sink! Seniors show up with just a backpack lol. (I was the same way lol.)

Many years ago one of my deans made the rule that during the summer, no meetings were to be held in conference rooms on the western side of the building in the afternoons. With those floor-to-ceiling windows, it was just too hot. The chilled water HVAC system just couldn't keep up!

[Spinaker]

Yep, glad we have over 10,000 lakes.

[jfmorris]

I bet this time of year those 10,000 lakes include 10 trillion of the world's largest mosquitoes!

[acorgihouse]

Basic summer. Still too hot to grow tomatoes (or basil, or rosemary), they just fry and the tomatoes never set fruit. At least dew points have dropped below 80F, so is tolerable (for a sauna, anyway.) At least we have been getting "good, needed rain."