It's summer and it's a bummer.

[Big Frank]

The summer solstice occurred on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 10:42 P.M. EDT. A heat wave with dangerously high temperatures settled over the Great Lakes region beginning Saturday, the first whole day of summer. We had record high temperatures Sunday and Sunday night, and will have record highs again Monday and Monday night. Heat islands can make a heat wave feel more intense. These islands happen in cities with lots of pavement and buildings that hold heat and make the urban areas feel even hotter. Temps have felt/will feel like 100-105+ degrees, here in Genesee county and in the Detroit Tri-County Area.

The air conditioner in my bedroom tripped the breaker so many times over the weekend I couldn't keep track of it. Sometimes it ran for as little as 5 minutes before it happened. All of the outlets in all 3 of my bedrooms, and the upstairs hallway are apparently on the same 15-amp circuit. I had the breaker replaced years ago, but the problem is the inadequate wiring in my 100+ year old house, not the breakers. I had to unplug everything except the air conditioner to get it to work most of the time. No alarm clock, no charging my laptop that's setting on top of a dresser, and no fan to help circulate the air. It seems to blow more air without the fan there now. It's been awhile since I cleaned it, but I don't think it's full of dust or anything. The extension cord on the air conditioner was getting hot. When I unplugged it one time, the prongs were hot like a light bulb when I touched them.

My bedroom has 3 windows, one on the south wall, and 2 on the west wall. The farthest north of the 2 front windows, the right side as I'm looking into the room, is almost in the center of the room, instead of both windows being centered on the wall. That's the window the AC is in since it's in the middle of the room, and my bed is in the middle of the opposite wall with the air by my feet. The right window is actually a few inches left of the middle of the room, and I found out I could plug the A/C in on the south wall without using an extension cord, because the cord is on the left side of the unit. So I eliminated 1 source of trouble by plugging it directly into an outlet instead of using a 3' or so cord. It's working a lot better now, but it's only 78 degrees an hour after sunrise. The actual temperature is supposed to be 96 degrees later, and feel like triple digits. I had to unplug the nightlight in the hallway too, but it's never pitch black in the city as long as the streetlights are on. I can see well enough in the dark to navigate by the trickle of light that passes through, or around the edges of, the shades and drapes.

[alfsauve]

I’m not a heat freak but as long as I have a little breeze and some shade I’m not totally unhappy.  We only had a whole house attic fan in my parents house in middle GA.  No air on the bus, no air at school.  The main reason I don’t grouse about the electric bill now is it keeps my powder dry and my 3D filament pliable, otherwise I’d go without.

[PegLeg45]

Mid 90's with high humidity means triple digit heat index here. Breezy today....so it feels like standing in front of an oven when the door is open.

[Rastus]

86 here now which is the high for the day. 

Alf,,,I love a whole house attic fan.  My doesn't like them but I grew up with one.  I liked having that window open and a breeze at night.

I am on the dividing line for the really high temps.  I hope they stay east of me.

[Big Frank]

It's 11 pm and still 86 degrees, but feels like 88. I was out doing yard work in the 90+ heat today because it needs to be done, extreme heat or not. It will be in the 90s again tomorrow. My A/C worked pretty good until around 11 am when the breaker tripped, and I had to reset it several times. I guess that was when it got really hot out. My carpet upstairs feels as hot as my electric blanket in winter. Not as bad as walking on hot concrete, but too hot to be comfortable.

Yesterday, instead of just deadheading my rose bush, I cut it all down about even with the chain link fence. I guess that's 3' high. I hope I didn't kill it by not waiting until it's hibernating to do all that cutting. It's a tough bunch of bushes, but there are hardly any leaves on what's left of it. The bottom half was in the shade of the top half and had flowers, but not many leaves. It's mostly bare canes standing there. I cut up over half of the stuff and bagged it up. I need to take another bag out and finish it, and do more weeding around it.

[Sponsor]

[Rastus]

7 AM here and it's 74 and falling...

[MikeBjerum]

7 AM here and it's 74 and falling...

At 0600 it was 76 here, and it was on the rise. We are forecast to reach 95 and humid ... again. However, there is a forecast of thunder boomers, and that is the leading edge of cooling down.  I'll take the cooling, but I pray that we don't get nasty with the boomers, like North Dakota and northern Minnesota got hit with.

[Pathfinder]

The problem with Savannah is that things like swamp coolers and whole house fans are completely inadequate. It's tough to be comfortable when it's 90+ AND 90% humidity. I used to be able to tolerate stuff like this - I worked in an southern Illinois cornfield on an archaeological dig one summer, the saving grace was hittng the Thunderbird bar at the end of the day where they had frosted mugs of draft lined up for us as we walked in.

We tell folks down here that my wife does not do hurricanes or alligators, and I don't do hot and humid. So of course where did God move us? Savannah! BTW, did I mention the 6 species of venomous snakes here???

[Big Frank]

Come on up to the land of Hiawatha, Pathfnder. We only have one species of venomous snake and they're mostly around Detroit. They swam over from Ontario, and most people in Michigan never see one their whole life. Well, maybe if you live around Detroit you could find some. The northern 2/3 of the state is mostly woods, with 3 National Forests of nearly a million acres each, surrounded by State Forests. And no Detroit traffic where half the people in the state live.

It's currently only 88 degrees, but it feels like 93. I cut and bagged the rest of the rose bush trimmings and pulled most of the weeds around the bush. I have another lawn and leaf bag full. I just got a Severe Thunderstorm WARNING on my phone. It's until 6:30. It's a good thing I got a couple things done outside already. The A/C in my bedroom is tripping the breaker every 5 minutes or whatever in the daytime, but works at night so I can sleep.

[alfsauve]

PATH.  I was born in Statesboro, lived through 8th grade in that area. Love Savannah despite  the Heat, humidity, ‘skeeters, and snakes.  Much of my childhood was spent along the Ogeechee River which enter the Atlantic just below Savannah. 

They have some good matches at the 17 South club, btw.