3 days 100F+ — what plan to do

[Anonymous]

crockpot cooking

[Anonymous]

Enjoy ice, ice cream, iced water, lemonade, smoothies, iced juice, chilled watermelon and if you can, share some with neighbors and strangers too. If there are any muscles tees, hand fans or hats to spare, give out to homeless.

If you go out, wear light and airy clothing, carry water, use sunscreen, take hats or umbrellas and replenish with electrolytes.

Fill up some water balloons, old water guns and turn on sprinklers for kids to have a good hour of fun.

[Anonymous]

Dew point of 76. That’s the real suck.

[Anonymous]

Where are you seeing 100F? Not showing up on my weather app. Looks like it will be a nice week.

[Anonymous]

It wasn't THAT bad. One kid was at day camp, mostly indoor activities, the other one was at sleepaway camp, I have no idea what they did to avoid the heat.

I biked to/from work on Thursday; mostly stayed inside Friday because I was working from home and had nowhere to be; picked up the kid at sleepaway camp on Saturday, which involved a lot of walking around and carrying stuff (though it was only in the low 90s there) and then went for a run mid-afternoon when we got back.

Obviously, if you've got underlying health conditions that the heat exacerbates or didn't have access to a/c, that'd be a different story, but I was perfectly happy not to have made specific inside plans for the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that bad. The mild June spoiled us. 97 degrees with 97% humidity in DC is just called Summer. We’ve had years when there were months of this.

We have not had MONTHS of heat index of 111 which is what we are expecting stop lying.

Were you around for 2012? It was like this for a month.
2019? It was consistently over 90 degrees from June to October.

Exactly. This nothing new. - Native Washingtonian

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that bad. The mild June spoiled us. 97 degrees with 97% humidity in DC is just called Summer. We’ve had years when there were months of this.

We have not had MONTHS of heat index of 111 which is what we are expecting stop lying.

Were you around for 2012? It was like this for a month.
2019? It was consistently over 90 degrees from June to October.

Exactly. This nothing new. - Native Washingtonian

It's not exactly "nothing new" -- D.C.'s "normal" summer temperatures are higher now than they used to be, and it's "normal" to be at or above 89 degrees for much longer now than it used to be: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/05/washington-dc-new-climate-normals/

Also a native Washingtonian, fwiw. Definitely it's been hot before, of course. (Although it hasn't been over 100 in a while.) But the fact is that it's hotter for more days in the summer now than before, and that trend is only expected to continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Staying in but I'm hoping for rain to break this heat wave up.

+1. Honestly compared to much of the country (and world) we’ve been extremely fortunate this summer.

This. I'm from Texas. Family at home is melting and has been like that every summer for the past few years. I think DC summer is a god send. So tolerable, breezy and relatively cool (when compared to the rest of the country).
In 100, I can easily go for walk/run in the morning, head to pool and then around 3:00P or 4P when it does get hot, we can stay in. It is not 100 all day. Mornings and late afternoons are totally fine. If afternoon heat bothers you, get up early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not that bad. The mild June spoiled us. 97 degrees with 97% humidity in DC is just called Summer. We’ve had years when there were months of this.

We have not had MONTHS of heat index of 111 which is what we are expecting stop lying.

Were you around for 2012? It was like this for a month.
2019? It was consistently over 90 degrees from June to October.

Exactly. This nothing new. - Native Washingtonian

It's not exactly "nothing new" -- D.C.'s "normal" summer temperatures are higher now than they used to be, and it's "normal" to be at or above 89 degrees for much longer now than it used to be: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/05/washington-dc-new-climate-normals/

Also a native Washingtonian, fwiw. Definitely it's been hot before, of course. (Although it hasn't been over 100 in a while.) But the fact is that it's hotter for more days in the summer now than before, and that trend is only expected to continue.

Ehhh. We haven't yet had 100+ degrees days this summer. It's been a pretty mild summer temperature wise. It's the humidity that is high this summer. Last two summers were much drier with fewer humid spells. But summer 2020 was more like this summer, which I remember because it was the covid summer. People have VERY short term memories when it comes to the weather.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Let's not forget people called DC cesspool on the Potomac for hot, humid and unpleasant swamp summer weathers and most people who could afford it fled the city for summer months. Embassies used to bail out for watering holes along the coast or mountains.