Heat Advisory Monday, July 20

Heat Advisory

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
329 AM EDT MON JUL 20 2015

...HOT AND HUMID WEATHER TODAY...

NJZ004-006-103>108-201530-
/O.NEW.KOKX.HT.Y.0002.150720T0729Z-150721T0000Z/
EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN-EASTERN BERGEN-
WESTERN ESSEX-EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-EASTERN UNION-
329 AM EDT MON JUL 20 2015

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HEAT
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* LOCATIONS...EASTERN PASSAIC...HUDSON...BERGEN...ESSEX AND UNION
COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY.

* HAZARDS...HEAT.

* HEAT INDEX VALUES...AROUND 100.

* TIMING...TODAY.

* IMPACTS...PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO HIGH HEAT AND HUMIDITY COULD
RESULT IN HEAT EXHAUSTION OR HEAT STROKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A HEAT ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN THE COMBINATION OF HEAT AND
HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED TO MAKE IT FEEL LIKE IT IS 100 TO
104 DEGREES FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE HOURS.

TO REDUCE RISK DURING OUTDOOR WORK THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS SCHEDULING FREQUENT REST BREAKS
IN SHADED OR AIR CONDITIONED ENVIRONMENTS. ANYONE OVERCOME BY
HEAT SHOULD BE MOVED TO A COOL AND SHADED LOCATION. HEAT STROKE
IS AN EMERGENCY...CALL 9 1 1.

&&

NWS has revised temps upward from yesterday's forecast, triggering a heat advisory for the whole state (except for northern Passaic). FWIW, somewhat less humid today.

Tomorrow will also be hot, then the weather will moderate a bit from Wednesday.

Thank you Max

I'm quite done with this!!

This is why I can't imagine ever moving to Florida...

bluepool said:
This is why I can't imagine ever moving to Florida...

It's different in the south. (I grew up in Texas.) First and foremost, central air conditioning is everywhere. (The south didn't really "rise" until air conditioning technology became available to the masses.) Also there is much more covered parking and other such features that allow you to avoid having to deal with it. When I lived in Houston and worked downtown there, I drove my car from a covered parking area (in a low-rent apartment complex that DID have central air) to a downtown parking garage. Then I took an elevator down to an underground tunnel that connected to my office building. So I literally never had to go out in it if I didn't want to. Also, it may sound worse to have the heat be constant rather than in intermittant heat waves like here, but actually the opposite is true. You get used to it and you just don't do things like yardwork or exercise or whatever in the heat of the day. The lifestyle works around it and it works.

I thought I would die my first summer in Maplewood with very little AC after living all of my life before that in Houston.

That being said, I do avoid traveling back to Texas in the summer when possible and I LOVE our cooler summer days that we have from time to time (like late last week.)

Blech.