The sweltering South: 32 million people
are under health warnings as temperatures
soar to 114f and some cities are set to
break June records but thousands are STILL
without electricity after storms
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Christian Oliver
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/21/2023 8:30:18 AM
A blistering, intense heatwave is pounding the South, offering states little relief as thousands are still without power after devastating storms.
Temperatures have soared to record levels, keeping large swaths of southern U.S. in triple-digit temperatures and hitting a sweltering 114F (46 degrees Celsius) in some areas.
On the final day of spring on Tuesday, the heat was already closer to the middle of summer in much of the Southern tier, forcing a warning to some 32 million in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico. The National Weather Service also issued a warning over the 'dangerous conditions'.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NamVet70 6/21/2023 8:33:15 AM (No. 1496526)
Are they blaming the weather on global warming yet? It does this every year.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
southernboy 6/21/2023 8:38:44 AM (No. 1496535)
It's called "Summer!" Happens every year!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 6/21/2023 8:40:08 AM (No. 1496538)
I'm in Forr Worth, TX, and I've lived through this before - more summers than not in my 56 years. That said, It was 104° on my drive home yesterday, with a heat index of 115, and I passed a crime scene photographer taking pictures of a deceased homeless man in an alley off the road. I'm pretty sure he succumbed to the heat.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/21/2023 8:42:01 AM (No. 1496542)
Temperatures in the Middle East can reach 140F every day and nobody is dropping over dead, whether dressed in a burka of in full Kevlar body armor.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/21/2023 9:08:32 AM (No. 1496579)
Well, here in South Carolina, which is usually in the high 90’s with heat indexes over 100 every day by now, we haven’t even cracked 90 so far this year. In 2019, the temps were over 100 degrees every single day in May. It’s called “weather”.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zuker5 6/21/2023 9:13:24 AM (No. 1496584)
Here in central North Carolina it’s not even going to reach 70 degrees today. In late June. The problem with narratives is they always leave out the inconvenient part of the story.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/21/2023 9:28:46 AM (No. 1496599)
I hate heat indexes. It's a made up number used by those who want to sell you a solar panel. I noted on morning weather the guy had the heat index up instead of the real temperature. This is summer. It will be hot. Simple as that.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/21/2023 10:13:40 AM (No. 1496643)
I appreciate that some folks are having issues but these are Brits reporting. They don't even have AC in most of the country and if their temps get into the 90's people start dropping over dead.
Here in Upper Middle TN it is as my husband says "oppressively pleasant" with temps maybe getting to 80 today and blue skies. No complaints here. Humidity is up just because we have off and on rain in the forecast for the rest of the week (and it rained cats and dogs yesterday) but that is probably keeping our temps down. We have normally had whole weeks of 90's by now.
I'll take this weather for the first day of Summer!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/21/2023 10:22:06 AM (No. 1496650)
Here in Virginia - just outside Northern Virginia - we actually had a real Spring for the first time in years. Days in the 70s and nights in the 50-60s with LOW humidity.
BTW - when all those elderly French men and women died of heat because of that hot summer a few years back and their families and/or neighbors couldn't be bothered to check on them - I don't recall anyone blaming "climate change/global warming" or whatever.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/21/2023 10:50:08 AM (No. 1496673)
Same as other posters noted, here in North Georgia, we have had a cool, rainy Spring. Very pleasant. We might have had one day near ninety but that was it. Lows 50-60, highs 70s to mid 80s.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 6/21/2023 11:16:32 AM (No. 1496695)
what #8 says..
Brits..
have NO idea what OUR South is about..
they're still complaining about losing that war..
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 6/21/2023 11:37:08 AM (No. 1496712)
So… hot weather in June in the South is news? Lol
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 6/21/2023 11:44:48 AM (No. 1496719)
Gee, it was never hot in the south before.
/s off
Grow up. It's weather, and it happens. The weather varies, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with human activities.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/21/2023 12:11:03 PM (No. 1496743)
They were turning the electricity off in parts of Houston yesterday. Green energy is no energy when it gets hot, or cold.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/21/2023 12:18:26 PM (No. 1496751)
Texas summer survival. If it's over 105 stay in.
If you must go out, swimsuit, t-shirt, and move slow.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 6/21/2023 2:26:54 PM (No. 1496833)
From a British paper in a country that even in the dead of summer never reaches 80 degrees on the hottest of days. I guess temps of 100 plus seem downright impossible to imagine. It's no wonder they think it's the result of global warming/climate change.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/21/2023 3:31:43 PM (No. 1496881)
While our pre-summer sweltering temps came on us this week in East Texas, we've had a very rare, rather lengthy Spring. Our "normal" Spring lasts only a week or two in late March or early April but this year we had moderate daytime temps and cool nights throughout May and into early June. For the first time in memory, I wore a light jacket the evening of Memorial Day.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 6/21/2023 4:04:59 PM (No. 1496914)
It's 66° and windy and rainy on the Eastern Shore of VA. Yesterday 3" rain. Been raining all day. Rain through Sunday. Hello Summer.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 6/21/2023 5:41:29 PM (No. 1496970)
Here in the NV desert, we haven’t hit 100 degrees for over 250 days and that is rare. I’m happy to get through the longest day of the year at only 95 degrees.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
homefry 6/22/2023 7:41:57 AM (No. 1497271)
Here in the Piedmont of NC, we are having what the old timers used to call blackberry winter. People are actually turning on a splash of heat in the mornings.
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