At least it's not 116 again.

oh please.

2 days of 93 and no humidity. people go on vacation for this kind of weather. and it's only going to last 2 days.

go sit in the shade in front of a fan.

Seriously, this is the kind of weather Seattleites dream about the other eight months of the year!

The rest of the country wants to swiftly kick your ass, lily-livered Seattlelites. A couple days in the 90s and it's not even humid. You people would last about 30 seconds in, oh, anywhere else in the continental U.S. but here. Grow a pair!

"Oh my god! it's over 70 degrees! We're all going to melt!"
"Pfeh! It's not hot enough for me unless it's triple digits."
"This isn't hot, let me tell you about hot..."
"Seattle can't handle..."
repeat ad nauseum until it starts raining in September and then listen to everyone complain about the drizzle, unless it snows two inches then it's "Snowmageddon! Snowpocalypse!. Snowmygod!"
Then of course come spring everyone will complain it's not spring enough and summer's late...

The weeekend forecast is 83 and 78! With no humidity. "Too damn hot." Are you kidding me?

@5:

Fortunately, after weeks of record drought conditions, the rest of the Continental U.S. is too heat-exhausted to do much of anything, let alone kick our asses.

My Dylos optical particle detector (DC-1100… for some strange reason has been showing better air quality since last night than over the past week (when I received it from Amazon.

This hour it's reporting 250 small particles in .01 cubic foot of air ...which is Fair.

It's been in the Poor range most of the rest of the week (350 - 1000)

Still getting my arms around what it means and what's driving it - but it is good (and also disturbing) that PSCA is using words like "smog". When I approached them a few years ago to question their continually sanguine readings in my area I was summarily dismissed (same as when I questioned the water quality).

Let's hope they've changed The Science in those departments!

It has been 100 degrees for the past two weeks here in the San Fernando Valley (of LA, CA).... Are you guys joking or is that as hot as it gets in Seattle? I am so moving there...

I'm working here for the month of august, up from New Orleans and y'all should COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS that you're down drowning in your own sweat 24/7 for the past 3 months. Chill the fuck out, put on some tanning oil and melt that Seattle Freeze with some Vitamin D. So tired of the complaining.

I of course meant, NOT drowning. Sorry, complaining pisses this southern belle off.

@12 Tired of the complaining? Better leave before the rain starts in November....

@14,

Forget that. The first cloudy day we have after this weekend, the whining will start. No need to wait 'til November.

jeebus people. ("you think that's hot well try the weather in such and such state" blah blah)
things are all relative. >90 degree weather in Seattle is worth noting, plain and simple. like BJC said, that's hot "for Seattle."
i remember when I used to live in California and played competitive sports. when teams from the PNW came down to compete in the summer, i always felt sorry for their pasty-white asses. they just couldn't handle it. and for good reason! their bodies aren't used to it, and to them, going from 76F to 93F just sucked.
to an un-acclimated body, the difference is serious and worth noting. (i relearned this during the midwest heat wave. 94F was "cool" after a week of 105F!!!)
so keep cool Seattle!

I'd rather have 11 months of rain than 2 days of 90 degrees. I moved here to escape this sort of weather.

@17 thank you!!! I'm fucking sick of hearing the transplants bitching about people bitching about the weather. If people don't think it's so bad then take a trip to Dallas today. And please remember to over exert yourselves as well.

Mad dogs and Englishmen...

Well, there is a county wide Burn Ban in both King and Pierce counties due to Smog for the rest of the week ...

One of my high school classmates was complaining about it being 44 C. Mind you, she lives in Dubai now.

What @17 said.

@20, really? That's interesting. Dubai is near Qatar, you know, which, despite what you hear a lot, doesn't rhyme with "tar". We have tar out on our street that spilled off a truck during the repaving of Linden Avenue recently. I saw a Fiat there today. Lindens are trees. I almost climbed one once when I was a kid, but I got scared. Me and my friends Tom and Patrick, or maybe Jeff -- no, it was Patrick, I'm pretty sure -- had just been to the 7-11 and gotten Slurpees. I think I was wearing my red Keds. The sun goes down earlier now than it did then; I have a special program on my iPad that tells me what time it is, though, so I'm not worried about that anymore. I made sure they put in a clock when I helped them design it -- "make sure it has a clock on it somewhere, Steve", I said, and they did. Actually, the Linden trees in Canada grow seven inches taller than in the US. Digital VERSATILE Disk.

@14 - We get plenty of rain down here in South Louisiana, thanks. Not as much as in Seattle, but the winter months do tend to be wet.

I totally get the complaining about the heat. I've lived in South Lousiana for 10 years now, and I still am not used to it being above 90 from May into October. It totally takes its toll.

Having said that, however, I would love a day where the high doesn't get out of the 80s, and I'm totally jealous.

Also, back in the early 90s when Seattle was named "America's Most Livable City," I was in college in Erie, PA, which took great offense at Seattle's honor. The Chamber of Commerce or Bureau of Tourism or something mounted this big media campaign about it. One of the ads that ran constantly on the radio said that, "And Erie has 7 more sunny days a year than Seattle!" Everytime we'd hear it, someone would say something like, "So, what...we have 10 sunny days?"

I want frogs to fall from the sky, be surrounded by spontaneous human combustion, and have airplanes sinking into the tarmac ar Seatac... THEN I will consider it to be "too damn hot!", and not before.

This heat is a refreshing break from the 11 months of rain. Thank you.

Also, *yawn*.

@22, all the right notes. Every one.

@23, southern Louisiana gets almost twice as much rain annually as Seattle. New Orleans, 64 inches; Seattle 37.

Other cities that get more rain than Seattle: New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Little Rock, Memphis, Miami, Nashville, St. Louis, Tulsa, Richmond, Providence, Portland (Maine), Louisville, Columbus, Charlotte....

@23 - I didn't know that! I learned something new today.

I knew we got a lot - in Baton Rouge, we get at least a brief shower almost every day in the summer, and lots of downpours in the winter. I think my perception is skewed a little because we had a drought the past couple of years (though nothing compared to the one in Texas last year or the one in the midwest this year), and the rainfall has been way down. Things have been more normal this year.

@27, what we get a lot of is DAYS of rain, but they're 0.1 inches each. And a lot of cloudy days.

@ 27, Seattle has more cloudy days than just about anywhere in the US, but the "rain" there is seldom harder than a drizzle. (Someone's going to take issue with that, but you know that hard rain is rare there.)

Damn, taking the time to read the comments makes me lose the internet again.

Yeah .... I'm looking at the next four days in the Tri-Cities on my weather app and laughing at your whimpy 83. Or for that matter, the 89 it's predicting for today. Head over here on Saturday for 103. You can borrow my non-air-conditioned car to drive around.

It's called 'acclimitization', folks. If 10 months of your year are spent under cool, cloudy skies, then a few days of 90+ degree weather are actually remarkable. As in, people remark about it.

So, yes, for Seattlites, it's HELLA HOT right now. Because it's very out of the ordinary for here. Not so much for Austin TX.

shrugs

[And Confidential to fnarf: yer killin' me over here! :-D ]

Jeezus kreist! People bitch when it's "only" 65 and also bitch if the thermometer goes above 75. A bunch of weather wimps and whiners.

Just to be clear, I like the sun, not the heat. During the winter, I bitch about the incessant grey, not how cold it is.