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Doctor Q

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The city of Lancaster, California set an all-time record of 115 degrees, breaking the previous record by 5 degrees.

A guy named Jon Rice from heatrunning.com tried to set a record by running a mile in Death Valley wearing a Darth Vader costume. It's an annual event and here's the 2011 video...

He runs on the painted highway line. Otherwise his shoes could melt on the asphalt!

The 2013 Darth Valley video is out. Still waiting to see if it's declared an official record.

 

Lioness~

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It's heating up early here this year.
Full blown summer in early May and 24/25C° - 75/78F° - not so common.
 

bousozoku

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I visited Death Valley in April and it was 73 degrees F.

During the first few weeks I was back in California, this town was 112 degrees F for 10 days straight. I'm surprised we still had power from all the air conditioning demand. With the humidity, Orlando, Florida still feels hotter.
 
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maflynn

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It's heating up early here this year.
Full blown summer in early May and 24/25C° - 75/78F° - not so common.
I think we've seen only 4 days in the 60s here in boston. Its been the coldest spring that I can remember
 
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JustAnExpat

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Yep. High tomorrow where I live is 41c. Low's going to be only 27 :( Summer can't leave soon enough.
 

bousozoku

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Yep. High tomorrow where I live is 41c. Low's going to be only 27 :( Summer can't leave soon enough.
That's typical of a summer day here. I'm always happy when it's here, although I miss when it felt like 50 degrees C in Orlando, FL with the 99 % humidity most of the day.
 
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AlaskaMoose

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57º F (13.88889 C) in fairbanks, Alaska. Still have some snow on the North-facing backyard next to the house. Then it cools at night down to the low 40s. Last week it made it to the low 30's at night., and it has been very dry recently, other than light snow a couple of days ago.
 

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57º F (13.88889 C) in fairbanks, Alaska. Still have some snow on the North-facing backyard next to the house. Then it cools at night down to the low 40s. Last week it made it to the low 30's at night., and it has been very dry recently, other than light snow a couple of days ago.
Don't worry. California, near Reno, Nevada, had chain controls on I-80 because of the snow there on Saturday.
 
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AlaskaMoose

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Don't worry. California, near Reno, Nevada, had chain controls on I-80 because of the snow there on Saturday.
Most of the snow on my backyard has melted since the temperatures have been in the mid to high 50s F, although it cools during the night. This morning my wife woke me and asked me to look out the window, which I did...and realized that I woke up to a snow blizzard. The temperature is in the low 40s, so the snow will probably melt in a day or two. While it accumulates on the yards around the house, it just melts on the roads.
 
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rm5

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I'm in WI, where it's been in the 60s and 70s, but I'll return home to the Southwest in June, where we will undoubtedly experience 100+ temperatures. It got all the way up to 107 last summer.
 

bousozoku

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After the chilly weekend, the heat in the store worked for the first time in a long time. It was about 95 degrees F in the store, and about 74 degrees F outside. It should be about 80 degrees F today, but we will get to 110 at some point. There seems to be a huge drop every week, though.
 

maflynn

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This has been the coldest spring I've ever experienced. For the first time ever, for the middle of May, I needed to turn the heat on in the house. It was 45 degrees this morning, we should be seeing upper 60s on average except that the 60 temps are the exception not the norm :(

It impacts my running, as I really enjoy running in shorts and t-shirts. I'm about to head out for a run this morning, and instead of shorts/t-shirts, I need to be running in cool running gear
 
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Apple fanboy

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This has been the coldest spring I've ever experienced. For the first time ever, for the middle of May, I needed to turn the heat on in the house. It was 45 degrees this morning, we should be seeing upper 60s on average except that the 60 temps are the exception not the norm :(

It impacts my running, as I really enjoy running in shorts and t-shirts. I'm about to head out for a run this morning, and instead of shorts/t-shirts, I need to be running in cool running gear
Opposite here. Very warm this week. Feels more like summer. But our seasons have been messed up for a while. We all know why!
 
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Lioness~

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Almost 30°C / 80/90°F here, so I bought a new fan.

Definitely helpful, very quiet yet strong with many levels. Not difficult to move either.
 
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