The Minnesota Weather Thread (Minneapolis: bill, electricity, required)

[redfish1]

minnesota has crappy weather.......................thread saved

my work is done here.........redfish out

[golfgal]

Originally Posted by knke0204

Arizona heat is nothing like Minnesota heat. You'd know that had you ever been here.

I also scoff at your 'monsoon' humidity.

I agree heat index at 111 right now with 78% humidity--and it's only 1:30 in the afternoon.

[tvdxer]

The heat (and especially humidity) right now in Minnesota is only a one- or two-week phenomenon. However, many Minnesotans (if it were 20 years ago, I would argue most) do not have air conditioning; that makes it much harder, especially considering that the dewpoints much of the state has been experiencing (in the lower 80's; Montevideo hit 84) are rare anywhere for the States. Even Florida sees dewpoints usually in the middle 70's in the summer. Hopping in an air conditioned car from one air-conditioned, climatized environment to another, as I'm guessing most posters on here from Florida or Arizona do, is not the same as having only fans for cooling, if that. Florida, Texas, and Arizona would be far less populated were it not for widespread, almost universal air conditioning.

[Minnesota Spring]

Looks like things are heating up on the arctic tundra of Minn. I hope my igloo dosen't melt in the 110F heat index!
Kidding. I see the heat index is higher in Minneapolis than KC, and it is brutal in KC.

[northstar22]

This heat is torture. The heat index is 112 degrees right now. There's a chance of storms, so I hope it rains to kill this heat.

[demtion35]

My canoe partner and myself just got back from the BWCAW. On 7-16-11 we canoed and portaged 12 miles in 10 hours in the heat of the day to get back to my truck. The heat, sun and fun were well worth it though, but Id prefer if it was not quite so hot, and the mosquitos were horrid

[RedJacket]

I live in WI and would appreciate it if you residents on the eastern border of MN would build a 35,000 foot high wall right on the WI-MN border.

Building it out of ice would be a plus.

[Minnesota Spring]

Originally Posted by RedJacket

I live in WI and would appreciate it if you residents on the eastern border of MN would build a 35,000 foot high wall right on the WI-MN border.

Building it out of ice would be a plus.

Yeah, not sure an ice wall would last very long, considering its only supposed to get down to 80 tonight. It would be gone by morning.

[M74]

From knke0204 "Arizona heat is nothing like Minnesota heat. You'd know that had you ever been here."

"I also scoff at your 'monsoon' humidity."

Sorry champ been there a few times during your "summer" months and they can't hold a candle to the summers in Phoenix. Remember too, you guys cool down at night, we will still be at 100 plus around midnight. All this while we have no sign of rain. I challenge you to find a U.S. metropolitan area that's hotter. I, dear friend, scoff at your heat index.

I'm sure you'll chime in with the heat index and tell me "the temp is this but it feels like this." Well fine, but our temps ARE what they feel. 118 degrees. That's Africa hot. Just two weeks ago a friend of my wife, who has a farm in Queen Creek, a suburb of Phoenix, sent my wife a picture of their temp gage. 121 degrees. At that point who gives a crap about what the temp "feels like".

I say this in jest as I know how these threads can quickly turn ugly and that's no fun for anyone. I just had to comment again, as you claiming the summer mantel would be like me claiming the winter mantel because we got to freezing A FEW times last winter. Come on now.

[RedJacket]

Originally Posted by Minnesota Spring

Yeah, not sure an ice wall would last very long, considering its only supposed to get down to 80 tonight. It would be gone by morning.

Then like a good neighbor, rebuild it.