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America And Britain [Hetalia Mmd] Lyrics

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Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
My mind reels back to those days in the city
When early in the morning take a trip, it's so pretty
I could never understand why it wasn't so grand

I got a hankerin' for a wind wave
I got it through and through
I got a hankerin' for somethin' home made

It's got to be brand new

Early in the morning when the sun comes up
I'm gonna grab a fishin' pole and a sleepin' bag roll
Head out for the land of the dumb but the pretty
I won't stay long but you never know

I got a hankerin' for a wind wave
I got it through and through
I got a hankerin' for somethin' home made
It's got to be brand new

I got a hankerin' for a wind wave
I got it through and through
I got a hankerin' for somethin' home made
It's got to be brand new

Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
My mind reels back to those days in the city
Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
My mind reels back to those days in the city

Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
My mind reels back to those days in the city ...

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to "Wave" by America And Britain [Hetalia Mmd] are about nostalgia and the longing for simpler times. The singer reminisces about the days when they would take early morning trips into the city, but they were never quite sure why it wasn't as grand as they thought it should be. The chorus of the song speaks to the singer's desire for a "wind wave," which seems to be a metaphor for something that is both elusive and refreshing, like a cool breeze on a hot day.

Line by Line Meaning

Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
There are moments when I feel low and disoriented.

My mind reels back to those days in the city
I reminisce about my past experiences in the urban areas.

When early in the morning take a trip, it's so pretty
I recall how beautiful it was to travel early in the morning.

I could never understand why it wasn't so grand
However, I couldn't comprehend why those experiences weren't as great as I thought they would be.

I got a hankerin' for a wind wave
I am yearning for a gust of wind and its sensation.

I got it through and through
I desire it intensely and completely.

I got a hankerin' for somethin' home made
I long for something that is homemade and familiar.

It's got to be brand new
Yet, it should also be innovative and refreshing.

Early in the morning when the sun comes up
I plan to go fishing and camping at daybreak.

I'm gonna grab a fishin' pole and a sleepin' bag roll
So, I'll pack my fishing gear and a sleeping bag.

Head out for the land of the dumb but the pretty
I'll venture towards a remote but scenic area.

I won't stay long but you never know
Although I have no plans for a long visit, anything may happen.

Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
Again, there are times when I feel low and disoriented.

My mind reels back to those days in the city
And my thoughts return to my reminisces of the urban days.

Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
Once again, there are times when I feel low and disoriented.

My mind reels back to those days in the city
And I still remember those urban moments.

Sometimes when I'm down on my luck, feelin' dizzy
Finally, there are moments when I feel low and disoriented, for the last time.

My mind reels back to those days in the city
And yet the thought of urban times still crosses my mind.

Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: DEWEY BUNNELL

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Pugasaurus Rex

4y↑1

Praxus May'Salkiriiss

Ahh you want oppressive deserts to the West?

How about choking humidity towards the East?

The North has snow (what’s that?) I don’t know I’m Texan.

What about an arid wasteland to the South?

theInsaneRodent

4y↑5

@nateman10 Don't try to put all the blame on "California's far left environmentalists". It is widely known in California that forest fires are beneficial and necessary for the Redwood forests. For example, Redwood pinecones only drop their seeds when they get heated and dried by a forest fire, Redwood bark is mostly fireproof, and if a Redwood tree does die (in a fire or otherwise), a circle of new trunks sprouts up in a ring from the root system of the dead trunk (that one is specifically the coastal redwood, I don't think the giant sequoia does that). Redwood trees are able to grow in huge forests in California and basically nowhere else because of the special climate and somewhat common fires.

However, the U.S. federal government owns nearly 60 percent of the forests that cover one-third of California and for the past 100 years federal policy has been to put out forest fires as quickly as possible rather than let nature take its course.

The result is thicker forests that are just waiting to go up in flames.

The Camp Fire began in National Forest Service land so, if anything, blame out-of-touch federal government environmentalists, not California ones.

Additionally, old clear-cut logging operations in some areas changed forest composition from slower-growing fire resistant Redwood monocultures to easy to burn fast-growing pines, oaks, and other trees.
If you have ever seen a full old-growth Redwood forest, you would know that there is nearly no underbrush in them. The fire resistance and incredible height of Redwoods causes them to eventually out-compete every other tree and plant type in large areas, and they leave the forest floor in permanent shade. There is also no way for a fire in that type of area to jump from a slow moving floor fire to a swift crown fire that is propelled at maximum wind speed. The lowest branch on an old Redwood tree is way above the reach of any fire on the forest floor, and as mentioned, Redwood bark is highly fire-resistant, so the fire cannot climb the trunks to get to the actually flammable needles.

All comments from YouTube:

Mr X

4y↑1.2K

When Europeans complain about how the United States uses too much air conditioning, you can be assured they have not traveled far and wide within the States.

Justin Time

@Karin Ross phoenix is the worst. My grandparents lived there. Visited for two weeks and it was 110+ the entire time except for the last 2 days when it rained harder than I had ever seen any rain ever rain and then everything flooded. You can keep that dumpster fire weather. I live in Sacramento. It gets over 110 here too but Phoenix is a whole nother nightmare.

Just a random techpriest

@Karin Ross or south texas

KA 2094

People complain that US have air conditioning? Never heard/seen that.

Magravator

@K Kr I have no doubt. My brother-in-law moved here from North Dakota in the 40's, no AC. They spent their days in the water. I can imagine how hard it would be for a newborn child way back at the turn of the century. Next week it will be 116 and we probably won't be below 100 for the next few months. I hope the AC is fixed by then. 🥵🌡️🔥 I'm melting. Also thanks for sharing your story. I appreciate historical facts from the people who actually know. In fact, I treasure them. Thanks again! 🌵🏜️

K Kr

3y↑1

@Magravator Summer of 1916 a relative of mine was born in Glendale, AZ. The poor baby couldn't breathe until he was put in a basin of cool water.

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Darius Tiapula

4y↑1.1K

Fun fact: America is God elemental weapons testing facility. Australia is the bio-weapon one.

LordNul1

@HBC423 so poison damage testing, to keep up with the theme.

Catherine Fowler

God doesn't need weapons.

kristina greer

@ironwarmonger nah,China is the incubator!!!

Tin Foil Hat News

@HBC423 not sure about that I do know it's dangerous as fuck and it ain't wild life

redneck rebel

@ironwarmonger ohhhh you must have gotten the updated memo i thought they weren't shipping those out till 2021

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Mr MacGuffin

4y↑604

Let us introduce you to a thing that makes it exponentially worse. HUMIDITY

Nottawa

As someone who lives in Southeast Texas, I know it all too well.

Brogie

You think humidity makes it worse until you go to Arizona in the summer

Mr MacGuffin

@K Kr Funny thing, I was born in Minot ND. I had the joy to experience the occasional tripple digit summers while in the winter hitting a legitimate - 40F without counting windchill. I also saw it snow in June on the day we left the state

K Kr

Mr MacGuffin Luckily nowhere (edit, in the US, that is) normally has temps in the 120s and high humidity. That's why the heat index was created, to make Floridians feel better when it is 90--bragging rights! :) What is more fun is what ND had on June 4, 2021 of 106. The Dakotas frequently have summer start in spring and winter start in fall. And in the west on the grassland, very little shade. When a storm knocks down the trees in our town, the people go into depression, knowing what full sun feels like. They planted some very large trees last time, to speed up the shade process.

Steveis The Commissar

3y↑1

Oh god i hate the feeling of walking outside of you nice cool house to get hit by a wave of uncomfortable hot humid air

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Stephen Gallagher

4y↑399

My grandfather in Scotland couldn’t believe the wide range of temperatures between seasons here in the US. He visited New York in the summer when the temperature exceeded 95F/35c for more than a week, and he was also there when winter temperatures remained around 5F/-15c for a week.

Cheshirekat

@D Smith I'm in the Northeast but, vistited friends in Florida often. I joked that the TV networks could save $$ by taping one summer forecast and running it for three months: "90s in the day, 70s at night, chance of thunderstorms."

Esco

4y↑1

@BradyPostma Absolutely. I moved from Birmingham, England to Rapid City and it regularly changes 20-30°C in a day during summer. And don't even get me started on the weather in the beginning of October versus the end. It's like living on the moon.

Boom ByeBye

4y↑2

@D Smith NYC has a ridiculous amount of humidity and heat compared to the rest of the state (which still gets pretty hot) due to our proximity to the water, and how close together everything is here.

Boom ByeBye

4y↑2

@Alan Mac Yup. As a New Yorker its well known in New York that the state drifts between extreme weather conditions lol.

Ghost

4y↑1

@BradyPostma I remember one time when it was 30°F one day, over 90°F the next day, and down to 20°F the day after that. Spring doesn't exist where I live, it just flips back and forth between summer and winter.

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Dys Pater

4y↑162

I remember Neil Gaiman's comment about living in Wisconsin: "I grew up in England, I thought I knew what winter was: water got hard and flakes of snow fell from the sky. Then I moved here and discovered that there whole ACRES of cold beyond that."

Nottawa

yeah that's nothing, here in texas we've had way colder winters, even in the far southern corners of the state.

Douglas Campbell

4y↑7

I lived in Green Bay Wi for many years. I've seen car batteries freeze solid overnight. F and C meet at -40.

ADADEL1

4y↑22

Which explains his chapter in American Gods where Shadow almost freezes to death from walking a few blocks in WI.

2wingo

4y↑246

Fun Fact: THIS is the main reason why British ales have a reputation for being warm and skunky in the US. Unlike lagers, ales are meant to be served at room temperature, but the concept of "room temperature" is a good 10 to 15 degrees warmer in most of the US than in the UK.

Janet Davis

3y↑1

@George Eltzroth I keep my house at 81 in the Summer in VA- only put it lower to cut out the humidity and then bump it back to 81

George Eltzroth

@AdvancedFollower I know I'm 10 months late but: what? According to statistics around 68% of American homes keep the thermostat above 70F in the summer.

inkey2

@Jayme Pittroff yeah, people outside the USA just "don't get it". Often do not have a clue how our various climates determine the culture in various areas

Jayme Pittroff

When I used to work at a senior care facility, I would put the red wine in the refrigerator in the summer along with the white, our kitchen (where our wine was stored) was often 90-100 deg. So "room temperature" was too hot for the wine.

Sandra Lewis

I drink my beer with ice. I learned this lesson the hard way growing up in central Florida before air conditioning was a thing. My dad would stop at the ice house on the way home from work and buy a huge block of ice. He'd chip it into pans that went in front of fans next to our beds so we could sleep. He'd use some of it for his beer. I was in Pennsylvania having a Yeungling one day and it was rather warm because the chiller was on the fritz. So I asked for a glass of ice and poured it in. The looks I got were epic, but the beer was fabulously chill!

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chickenmonger123

4y↑213

Fun fact: Most of The United States is in the same latitude as The Mediterranean, including the northern African countries. Texas gets the same sun intensity as Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt. Ohio is the same as Spain, Greece, and Turkey.

Fun fact: Britain is absolutely fucking tropical for its latitude. It is the same latitude as greater Canada.

K Kr

@WarBacca 101 Thank you for that.

EisGeist Schiller

3y↑1

Ohio is as miserable as Spain. I feel for our Southern friends

Rich

London is about the same latitude as Calgary (140 miles North of the US border). Approximately 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border, so the average Brit lives further north than the average Canadian.

WarBacca 101

3y↑2

Gulf Stream ftw

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IggyTthunders

4y↑200

LITP: Britain topped out at 99 degrees Farenheit.
Arizona: That's adorable!

Jerry Adams

@A Butler in Texas hill country there is a river named the Llano. and there is a public access area about a mile or so long where the river runs on limestone bedrock with fast moving channels that run along the bedrock the whole length of it. in those channels runs some chilly water fast enough to push you along like a water park ride. When the water flows right you can lay in it and be pushed down stream at a (mostly) safe pace for the entire length of the bedrock shelf. now the shallow water in between the channels is warm. so you get to warm up if the water runs make you too cold. in addition there is a little bit of gold in the water way if you know how to get it. it won't make you rich. there isn't that much. but you can get enough to say you have gold from Texas.

Gangari TheWanderer

Are you kidding me? Even the Midwest can top that. 99 Is a normal temp. to hit at least once in the summer.

And I'm pretty sure that's, like, fall in the South. lol

Shinko

I head 99 and just smiled. "Awww so cute!"

Andrea Ellis

3y↑1

Yeah in Australia we'd be happy with that. Regular temps over 45°C which is about 115°F

Lc05

3y↑1

@A Butler I cannot deal with humidity. It feels like I am melting. I am a complete desert rat.

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Liz K

4y↑770

This is why we serve iced water. It’s friggin hot.

kristina greer

and iced tea

Scrambles the Death Dealer

@Macie Dixon Everyone always says that, but when it gets below a certain temperature, I don't want to leave my bed, I just want to hide in my quilt until it gets warmer.

Billy Bodacious

4y↑1

Here in San Antonio last week we had temps between 105 and 107. Literally melted the dashcam in my car and destroyed the micro SD card. Every summer the city has indoor "cooling stations" set up around town. Free bottled water and a chance to sit and cool off in a/c.

Brian Landis

And iced tea.

Nøbody

When I lived in Houston, TX it would get into the high 90's, with 80% or higher humidity, the water that came off the evaporator could fill a 5gallon bucket in a minute, that's why when you'd shower you'd never get dry, you sweat and it never evaporated, hell on Earth.

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Chase Matthew

4y↑223

I feel like British humor is underrated here in the US. It’s so dry and British sarcasm is just on another level, I love it

g0679

@BigCat

I must remind myself repeatedly, to use sarcasm ONLY in the company of close friends.

Izaiah Florés

My favorite sense of humor

bizotically_yours83

4y↑1

I do too.

Donna Tritz

4y↑3

I think that’s true of the Irish also. It is part of the reason I’m a Anglophile even though my mom raised me to hate the English (she was Irish). But my entire family is quite sarcastic. Another reason, of course, is British mysteries.

Danielle Marin

4y↑3

I feel exactly the same.

cmilliVOL

4y↑599

“What on earth degrees fahrenheit” is always accompanied by “what on earth percent humidity”

Kathy L

Humid air tends to not heat up as much as dry air hence why the hottest temperatures are in deserts. But humid air can hold heat for longer.

Walter S. Dempsey

4y↑2

@KarenS_923 Florida summers are only slightly more humid than Michigan summers, yet Florida winters don't even freeze.

XA-JJKILLERs

@USS Gray Ghost there is plenty of life in death valley there are even herd of wild donkeys

Leroy_jenkenz

@cmilliVOL it was 97° and 80% humidity for two days in a row last week...IN WISCONSIN like seriously wtf we're supposed to be freezing not melting

Nihilira

I still prefer that over dry as fck

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Magravator

4y↑343

In Arizona it's illegal to deny someone a drink of water.

Manda Lynn

4y↑1

In Kansas the state mandates free water from convenience stores etc. during heat waves. The rest of the time they cost ~$0.50

ted norberto

TRump will make it legal to deny you anything. Hahahahahhaaha!! Trump from his bunker.

Arianna Whitaker

4y↑1

More or less true in Britain too though, if you have tap water on site it should always be given to anyone that asks

Mr. Balloffur

4y↑2

That's probably the biggest myth in Arizona, nothing's going to happen to you if you don't give someone water, except maybe going to hell. You sure won't get arrested for it.

nomnomnugget

4y↑1

Incorrect, however, we will always give someone water if asked, simply because heat exhaustion is real

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DeKrampus 11111

4y↑50

I remember the Midwestern heatwaves of 1980, 1983 and 1988. My parents wisely set up bedrooms in the basement. We had A/C, but it was prohibitively expensive to run. There was a huge difference between sleeping at 63 F (17C) in the basement and 86 F (30C) in our upper floor bedrooms.

Jocelyn Long

4y↑3

Been there and done that!

brigidtheirish

4y↑132

I always giggle when people in Britain act like they're dying in a heat wave. Okay, 100F is bad, but it's not unusual in the Midwest like it is in Britain.
P.S. LOL at the picture of a single building in a vast wasteland to represent North Dakota.

Hannah Dyson

Our homes are designed to keep the heat in and there is very little air flow. We don't have air con ethier . Over 2000 people died in the last heat wave so I am glad it gave you a giggle

We aren't used to these temps . You are

Sir Rupert

4y↑2

I laughed at everyone complaining of the heat in Rome in a few years ago which I believe was 90 degrees F. In the central valley of California, it is typically 100+ all summer long.

John Peric

4y↑1

So... Basically the Midwest but less..

brigidtheirish

4y↑2

@Pugasaurus Rex See, this is why so many Americans don't know much about the world outside the USA. We don't have to leave the country to experience every extreme the planet has! Want man-eating wetlands? The Bayou has you covered. Want cold man-eating wetlands? Northern Minnesota. Want baking desert? The entire southwest welcomes you, and will never let you leave. Want to see moose and bears wander down main street? Say hi to Alaska. Want the closest thing to paradise on Earth? Hawaii wants to remind you that they don't sacrifice virgins to the volcano gods. Any more.

Pugasaurus Rex

4y↑1

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Susansuth

4y↑38

I lived through the 1988 heat wave in Chicago with no air conditioning. That experience made me determined never to live in any dwelling without air conditioning again.

Dawn Christensen

4y↑3

My son was born June 7th 1988 in Chicago.
I remember it being a hundred six degrees and thank God my health insurance approved to 5-day stay!
We lived in a brownstone, the whole second floor but we had one room air conditioner we put that in the master bedroom and shut all the doors and hunkered down.

shammy dammy

4y↑8

I remember when my dad was stationed in England and we moved there when I was a child. Both of my parents were born and raised in Texas. We arrived in the middle of a 'major heat wave'. My mother was simply confused because, while it was warm, it was definitely not hot to us.

Paul Cochran

4y↑213

"But it's a dry heat !" - Expression never said in Illinois. We always get plenty of humidity along with the heat.

K Kr

@kylem1112 Yes it is a cliché, and every single person reading that already knows it and yet you had to tell them that. It's called the heat index. It and the one for cold, the wind chill factor, are on every weather page and broadcast.

number nine

@Lc05 😂😂 its horrible. That type of heat will pass you off. I'll get ready for work, realize I need to take the dogs outdoors (5-10 min max). I look like I've been rained on my clothes & hair are wet.

Lc05

3y↑1

I've lived in Arizona for decades and have always heard the "BUT it's a dry heat" but didn't truly understand the "but" until I spent a week in the midwest in May. It was in the 70s and 80s with 80%+ humidity. I have never been so damn miserable in my life.m; not even the AC helped. I've been so grateful for the dry heat ever since.

number nine

@A Butler lol I refuse to sleep with the heat running. My skin feels & looks terrible the next morning

A Butler

@number nine I stopped wearing makeup on a regular basis years ago because it just melts off my face by noon. Humidity is brutal. Having lived with it for so long though, I'm used to it, so dry heat feels somehow worse to me, maybe just because I'm not used to it. It makes me feel like no amount of water that I drink or submerge myself in is ever going to help.

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Claire Rodriguez

4y↑143

There's a guy on a Manchester United fan channel that I've seen complain about how hot it is twice and both times it was in the 70s F. I live in NC. That just cracked me up.

Mother of Beagles

3y↑1

The 70s is my perfect day!

K Kr

@Arianna Whitaker The difference is the actual temp and humidity.

Arianna Whitaker

The diffrrence is that homes in Britain are made to retain heat as efficiently as possible and we have no ventiliation, small windows and thick victorian bricks. In America it is so much hotter but you walk into an ice bath every time you enter an office building. When it's hot in Britain it is inescapable and working conditions are awful.

wordena2

4y↑1

@Jude Price lucky winter you. We spend significant amounts of money heating up to 64f. I have relatives that only pat to heat to 55f.

Jude Price

@no way was 96f in the UK the other day with 60% humidity. I had no air con at all. In winter my house is at 70f without barely turning heating on tho so that's good

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notxarb

4y↑540

The dry British sense of humour is strong in this one...

Edwin Gonzalez

4y↑3

@Terrie Humphries ah yes, Texas. Where you can chug a few beers and sweat them out before they even give you a buzz.

strellasmith777

And I love it! 😁

Danielle Marin

notxarb - I so enjoy it, too.

Danielle Marin

4y↑1

@Spiraspina "McFly" in a user name, in general, is best left ignored.

Barbara Chieppo

Love it

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Baskerville Bee

4y↑32

Went to England in '94 during a heat wave. Everyone blamed it on me because I'm from Texas. I said, " It was this hot before I got here."
Question: Why so stingy with ice? It's just frozen water. 🤔

Baskerville Bee

@plagueman kyle
🤯

Celeste Wilson

4y↑9

I’m from Texas, and I went to Europe last summer during their “heat wave” felt just like home, but with a better breeze.

Baskerville Bee

4y↑3

@plagueman kyle
If it's hot enough weather, I'll drink quickly.

plagueman kyle

ice machines might not work fast enough, also if ur drinking something thats not water too much ice will ruin it

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3506Dodge

4y↑95

You can find "British weather" in America, in the pacific northwest. You can find all types of climate in America somewhere.

Zakary Neasham

@Regolith I mean in Southeastern WA where I am at at it gets to 110 degrees during the summer annually

ras351

@OGSpaceCadet I grew up near Seattle(Port Townsend) and I don't remember it being that bad. Maybe in the winter it was cloudy/precipitation 2/3 of the time, and in the summer about 1/3 of the time. And a lot of that was showerey with sunbreaks not the grey overcast you describe(though there was SOME of that too). Plus there is great boating, hiking and skiing there along with great mountains and scenery.

Unfinished Sympathy

OGSpaceCadet you won’t survive in London UK 🤣👍🏾

Wendy Weaver

@OGSpaceCadet - The endless days of gray during the fall and winter are no more in Seattle. We now have 4-5 days of gray or real rain broken by 1-3 days of mostly sunny days. Very different since the early 1990s than in previous decades. The mist Seattle called "rain" rarely occurs now. Except when affected by the pollution from massive fires, summers have more days over 80 degrees and nearly all summers now have days (not just a single day) over 90 degrees - unheard of in the 1950s to the early 1990s. Average rainfall over 30 year periods is basically the same but there are more days of measurable rain, less misty "rain" and more days of partial to full sun. Summer plus continues to be low humidity, especially on the hottest days.

B The Blind Ref

4y↑1

@jada love true, though to be fair most of the drought and forest fire risk is in the eastern part of the state past the Cascades, where it is also quite cold and snowy in the winter as well I should add. Let's be honest, when people talk about the weather of Washington, they are never talking about Spokane, Yakima, or Wennache. They are always taking about the west coast / Seattle, which is quite different.
Of course, if they really want the rain that we get unfairly labeled for, they can always go to the Olympic Peninsula and be surrounded by temperate rain forest.

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Thud Thud

4y↑41

"...temperatures reaching what-on-earth degrees Fahrenheit. "
Bravo, Laurence, bravo! That is one of the best Laurncisms I've heard yet.

dogsandsoccer

4y↑10

When I was a senior in high school in Tennessee, the air conditioning in the school broke down in the spring, and the school budget had already been used up, so we couldn't get it fixed. Students were passing out from the heat. The school had to come to the decision to end the school year a two weeks early, which made the end of my high school career quite anticlimactic.

Danielle Marin

kekort2, Awwwwh, that is something, damn. I would have been devastated.

Claressa Lucas

4y↑10

Hahaha! I was in London during a "heatwave" in the late 80s. It was like a high of 90F for three whole days. In Georgia, we call that spring. And no, we didn't get central air until the 21st century.

CalebYetAgain

3y↑1

@Georgy Zhukov they actually built for thr hot weather back then. Nowadays we build terribly insulated house and rely solely on AC

Georgy Zhukov

3y↑1

And that's why people died young b4 ac

Robert Campbell

3y↑3

Our daughter moved to London in November, 2019. She has experienced two English summers without A/C and loves the weather. She was born, raised and moved from the Phoenix, AZ area after 40 years there. From her experience, a few days of 85F-90F weather, though uncomfortable, is a cake walk compared to 100+ degrees for months at a time.

Mary

4y↑105

I grew up without A/C in the Chicagoland area. Can't imagine life without it now.

Cheshirekat

I grew up in NYC without a/c. We'd go wander around air conditioned stores for relief.

Larry Drozd

So did I...but we had a basement. Its always much cooler there. Now I live in Austin, Texas....in perpetual A/C.

Neil S

We live in northern Illinois and have no AC. There's typically about 2 weeks a summer where AC is nice. The rest of the time open the windows and enjoy the summer.

RedWings-44

4y↑1

It's currently 54°F and my car AC is on. Although, to be fair there are other factors at play, but the principle is still the same!

lollypop2414

4y↑4

I did too in Northern Indiana. I wouldn't ever go without it now, but my mom still has no a/c and prefers to suffer.

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Ruth Meow

4y↑33

To be honest, I don't remember how hot it was in 1988, I do remember that all the smoke from Yellowstone darkened the sky and made it hard to breath for months.

Danielle Marin

4y↑1

@Dawn Christensen Wow, back when they allowed for mothers to have respectable stay lengths. Your 32 year old 'baby' was born 17 days before I graduated HS - I am depressed and somewhat fascinated at the same time ; )

Dawn Christensen

4y↑1

Son was born 6/7/88 Chicago.
106 degress.
Thank God my ins approved 5 days stay in hospital!

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Brian L

4y↑27

What everyone else calls a "heatwave", Texas calls "Summer".

Patrick Shell

What everyone else calls a heatwave, Arizona calls Spring/Autumn

Brian L

@K Kr Got another 10 years before the next one. Think I’m good. Also, I grew up in Virginia (blizzards) and spent some time in the UP of Michigan (where it’s winter 9 months of the year).

K Kr

Brian L Oh, boy are you in for a surprise when your winter cold spell shuts down energy use and you have to take supplies from the Dakotas! Couldn't be bothered to pay for weatherproofing, because it will never freeze? :)

kristina greer

hell yeah! man 1980 and 2011, if we ever get worse than those, I'm, moving...

Kate Morgan

Burkhold St. Rudderberg Agreed. I much prefer New Mexico to both.

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ESUSAMEX

4y↑2

I remember visiting Arizona in July 2003, and while I was there, there were 3 100 year-old heat records broken during my stay. I arrived at 8PM and the outdoor temperature was 108 F. The day I left it hit 119 F degrees. I was seated next to an airline pilot on my plane home to NY and he told me that he hoped the plane would pull away from the gate before the temperature climbed to 120 degrees because the FAA wouldn't allow the plane to take off unless the outside temperature was below 120. We did take off and I landed in NYC with 95 degrees and 100% humidity. Now I live in Florida and it will 90 degrees plus every day from today until September. How I miss the Autumn and 50 F weather.

MrsBanjo

4y↑251

Yeah, we're basically in a constant state of On Fire in California.

Ethelred Hardrede

3y↑1

@Commodorefan64
California does controlled burns. We just do it less than we used to because it turns out that many trees drop seeds that cannot germinate without fire. First discovered when someone noticed that there were no new redwood trees. None except in areas that had fires.

Controlled burns during droughts tend to turn into uncontrolled wildfires. Getting the right balance in a world that is warming up is not an easy thing.

Pamela Zimnizzle

HemlockRidge TROOOOOO. We pay greatly for our faboo weather and terrain. Andhaving our beaches, mountains, and deserts all 30 miles away from each other means we get crappy taxes etc. BUT... In the winter you can go snowboarding and sunbathing in the same day. But we say stupid stuff like “faboo,” sooo...

theInsaneRodent

4y↑5

nateman10

4y↑1

@Brandyalla I was already a teenager when they caved to environmentalists, it was a political thing. This was on California's path to going far left (they weren't near as left at that point), before they went full crazy like they are now. It was on their path to becoming crazy, one of the first crazy things they did, and they never fixed it. Oregon did it to, but they went back on it after those horrible fires because people got pissed. It is literally in old newspapers when they caved to the environmentalists and prevented brush cleanup, and they continue to add more "protected areas" for critters to this day, right in the under brush that starts those fires.

nateman10

4y↑2

@Brandyalla No, the problem is the lack of cleaning the brush with either rakes (machinery) or controlled burns. They stopped cleaning away most of the brush because of environmentalists. You have to clean the brush to prevent the fires from getting so big and out of control. But instead they would rather, "preserve habitats" that get burned up every few years.
They let towns burn and people die, in order to leave "bird habitats" and to save rodents.

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tracytrebilcox

4y↑59

I have friends in Scotland who love to visit us in July, when California's Central Valley is normally in the 100s from June to September. Granted, they can go back home when they're tired of the heat.

tracytrebilcox

@Roxie Marquez One of my favorite memes is James Franco preparing to be hanged, and it says, "110 degrees? Is it your first time in Fresno?"

K Kr

3y↑1

tracytrebilcox They were drying out their bones. :)

Roxie Marquez

4y↑1

@tracytrwbilcox born and raised in Central Valley, so naturally it cracked me up when I moved to Las Vegas and my coworkers teased me about "getting ready for that Las Vegas summer!" and were met with my response "You've never been in Fresno in July, I take it?"

rocknroller 77

4y↑3

Alan Mac 😄 the bald patch comment

Alan Mac

4y↑8

They are mad, tracy! I'm originally from Scotland and got sunburn on my bald patch in San Diego in December. We're not built for this climate!

Queen Tara

4y↑213

I live I Alabama. Our heat index gets to 115 and over in August. That’s why we become river rats in the summer.

Paul H

I live in Mobile, Alabama. You just have to slow down and drink plenty of fluids during summer. Every day for 5 months the temperature hovers between 88-98 degrees. The humidity is awful. I love it here. You learn to live with it. Listening to the morning news tell us the heat index is only going to be 105 is like Christmas morning. It is normally 110-120 for months! I Grew up in northern Michigan and moved here 35 years ago. In my observation the northern winters are just as debilitating as the southern summers. The only wimps in this Country are Hawaiians. 76 is too cold and 80 is too hot for them. They expect a 10mph constant breeze. When they don't get it, they hang the current weatherman and start looking for his replacement.

User Name

@Coco Taveras those states have fucking nothing on Alabama. I'll take 120° in Texas over 100° in Alabama any fucking day. I've been in both. There is no escaping Alabama's wet ass heat

Roger Dickinson

Same in the Carolinas

Sherriann Holtey

I live in AZ. I can tell you right now that the heat index is nowhere close to what actual 115 degrees feels like without humidity. I would say you have it much worse. Growing up I'd visit family in Kansas and yeah heat with humidity is far worse than Arizona's "dry" heat. I'd say the closest AZ experienced was when it was 120-130 degrees in the Valley of the Sun. Otherwise I'll take the AZ heat over Midwest any day. Good luck.

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KennedyFiggDrums

4y↑2

I’ve lived in Las Vegas my whole life, and it’s impossible to get used to the heat in the summer here. Right now (June 26) it’s 6:30pm and it’s still 101°F. It was 112°F a couple hours ago.

We also regularly go anywhere from 1-8 months without any rain.

Occam's Stubble

4y↑32

In my home town of Dallas, Texas, 1980 and 1998 featured 60+ days of over 100 degree heat. In the first one, I was working a summer job at a convenience store. My duty was to pour ice on the pipes feeding the gas pumps to keep the gasoline from vaporizing and locking up the pumps.

kristina greer

3y↑1

2011 was almost as bad...

Drakijy

@Sage Duff I had moved to Seattle from Statesboro, Ga mere hours before that heatwave hit. My mother called me EVERY damn day to tell me the temperature there. It rarely got into the 80s for me during that time.

Steven Martin

4y↑3

I think in 1998, Tucson, Arizona actually had fewer 100 degree days than Dallas.

Sage Duff

4y↑5

Occam's Stubble the 1980 record was beat in 2011. 71 days over 100 degrees.

Susan Carriker

4y↑5

Moved to Dallas in 1980 - 114 degrees everyday. But what was miserable was that it did not cool off at night.

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Eri D

4y↑1

Thanks for addressing this. I'm so sick of hearing other countries say how we are gluttons on air conditioning, yet they have never experienced a typical NM summer where several weeks it is 110+ Fahrenheit. I can literally bake a sheet of cookies in the car due to the heat (I've done it once)

John Michaelson

4y↑2

I still fondly remember June 1990 when Arizona all but exploded with heat. Phoenix finally beat the decades old 118 by hitting 120 and it was a headline in huge font in the newspaper. Then came the next day with 122. It shut the airport down for three hours because no planes had charts describing takeoff lengths and other information that went beyond 120. I think Lake Havasu that day was 127 which, terrifyingly, was NOT their all time record.

2012escapee1

4y↑103

I survived driving on a 123 degree day in Phoenix in a car with no AC

John Peric

Consider that the hottest it's officially ever gotten in Nevada was 125, 26 years ago, that's fairly unlikely.

Yeah No

4y↑2

At that point, you want to stick your head out the window like a dog...but you know your face will just get singed by the air outside. There is no relief. There is only the destination.

Pugasaurus Rex

4y↑3

Please tell me the seats weren’t leather

Dale

4y↑2

Megami Thank you. I was thinking the same thing.

Megami

4y↑5

Wrong. You are actually just living life as a ghost now. Nobody can survive that torture, lol.

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Trinka B

4y↑323

Fun Fact: Needles, California is where Snoopy's brother Spike lives.

Simonne

4y↑1

Also where Three Dog Night made it to despite heading for Las Vegas.

mortensen1961

4y↑1

@Trinka B: That would be the Mojave Desert, the Sonoran Desert is more towards Tucson.

mortensen1961

4y↑1

@K: So do Needles and Blythe. . . .

mortensen1961

4y↑2

@MrSting17: That would be Baker, CA. . . .

Brian L

4y↑2

@K Havasu and BHC having a river and lakes doesn't actually help matters, unless you mean actually getting into the bodies of water, as those bodies of water just raise the humidity.

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Robin Chesterfield

4y↑1

I made a "temperature blanket" (actually an afghan) last year, where I live in Utah. I made up a color code, then every day I crocheted a granny square where the inner part represented the day's low, and the outer row was the day's high. To give you an idea...not only did I have to use the "0-9" color yarn and the "100-109" yarn in the same blanket, but there were several squares that ended up with the colors that meant 40 degrees apart!

EDIT: I love that you threw the SONG "Heat Wave" in there. XD

Stephan Calvert

4y↑2

I have visited UK 38 times. I’ve told my British friend that one reason I enjoy Britain is that I’m there for the weather. They’ve never believed me.

K Meta

4y↑1

I grew up hearing about how my mom used to wake up at night to her mom fanning her and her brother and sister to try and keep them from over heating. There were times after hurricanes knocked out the power that my mom and the other moms in the neighborhood would basically hover over us just handing us ice chips to suck on and making sure we didn’t get over heated. Places like Florida and Louisiana are absolutely miserable when it comes to heat waves since the humidity makes it feel like you can’t breathe and the you’re constantly sticky with sweat during the worst of it.

Swamp ass is real y’all. Once we have this coronavirus thing solved I say we try and fix that. Then we can move on to world peace or whatever.

Stephen Lang

4y↑6

If you can't remember a heat wave, you've never lived in a place that has extreme heat and humidity

Guy de Loimbard

3y↑1

I remember that 1988 Heat Wave when Chicago reached the 90s some 35 days in a row. Lake Michigan was so warm it was like swimming in the Atlantic off the Florida Keys. Thankfully it was also a dry, low-humidity summer so despite the high-ish temperatures it really wasn't that uncomfortable.

chitlitlah

4y↑1

I'm surprised the summer of 2011 wasn't mentioned. It was my first summer in Dallas and there was a record breaking 42 consecutive days - about 60 total - with highs over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Many of those days were 105 to 110 F with highs near 90 and humidity well above areas to the west. It was absolutely miserable.

Neil S

4y↑8

The temperature swings in the Midwest are more interesting then heat waves. It's not uncommon to go up or down 50 degrees in 24 hours. We had a couple this winter.
My grandfather used to say: "We have two seasons in Chicago, July and winter." That about sums it up.

61 Rampy

No, the two seasons in Illinois are Winter and Road Construction.

kristina greer

in Texas, it is, Texas has 4 seasons, Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Christmas

Nicholas Kaiser

Here in Vegas we had a drastic temperature change a couple years ago of 92 to 34 and 2 inches of snow in 30 hours.

Dale

4y↑1

In Florida, it’s February and summer.

Nick L. Eakins

4y↑13

The biggest difference between American and British weather is the frequency and intensity of tornadoes. I've had more than one on line Brit friend tell me they'd really like to see a tornado. They don't believe me when I tell them "No. You don't really want to." I live in Iowa. You know both our states have our share of twisters. If the English want them, they can have them.

LostJedi26

Tell them to pull up videos on YouTube to see what kind of damage said tornadoes can dish out. :( Awful.

thomas grabkowski

usa also gets hurricanes, especially in florida

Wayne Purcell

@trickygoose2 They mostly range EF0 to low end EF3. They have had some higher level events but they are much rarer than here in the US.

Nick L. Eakins

@trickygoose2 , my heart bleeds for the English who must retrieve their lawn furniture.

ddemaine

@trickygoose2 That's right. Island of Great Britian has a high concentration of tornadoes; but they are mostly barely noticeable, owing to lack of large temperature contrasts.

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Spiffyspit s

As much as I love learning history, you made this much more memorable for me, with all your witticism. 😆😂😆 Thank you and keep it up.

lookinforthe70s

4y↑7

Yeah, the weather here in the States is interesting to say the least.

Arnold Rivas

4y↑3

It reached 113 in LA during a heatwave in 2010. Knowing this, that’s moderately warm compared to our deserts.

K D

4y↑5

I’m so thankful for air conditioning. We didn’t have it when I was a kid and it was easy to stay cool during the day but trying to sleep was bad.
All hail Willis Carrier, the inventor of air conditioning!!!

900Yugo

4y↑1

You also have to thank Thomas Midgley that created Freon,aka CFC type refrigerants which was replaced by environmentally safer refrigerants. But without him A/C wouldn't exist.

JCmacDavid

4y↑8

I live in North Carolina and I asked a British couple how do they like our summers, her reply, Brits are not made for this. lol

Elizabeth Eleck

4y↑1

We were in the UK two years ago at this time during the 2018 heat wave. A young gentleman in Edinburg was thrilled that his washing took only one day to dry (sunny and 80's: beautiful!). In London, my family and I had to leave the Museum of Natural History after less than 2 hours; no AC, and just incredibly hot, humid, and stuffy. However, we had beautiful blue skies and sun in Northern Ireland and were able to eat outside very comfortably while enjoying the lush countryside, but, many Irish ended up in the emergency rooms because sunburn is a thing (very bad for fair skin!). And, I could listen to you say "chunky monkey" all day long. :)

DrakeKoeth

When I went to Cardiff in July 2009, I remember seeing reports on the local news of people having issues with heat stroke, having locals apologize for the heat wave, and seeing a few women even walking around in bikini tops. That was probably the biggest culture shock moment for me of the trip, because this Oklahoma boy who was used to 110F+ for weeks on end was wearing multiple T-shirts just to keep warm in the intermittent rain.

Mike B

4y↑1

This subject caused my father to ask...What happened to the UK soldiers during the war For Independence. I looked that up. The English soldiers had a HUGE heat injury and heat caused death rates. The attacked us in mostly wool and layers of wool. Not knowing how important hydration was. I was very shocked how many died or were just out of service with the heat injury's. I grew up in south east Florida, about 10 miles from the Atlantic. The humidity was bag, I thought. I believed that until I went to US Marine Corps Boot camp at Parris Island South Carolina. SC was SO much hotter and humid than south Florida. It was like walking outside in to Scalding hot Chowder, and it was 3 AM in the early morning. Insane!!! You would sweat a large puddle around your feet at 3 am in formation waiting for breakfast. Spent some time in S. Florida during hurricane season. It is something to experience. Living thru a hurricane can be a good learning experience. If you want to lean and to know. GREAT videos, hope you keep them coming. Semper Fidelis

Toni A.

4y↑1

We were in a London July 2013 and they were making announcements in the tube about where to locate the “cooling rooms”, s/s of heat exhaustion and where water stations could be found. As it was 86 degrees and we were from Houston, it came across as humorous to us. I didn’t realize at the time that most didn’t have air con🤣

Sandra Lewis

The most entertaining heat I've experienced, outside of living in central Florida with no air conditioning, is the time my husband and I drove through Death Valley in the summer of 1974 while leaving the windows open and running the heater in the car to take heat off the engine block. He was miserable while I kept cackling about it being a "dry heat" and "what's the problem?". But at least he figured out why I insisted on two coolers full of ice and cold water before attempting that journey. Back in the 70's cars didn't have a good reputation for keeping the engine cool the heater trick for cooling the engine in hot weather was standard practice in the South.

Kiddobyte

4y↑1

This past winter in Wisconsin, it got to -40 with the windchill. Fun fact, that's the crossing point for Celsius and Fahrenheit.
And a couple days ago I noticed the thermometer outside reading 111 in the sun. In the spring the snow melts and refreezes constantly leading to it all becoming hard ice or slush depending on how sunny it is at the time. The worst is when it rains during the day and freezes overnight and you can't get your car door open because it's plastered with ice. Or when you have to shovel the driveway and it's just hard ice.

Bourbon Bob

4y↑4

You’re convincing me to move to Britain with each video

aglaurendance

4y↑2

I lived in England during the 2003 heatwave. Mum normally shoved us out the door to play on the playground on the farm all day in the summer, but that summer she made us come in for mandatory movie breaks after every two hours or so of outside play time 😂 (Our farm house was built out of super thick stone in the early 1600s, so it tended to be naturally cool in the summer and warm in the winter.) That was also the summer that we decided that we did not understand why England didn’t have screens on their windows!

satsunada

4y↑1

What's always .. ALWAYS... hilarious to me is the local weather scene in places with weird weather. They always highlight the crazy numbers like some human would be there and they would matter to everyone else. For example, I'm currently in New Hampshire. The local weather crews love to give the temperatures for the state and surrounding areas but they ALWAYS highlight Mt. Washington. So when that Tropical Depression rolled over where I lived recently with 30-50 mph gusts and some strong rain.. the meteorologist gestured up "And at Mt. Washington winds are staying stable at 115 mph with gusts into the 130's" and said that in a very casual tone.. because that's vaguely normal weather for Mt. Washington. For you metric folks, that's 185 kph sustained wind speed with gusts into the 210 kph range.

SugaryPhoenixxx

One year I was driving through death valley with my family on vacation, on the way to Las Vegas. I will never forget this... There was a man jogging through death valley. We were at least 45 minutes into death valley by car when we saw him. He was clearly out there jogging on purpose, not like his car broke down. We all gave him a bottles of water & wished him luck that he didn't parish before he reached the other side. He insisted that he wanted to keep running. Now whenever I feel like I am so hot I cannot stand it, I think of that man.

Steven Banks

4y↑32

The “Dennis Hopper” mentions added a very welcome touch of chaotic madness, as in a fever dream.

Dugowt

4y↑258

Why oh why would you tempt fate in this year of all years, Lawrence!

Cheshirekat

3y↑1

I'm posting this a few days before Christmas but, anything is possible this year of 2020.

tootz1950

We broke heat temperature records for most of this 2020 summer. Thank you Lawrence.

Manga Animefan

4y↑1

So that's why we had that heat wave in late June and early July!! It was his fault!!

Dale

4y↑1

Kathy Wiseley it’s July. Guess what the weather forecast is for the month? You nailed it.

mercoid

4y↑1

Tempterature.....
buh ha haaa heeee!!

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Das Dovian

I grew up on a coastal town in California for the first 12ish years of my life where it never really got hotter than 88°F for a couple hours every day. Then my parents moved us to a desert part of our state.
Let me tell you there's nothing quite like experiencing triple digit heat that melts the bottom of your shoes. Our summers are so hot you can buy a bag of ice at the store and get to your car with a bag of warm water.
When I worked hospitality as an adult I had to remind tourists to drink water and stay in the shade because the heat will dry off your sweat so fast it'll give you hyperthermia.

Evan D

As someone from Southern California who visited the UK during a heat wave, the humidity combined with the lack of air conditioning made things unbearable.

Matt Alleman

4y↑2

My wife and I went to London in 2006 during the heat wave. It was hot, especially since there were no ACs. I remember we went to see one of the pirates of the Caribbean movies to get into some AC. Worst part was my wife was pregnant. We live in SW Louisiana so we are used to the heat, but since there were no ACs around there was no relief.

Margaret LeBoeuf

Thanks for reminding us the history of the periods of high temps in the
🇺🇸 and Britain 🇬🇧 .
I love the British humor!

chemislife

4y↑1

I remember the 2016 heat wave because aircraft had to be rerouted because it was too hot to safely start the APU in the tail. I wasn't aware this was possible until that summer which was pretty bad in it's own right if not quite record breaking.

Megan Pleiades

As someone who's lived in California my entire life, I have to say that this is by far the mildest summer I've experienced, thank god. Last year though, we had a whole week that reached 110 every day.

Rufus Connolly

I've lived through summers of over 113° F here in Texas when I was a kid. It was fairly normal at least once each summer to reach heat of over 110⁰F.

The weird thing is, with climate change doing its thing, we haven't had more than a handful of days over the last two years over 100⁰F o.O

James Myszka

4y↑2

The US won the Revolutionary Battle of Monmouth versus the British in part due to their adjustments to heat. Temps were over 100, the soldiers wore wool uniforms, and carried large packs. The term "Molly Pitcher" came from this battle to describe US female water bearers who helped soldiers.

Richard Bennett

4y↑1

Back in the 70s, I was a meteorologist in the US Army. While visiting Death Valley on a particularly hot day, I saw an instrument shelter where the thermometer read 128 degrees. Then in the early 80s, I was stationed in Alaska where I experienced 75 below. Now I'm a member of the 200 Degree Club, a club for people who have experienced a range of 200 degrees or more (natural, no saunas or walk-in freezers). My most recent extreme was last summer near Phoenix where the temperature was a balmy 124.

trickygoose2

I was at work about 30 miles from Cambridge when we had that record temperature (over 100F) last year. Luckily my office has a rather crude a/c system. However, I did need to go to a supermarket on my lunch break and stepping outside was like walking close to a massive electric fire. The supermarket was cool with its a/c and freezer and chiller cabinets and walking out of that was even more of a shock. By the way, we are predicted to hit the high 80s on about Thursday here.

AzraelThanatos

4y↑41

Please don't tempt this year, it's more liable to take it as a "Hold my beer" moment than even Murphy...

AHPpilot

Too late, he jinxed it and here we are

Toni A.

🤣🤣🤣

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Hanna Borchard

Hearing a max temp of 134 almost gave me a heart attack. Hottest temp I've ever experienced in person where I actually knew exactly how hot it was: 116. It feels like hell is a stalker lingering just over your shoulder when it's that hot. The only time I ever surpassed that, feeling wise, was at a bus stop in Blythe California in August. I never knew the actual temp, but a walk from the bus across the parking lot and then back again in the mid afternoon was enough to give my a sunburn and I felt like I was seconds from passing out. My previous, hellish experience of 116 seemed less, so I always just assumed that place had a higher temp.
But 134? Nope. Nope. Double, triple, bazillion nopes.

Bubb

Yes. I remember the 1988 heat wave. It went on and on, and it was humid. Yet it didn’t rain for the longest time. This was the NY-Washington corridor.

I remember coming into my office from being outside. I was exhausted. Then they assigned me to go out and find something, and I went out again, literally dragging myself around. I’ll never forget it.

Jim Jeffcoat

4y↑1

1980 heat wave in the central United States was miserable. I lived in Kansas City MO during that time, and we had 17 consecutive days of 100+ heat. I believe there were about 1,700 heat related deaths in the U.S. during the summer of 1980.

bondoly66

4y↑7

The deep south in August at night feels like breathing through a wet wash cloth.

KJ Salomonsen

4y↑5

I remember 1988 I was living in Central Western Minnesota and my daughter was a baby. The temp. got up to 104 F by 10:00 am and the humidity was at 80%. I had no A/C in my house and my daughter was only about 6 months old we spent a lot of time in her blow up pool and in the basement that summer. I now live in Central Washington State where by late July the temp gets to around 104 F but it's a dry heat and I've got A/C. I always say I'm proud to be a Minnesotan and Minnesota is a great state to be FROM. LOL

FBN Flavius Broadcasting Network

karen salomonsen soon to be MinnesotaStan you mean..

Nameless One

I'm still here.

Daniel G

I live in Phoenix and I'm quite used to the heat. I was walking around outside in pants (trousers) the first time it hit 122°F. I thought it was a bit warm but kept walking. It's has hit into the 120s a few times since then. Of course, I've experienced 135°F in Kuwait and it has forever changed how I feel about the heat in Phoenix.

F. Michael Bremer-Cruz

4y↑1

"Walking into a warm, damp sponge" describes the heat and humidity of the Mid-Atlantic region, when the air temperature is 107 with 90% humidity. While not common, this is what my iPhone reads outside my DC office building a few times each summer. 6 months later, we get -7 degrees F with wind chills of -14 F.

" In the summer it's too darn hot. It's one thing to be the sort of life form that thrives on heat… but it's quite another to be the sort of animal that has to wrap itself up in lots of other animals at one point in your planet's orbit, and then find, half an orbit later, that your skin's bubbling."--Douglas Adams.

Michael Barnett

4y↑1

I guess it was a local thing at the time. I have lived in the Dallas, Texas area my entire life (almost 60 years) but 1980 still has a place in my memory. This weekend 40 years ago it reached the highest temperature ever recorded here of 113F for 2 days in a row. There were 42 days straight of temps over 100 and a total of 69 days over 100 degrees. I went on a vacation with my parents that summer and when people would find out we were from Dallas they would say "Isn't that where it's so hot right now?". Granted it may not have affected a wide area of the country, but for us in the north Texas area it was hell on earth that summer.

potatoegirl31

As a Maine-er, I think living in other parts of the US would kill me too! 😆 Maine weather, and the Canadian Maritime provinces, have a rather British climate when you think about it (except in mid winter, when it becomes Siberia!)

Sara Morris

"As someone who orbited the sun 26 times whilst living there..."
Got me having a crisis at how many times I've orbited the sun. Oh dear.

Eternally Angelic

lmao.. god I love your channel. The humor you put in it while I listen to a Brits interpretration of America is both amusing and enlightening. "With temps reaching what-on-earth-" lmao had me laughing for quite a few good minutes after.

Edward Cabaniss

Leonard, you reminded me of my friends back in NE England who never quite believed me when I talked about the weather, especially the heat and humidity here in the South. One day in my first summer in Gateshead, my (ex)wife and I were walking up to the corner store. It was about 82ºF with no breeze. She was panting and more or less dying because of the extreme heat. She looked over at me and asked incredulously, "Why aren't you sweating?" I was kinda puzzled by the question and told her, "Why should I sweat? It's not hot enough... yet." I didn't tell her that the really low humidity helped me out a lot that day. LOL

Edward Cabaniss

She finally came around when in 2010, my (ex)wife and stepdaughter visited Orlando, Florida... in August! They stayed there for a week, where the temperatures were in the low 90ºs and 70% humidity. I joined them the next week in Georgia where the temperatures were on both sides of 100ºF and the humidity was around 90%. It was then that she truly understood why we Americans consider A/C a necessity of life!

Kathy Astrom

4y↑81

No mention of the 1995 Chicago heat wave?!? That one was a true killer, with 739 people dying in only five days.

Cheshirekat

@Heather Gibb better than dark colored t shirts, I suppose. But that's nuts anyway. You'd all get heat stroke!

Cheshirekat

That was a horrible one. Lawrence thinks heat wave are forgettable. Maybe the ones in the UK are.

Dale

4y↑1

I remember how awful that was for the Midwest. I’m in Florida, and I have met people here who don’t have AC. I don’t know how they do it.

Adam Gilmore

4y↑2

I remember that year very well. The second you opened the front door you struggled to breath and were instantly drenched in sweat.

thomas grabkowski

4y↑1

also the 2012 heatwave

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Annie Warbux🏴‍☠️

4y↑45

Maybe Brits will better understand Our American desire for "AirCon" (as you say) and for ICE in almost everything we drink! (Even though it is healthier to drink hot beverages on hot days)

K Kr

3y↑1

@Beth Shadid I heard it was from India where the temp and humidity were so high Brits couldn't sweat to cool off. Hot tea made them sweat. In the US I have never had trouble sweating. I have had trouble sleeping, though. :D

Bubba Dano

Annie Warbux, Koreans drink hot water during heatwaves. I agree, it makes your body try to cool itself.

Al Tyrrell

4y↑1

I work in a warehouse. I drank hot coffee once on a break. Once. I don't know which is healthier, but at work, I have to take coffee at room temperature or cooler.

Beth Shadid

4y↑4

I had heard years and years ago to drink warm to hot drinks that it supposedly regulates your body into the same degree as the outside. That being said I tried it several times and didn't work. So much for experts.

ddemaine

4y↑3

@Code Name I could be mistaken, but I think Thud Thud (so good, named twice) may have been being droll?

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lollypop2414

My grandmother was pregnant with my mom in the summer of 1936 and she used to always talk about how that was the most miserably hot summer.
The great drought of 1988. I was 8 years old, but I still remember my parents trying to conserve water, praying that our well wouldn't run dry, and of course the misery of living in a home with no air conditioning.
I'm surprised you didn't mention 2012 with the triple digit days at the end of June and beginning of July in most of the eastern half of the US. In the middle of that was the derecho that swept from Iowa all the way to the east coast. We had 90+ mph winds in Northeast Indiana with that storm. I got stuck, 5 months pregnant, hunkering down with my older two children in a Walmart bathroom. The Walmart immediately lost power when the storm hit and we were without a/c in triple digit heat. It was miserable, but hey the Walmart employees did offer us all some snacks to bide the time until the storm passed.

Oh and the irony that I just happened to watch the movie Speed with Dennis Hopper today. It must've been fate seeing as I've seen that movie before, and it was on basic cable which I almost never watch.

Jacob Huff

4y↑1

This reminds me of the summer that I wore a leather jacket in middle of a bad summer. To be young and impervious to heat again, now I just call high humidity and heat a mild discomfort.

Jeffrey Root

I was in a marksmanship competition in Alabama about three years ago. The fancy lubricated bullets donated by an ammunition company was jamming the firearms because the bullet coating melted! It was partially fixed by keeping the ammo in ice coolers and rapidly loading just before shooting. Crazy!

david czapla

4y↑1

I really remember the drought of 88. I was 12 years old, and can remember accidently setting fire to a neighbors lawn due to fireworks.

hevansbw

I remember the 1988 heat wave. I worked as a cashier in a grocery store. Every time the doors opened, we'd all feel the rush of heat like standing too close to a bon fire 🔥

sameebah

Having spent many years popping in and out of Thailand, I how find the UK "heatwave" laughable.
Now, I consider 'hot' weather to start at around 35 C. 30 - 35 is 'pretty warm'. 25 - 30 is 'comfortable'.

Jason Patterson

4y↑2

I was the hottest I've ever been in my life in 1988. My area of Ohio wasn't particularly affected by the drought, but it was stupidly hot. We didn't have air conditioning in my house and then a massive storm hit and knocked out power for 10 days, so we didn't even have fans. It was absolutely miserable. I later lived in Baton Rouge, and even Louisiana's swampy summers had nothing on it. When I saw where you were headed with the video, my immediate thought was "he'd better include the summer of '88."

Amy Fisher

4y↑1

The best times to visit Death Valley are in the early spring and late autumn, when both daytime and overnight temperatures are the most comfortable. If you can handle really cold temperatures, go in the winter, but avoid going in the summer unless you’re a cactus.

Patricia Katzenmeyer Webb

About a year after this video we had some extremely hot weather in southern Oregon and on the hottest 3 days of that heat wave our air conditioning went out 🥵 On June 27 2021 it got to about 117 F and I ended up in the hospital for 2 days after fainting from heat exhaustion and dehydration.

AtarahDerek

4y↑2

A town in Siberia recently tied a 105-year-old Alaska record for warmest Arctic temperature: 100°F.

spirittammyk

In the South, we have something known as the heat index, which is a combination of the temperature and humidity, and that humidity can make the heat nearly insufferable.

Chuck Knight

4y↑1

I diagnose printers for a living. Once I was sent on site to a warehouse in Arkansas.

I actually had to look up the operational temperature range for the printer, there were so many mechanical feed issues that there had to be something that linked them all. And I was right.

Inside the warehouse the temperature had exceeded 140° and the printer's largely plastic framework had actually sagged. Which of course misaligned everything.

Yes, the printer had basically melted.

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