Community | July 18, 2011 | 33 comments

Worst heatwave in years grips Midwest, heading East

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An oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dangerous levels.

Forecasters warned the heatwave would persist through much of the coming week and cautioned residents in more than three dozen states to take extra precautions.

The National Weather Service posted excessive heat warnings for much of the country's midsection, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, as well as South and North Dakota, where forecasters predicted heat indexes could hit 115 degrees.

"This will likely be the most significant heat wave the region has experienced in at least the last five years," the weather service said.

Cities especially hard hit by the heat included Rapid City, South Dakota, Springfield, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, where AccuWeather.com meteorologists were predicting long-standing high-temperature records would fall this week.

Kristina Pydynowski, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, predicted the heatwave will affect more than 40 states.

All the states will see temperatures of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, she said, and "a large number of them will bake above 100 degrees for days on end."

The scorching weather is the latest in a series of meteorological problems to best the Midwest in recent months.

The list includes the devastating tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri in late May, killing nearly 160 people and destroying more than 8,000 homes and other structures, as well as the ongoing flooding along the Missouri River, which has triggered weeks of evacuations and other emergency measures from Montana through Missouri.

While the heat wave is currently focused on the High Plains and Mississippi Valley, it is expected to press east by the middle of the week, the weather service said.

In Chicago, where high heat and humidity warnings were twinned with an alert for poor air quality, temperatures were expected to hit 95 degrees in the afternoon, creating heat indexes as high as 105.

In Minnesota, the heat wave was expected to continue through Wednesday with possible thunderstorms in some parts. Highs in the Twin Cities area could reach 94 degrees on Sunday, and 97 degrees from Monday through Wednesday.

The weather service is projecting possibly six consecutive days of temperatures at 90 degrees or higher in the Twin Cities, the longest stretch to far this year, but short of records, meteorologist Jim Richardson said.
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33 comments // Worst heatwave in years grips Midwest, heading East

  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  

    • 107 Heat Index in southwestern Virginia today: 7/22/2011.

      And All's Well. Oh, Woods Heating & Air Conditioning is 24 hours behind reaching customers, so Gary is giving priority to older & sick folks with total shutdown of their cooling systems getting first dibs. They're out in Hollins on Rt. 11 next to the Pepsi-Cola plant and truck weigh scales. They're good people.

    • 10 months ago
  • squarethecircle
  • Gravity_Man
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • Gravity_Man
  • squarethecircle
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      squarethecircle  

    • We have our military in the Arctic cutting up the ice like a giant blender so we can get to the mineral deposits that have been safe from us for so long. Take it all!!! HaHaHaHa....the Earth is weeping and so should we.

    • 10 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • squarethecircle:

      OK, but if America doesn't do it the other guys will, and they'll GET AHEAD OF US. But since the earth's temperature has decided -for whatever reasons- to bless us with a thawing of arctic ice is it not to our advantage?

      Hitting 131 today in the Mid-West (Iowa). If they had solar set up they'd have gosh-a-plenty electricity to run all their air conditioners!!!!

      All these extended-length high temperatures bodes very badly for Australians in 2012 the AU is gonna fry plumb to the ground, barely any stubble left on the ground.

    • 10 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  

    • Water vapor is the worst greenhouse gas of all. Up to a point the water droplets hold heat? Sure, why not! They also act as tiny magnifying glasses! In certain concentrations perhaps not all.

      So, we either need less or more water vapor. Presumably if there was enough of it up there it would stablize the weather. Right now we appear to be in the wrong slot.

    • 10 months ago
  • squarethecircle
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      squarethecircle  

    • Good for the fossil and nuclear fueled power companies profits...owned and backed by militarys brought to you by the Rothschildren. They are the sellouts of humanity that control our lives.

    • 10 months ago
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  • queenofit
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      queenofit  

    • I spent a month in Arkansas (June) usually it hits the low 90's during that month, but it can also fluctuate down into the mid to low 80's, which gives a welcome relief. Not so this year, it was in the very high 90's during the majority of the month, so, even though what I found when I googled the s/w part of Arkansas (where I was) it says the average for June was 89 degrees, it must have slipped past me those cooler days, because I don't recall any?? strange really. I was dying in that heat. It is a horrible way to live. Anyone in the extreme weather coming ahead please use caution, it causes less oxygen in the air and can be very hard on young and old.

    • 10 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • queenofit:

      Yep. Thanks. Your "usual weather" has shifted east to here in Vriginia, or was perhaps PUSHED. As you say, it's a strange situation.

      Perhaps all the stupid Deepwater Horizon crude oil & Corexit, evaporated up into the air, helped the wind slide further east. The Jet Stream could have slipped on a block of crude oil "ice".

      Totally not backed up by current Science......

      It's going to earn us a place in the history books how our dead cold hands and body was killed by a United States President named Hussein Obama.

    • 10 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      I'm starting to rather look forward to it. I'm writing a letter now to my apartment manager asking her how much time they'll give me to get moved out if my check doesn't come. And then, and then!

      I can walk into th History books.

    • 10 months ago
  • squarethecircle
  • squarethecircle
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • squarethecircle:

      A little place called Roanoke. This is a place that wishes to keep me and my ideas out of every book. The population is very high illiteracy rate because they've been kept intellectually secluded. Keeping the young folk isolated has depressed the entire area so that certain ones can rule the roost as they have done for decades.

      There once was a fellow who moved here from Charlottesville, named William McDonough. Anyway, his "sustainable homes" was catching on, his idea of making products that when they wear out they have a 2nd and 3rd purpose, then suddenly he disappeared. After a while he re-surfaced overseas having invented "vertical farming" done from skyscrapers. He's World Famous now. It's right obvious he was given his walking papers th' heck out of here because he was threatening to raise the public conscious.

      One day about a year ago, or so, a young nubile beauty about 15/17 years of age came a-knocking on my door. She was hawking magazines for school she said, but then she wanted to come inside and pray with me. Yeah. Sure. hehe She was pressing all the right buttons but she didn't get an inch through my door, forget that. They haven't tried again.

    • 10 months ago
  • squarethecircle
  • Gravity_Man
  • squarethecircle
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • squarethecircle:

      Not when you're driving a tractor-trailer loaded to the gills with 47,000 pounds of potting soil hunting for K-Mart and coming down a Yellow Belt hill like you never wanted to be facing down on. And wondering just how good your brakes are.

    • 10 months ago
  • IceKat
  • IceKat
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      IceKat  

    • "Banana, tomato crops hit by icy conditions in Queensland, forcing up prices"

      couriermail.com.au

      "A big freeze is playing havoc with tomato and banana production, causing the price of the popular fruits to skyrocket. Vee Jays Tomatoes' owner Jamie Jurgens, from Bowen, said plummeting temperatures had led to a 40 per cent loss in production this season. "It's been one big cold snap since May," he said. "We've had temperatures on the ground as low as 3 and 4 degrees. For tomatoes we need an average between 17 and 25. "We usually get a couple of days like this but it's been a two-month period this year.""

      Terrible isn't it. CO2 from nasty fossil fuels makes some parts boil and other parts freeze. Still, we all know that "Global Warming" causes heatwaves, cold periods, drought, floods, and just about any weather that isn't a nice sunny day.

    • 10 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Be careful out there. Oh, BTW, where are all of the RW talking heads now saying "global warming" doesn't exist because it "snowed?" Idiots.

    • 10 months ago
  • IceKat
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      IceKat  
    • JanforGore:

      As idiotic as the lunatic-lefties who shout "Global Warming" at the slightest hint of an elevated temperature? Even the article states these forecast temperatures fall short of record temperatures.
      Still, some people will believe any alarmist article they can drag out from the gutter. Idiots!

    • 10 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • JanforGore:

      My heart can't withstand temperatures much over 80 degrees and I may have to move if my SS check doesn't come. I may not be with you a long time Jan. My optimism fails me.

      Fortunately I live almost walking distance from a storage unit and they're on Special move in for $35. I could move during the night time cool. I'll do what I can to not be one of Obama's victims for I know they will surely number in the thousands.

    • 10 months ago
  • noxidereus
  • IceKat
  • JanforGore
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • JanforGore:

      No one's giving up in fact I've succeeded. I beat cancer, wrote about it since 2006, now the cancer rate has plummeted people realizing their health wasn't a set in stone unavoidable death. Morgado was able to operate in the shadows while I boxed the creeps into a dizzy punch drunk stupor. Everything's going splendidly, albeit with no money in my pocket to even pay for a tooth to be fixed.

      But even that's Ok too because first it cracked a hairline, then it cracked wide into two halves, and now it's slowly breaking apart totally without a dentist loosening up towards doing its own extraction.

      The way it was done 2,000 years ago I reckon. The way many Americans must be doing RIGHT NOW!!! IMAGINE THAT!!!

    • 10 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • JanforGore:

      I appreciate your kind words Jan, but more than "vision" is needed here. There's too many people keeping inventions muzzled and in crates somewhere under the ground. There has not been a need for Crude Oil since Tesla 80 years ago.

      Hamsters get treated better. All the earth's problems were solved ages ago, then Sweet solved em again, then Hertzberg came close and I finished Hertzberg's engine, plus others, so where are we? We wear shackles on our ankles and our children wear shackles on their ankles and the women may as well be washing clothes on a washboard down at the stream while watching for Indians.

      Vision doesn't win Jan. The Future is being doled out like thin wafers. Soylent Green wafers fed to the starving, and some starving aren't even getting that so they are "the Dying" you keep writing about.

      This is an artificial situation. Even returning vets know that and they blow their brains out.

    • 10 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • JanforGore:

      In 1996 it occurred to me how an MRI could "map" all the extra fat on a person's body, and then following that map up with two half-rays. In other words a beam of energy sent through a splitter that would break it exactly in half so that the half rays would not harm the skin.

      These half rays were to be aimed in such a way as to intersect under the skin and heat fat cells enough to where the water inside the fat cell would expand enough to break open the fat cell, killing the fat cells.

      They sent me a letter back but that was the end of it. Well, about 3-4 maybe 5 or 6 now years ago they were in the News. They used that system I gave them to destroy an inoperable tumor in a woman's brain, unreachable by scalpels. They could've solved Obesity a long, LONG time ago. I know.

      We live in a trash dump, and we are the rats.
      We live in a trash dump, and we are the rats.
      We live in a trash dump, and we are the rats.
      We live in a trash dump, and we are the rats.
      We live in a trash dump, and we are the rats.

    • 10 months ago
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