50% humidity...100 degrees and climbing in North Texas...

[LudwigPastorius]

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That's a heat index of 118, and a wet bulb temperature of 84.

Inching closer to fatal conditions...

[Haggard Celine]

1. Sounds like Iraq, or maybe southern India.

That's horrible! I hope they get their grid fixed to help them handle all their needs for electricity.

[BigMin28]

2. No water,

No breaks for those working outside. I loathe republicans.
I'm in North Texas. I'm scared to think what July and August will bring.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. 100 and a heat index of 123 in Houston at 3 pm

It's actually supposed to get up to 102 by 4 pm and will be just as hot tomorrow.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. Brutal

[yellowdogintexas]

10. The other day it was 81 with 77% humidity. The heat index was 102

and the air was heavy.

Of course, humidity is relative. I grew up in Kentucky and lived in Nashville. The humidity and the temperature are often within just a few degrees of one another.

Try 90 degrees with 85% humidity; it is like walking into a wall. However, it really cools down at night, unlike here in Texas. We often had fog over all the ponds and streams (beautiful in the moonlight) and heavy dew in the mornings.

Great for crops, too.

[Ptah]

5. That's brutal.

Here in Tucson, it's just a regular June.

I call it the beginning of hibernation.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. I'd take a little 15% humidity-desert air right about now!

It's absolutely suffocating here. I'm going to check EBay to see if anybody's got a spacesuit for sale.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. LOL that's the truth. Either hibernate or head up to Flagstaff

or that big mountain in Tucson. I drove up it on a very hot day and I could not believe how much cooler it was when I got out to look at the view

[Fla Dem]

7. It get uncomfortable here in Fl, but your situation is just ridiculous.

[NowsTheTime]

8. .......yes and we have this too...

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/

Gov. Greg Abbott approved this week a law that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin and Dallas’ mandated water breaks. The law will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin in 2010 and Dallas in 2015 that established 10-minute breaks every four hours so that construction workers can drink water and protect themselves from the sun. It also prevents other cities from passing such rules in the future. San Antonio has been considering a similar ordinance.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. But...but...

Republicans are against Big Government™ interfering with how local folks want to do things.

[yellowdogintexas]

12. that is just evil. The Lege who passed it and the governor who signed it

I want to see lots of lawsuits filed as a result.

Now if the bill had just said local entities can't establish such an ordinance, but the state says you have to have water breaks throughout the day, that would be different.

It takes a special kind of mean to do something like this

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. Yes, I posted about this also here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218021308

To add insult to injury, Texas is the only state in the US that doesn't require employers to carry workers' comp insurance. So if you are hospitalized with heat stroke while you were on the job, you have to SUE your employer to pay for your time lost from work and your medical bills, any permanent disability and pain and suffering.