120F Heat Index predicted for Milwaukee...Put the beer on ice!

[HereSince1628]

and maybe your feet, too!

[Serial Mom]

1. Just walked outside - like a steam room already!

This is NOT a DRY HEAT!

[Skittles]

2. I was in Philadelphia last week

I'd ask the locals IS IT ALWAYS THIS FREAKING HOT HERE and they'd say NO............WHERE DO YOU LIVE ? AND I'D ANSWER *TEXAS*. :o

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Philadelphia this coming Wednesday

Temperatures expected to be around 100F.

The Weather Channel is already running an alert.

--p!

[Skittles]

7. it was hell but it did not stop me from loving Philly

the people, the sights, the food - it's a GREAT PLACE; I LOVED IT. I was in Reading Market almost every day. :thumbsup:

[VelmaD]

3. Some free advice for y'all...

from someone who has survived 34 years of blistering Texas summers. Drink lots of water...and I mean lots. If you aren't going to pee every hour you aren't drinking enough. And if you are drinking beer...drink at least one glass of water for every beer consumed.

If you've got air conditioning...stay inside and use it. If you don't...go to the movies or somewhere else where they do.

Did I mention drink lots of water?

Be safe y'all.

[HereSince1628]

4. This will melt most Cheeseheads

We just aren't used to this. Our main physionomic response to our geography is heat retention.

I'm sure most folks here will be under AC today. But I won't be surprised if we are seeing dead people by late afternoon.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. There is no one out on my street.....

Even very little car traffic, which is unusual. I went out late morning and bought KFC for dinner. That oven is not getting lit today. Thank the gods for AC.

And I am drinking sun tea by the bucketload.

:hi:

[Serial Mom]

6. I lived in Chicago area in 1995 when over 700 died

heat related deaths - that was so sad that the city didn't see it coming.

The poor suffer the most in extreme weather - hot or cold!

When my daughter (her birthday is today! :party:) was born, we lived in inner city of Milwaukee - no AC - and it was in the mid 90's for something like 7 days in a row the week before. I sat in a baby pool outside to cool off almost daily before she arrived!

[Skittles]

8. I will never forget that picture in the paper

a young rookie cop in Chicago who had broken down after helping carry out dozens and dozens of bodies - he's leaning against his patrol car with his face in his hands and his grizzled partner has his arm on the poor guy's shoulder to console him

[joneschick]

10. the wind is picking up a little

that might help with the humidity thing. Or you could do like I did. Grow gills. 'tis truly nasty out there. Drink lots of water.

[Piltdown13]

11. Guess we got off easy...

The heat index is "just" 109 down here in central Indiana.