They’re playing games with us on this heat wave, again. Even Drudge. Drudge getting sucked in here. Going to be 116 in Washington. No, it’s not. It’s gonna be like 100, maybe 99. A heat index, manufactured by the government to tell you what it feels like when you add the humidity in there.
116. When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature? It hasn’t been, but it looks like they’re trying to get away with doing that now. 116. Drudge is just linking to other people reporting. He’s not saying it, I don’t want to misunderstand, but he’s linking to stories which say 116 degrees in Washington. No!
It’s going to top out as 102, 103. It does this every year. We have this every year. There’s a heat dome over half the country, midwest is moving east. And it happens every summer. Every summer.
If we want to cool things off, please, Al Gore, schedule a global warming conference, wherever, in Washington! Go there. You want that 103, 116 to get normal? It will, within an hour of Gore announcing that he’s going! Another ten degrees off when he shows up. Plus hail, and rain, and maybe some high winds to really cool people off! That’s all that has to happen.
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As someone living in the area for the summer, Limbaugh's of shit. (But you guys already know that.)
The temperatures here are at the hottest they've been in quite a while and even the long-term residents who brush off the heat can't take it.
But it's just like this dried up conservative ex-speaker of the house I saw: "Just another day in July in DC!" Asshole.
Yeah, people use the heat index instead of just the flat temperature. You know why? Because the heat index as a whole lets them know whether or not it will just be Uncle Bob making them uncomfortable at the family get together this weekend. That is to say: The Heat Index is far more useful than temperature alone.
When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature?
Never. If it is/was being reported as such then it's sloppy meteorology. But everytime I hear it mentioned on the evening news, it's always referred to as the "heat index." Much like the wind chill is frequently reported during the winter months.
It appears this is nothing more than sloppy "journalism" on Rush's part. Why does that not surprise me?
Might melt some lard, eh?
Meanwhile, we are freezing here in the south of France. I had the heating on two evenings this week. We should be 40 C +.
BTW, when is the US going to adopt Celsius, Kilometres etc?
A heat index, manufactured by the government to tell you what it feels like when you add the humidity in there.
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When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature?
How the hell do you answer your own question and then ask it afterwards? Of course it's not an actual temperature reading because it accounts for humidity and other factors which, last I checked, most thermometers don't do.
Dear Rush,
Shut the fuck up.
If you'd stop opening that big yap of yours every chance you get there wouldn't be so much hot air blowing around.
At the very least you could put your foot back in your mouth where it usually is to plug up your gaping maw and prevent at least a little bit of the hot air from escaping.
Yes, it does get hot every summer. However, this summer has had more days over 100 degrees than in previous years. While this in itself is not evidence of global warming, it certainly supports it. If you don't understand the heat index, then STFU about it until you learn.
And while I'm no fan of Al Gore, it's funny how he becomes the conservatives' whipping boy whenever global warming comes up.
Moan, whinge, whine, BAWWWWWWWWW! Change the track on the CD, Limburger, that one's getting old extremely fast.
Complain about global warming when it is , say there's no such thing when you get a really bad winter.
Show a little consistency, you fat blubberbag right-wing hypocrite. Or better still, get skin cancer - the malignamt kind - and put yourself out of our misery, you subhuman.
The heat index was developed by George Winterling, who worked for WJXT, a private television station in Jacksonville, FL. It was adopted by the National Weather Service a year later.
Heat Index: not a government conspiracy.
"When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature?"
It hasn't, as you even admit, because IT'S NOT THE ACTUAL TEMPERATURE, IT'S THE HEAT INDEX.
@Xotan:
BTW, when is the US going to adopt Celsius, Kilometres etc? "
We tried that in 1976. The fundies had a riot about a communist plot to destroy the US.
How long have weather reports included a humidity adjusted value (or humidex). Decades at least. Certainly long before global climate change became an issue.
Get with the program, Rush. You're complaining about shit that's been around for a generation. What next? You'll gripe about the Alaska purchase?
Hottest july ever.
Last july was also the hottest on record.
The july before that was also the hottest on record.
Three consecutive years of record highs might be just a fluke though....
Lets look at the past TEN years...
Ten consecutive years of record highs... that's every year a bit hotter than the last year.
Screw off Rush.
To paraphrase Principal Max Anderson from Billy Madison ,
"Mr. Limbaugh, what you've just said... Is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent rant, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Every one of your drooling followers is now even dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
Who is "they," and be specific about what station reported the heat index instead of the thermometer temperature.
Even the right-wing "liberal media debunkers" concede that at least 34 all-time high temperature records were broken last week.
Check out the difference in hardiness zones between 1990 and 2006:
http://www.arborday.org/media/map_change.cfm
I'm waiting to hear what the righties will say when we have dengue fever in Washington D.C. We already have West Nile virus.
"And it happens every summer. Every summer. "
Yup, thousands of temperature records are broken every Summer these days you stupid piece of bloviating shit.
The heat index is "manufactured" by the government? Is everything Republicans don't like manufactured by the government, now? And that makes it bad? Seriously, has Rush totally lost it now? Not that he ever had it to begin with...
Currently weatherchannel.com says it's 89 degrees out, but feels like 100 degrees. So, yanno, it's kinda useful to know if you're going to sweat your ass off if you're going outside.
@ Mister Spak:
Surely we can't blame EVERYTHING bad on the fundies, can we?
@ Headache:
Was it necessary to specify that your hypothetical speaker was an American? Nope, it wasn't. Bigoted asshole.
I can't tell any difference between Rush Slimeball and Alex Jones these days - except Jones is a lot more entertaining. Rush's schtick just seems washed up and outdated.
Headache, what does his nationality have to do with him making an idiotic statement? There are people in your country who have said dumb things, too.
Global warming has nothing to do with local temperatures, so he's just setting up a straw man for his moron audience who doesn't know any better. Anyway, prior to 2011 at Dulles, there was one day in 2008 that topped 100 in 2008, three in 1999 and one each in 1993 and 1995, so it certainly doesn't top out at 102, 103 every year - he just pulled that out of his ass.
When’s the last time the heat index was reported as an actual temperature?
Every weather report I've ever heard gives both. The heat index takes humidity into account. Humidity retards sweating and prevents the body from cooling itself. 113 in Las Vegas is nowhere near as bad as 100 in NJ - trust me - I've experienced both!
He's getting paid millions for this crap. If amount of pay really scaled to the usefulness of job and this fat sack'o'crap is getting what he deserves, then every unemployed person alive would be able to buy gold-plated caviar for every meal and pay sixteen Swedish supermodels to deliver it to them in a platinum jet, give them 36 blowjobs in a row, then take a permanent vacation to the moon in a secret colony designed by the reanimated head of Andy Worhol.
The heat index is an index that combines air temperature and relative humidity in an attempt to determine the human-perceived equivalent temperaturehow hot it feels. The result is also known as the "felt air temperature" or "apparent temperature". For example, when the temperature is 90 °F (32 °C) with very high humidity, the heat index can be about 105 °F (41 °C).
The heat index is defined so as to equal the actual air temperature when the partial pressure of water vapor is equal to a baseline value of 1.6 kPa. At standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa), this baseline corresponds to a dew point of 14 °C (57 °F) and a mixing ratio of 0.01 (10 g of water vapor per kilogram of dry air).[2] This corresponds to an air temperature of 25 °C (77 °F) and relative humidity of 50% in the sea-level psychrometric chart.
How hot it feels, based on the humidity...what fucking units do you think should be used then? Square inches? Feet? Furlongs per fortnight?
Morons.
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