It's 104F and I can't stand it!

[kwitte]

For the third day in a row, the temperature reached 104F here in central Texas and I've had enough. Although the Super Cub won't be out of the refurb hospital for a few more weeks, we are gonna load up the bonanza and fly north until the daytime high is 75 or less. We are leaving Saturday and planning to spend a couple of days in Alamosa, Colorado visiting family. After that, we'll fly to somewhere in the Idaho Falls area for the remainder of next week. If anyone has any suggestions on places to visit, camp, fish, hang out or explore, I would really appreciate it.

[sburg58]

We left Houston yesterday, it was 85 at 5 am, going to 102, same as it was the day before. Arrived in Eastern Washington at 1pm, 51 degrees and raining, perfect temperature for us!

[55-PA18A]

Well,...you could put on more gas and just keep coming north.

Jim W.

BRISTOL BAY-
INCLUDING...KING SALMON...DILLINGHAM...NAKNEK...PILOT POINT
400 PM AKDT WED JUN 27 2012

.TONIGHT...CLOUDY. SCATTERED SHOWERS NORTH OF KING SALMON. AREAS OF
FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S TO MID 40S. SOUTHWEST WIND
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY...PATCHY MORNING FOG. MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S TO LOWER 60S. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS. AREAS OF
FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S TO MID 40S. SOUTHWEST WIND
10 TO 15 MPH.

[CloudDancer]

I'll SEE your 104 degrees and RAISE you FIVE (109 @ 6:31 P.M.) AND a pair or HABOOBS! (*)

DON'T GO WEST young man!

CloudDancer

(*) No. A pair of HABOOBS does not mean a set of entertaining bountious breasticles. A HABOOB is a desert sand or duststorm!

[jk]

Ha, I've made some comments on this forum about the Texas heat from time to time (all in jest by the way), but boy I guy needs a pool in this place or at least a deep lake. I do like Texas! Kinda like a baby bro to AK. HA!

[n40ff]

Even @ only 95 last week I rode the motorcycle to airport and flew open cockpit Spezio, both too $#@$ hot....I"ve put my boyhood memories of 100+ weeks @ a time into subconsious, don't know how I kept from melting.......I remember they said a kid down the street did melt but I didn't believe them....

[Steve Pierce]

95 last week was not so bad, 106 last two days makes working in the hanger miserable. Not as bad as last year though. AK in the summer and winter in Texas?

[180Marty]

106 last two days

I always worry about sweating around my plane for fear of corrosion-----I'm probably as salty as the Florida coast.

[n40ff]

I always worry about sweating around my plane for fear of corrosion-----I'm probably as salty as the Florida coast.

Been there/done that. I was sweating when working on front cockpit cover on Spezio and didn't take great care when I skuffed it before painting....now my perfect forearm print can just be seen under paint....oh well. Just a few more hours of phase 1 and cover will likely remain in dusty corner of hangar.....

[kwitte]

95 last week was not so bad, 106 last two days makes working in the hanger miserable. Not as bad as last year though. AK in the summer and winter in Texas?

I'm with you Steve. We leave Texas in June... I'll teach tailwheel and you can fix the "uh-oh's"!

[aktango58]

Wore a coat this evening, still cool, about 50... will be hot it looks like, 65 or 70maybe

Think cool thoughts

[sierra bravo]

AK in the summer and winter in Texas?

It doesn't suck.

An occasional trip to 100* weather is a treat for me. Especially considering what a crap summer Alaska is providing so far. 48*, low, fuzzy, gray, and raining hard today. When it stops raining the bugs will be aggressive. All the rivers and creeks are blown, running bank full. The king salmon season is a disaster. Be careful what you wish for.

[N5126H]

It doesn't suck.

An occasional trip to 100* weather is a treat for me. Especially considering what a crap summer Alaska is providing so far. 48*, low, fuzzy, gray, and raining hard today. When it stops raining the bugs will be aggressive. All the rivers and creeks are blown, running bank full. The king salmon season is a disaster. Be careful what you wish for.

SB:

Stop complaining. We are not burning up like the folks in Colo or under water like the folks in Fla, and besides we had summer last Friday and Saterday. Did you miss it?

Bill

[sierra bravo]

Saturday was especially nice. The breeze came up and knocked the bugs down. Sadly for me they took refuge and set up shop inside the cabin! Come Friday afternoon I'll head right back for more. But a couple of days on the golf course in 100* weather sounds nice, too. No complaining here. The adventure continues. Life is good!

[aktango58]

SB:

Stop complaining. We are not burning up like the folks in Colo or under water like the folks in Fla, and besides we had summer last Friday and Saterday. Did you miss it?

Bill

We got sunday also down here!!!

This is the year I have been hoping for... big winter with lots of snow to shovel early, cold late summer with lots of rain.

Come fall, the U-hauls will be going south and for sale signs on houses from people that came up here because the like the weather and alaska way of life so much

Now when we get the real weather, they are talking about moving back... I encourage it. Get rid of them folks that think we need to regulate everything. Let them leave and bring back the normal!

SB, I die in 100 degrees. 65 is just fine for me, 75 and I heat rash!

[sierra bravo]

Kona. 82* almost every day of the year. Blue skies, blue seas, great Mai Tais, and fishing isn't bad. Paradise, no doubt. Spend enough time there and it becomes ordinary. You long for something different. We're a fickle species.

[aktango58]

Kona. 82* almost every day of the year. Blue skies, blue seas, great Mai Tais, and fishing isn't bad. Paradise, no doubt. Spend enough time there and it becomes ordinary. You long for something different. We're a fickle species.

How true!!!

What kind of fish?

[txpacer]

Took the dog for her evening stroll at the airport about sunset last night. Couldn't have been more than 98º. Very nice.

[Steve Pierce]

Ha, ya gotta go at 6 am, pretty nice. We started coming in at 6 am.

[cafi19]

We've got it here too. Had a thunderstorm roll through first thing this morning. Didn't cool things down but it sure spiked the humidity. Darn. And it HAD been so nice.

cafi

[Steve Pierce]

I'll take our dry 100 over your humid 90 any day.

[Cajun Joe]

Steve,
Come stay at my place.
72 in the day... 68 at night.
('course, outside its a bitch)

[Steve Pierce]

Joe, ya gotta enough room in your living room to put a Super Cub together? Sue won't mind will she? Packing right now.

[Roger Peterson]

Just land at the Atikokan airport and give us a call. Will be there in 30 min to pick you up. Plenty of fishing and other refreshments. So far, never met a Supercubber I didn't like and have a lot of hospitality to repay. Come on up.

[mongo]

Its 104 in Indiana, go waaayy north

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[Cajun Joe]

Steve,
Sue said bring the family;
leave the cub.
Just bought new carpet.

[OLDCROWE]

Steve you just have to decide what that production time is worth... Last summer we had a client rent one of these to (partially) cool a pair of 120x24x24 blast and paint paint booths when it was 116 but they only pulled it down to 90 at peak temps!

http://www.movincool.com/portable-ai...classic60.php/

All kidding aside maybe some friend in the HVAC supply business could get his buddy a "Bro-Deal" on maybe a scratch and dent 15 (or better yet) a 20 ton ground unit that you could blast through the wall and if combined with a big-ass fan http://www.bigassfans.com/applicatio...manufacturing/
to de-stratfy the air and you'd be able make good hot weather production and to diversify your business by sheltering lost penguins...

Just trying to help,

Kirby
Aka OkieEngineering

[aktango58]

and you'd be able make good hot weather production and to diversify your business by sheltering lost penguins...

Just trying to help,

Kirby
Aka OkieEngineering

I am wiping tears from my eyes!!!!!!

Rained so hard here today that in 1.5 hours I was wet to the armpits... wearing full rain gear and being in the truck half the time!

and it was about 50...

Come on up here Steve. Bring the cub, lots of shop space for you... or just work on mine

[kwitte]

Thanks everyone. We are loading the bonanza today and leaving early tomorrow for Hailey, Idaho. We'll make a couple of fuel stops along the way and hope to arrive by late afternoon depending on weather, wind, smoke, TFRs, etc. We will pick up a rent car and drive to Smiley Creek for a couple of days before moving. We plan to visit several area airports including Garden Valley, McCall and Stanley to gather info for a trip next summer in the Super Cub.

[courierguy]

Thanks everyone. We are loading the bonanza today and leaving early tomorrow for Hailey, Idaho. We'll make a couple of fuel stops along the way and hope to arrive by late afternoon depending on weather, wind, smoke, TFRs, etc. We will pick up a rent car and drive to Smiley Creek for a couple of days before moving. We plan to visit several area airports including Garden Valley, McCall and Stanley to gather info for a trip next summer in the Super Cub.

Stanley is often the coldest spot in the lower 48. West Yellowstone has a great pilots campground, and it is also almost always colder then anywhere else, competing with Stanley. Much cooler on average then JC or the other places mentioned. I got snowed on years ago on July 4th while camped at West, 4"!

[btracy]

Well Summer is over in Ohio. 68 degrees this morning. Time to put the long johns back on. It was nice to enjoy the two days of 90 degree weather.

[mvivion]

Heck, take the Bonanza into Smiley Creek. Great airport, just mind the DA.

MTV

[Fuel]

Stop all your whining about the heat, you live in the south, now take it...

[sierra bravo]

Out here in Alaska this morning it's 46*, severe clear, and not a breath of wind. For now the day looks promising. The mosquitoes are in their war rooms strategizing on how to draw blood from the enemy. A few degrees warmer and the battle will commence. Wish us luck.

[kwitte]

Thanks Mike. We may fly into Smiley Creek, but we have a rent car reserved in Hailey so we can move around. We're sorta making it up as we go.

Ken

[Steve Pierce]

Have fun Ken. My first airplane came from Hailey. Bought the Clipper up there and trailered it back, neither of us had a pilot's license yet. Pretty place.

[kwitte]

Just landed about an hour ago in Lamar, CO. It is still 104F on the ramp. There are big T'storms to the north so the FBO will tuck the airplane in a hangar for the night. We plan to leave early tomorrow morning for Idaho.

Ken

[Steve Pierce]

Had a stuck valve there on our way to Alaska the spring before past. Great folks.

[aktango58]

55 this morning...

might get clear up to 65 by afternoon! Better get out my sun block, light shirt and plan on umbrella drinks

[sierra bravo]

55 this morning...

might get clear up to 65 by afternoon! Better get out my sun block, light shirt and plan on umbrella drinks

Any fish down your way? We've had a horrible King run in Cook Inlet. Just about everything's closed. I hooked a dime bright King on Saturday while fishing 'bows. Awful late for such a bright fish. Pinks, Chums, and Silvers should show up any day!