New Orleans Heat Index High Today Was 122F

[Sean in New Orleans]

It was HOT today...actual high was 99F at Audubon Park in Uptown and 97F at the Airport (a new record high). It is expected to get even hotter this weekend...Carl Arredondo says we can expect to see some triple digit highs showing up around the area over the next 3 days....Can't wait until this is over. I'm getting tired of this heat.

[PTrackerLA]

It's forecasted to be 100 or maybe even higher here on Saturday. I hate heat like this!!!!

[Ptarmigan]

I've been to New Orleans in the summer, it is really humid! It's also expected to be hot in Houston this weekend.

[CajunMama]

It's forecasted to be 100 or maybe even higher here on Saturday. I hate heat like this!!!!

Saturday AND Sunday

[BreinLa]

Hey Mama wanna go for a walk

[chadtm80]

Why walk when you can run?

[CajunMama]

I'm ready to walk, Bre! Call me!

[Sean in New Orleans]

Well, it's midnight and temps aren't looking like they will be dropping too much this evening. Looks like tomorrow will be either as hot or even hotter than today:

000
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RWRLA
LOUISIANA REGIONAL WEATHER ROUNDUP
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1200 AM CDT FRI AUG 10 2007

NOTE: "FAIR" INDICATES FEW OR NO CLOUDS BELOW 12,000 FEET WITH NO
SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AND/OR OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISIBILITY.
SKY/WX - SKY CONDITION AND SIGNIFICANT WEATHER.
TMP - AIR TEMPERATURE. DP - DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE.
RH - RELATIVE HUMIDITY. PRES - PRESSURE.
HX - HEAT INDEX. WCI - WIND CHILL INDEX.

LAZ040-048-061>063-065-066-069-100600-
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA


CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS
N.O. AUDUBON N/A 85 78 80 MISG N/A HX 96
N.O. INTL ARPT PTCLDY 84 79 85 CALM 29.96 HX 96
N.O. LAKEFRONT MOCLDY 89 76 65 SW3 29.95F HX 100
SLIDELL MOCLDY 81 79 94 CALM 29.95F FOG
BELLE CHASSE MOCLDY 81 N/A N/A CALM 29.97S
BATON ROUGE MOCLDY 83 78 85 CALM 29.96R
SALT POINT N/A 87 78 74 CALM 29.97S HX 100
BOOTHVILLE FAIR 86 79 79 SW6 29.98S HX 99

$$

LAZ041-044-053-054-100600-
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA


CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS
LAKE CHARLES NOT AVBL
LAFAYETTE CLEAR 86 78 77 CALM 29.97S HX 98
PATTERSON MOCLDY 82 75 78 CALM 29.99S
NEW IBERIA CLEAR 83 78 85 CALM 29.98R

$$

LAZ027-028-100600-
CENTRAL LOUISIANA


CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS
FORT POLK FAIR 81 75 82 CALM 29.98F
AEXANDRIA INTL PTCLDY 78 75 90 CALM 29.95F
ALEXANDRIA PTCLDY 78 75 90 CALM 29.97F FOG

$$

LAZ001-002-100600-
NORTHWEST LOUISIANA


CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS
SHREVEPORT PTCLDY 80 72 76 CALM 29.98F
BARKSDALE AFB PTCLDY 76 73 91 CALM 29.99S
DTN SHREVEPORT CLEAR 79 75 87 CALM 29.98F

$$

LAZ014-016-100600-
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA


CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS
MONROE PTCLDY 76 73 91 CALM 29.97S
TALLULAH CLEAR 73 70 90 CALM 29.96S

[Dionne]

Currently framing a new home in SW Mississippi.....about 160 miles north of NOLA. It got so damned hot the last couple of days we just shut down around 2PM. It's in a very rural area. The only water we have is a new well recently punched.....yesterday we discovered the water quality of the well had failed.....some sort of bacteria. Sometimes you just cannot win. Every August I swear I'll never work another project in the deep south during this ridiculous heat. Taking today off......!!

[BreinLa]

There will be no walking or running this weekend, it's just to dang hot, I will be in the heat on Saturday morning watching a football scrimmage (GO CAJUNS) and Sunday evening for Fan Day you coming Mama

[CajunMama]

Walk cancel for this weekend Bre. Don't know if i'm going to fan day or not. Daughter has sorority rush and she's in charge of the first days party which is sunday. I don't know if she'll be excused from ragin' jazz for sorority or not.

Make south central louisiana's forecast to be 100 saturday, sunday and monday now. I'm sweating already!

[baygirl_1]

Well, the Bay family's luck continues to be as rotten as always: the A/C unit stopped working last night! In the middle of a heat wave and we lose A/C! DH believes it's the fan motor and we're all praying it isn't the compressor (from what I've been told, the compressor is more $$ than a fan motor, we'll see...) Thank goodness the A/C man is due here shortly! He and my brother-in-law are buddies, so we're lucky in that respect (so maybe our luck ain't as bad as I think it is!). My stubborn mother absolutely refused to leave the house (we spent the night with some friends who had room for us). She would rather suffer in silence, I think. Either that or it gives her a good story to tell her friends at church tomorrow! At any rate, hopefully our bad luck will abate and the A/C man can fix our unit tout de suite! I hope no one else out there is having the same problem, though the A/C man told me they were handling massive loads of calls. Stay cool if ya can, y'all!

[baygirl_1]

Well, our A/C was repaired yesterday morning and it took our poor unit all day to recover. I am so grateful the A/C tech was able to fix it. We were melting at 9AM, I can't imagine how we would have been at 2PM!
Here's yesterday's temperature data form our local NWS:

...THE MOBILE CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 11 2007...
CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1971 TO 2000
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1842 TO 2007
WEATHER ITEM OBSERVED TIME RECORD YEAR NORMAL DEPARTURE LAST
VALUE (LST) VALUE VALUE FROM YEAR
NORMAL
..................................................................
TEMPERATURE (F)
YESTERDAY
MAXIMUM 101R 247 PM 99 1954 91 10 93
MINIMUM 79 557 AM 66 1976 72 7 74
AVERAGE 90 82 8 84

101! And our low barely dropped below 80. Today's high is expected be about as hot-- 99/100-- and we have an excessive heat warning, again. The forecast calls for highs in the upper 90s thru Tues. Then we "cool down" to the mid-90s mid-week. I can't wait for the cool spell! I'm a Southern girl, born and bred, but there just aren't enough mint juleps to handle this heat!

[rlltex]

Oh Lord, I am so sorry. Thank goodness you were able to get it fixed. I have a dog recovering from heartworm treatment. Losing my ac right now is a great fear.

[Dionne]

We hit 102F today....started at 6AM but quit at noon....spent the remainder of the day in air conditioned rooms reading magazines that have the recipients address cut out. On the way out, I noticed roofers quitting at noon.....and on the way home they were climbing back on the roof at 5PM. They got it figured out!