Hot enough for you?

Whoa, you're worse off than we are in central Florida. Stay safe!

Wow, just be careful. We're supposed to have some mid-90 degrees next week with a heat index of 100+, but it's only supposed to be for a couple of days.

I feel your discomfort.  Here in Richmond VA I see the forecast expects 103 F on July 02.  A dry heat I don't mind, it's the humidity that I hate.  Seems we have had an unusual amount of rain this summer, thunderstorms with high winds weekly, getting steamy. I lived in Ottawa ON, for 18 years in an apartment on the 19th floor.  No central AC but being up high I could catch a breeze.  However, after the first summer, buying a number of floor fans, I bought a small AC and managed to get it into a window never made to hold an AC.  My concern it would drop out of the window, or I would drop out of the window trying to secure it.  The rental company charged a one time fee of $100 each summer if you had a window AC unit because utilities were included in my rent.  That was definitely a fair price.  After all the years I rented this apt. they finally tore up all the apartments to install central AC, which I could only enjoy for my last summer in Ottawa.  So I experienced months of construction mess in my apartment only to enjoy the central AC for a few months.  Even as a child growing up in the 1950s, my family always had central AC and I will never live anyplace without central AC in the future.  In my old age, I am lucky to still have a full head of hair.  But humidity causes my hair to frizz, not acceptable.

@abaucom   The humidity has been a major factor with this heatwave and it compounds the discomfort for many of us.

In the biosphere of the Great Smoky Mountains, the heat rises to 97 or 98 F. We almost always get 100% humidity. But it is the atmospheric pressure that makes people feel bad, AND this area of east Tennessee is the capital of allergens. This large stand of deciduous trees is responsible for pollen and mold beyond belief.

Edit. I survived the summer of 1980 in Texas. Dallas - Ft. Worth. The record still stands, 4 decades later. "The 1980 Dallas - Fort Worth heat wave was a catastrophic meteorological event featuring an all-time record high of 113 °F on June 26 and again on the 27th. The summer recorded 69 triple-digit days and an unprecedented 42 consecutive days at or above 100 °F from June 23 to August 3. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

• Fatalities: The 1980 United States heat wave caused 96 deaths statewide, with 76 occurring in Dallas County alone.
• Infrastructure: NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth archives show mechanics worked mandatory overtime to fix air conditioning in city buses, and zookeepers set up continuous hoses over lion enclosures to protect wildlife.
• Historical Comparison: The 69 total days hitting ≥ 100 °F remained the record until it was broken by the summer of 2011 (71 days)."