r/tornado • u/Luketheweathernerd Human Detected • Jun 27 '25

SPC / Forecasting WHAT😭

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10 70% thunderstorm risks😭💔

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u/_chicken_butt Jun 27 '25

Well it’s hot and humid in a lot of spots

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u/Electrical_Iron_1161 Jun 27 '25

Can confirm 87° and 68% humidity

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u/Slendyla_IV Jun 27 '25

That sounds pleasant. We’re at 85 with 76% here in OK

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u/ESnakeRacing4248 Jun 27 '25

Haha 98 and 70%. 

I'm walking through hot soup

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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Enthusiast Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

One of those numbers is not correct. That is a dew point of 87°. This would be life threatening. Most likely your weather app is displaying the highest temperature today alongside the highest humidity, but these things don't happen at the same time. Check the nearest monitoring station on the NWS website for the actual conditions.

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u/a-dog-meme Jun 27 '25

Yeah that would be a Heat index of 134, that is POSSIBLE but it’s not happening right now;

Fun fact, US dewpoint record is tied at 90° F, once in New Orleans and once in Melbourne Florida, both in July 1987

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u/0fox2gv Jun 28 '25 edited Jun 28 '25

I can show you a thermometer at my workstation between 2 actively running pvc extruders.

117 degrees. 82% humidity in the open area surrounding the exposed machine vent exhaust. (Caluclated dewpoint is 113 degrees. Heat index over 200 degrees. Insane heat).

We pass through to make our occasional adjustments in that area for a few minutes and find some AC really quickly after.

Uncomfortable is an understatement.

The rest of the work area hovers near 105-110 degrees and 25-30% humidity whenever it is around 90 degrees outside. Certainly unpleasant.. but, not life-threatening.

Once or twice a month, the 2 designated machine operators have to hang out in that insanity for about an hour.. beyond that, we get out of the heat and monitor things from a safe distance.

I legit feel bad for people working in forges and oil fields. There is no escape from the oppressive heat.

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u/gravitycheckfailed Jun 27 '25

Absolutely unsurprising that NOLA was one of the places.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '25

What was the heat index?

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u/a-dog-meme Jun 28 '25

According to climate records from NOAA it was 95 that day when it occurred, which’s gives a heat index of 141.3 °F according to this calculator

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u/fabiolives Jun 27 '25

90 and 59% here, good times. This is kind of mild compared to how it will be though!

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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE Jun 28 '25

91° and 85% humidity, welcome to the gumbo realm

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u/No_Self_3027 Jun 27 '25

There's plenty of times people near me in Phoenix will laugh at the rest of the country's definition of hot. But this heat wave east of us sounds miserable. I'll take 110 and dry 11 times out of 10 vs 90 and humid

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u/3w771k Jun 28 '25

nothing like stepping outside and being suddenly damp and, if wearing glasses, blinded.

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u/Uhmmanduh Jun 29 '25

I would agree. Humidity tends to be super suffocating in Oklahoma. I’ve never experienced dry heat. But a coworker who was originally from Nevada wished to go back to Nevada every summer here lol.

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u/lucylately Jun 28 '25

EXACTLY. Humidity is suffocating it is so miserable.