It's So Wicked Hot

I can't believe how hot it's been here the last couple of weeks. Tonight when I came home at about 6:30 the bank clock said 103 degrees. Last night when I went out to watched Chad's softball game around 7:00 it was over 100 degrees. The absolute worst was Sunday, when we had a softball game at 6 p.m. and it was 97 degrees, but the humidity was super high and there was absolutely no wind. I honestly can't remember ever being that hot! Somehow it felt so much worse than the subsequent days of 100+ temps, and when I checked the "past observations" on Intellicast.com, I understood why. This is what I found:

If you plug that into this handy dandy heat index calculator that I found on the web you come up with a heat index 111-112 degrees. That's with 0 mph wind with 0 mph gusts, on a ridiculously dry ball field. It was so miserable, I thought my skin was going to burst into flames at any second. Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating just a tad, but it was still awful!

Chad missed out on this miserable experience because he was baking in some miserable Midwest heat of his own. He was in Tulsa watching Tiger win the PGA Championship on Saturday and Sunday. While it was super duper hot in Tulsa as well, Intellicast tells me that on Sunday in Tulsa, the heat index was only 105-106, and there was a breeze of 7 m.p.h. While Chad couldn't have been quite as hot as we were on the ball field, he certainly had to endure this weather for a much longer period as he walked all over the Southern Hills golf course for two days. By drinking about 15 bottles of water each day, Chad and his friend Dante survived the hottest PGA major on record:

HOT TIMES

Sunday's high temperature in Tulsa, Okla., reached 102 degrees, officially making the 2007 PGA Championship the hottest Grand Slam event on record.

The four-day average maximum stood at 101.0, with every day registering triple digits.

Sunday appeared even hotter at Southern Hills. Shortly after Tiger Woods teed off Sunday, TV cameras showed a thermometer on the course pointing just shy of 110.

Not that Tulsa wasn't already atop the charts. According to a study commissioned by Golf World magazine, the previous hottest major was the 1970 PGA at Southern Hills, where the average high was 100.3.

In fact, four of the seven hottest majors in history now have been held at Southern Hills. The 1982 PGA ranks fifth (97.0 degrees), with the 1958 U.S. Open tied for sixth (96.6).

While that's not really a record they enjoyed being a part of, since Chad is such a big Tiger fan, I think it was all worth it for him to see Tiger win!