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Heat and humidity
SW0320
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I don’t know how you guys in the south put up with it for the length of time you have it.
We are not used to it in the Northeast. It is going on a week of 90 degree heat and 80-90% humidity.
I know my father got used to it. He was a merchant marine working tankers from Alaska to Japan. So he got used to the heat. After he retired I used to go to his apartment and it was always 80-85 degrees in there.
Without AC I would not live at home I would be the first one my wife would kill if she did not have AC.
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Can't say I enjoy it, but I guess I am used to it… yesterday we got a short cold front with a little rain and it was very nice, got down to about 72 F but it is back to above 90's again today….the "real feel" says 103 and the humidity is only 53 % right now…
You just described summer in MO !!!!
I was born and raised in st. Louis. Never really thought much about the heat and humidity. Then in '77 I was at the MP school at Ft. McClellan Alabama. That was horrible hot and humid. Everyone's uniform was soaked with sweat. Looked liked we were sprayed with a hose.
The beauty part about it being hot and humid, It beats shoveling snow.
It hasn't been any where near as hot here in mid Michigan as the temps some of you are getting. A few uncomfortable 90° days a couple of weeks ago but for the most part temp wise it hasn't been terrible. My problems the last couple of weeks has been terrible dang rain. I power washed the deck in preparation to put on a new coat of finish a couple of weeks ago and it still isn't done. I want the wood good and dry and just about the time it gets there, we get just enough rain to soak it again. Yesterday it was dry but cloudy and this morning was the same and I figured I'd get started on the finish tomorrow morning. Nope, we had about 2 hours of nice light rain this afternoon. Great for my renters soy beans in the field but set my refinishing back another couple of days dammit! Bob
I am where both Carolinas and Georgia meet.We had several days this week of 100+ with the humidity making feel 118.There were a couple of days a week or so ago when the temp was near 100 and low humidity with a breeze and was like an oven.
Grew up where Wm81 lives, summer was 90 degrees and 90 percent. Now I live with, "It's a dry heat." At least here it is 5 degrees cooler in the shade. We do have the second highest occurance of melanoma in the world.
Well, the past couple of weeks, Florida has been like Hell's waiting room.
118 feels like temp yesterday and 111 today .All praise to Mr. Carrier for his invention .Growing up without air and being acclimated to it wasn't do bad I guess. 50 plus years later it is another story.
Being on the north side of the Mackinac Bridge summers are enjoyable. I know how to shovel snow.
People just adjust best they can
When I was much younger working construction ( or fill in blank for what you did or do )
Being cooked or frozen was just part of life
Growing up we just hadabox fan and even after I married we only had a fan for years
At some point we bought our first window AC
OMG it was a life-changing event
Now I can't take the really cold or hot weather It just does me in
I can't image not having AC
Or for that matter, a warm house in the winter
I have turned into a sissy in my old age
Heat and humidity seem worse in my older years. It's much worse after I was severely burned 1.5 years ago.
Now it just seems to suck the energy out of me.
Utah has quite a spread of temps. Last week, it was 106 in St George (very SW corner) and it got down to 30 in the extreme NE corner. Of course, there's about 4,000 feet of elevation change between those two.
Here in Ogden, it might brush 100 this week, with humidity in the low teens or less. Tolerable.
What I hate is going into any restaurant or doctor's office. Why do they think that having A/C means you have to have it set to Siberia? The shock going in or out can stun you.
Dude, everything is worse in our older years, except our ability to grow white hair.
Yeah, me too, started when I was 27.
I no longer grow much hair . What's left is turning grey and turning loose!
Since we're now combining hair with the weather, just remember…
It's not the head, it's the humility.
We had about 4 days of 85 degrees. Hot for us with 77% humidity.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
That one will go down in history.
Mark C would have loved it, sad to say.
Well, the temp is only mid 80's but there's still dew on the grass @ 3PM. Guess that says something about the humdidditty.
We are in upper 90s this week, with humidity 0 to 15 percent. We cool down to low 50s overnight.
I can agree with that statement.
100° right now with 18% humidity.
Still feels warm, but not truly hot.
I can still feel the heat from doing a machine start-up in Oman in 2008, 120 °F, 95% humidity for 7 solid days, working outside 10+hours a day.
Was drinking 2 gallons of water a day and lost 15 pounds during the month that I was there.
Never again.
Brad Steele
Temps in eastern nc running in high 90s to almost 100. Humidity in the 75% plus range . At 69 I can no longer tolerate the Temps for more than 15 to 20 minutes without retreating to cool off for a while .
I find that my allowable temperature band shrinks as I age. Can't take either the hot or cold any more. I read somewhere that the temp where we could be comfortable without clothes is right at 80 F. That seems about right.
We are day 3 of 111F temps here in Tucson. Not bad if you stay out of the direct sun. No idea what the humidity % is, as the local weather morons at the local stations have decided to NOT put the % now……..just the "dew point" which is incredibly helpful!
I emailed them and asked why, and they literally said "We don't know. We don't handle that here at the station."
Made me lol, but now I'm puzzled. Just WHO is deciding these things?
Merc
Mrsdeere is in Tuscon visiting her dying cousin. I'm back in Virginia dog, rabbit, and chicken sitting. I have already sweated through my belt, doing my chores.
Upper 90s all week, calling for same through next week. Won't it ever snow again???
Well here in Northern Commiforina it's been a 100% humidity every day. Your body turns into a barometer.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams