To hell with this ...

lancpudn said:

We've been in our usual 21C-23C, 70F-73F Summer temps here & that's sweaty enough for us Lancastrians.

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sounds like our 15 minutes of spring and fall on each end of summer before we plunge back into deep freeze for the remaining 7.5 months of the year.

My niece from northern Illinois sent me a text and said keep your weather down there in AZ. I replied that they will be sweating their asses off and we won't. 72° here again this morning with very low humidity. Low 100's by 3pm. I don't mis those miserable humid days and the mosquito attracting sweat. Then the cloudy cold winters that go on forever.......

I'll be visiting there in about one month. Hope it's cooler then that what they're getting now but I won't bet on it. Family is the only reason I go there.

You will never hear me complain about heat in summer in Michigan. I have ac and live here.

Sister back from Higgins Lake; she said it was SO humid Thursday.
When she 'all caps', she means it.

Lewis & Clark memoirs said the most miserable part of the journey was Missouri mosquitoes.

Olds442 said:

I'm convinced that the houses down here are made of concrete, because the wood would have already burst into flames.

Sure, hurricanes, whatever.

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I lived in Ft Worth for 3 years. Most houses were on concrete slabs. An we had to water our houses in the summer

I'd rather bake than freeze.
Some like it hot...that would be me.

I'm working in Qatar right now.

It was 115 at one point this week.

I prefer cold to heat, but I prefer having a job to being broke.

When I got in my car yesterday at 17:00



Once I got rolling and the air-conditioning caught up:

coffeecupman said:

I'm working in Qatar right now.

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What kinda work you do in the sandbox?

In Suburban DC we are in a week long 90s + heatwave. It isn't so bad. As long as it doesn't rain, I can handle the heat. It is super humid, too. I can handle it as long as that doesn't rain.

We had about a day and a half of lower humidity last week. I caught a nice cool breeze under the awning at the gas pump while I was filling up. Cheap thrills.

Same up here( southern ontario). I am enjoying being off for a month...and being paid.

I posted about my AC issues a while back.
Finally isolated the problem( and a work-around), the digital controller. AC working just fine.

... just in time. The last month has been a cooker. it's hot and humid here all last week, and till tuesday(40C with humidity/ 104 fahreheit)...bring on the fall weather, x2.

Leee said:

What kinda work you do in the sandbox?

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Marine seismic exploration.

coffeecupman said:

Marine seismic exploration.

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Ah, very cool.

Closest I got to that sorta thing was with Eastport International - then Oceaneering - a couple of companies I did regular crane work for in the early nineties in Houston.

Robotic submersibles.
We were at their yard all the time, loading and unloading 18-wheelers, and at the Port of Houston or Freeport to get ‘em on and off of various ships.
Anytime of the day or night.

Mostly petroleum related, but some of their work was Defense Department stuff.

Really interesting.

Those feelz like temps are BS IMO. A feel like temp of 100° in Illinois is a fuck load more uncomfortable than a feel like temp of 100° in Arizona. Much different.

pnuggett said:

Those feelz like temps are BS IMO. A feel like temp of 100° in Illinois is a fuck load more uncomfortable than a feel like temp of 100° in Arizona. Much different.

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I agree.

Same with wintertime “wind-chill-factor”. Wind-chill-factor?!?!




It’s 9* outside when they start talking wind-chill-factor.

Weatherman: “ It’s nine degrees Fahrenheit today, but the wind will make it seem like -5* “

Me: “It’s nine degrees out, does this moron think I’m going outside naked?!”

pnuggett said:

Those feelz like temps are BS IMO.

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That’s what I’ve been saying for 40 years.
And it keeps getting used more and more.
(Because we keep getting dumber)

It’s easy, umkay?

What’s the dewpoint temperature?
You gotta know this number.

OK, what’s the ambient temperature?

The closer together they are, the more you’re gonna sweat.
Especially with no breeze.

And anytime you have a dewpoint over 70 degrees? You’re gonna sweat regardless of what the weatherman’s “feels like” bullshit says.

70 dewpoint with an ambient temperature of 75, that’s close enough for fog to form. STICKY.

70 dewpoint with an ambient temperature of 95, the dewpoint spread is still narrow so the air is still largely saturated - with the additional bonus of the air being too hot to cool you. STICKY.

Add some hot sun?
And no wind?
Miserable as fuck.

Humidity amplifies temperature extremes.
A 40-degree morning in the desert?
With a dewpoint around zero - or less?

If there’s no wind, you can wear shorts and a t-shirt.

I did it for 15 years in Arizona.