It's a beautiful Saturday morning, the sun is shining, the temperature is in the low 80's and there's a gun show in Des Moines............... gee what a dilemma, I wonder what I should do today 8)
Aaaah! You're going there to protest & picket - right? :o
Similar conditions here, except I'm booked until 4:00 helping my younger son pack for a 1 week sleep over camp. My older boy already left for 11 days canoeing in NY's Adirondack mountains. We'll be empty nesters for a week 8) 8) 8) with a little :-[ towards the end.
Here we have clearly entered summer, 90 every day and the usual end-of-afternoon thunderstorm.. It's a bit muddy.. Can't wait for the winter and the promise of more camping without too much heat or mosquitoes..
Gil.
Quote from: gil on June 30, 2013, 12:08:57 PM
Here we have clearly entered summer, 90 every day and the usual end-of-afternoon thunderstorm.. It's a bit muddy.. Can't wait for the winter and the promise of more camping without too much heat or mosquitoes..
Gil.
Winter!?!!? I don't think that's very appropriate language for a public forum Gil! 8)
Although late summer here in Iowa when it's in the high 90's every day with 4,000,000% humidity levels, I tend to reflect your sentiment. Of course six months following that I'm cussing 10 below zero temps and all that damned white stuff (It's called snow Gil, a form of frozen precipitation. I'll send you a picture next winter so you'll recognize it ;D)
The humidity here is such that to be any more damp, I'd have to go swimming. I'm fundamentally a Norseman, so this Southern weather is still not my idea of a good time. We had - MAYBE- two days of Spring and went straight from gales and rain to heat and humidity. Still, it's nothing compared to Borneo... BT&DT.
>de RadioRay ..._ ._
Quote from: gil on June 30, 2013, 12:08:57 PMCan't wait for the winter...
I'm with Chris; that's got to be a violation of ToS.
:D
I second Gil with last 3 days of weather I have been having winter would be very nice. Fridays high was 106, Saturday 108, today we are looking at 110. Possibly next weekend we will drop to the high 90's.
Joe
Brutal Joe!
Well, it's so humid here, if it wasn't so hot, you wouldn't even have to drink any water!
Gil.
The first thing I noticed when I first went to the desert south west during July was the complete lack of humidity. I vividly remember when it hit almost 100 degrees one day, had I not seen the temp on a thermometer with my own two eyes I wouldn't have believed it, it was not in any way 'hot' like the miserable high humidity heat I was used to. Sure, standing out in the open sun was hot but stand in the shade and I could feel a huge temperature drop and the breeze blowing on my sweaty shirt cooled me very quickly. When I returned home and stepped off the air conditioned train in Kansas City the sweltering, inescapable, sticky humidity welcomed me back to the midwest like a punch in the face. In a nut shell, high humidity sucks!!
Yes - I used to love south west Texas - near San Angelo ("FORT" Goodfellow - ha ha) because it could be 110F and be shirt sleeve weather, but not much more. It felt GOOD, because there was no humidity problem. No mildew either - it died of thirst.
It was the same out at China Lake, Ca. Cleeeeeeear skies, comfortable weather, winter or summer, because the humidity was so low. Plenty of go=go juice for a solar panel too. ;^)
>RadioRay ..._ ._
Death Valley, 2011:
Normally it wouldn't be so bad, usually humidity runs around 12% on these 100+ degree days, but this time it's running 24 - 30%. So no relief by staying in the shade. It reminds me of work trips to Missouri in the summer. This just sucks !!!
73
Joe
The humidity here is a measured 80%.
Ray
Quote from: Joe on July 01, 2013, 02:04:00 AM
Normally it wouldn't be so bad, usually humidity runs around 12% on these 100+ degree days, but this time it's running 24 - 30%. So no relief by staying in the shade. It reminds me of work trips to Missouri in the summer. This just sucks !!!
73
Joe
24-30%!?! That'd be like heaven on earth!
Quote from: KK0G on July 01, 2013, 03:18:41 PM
24-30%!?! That'd be like heaven on earth!
No kidding, we got (or rather I USED to work at a place that had) evaporator fans going to full time some days trying to get it down that low for the non-human occupants of the building.
San Antonio and the Beltway area can be brutal - there is no money that would get me to return to either one.
At least at Lackland they had a static'd B-52 which provided some shade outside the building.
My sister in Phoenix sent me a picture of her cars digital thermostat - pegged at 118!
That whole "but it's a dry heat" kinda loses any effect - I think the body can't tell a lot of difference between 118 with 20% humidity... and 98 with 90% humidity...at that point, it doesnt matter if its a wet or dry hear - hot is hot...
But there's absolutely nothing like standing still and sweating, stepping from your front door to your front porch and having your glasses instantly fog up...
And to be swarmed by monster mosquitoes - alerted to fresh meat - with every exhale.
Oh well, at least the Q-Tips have gone home ;-)
Ahh, the "Sunshine State" in summa....
Quote from: White Tiger on July 03, 2013, 06:12:34 PM
My sister in Phoenix sent me a picture of her cars digital thermostat - pegged at 118!
That whole "but it's a dry heat" kinda loses any effect - I think the body can't tell a lot of difference between 118 with 20% humidity... and 98 with 90% humidity...at that point, it doesnt matter if its a wet or dry hear - hot is hot...
But there's absolutely nothing like standing still and sweating, stepping from your front door to your front porch and having your glasses instantly fog up...
And to be swarmed by monster mosquitoes - alerted to fresh meat - with every exhale.
Oh well, at least the Q-Tips have gone home ;-)
Ahh, the "Sunshine State" in summa....
I've never experienced 118 F low humidity temperatures so I can't really compare. What I do know is that even at 118 F, evaporative cooling still works when the humidity is low, i.e. - sweating works. When the humidity is sky high sweating doesn't have much cooling effect, it just makes you sweaty, slimy, stinky and stick to vinyl like duct tape :P
Quote from: KK0G on July 03, 2013, 08:01:33 PMit just makes you sweaty, slimy, stinky and stick to vinyl like duct tape :P
Hmm... after all these years, now I understand what my main squeeze was cryin' about.
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Lots vinyl back there. Yup, yup.
I feel sorry for my 2 boys. They are away at camps this week. Typical, old school cabins with just screen windows. Between the rain, heat and 100% humidity nights I'm going to have to scrape the mold off them with a putty knife before I let them in my car.
Quote from: KK0G on July 03, 2013, 08:01:33 PM
Quote from: White Tiger on July 03, 2013, 06:12:34 PM
My sister in Phoenix sent me a picture of her cars digital thermostat - pegged at 118!
That whole "but it's a dry heat" kinda loses any effect - I think the body can't tell a lot of difference between 118 with 20% humidity... and 98 with 90% humidity...at that point, it doesnt matter if its a wet or dry hear - hot is hot...
But there's absolutely nothing like standing still and sweating, stepping from your front door to your front porch and having your glasses instantly fog up...
And to be swarmed by monster mosquitoes - alerted to fresh meat - with every exhale.
Oh well, at least the Q-Tips have gone home ;-)
Ahh, the "Sunshine State" in summa....
I've never experienced 118 F low humidity temperatures so I can't really compare. What I do know is that even at 118 F, evaporative cooling still works when the humidity is low, i.e. - sweating works. When the humidity is sky high sweating doesn't have much cooling effect, it just makes you sweaty, slimy, stinky and stick to vinyl like duct tape :P
Yes...to that point...she has an evaporative cooling system that sprays a mist on the fan compressor just as the fans kick on. The intake puts enough humidity into the air that the AC unit actually works...
That's wanting it pretty bad...