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godfry n. glad

07-23-2006, 03:40 AM

Well...yeah...around here 85 is hot.

Around these parts, it clouded over today and the temp dropped about 15 degrees from the 104 yesterday. Of course, the humidity rose from 23% on Friday to 51% on Saturday. Stuffy, it is. (But still nothing compared to DC or Nashville....which I've experienced and can compare.)

Annie

07-23-2006, 03:41 AM

Damn its HOT!! (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/)

I just had to say that one more time today.

Drats, I had to be in class today (instead of in our nicely-cooled :D Ice-rink).

Yup, yesterday it got to 96-degrees around here :onfire: - (and while that's mild, for the humid-hell called Florida we barely survived.)

When is it ever gonna get back to *normal*...:yup: Please, dear God!

Annie

Plant Woman

07-23-2006, 05:22 AM

The reason its so hot is because of the humidity. I can take 105°F of dry heat in Arizona and fly to Hawaii and feel hotter getting of the plane when its 86°F and 80% humidity. I don't know how much humidity we had today but it wasn't fun.

Anastasia Beaverhausen

07-23-2006, 06:17 AM

EsoCyn

07-23-2006, 06:33 AM

Pussies.

In Houston, constant humidity coupled with 100+ temps nearly every day. That was when I lived down there 8 years ago. I'm so glad I live in the Hill Country now. But, the Floridian knows what I'm talking about.

Plant Woman

07-23-2006, 06:59 AM

I know we can't take it, but you have to remember that we aren't used to it. For us its like one of those days you are talking about. Your blood is probably thinner. :giggles:

I need to go talk to Ymir's Blood about this. :eek:

PamelaMe

07-23-2006, 07:28 AM

it keeps cloudy for a couple days here.....maybe a typhoon could bring you a cool wheather!in a hot summer day,typhoon's a best air-condition

pescifish

07-23-2006, 07:40 AM

119:degrees: with thunderstorms today

PamelaMe

07-23-2006, 07:52 AM

wow!!
why???doesnt it rain heavily there???

lisarea

07-23-2006, 08:00 AM

I hate hot. I don't think it was even 90F today, but I still almost got killed from it.

And we practically never get above 20% humidity, either. (Our weather station doesn't register below 20%, so everything's either "above" or "below.")

I'm just a big dumb baby. I can't take it.

SharonDee

07-23-2006, 02:44 PM

Our heat wave has broken here. It was a lovely 60:degrees:F at 7:00 a.m. I hope that repeats tomorrow morning for a nice start to the week.

freemonkey

07-23-2006, 03:18 PM

I know we can't take it, but you have to remember that we aren't used to it. For us its like one of those days you are talking about. :
That's right. I used to live in the Chicago area, where they know how to do weather extremes. Hot, humid summers and cold, slushy winters. I hated that weather, but I dealt with it.

My first year or two here I made fun of all the weather whiners. "Its too hot." "I'm freeeeeezing (on this 45 degree day)." Then I acclimated.

Goldie

07-23-2006, 03:30 PM

We had like 99 in the shade, yesterday and that is unusual for us. Thankfully it is a dry heat. I have lived in Detroit and Florida and I know that humidity makes ALL of the difference. If we EVER get the heat/humid combo we don't know what to do around here. We just aren't used to it. It is supposed to be in the 100s today. I think I'll spend the day "On Goldie's Pond"
We have a huge pond (30 ft. deep...that takes up almost an acre) very close to the front of the house. It is only a few years old, but it has finally settled and the water is clear and smells AWESOME! So, yesterday...I took my first swim in it...just me and the turtles! :) It's like having lake front property...well ALMOST!
COOL!

Watser?

07-23-2006, 03:45 PM

We are having the hottest summer I can remember. We have been having temperatures of over 30 degrees C for a week or more and before that it already was pretty hot. We have annual four-day marches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Four_Days_Marches_Nijmegen) here (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and this time on the first day 30 people were hospitalized, two of them died, so they cancelled the rest of the marches. Today we had a bit of rain, but we are gonna have this kind of weather for weeks it is thought. The same in most of Europe.

Leesifer

07-23-2006, 05:02 PM

Yep. Its hotter than Hades here too.

Nights are the worst though because it doesn't really cool down that much and there's no breeze.

Smilin

07-23-2006, 05:24 PM

/me doesn't feel like going outside to check on the heat and humidity.

Plant Woman

07-23-2006, 05:53 PM

Another problem is that many of us don't have air conditioned homes, because we normally don't have that much heat to warrant it.

I wonder how many airconditioned units were sold the last few days?

godfry n. glad

07-23-2006, 06:02 PM

Prolly a lot, PW. This is the worst time of year to buy an air conditioner, though. I bought mine in March of last year...knowing that I'd love it, because I'm such a heat wimp (being a long-time local).

Yesterday it hit 90:degrees:F (14:degrees: cooler than the day before), but the humidity rose from 23% to 51%. Last night at 11:30, the temp was 85:degrees:F. This morning at 6 am, it was 78:degrees:F. Today, the overcast of Saturday is gone. I expect temps to rise to near 100:degrees:F today, but the humidity will prolly go down.

It looks like it's going to be slow cooling over a week or more. :sweaty:

Plant Woman

07-23-2006, 06:08 PM

My first year or two here I made fun of all the weather whiners. "Its too hot." "I'm freeeeeezing (on this 45 degree day)." Then I acclimated.

I lived in Hawaii for seven years and when I came back to the Northwest I was freezing when it was in the low 70s. I wore a sweatshirt all summer long. It is all about acclimation. We have friends from Minnesota that laugh when we say its cold here.

pescifish

07-23-2006, 07:24 PM

wow!!
why???doesnt it rain heavily there???I live in the mountains separating Los Angeles from the desert to the north. Yesterday my own thermometer in the shade of my patio registered 115:degrees: -- the 119:degrees: temp was recorded in the valley below. California deserts get hot, but I think Nevada and Arizona are typically the really hot spots in the U.S..

We don't get much rain in the desert, usually 5-10 inches a year. And usually our humidity is around 10% (very dry). But, in the summer we do get some spectacular lightning/thunderstorms. The heat is much easier to deal with when the humidity is low. Where I work in the middle of the desert, there is usually a stiff breeze that helps the body's perspiration action work effectively.

Luckily, we are outfitted with air conditioning in just about all the buildings. I agree with the folks talking about how people can get acclimated to the weather where they live, whether it is extreme or mild.

Watser?

07-23-2006, 08:35 PM

Yep. Its hotter than Hades here too.

Nights are the worst though because it doesn't really cool down that much and there's no breeze.

Yeah

But tonight there IS a breeze here :joecool:

Temperature in here has dropped 1.5 degrees in an hour and it's not even dark yet :woohoo: :yahoo:

godfry n. glad

07-23-2006, 09:18 PM

I agree, Pesci.

I generally compare Washington, DC, to Lost Wages, NV. I live in a very moderate climate with very short, punctuated extremes of both hot and cold. They become local "weather events" with reporters on every stinkin' corner. So, Washington, built on a swamp as it is, is humid with almost any rise in temperature. In the summer, it hovers around 70-80% for weeks on end, and temps fluctuate from the high 70s to the 90s. Stepping outdoors there is like having a hot moist towel thrown over your face; it's stifling. Lost Wages, where the humidity is exceedingly low most of the time, being built in the desert, and all, it can be 108:degrees:F and I can still master moving around comfortably in it. I have to keep hydrating ALL the time, though. Washington is a "brow-mop" city, while Lost Wages is a "water-bottle" city. (The one week I experienced of Nashville was very remeniscent of Washington.)

freemonkey

07-23-2006, 10:19 PM

godfry n. glad

07-23-2006, 11:11 PM

Remember this and start saving now for a mid-winter purchase. Get it for yourself for the holidays...a Solstice gift, as it were.

viscousmemories

07-23-2006, 11:16 PM

It seems like it's almost always hot here in Texas, but I'm almost always in AC so :shrug:.

I picked up the roomie from the airport at 5:30 am yesterday and it was 86:degrees: out. :eek:

godfry n. glad

07-23-2006, 11:21 PM

It's so hot...

I threw an electrical breaker. I had to turn off some lights and go down to the basement and throw the switch back.

It was just after I installed the portable air condition in the downstairs bedroom and turned it on. That's what I thought tripped it, but the freshly installed was putting out cool air just jimdandy.

Must have been the lights making the difference, 'cause the a/c is working fine once again. We're just about to spike for today's high, so there may be a huge drain on the grid, I suppose.

freemonkey

07-24-2006, 12:45 AM

Remember this and start saving now for a mid-winter purchase. Get it for yourself for the holidays...a Solstice gift, as it were.
That's what I was just sayin' to the mister.

Annie

07-24-2006, 01:22 AM

Another problem is that many of us don't have air conditioned homes, because we normally don't have that much heat to warrant it.

I wonder how many airconditioned units were sold the last few days?

:( We don't have AC, and our windows can't accomodate a traditional unit. We need one of those free-standing jobs that are expensive and SOLD OUT.

How close do you live to a Beach?

Buy more ice-cube trays...

another! reason for "24-hour" grocery-stores.

(not to mention the *Ice-rink*:D - only for 15 hrs. daily though)

Annie

Plant Woman

07-24-2006, 02:31 AM

I live very close to the beach, fortunately or it would be a lot hotter. I spent the afternoon at the local coffee pub, where is air conditioned. They closed at five and I walked out to an oven. My widdle wed twuck has no aiw conditioning. :(

I ran my batteries down on my laptop I was there so long.

I came home and read the thermometer on my covered back deck; 100°F it said! But the greenhouse is on one side of it so I am sure that contributed to how hot it was reading.

Freemonkey didn't you get into the 100s the other day?

Annie do you go to the ice rink there on near 175th on Aurora? I used to skate there when I was younger.

godfry n. glad

07-24-2006, 02:38 AM

Here is stands at 99:degrees:F (38:degrees:C). It's 6:30 in the evening, so I'm guessing we had a high temperature of 100 or 101

Annie

07-24-2006, 05:07 AM

Annie
do you go to the ice rink there on near 175th on Aurora? I used to skate there when I was younger.

Really, you're a happy :snoopy: skater too, Debbie? :D

(yeah, 1st. laced-up there :eek: - 2 people's egotistical actions, plus poor ice-surface conditions there, wrecked havoc - so NO! thinking about that place). Live, and learn.

Practicing... at a *larger, Smoother* ('xept for 'Lutz-holes' :glare:) rink, with truly wonderful friends now :wave:

Annie

Plant Woman

07-24-2006, 07:37 AM

I loved skating when I was a kid, mostly roller skating, but the last time I skated was at Venice Beach--1979 or was it Waikiki--1980. Doesn't matter it was a looooong time ago. Tonight I would gladly walk barefoot across that rink. For some reason my feet swelled up like teddy bear feet. I had to ice them down.

The rink there is so old I'm not surprised. The rink you are at now is probably a lot newer! Hope you kept cool while you skated in bliss. :)

Annie

07-24-2006, 09:25 AM

I loved skating when I was a kid, mostly roller skating, but the last time I skated was at Venice Beach--1979 or was it Waikiki--1980. Doesn't matter it was a looooong time ago.

tried "Roller-skating" once, and hated it :(

The rink there is so old I'm not surprised.

Highland Ice arena opened 12/62.

The rink you are at now is probably a lot newer!

Well, I would post where BUT (not in a public-forum like this one),
as
I'm *very-protective* of us, our family, friends, coaches, anybody at our rink.
If I ever got to know you, as a personal friend - then, it would be a different story - I think you know what I mean, right?

Tonight I would gladly walk barefoot across that rink.

For some reason my feet swelled up like teddy bear feet. I had to ice them down.

yeah, I know what you mean. But the funny thing is, as soon as I cram them into my boots at the rink, lose myself in warm-up... (then, I get to relace to their normal tightness), and Wheee! -

all (but 2) bodily challenges disappear, lol

Well, at least until 1 of the (Zamboni-guys yells: " my turn now!") :D

Hope you kept cool while you skated in bliss. :)

Aww, THANK YOU! :)

Annie :wave:

Sock Puppet

07-24-2006, 05:40 PM

Urk. It always takes a little while for our office building to recover from the weekend (and I'm on the top floor), but to top it off, one of the condenser units broke down. It's fixed now, but it's still too hot to drink coffee in here. I'll have to ice it so I can wake the hell up.

Ari

07-25-2006, 03:07 AM

Oh no, all those horrible temperatures.
Have I mentioned her in california there is a 9 day heatwave, yesterday it was 115F and it was around that today. Did I mention the airconditioner died last wednesday? :) Heat is great fun.
Then again the lack of humidity is nice.

freemonkey

07-25-2006, 05:36 AM

I think its about 120 in my house right now.

godfry n. glad

07-25-2006, 06:20 AM

I think its about 120 in my house right now.

I'm maintaining a tolerable 64:degrees: in my lair :recline: .

To run to the refrigerator for more ice is an ordeal . Last trip down, I opened the doors and windows downstairs to try to get some cross-ventilation overnight.

Plant Woman

07-25-2006, 07:33 AM

Ah but it is cooling down, It will get down to the high 50s over night. I can breathe again and maybe the swelling will go down. Gotta find out why I become butterball feet in the heat.

Annie

07-25-2006, 07:53 AM

I think its about 120 in my house right now.

I know what you mean. Is "100 !!!" :eek: degrees, what your thermometers are reading, too?

Do you have any windows you can open for Cross-ventilation? -
(actually, minus air-conditioning - including in the car/truck :eek: -, we have 5 fans going full-blast, and
7 windows open, and still - it's 9/10's unbearable :(

Did you read my response from yesterday:

How close do you live to a Beach?

Buy more ice-cube trays...

another! reason for "24-hour" grocery-stores.

(not to mention the *Ice-rink*:D - only for 15 hrs. daily though) Annie

Forget that last comment: First, one needs to brave the Hades-heat to drive there, and once on the Ice - after only 10-minutes of racing-around practicing INcreasing speeds of perimeter-Stroking, I asked one of our friends: "Isn't it HOT in here, too?" -
well no, not to them, as they were mainly bumpin' their gums at the barrier, lol

Unless camping at a Polar icecap :D, it's HOT - no matter where we are.

Annie

freemonkey

07-25-2006, 04:01 PM

Gotta find out why I become butterball feet in the heat.
My hands swell like that. Very uncomfortable.

freemonkey

07-25-2006, 04:09 PM

I think its about 120 in my house right now.

I know what you mean. Is "100 !!!" :eek: degrees, what your thermometers are reading, too?

At 6:30 PM yesterday, the thermometer that's in the shade read 91 and it was much warmer in the house.

Do you have any windows you can open for Cross-ventilation?
Well, yes and no. Most open, but because of the way the house is laid out, they don't cross-ventilate very well.

It was much cooler when I got up this morning.

viscousmemories

07-25-2006, 04:13 PM

I'm maintaining a tolerable 64:degrees: in my lair :recline:
Holy crap! :eek: Not only is that unbearably cold for me, but my electric bill was over $300 last month keeping it at 78:degrees:. I couldn't afford to keep it at 64:degrees:.

Dingfod

07-25-2006, 04:34 PM

I found that it only cost me about $20-30 a month more in electricity to keep the house at a nice cool 71°F instead of the marginally sweaty 75°F. It's worth it to me not to sweat when I'm just sitting there.

cappuccino

07-25-2006, 06:50 PM

I was in DC and Maryland all week last week, and boy was it hot but it didn't affect me that much considering I grew up in the hot humid Southeast. At some point the heat was even a bit comfortable. It did cool off a bit over the past weekend so that was a nice reprise from the heat blast.

Surprisingly, when I returned home in NC, I realized that the weather here's cooler than DC and MD but then where I live is out in the Piedmont Traid so we're not surrounded by swamps and other major sources of humidity.