Dicentra Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 It's currently almost 6pm. It's 31C (87F) here, with 40% humidity, which means it feels like 35C (95F). That's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too hot for this Canadian. (I know, I know - that's winter for some of you folks. :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishboneDawn Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Same here. We had a cold, wet spring but I cherished it because I knew the heat was coming. *sigh* I hate this kind of heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle in MO Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Same temp here. 64% humidity. Ick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfrumpable. Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Yeah, summer has been here in Houston for a few weeks now. It is way too hot. And we have been moving in the heat, ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I'm in the upper midwest. Right there with you. Personally, I was loving the cooler, extended spring! 60's/no humidity rock in my world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 It's hot here in MI too, 77 (which I can handle) but with over 60% humidity (can't handle) :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 It's *warm* here at 102* but only 9% humidity. Thursday and into the weekend is being forecasted to be 116*! :svengo: Normally, I can handle it, because we don't have that crazy humidity, but this is day #4 of our a/c being out, so we're a bit hot and cranky. Love the winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 It's *warm* here at 102* but only 9% humidity. Thursday and into the weekend is being forecasted to be 116*! :svengo: Normally, I can handle it, because we don't have that crazy humidity, but this is day #4 of our a/c being out, so we're a bit hot and cranky. Love the winter. I, quite literally, can't imagine what 116F feels like. I don't think I've ever experienced any temperature over 42C (108F) and that was the humidex ("feels like") temperature. I've often wondered if it can possibly be good for me to be living in a place where the temperature swings from -40C (-40F) in winter to 40C (104F) in summer. I'd really love to find a place to live where it got down to around -5C (23F) in winter with snow for Christmas and a high of 15C (59F) in summer with really long springs and falls. And no biting flies or mosquitoes. Such a place exists, right????? RIGHT???????????? Sigh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I think those places bring lots of rain. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 If you want snow, you're out of luck. If you are not looking for dramatic seasons, San Diego is great. It can be 116, but there is no humidity, so you don't get all sticky. You rarely need to heat or cool a well-designed home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Come to my house. DH, dd, and Ds LOVE a cold house. I'm wearing a hoodie now. Sometimes I sit outside to thaw off. Ya know . . . A little window AC unit is fairly cheap and can change your life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 See - I think I could do the rain. Although I've never lived where it was very overcast all the time so maybe I'm just wishfully-thinking I can... I've also never experience heat without humidity so I don't know if I could do 116F without humidity. It still sounds dang hot. I've heard New Zealand is similar to what I'm wishing for. Maybe once the folks there are up (and we're all in bed) they can tell me if I'm right. Or they can tell me I'm mistaken and then I'll just be sad. (Can you tell that the humid heat and 8 gazillion fly/mosquito bites I have are making me melodramatic and cranky? ;)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 Come to my house. DH, dd, and Ds LOVE a cold house. I'm wearing a hoodie now. Sometimes I sit outside to thaw off. Ya know . . . A little window AC unit is fairly cheap and can change your life. OK. Here's where I have a little confession to make... I actually have central air. And I keep it pretty frigid in here. "So what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks is she complaining about??????", I hear being shouted. Wellllll... I still have to go outside and do horse chores. And other outside stuff. Ya - I know. I'm being really whiny. I think a mosquito bit me on top of a blackfly bite. It's really itchy and swollen. I'm just cranky. :D I'd still like to know if New Zealand is everything I've imagined it to be. Maybe Lewelma would like some company... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Pity retracted. 😒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Pity retracted. 😒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Pity retracted. 😒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Pity retracted. 😒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Pity retracted. 😒 It seems that 'post' button was working after all. Sorry. I only meant to retract the one time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I've lived in Florida and now I'm in the Phoenix metro area. I've also spent a summer near Chicago, and I grew up in West Texas, where it's not quite as hot and and dry as here, and summers in Virginia and Japan on the coast. I'll take a coastal summer over all the rest. I much prefer triple digits in the desert over the Southeastern OR Midwestern humidity, though. And Chicago manages to have nasty winters that in no way make up for the heat of the summers. Plus, unlike the South, they don't have ubiquitous A/C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemsMom Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 It is only 98 here (feels cool to me). By Sunday we should have 118. I always get asked how I put up with the temps. in the summer and I tell people: 1)A.C., 2)Misters on the patio (DH is really good at home improvement stuff), 3)I have a very slow metabolism. We will often have the A.C. set at 78 and I am in a sweater while everyone else is complaining about it being too hot in the house. By the way, you have my sympathy. I used to live in Illinois and the humidity was so high that it looked like there was fog outside! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I hear you. I grew up in Nebraska where the summers are hot, but the rest of the year is bearable. I am really starting to not like FL,because we never get a break from the heat. I ended up with heat exhaustion....again....this past Saturday. I am so over 90+ degree temps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 KungFuPanda - either you're REALLY retracting your sympathy or you've managed to penta-post! Bravo!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 It's now 9:30pm. It's 25C (77F) and 30C (87F) with the humidity, which is now 65%. Bleh. On the bright side, it's still light out. We'll have some daylight until just after 10pm. And the sun comes up tomorrow just after 5am. I've always wanted to visit someplace with midnight sun... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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unfrumpable. Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I've traveled through Arizona and spent the night there a few times during the summer. The temps were over 100 degrees and it was hot! I've lived in humid climates most of my life and have heard that dry heat is better, but I don't see a difference. Hot is hot. :) I did live in San Diego for a few years and didn't really care for the weather there either. Really, I guess I just like FL weather, where it is mostly warm year round with plenty of rain. I would like to check out the PNW too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle in MO Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 It's now 9:30pm. It's 25C (77F) and 30C (87F) with the humidity, which is now 65%. Bleh. We're now (10:30 P.M.) at 82.7 degrees F w/74% humidity, which makes the heat index 89 degrees. It was actually pleasant sitting at ds's baseball game from 8:00-10:00. Tomorrow's forecast high is 97 with 50% chance of rain, so we'll be sweating like crazy. Spam reported The "Fool" emoticon added a special touch, don't you think? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacus2 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 It was similarly warm here in TN yesterday. I had to be outside for a swim meet. I was sweating so much it looked like I was crying. I sympathize. DH and I honeymooned in Montreal, though, and remember having a good laugh at the weatherman warning everyone to be very careful of the extreme heat, a predicted high of 85*F. Around here we don't get those warnings until around 100*F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemsMom Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 It was similarly warm here in TN yesterday. I had to be outside for a swim meet. I was sweating so much it looked like I was crying. I sympathize. DH and I honeymooned in Montreal, though, and remember having a good laugh at the weatherman warning everyone to be very careful of the extreme heat, a predicted high of 85*F. Around here we don't get those warnings until around 100*F. I never pay attention to the temp. until it is above 108. For some reason 108 is my breaking point! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I've traveled through Arizona and spent the night there a few times during the summer. The temps were over 100 degrees and it was hot! I've lived in humid climates most of my life and have heard that dry heat is better, but I don't see a difference. Hot is hot. It was similarly warm here in TN yesterday. I had to be outside for a swim meet. I was sweating so much it looked like I was crying. I sympathize. DH and I honeymooned in Montreal, though, and remember having a good laugh at the weatherman warning everyone to be very careful of the extreme heat, a predicted high of 85*F. Around here we don't get those warnings until around 100*F. I've lived my whole life in NC. So used to plenty of heat and humidity. Years ago DH and I were in Colorado in August. One day the natives were going on and on about how miserably hot it was. I thought they were nuts. I was wearing jeans (in August! unheard of back home) and a t-shirt and was very comfortable. I didn't come anywhere close to breaking a sweat that day, although we were doing a lot of walking. Even DH, who is very hot natured, thought it was nice. We saw the weather on TV that night and it turns out the high was 92. But with so little humidity it felt very nice to us. Not anywhere near what we would call hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 See - I think I could do the rain. Although I've never lived where it was very overcast all the time so maybe I'm just wishfully-thinking I can... I've also never experience heat without humidity so I don't know if I could do 116F without humidity. It still sounds dang hot. I've heard New Zealand is similar to what I'm wishing for. Maybe once the folks there are up (and we're all in bed) they can tell me if I'm right. Or they can tell me I'm mistaken and then I'll just be sad. (Can you tell that the humid heat and 8 gazillion fly/mosquito bites I have are making me melodramatic and cranky? ;)) Heat without humidity is HOT. We have heat without humidity here. When the thermometer is anything over 40 oC it is hot. When it is 45 oC with no humidity your body just shuts down.It is really hard to keep up enough fluids, I just doze off. I live coastal so it only rarely gets that hot (maybe 2 weeks over 40 per year). Last summer was one of the hottest summers on record. Many areas were over 40 OC for extended periods of time, parts of inland Australia had over 40 oC for over 100 days. The only way I can describe the heat is imagine you a have an oven going very hot, you open the door and get that blast of hot air. That is what the summer is like here. My Dh was in Canada last year during the Canadian summer. He told me how they sort of “adjust†the temp to factor in the humidity over there. He said that the 40 oC justified heat was nowhere near as hot as a day in Australia that is actually 40 oC. When it is that hot you also become extremely terrified of bushfire. The power lines stretch and start bushfire. The eucalyptus oil in the trees evaporates into the air and you can smell it at quite a distance from the trees. A small spark and it can ignite it into huge fireballs…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Blech, heat. I hate heat! We were in AZ for a few months while James Bond was in some military school or other and I thought I was going to DIE. Lat week here, we had 2 days in the 90's and it was miserable (nothing has a/c). One day it was 95, then 98 and the next day it was 68. Whew! Today I have a light jacket on. I much prefer cooler weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryl Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 I'm with you on that. I just prefer cooler temps. Sure, I like it really hot once in a while, but here in NC it gets hot and stays hot for several months!!!!!!!!!!! Quite different having been born in OH and lived in WI, MI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 Today is cooler. My bug bites are less itchy. I've dialed my crankiness back. :D I think complaining about the weather, no matter what it is, is a Canadian past-time. I'd still like to know if the location I described above actually exists. I may have to give up on the snow for Christmas. I'm still hoping for New Zealand. :) England, maybe? PNW? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 This would be fun to make to help with the heat-http://m.instructables.com/id/Simple-Cheap-Air-Conditioner/?ALLSTEPS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Seek a place with the AC on and stay inside. :grouphug: Yesterday was 90' with a 76% humidity. The news here classifies that as uncomfortable humidity. Gag! I classify it as horrible, but as the summer heats up so does the humidity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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