Gingerbread Man on 19/7/2006 at 04:49
Seriously. This is getting unreasonable.
I'm a cool-weather monkey, I admit. My favourite time of year is early spring or late autumn -- you know, when it's jacket-cold. Not quite See-Your-Breath, but enough that you don't want to go out in a t-shirt if you're going to be wandering around for more than a half-hour or so.
That said, it's also true that everywhere I've lived has had days of unreasonable heat, usually coupled with humidity that is one or two percentage points shy of water. Thing is, these days have always been punctuated by huge and glorious thunderstorms and usually rain. Thunderstorms and rain are my favourite weather ever, and I'm happy to endure a couple of days of vein-throbbing heat if the payoff is a night of crashing and ripping and light shattering from cloud to ground.
This past week has been unreasonable, however. And I hear it has been unreasonable pretty much everywhere else except the occasional hippie enclave in Oregon and Washington states.
It's been like cracking the oven door open a bit and putting your face right down there and inhaling deeply. Honestly, it has been. There were a couple of days there where the air felt like hairdryer-air when you breathe in. And there are more of those days on the horizon.
Starr turned into a goddamned puddle just walking to the mailbox at 5 pm today. 106F at least.
Perhaps if the US military would stop monkeying with the weather over the other side of the world, this wouldn't happen. I don't care how badly they need clear satellite pictures or how much they need to justify the HAARP stations to whatever secret budget committee they need to justify the HAARP stations to, it's unreasonable and it has to stop.
And anyone posting smarmy "I told you so" links to Glolbal Warming studies and other hippy-fueled pseudo-scientific treehugging batshit can stop right now. No one cares why this summer is like this, we just want it to stop. Preferably before we wake up tomorrow.
Seriously. No global warming alarmism or faggotry in this thread. This thread is for people to say how horrid it is where they are. This thread is for commiseration and one-upmanship. No one wants to read articles, it's too fucking hot. BRNumbers, we're all looking at you.
Celtic_Thief on 19/7/2006 at 04:54
Right now it isn't too bad, it better when the sun goes down. Lastnight, however, it was still hot as hell. There's nothing worse then just sitting somewhere, doing nothing, and sweat is just poring off you.
Agent Monkeysee on 19/7/2006 at 05:08
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
This past week has been unreasonable, however. And I hear it has been unreasonable pretty much everywhere else except the occasional hippie enclave in Oregon and Washington states.
Haha suckers it's been a cool 65 - 75 for the last week or so. Though I hear it's supposed to get up to upper 90s this friday so I'll get mine I stop functioning above 85 degrees :(
How can it jump 30 degrees in 3 days that's not right.
Shoshin on 19/7/2006 at 05:20
It's hot. Really hot. I live in the desert southwest of the US (New Mexico to be precise), and here in the great desert southwest we have these lovely devices known as "swamp coolers". Here's how they work. Get a box. On three sides of the box, have vent openings that are covered with what amounts to a 4 x 4 square sponge. Have water constantly soaking said sponges. On the fourth vertical side of said box, have a vent that leads into the house. Then hang a big fan inside the box. Turn on the fan such that it sucks air past the big wet sponges into the house. As the moving air passes over the wet sponges, it evaporates, thus cooling the air.
This works quite well, until the humidity gets up around 50-60%. Then it works less well. In the middle of July, say, when we have weeks of afternoon thunderstorms and temperatures in the 90s and the humidity goes up to 70-80% it works not at all. Not at all.
To summarize, it's hot. And moist.
Aja on 19/7/2006 at 05:46
GBM where are you, exactly?
Here in Edmonton it's been alternating between sweltering heat (the days in which I'm assigned to work on a roof somewhere) and pouring rain (the days in which I'm assigned to wander aimlessly downtown, soaking wet, in futile attempts to find the stupid building that whatever job we're doing is actually IN, never mind the fact that 115th street is apparently 116th street and four blocks over from where it's supposed be, though once you're wet you can't really get wetter), and we've even been treated to a few thunderstorms, which must rank as my favourite weather as well.
Meanwhile, the forcast calls for periods of heat followed by periods of rain. It's actually not bad at all.
Gingerbread Man on 19/7/2006 at 05:51
I be at Davis, California. Exactly. Just west of Sacramento.
Monkeysee you are a hippy and I hope you sweat.
Shoshin omg New Mexico what. You poor bastard.
Inimitable on 19/7/2006 at 05:57
Being about an hour away, I must concur.
It's 11pm and it's still too hot out.
David on 19/7/2006 at 06:24
Oh boy do I like summer, it is the best season by far. However as it is the UK summer lasts for approximately 17 hours, so I imaging it would get tiresome if it was hot for, like, 24 hours. :o
Aja on 19/7/2006 at 06:28
The last seven hours can be a real bitch, sometimes. :(
Fafhrd on 19/7/2006 at 06:41
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
I be at Davis, California. Exactly. Just west of Sacramento.
So not only do you have HOT like almost nothing else, but you also have COWS, and FERTILIZER, and such like, which interacts with the aforementioned HOT and makes SMELL.
The hot I can imagine, as it's probably all of 8 degrees cooler down here; (though we've been getting some wacky cloud cover the past couple of days, it actually rained for about a mile on the way to work yesterday, not proper rain, mind you, but there were drops large enough to go splat on my windshield) the smell however, I cannot (quite) fathom, though maybe you're far enough away from the cows and farming that it's not so bad.
