Carini on 19/7/2006 at 13:56
Yeah, it's hot in Texas. Hot like
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days of unreasonable heat, usually coupled with humidity that is one or two percentage points shy of water
The humidity is too much. I ride my bike to work just before 8am, I sometimes feel like I can barely make it and I have to wring myself out when I get here. Sometimes when it's crazy hot, we'll head down to the beach soak up some rays like a tourist and then hit the Gulf. Unfortunately swimming in the Gulf is like swimming in bath water, hardly refreashing.
dj_ivocha on 19/7/2006 at 14:13
I went to the swimming pool. The water wasn't hot at all, unlike the opposite sex. dddd:cool:
But then I went out of the water and OUCH MY FEET AUA IT BURNS OU OU OU! :eek:
Haegan on 19/7/2006 at 15:02
Over here in bournemouth the temperature on the beach was measured at 50 degrees centegrade. Ouch.
Ghostly Apparition on 19/7/2006 at 15:17
Just saw on the news this morning, the Temp in phoenix, Arizona is 109 F,
and for added fun they have a 64 mph dust storm that has shut the airport.
109 AND a dust storm? OMG.
tungsten on 19/7/2006 at 15:27
At around 9 or 10, the temperature crosses the 30deg C line (86ish for imperialists), and climbs to 33 or 35 (95ish f.i.). But it's wet. It rains almost daily, but only a fine drizzle. It's so wet, it badly affects the visibility.
That wouldn't be a problem, unless you change between freeze-dried interior to wetwarm outside and back again :mad:
But that will change in August with the typhoons :thumb:
Aerothorn on 19/7/2006 at 15:43
I can't tell if GBM is a global-warming-denier or if he is just trying to prevent the thread from spiraling into politics (kudos if its the latter).
Yeah here in Seattle the weather has been CRAZY the last few years, it's not consistent in any way. In May it was burning hot, now it's July and it's perfectly comfortable, not hot at all, and then next week it will rain all week and next week we'll all die of heat stroke. It's insane :(
Paz on 19/7/2006 at 16:05
Yesterday it was so hot in the north of UK-land that even the usually comforting East Coast breezes were unable to break through the gigantic insulating curtain of stifle.
That's what it was like, walking to the supermarket - having a massive set of see-through curtains wrapped around every part of the body at all times. And, to make matters worse, the outside of the curtains were being warmed by those vast, industrial heaters that Secondary Schools always insisted on buying (settings: "off" and "instigate dystopian future").
I felt like I needed a Morricone soundtrack to accompany me as I staggered past suburban cul-de-sacs, taking slow sips of increasingly tepid water from a bottle (now firmly fused to the skin) and stepping gently around the dehydrated husks littering the pavement. Well, what used to be pavement. By this stage of the afternoon it was more of a liquid asphalt composite.
Bloody weather!
Turtle on 19/7/2006 at 16:25
We had even better here in West Michigan.
Temps in the mid 90's.
Not so bad.
Followed by 5 or 6 six hours of brutal lightning and rain and 60 mph winds.
Nice for a while.
Followed by a return to hot temps and high humidity, but now with the added bonus of no power for A/C or even fans.
Not so nice with 2 young, athsmatic children in the house.
But the 6 hours of huge lightning rocked.
Agent Monkeysee on 19/7/2006 at 16:34
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Yeah here in Seattle the weather has been CRAZY the last few years, it's not consistent in any way. In May it was burning hot, now it's July and it's perfectly comfortable, not hot at all, and then next week it will rain all week and next week we'll all die of heat stroke. It's insane :(
Yeah it's actually been a little obnoxious. I'll actually bundle up in a sweatshirt and jacket when I leave for work in the morning and then come home, strip off the jacket, sweatshirt, and socks and ditch the pants for shorts because it's actually pretty hot. Then right before bed I'm closing all the windows and wrapping myself up in blankets because it's cold out again. The temperature swings literally about 20 degrees in a 16 hour period and I don't recall the weather being
quite so schizophrenic in the past. It's been a strange summer.
Dia on 19/7/2006 at 16:49
Okay - you guys don't know what hot is til you've lived in the Midwest. Here humidity is a way of life. It gets so humid that my dogs sound like they're gargling every time they bark. The US Southwesterners be damned because everybody up here knows S'westerners are born with a natural immunity to heat (kinda like chuckwallas, right?); the whiners. Besides, that's a dry heat down there. Try living out in the middle of a corn or alfalfa field. It's a scientifically proven fact (somewhere) that corn/alfalfa fields increase the heat index by a factor of 10 to a gazillion. This, as everybody knows (and Mulder was on to something here before they disintegrated him with one of their new ultra-secret laser/photon weapons), is a result of the government's black ops research with genetic tampering . Damn them all to hell. So don't talk to us about hot.
;)
It's really hard to focus when you're so sweaty that your underwear clings and keeps ending up in a wedgy for the rest of the day.
