Heat in the South and Southwest

[JcMack]

How do you people deal with the now common temps in the 110+ degrees range? I live in Indiana a few miles from the southern most edge of Lake Michigan. Around here summers used to bring 9-10 90 degree days over the span of the summer. The last few years it's more like half of the summer is 90+ with a couple of 100's along the way. How do you and your animals and pets live with heat?

 

[glenwolde]

Kind of the same way you deal with winter. Stay inside. Here in Texas we're OK until the afternoon. It's in the high 70's at night. If you have outdoor stuff to do you get up early. After lunch it's time to stay in until sundown. But it was still 100 at 8:00 PM yesterday.

 

[6518John]

I feel like one of those desert critters you see on the nature shows. You try to hide out all day with activity only the first few hours in the morning and in the evening. But heck, it is not dropping below the 90's in the evenings now until early morning the next day.

I had a severe heat stroke a few years back working on a brush hog, and I am still super sensitive to it. I don't think I will ever be the same.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The last year my son lived in Beeville, Texas (2016 or 17 I think), February had 26 days over 90 degrees! So he moved to Louisiana! Hot and steamy! So, he moved to Quakertown, PA. First winter, 37" of snow, 16 at one time!

Everybody complains about the weather. Aside from lynching a weatherman, what are you really going to do about it?

Ivan

 

[JcMack]

Kind of the same way you deal with winter. .

The last few winters here have been mild compared with winters 10 years ago. Not much snow to speak of and temps don't go below zero like they used to. Worst case scenario is I hit a slick spot while walking and fall on my fat ***.

 

[tops]

How do you and your animals and pets live with heat?

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Larry

 

[tomhenry]

How do you people deal with the now common temps in the 110+ degrees range? I live in Indiana a few miles from the southern most edge of Lake Michigan. Around here summers used to bring 9-10 90 degree days over the span of the summer. The last few years it's more like half of the summer is 90+ with a couple of 100's along the way. How do you and your animals and pets live with heat?

I grew up in Indiana and 105 wasn't unusual back in the day. It's summer, after all. And that was before air conditioning.

We'd go to the pool, the river (the Ohio), etc, but we were younger and could tolerate the heat better. Now, if I have to work outside in triple digit weather, I wear fast wicking clothes. Ultra lightweight hiking trousers and a long sleeve, light colored, loose fitting hiking shirt. I also wear a sun hat with flap.

Most important, I drink an obscene amount of water.

Plus, make sure your dog gets an equally obscene amount of water. And buy him a hat.

 

[Breakaway500]

When people here complain about an 80 degree day here I show them this photo...

 

[SMSgt]

The last year my son lived in Beeville, Texas (2016 or 17 I think), February had 26 days over 90 degrees! So he moved to Louisiana! Hot and steamy! So, he moved to Quakertown, PA. First winter, 37" of snow, 16 at one time!

Everybody complains about the weather. Aside from lynching a weatherman, what are you really going to do about it?

Ivan

Lynch two of them!

I think the temps this summer are an exception to the norm. I worked in the Mohave Desert once and temps were 110-116. Dry heat of course, but so is you oven when baking a meatloaf! Now I live in Florida where it's 90 degrees, 90% humidity, and that's in a cold shower.

 

[jbtrucker]

Not so bad driving a truck and also stay indoors , the only trouble is having rusted up doors, crank and legs on old trailer. also old tires are prone to explode with hot temps.I wear short pants , T shirts, summer work boots and Boonie Hat. Pack frozen bottled water bottom of my little cooler with soda and lunch on top. Had hard time breathing last year doc prescribed Singulair and inhaler

 

[THE PILGRIM]

You could go High Altitude.
Right now in Red River, NM it's 57.
Showing a high of 80.
But it might Rain!.
Not to worry, mountain showers don't last long.
Red River is at the bottom of this hill which is Bobcat Pass.

 

[cmj8591]

I think the heat generated by computers being used to look at social media posts about the increase in global temperature is responsible for raising the global temperature.

 

[zeke]

When people here complain about an 80 degree day here I show them this photo...

Only because didn't have a puter to record last time it was below -40 f. Am rarely outside when it's over 80, unless it be very dry. Way back in time when working in hotter climate, we survived with working earlier, water and salt pills. As much water on us, as in us. When leaving in the morn, blocked off all the windows with reflective shades as no air conditioning.

 

[woodsltc]

I'm old enough to remember when every home wasn't "air-conditioned", and in west Tennessee where I grew up, that meant that everyone was acclimated to hot summers with high humidity.

Now most folks are so used to being inside of temperature controlled buildings they have difficulty adjusting when mother nature gives us those hotter or colder days. JMO


Don

 

[yaktamer]

How do you people deal with the now common temps in the 110+ degrees range?

1) Air conditioning.
2) Trips to Montana.

And 110+ has always been common here. When I first moved to Arizona 31 years ago I LOVED the heat -- the hotter the better. But the last three or four years I've grown to hate it. Old age, I guess. Not sure I can take it much longer.

 

[CH4]

Living/working in both the Philippines and Las Vegas, I'll take the 117 degrees with 9% humidity of the desert over the 95 degrees and 95% humidity of the Philippines any day.

 

[fleabus101]

I believe a contributing factor is the continous amount of urban sprawl. More parking lots, more buildings, taller buildings have to throw off a lot of heat. They are also heat sinks that retain heat over night. Thinking about all that, all has to add to higher temps today. I don't see that mentioned in the climate change talks. I do think about the Money side of the subject. Lotta grants , investing , etc , when it comes to the climate subject. What's the saying, Always follow the money..

 

[Rpg]

I'm a Colorado native. I spent several years in Austin Texas for graduate school in the 1970's.

I remember arriving in Austin for the first time one evening in August after driving from Denver. What a shock! I got out of the car and got hit with what felt like a hot, wet blanket: I'd never experienced anything like it and it was late evening. It didn't become livable until December.

As I drove onto campus that evening, the streets under the traffic lights were covered with a solid layer of crickets: driving over them sounded like driving over rice crispies. There were more crickets under one street light than ever lived in the entire state of Colorado.

As bad as I remember the weather in Austin back in the 1970's, it must be truly terrible now.

 

[Rich Richardson]

I live in Phoenix AZ from October to May. I live in Colorado at 11,000 ft from May to October.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Here in NJ I remember the summers of the 1960s as pretty hot-and we didn't have air conditioning then. 2 114 degree days in my town in the Summer of 1966, I went through BCT at Fort Dix in the Summer of 1967, a hot one. ROTC Advanced Camp at Fort Bragg in the Summer of 1975, a heat wave. And the humidity rarely drops below 50%. One acquaintance went to Las Vegas, was told to carry water bottles when he went out, because it was such a dry heat he was warned that he would dehydrate quickly and not notice it . In August, 1896 there was a killer heat wave in New York.
As long as I can sleep in A/C I can cope with it, cold water is my favorite hot weather beverage.