This.
Give me the cold. I can layer up like an onion if I have to keep warm.
With my over taxed heart, oppressive heat and loss of AC could be fatal.
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This.
Give me the cold. I can layer up like an onion if I have to keep warm.
With my over taxed heart, oppressive heat and loss of AC could be fatal.
I like the heat. Body temp and above. According to my Garmin remote temperature sensor from a camping trip from last summer.
That's my kinda weather....
That's my kinda weather....
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After 10 years of using a cutting torch to cut titanium in an environment that was consistently 10 or more degrees hotter than the outside air, and doing so while wearing half a cowskin and a welding helmet, steel toed boots, welding gloves and a powered air supply, I like my weather a bit cooler. 112 isn't weather, it's an oven setting.
Oven setting reminds me of a job I had as a maintenance tech at the RubberMaid Commercial Products factory. People would ask me what my job was like, "preheat your oven to 450 degrees then crawl in with a 20 pound impact wrench." That's pretty much what it's like to work on the hot plastic manifold of a plastic molding press.
My uniform was long heavy cotton trousers, long sleeve shirt, steel toe boots, insulated gloves and for handling hot plastic injectors, heavy cotton pull on sleeves. It wasn't uncommon for people to drop from the heat.
Absalom
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The simple physical reality is that our body, while amazingly adaptable, operates within an envelope.
With heat, it's just like with altitude. While the limits vary from person to person, above a certain temperature just "getting used to it" doesn't do the trick anymore. You're headed for heat exhaustion and ultimately heat stroke.
Even drinking water can turn against you. In the desert parks of the Southwest it's not uncommon to see hyponatremia, especially with European tourists who have no experience with real extreme heat. Heeding the common warnings to stay hydrated, they drink so much that their body's level of sodium and other electrolytes gets over-diluted. Unfortunately, hyponatremia has similar symptoms as (more common) dehydration, so folks wanting to help the afflicted often make it worse.
But then, of course, there's the Badwater Ultramarathon. 135 miles. Maybe proof that aliens live among us …
With heat, it's just like with altitude. While the limits vary from person to person, above a certain temperature just "getting used to it" doesn't do the trick anymore. You're headed for heat exhaustion and ultimately heat stroke.
Even drinking water can turn against you. In the desert parks of the Southwest it's not uncommon to see hyponatremia, especially with European tourists who have no experience with real extreme heat. Heeding the common warnings to stay hydrated, they drink so much that their body's level of sodium and other electrolytes gets over-diluted. Unfortunately, hyponatremia has similar symptoms as (more common) dehydration, so folks wanting to help the afflicted often make it worse.
But then, of course, there's the Badwater Ultramarathon. 135 miles. Maybe proof that aliens live among us …
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Let's enter Snubby in that one as the official S&W Forum entry. Bet we could make some bucks......But then, of course, there's the Badwater Ultramarathon. 135 miles. Maybe proof that aliens live among us …
I was a process operator for one of the major oil refineries. They came out with a requirement to wear FRC (flame retardant clothing. The curious thing is that they were designed to protect you for 30 seconds in a high heat (i don't remember how high) ie: a flash fire. The name tags sewn inside was good for 2,500 deg.F. for a much longer time.They wanted to be able to identify the charred remains?
I wondered why the didn't make the entire cover-all in THAT material.
Any hoo, no body in a fire, flash or other wise is going to have a face or hands. Some body just didn't spend enough time thinking about our protective clothing?
I might also mention that in the summertime you were walking around in cover-alls and sweat-soaked an hour into your shift if you had and outside job. They were miserably hot.
I wondered why the didn't make the entire cover-all in THAT material.
Any hoo, no body in a fire, flash or other wise is going to have a face or hands. Some body just didn't spend enough time thinking about our protective clothing?
I might also mention that in the summertime you were walking around in cover-alls and sweat-soaked an hour into your shift if you had and outside job. They were miserably hot.
S&WIowegan
US Veteran
Amazing heat in Pacific NW
The upside for the good people of Oregon is the heat should keep the antifas pretty quiet.
The upside for the good people of Oregon is the heat should keep the antifas pretty quiet.
You know what they say. Chili today, hot tamale.
Maybe 'bout 30 years ago.
Now I just want a sunny spot to smoke a cigar and drink a beer...
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Well we made it to 108 today. All time record. Tomorrow gonna be hotter. What fun.
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They gave us FR coveralls. Not designed to resist molten titanium. A week and a half after we got them, the boss came down on the floor at just the right moment. As he walked by, I held up my arm, with the sleeve on fire. I waved at him and told him "Thanks for the useless safety gear!" I then put my arm out and went back to work. The boss? Just kept walking. All they did was make a hot job hotter.
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4 AM and it's 77. Forecast calls for anywhere from 113 -117. I would sell people I love into slavery for fog.
I'm 35 miles north of Seattle. We got up to 99 yesterday but it was 70 when I got up at 5AM. Going to be a hot one today and tomorrow. We have never needed AC before so it looks like we will be moving out into our RV for a couple days.
I live in the Willamette valley, it was 106 yesterday. Might be over 110 today. Supposed to set an all time record today.
Might have to get the t-shirt.
Walked the dog at 6 this morning and it was to hot already, 81 now, at 8:30
Might have to get the t-shirt.
Walked the dog at 6 this morning and it was to hot already, 81 now, at 8:30
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1 PM and 108. I'm melting! I'm melting!
It's currently overcast and 72 degrees at 3:16 pm in Oklahoma City and it was a chilly 68 when I went to church at 10am. Unusual times for sure.
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