Arik
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Yeah, but its a dry heat.
Yep. Try that humidity we get here in Pa(and other places). Today at 7am I stepped outside to walk my dog......felt like i walked into a sauna.
Suck it up Buttercup!
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Yep. Try that humidity we get here in Pa(and other places). Today at 7am I stepped outside to walk my dog......felt like i walked into a sauna.
Sven
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Sounds like all y'all (did I get that right?) live way to far south! At 8 am it is 46 degrees. It might hit 60 today. Tonight it's suppoosed to get down to 34.
I keep telling my wife that one of these summers, we should look for cheap airplane tickets and fly down to Mesa for a couple of days just to see what it's like. We have friends there who would just love a mid-summer visit.
I always figure I can put more clothes on during the winter, but when it's hot, I can only take off so much.
I keep telling my wife that one of these summers, we should look for cheap airplane tickets and fly down to Mesa for a couple of days just to see what it's like. We have friends there who would just love a mid-summer visit.
I always figure I can put more clothes on during the winter, but when it's hot, I can only take off so much.
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If you want extreme heat and humidity? come down my way. Currently is 95 F--and near 100% humidity and no winds.
kamloops67
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i wore 2 shirts and a jacket at the steel challenge today, wished id brought a sweater too .but then id be too bulked up to shoot fast ....hey i missed a valid excuse for being slow! it was raining off and on and temp was16 C which is about 60 F .
LVSteve
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104°F and 4% humidity this afternoon with a 10-20 mph wind.
Around here we get uncomfortable when the dew point gets above 65 degrees.
I figure in the winter we run from the house to the car when it's 20 below zero just like people do when it's 105 degrees.
The real difference is people in colder climates like the temps between 40 and 70, and people in warm climates like the temps between 60 and 90.
The fun part is when people travel and see how the other half lives.
Wisconsinites actually start wearing shorts when the temperature gets above 40.
Floridians (I have family there) start shivering and wearing jackets when it gets below 70.
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I figure in the winter we run from the house to the car when it's 20 below zero just like people do when it's 105 degrees.
The real difference is people in colder climates like the temps between 40 and 70, and people in warm climates like the temps between 60 and 90.
The fun part is when people travel and see how the other half lives.
Wisconsinites actually start wearing shorts when the temperature gets above 40.
Floridians (I have family there) start shivering and wearing jackets when it gets below 70.
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Sven
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What is fun is to watch the "competition" between the UPS drivers and USPS -- who starts wearing shorts the soonest int he spring and who is the last to switch to long pants in the fall.
Oh, and why do you wait until it gets all the way to 40 to start wearing shorts??? Anything above freezing is not freezing.
Yeah, but its a dry heat.
So is a pizza oven!
The hottest place I've ever been was Midlothian, TX in May. 105 in the shade. At that point the humidity was immaterial. No AC since I was camping, so we spent a lot of time in the shade.
The second hottest was LV in September 2003. 103 in the shade. No camping, lots of AC.
The second hottest was LV in September 2003. 103 in the shade. No camping, lots of AC.
kamloops67
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i worked a contract in westbank bc about 20 yrs ago ,testing hydro poles throughout the city, we were not allowed to start work until 7:00am but by 11:00 it was already 44c degrees according to the radio station, it was probably a lot hotter standing on the blacktop where we were trying to work . we ended up working about 4 hours a day for a couple weeks and caught up on our beer drinking down by the lake . was not a profitable job, more like a working vacation that i didnt really want to be on
I remember one day in the 1990s when it was 114º in El Paso. I was working in a one story, WW II building on Fort Bliss with added evap cooling. It didn't do much when that sun was blaring at us through the walls and window.
Then there was the day there was a thunderstorm at 3 PM and by quitting time there was a 4 inch tarantula, flooded out of its burrow, sitting on our doorstep. The first out was one of our secretaries; you could have heard her a mile away and there was at least 15 feet between her footprints. The tarantula walked off the doorstep and the rest of us went out.
Then there was the day there was a thunderstorm at 3 PM and by quitting time there was a 4 inch tarantula, flooded out of its burrow, sitting on our doorstep. The first out was one of our secretaries; you could have heard her a mile away and there was at least 15 feet between her footprints. The tarantula walked off the doorstep and the rest of us went out.
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97 here yesterday-dew point was about 70-as well as about 90% humidity and no wind. This = miserable weather.
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Gunslinger808
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I've been a Desert Rat all my life, so the heat may discomfort, but it's not oppressive to me.
If the temp gets below 35 I go into hibernation mode.
I was there the day it snowed 24 inches, talk about suicidal!
If the temp gets below 35 I go into hibernation mode.
I was there the day it snowed 24 inches, talk about suicidal!
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I stepped off an air-conditioned aircraft in Phoenix once and was nearly bowled over by the 115-degree ambient temperature.
I found it actually hard to breathe for a few minutes.
I can't believe that people get used to that.
Oh, I know I'm a sissy. I'm not denying it.
I found it actually hard to breathe for a few minutes.
I can't believe that people get used to that.
Oh, I know I'm a sissy. I'm not denying it.
Harrison
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We only hit 95, but I think the humidity was also hovering in the 90s.
I remember that day. It started to snow the night before, and I thought I better get up a bit early so as not to be late to work. The snow was pretty deep, and when I got on Biggs, I was breaking trail (1 ton, 4X4). I was the only one in the building; turned on the radio and Ft Bliss was closed. I went home and took a nap. The next day it was -9º, and everybody's pipes froze, including mine. El Pasoans don't know how to drive on snow. They think their brakes will actuallly slow down a car, and they think that more power applied to the wheels will get them going.
I camped in a tent in 100 degree plus temps last weekend, and so long as you could stay in the shade, it wasn't unpleasant, but it is still "dry heat" --- about 7% humidity. Later in the summer, when the humidity spikes up to around 20%, and the temps hover around 115 for days on end, it's oppressive. These conditions are among the many reasons why you should visit during the milder months, spend lots of tourist money, then go home.
LVSteve
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The heat is due to spike again here in Vegas over the next few days with ~110°F expected Saturday. The weather folks have issued an excessive heat warning because the temps are expected to be so far above normal.
I know it has been a hot day when I go out at ~5pm to refresh the birdbaths and the robins swoop down and nearly drink from the hose. The less brave ones sit in the trees and scold me to hurry up. On REALLY hot days I have had a robin go behind me to drink from the hose faucet where it dribbles a little. I think the brave ones are repeat customers over several years and know I present no threat.
I know it has been a hot day when I go out at ~5pm to refresh the birdbaths and the robins swoop down and nearly drink from the hose. The less brave ones sit in the trees and scold me to hurry up. On REALLY hot days I have had a robin go behind me to drink from the hose faucet where it dribbles a little. I think the brave ones are repeat customers over several years and know I present no threat.
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Gunslinger808
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Todays high (so far).
We should top out by mid July.
We should top out by mid July.
