It's a dry heat

[down_home]

Don't know how many times I've heard that from you Folks in and within a 600 miles of Death Valley.
My Uncle's family lived for a while in toast Az without air conditioning.
Told of taking a cakes out of the oven, or off a rock and right into the refrigerator before they dried out.
Well it is a balmy 96 today here.
So some advice for my Relatives and other Folks in the Southwest.
Don't put lotion on and go into the 125 degree heat to roof a house.
looks good on fried chicken but not so much on humans.
Don't need to dry the clothes, just walk outside and fling them around a bit or wear them for a few minutes, really.
Let's see....uh oh I've misplaced my list. Carry on.

[2oldman]

toedtoes wrote:
I remember getting off the plane in Ottawa once during a "heat wave". It was 90. Oh for a heat wave like that again.

My favorite memory of heat was getting off the plane in Honolulu after leaving Seattle, in February. Ahh.....

[toedtoes]

If I had known how much I hate the heat, I never would have moved to where I am. But I did... so, I make it a rule to not complain about the cold in winter so I can fully complain about the heat in summer.

I remember getting off the plane in Ottawa once during a "heat wave". It was 90. Oh for a heat wave like that again.

[2oldman]

-30 below zero is redundant.

[troubledwaters]

travelnutz wrote:
I/we for one do not feel a tiny bit sorry for the people living or being in the SW/W USA with having over 100 to even 130 degrees F temperatures because they are constantly making snide rude comments to the people living in the north and having a couple days of zero F or below at night in deep winter in some locations. Bake people bake! Payback are he-ll aren't they? You make or made the decision to live in an oven, so tough bananas! Enjoy being cooped up inside with the A/C blasting away and we certainly wouldn't be anywhere where the outside temps even reached 90+ and is why we live where we do and sure wouldn't move away! We'll just have to put up with our 80 F daytime highs and 60 F lows at night averages and "bear" it.

A human can dress to be very comfortable outside or in public when it's even -30 below zero F but there's no way to undress enough to be comfortable outside in public at over 100 degrees F without getting nabbed "bare" by the law "bears" which can be ultra expensive and will leave permanent blemishes on your record. Want to test if it's true? What you waiting for since the door to the outside has hinges and opens and the world awaits! Some will even have cameras or cellphones with video recording to help document your venture...

Thanks for the laugh!

Don't you have a place in West Palm Beach Florida that you go to in the winter?

[travelnutz]

I/we for one do not feel a tiny bit sorry for the people living or being in the SW/W USA with having over 100 to even 130 degrees F temperatures because they are constantly making snide rude comments to the people living in the north and having a couple days of zero F or below at night in deep winter in some locations. Bake people bake! Payback are he-ll aren't they? You make or made the decision to live in an oven, so tough bananas! Enjoy being cooped up inside with the A/C blasting away and we certainly wouldn't be anywhere where the outside temps even reached 90+ and is why we live where we do and sure wouldn't move away! We'll just have to put up with our 80 F daytime highs and 60 F lows at night averages and "bear" it.

A human can dress to be very comfortable outside or in public when it's even -30 below zero F but there's no way to undress enough to be comfortable outside in public at over 100 degrees F without getting nabbed "bare" by the law "bears" which can be ultra expensive and will leave permanent blemishes on your record. Want to test if it's true? What you waiting for since the door to the outside has hinges and opens and the world awaits! Some will even have cameras or cellphones with video recording to help document your venture...

Thanks for the laugh!

[valhalla360]

Having experienced what may have been the all time highest recorded temp last year while helping one of our middle east offices (death valley record is suspect due to equipment issues)...127+

There is a difference between 100 and 127. You walk across the street and you feel like you are going to pass out. I had to stand for a couple minutes waiting for a taxi and the soles of my feet were literally getting burnt through my shoes.

Interestingly, you would get occasional days with high humidity and the temps would cap out around 115 but it was less comfortable to me (neither was comfortable)

[goducks10]

JimK-NY wrote:
Big deal. It was 10 degrees or so below average last week. No one made a fuss. Now it is just 10 degrees above average. In the next couple of days it will be back to average.

Climate change or not, 120* is effing hot. Too hot for most people.
No one cares about it being 10* below average because it' not harmful.

[Cummins12V98]

About 120 here in Palm Springs, CA area today. I thank Alicia at Rolling Retreats for suggesting 3 AC units!!!

[dodge_guy]

That's it?! Tell me when it 110 one day and 70 the next (12 hours later!) then I'll be impressed!

[Old-Biscuit]

Growing up in WY & UT have experienced -40*F while working oil rigs .

Have experienced 120*F dry heat working in high desert of CA

When it's hot you can only take so much clothing and you are still HOT!

Today it was only 108*F in the shade on my front porch and June is NOT the hottest month

[dave54]

romore wrote:
Damp heat, dry heat, argue all you want. It is still too friggin hot. I worked in northern California where it was 100 degrees by 11am, 115+ in the afternoon. I have also experienced below -40, I don't know which is worse.

Yep. Been there done that.

Former firefighter. 120+ wearing full line gear on a steep brushy mountainside. Don't miss it at all. I am perfectly willing to leave it for the young uns.

[toedtoes]

romore wrote:
Damp heat, dry heat, argue all you want. It is still too friggin hot. I worked in northern California where it was 100 degrees by 11am, 115+ in the afternoon. I have also experienced below -40, I don't know which is worse.

I'm with you. Too hot is too hot - regardless of humidity.

[romore]

Damp heat, dry heat, argue all you want. It is still too friggin hot. I worked in northern California where it was 100 degrees by 11am, 115+ in the afternoon. I have also experienced below -40, I don't know which is worse.

[lawnspecialties]

120 has got to be tough. But once in a blue moon, we'll get a day down here where the air will be dry but the temps stay around 100. I work outside all day and I love those days. When your sweat can actually dry off, it feels amazing. Most of the time, my hot sweat stays on my skin until I can dry myself off with a towel.

My biggest problem with the high, dry heat? I usually get dehydrated. I rarely feel thirsty because it feels so much better and then all of a sudden, I realize its too late and I start showing signs of dehydration.

[2oldman]

AJBert wrote:
For those who have never experienced high humidity versus low humidity, I suggest you try it at both extremes.

The highest I've been in is 40%, at, of all places, Fort Mohave AZ. I didn't care for that. I can't imagine Florida.