GoGoGadget
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Under no circumstances should I be this close to melting at 8:00 AM.
@#%^*#) heat!!
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I know what you mean. I have finally moved up enough that I no longer spend summers outside logging soil borings on the back of a drill rig. I now have a couple staff engineers (lackeys) to do my bidding. 
Heck, we have a couple summer interns, so even my lackeys have lackeys.
Finally being a desk jockey means less melting, but I need to get more exercize.
Heck, we have a couple summer interns, so even my lackeys have lackeys.Finally being a desk jockey means less melting, but I need to get more exercize.
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GoGoGadget
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Nertz to that. Same argument I get from my mom (St. Louis) and... no, I refuse to be grateful for this dry heat. Its still inhumanly yucky.
D-Mass
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I don't know about where you all are, but in Chico we actually have quite a bit of humidity...some monsoonal moisture coming from the southeast. Pretty miserable up here.
GoGoGadget
All-Star
Ya know, I'm willing to forgive the fact that you're a Laker fan, but this is just inexcusable.
kennadog
Dog On It!
I'm with you. I used to visit in-laws in Charleston, S Carolina. Might only be 90 degrees, but with 85-90% humidity. And it was almost exactly the same day or night. My body and clothes were damp 24-hours a day. I was thrilled to get back to 105-degree Sacramento. I was much more comfortable.
Prophetess
Gallifrayain
I have to go outside sometimes while at work just to warm up!!
Sorry, but I'm lovin' it.
The arguements over the AC at home are going full force!!
You too?
GGG- just be happy you don't live in Redding. It was 118
there yesterday according to the news.
D-Mass
Starter
You too?
GGG- just be happy you don't live in Redding. It was 118
Local news had it at about 113, but once it crosses 110 I don't think it matters much anymore.
mcsluggo
Starter
I know what you mean. I have finally moved up enough that I no longer spend summers outside logging soil borings on the back of a drill rig. I now have a couple staff engineers (lackeys) to do my bidding.
Finally being a desk jockey means less melting, but I need to get more exercize.
Yeah, if you aren't careful your body really start to go into the crapper when you get a desk job!
I am trying to combat it by biking to work... but I have to tell you Washington DC weather can be pretty darn unforgiving as well. This summer has been nice more often than usual... but when it is in the 90s, both temp and humidity, you get drenched in sweat within a block of starting to ride. Quite unpleasant... both for me, and for anyone unfortunate enough to come across my gasping, glistening, steaming, stinking self
StevenHW
Starter
Also be grateful you don't live an area where that kind of humid heat is commplace, such as Florida, Georgia, and most of the Deep South. It's almost like living in a sauna or a steamroom.
I have nothing against the Dixie South; it's just that if I had a choice between the humid heat and the "dry desert" heat, I'll take the latter.
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Also be grateful you don't live an area where that kind of humid heat is commplace, such as Florida, Georgia, and most of the Deep South. It's almost like living in a sauna or a steamroom.
I have nothing against the Dixie South; it's just that if I had a choice between the humid heat and the "dry desert" heat, I'll take the latter.
I had a summer internship in Harrisburg, PA back in 1994 or so.
Yuck.
We went up to Penn State one day and it was over 95 on both the heat and humidity.
Forget it.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Having done both in my life, I'll take the dry heat any day of the week thanks.
Not that 100+ degrees is fun, but 90+ with high humidity is even worse. Its practically impossible to stay dry. I remember shopping for an apartment one day in Manhattan where it was 98 degrees and atrociously high humidity, and it was completely ridiculous. Walk 1 block, sweat pouring off you, dive into the nearest convenience store. Cool off for 10 min, walk another block, dive into the next store. The alternative was to look like you had just swam across the river by the time you got to your next appointment.
Only thing that I (oddly) like the humidity for, is I absolutely love a hot, humid gym to play basketball in. Don't ask me why. But so long as there is water about, I can play in those conditions all day. Flipside is I absolutely love scorchingly hot asphalt tennis courts too. But like that to be a dry heat with the waves coming up off the cement. Always seemed to get less run down by the heat and could wear opponents down under those conditions.
Not that 100+ degrees is fun, but 90+ with high humidity is even worse. Its practically impossible to stay dry. I remember shopping for an apartment one day in Manhattan where it was 98 degrees and atrociously high humidity, and it was completely ridiculous. Walk 1 block, sweat pouring off you, dive into the nearest convenience store. Cool off for 10 min, walk another block, dive into the next store. The alternative was to look like you had just swam across the river by the time you got to your next appointment.
Only thing that I (oddly) like the humidity for, is I absolutely love a hot, humid gym to play basketball in. Don't ask me why. But so long as there is water about, I can play in those conditions all day. Flipside is I absolutely love scorchingly hot asphalt tennis courts too. But like that to be a dry heat with the waves coming up off the cement. Always seemed to get less run down by the heat and could wear opponents down under those conditions.
Widowmaker2k
Bench
This is nuts. In the foothills, it's already 104, at 1 o'clock (and silly me, I own neither air-conditioning nor swamp cooler)! It could be worse I guess, Death Valley's currently at 121, only 15 degrees shy of the record. I wouldn't be surprised to see them set a new one here pretty soon. (Highest temp ever in Death Valley is 134, world record is 136).
GoGoGadget
All-Star
And I'll take neither.
Dry heat isn't as unpleasantly heavy as the humidity, but my asthma gives me more problems with the dry and the dust. Humid heat doesn't have that baking quality that comes with intense dryness, but comes instead with the icky can't-get-dry-after-your-shower feeling (unless, of course, you just give up any hope of being productive and spend the day lying naked in front of a collection of fans).
Blech to it all. Bring on the coastal year-round fog!!
AleksandarN
Starter
an inconvenient truth
it is only going to get worse in coming years
it is only going to get worse in coming years
Circa_1985_Fan
All-Star
I remember back in the 80's when we had like 14 straight days of 100 degrees or more, I think it was like 1987 or something like that. Not that its any consolation for the current heat.
D-Mass
Starter
Oh, how I miss living in Santa Barbara...June gloom is my favorite weather.
Prophetess
Gallifrayain
The only thing I don't like about Cali heat is that it usually results in high fire risks.
There's another fire. This one is in Plumas National Forest.
At least I think that's what news 10 said.\\
Edit: CONFIRMED.
They have the El Dorado Fire is under control.
There's another fire. This one is in Plumas National Forest.
At least I think that's what news 10 said.\\Edit: CONFIRMED.
They have the El Dorado Fire is under control.
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Circa_1985_Fan
All-Star
The heat in New England with the 99% humidity was by far the worst I've ever felt...I lived in Boston...you walk accross the street and feel like you've just jumped into a steam room.
JoMama
Bench
California's dry heat is a cooling trend compared to hot/humid areas, which are miserable. I walked out of the airport in Houston, Texas one time and sweat started beading up and my hair went from straight to curly. Man, the humidity was hoooorible.
In the category Dry Heat, it's tough to beat Las Vegas for that type of excess. Recently it was in the 116-118 degree range, but the real killer was the low temperatures - 90s at night!!!!
In the category Dry Heat, it's tough to beat Las Vegas for that type of excess. Recently it was in the 116-118 degree range, but the real killer was the low temperatures - 90s at night!!!!
HndsmCelt
Hall of Famer
Having lived in the Valley most of my life I have a 5 year policy. I will patiently listne to people that have jsut moved here (Fresno) for 5 years after which I tell them to either shut up or move. Sorry kids that is life in the Big NO we get hot in the summer VERY HOT. We hit 109 yester day and 110 on the 4th. Or to steal a phrase from Harry Truman: If you can't stand the heat get out of the Valley.
PS Viking great Avatar!
PS Viking great Avatar!
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