Heat

I'm completely with you Nate! Mid Atlantic (like much of the country) is in for heat of the nastiest type: HHH (hazy, hot, humid). Raw temps hovering well into the mid 90's with heat indexes well above 100.

The other day, I checked my local weather page. Raw temp of 95 (if memory serves), heat index of 108. Immediate sweat accumulates and sits the moment one dares to brave that nasty stuff and suffering continues until one finds someplace indoors with a strong a/c.

Even if one were to remove every article of clothing, there is no relief outside. But one would promptly get arrested and find themselves in a/c.....

Rich., post: 382176, member: 10450 wrote:

I love it.

Having grown up in latitudes further north than Oklahoma, I have always considered myself 'hardened' to cold climate. I use to walk 2 miles to school at 8500' msl in (at times) -15å¡F (and yes, it WAS uphill both ways).

But I have to admit I have grown soft. We were up in Wisconsin this last January. The lows were 15 to 20 below and the 'highs' barely broke zero...I froze my big pink Okie ass off. Give me 102å¡ at 10:30PM any time.

paden cash, post: 382177, member: 20 wrote: I love it.

Having grown up in latitudes further north than Oklahoma, I have always considered myself 'hardened' to cold climate. I use to walk 2 miles to school at 8500' msl in (at times) -15å¡F (and yes, it WAS uphill both ways).

But I have to admit I have grown soft. We were up in Wisconsin this last January. The lows were 15 to 20 below and the 'highs' barely broke zero...I froze my big pink Okie ass off. Give me 102å¡ at 10:30PM any time.

-15. Now that's cold. I'm in ny and I hate it below 20. Those days in the 10-12 range I sit inside.

Nothing beats heading to Florida in February during a 'cold spell' and seeing the people shivering in coats when it's 67.

[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER] :rofl:

I spent my childhood in eastern Nebraska; up to 1990, when I turned 43. I new it was hot where I was and would cringe at the thought of how hot it was getting to the south of me...

Those that can endure this type of climate are a tough breed for sure. I remember crossing 3/4 of a mile of hot sand to get to the cool waters of the Platte River. One of my buddies tore off his tee shirt, threw it down on the sand, stood on it and screamed I CAN"T TAKE IT!! :scream: I told him, as I ran by: you're only half way! He finally caught up to me after I hit the water.....:cool:

Heading to the coast for a few days; partly cloudy skies highs in the mid to upper 60's. Don't tell anyone, but the weather in the Pacific Northwest is the best on the planet!

paden cash, post: 382177, member: 20 wrote: Having grown up in latitudes further north than Oklahoma, I have always considered myself 'hardened' to cold climate. I use to walk 2 miles to school at 8500' msl in (at times) -15å¡F (and yes, it WAS uphill both ways).

The cold doesn't bother me as much as the heat; I can always put on more clothes...

Then again I was born in southern Manitoba; it was 11å¡f that day, April 9, 1957...

RADAR, post: 382180, member: 413 wrote: The cold doesn't bother me as much as the heat; I can always put on more clothes...

Then again I was born in southern Manitoba; it was 11å¡f that day, April 9, 1957...

I usually say the same thing. At least the cold can take a number of hours to actually kill you. The heat can drop a healthy adult in less than an hour.

I'm sitting up late reading this post. It's after midnight and my digital thermometer says 83 degrees. The humidity is about 90 percent. During the day it's been between 97 and 100. It's just miserable outdoors right now. The forecast is for a little relief soon. I hope they're right.

This afternoon in the Brookshires parking lot it was 100+ and a pathetic attempt of a rain and tiny raindrops were actually going zzzzt when they hit the hood of my truck.

My yard is 10% bahia grass and it has jumped up to 18in and the other grass is barely green. I've been putting off mowing and stirring up a dust storm.

:sun:

The truth to the matter, it happens every year. Not that we are ready for it , but it happens.
24 days in a row here around a hundred temp and tack on another 10 for the heat index.

Gets worse for me every year.

Randy

A few years ago I was on a job in Des Moines. We had a couple of days where the ambient temperature was 106. I was reading the Atlanta paper online and Atlanta hit its ALL TIME high of 105. I told the local fellows I was headed back south where it was cooler.

Andy

Andy Bruner, post: 382198, member: 1123 wrote: A few years ago I was on a job in Des Moines. We had a couple of days where the ambient temperature was 106. I was reading the Atlanta paper online and Atlanta hit its ALL TIME high of 105. I told the local fellows I was headed back south where it was cooler.

Andy

During the summer, it is often cooler by 5+ degrees in Sarasota FL (parents live there) than here in MD. I'm almost ready to "summer" at my folks' for the relief.

I could also see the attraction of the North Pole during the summer instead of having to climb into my refrigerator.

Give me the cold any day. I have plenty of good cold weather gear. But what can you do for the heat (attire-wise)?

The older I get the less I can stand of the heat.

[USER=228]@Loyal[/USER]

(and that's in the shale with a cold beverage in my fist).
Is shale cooler than limestone and sandstone? Do you dig in and then spread it back over yourself?

[USER=413]@RADAR[/USER]

You just can't keep your story straight can you? One of your messages above says that you are currently 67 while the other says that you are 57. Perhaps one of those figures is in Canadian years instead of US years sort of like Canadian dollars versus US dollars.

RADAR, post: 382179, member: 413 wrote: Don't tell anyone, but the weather in the Pacific Northwest is the best on the planet!

I thought the PNW official position on the weather was: "it's always raining here, nothing to see, you folks in the rest of the country might as well stay home". 😉

For those in the center of things the two options of the photos above of laughing men still does not fit. We aren't in the north and we aren't in the south. We are also not in the east or in the west. We just are.

We just are: Correct at all times, more handsome than nearly everyone, raising superior children and grandchildren, marrying the best spouses, having the largest retirement accounts, owning second and third homes in those other places for the occasional vacation, routinely winning Publishers Clearing House contests, ..........................................

Holy Cow, post: 382204, member: 50 wrote: [USER=228]@Loyal[/USER]

(and that's in the shale with a cold beverage in my fist).
Is shale cooler than limestone and sandstone? Do you dig in and then spread it back over yourself?

OOPS

Holy Cow, post: 382204, member: 50 wrote: You just can't keep your story straight can you? One of your messages above says that you are currently 67 while the other says that you are 57.

OOPS...

Fuzzy math...

[USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER]

when I went to school; they taught us that 2016 - 1957= 59, where did you go to school?

:smarty: