Yep, long sleeve cotton shit and brimmed hat. A bandanna in the cooler if necessary. It now takes a water or Gatorade per hour at my age.
I must have misspelled shirt.
Gym shorts and wife beater T-shirt. (we are on construction sites all day so we blend right in) ?????ÿ
I wish that were the case this June 27th. Although we didn't get as hot as where Williwaw is, we were close (only the mid - high 80's).
Andy, you came at the right time, both the previous and next summers were nothing but solid rain. In '17 I think we had about three days of sunshine, if that much.
Didi you hike up, or take the Tram? Did you partake in the Timberline Restaurant?
I will be in Helsinki starting Saturday. My solution to +110 F temperatures here in LV. Finns have punched above their weight in modern geodesy e.g. Heiskanen, Kukkamaki and Hirvonen. I believe they led the way on motorized leveling and continue world-class work in gravity and GIA monitoring and modeling. My mother??s side of the family were from Finland.
Chill cloth.
Anchorage is only about 1 degree north of Helsinki's latitude and our temperatures are normally about the same as what you posted. The Finns hit above their weight in a lot of categories besides geodesy. Just ask the Russians.
And they're the happiest folk in the world.
84?ø F. here today...TOO frick'ing HOT for my liking, but I don't complain (much) until we hit high 80s/90s (when I complain a LOT).
I don't see any reason to live so close to hell that the Temps reach [well] over a 100?ø.
Loyal
85?øF with a heat index of 98?øF
Lots of fresh well water frozen in plastic drink bottles lining the ice chest and several gallons to soak my bandanna and frogg toggs chilly bean blanket with and a large brimmed staw hat.
Should be a pleasant day, here in Puyallup; highs in the upper 70's (f) no wind; a chance of showers late in the day.
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I hope everyone has a great day, I know I will!
Dougie
I called it at 12:30. There was not a dry piece of clothing on me and my boots were full of sweat and squishing when I walked.
I pulled into an old cemetery and stripped out of my soggy clothes and "air dried" for a bit and put on my spare change of clothes for the ride home.
Just finished a tomato sammich and now I gotta go meet someone about a farm survey.
We're in the official rainy season here in Florida. That means temperatures in the 90s and disgusting humidity. I don't take extraordinary means to keep cool. I wear a 65% polyester/35% cotton blend long sleeve work shirt with a cotton T-shirt underneath. I also wear carpenter jeans because they fit loosely around the inner thighs, thereby mitigating chafing. Some people might argue that long sleeve shirts are too hot. I take the position that when they get moist from sweat, a gentle breeze helps carry away the heat. You have to get over the mental barrier that long sleeves mean hot.
A lot of people live a sedentary lifestyle ensconced in an air conditioned environment 24/7 and rarely do anything more than walk to the mailbox and get the mail and as a result they are completely divorced from hard work and labor outdoors in a hot and humid environment. It is not hyperbole at all to say you sweat it out as as you can drink it. This sedentary lifestyle has made people fat and lazy.
There is a family that moved here from New "Joysey" and I gotta tell ya they are by all appearances the most out of place people imaginable and to see them do anything outdoors is rare and it is amazing in its stupidity. These fools stay locked in their house nearly all the time but on the rare occasion they come out it is a sight to behold. Just watching them mow the yard makes me think they are gonna kill over. I cannot figure out why they moved down here and they are not alone as it seems like all of the people from up north are coming here.
Heat and humidity and northerners do not go together.
If air conditioning were to be outlawed you would see a mass exodus from all of the southern states the likes of which has not been seen.
I grew up in Maine but live and work in NC now. Long days in the heat are unavoidable for me.
If you drink coffee or tea in the morning, reduce your intake to as little as needed to avoid caffeine withdrawal. Drink water until lunchtime then switch over to something with salt, sugar, and acid/electrolytes. I'm cheap, so instead of buying Gatorade I just mix a teaspoon of kosher salt, about a ten-second squirt of honey, and two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with a gallon of water for my afternoon drink. Some old timers I knew would mix molasses and vinegar as drink for when it was time to go haying. I tend to go heavy on the salt on whatever I eat at lunch.
As others have said, a long sleeved wicking shirt and wide brim hat help too.
I still do a fair amount of work standing at the gun. An umbrella for shade helps quite a bit and is worth the effort of setting it up.
I have a big pump bottle of Supergoop spf50+ sunscreen at home, a small bottle of sunkiller cream and Supergoop spray can in the car and carry a little stick of that new solid block in my overalls.
I wear lighter weight overalls and long sleeve dress shirts.
I try to take breaks and not take on more than is reasonable, it is easy to make mistakes under environmental stress.
The thing missing from your mix that the sports drinks include is potassium. You need to maintain a potassium to sodium ratio, especially for the heart.
I've seen recommendations that when you are sweating heavily you drink one unit sports drink for every three unit of plain water to maintain the right electrolyte level.
There are a couple of things that I haven't seen mentioned so I'll throw in some suggestions.?ÿ These are things I learned from my athletic days, as I've always been more of an office guy than a field guy.?ÿ First, hydration doesn't start at the beginning of your physical activity.?ÿ You need to start hydrating well before you get out in the heat.?ÿ Normally I would tell people to start drinking lots of water starting the night before, but since you're getting out there each day you need to just keep drinking water before, during, and after working.
Also, during long, hot baseball tournaments, we used to mix spirits of ammonia in with the ice water where we kept cooling towels.?ÿ Be sure to keep this separate from your drinking water!?ÿ I guess the benefits of it are debatable, but it sure seemed to help out a lot when I used it.?ÿ I think spirits of ammonia can be hard to find, but if you do locate some it might be worth a try.?ÿ Here's a short article which includes instructions on the mixture:
https://goneoutdoors.com/use-ammonia-make-cooling-towels-7668861.html
If you do a search on this, you'll mostly be led to baseball and softball web sites.?ÿ Has anybody here ever heard of or tried this??ÿ I know some people call this Florida water.
We have a couple of people on our VFD that will mix up Ammonia Water and bring it out if we get stuck on a long-duration fire in really hot weather. I have never tried it myself.
James
I remember Phil Reed posted one day that he sent everyone home because it was too hot, because man wasn't meant to work outside when it was 83 degrees.
