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102 in the yard right now.
Happy Fathers Day.
Go fuck yourself.

Currently 81º in SW FL, according to the super-accurate digital thermometer here at the Fallout Shelter. Had quite a rain storm blow through around 2:30. Kind of typical in the summer here. Down side is mowing the yard at least once a week. Tomorrow is my day. Stay cool out west.

We were in the mid 70s just a few days ago then...global warming.

Oh well, at least it's a dry heat.

Very dry June. Someone turned off the spigot. It was almost 90 today but it didn't stop me and the folks from dining outside for breakfast. Today not one single thing touched my lips that wasn't exquisitely delicious. I spent the day with family and right now am chilling with some Two Hearted Ale before rack time. Today was one of those fly days, didn't even have to use my AK.

There's nothing quite like a Mike's Hard Cranberry Passion Fruit Lemonade to quench your thirst on a sweltering day.

-Rooster

It was 76 here today all day.

Inside my house.

Outside, hotter than Mikey's sweaty balls.

we'll take your word for it, trev.

It was 68º here yesterday with a morning shower.

It's supposed to warm up next Monday all the the way up to 79º!

You are on the wrong side of the 5 Mikey. It may have topped out just over 80 at my place yesterday.

atmdad wrote:You are on the wrong side of the 5 Mikey. It may have topped out just over 80 at my place yesterday.

You're right. But unfortunately we can't all afford multi-million dollar ocean view beach cottages.

Mikey wrote:Oh well, at least it's a dry heat.

I always thought that was horseshit until I went to the midwest during a sweltering 95 degree with 88% humidity....played golf in it and I couldn't drink enough water.....my shirt was absolutely wringing wet when I was done.....fuck humidity and the horse it rode in on....

Another 90 degree day here in WNY. looking forward to some rain tonight. Any dryer here and they'll move the Open Championship here.

I'm sitting on my front porch, noticing the guys who don't water their lawns have some brown spots.

We had triple digits a couple of weeks ago.

I hug out outside, and the heat still didn't make me forget how to spell "than."

It got hotter and hotter all day long. Then I took a dump.
What's the problem hear?

Dinsdale wrote:We had triple digits a couple of weeks ago.

I hug out outside, and the heat still didn't make me forget how to spell "than."

Hug it out, dins. Hug it out.

<----- KHOA

I saw the thread title and thought Mikey was reposting my beach photo.

Goober McTuber wrote:I saw the thread title and thought Mikey was reposting my beach photo.

That would have been "Smells like shit."

Mikey wrote:

atmdad wrote:You are on the wrong side of the 5 Mikey. It may have topped out just over 80 at my place yesterday.

You're right. But unfortunately we can't all afford multi-million dollar ocean view beach cottages.

We try to be tolerant of the other people.

Ehhh, we just got extremely lucky to get into this place in the early 90's before the neighboring greenhouse properties were turned into McMansions and a large community park.

Mikey wrote:

atmdad wrote:You are on the wrong side of the 5 Mikey. It may have topped out just over 80 at my place yesterday.

You're right. But unfortunately we can't all afford multi-million dollar ocean view beach cottages.

atmdad...Do you give candy to the trick-or-treaters from Escondido or Vista?

A certain poster in Texas would like to know...

Felix wrote:

Mikey wrote:Oh well, at least it's a dry heat.

I always thought that was horseshit until I went to the midwest during a sweltering 95 degree with 88% humidity

While it does get a little stuffy here in flyover country, it's not that oppressive.
A 95 temp with 88% humidity would produce a dew point of 91 degrees. The highest
recorded dew point in the US ever, is 90 degrees.

Diego in Seattle wrote:

Mikey wrote:

atmdad wrote:You are on the wrong side of the 5 Mikey. It may have topped out just over 80 at my place yesterday.

You're right. But unfortunately we can't all afford multi-million dollar ocean view beach cottages.

atmdad...Do you give candy to the trick-or-treaters from Escondido or Vista?

A certain poster in Texas would like to know...

To any and all who come to the door, the little brown skins are just as welcome as others.

kcdave wrote:


While it does get a little stuffy here in flyover country, it's not that oppressive.
A 95 temp with 88% humidity would produce a dew point of 91 degrees. The highest
recorded dew point in the US ever, is 90 degrees.

THANK YOU!

I used to believe all those claims of "XX degrees with YY% humidity!!!!!" Then, I spent last summer traveling some of the hottest parts of the country, and learned that everyone who makes these claims is full of unadulterated bullshit, in part for the reasons you outlined.

Sorry, big mouth weather-braggart... if it's over about 93 out, the humidity isn't over about 60% max... it's kind of a science thingy.

In the Rio Grande Valley, it tried to get foggy -- about 82 degrees, 96% RH. Unbelievably muggy.

It actually got foggy in Tampa at 80... meaning dew point was... really close to 80.

Birmingham... tried to fog up in the wee hours... at 74.

I was in some blistering hot, muggy places (I'm the freak who has no aversion to heat... my friends hate me for it, some freakish ability, I guess). In the day when temperatures were very high, a quick check of local conditions never showed one over 60% RH... not once.

Props to KC Dave for calling bullshit on verifiable bullshit.

Don't get me wrong -- 103 degrees with 55+% RH isn't fucking around (sup Rio Grande Valley), but it isn't "IT'S 95 DEGREES WITH 98% HUMIDITY" sort of fucking around. But the huge RH numbers only come out late at night (again, a science thingy).

When I was in Arizona there was a day with a high of 117. I don't give a fuck what kind of humidity your high 90s day has, your heat index isn't topping 117.

Aww Fuck,

Last summer coming back from a vacation we rolled into Yuma AZ around 11 pm to fill up the gas tank. It was about 137 degrees and 2040% humidity. I looked at my wife and said, "Yo Bitch, where did you pack my wool sweater and sweat pants, it is a bit chilly out."

atmdad wrote:It was about 137 degrees

Couldn't have been more than 114.

I'm docking your chink ass a day's pay for napping on the job.

Dinsdale wrote:

kcdave wrote:


While it does get a little stuffy here in flyover country, it's not that oppressive.
A 95 temp with 88% humidity would produce a dew point of 91 degrees. The highest
recorded dew point in the US ever, is 90 degrees.

THANK YOU!

I used to believe all those claims of "XX degrees with YY% humidity!!!!!" Then, I spent last summer traveling some of the hottest parts of the country, and learned that everyone who makes these claims is full of unadulterated bullshit, in part for the reasons you outlined.

Sorry, big mouth weather-braggart... if it's over about 93 out, the humidity isn't over about 60% max... it's kind of a science thingy.

In the Rio Grande Valley, it tried to get foggy -- about 82 degrees, 96% RH. Unbelievably muggy.

It actually got foggy in Tampa at 80... meaning dew point was... really close to 80.

Birmingham... tried to fog up in the wee hours... at 74.

I was in some blistering hot, muggy places (I'm the freak who has no aversion to heat... my friends hate me for it, some freakish ability, I guess). In the day when temperatures were very high, a quick check of local conditions never showed one over 60% RH... not once.

Props to KC Dave for calling bullshit on verifiable bullshit.

Don't get me wrong -- 103 degrees with 55+% RH isn't fucking around (sup Rio Grande Valley), but it isn't "IT'S 95 DEGREES WITH 98% HUMIDITY" sort of fucking around. But the huge RH numbers only come out late at night (again, a science thingy).

When I was doing indoor air quality stuff for the EPA I was doing a project at a school in Tallahassee. That place is brutal. You get out of your air conditioned car and your galsses immediately steam up. We had set up a weather station on the roof (temp, RH, rain gauge, CO and CO2 monitors, that kind of stuff). When we got there one morning it was 86 degrees and the fog was just starting to lift. Can't remember what the RH meter said but those things are notoriously inaccurate anyway.

I like to say "it was a dry heat" because anything over 110 is brutal no matter what the temperature is. Your oven produces a dry heat. The first summer we lived in Henderson, NV the temperature got up to 120. That was hot. But seriously, 90 degrees in the desert isn't all that bad as long as you're carrying water and it's not monsoon weather.

Dinsdale wrote:

atmdad wrote:It was about 137 degrees

Couldn't have been more than 114.

I'm docking your chink ass a day's pay for napping on the job.

Bullshit, I always take a 1/2 hour nap usually about 45 minutes after lunch. It's in my contract.

I've been in that dry heat thing in various parts of the D&L and it does have that hair dryer blowing on you kind of effect, but as Mikey says, if you have some aqua, you can deal with it. While driving our AC-less (unless you were parked and plugged in to AC power) RV, I made my own swamp cooler. Peeled off my T-shirt, soaked it in water and put it back on. Driving with the windows down in a soaked T shirt in 110 degrees and I just about had goose bumps I was so cool. Of course it last about 4 minutes and you have to soak your shirt again. Evaporation really is one hell of a heat absorber. Here in the land of humidity, that whole evaporation thing is pretty much on strike. It may not be 127% humidity, but, it is humid and it fukking sucks sweaty moose cahk. Fukk humidity. I know quite a few dudes who have done time over in the sand and they told me that that place gets to 120.....with humidity. Said it an absolutely miserable fukking sordid clambake. And even more fun in full MOPP gear. You pretty much have to just continually chug liquids. And don't try just straight water all day long. You will dilute yourself to death.

smackaholic wrote:I've been in that dry heat thing in various parts of the D&L and it does have that hair dryer blowing on you kind of effect, but as Mikey says, if you have some aqua, you can deal with it. While driving our AC-less (unless you were parked and plugged in to AC power) RV, I made my own swamp cooler. Peeled off my T-shirt, soaked it in water and put it back on. Driving with the windows down in a soaked T shirt in 110 degrees and I just about had goose bumps I was so cool. Of course it last about 4 minutes and you have to soak your shirt again. Evaporation really is one hell of a heat absorber. Here in the land of humidity, that whole evaporation thing is pretty much on strike. It may not be 127% humidity, but, it is humid and it fukking sucks sweaty moose cahk. Fukk humidity. I know quite a few dudes who have done time over in the sand and they told me that that place gets to 120.....with humidity. Said it an absolutely miserable fukking sordid clambake. And even more fun in full MOPP gear. You pretty much have to just continually chug liquids. And don't try just straight water all day long. You will dilute yourself to death.

When I first moved to NV (we were there for five years) I was commuting back to San Diego every weekend while my wife (and toddler kids) tried to sell the house, which took a year due to the early 1990s real estate crash. I was driving a Cherokee with no A/C, at least no working A/C. Used to drive down I-15 with the windows open, a cooler of soda and water in the seat next to me, and ice cubes in my baseball cap. I remember driving through Baker one evening at about 8:00 p.m. and the giant thermometer said 116. That melting ice never dripped very far down my face.

Yeah, any temp that begins with minus, coupled with anything more than a breeze is teh suck. Only thing worse is 34 and raining with wind.

smackaholic wrote:Only thing worse is 34 and raining with wind.

Welcome to my winter.

Fortunately, it usually doesn't rain hard, and it's easy to stay dry in daily life. When spending the day outside fishing or whatever, shit gets a bunch more real as far as staying dry.

I've been organizing my garage and moving boxes into my attic the last couple of days. I wear a bandana to keep the sweat out of my eyes and usually can get through the day without swapping them out due to saturation. I've been through 9 bandanas in three days. The temperature in my attic is 105 with RH of 99%. Fuck your science. It's hot.

Go Coogs' wrote:. . . can't get through the day without swapping them out due to saturation. I've been through 9 bandanas in three days.

Are you sure that's not your pile of jack off rags out there in the garage with your collection of old playboy and hustler magazines?

(pre internet mobile porn stash)

Go Coogs' wrote:I've been organizing my garage and moving boxes into my attic the last couple of days. I wear a bandana to keep the sweat out of my eyes and usually can get through the day without swapping them out due to saturation. I've been through 9 bandanas in three days. The temperature in my attic is 105 with RH of 99%. Fuck your science. It's hot.

That's what you get for living in Houston.

BSmack wrote:I don't give a fuck what kind of humidity your high 90s day has, your heat index isn't topping 117.

Possible, but extremely rare.






I spent a week in McAllen, TX last July. I think the lowest RH we saw was low-to mid 50's. And it was 102-103 every afternoon -- gets the HI into the 130's. And even by my tolerant standards, it was pretty freaking hot.