Aacckkk!! Humidity
I knew it was coming last night as I watched the mist roll across the hay field. At the moment the temp is 81 and the humidity is 94%.
No need to go to the pool today, just take an atmospheric swim in your own sweat. Heat index is supposed to be over 100 today. I think summer has finally won the battle and is here to stay for the next few months.
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Just came in from the shop......this old buzzard will be working in the basement today !!!! 0 -
I remember humidity. Not fondly. I remember the day we rolled into Utah the first time 35 years ago on July 31 and the guy on the radio said, "It's 105 degrees out there this afternoon, and the humidity is way up there at five." Yes, the relative humidity that day was 5%. That is (admittedly) a lot lower than usual, which is about where it is at this moment: 31%. But I'll take 20-30% over the hot jello they call air in the Deep South. 0 -
Living along the Ohio humidity is a given. 3 -
Wife and I were eight miles from the lake, we decided along with the dog it would be much cooler to soak than to sit 0 -
wife's son and family living on the north tip of Lake Okachobee (sp) in Florida said they have had 15 inches of rain in 5 days so far and it can come in 3-4 inches an hour bursts.......now that's real falling humidity 3 -
Born and raised in St.Louis. I do not miss the humidity. The worst humidity I've experienced was in Aniston,Al. , while going through the M.P. school. 0 -
72% here. 0 -
Typical for this time of the year when a low pressure system over central or mid USA sucks in hot moist air out of the Gulf.
Brings with it popup Tstorms.0 -
Was in Arizona and Nevada once in August. They say it's a dry heat and not as hot or feel as bad as the high humidity heat in other places.
Who ever said that has brown stuff permanently embedded into their lips, BS on their lips that will not ever rub off.
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80*-77% here in SW Arkansas. We call this "kinda sticky". 0 -
Grew up in the south , North Carolina, and still here for all my 65 years . Grew up with no air conditioning. Thank the Lord for air conditioning. Visited Las Vegas once in early September . Temps in high nineties to over 100 . Didn't feel as bad as our high 80's and low 90's with 70 to 80% humidity 0 -
Susie, count your blessings that you are not in the worst of dry hot climates with 35+ mph wind blowing. 0 -
grdad45 said:80*-77% here in SW Arkansas. We call this "kinda sticky".
I just left Arkansas a few days ago and the temps were mild but the humidity was high. Beautiful weather just 'sticky'!I lived in Missouri for 10 years after living in AZ for 15 years. Not awful just warm and humid. Hated the snow and ice in the winter since I lived on top of the highest hill in the area. But the town's streets and sanitation people did a great job of keeping us safe.
Then I went to South Georgia for two years. Humidity? Sheesh!!!! Every flippin' day no matter the temperature, wet! I had the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf on the south. So besides the hurricanes and tornadoes, we lived with being wet all day every day.
Then I moved back to AZ. Hot sometimes, cooler and very pleasant most of the time. Humidity? 4% to 11% as an average. Some mornings it gets as high as 29% but that goes away quickly. About 11 niches of rain a year and it comes all at once for the most part. Being at 6,000 feet has it's benefits! Phoenix was 115 degrees the other day, we were 90... But it's 78 today!
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Arizona does have its better locations where weather is concerned, but anytime you see lizards gasping for breath and seeking shade to alternate holding their feet in the air to cool them off..ya ain't there!!!nononsense said:grdad45 said:80*-77% here in SW Arkansas. We call this "kinda sticky".
I just left Arkansas a few days ago and the temps were mild but the humidity was high. Beautiful weather just 'sticky'!I lived in Missouri for 10 years after living in AZ for 15 years. Not awful just warm and humid. Hated the snow and ice in the winter since I lived on top of the highest hill in the area. But the town's streets and sanitation people did a great job of keeping us safe.
Then I went to South Georgia for two years. Humidity? Sheesh!!!! Every flippin' day no matter the temperature, wet! I had the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf on the south. So besides the hurricanes and tornadoes, we lived with being wet all day every day.
Then I moved back to AZ. Hot sometimes, cooler and very pleasant most of the time. Humidity? 4% to 11% as an average. Some mornings it gets as high as 29% but that goes away quickly. About 11 niches of rain a year and it comes all at once for the most part. Being at 6,000 feet has it's benefits! Phoenix was 115 degrees the other day, we were 90... But it's 78 today!
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Seems i must just be a glutton for punishment. Ft. Huachuca twice, Ft. Leonard Wood, Ft. Gillem, Pine Bluff Arsenal, and now back in Missouri to stay. Heat and/or humidity. Very thankful for the two tours to Germany. Four seasons, low humidity and mild summers, not to mention fests for everything and oh my, the food!
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Susie, since you have made two tours at Ft. Huachuca you know what I mean better than most of us here!!!
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Kimi, yep. Hot is hot. Monsoon season was an eye opener as well. Dry as a popcorn fart one minute and lakeside property the next.
How are you holding up without any sports to speak of? This much heat, we should be eating over priced hot dogs and drinking warm beer.
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susie said:
Kimi, yep. Hot is hot. Monsoon season was an eye opener as well. Dry as a popcorn fart one minute and lakeside property the next.
How are you holding up without any sports to speak of? This much heat, we should be eating over priced hot dogs and drinking warm beer.
Isn't that the truth!
Stopped watching pro football two or three years back. Doing okay, though, since I do like college football. I sure hope this virus stuff does not ruin it for the season. Might make a Mariners - Texas game or two in town with the son this year.
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That's true, but at the right time of the year in some places 95 to 100 are the early morning temps without the wind before Satan returns for the day.pulsarnc said:Grew up in the south , North Carolina, and still here for all my 65 years . Grew up with no air conditioning. Thank the Lord for air conditioning. Visited Las Vegas once in early September . Temps in high nineties to over 100 . Didn't feel as bad as our high 80's and low 90's with 70 to 80% humidity0 -
forgemonkey said:Here in God’s country,,,,,,,25% humidity, @59°, 6000’,,,,,,high today = 72°.
Sister cities! Today's forecast:
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The humidity here rarely ever tops 40%. I love it. 0 -
Humidity is 54% here today and it is very nice. Two days ago I was soaked after a few minutes working outside and it will be like that again tomorrow. But today, it's nice. That is one reason for me to move west when I retire. 0 -
humidity 57% and 87 degree temp with 5 to 10 mile breeze . Not too bad
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kimi said:
Arizona does have its better locations where weather is concerned, but anytime you see lizards gasping for breath and seeking shade to alternate holding their feet in the air to cool them off..ya ain't there!!!
Yes, but fortunately that stuff is limited to the areas of Phoenix and south. I've walked across parking lots in Phoenix in the summer where you left foot imprints! The little lizards in my area reside under the ivy I planted because if they venture out too far the road runners get them for lunch.
Monsoon is a hoot in many cases! Sunny, bright one minute then a gully washer the next.
But somewhat sadly, the gene pool gets a cleansing from areas such as Oak Creek Canyon when the idiot greenie hikers ignore the monsoon warnings and hike those canyons anyway. We generally lose 12 or more hikers each year this way. Most are never found.
If you really want hot, Lake Havasu City, Needles and Bullhead City routinely have the highest temperatures for the entire state. I've been over there in full on summer when the weather services will not give the actual temperatures, it is so unbelievably hot! I was born and raised in the Midwest and always thought that 100 degrees was unbearably hot. But try 137 in the open sunshine and experience the absolute crushing heat from the desert! Shade in any form is a Godsend, fans are a wonderment and air conditioning is truly a miracle!Here at 6,000 feet, we get 3 seasons and summer is not awful but AC takes most of the pain away. Other than that I have a cistern to store rain water so I can water a couple of shade trees I use to keep the house a little more comfortable.I hunt the Ft. Huachuca and the Sierra Vista area in what would be our winter season. Great Coues deer habitat and the potential for a Muy Grande mule deer. Extremely hard hiking for low potential harvest but well worth the experience.Best.0 -
One of my sons lives in Phoenix. One of my older sisters used to live there in Mesa and a younger sister lived in Fort Mohave for while. I've only been to Arizona once and that was around Christmas time when my son got married in Queens Creek. I would like to come out there and hunt quail in the desert. 0 -
Temp 64 and humidity 18%...S/W CO... 0 -
SCOUT5 said:One of my sons lives in Phoenix. One of my older sisters used to live there in Mesa and a younger sister lived in Fort Mohave for while. I've only been to Arizona once and that was around Christmas time when my son got married in Queens Creek. I would like to come out there and hunt quail in the desert.Winter in the Phoenix and the southern area of AZ is a marvelous place to be no matter what entertainment you seek. Well except if you want to snow ski...Quail hunting on the desert is Hoot! It's not a lot of covey shooting like the southeastern states but dogs are a big help. Tough, well constructed snake boots are a must and horseback with dogs is a pure joy. Dogs should have booties for certain, the desert is hard on their feet and cactus are awful. Chaps or snake boots have saved quite a few folks from hospital visits and the expense of anti-venom treatment. $200.00 for a pair of boots is nothing when compared to $10,000 to $14,000 just for anti-venom. These incidents are very rare especially in cool weather when they are up on rocks sunning but we go prepared anyway. I see maybe one rattlesnake every couple of years. This is their kingdom, we're just visiting.
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I didn't know you lived in west virginia too forge..........forgemonkey said:Here in God’s country,,,,,,,25% humidity, @59°, 6000’,,,,,,high today = 72°.
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Kimi, kids are doing great. All have given me a grandkid or two. Their significant others are wonderful people with heads on straight. Gun toting, outdoors loving kind of good.
Tailend of Cristobal has left 100% humidity today, double aaaccckkk.
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Ya done good Grandma Susie!!! Real good!!! 0
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