But, It Is a Dry Heat
If it is so dry, why does it feel like 114?
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At the TA Truck Stop, Laredo Texas 0 -
May be dry. Still really hot. 0 -
Yep, last year we refueled in Yuma when we traveled out to San Diego. It was 115 at the time and I can confirm, at 115 it doesn't make a tinkers damn if it is a dry heat; it is hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0 -
At that heat I would never leave the AC. 80 hear right now and I'm dripping from Sweat and its only 38% humid 0 -
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
At that heat I would never leave the AC. 80 hear right now and I'm dripping from Sweat and its only 38% humid
Even with the swamp cooler going full tilt boogie, it's not quite 18% humditty in my house. S'posed to hit a hunnert next 2-3 weeks.
At least Laredo has a river nearby......0 -
quote:Originally posted by gunnut505
quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
At that heat I would never leave the AC. 80 hear right now and I'm dripping from Sweat and its only 38% humid
Even with the swamp cooler going full tilt boogie, it's not quite 18% humditty in my house. S'posed to hit a hunnert next 2-3 weeks.
At least Laredo has a river nearby......
I got plenty of rivers nearby.0 -
Maybe not that much diff at 105*.
In 2010, I spent mid-May to mid-September working in central Colorado. Although it was usually 90-ish during midday, I was comfortable in a long sleeve T-shirt while the others were complaining about working "in the heat". The low (under 15%)humidity compared to the Midwest in July/August made 90 seem cooler.
I came home the last week of August to harvest my hay and thought I was dying at similar temps but 80%+ humidity.0 -
One of the engineers I used to work with was on a project in Texas back in the 80s. He was talking to his wife on the phone one day and told her it was 105 degrees where he was at and she said well, at least it's a dry heat.
A couple of weeks later she came to visit him in Texas and the first day she was there they had to rush her to the hospital with a heat stroke. I asked him if he told her that at least it was a dry heat. He said he thought of it but he wasn't that brave. [:D]0 -
Was on a solar powerplant jobsite in Gila Bend AZ- hit 116. Yes, it is a dry heat.
So is a pizza oven. [:p]0 -
77% Humidity here in Ft Smith @ 116 degrees 7 years ago. I guarandamntee you there's a difference if your working in it 14 hours a day. 0 -
100 deg. yesterday. Humidity thru the roof.
Sweating like a hostage IN the pool[8D]0 -
Told this before I grew up in the desert, even going to San Diego for Boot Camp the Humidity was never that high.
Was also Stationed in N.C. Still humid y and heat were not that bad.
Went to Okinawa from the plane to terminal was about 100 Yard I was a puddle on the ground before I made it that far.0 -
few weeks ago we had unusual humidity here 93% at home and 95% at the lake place the three days we were there working on things...got me down 0 -
I was just in Kenner LA on Saturday, I will argue that 90? with 80+% humidity is worse than 120? dry heat like I experinced in the Middle East. I just wanted to crawl under the truck and die. 0 -
I spent 2 weeks in Sohar, Oman where the temp was 120?F and he humidity was around 95%.
Yes, it was miserable, and I was working out in an open sided building, but frankly when I considered that not too many miles north of me there were US servicemen out in the same conditions carrying 50 pounds of gear and body armor, I did my best not to whine too much.0 -
We spent Wednesday through Sunday morning with our son in Arlington, TX. Temperature was showing 100-104 each day. Sure it was hot, but not the suffocating hot Arkansas is at 88 degrees plus. Never sweated in the heat down there. May have been because there was a constant light breeze.
At 90 degrees in Arkansas, I am dripping sweat by the buckets. 104 degrees, it is "heck no I am not doing much in this crap". Generally when it is hot here, there is very little breeze. Just stiffling heat.
Yes, there is definitely a big difference.0 -
Was in Las Vegas with Army buddy reunion about ten years ago and it was 113 Degrees. AC on little trolly car broke down and we elected to walk. Only way to cross the street was in shadow of a taller building. If you took a deep breath, almost made you pass out. God, it was awful. 0 -
Some years ago my brother and I rode our BMW motorcycles from Georgia out to Prescott Arizona to visit our uncle.
It was summertime, we got up in to Tennessee and we were hot! 92 degrees and 82 percent humidity.
So, I had the bright idea, we pulled in to a gas station, we just hosed ourselves down with the water spigot there. In fact, I put on a long sleeve cotton t-shirt, kind of like a sweatshirt, and I hosed down that shirt, and blue jeans and tennis shoes and socks.
It worked great! It took about 45 minutes to evaporate and really helped keep you cool. Took the shoes about another half hour to evaporate, really kept the ankles and feet cool.
Well, we got out to Prescott, I remember Uncle Bob had on the Today Show and they had a weather alert, smoking hot in the southwest including Prescott high today 117. Well, Good God I am a Georgia boy I am not used to that kind of temp.
Anyway as we rode out of town, we tried our trick of wetting down the clothes, at a New Mexico gas station. It was really weird, in that low low humidity, it was too cold! The water evaporated in about ten minutes and you were freezing!
And then, you were dry and you just roasted. The faster you went the hotter you got. Just no way to ride a bike in that heat and be comfortable.0 -
quote:Originally posted by 4205raymond
Was in Las Vegas with Army buddy reunion about ten years ago and it was 113 Degrees. AC on little trolly car broke down and we elected to walk. Only way to cross the street was in shadow of a taller building. If you took a deep breath, almost made you pass out. God, it was awful.
You must have been here in the Spring![;)]0 -
People wonder how we can survive -20 in my area of the country. I just tell them its a " dry" cold. 0
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