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Local weather shows...
109.6°F/43°C 19% Humidity
I'm in Sunny Southern California.
At least my feet don't stink. That's an inside joke for those who have been around here for a while. :)
In Sunny Northern California: 75°F/23°C 70% Humidity
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia before the sun's properly up
Temp: 17C / 62.6F
Relative Humidity: 54%
Pressure: 1026 hPa.
Summer, what there was of it, is over - autumn is on the way...
What a difference a few hundred miles makes
Raining and cloudy in Southern Oregon, but it has been 95 - 100+ the last week.
Marshall
My nephew has been dealing with temps in the 130 to 140 degree range. Just outside of Baghdad. Wearing full body armor and riding atop a HumVee in a bullet-resistant glass bubble...
It should be just like my old roofer's appprentice days, and I should lose about 5 lbs
i agree,
we have 24c here in london today and i'm happy in my t-shirt enjoying the warmth
... when you live in the uk you get used to making the most of the little crumbs of weather!
and I should lose about 5 lbs.
If I remember correctly, you losing 5 pounds is like the difference between buff and anorexic. :)
The heat has been causing major problems for Angelinos. I believe we had about 30,000 people without power due to the high temperatures. Los Angeles have now set up "Cooling Centers" around the city. If you are without power, you can hang out at a Cooling Center until 22:00. Anytime we have three days back to back with heat like this, parts of the antiquated power grid start to fail.
And then we have the stories of parents leaving their child in the car in this heat. Arrrggghhh! :(
well they should at least crack a window or leave it idling with the ac on ;)
man you guys have some issues with your grid
>> buff and anorexic
hehe, I've been sittin' on my butt in front of this laptop long enough I might do for 5 but if we go too much farther I might be invisible if I turn sideways ;)
Southern California 108% and no wind. Power grid went down for 30 hours just came back on. Dumped a $ 100.00 worth of food out of the frig. The first guy
who tells me its OK because its dry heat gets shot.
I had computer withdrawal shakes and my wife, TV DDTs.
I never had to ask this question before but this is certainly the appropriate time. For the computer is there any alternate power back up device that would allow you to continue to work online? I don't mean an electrical generator that
would be too noisy, but some other type of device? Cooling off in So.Cal...KF
Most "home" version UPS's will give you only 30 minutes to an hour. I worked at a print shop where they had this *huge* UPS for the prepress department, it was a 6' cube and contained 12 lead batteries that looked a lot like car batteries. It would keep the entire department lit for 2 hours. I'm sure you could find something that could keep you on the boards for a while. :-)
Southern California 108% and no wind. Power grid went down for 30 hours just came back on. Dumped a $ 100.00 worth of food out of the frig. The first guy
who tells me its OK because its dry heat gets shot.
108 is hot no matter what, but try it in 80 - 90% humidity (like we have a lot of the time here in Central Illinois) and see how you like it. That kind of heat AND high humidity is simply brutal. Most people don't understand just how brutal it is until they experience it. It has to "settle in" for a week or two before you realize the full, draining, cumulative effect! ;)
If you don't appreciate your "dry heat," try breathing through a wet dishcloth day and night for the next two weeks and see how much worse the heat CAN feel. Even that won't be an accurate test, however, since your dry atmosphere will at least allow your sweat to evaporate, which doesn't happen here.
Most people don't understand just how brutal it is until they experience it.
Ah, been there, done that. I moved to California to get away from that. In Florida they have what they call the "feels like" temperature. It could be 100 degrees out but with the 110% humidity the "feels like" temperature is at 115 degrees. Nasty stuff and, just as uncomfortable as the dry heat. At least with the humidty, there is a chance of rain. We're in a drought right now. I think it has rained once in the last 6 months.
pmac in 2003 June...
My feet stink
Jeez it's hot
33 degrees Celsius.Air conditioning is out of order. Just peeled off my sandals. "Pleasant" is not a word I would use to describe the odor.
Does Dr. Scholl's have an affiliate program?
That was one of the most hilarious and longest running topics in Foo.
We use to have what we called 90/90 weather 90 temperature and 90 humidity. It was
a killer especially if you were a farmer and had to work in it every day. You
had to pace yourself or catch a heat stroke. Matt exactly right the sweat wont evaporate off you because there is too much moisture in the air the sheen of moisture on your body traps the heat in you making it at least 10 degrees hotter than it actually is. Brutal! I guess Ill take dry heat after all!...KF
