There's Always The Weather

[Riverwind]

I was in Las Vegas once when it was 110 degrees F and attempting to get into a car in the sun was a truly amazing act of courage.
Nothing cooled down below burning hot. And once you get in and get the air conditioner working full ... you reach 90 degrees and that's it.

Then a local hick says "but it's a dry heat" and I want to drop kick his asshole through his head...

Having lived in the Palm Springs area in the early 70's and in the central valley of Cal, and St Louis, there is a big difference between a dry heat and humid heat. Both are hot and the dry heat can get a lot higher if your not careful it can kill, the humid heat is just be more miserable then the dry even if the temp never gets above 100.

In a dry heat put on a sweat shirt and you will stay cool, don't try that in a humid heat. Make no mistake both are hot, and I have been in Vegas when it was well over 100 and you just can't breath.

River

[Paolo]

I love how you Northerlies can't take heat!
They're predicting mid/upper 90's for central Indiana/Illinois this coming week, with high humidity which will make the heat index feel like 115F.
Last year, on the flight to the MOM, I had jeans and a hoodie on, and I was still cold. I walked into the airport and almost had a stroke - it was cold enough to hang meat in there. As I recall, last year, most of the local crowd was panting and suffering while I had a sweatshirt on...sitting in the sun.
I love heat!

[Riverwind]

He speaks the truth, last year at the mom it was in the high 80's and P had his Hoodie on with the hood up, I thought about getting him a blanket, then again if he would put on a little weight he would not have that problem. For those of you who have never met us, Paolo is a little skinny guy no fat on that frame, then there is me, I have not seen my toes in years, now I wont say I am fat, (I will leave that for others) as I don't think of myself that way, but OK, I am fat so I have lots of insulation and don't need a Hoodie mine is build in.

River

[moi621]

http://news.yahoo.com/worst-heatwave...151630258.html

"CHICAGO (Reuters) - An oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dangerous levels."
"The National Weather Service posted excessive heat warnings for much of the country's midsection, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, as well as South and North Dakota, where forecasters predicted heat indexes could hit 115 degrees."
"Cities especially hard hit by the heat included Rapid City, South Dakota, Springfield, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, where AccuWeather.com meteorologists were predicting long-standing high-temperature records would fall this week."

See what happens when you don't have an ocean nearby. OMG it is going to get up to 74F tomorrow, fog staying off shore due to humid monsoon air heading in from south Arizona way.

Moi

Remember, if you get to choose an ocean, choose the one on the left.

[Riverwind]

Moi, do you realize that Minnesota has more coast line then California? We did not need you to tell us it was hot, we live here, every summer it does this a couple times for a week or so. You just fill up your mug with the thing you like the most and head outside and enjoy it, take it in, bath in it because you know its not going to last. Last night I was visiting my neighbor when it started to sprinkle 100% humidity unlike you fair weather types who would have run for cover (actually you would not even been out side) we sat there and enjoyed the moment.

Moi, don't you ever get tired of it always being the same? BORING. If it rains you get mud slides and the new house down the street slides into the ocean. If it gets to hot you guys bitch like its the only place in the world that its ever happened to, when it gets cold the world is coming to an end, you see Moi, the people here in the mid west are tough people, they take what comes and move on. Its not a big deal, really.

River

[fhunter]

-Do you really have summer?
-We do, but, sadly, during that day I worked.

[moi621]

Moi, do you realize that Minnesota has more coast line then California? We did not need you to tell us it was hot, we live here, every summer it does this a couple times for a week or so. You just fill up your mug with the thing you like the most and head outside and enjoy it, take it in, bath in it because you know its not going to last. Last night I was visiting my neighbor when it started to sprinkle 100% humidity unlike you fair weather types who would have run for cover (actually you would not even been out side) we sat there and enjoyed the moment.

Moi, don't you ever get tired of it always being the same? BORING. If it rains you get mud slides and the new house down the street slides into the ocean. If it gets to hot you guys bitch like its the only place in the world that its ever happened to, when it gets cold the world is coming to an end, you see Moi, the people here in the mid west are tough people, they take what comes and move on. Its not a big deal, really.

River

fhunter, sorry you missed your day of Summer. At least you are on the left coast and not the one on the right.
Is Russia ever going to invest in their right coast? Does Vladivostok have all day electricity yet or still decaying?

Minnesota may have coastline, it is the volume of water they lack with a dash of salt and surf.
Our weather is not always the same, sometimes it is 74F and sometimes 72F
River, you are well aware that fewer people get displaced from a California mud slide, earthquake, etc. then one of your "heartland" style disasters. We just get more Smoke Screen press. Or more press per house then non Californians.
BTW I do like to walk in rain and storms and especially to be by the ocean at such times.

Finally, "The Weather" is always there and if we are not discussing anything else, there is always the weather.

Moi

[fhunter]

It was a joke.
In reality - it is pleasantly warm here, today was 25C or so, warm enough. And not too hot, anything hotter than 30C here is too much. A bit less rains would be better, but anyway.

As for the right coast - I do not know. Somehow I feel, that China would invest into it. Maybe. After assimilation.
I do not have firsthand evidence (haven't been there).

[Dave]

It was 33C all day today and thanks to a rainstorm the low will be 23C

For those of you who are metric dummies 92F and 74F

[moi621]

It was 33C all day today and thanks to a rainstorm the low will be 23C

For those of you who are metric dummies 92F and 74F

fhunter, you guys need the water, don't you. Hasn't there been a relative drought as helped create that firestorm around Moscow a few year back.

Dave, you forgot to mention the "feels like" temperature with all that humidity.

Moi

[Dave]

Me? I'm comfortably at 75F with air conditioning at about 50% humidity.

Ask me tomorrow night after I go to get my hair cut.

[Riverwind]

Moi, you can't drink salt water, reminds me, 'water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink' We have water water everywhere and its all for drinking. You realize of course that Wisconsin is boarder to two of the largest fresh water lakes in the world?

As for the weather, it was 100f today, the dew point at 80+ which makes it feel like 110 or higher. For those of you who don't know this, the heat index what it feels like not the actual temp. Like the wind chill in the winter, well let me tell you, ITS HOT.

River

[Paolo]

Oh, suck it up.
If it's 100F+ at the MoM, I may be wearing shorts!

[Slammr]

I'm so sorry. It might have hit 72° today in Portland, and this was one of our warmer days this week.

[moi621]

Me? I'm comfortably at 75F with air conditioning at about 50% humidity.

Ask me tomorrow night after I go to get my hair cut.

Asking. Less insulation on your head?
Did you successfully navigate through the thermotron particle storm.



Gravity - Graviton particles
Heat - Themotron particles
Time - Chronoton particles
Lots of particles if you believe.
I'm partial to the Higgs boson myself.

Moi