Tired of the heat and humidity

[Matthew]

Give it a few months. You'll be wishing for sweat. I will be here in Michigan anyway. Ugh, I hate winter.

[rcnute]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

But you don't have humidity.

I was an hour south of Phoenix a month ago. It was 110. I call BS on that "dry heat" bit!

Ryan

[GregL]

After a rough May-June, summer has been pretty good in CNY. Looking forward to 35 miles on the tandem this evening with the local cycling club.

[CNY rider]

Originally Posted by GregL

After a rough May-June, summer has been pretty good in CNY. Looking forward to 35 miles on the tandem this evening with the local cycling club.

We have friends and relatives down in NYC and surrounding areas.
Their summer has been very different from ours.
It's always cooler up here but the difference in temp and humidity has been particularly noticeable this year.
Not only is their baseline normal temp higher but they have been well above normal, whereas upstate has been at or just below normal much of this summer.
Glad we don't live down there!

[makoti]

Originally Posted by bigbill

It was 103 degrees with 6% humidity here yesterday. Right now it's 99 and 5%. Later in the day you have to remember not to rub your eyes, all the dried salt on your face makes them burn.

6%. Wow. Is there even a dew point?
In DC, it's been 70+ humidity, dew point 73. Just awful.

[makoti]

Originally Posted by azrider

This thread gets a big eye roll from me

Sigh....




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Those are our "feels like" temps, while wrapped in a wet blanket.

[Spaghetti Legs]

It has been pretty much dank and disgusting since mid May here in Virginia. I grew up in eastern NC and pretty much every day this whole summer has been like the worst of the August days when I was a kid, i.e. humid and 90 degrees.

I do have a bailout option, though, in that I can go up to the Blue Ridge Parkway to ride. Usually about 10 degrees cooler, but still some suffering involved.

[Dave]

Here in northern Colorado, it's already a tad chilly at 7 a.m. I've seen as low as 56. But 3 hours later it may be over 80, which is hot to me. Humidity is extremely low.

[pdonk]

Toronto the only City where people complain about humidity in the summer and wind chill in the winter in over 200 languages.

I avoided most of this summer's humidity by riding really early in the morning.

The worst feeling is at the end of the work day, having been in AC all day and walking into the soup.

[bigbill]

I hate to get in a whizzing contest here, but has anyone other than me in this group done deployments to the Persian Gulf in the summer? It's not a dry heat, it'll be 120 degrees with high humidity. I was doing it on aircraft carriers and at the main feed pumps for the boilers, it was usually 160 degrees. The guy operating the pumps would stand under a vent duct blowing 120 degree air as much as possible before venturing out into the 160. We'd reduce the length of watches from 5 hours to 3 because of heat stress. If I was out in the engineroom, I'd drink a gallon of water every three hours and still lose weight.

The worst part was showering. We turned off the water heaters in the bathrooms. The potable water tanks were in the bottom of the ship and the seawater temperatures were 105+ degrees so the cold water was hot tub temperature. There just wasn't a way to cool off.

[weiwentg]

Originally Posted by azrider

Originally Posted by fiamme red

But you don't have humidity.

It still is over 100 degrees.

[bikeridah]

Are people allowed to ride bikes on aircraft carrier decks?

Originally Posted by bigbill

I hate to get in a whizzing contest here, but has anyone other than me in this group done deployments to the Persian Gulf in the summer? It's not a dry heat, it'll be 120 degrees with high humidity. I was doing it on aircraft carriers and at the main feed pumps for the boilers, it was usually 160 degrees. The guy operating the pumps would stand under a vent duct blowing 120 degree air as much as possible before venturing out into the 160. We'd reduce the length of watches from 5 hours to 3 because of heat stress. If I was out in the engineroom, I'd drink a gallon of water every three hours and still lose weight.

The worst part was showering. We turned off the water heaters in the bathrooms. The potable water tanks were in the bottom of the ship and the seawater temperatures were 105+ degrees so the cold water was hot tub temperature. There just wasn't a way to cool off.

[Ken Robb]

Originally Posted by bigbill

I hate to get in a whizzing contest here, but has anyone other than me in this group done deployments to the Persian Gulf in the summer? It's not a dry heat, it'll be 120 degrees with high humidity. I was doing it on aircraft carriers and at the main feed pumps for the boilers, it was usually 160 degrees. The guy operating the pumps would stand under a vent duct blowing 120 degree air as much as possible before venturing out into the 160. We'd reduce the length of watches from 5 hours to 3 because of heat stress. If I was out in the engineroom, I'd drink a gallon of water every three hours and still lose weight.

The worst part was showering. We turned off the water heaters in the bathrooms. The potable water tanks were in the bottom of the ship and the seawater temperatures were 105+ degrees so the cold water was hot tub temperature. There just wasn't a way to cool off.

A/C in your berthing area?

[Mikej]

Humidity means NOTHING - dew point, now that's the m-fer -

[zap]

Can't complain.

End of yesterday's ride it was 90f with humidity around 60%.