Posted on 06/03/2016 5:22:55 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
“It gets unpleasant quickly,”
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Great. I’ll be n Phoenix at the end of the month for work meetings.
So come to Missouri and experience WILT temps. So humid you walk outside and your glasses fog over. Within 30 minutes your clothes are so heavy with water they can be rung out.
While your here let some of the local wildlife partake of you. Ticks and chiggers.
If you spit on the sidewalk in Vegas or Phoenix, its still there 2 years later along with all the other dirt rocks and varmints.
Missouri - where I now live - is a welcome relief from D.C. - where I used to live.
That's 100 degrees at nearly 0% humidity. Try 100 degrees at 90% humidity like we have in the mid-Atlantic in June and you'll feel much more unpleasant.
Attended a 10-day Sun Solaris Certification course in Mesa about this time of year. Thank goodness the training center had a parking garage!
If you do need to park outside, be sure to have a bath towel handy. You need to put it over your steering wheel before leaving.
Attended church services on Sunday while there - it really wasn’t that bad (note: I’ve also been in Las Vegas in August). Wear a hat and drink lots of water. :-)
Come to the Houston area. But bring a life preserver if you can’t swim.
Never thought I'd miss the humidity of south Louisiana, but in July and August the Dallas area feels like it's 100 miles closer to the sun than the rest of the continent. Sure, there's a breeze - but it's as hot as a convection oven. I wish the coastal weather could reach up here.
The first time I saw downtown Dallas in July was at noon. It seemed deserted, like an episode of The Twilight Zone. Later I found out about all the tunnels that connect the buildings, with food courts and whatnot down there - like a huge ant farm.
Not to mention Valley Fever.
I love the dry desert heat in Arizona where I grew up, compared to the heat and HEAVY HUMIDITY in Florida where I have lived for the least five years. Completely insufferable, near impossible to tolerate working outside in the summer. Bugs everywhere.
I used to play golf all the time in Arizona in the heat of the summer. Hot but tolerable with some occasional shade and a breeze. I cannot play golf here in Florida in the summer without taking three changes of clothing and losing 10 lbs of sweat. Did it once and it was the most uncomfortable round of golf ever. Soaked to the skin. Even ruined my shoes with standing water on the course. Never again. I'll play in the winter season from now on.
Phoenix is supposed to be 118 degrees tomorrow. From experience, that'll be much more comfortable than the 95 degrees and 85% humidity forecast for today here.
The heat is one of Arizona’s most important allies. Keeps the undesirables in California where they belong. :)
I’m there right now. Great reminder of why I don’t want to be here in the summer.
Rode horses yesterday and went running the day before. Only pansies hide inside during an Arizona summer!
After all, it IS a “dry heat”!
I’ve lived in the hot dry deserts (Humidity 12%) and the hot humid eastern Oklahoma-Arkansas area. (Humidity up to 80%).
After sixty years off and on in each, I still prefer the desert!
Walked out of a store in New Mexico, Temp 98 F, humidity was 12%. Did not even notice it. No AC in the truck.
Two days later I am in central Arkansas, Temp 98 F. Walked out of a store and it felt like 100 fists just slugged me! I almost went down! Humidity was 78%! It felt like 130 degrees! Had to sleep under AC those nights.
It was so humid I later pulled the cover off the AC unit and found everything inside covered with black mold.
***Phoenix is supposed to be 118 degrees tomorrow.***
I’m reading ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK, about the AZ Apache wars. The author says it was so hot in AZ, a common joke was you had to strap two mercury thermometers together to see how high above 120 degrees the temp really was, and an old scout who died and went to hell begged permission of the devil to return to AZ to pick up his blankets as he was not used to the cool temperatures in hell.
Not to mention the Canadians!
I was in Phoenix once on June 6th. Walked out of the airport terminal and the heat sucked the breath out of my lungs. I have never experienced anything like the AZ heat. I was never so glad to get back to the 85 degree humidity in Atlanta in my life.
Mississippi starting to hit upper 80s to low 90s - soon the humidity will set in and I will wish I had 110 and low humidity ......
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