What circle of Hades is this?

[JohnT]

I'm fascinated by Imran's understanding of how weather works.

[Timexwatch]

Dan,

At least you don't commute to work by bike. I'm fit, but no matter what I do I'm halfway soaked by the time I'm to work. DC is atrocious, especially for the business community and the feds who have to dress up every day

[GePap]

Bunch of wimps.

[Timexwatch]

IIRC, shouldn't you get a handicap because you're Panamanian?

[mrmitchell]

Camden AR July 18 8 pm CST

81F with 88% humidity

July 19 high:
91F with 40% chance of precipitation (up from 30% today so humidity will probably be superhigh)

[Dis]

Re: What circle of Hades is this?

Originally posted by DanS
91 degrees F (33 degrees C)
Feels like 100 degrees F (38 degrees C)
54% humidity
71 degrees F dewpoint (22 degrees C)

Just your normal late July day in Washington. Walk a couple of blocks and you're soaked.

I admit that I'm a wimp.

We were 117 degrees yesterday. That tied our all time record.

and don't give me this dry heat crap. You sweat more in this than you do back east. You just don't feel it because it evaporates immediately. But all the salts and crap are still left on your skin, so you still need showers.

[Provost Harrison]

That's the point Diss...if your sweat evaporates more easily, it is more effective in cooling you

[Dis]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
That's the point Diss...if your sweat evaporates more easily, it is more effective in cooling you

yes, but it will still kill you if you don't drink water.

yet amazingly humans are stupid enough not to drink water in the desert. sometimes I wonder if we really are smarter than animals.

I know lots of people who say they aren't sweating so they don't need to drink lots of water.

The fact is more people die in Arizona than in Ohio.

So I don't want to hear any of this dry heat crap.

[Barinthus]

DanS, I lived in DeeCee for 7 years in a house without AC.

After two weeks, you get used to it and before I know it while people are b*tching about the heat, I was like eh?

That's the problem with AC - when you work in an office that's ACed, drive in a car with AC on, and so on, your body just don't have the opportunity to get used to the climate so for you it's hot all the time.

AC

[FrostyBoy]

woosies

100% humidity - every day

and at least 30 to 34C



I have climatised to Singapore over the past 3 months though. When I first landed here in January, I couldn't really take it.

[mrmitchell]

The fact is more people die in Arizona than in Ohio.

And this matters because the climates in Arizona and Ohio except for humidity are anything close to alike?

[Dis]

okay compare Missisissippi to Arizona then. They are closer to the same lattitude.

The fact is people are more aware they need to drink more water when they feel themselves sweating alot.

People are under the illusion they don't need to drink water out here. Touritsts comes and drink nothing but alcohol. Luckily for them they remain in the air conditioning nearly the whole time, so we don't really have any tourists die.

Arizona is worse because illegal immigrants come through and don't think to bring enough water.

[mrmitchell]

Diss, if Ohio had the same population density as Arizona, and had poor illegals flooding through it, I bet it would be in the crapper regarding exposure death rates too.

[Dis]

Arizona isn't that barren. There's a lot of people living there.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Dis
The fact is more people die in Arizona than in Ohio.

That might be because the elderly retire in Arizona more than Ohio.