@werehatrack I agree 100%, BTW Absence of heat I guess it’s even worse. That is because you get frozen water all over the place and you have to wear so many clothes just to keep warm.
@yakkoTDI Whose idea was it to leave an unshielded nuclear furnace sitting out there in the first place? Particularly one that large, spewing out that much stuff? Where were the Health And Safety people when this decision was made?
@hchavers
Unfortunately, there are times when I must go out, primarily for medical reasons: doctors’ appointments. After which, since I’m already out, any shopping needs, assuming I have the funds to do so.
@Tadlem43
We had a problem with bats at work that would get inside the building. I would take them home after capturing them in a container and release them in the woods across the street. I still see a lot of them around the street light. Can’t have hurt…
@chienfou@Tadlem43 Yeah I have some natural bats around here. (Is there any other kind?). Bats came up on a recent discussion here. In the area people build bathouses to use on their property or put in natural areas where some groups have permission.
It is weird first time I saw: some look like big condos 6, 8 or 10 unit bat condos. Key is they have to be securely wayup on poles to protect from predators, mostly raccoons I think.
@mycya4me
Humbly disagree. My take has always been I can put clothes on until I get warm enough, I can only take off X amount of clothes before I’m naked, still too hot, and at risk of being arrested!
@chienfou HAHAHA, We don’t want to see you in your Birthday suit! It would Hurt my eyes Badly! I have a FB friend that lives in Winnipeg, MB Canada come on up & visit her in Dec/ Jan. I say NO Thanks,
@mycya4me
I actually lived in International Falls Minnesota (frequently the coldest spot in the continental US) for a few years. Not uncommon for it to be well below zero non-stop for several days straight during the winter.
Fun fact: 40 below Fahrenheit is the same as 40 below centigrade.
Having just made the trek out west from Central Alabama to the California coast I was reaquainted with the concept of dry heat while we were in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. Still much prefer 105 with low humidity over 95 with 90% humidity.
At least when it’s hot and dry your sweat evaporates and keeps you a little bit cooler. A slight breeze and being in the shade is actually pretty tolerable. Around here even if the wind is blowing if the humidity is high enough and the temp is high enough all you do is sweat more which makes you more miserable.
@chienfou I agree. I live in the high desert of central NM. It gets hot, >100 for a few days every summer and average highs are mid 90s.Typically the humidity is in single digits. If you stay out of the direct Sun and with a slight breeze, your body does a good job of evaporative cooling. Then Monsoon kicks in around mid July and humidity creeps in the 30-50% range. That level of moisture in the air really messes up sweat evaporation and hot summer days feel even hotter.
@mikey
As I said above to @hcjavers
Unfortunately, there are times when I must go out, primarily for medical reasons: doctors’ appointments. After which, since I’m already out, any shopping needs, assuming I have the funds to do so.
In Oregon, lack of rain. We get rain frequently the entire year. July-Sept/October is bone dry. I dislike having to water constantly for the plants. Grass just gets to be brown in the summer. Vegetables and fancy flowers take precedence.
@sillyheathen Yep, right now the only green things in our lawn are the dandelions - somehow they thrive when everything else withers. I actually had to mow them earlier this week.
(Plus the grassy areas adjacent to the flower beds and vegetable garden, which do get watered.)
Totally get that, it’s really the combination of heat and humidity that gets uncomfortable. Sounds like the local bat population is doing a great job with mosquito control though!
Typical pattern here is summer days with very localized pop-up storms in the afternoon or evening that can be anywhere from a slight drizzle for a few minutes to a “frog strangling downpour” for half an hour that drops an inch of rain. Shortly after, the sun comes back out and the humidity gets to be cough, cough a bitch cough, cough. That results in the grass growing crazy fast, necessitating mowing at least weekly. Does mean the rest of the plants generally do well unless we have a couple days in a row where it doesn’t rain here (but does 1 mile away…) and then things do tend to dry out some, necessitating targeted sprinkling.
@capnjb@sillyheathen
Production drops dramatically once nighttime time temps hit the upper '70s. They just don’t flower and set fruit as well. If you can tough it out till the evenings cool off a bit you’ll end up getting a bunch more in the fall… If the plants don’t actually die before then.
@capnjb@chienfou mine are just starting to produce like crazy but our climate is drastically different to both of yours. Momma and daddy can’t get over how much cooler it is than New Orleans. They’ve both spent time here in the summer but living here is a whole different kettle of fish. Momma is just excited because she’s a master gardener with a new set of skills to learn. In fact, I’m watching her from the studio. She’s attacking everything I haven’t had time to get to because I’m up here framing out a ceiling.
Yes.
All of the above.
@werehatrack I agree 100%, BTW Absence of heat I guess it’s even worse. That is because you get frozen water all over the place and you have to wear so many clothes just to keep warm.
Heat or humidity?
Might as well ask “What’s worse, being shot to death or stabbed to dearh?”
The heat and humidity make me glad for air conditioning
The blazing orb of doom in the sky.
@yakkoTDI Whose idea was it to leave an unshielded nuclear furnace sitting out there in the first place? Particularly one that large, spewing out that much stuff? Where were the Health And Safety people when this decision was made?
Outside?
@hchavers
Unfortunately, there are times when I must go out, primarily for medical reasons: doctors’ appointments. After which, since I’m already out, any shopping needs, assuming I have the funds to do so.
The humidity wouldn’t bother me if it weren’t for the heat…so…the heat.
Not many mosquitoes. The bats keep them pretty much at bay.
@Tadlem43
We had a problem with bats at work that would get inside the building. I would take them home after capturing them in a container and release them in the woods across the street. I still see a lot of them around the street light. Can’t have hurt…
@chienfou @Tadlem43 Yeah I have some natural bats around here. (Is there any other kind?). Bats came up on a recent discussion here. In the area people build bathouses to use on their property or put in natural areas where some groups have permission.
It is weird first time I saw: some look like big condos 6, 8 or 10 unit bat condos. Key is they have to be securely wayup on poles to protect from predators, mostly raccoons I think.
I like the bats.
ALL of the ABOVE, Especially the humidity in the mosquitoes! FYI the heat is better the the reverse, NO heat!
@mycya4me
Humbly disagree. My take has always been I can put clothes on until I get warm enough, I can only take off X amount of clothes before I’m naked, still too hot, and at risk of being arrested!
@chienfou Yes & scaring everyone else, Plus animal control coming to pick you & take you to a Local Zoo!
@chienfou @mycya4me One thing I learned this past cold spell: when it’s NO HEAT, it’s also NO WATER.
@mycya4me
The humidity IN the mosquitoes would be our blood, so I agree that that’s especially bad!
@Kyeh Hey I fat finger the response, You knew what I meant! HEHEHE So Sue me!
@chienfou HAHAHA, We don’t want to see you in your Birthday suit! It would Hurt my eyes Badly! I have a FB friend that lives in Winnipeg, MB Canada come on up & visit her in Dec/ Jan. I say NO Thanks,
@mycya4me
I actually lived in International Falls Minnesota (frequently the coldest spot in the continental US) for a few years. Not uncommon for it to be well below zero non-stop for several days straight during the winter.
Fun fact: 40 below Fahrenheit is the same as 40 below centigrade.
Having just made the trek out west from Central Alabama to the California coast I was reaquainted with the concept of dry heat while we were in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. Still much prefer 105 with low humidity over 95 with 90% humidity.
At least when it’s hot and dry your sweat evaporates and keeps you a little bit cooler. A slight breeze and being in the shade is actually pretty tolerable. Around here even if the wind is blowing if the humidity is high enough and the temp is high enough all you do is sweat more which makes you more miserable.
@chienfou I agree. I live in the high desert of central NM. It gets hot, >100 for a few days every summer and average highs are mid 90s.Typically the humidity is in single digits. If you stay out of the direct Sun and with a slight breeze, your body does a good job of evaporative cooling. Then Monsoon kicks in around mid July and humidity creeps in the 30-50% range. That level of moisture in the air really messes up sweat evaporation and hot summer days feel even hotter.
Why in the world would I go outside? Nope.
@mikey
As I said above to @hcjavers
Unfortunately, there are times when I must go out, primarily for medical reasons: doctors’ appointments. After which, since I’m already out, any shopping needs, assuming I have the funds to do so.
@Barc777 no worries, I see no reason you can’t do all that while I stay home.
In the desert, definitely the heat.
Right now?
the fucking gloom in July
it’s supposed to be hot and dry damn it
It’s not the heat of summer, it’s the horrible cold of winter!
The fires
In Oregon, lack of rain. We get rain frequently the entire year. July-Sept/October is bone dry. I dislike having to water constantly for the plants. Grass just gets to be brown in the summer. Vegetables and fancy flowers take precedence.
@sillyheathen Yep, right now the only green things in our lawn are the dandelions - somehow they thrive when everything else withers. I actually had to mow them earlier this week.
(Plus the grassy areas adjacent to the flower beds and vegetable garden, which do get watered.)
Totally get that, it’s really the combination of heat and humidity that gets uncomfortable. Sounds like the local bat population is doing a great job with mosquito control though!
Typical pattern here is summer days with very localized pop-up storms in the afternoon or evening that can be anywhere from a slight drizzle for a few minutes to a “frog strangling downpour” for half an hour that drops an inch of rain. Shortly after, the sun comes back out and the humidity gets to be cough, cough a bitch cough, cough. That results in the grass growing crazy fast, necessitating mowing at least weekly. Does mean the rest of the plants generally do well unless we have a couple days in a row where it doesn’t rain here (but does 1 mile away…) and then things do tend to dry out some, necessitating targeted sprinkling.
No ripe tomatoes.
@capnjb but are they ripening on the vine?
@sillyheathen Excellent question.
@capnjb @sillyheathen
Production drops dramatically once nighttime time temps hit the upper '70s. They just don’t flower and set fruit as well. If you can tough it out till the evenings cool off a bit you’ll end up getting a bunch more in the fall… If the plants don’t actually die before then.
@capnjb @chienfou mine are just starting to produce like crazy but our climate is drastically different to both of yours. Momma and daddy can’t get over how much cooler it is than New Orleans. They’ve both spent time here in the summer but living here is a whole different kettle of fish. Momma is just excited because she’s a master gardener with a new set of skills to learn. In fact, I’m watching her from the studio. She’s attacking everything I haven’t had time to get to because I’m up here framing out a ceiling.