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Oh man. That's miserable! And most of y'all don't know what air conditioning is. Fans are minimally helpful, because who wants 90*F wind blowing on them?

I saw 88*F at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park many years ago, but that's on the interior.

 

I hope this summer goes away fast for you guys.

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I’d like to feel bad for you... but I don’t.  

It’s 104 here. But then again, AC is on 72  ?

You'll be down to the 60s tonight. Open all those windows!

 

 

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17 minutes ago, tadbart said:

Oh man. That's miserable! And most of y'all don't know what air conditioning is. Fans are minimally helpful, because who wants 90*F wind blowing on them?

I saw 88*F at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park many years ago, but that's on the interior.

 

I hope this summer goes away fast for you guys.

From the "Air Conditioned City".  

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The last couple of nights I went out with the dog around 2 AM and the outside stunk like rotting vegetation. It's also been in the 90's here and humid.  The land of

-30/-40 F is not a good place for heat and humidity.  We can quit fishing and start shooting mosquitoes like skeet.

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2 minutes ago, tadbart said:

I grilled in between thunderstorms today. Couldn't wait to get back inside.

Incidentally, I was in Grand Rapids, MN area for the last week and the thunderstorms just kept rolling in every day.

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1 hour ago, janice6 said:

The last couple of nights I went out with the dog around 2 AM and the outside stunk like rotting vegetation. It's also been in the 90's here and humid.  The land of

-30/-40 F is not a good place for heat and humidity.  We can quit fishing and start shooting mosquitoes like skeet.

Oh man. You guys who have severe winters don't do summer very well. I complain about a 60 degree swing, and y'all routinely have 100+ degree swings in a year. What your mosquitos lack in disease, they definitely make up for in size. So, do ya wanna die of zika, west nile, and malaria, or hypovolemia?

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4 minutes ago, tadbart said:

Oh man. You guys who have severe winters don't do summer very well. I complain about a 60 degree swing, and y'all routinely have 100+ degree swings in a year. What your mosquitos lack in disease, they definitely make up for in size. So, do ya wanna die of zika, west nile, and malaria, or hypovolemia?

What do you mean you guys.  Aren't you in Duluth?

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43 minutes ago, janice6 said:

What do you mean you guys.  Aren't you in Duluth?

Bro. I'm in ORLANDO.

Orange County, formerly Mosquito County. The World Center For Rat Worship, Disney World. Flahr-duh. Home of the newly wed and the nearly dead.

Florida Man was here.

 

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1 minute ago, tadbart said:

Bro. I'm in ORLANDO.

Orange County, formerly Mosquito County. The World Center For Rat Worship, Disney World. Flahr-duh. Home of the newly wed and the nearly dead.

Florida Man was here.

 

Ok,  My bad.  I saw your avatar and a comment about Duluth somewhere on the site so I made an assumption.  Sorry.

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2 minutes ago, janice6 said:

Ok,  My bad.  I saw your avatar and a comment about Duluth somewhere on the site so I made an assumption.  Sorry.

If we were nearby, we woulda had lunch a looooong time ago, amigo.

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We're looking at 99 by Wednesday. Still no triple digits, but their on the way.

I was in St. Paul, MN during February's cold snap. From San Diego one week to St. Paul the next. 110 degree swing. Screw the cold, I'll keep the triple digits.

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4 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

I'm dying here. 90 in the shade on the north side of my compound.....I mean, house. No breeze. I'm almost dead, folks. Bring cold beer to revive me. Happy 4th to you. 

Was 97 on our ramp today. Felt like we were back in Iraq. 

 

And that was before we got to the fire. 

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It was miserable yesterday. I got out and played tennis from 10:45 to 12:15........the sun and humidity was simply terrible. No oxygen in the atmosphere. Dripping, soaked in sweat from head to toe. It was only about 90 degrees, but the sun and humidity were pounding.

And remarkably, the courts were full. But everyone was taking serious brakes, to hydrate and rest for a minute or two.

Getting into the pool sure felt good.

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I thrive in the heat

I cleaned the gutters yesterday (no aluminum ladders; they askeer me).  It was sunny and 88° with pre-storm humidity.  The roof was too hot to touch without gloves.  Sweat is good.

Try working all day in a 80 year old boiler house (the top levels) when it's 90°+ outside.

I also love the cold.  I don't love the cold, itself, I like the challenge.  My record for working outside all day is -37°.  I don't remember how hard the wind was blowing that day, probably because the hypothermia was shutting my brain down.

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4 hours ago, Huaco Kid said:

I thrive in the heat

I cleaned the gutters yesterday (no aluminum ladders; they askeer me).  It was sunny and 88° with pre-storm humidity.  The roof was too hot to touch without gloves.  Sweat is good.

Try working all day in a 80 year old boiler house (the top levels) when it's 90°+ outside.

I also love the cold.  I don't love the cold, itself, I like the challenge.  My record for working outside all day is -37°.  I don't remember how hard the wind was blowing that day, probably because the hypothermia was shutting my brain down.

This post... explains a lot.

:poke: :drunk:

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Let me check the weather on my iPhone. ( weather mate) it's 92 degrees with the dew point the real feel temp feels like 109, but us floridians are used to hot and humid conditions, drink a lot of water stay well hydrated, I have is cloth that I soak in cold water b4 leaving the house, wrap it around my neck it cools me off when I'm out in the sun fishing, last night when we came home from fireworks the temp was still 88 at 11 pm ....last week went to a late movie  and noticed on a digital thermometer at 11:30 it was still 90, never used to like the heat, but adjusted to Florida as the years progressed, this is sub tropical this far south, like the jungle without the Monkeys ....

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4 hours ago, tadbart said:

This post... explains a lot.

Right?

Some people in our country have managed to stave off obesity and are fit enough to handle the heat,  even during strenuous work.  Even old dudes.

And some areas of our country don't require entire counties to be shut down, should the temperature be predicted to go down to 28°.

(A cool thing of that coldest day was when I saw elementary school kids walking (yes, walking!) to school at daybreak.  The snow piled at the edge of the roads was taller than they were.  And it was just a group of them, no escorts.  OH, THE HUMANITY!)

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Working field service,  one thing that will really mess you up is having to change from very hot places to very cold places, in one day.

I could be working in southern Arizona,  so all I took was jeans and nylon shirts.  Then "something comes up" (it always does) and I'm in Canada the next day.  Then I have to hurry and buy all new gear before the next morning,  or I'll look like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. 

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change from very hot places to very cold places

Remembered the following recently.

A colleague had to go to assignment to South Africa in July or August and he asked me what he should  wear.

I told him that it was Africa and it gets pretty hot in there (think Sahara), especially during the summer. So he dressed-up in a t-shirt and shorts. His luggage, mostly t-shirts and shorts.

Think he told me when he arrived that he was also wearing (word) sandals.   But I couldn't listen too well, he was on speakerphone and most of the group was hearing. We all thought it was funny. It was when (early 70s) you had to walk in the open air to and from the plane.

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