Hotter'n hell and bone dry.

[230RN]

Yeah, I just went out for a smoke... It's not going to be pleasant. Humidity level is increasing, as is the overall temperature. I'm in Fairfax/Oakton right now.
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Monday when I was coming home from a friend's place it was swampy balls humid, and I had a very interesting thing happen...

I was running on I-95 with full AC for quite awhile (gotta keep Seren comfortable). I rolled down my window to knock the coal off the end of my cigarette and when I stuck my arm out the window to do so, I actually had water condensing on my arm. Never had that happen before.

Wow. that sure made my sphincters shrink.  Fire danger is extreme here right now, so it kinda triggered me.  I'm sure it was perfectly acceptable for DC and its environs, though, right? 

[Jim147]

Last week here heat index was 115-120 I had it about 78 in the cabin and when I walked out my glasses fogged.

Supposed to stay in the 80's tomorrow but humugity is going to be 90%+

[just Warren]

Hotter'n hell and bone dry.

That's what grandpa said about grandma just moments before his unexpected trip to the hospital.

[K Frame]

Wow. that sure made my sphincters shrink.  Fire danger is extreme here right now, so it kinda triggered me.  I'm sure it was perfectly acceptable for DC and its environs, though, right? 

Acceptable? Probably not. I don't toss the whole butt out the window anymore. Used to do that. If there were a fire danger I wouldn't do it.

[K Frame]

I wouldn't count on it. 

Humidity is only subsiding very slightly, the drop in RH is due mostly to dry bulb temperatures increasing.  I don't know exactly where you are but the Dp looks to still be 70+ in the DC region this evening.

Actually, by the time I left work around 5:45 the humidity had gone back down into the low 40s. It wasn't dry, but it was a LOT more pleasant than I thought it was going to be and Seren and I had a very nice walk after I picked her up.

This morning it's quite humid, pushing 100%, but that's common... Yep, right now, 72 degrees and 97% humidity.

[Larry Ashcraft]

High here yesterday was 102, with 15% humidity.  Supposed to be in the triple digits for the next six days.  Nice thing about the high plains though, it is usually in the high 50s at sunrise.

We've been working in the garden in the mornings, and we're about caught up, so we're going to do the retired thing this morning and drive up to Cuchara for lunch at the Dog Bar and Grill and wander around for a while looking in the little shops.  Neat little tourist town about 1.5 hours away, and it's at 8,500 feet, so nice and cool.  We're at 4,800 feet, considered "the lowlands" in Colorado.

https://www.dogbarandgrill.com/

[Ben]

We've been working in the garden in the mornings, and we're about caught up, so we're going to do the retired thing this morning and drive up to Cuchara for lunch at the Dog Bar and Grill and wander around for a while looking in the little shops.  Neat little tourist town about 1.5 hours away, and it's at 8,500 feet, so nice and cool.  We're at 4,800 feet, considered "the lowlands" in Colorado.

https://www.dogbarandgrill.com/

There's a lot of places like that around here that I want to visit to escape the Summer heat, but between the late rains keeping me busy with weed control, and the virus postponing contractors coming out to do some stuff for me, I haven't had a chance to. Finally getting all that stuff wrapped up now, so hoping to do an early start day hike to a lake, then a late lunch at a roadhouse on the way home one day next week.

[K Frame]

I certainly hope that they allow Steve to accompany you for lunch at the roadhouse.

[Ben]

I certainly hope that they allow Steve to accompany you for lunch at the roadhouse.

I certainly hope he behaves himself if they do. 

The group training I took him to was run by a gal who works at a restaurant as her day job, and she had me bring him by there last week as a test run on their patio. He did good for most of it, but I just haven't been able to break him of that "first five minutes and I've got to let everyone know I'm here" thing. I'm hoping he grows out of that soon.

[Larry Ashcraft]

Well, it was in the mid-eighties in Cuchara too.  Not as hot as here though...  We'll probably go back up there the first Saturday of October for the La Veta Oktoberfest.  We drive to Trinidad and get on Hwy 12 "The Highway of Legends", and hope to see some color in the aspens.  Then. stop for lunch at The Dog, then another 11 miles down the hill to La Veta.  Usually it's a beautiful day, but it can be cold.

And Ben, pups are welcome at The Dog, but only out on the patio.

[grampster]

We finally got a nice hour long rain here today.  Temp dropped from 93 degrees down to around 80.  I was tempted to strip nekkid and run through the mud puddles but Swmbo wouldn't let me.

[lupinus]

It's currently 92 with 52% humidity. It's hot.

If you too would like to experience SC in July but from afar take a hot shower and put your clothes on without drying off

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[Perd Hapley]

We've had temps in the low-mid 90s and humidity this week (St Louis area), and they're predicting high 90s next week. People are complaining, like they do every year, as if they're surprised that summer is unreasonably hot in this part of the world.

This is what they said they were looking forward to, six months ago.

 

[lupinus]

A funny aside on what is considered hot or not: I get my weather from weather.gov. Where my dad lives, you only get the "sky on fire hot" graphic on days that break 100. Here you get it on days that break 90. On the other hand, around the end of SEP, the weather service here gives like one or two warnings about hard freezes, then gives a little blurb about, "This is your last warning. It's gonna freeze every night, so get use to it." Where my dad is, they'll start announcing a single day of potential hard freeze days in advance with all kinds of ZOMG! warnings. 

I think a big part of that is what's normal, people are used to and know how to handle, and what they're equipped to handle. Snows a big example. I'm from NJ and my first winter or two down here were a massive shock. Snows I wouldn't think twice of going about my day in when I lived in NJ or PA shut this place DOWN. But they also don't have the infrastructure/expertise to deal with it and people haven't the foggiest idea how to drive in it. Same with temp. We get the occasional cold spell the houses I dilation and heating simply can't deal with. Whereas in many areas, a summer spell that no one here would think twice of isn't usually pretty in other areas.

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[WLJ]

It's currently 92 with 52% humidity. It's hot.

If you too would like to experience SC in July but from afar take a hot shower and put your clothes on without drying off

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95 76% here in Louisville. Sort of normal here

[lupinus]

95 76% here in Louisville. Sort of normal here

Aye. To be fair it's a bit dry

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[Ben]

I think a big part of that is what's normal, people are used to and know how to handle, and what they're equipped to handle. Snows a big example. I'm from NJ and my first winter or two down here were a massive shock. Snows I wouldn't think twice of going about my day in when I lived in NJ or PA shut this place DOWN. But they also don't have the infrastructure/expertise to deal with it and people haven't the foggiest idea how to drive in it. Same with temp. We get the occasional cold spell the houses I dilation and heating simply can't deal with. Whereas in many areas, a summer spell that no one here would think twice of isn't usually pretty in other areas.

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Yeah, just think about whenever it was that Europe had that heat wave and all those elderly people in France died. I'm not even sure if it broke 100, but they were in buildings with no AC and not designed to circulate air, plus not being acclimated to it. I actually just ran to wiki while typing. It was AUG03 and did hit up to 105 a few days, Most though, were in the high 90s.

Not long ago I posted about how proud I was of myself this last Winter about acclimating to Idaho and going to the grocery store in like a long sleeved T or similar when it was 15deg or so. Then as I walked into the store, a guy was walking out in shorts and flip flops.  

In my defense, he weighed like 400lbs, so he was already somewhat insulated. Still though.