Now I understand the weather

[Howard]

^^Howard:
A few evenings back I learned from the TV evening news weather report that 94 degrees around here feels like 105 degrees. No wonder I seem to be always hiding in the air conditioning! Jeez Louise.

It's Summer, you just can't escape the heat, the only things to do is just stay hydrated and trying to keep cool as much as possible and always drink plenty of water.

 

[Howard]

And where our hottest temps are about the mid 90s in central PA, 105 feels like 120! In my plant (powder metal manufacturing) temps run about 98-100 degrees year round. So when it is hotter outside, than inside, the place feels like it has AC (plus the inside heat is dry).

How is your AC, Big T? Does it get cold in your house?

 

[Big T]

How is your AC, Big T? Does it get cold in your house?

We have a very large, old house (three stories, with the third being maid quarters when built over a hundred years ago-now daughter's lair), including front and back stair and real plaster throughout. Very difficult to install AC. We did have it installed about 5 years ago-targeted the second and third floors, ignored the first. System works well!

 

[Oldsarge]

(Snicker) When the neighbor across the street remodeled the cottage on my lot into the sprawling L shape I live in now (it was a hobby of his; he did 27) he installed central air. In Portland that was considered eccentric at the time. Now? I am the envy of the neighborhood in July and August.

 

[Dhaller]

One upside to the merciless heat is that it gets me going earlier - if I'm not out the door to run or cycle by 7am or so, I'm going to regret it.

Even early enough, though, there's that cloak of humidity one wears. I went for a 6-mile trail run this morning, and after an hour or so I was essentially raining perspiration. I don't think I felt a single breeze (and I was at a decent elevation the middle part of the run.)

10am to nightfall is indoors time for me!

DH

 

[Howard]

We have a very large, old house (three stories, with the third being maid quarters when built over a hundred years ago-now daughter's lair), including front and back stair and real plaster throughout. Very difficult to install AC. We did have it installed about 5 years ago-targeted the second and third floors, ignored the first. System works well!

I live in a regular house for the past 46 years and our AC works pretty well too.

 

[Howard]

New York right now is 98 degrees feels like 108, so glad I came home from pushing carts half the day.

 

[Big T]

Regardless of outside temps, I will light a fire outside tonight to go with my scotch and cigar!

 

[Howard]

temperature right now is 98 feels like 111.

 

[Vecchio Vespa]

temperature right now is 98 feels like 111.

I used to live fairly near to where you are, on Thompson Shore Road in Manhasset. Summer was sticky, and when you got into Long Island Sound to cool off, you felt like a clam in a big pot of Manhattan style chowder!

 

[Oldsarge]

It's 83º in Portland headed for 89º by 5:00 p.m. I've been outside all morning and am now headed for an air-conditioned nap. When I get up, I may look out the window.

 

[Howard]

The heatwave has finally ended even though it will be slightly humid but it won't be oppressive as a few days ago.

 

[eagle2250]

Always trying to be an eternal optimist, I prefer to look back on the intolerable temps/humidity levels we have been forced to endure of late, as nothing more that a prequel to a potential eternity in the firey furnace(s) of Hell! Perhaps it's time we try to do better?

 

[Gurdon]

Always trying to be an eternal optimist, I prefer to look back on the intolerable temps/humidity levels we have been forced to endure of late, as nothing more that a prequel to a potential eternity in the firey furnace(s) of Hell! Perhaps it's time we try to do better?

Eagle2250, I hadn't, until now, considered humidity a factor in the climate of hell. Thank you for something interesting to think about.

Your post brought to mind the preaching of Amos Starkadder to his congregation of Quivering Brethren in Stella Gibbons's novel Cold Comfort Farm, Buddhist depictions of various hells (punishment varies according to the sins involved), and a number of paintings, particularly Heironymous Bosch's. Garden of Earthly Delights.
Regards,
Gurdon

 

[Oldsarge]

Bosch, the Master!

 

[eagle2250]

Eagle2250, I hadn't, until now, considered humidity a factor in the climate of hell. Thank you for something interesting to think about.

Your post brought to mind the preaching of Amos Starkadder to his congregation of Quivering Brethren in Stella Gibbons's novel Cold Comfort Farm, Buddhist depictions of various hells (punishment varies according to the sins involved), and a number of paintings, particularly Heironymous Bosch's. Garden of Earthly Delights.
Regards,
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My friend, you may be right in your questioning my assertion that "humidity is a factor in the climate of hell," but over the years, I've found myself told to go to hell so many times I just assumed that living out the autumn years of life in the sub-tropical climes of central Florida, with summer temps and humidity levels so frequently registering in the upper 90 degree/% levels, I quite understandably concluded this must be a life prequel to or a preconditioning program intended to prepare me for eternity in the fiery depths of Hell! LOL.

Regarding Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, I have just spent the past 30" minutes since opening your post, studying the details incorporated in the work. For some reason, it is truly fascinating to me. Perhaps I just wanted to figure out how much I've missed in life.

It is always good hearing from you.

 

[Oldsarge]

It will be 90º in Portland today and I will be indoors with the AC on.

 

[Howard]

It will be in the low mid 80's and I have my AC on.

 

[Vecchio Vespa]

Today it will be 102. Over the next few days it will drift steadily upwards towards 106, yet there is hope. Today Central Market launched the annual Hatch chili fest, a traditional sign of late summer. The cedar elms have been sending showers of tiny, desiccated yellow leaves upon lawn and pool. The L.L.Bean fall preview issue has arrived. These are signs of only two or three more months of summer, unless of course global warming or the ending of an El Niño cycle yield a different result.

 

[eagle2250]

^^ The eternal optimist...
a good perspective for sure!