19-07-2005 04:35									#31
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I'm fascinated by Imran's understanding of how weather works.

	19-07-2005 05:56									#32
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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

	19-07-2005 06:00									#33
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Bunch of wimps.

	19-07-2005 06:19									#34
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IIRC, shouldn't you get a handicap because you're Panamanian?

	19-07-2005 06:22									#35
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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)

	21-07-2005 01:41									#36
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quote: 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.

	21-07-2005 03:41									#37
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That's the point Diss...if your sweat evaporates more easily, it is more effective in cooling you

	21-07-2005 03:43									#38
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quote: 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.

	21-07-2005 05:40									#39
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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

	21-07-2005 06:10									#40
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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.

	21-07-2005 07:21									#41
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quote: 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?

	21-07-2005 07:29									#42
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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.

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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.

	21-07-2005 07:38									#44
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Arizona isn't that barren. There's a lot of people living there.

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quote: 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.

	21-07-2005 07:42									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Theben That might be because the elderly retire in Arizona more than Ohio.

I was talking about heat related deaths. And (at least with regards to this recent heat wave) most of them were homeless men (and possibly some women). It really has nothing to do with old people. And the heat related deaths probably don't include illegal immigrant deaths that may not be reported.

The homeless in my city have been smart though and staying in the shade and drinking lots of water (in addition to their booze ).

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

In very concentrated locations. Phoenix, Tucson, and...that's it. My point is that there are huge vast expanses of uninhabited land, called deserts, and these are the problem, no matter how many people live in Phoenix.

quote: I was talking about heat related deaths.

Old people are more sensitive to heat than other age groups.

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I live in the desert too. There are towns every 20 miles or so. You rarely go more than 40 miles without some sort of town, rest area, or convenience store.

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Hmm, I've spent time in Arizona and Nevada during September with temperatures in the high 90's - as well as in Washington D.C. during June with temps in the lower 90's.

Let me just say that the humidity and heat combined in Washington is the worst thing I've ever experienced in terms of unbearable weather.

It's bad.

	21-07-2005 08:04									#50
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I agree. High 90's out here is nothing. I'd pray for weather that cool. Of course Washington D.C. is hotter than that.

I'm talkin 117 degrees (47.22 Celcius). That was our temperature yesterday. But get this. This was taken in the coolest part of the valley (the airport). Nearly every neighborhood was over 120 (48.88 celcius) yesterday. And not just yesterday, but for the past week.

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yeah I know, I should move. But the heat doesn't bother me too much. At least not enough to move. Because I hate the cold with a passion. I'll take this over the cold any day. We were having cold days up until April this year. I hated it. Yes cold for me is anything below 50 degrees. 10 degrees celcius

It just bothers me that people don't think it gets hot in the desert. They act like we got it so easy out here. Well we do kind of. We don't have hurricanes or tornados.

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Diss if you don't stop acting like you have supercitizen balls for living in a dumb desert, I will find a way to hush you up.

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quite the opposite. I get tired of people in Ohio thinking they are so tough because they have to deal with humidity. That was the original purpose to this thread.

I lived in Mississippi!. The humidity wasn't that bad!. I was there only 1 year. So perhaps it was a cool summer. And I worked in an unairconditioned building in the SIMA at the naval station, pascagoula. We only had fans to cool us.

The weather wasn't bad. but the mesquitos were. and nutria rats everywhere.

and what really gets me is people act like we don't sweat out here. If you do any activity that requires physical exertion, your shirt will be soaked. Dry air or no. tourists don't notice this probably because the only time they are outside is when they are in a pool. Tourists don't have to work outside. I used to have to work outside, but I gave that up.

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	21-07-2005 08:25									#54
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/07/...e.ap/index.html

There, I don't want to hear anymore *****ing about 91 degree weather.

and I don't want you guys to think I'm complaining about our weather. I think it's cooler than **** we are breaking all these records. I hope we get to 130. Our whole city might shut down! That would be cool. The schools are already having trouble staying open.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_h...s/26903340.html

we peaked at 5587 megawatts. How is that for cool?

although it pisses me off because we don't have any power problems this year despite using more electricity than we ever have in our history. It means there was no real power crunch a few years ago, and Enron ripped us off for millions of dollars. What really pisses me off is we are paying for it, and Enron faces no punishment for this.

	21-07-2005 08:38									#55
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Dry Heat

Humidity


I am used to dry heat (like deserts), because I come from Christchurch, New Zealand, and in Christchurch you will get what we call a Nor'Wester during the Summer days, which is a unique phenomenon found only in a few areas of the world.

It's generally just a very long, time consuming hot wind that blows from the North West of Christchurch; it will suck the life out of everything, turning Christchurch into a desert for a day or two. Some sheep WILL die and elderly have died during these Nor'Westers too.

For me, I love the hot dry weather; Christchurch: Capital of Skin Cancer, Ozone Free.
When my girlfriend (from Singapore) came over, she experienced a 1/10 of a Nor'Wester one day, and she could not bare to stand in the sun, she stood under a shade for about 1 hour until I finally managed to pull her out.

New Zealand; how many other islands have so many different climates?

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When you see this cloud on the horizon, you know she's coming.
btw, NorWest clouds stretch about 1000km's.

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	21-07-2005 15:07									#57
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quote: Originally posted by Winston Let me just say that the humidity and heat combined in Washington is the worst thing I've ever experienced in terms of unbearable weather. It's bad.

That explains why I don't have any problem with any kind of climate after surviving 7 years in DC.

Right now I'm in SoCal and it was 98 degrees in my house - didn't bother me at all.

	21-07-2005 15:38									#58
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forgive me if I don't believe you. I want proof it was actually 98 degrees inside your house.

98 outside isn't bad at all. But when you are inside posting a computer, your legs and any part of your body touching the chair will be sweating like hell. Yes I know this from experience. This is why I use A/C to keep my house from getting to 110 degrees.

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if it happens again today I'll take a picture of the temperature but that'd require your faith that I didn't change the temperature manually.

And oh yes at 98 I do sweat. Just that it doesn't bother me.

	27-07-2005 01:48									#60
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97 degrees F (36 degrees Celsius) today.

It is so hot, I'm sweating even in the air conditioning.