Bowdiddley Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 HELL! I'm ready for some snow! Heck with this heat! Its is supposed to get to 101F today here what about your locale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 85°F with mild humidity. Still too hot for this Michigan native. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Around about 66F and cloudy/overcast. My 6-y-o daughter's school sports day today...at least it's not too hot for her! P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 88 high humidity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 115 today with heat index for us. I always get a kick out of the heat index reference. Here on the local TV stations they call it the "real feel" temp. It's a silly way to bring drama to the weather report IMHO. The temp is the actual temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Around about 66F and cloudy/overcast. My 6-y-o daughter's school sports day today...at least it's not too hot for her! P. I'll trade you Pippy (aka Puppy)66F sounds real nice to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I hate summer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 I hate summer.... We have something in common then! I love it when it's the dead of winter. I've always said if my wife would go we would be living in Alaska now. But alas she loves the beach and summer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Cloud and rain. 16°C which is about 60°F or somewhere around that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Cooper Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I always get a kick out of the heat index reference. Here on the local TV stations they call it the "real feel" temp. It's a silly way to bring drama to the weather report IMHO. The temp is the actual temperature. I don't really know what "heat index" means, but I will tell you that humidity matters. 90 degrees with 90% humidity feels a lot different than 90 degrees with low humidity. A few summers ago I did a solo bicycle tour from Michigan out to Wyoming and back. For about a week straight in South Dakota the temp hovered around 100F. I would ride 70-100 miles each day on a fully-loaded bike (~80 pounds) and pitch a tent and sleep wherever I could (town parks, church yards, etc)...sometimes I would go several days between showers (out of necessity). No doubt I was stinky - but it really wasn't that bad. Even in that heat, the sweat just wicked away from me and I was relatively dry. NO WAY I could get away with that here in Michigan during periods of high-humidity. Here, on 90/90 days, you just get covered with a layer of gunk, and it's unbearable. Dry heat over humidity, any day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 A few summers ago I did a solo bicycle tour from Michigan out to Wyoming and back... Nice! We do the same thing actually! Well, New Jersey and back. And well, we use a big car and not a bike, but the same thing! This trip next month we are stopping for a couple days on Isle Royale, your National Park. Can't wait. And yes, we would quite agree, the drier it is outside the better our bodies are able to cool themselves. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 92 degrees here and humid!!!! I'm working inside a temp controlled business though so not so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Cooper Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 This trip next month we are stopping for a couple days on Isle Royale, your National Park. Can't wait. And yes, we would quite agree, the drier it is outside the better our bodies are able to cool themselves. rct Hopefully you'll get a nice cool breeze coming off Lake Superior! Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Right now in the geographical center of the U.S. it's 68F (20C). We've been running about 60F at night and 85F daytimes the past week or so. DB, you're absolutely right about humidity. When we lived in Memphis, I never opened the windows in the house - it either had the air or heat running. Almost never opened a car window with the same rationale. When I'd come "home," you could figure at least coming west through South Dakota you could open the windows and be rather comfortable once you hit the Missouri River. The eastern half of the state usually is considered "high humidity" by western folks - but it ain't nuthin' compared to many other areas of the nation. My little bro lives another cupla thousand feet higher than the 3,100 where I live (about 1,000 meters) and it's inevitably less humid so it's almost always comfortable in the shade even at 100F. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 I don't really know what "heat index" means, but I will tell you that humidity matters. 90 degrees with 90% humidity feels a lot different than 90 degrees with low humidity. A few summers ago I did a solo bicycle tour from Michigan out to Wyoming and back. For about a week straight in South Dakota the temp hovered around 100F. I would ride 70-100 miles each day on a fully-loaded bike (~80 pounds) and pitch a tent and sleep wherever I could (town parks, church yards, etc)...sometimes I would go several days between showers (out of necessity). No doubt I was stinky - but it really wasn't that bad. Even in that heat, the sweat just wicked away from me and I was relatively dry. NO WAY I could get away with that here in Michigan during periods of high-humidity. Here, on 90/90 days, you just get covered with a layer of gunk, and it's unbearable. Dry heat over humidity, any day! Maybe so, although our heat index always has something to do with the humid conditions. I grew up in S Mississippi and it is always humid, when I went to the desert it was 120 in the shade and I was enjoying the dry heat. Living in the south I know about humidity and no doubt it makes a huge difference. I wasn't meaning the humidity did have an effect on our bodies but it does not change the temp. The temp what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 55 degrees in Santa Maria. Cloudy overcast conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 My folks live in Memphis.... I hate Memphis...it's like walking around in an asscrack.... I hate summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 88 degrees right now, kinda muggy. Give me 70 degrees all day, every day. slight breeze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Searcy... I always figured the nicest place in Memphis was the Dixon Gallery. Some nice art - but obviously more fun to visit in spring or fall. Does the Peabody still have the coffee shop with all the nice pastries? A summer riverboat ride was nice, but with the flood I don't know if they still do that. Those and old friends are my best memories of the place. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar dog Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Could be over 100 here in the Washington DC area today with high humidity. A triple H day - Hazy, Hot, and Humid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 High of 72, low of 60. I love L.A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 A cool day for use here in Arizona it was only 103 but humid and muggy - but anything under 110 seems like spring around here last week it was over 115 most days oh well it will probably cool off again around Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 70 degreesF. Cloudy but nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Silky smooth and comfortable, moving at a pleasant rate of speed, with just the right amount of humidity....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 When I was stationed in the UK, they had a heat wave hit. I think it was the summer of 86; the temps averaged around 90 degrees for a week. People dropping like flies due to the heat. I loved living there for over 4 years and would love to return one day. Here in the Uk we're just not used to having much heat. Even mid-summer it rarely gets uncomfortably hot. When it does the whole transport infrastructure in London falls over... And if you do get a chance to come over you'll have to drop us Brit-Gibsonites a heads-up! I'll trade you Pippy (aka Puppy)66F sounds real nice to me. Nah! 66F is fine by me! Being a Scot I'm not used to much in the way of heat. It rarely got above 80F in the 28 years I lived there... True story : In the middle of one gloriously hot Summer, not long after we were married, I took my wife (who's from nice-and-very-warm south-west France) up into the Scottish Highlands as she wanted to see 'my' country (It's a beautiful place, Honestly!). Anyhow; we were in a bus heading for Fort William and the people in the seats directly in front of us had this brief excange of words; Man : "The weather's been a bit peculiar this week." Woman : "Aye. It hasn't rained for four days..." We Laughed Out Loud... Pup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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