Whoa....Forgot what 101 degrees felt like!
 

Took a couple hours to go out to our range yesterday to exercise the single shot 45 caliber black powder pistol I made in October last year. Due to problems my wife is having with her kidneys and the lung cancer places in my left lung AND the virus shutdown of the range my range time is reduced. Slight breeze and at 25 yards the little gun shot very well. Drank plenty of water and the temps didn't bother me until I got in my car and on startup it showed outside temp as 101 degrees! Then the temp bothered me, guess I'll tape the readout over next time!

Glad you were able to get out and relax a bit. Hang in there Best wishes for you and the missus!

I did a couple of errands today. The temperature east of you in the foot hills was a few degrees higher. As a kid living in Fresno, CA I'd go out in temps of 105 to 107. I'm definitely not a kid anymore.

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Baker, CA yesterday

How 105 feels can vary a lot. How humid is it? That's huge. How much of a breeze is there? Also huge. How much time do you normally spend outside vs inside? If you spend 99% of your time inside in the AC, then 105 is probably going to suck. If you spend less time in the AC and more time outside, then you'll be more used to the heat. Are you in the shade, back and forth from sun to shade or full sun. That's another big difference. Grass and trees or asphalt jungle?

I twas only 97 today, but with a 76 dewpoint... (RH 57%)

Feels like 113.

Hottest I've ever been in is 118 in Vegas one year. Friend and I were walking from one casino to another and I had cheap flip flops on and while walking on the sidewalk, it felt like I was stepping in gum...turns out my sandels were slightly melting. Crazy

In Phoenix the sun hitting your skin actually burns when it gets over 110. It doesn't "Feel like 110" it "IS" 110 !

Right now as I'm typing, watching the news, it is 9:48 pm and 108 degrees. It hit 116 today breaking a record, oh and yesterday it was 118. Low... 92.

70 outside not with a bit of breeze coming through. Just came in or a walk around the canyon. I was at my mother's place working on the diesel. I changed out the swaybar end links. It was 100. Her concrete driveway was on fire. I had to hose it down a couple time before I lay my fat ass down under the truck. It dried within 10-15 min. tomorrow will be another hot day with pretty much same temp. Getting out early for a bike ride before they turn up the oven.

Yep. Everything you said is true. I'm in & out a bit, but at my age I spend more time inside. Today is actually the first time I turned the AC on. As a kid in the late '40s, I remember the street in front of our house (no sidewalks, curbs, gutters, etc.) would get so hot, we could run over the asphalt in places and leave indentations, especially toward the side of the street. I imagine it was the composition of the asphalt, but I was pretty amazed as a kid.

I lived in Phoenix for years - so glad I'm out of there (though I loved living in Northern AZ).

The worst thing about Phoenix isn't so much that it hits 110+ for days on end, it's that there's no break from the heat until October. Waking up to 90* mornings gets old. This year Phoenix is breaking records for the most 110+ days and the most 90+ mornings.

Did I mention the $300/month electric bill..?

Come on Rogers, it is a dry heat. Just think how fast you can make sun tea.


Try go to Houston pretty much any time this month. Did you know that the humidity can go higher than 100%? I found that out living in Houston. Actually called the TV station and talked to the weather man one time, after he was talking some non nonsense about 102% humidity and 117* heat index. Weather guy actually got on the phone right away, which surprised me. After further consideration, what else does he have to do when he is not reading the news on the air? Turns out, it is a relative scale. There is an unhappy confluence of temperature, dew point and barometric pressure where the humidity can indeed be greater than 100%. I was still confused about what it meant, and the man says, "Just don't go outside." High humidity really sucks.

Wind chill can be a bit of a "B" as well. When I first looked out the window on that chilly Nebraska morning, I thought Aunt Mary's thermometer, the one with the plastic butterflies, was going to blow off the side of the house. When it was sitting still enough to read, it looked like the mercury had leaked out. I told her it was broken, and she said, no, it is just at the bottom. I wore all the clothes I had with me, borrowed some of Uncle Cash's gloves and a better hat, and still was freezing. There are only about five trees in that county that are not in someone's yard, so the wind always has a little run before it hits you in the face. Dad was talking about how crisp and clean the air smelled. EFF that noise. I had on long underwear, two shirts, turtleneck sweater and a pea coat and I was still cold, felt like my gloves were frozen, just cold fingers.

For all of July in Oklahoma City we ended up 1.6 degrees below normal, and e had 3.5 inches above normal rainfall. It has been in the mid 90s, with Houston like humidity. It was uncomfortable to be in that humidity. Normally July is dry, and very low humidity. Today it was down to 69 degrees this morning and the temp is forecast to be mid 80s and low humidity. I like it!

Rewards for the roofers that finished our new roof in the heat yesterday.
Younger guys that finished the job.
I opened the front door and one was huddled under the shade of the front porch trying to cool down.
So before the last hour I tipped them all $20 each and made a beer run.
Amazing after they finished they were enjoying cold beers and still smiling after a brutal hot day on the roof.
I use to try and keep up with the workers at the house, but not today.

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For the past few weeks it's been 90-95 every day and humidity in the 75-85 percent range .......... brutal to work outside . You literally work up a sweat in 30 seconds ! We are in NE Georgia in the mountains , head down below Atlanta like Macon area and it is MUCH worse ☹️ . Summer in the south 😁

Laughed at that! Good on you for getting out for a bit.

How does AC work in temps that high? Does it keep up or run 24/7? I’ve always heard AC won’t get any colder than 20* of the outside temps. So if it’s 108* outside, is it 88* inside? Either way, it’s got to beat having nothing.

Our house stays quite comfortable inside. And no it does not run all the time. It is idle more than it runs on the hottest days. And the 20 degrees thing might have once been accurate, but no longer.

Meh - I don't care how hot it was, I wanna see the pistol... :D

That, and what do you do in that kind of heat to keep on top of the fouling? Wipe every shot?

Speaking of heat, just back from Clarkston, WA, over in the southeast corner of the state. Lewiston, ID is just across the Snake River. 112 degrees there yesterday afternoon.

The hottest I have ever experienced in my life and the coldest I have ever experienced in my life were in the same place - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It's on the northern edge of the Gobi Desert. Made a couple of trips there to fix airplanes... Bouncing off of 120 degrees one summer and -30 one winter. For the love of God, I don't know why people live there.

Jeff - I spent a night in Clarkston last week....106 coming back from an Effie 'Burger in Lewiston....104 in Kamaih the nite before....Great riding over that way...my 2nd pass so far this year....

Yikes - we were driving an air-conditioned Subaru. Riding a motorcycle in that kind of heat is tough. Probably one of the fastest ways to dehydrate. I wish there were recirculating "cool suits" like the race car drivers wear for that kind of riding. Next best, I wear a long sleeved tee shirt under my leathers, and keep that tee shirt good and wet.

So true - as you know, all it takes is enough condenser and evaporator volume (with compressor, or compressors, to match, of course), and you can build home a/c to cool to remarkably low temps if you want. And if you really want to go low, you just need a thermostat control that includes a frost sensor for the evaporator - super cold temps while controlling freeze-up that way.

I don't know what the limitations are in homes subject to 115-120 though, so that would be interesting to hear about.

Your AC recycles the air inside. If it pulled in outside air it’d only cool it about 30 degrees. It does the same thing with inside air until it reaches an equilibrium based on what temp you set the tstat.
And it was hot and humid here about an hour outside of Houston. I spent several hours out in the heat on my tractor and when I came in about 4pm I was completely drenched all the way through to my undies.
Very uncomfortable.
It’s so hot in my shop that I had an electrician out today installing two 10’ industrial ceiling fans in one half of my shop. I’m going to partition it down the middle with the two fans on the first half where the lift and my tools are. I’m looking at installing AC in that half also because I can’t take the heat anymore and I’ve lived here all my life.
Sorry for the thread jack
Tony

When I was much younger, on our west pac cruises we would get several days to Pearl Harbor, a little warmer, then 10 days to Subic Bay and it steadily got warmer so by the time it was 95 degrees or better you would get used to it. Summer time in the PI or Singapore or Thailand would be 95 to 99 degrees and 99% humidity and at times monsoonal rain storms. So I learned to live with it and barely ever would sweat, different now in old age!

I've been reminded what 101 feels like for over 30 days in a row....and right now. H2O break is over.... back to pushing a mower & edging is gonna be even more fun :D.

Summer in the south :)

Three most stressful things in life:
Death
Divorce
And a family vacation @ 120 degrees in Lake Havasu with 3 dogs & G-kids.

Thought I'd clear my head, time for a speed run; real challenge @ 70 mph on the water it feels like standing in a jet engine exhaust.
Power to the RV park went out @ 2 o'clock and everyone bailed into their vehicles or onto the Lake.
Daughter brought me two cases of LONE STAR, so I be happy in the end

Man someone raised that daughter right.
Good luck with those vacations
Tony

Az is way too hot for liberals (Ca)...if you are conservative come on down...

I will run in the desert at anything up to 100 degree's....but not over 100....too hard to rehydrate.