[Tobra]

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.