On the bright side, we had a cool, wet June and July here in Central New Jersey . . . but now the oppressive heat and humidity have set in and I ABHOR it! I mowed the lawn at 7am this morning and was able to finish weed-wacking before it got too frickin’ hot to move. Now the yard is a mess and I won’t be able to finish until tonight or early tomorrow morning.
This weather depresses me: I love to be outside and am trapped indoors with A/C that gives me a headache.
Does anyone else want to sign my petition to cancel August?
Works for me, you mind if we skip september also and move right to october? My birthday is in october…and there is this spiffy set of earrings mrAru got me that are sitting in his sock drawer waiting for my birthday…
I don’t mind! I live in Southern CA where it’s much drier and probably milder than New Jersey and still I’m not a fan of August weather. I like late fall and spring the best.
I am going to Maryland next week and am not looking forward to the weather.
Typical August weather here in the lovely mountains I live in? About 80F, not humid at all. Nights it drops to the mid 40s or so. I don’t have and don’t need AC. Of course, then we have winter, but I like winter. I’ve spent far too much of my life in various hot and humid swamps (seriously, just outside of New Orleans at one point, it was a swamp!) and you couldn’t pry me out of here now.
Tonight it’s supposed to get down to freezing. We’re having a chilly spell. Brrrrr!
Here in the deep south, its 70 plus degrees when the sun rises. Ahhh, cool weather you think ! Think again ! **You sweat, standing in the shade **as soon as you get out of the AC, because its nearly a hundred percent humidity. Actually in the Sun or doing any real work? Gawd help you.
Then, the temp keeps rising while the humidity drops, so its an even even trade as the sun rides higher in the sky.
The only really tolerable part of the day is late in the evening when you can be in shade, its still damn hot, but the humidity has dropped to a tolerable level.
And August? HAH, its like this 3 or 4 months outa the year. Just 2 or 3 if you are really tough.
When you leave Maryland and go back to wherever it is you live, please swing by Baltimore and pick me up - I’m coming with you. I hate it here in the summer.
It’s 40 at night in August? Fine by me. I love sleeping in 40-degree weather with the window cracked open.
You’re all wimps! You don’t tell me about heat and humidity. I’ll tell you about heat and humidity. I’d sign the petition to cancel August, but there’s still the other 11 months.
I’m in NJ too and I was thinking of this myself just the other day. I freakin’ HATE August!!! And it looks like we’re in for a few days of 90. I’m trapped because I’m one of the jobless so the budget doesn’t allow for a trip anywhere to get relief.
But the good thing about living here is if you don’t like the weather, it will change in a few days. We only have a couple more weeks of August.
Yeah, I’m so ready for October. Cool, crisp and turtleneck sweaters. Ahhhhh… And, oh yeah, a good night’s sleep.
Now that my birthday’s past, I would be happy to cancel the rest of August, and most of September too, since that would dispense with Ramadan completely!
I’m not a fan of hot or humid, but I have to say that this has been a mild summer - even now it isn’t *too *bad. I prefer autumn to summer, but if I have to have summer, so far this has been OK.
These last two weeks have been a horrible pain in the butt. The worst part is that after all the rain we had in June and July the mosquitoes are out in numbers like I’ve never seen. I am apparently developing a serious alleric reaction to mosquito bites (swelling, redness, bruising and the like) that gets worse with every bite. I am afraid that if they keep this up I am going to develop anaphylaxis and have to be rushed to the hospital. I got bitten 10 days ago and I still have huge red welts from those bites and the area around the bites is all bruised up. I will pay anyone who can make winter come and destroy the little fuckers. Until then I wear Off all the time, even when going to bed. :mad:
This week it’s been about 73-77 every day, with beautiful sunshine and low humidity. It’s absolute goddamn paradise, especially if you like to play softball three days a week. I’ve been here a year, playing softball two to three times a week the whole time (winter too), and have not been rained out even once. In Baltimore, where i played in a league and an intramural competition, we would get rained out at least twice a month in each competition, often more.
Our place in San Diego has central heating and air conditioning, and we’ve only turned it on twice in the year we’ve been here. There were two days last summer where it got hot enough to close the windows and put the air on.
Perhaps the best thing about summer here is not just the beautiful days, but the fact that it actually cools down at night. The worst thing about living in Baltimore in the sweltering summer was that there was no respite from the heat even after dark. It would often be 77 degrees at 3 in the morning. We would have the window air conditioner in our bedroom cranked up to 11 all night, and we’d still be gasping and sweating through the sheets.
The final benefit of San Diego summers: no mosquitoes! I can’t remember the last time i was bitten by one of those little fuckers.
The time i really miss the east coast, though, is around October/November. I love the cool, clear, crisp days of fall in the mid-Atlantic. San Diego gets nothing like that.
Well LA DEE DAH. Yeah, it hasn’t been too bad this August. But a “typical” August here is usually a bit warmer. There’s a reason I leave here, man! That’s why it makes me laugh when someone like Siam Sam comes in and calls us wimps. No shit sherlock, that’s why I don’t live where you do!
ppbth, when I lived near New Orleans, I itched the whole damn time. Seriously, I always always always had at least a couple of bites. I never thought I’d be happy to see a truck spraying poison coming down the street, but very quickly my response to hearing it coming was “Quick! Close the windows! Here comes the mosquito truck. Hallelujah! Die little fuckers!”
Bibliocat, I’m in south-central Idaho. Idaho is goddamned gorgeous once you get into the mountains. It makes up for pretty much anything annoying about living here – like the politics outside of this one county. Bleah.
Hell yeah. This summer SUCKED. Almost no rain, so the tomatoes in our garden (those big, thick, juicy, red tomatoes), didn’t come to squat this year. So we have to go out and buy them. It’s just not the same!
Plus the the humidity is horrid – even when it’s cooler out, you can’t open the windows, because there’s no breeze, it’s just so sticky and close. I cannot WAIT until the weather starts getting nice and cool again.
So we have to go out and buy them. It’s just not the same!