# Holy hell, I'm freakin' DYING here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790 "2010-08-10T04:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/41 "2010-08-10T15:30:46Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I would do _anything_ for 70 outside. Seriously, I don’t even remember 70. When we do get 70 I’ll have to find a sweater. Ha! I know! I got excited this morning because it says the temps will be down to 90 next week! (We do have fairly low humidity today, though - 57% right now.) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/42 "2010-08-10T15:40:59Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I’m really irritated that the local forecast doesn’t include humidity. Great - it’s going to be 75 today. But is that a lovely, pleasant 75, or a nasty sticky sauna 75? They’re very different days. That’s why Al Gore invented the internet; so we could all monitor global warming. Go to [weather.com](http://weather.com), type in your zip, and scroll down until you see “Click here for More Weather Info” or whatever, right under the “Right Now” and “Next 36 Hours” box. In Random Zip Code (Pomona, MO) it is currently 95F with 50% humidity. Here it’s 86F, 83% I’m moving next month to a place that has central air and shade trees. You cannot imagine my excitement. Of course, by then we’ll be moving into fall weather and it won’t matter anyway. Next year though! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/43 "2010-08-10T15:54:33Z")
If the humidity is the big problem would a dehumidifier help? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/44 "2010-08-10T16:34:08Z")
It’s 95 F (35 C) here. When I read the OP I knew she had to live pretty far north to complain about 70 F. I would be in heaven right now if the temp dropped to 70. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/45 "2010-08-10T16:38:33Z")
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity… Condition: Mostly Cloudy Pressure: 101.0 kPa Tendency: falling Visibility: 24 km Air Quality Health Index: 3 Temperature: 28.1°C Dewpoint: 22.5°C Humidity: 72 % Wind: SSE 13 km/h Humidex: 38 And right now, it’s damned humid. Time for one of those “lakewater cold” showers… ---
**Author:** ![Khendrask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@Khendrask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khendrask)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/46 "2010-08-10T16:53:43Z")
At 70, I have my heat on. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/47 "2010-08-10T17:20:51Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity… > Condition: Mostly Cloudy > Pressure: 101.0 kPa > Tendency: falling > Visibility: 24 km > Air Quality Health Index: 3 > > Temperature: 28.1°C > Dewpoint: 22.5°C > Humidity: 72 % > Wind: SSE 13 km/h > Humidex: 38 > > And right now, it’s damned humid. Time for one of those “lakewater cold” showers… I like heat - love the sun - we don’t get ENOUGH summer, I say. but this humidity is deadly. _melt_ ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/48 "2010-08-10T17:35:16Z")
Ah, I see the tabs now. I’m currently at 95F with 51% humidity and a heat index of 105F and a heat warning with something in red that says I’m not supposed to stay outside for long. That sounds reassuring. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/49 "2010-08-10T18:23:10Z")
Since we just seem to be comparing temperatures now: From [weather.com](http://weather.com) Rain 87° F Feels like: 97° F UV Index:Moderate Wind: E at 19 mph Humidity: 69% Pressure: 29.86 in Dew Point: 76° F Visibility: 5.0 mi Updated: Aug 10, 2010 2:05 PM It is indeed currently raining, shouldn’t the humidity be 100%? But at least the rain cools it off a bit. ---
**Author:** ![MN\_Maenad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@MN\_Maenad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MN_Maenad)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/50 "2010-08-10T19:28:54Z")
I’m in that weird situation where my cube is freezing cold, so that I’m drinking hot tea to stay warm at work. Then I walk outside into the sauna, and it feels \*good \*for the first few minutes. The heat just soaks into you. But then it keeps soaking. A local weather blog was talking about record high temps - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia got up to something like 125 recently. A continental record was set in Asia of 128, I believe. How do people live in that?? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790/51 "2010-08-10T19:59:19Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > It feels decent outside right now, but the inside is taking a while to catch up. It doesn’t help that my windows face west so my apartment spends the better part of the day heating up like it’s on fire. I don’t know what the humidity is like in here, but the temp is in the mid-80s. Now it all makes sense! If you’re in a place where it’s sufficiently hot that the _outside_ temperature has only fallen to 70 degrees F. by 11:30 PM, and you’re in an apartment with no A/C and no cross-ventilation, then yeah, it’s probably going to be pretty uncomfortable inside – especially with 100% humidity. I was feeling a bit incredulous at first but now I understand. If you are unable to install a window AC unit (small ones are pretty cheap), then I would get two box fans (even cheaper) and put them in two windows – one fan facing in, and the other facing out. Plus a third fan blowing on you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-hell-im-freakin-dying-here/549790.md?page=2)