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.)
That’s why Al Gore invented the internet; so we could all monitor global warming.
Go to 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!
If the humidity is the big problem would a dehumidifier help?
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.
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…
At 70, I have my heat on.
I like heat - love the sun - we don’t get ENOUGH summer, I say.
but this humidity is deadly. melt
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.
Since we just seem to be comparing temperatures now: From 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.
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??
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.