# Is it EVER going to rain again? Mother fuck!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 17, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886 "2007-08-17T01:17:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/21 "2007-08-17T04:32:13Z")
My aunt and uncle are on 12 hour evacuation notice from the Evaro Hill fire outside Missoula, Montana. This means they’ve moved the horses to safety but they haven’t packed. My best friend’s parents are on 90 minute evacuation notice from the Jocko Lakes fires 90 miles northwest of Missoula. This means they have the truck packed, and when and if the sheriff’s office comes up the road, they must leave immediately or they will be forcibly removed. If they are evacuated, it will be for the third time in seven days.
It may be hotter than Billy-be-damned here, but at least the state’s not on fire.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/22 "2007-08-17T04:35:12Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre]
Jesus CHRIST. This is the humid Southeast. We’re supposed to be _wet_. We’re not supposed to be Arizona!
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Last month was the sixth wettest July on record here in Tucson. We’ve had twice as much rain this monsoon season as normal. If it were possible, I’d love to send some of our rain your way.
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/23 "2007-08-17T04:47:45Z")
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> It may be hotter than Billy-be-damned here, but at least the state’s not on fire.
Yet. It’s a matter of time. But maybe all those particulates will form condensation nuclei.
Yeah, right. ☹
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/24 "2007-08-17T13:12:19Z")
[QUOTE=LVgeogeek]
I feel ya there.
It is currently 106 F with 14% humidity here. So, it does feel sticky and hot out.
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**14% humidity**!!!
Sorry, but 14% does not “sticky” make.
95 here in Richmond again, with that wonderful wet wool feel to the air.
I love summer.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/25 "2007-08-17T13:24:36Z")
We invested about $1,500 in new backyard landscaping plants this late-winter/spring. Most of them are dead or dying. We simply can’t keep them watered enough. Unestablished plants are very delicate. Our bird bath evaporates two inches a day. We have to fill our koi pond every other day with a couple hundred gallons of water. We treat it, but we’re just hoping the chlorine won’t burn their asses. And our outdoor cat, Pretty Black Girl, has to stay indoors and she doesn’t understand why. She wants out so bad, but she’s almost 17 years old — not a typo, she is seventeen. Her hearing goes in and out, so we can’t let her out at night. An animal could easily walk up on her and kill her. And during the day, we’re afraid she’d die from the heat.
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/26 "2007-08-17T13:35:52Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr]
**14% humidity**!!!
Sorry, but 14% does not “sticky” make.
95 here in Richmond again, with that wonderful wet wool feel to the air.
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Makes you wonder what the English were thinking back in 1607 when they said, in summer, “Yes, this swampland here looks like a great place to build a new country.”
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/27 "2007-08-17T13:52:50Z")
Wow. Just a few minutes after I posted my sob story, it has begun to rain! I hope it’s not just a fly-by. Even so, though, it’s too late for the dead plants.
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### Author:  [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/28 "2007-08-17T14:16:58Z")
I don’t know what you are bitching about. I personally enjoyed my $285 power bill that keeps my apartment at a cool 78 by only running 24/7. And never have I been able to make such lovely dried flower arrangements. Who knew actually leaving the snap dragons in the ground was the secret?
And the almost constant sheen of sweat is working wonders on my complexion.
Let me tell you, there is nothing quite like getting your gym bag out of the trunk at noon and changing in the locker room and discovering that the underwire in the bra has heated to about 4000 degrees. Scorched titties flying everywhere, I tell ya!
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### Author:  [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/29 "2007-08-17T14:28:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> by spoke-
> That’s it. I’m moving to Minnesota.
It’s been very dry up here as well. Last week we got a good soaking, the first for a long time. However, we are still wayyyyy under the normal rain.
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### Author:  [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/30 "2007-08-17T14:36:26Z")
[QUOTE=El\_Kabong]
Would you stop that? Every time you say that it rains another five inches in Houston.
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Yes, and it attracts the hurricanes, too. Yikes! :eek:
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/31 "2007-08-17T14:37:55Z")
You are all amateurs (how the heck do you spell that?). LA has had only 3 inches of rain in the last 13 MONTHS. Top that.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/32 "2007-08-17T14:41:36Z")
Yeah, but y’all don’t even have air. No harm no foul.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/33 "2007-08-17T14:48:42Z")
[QUOTE=mswas]
Sorry to hear it, it’s been flooding every couple of weeks here in New York.
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Seriously. A house on my block got washed away in one of those flash floods. I was trapped at work during another. Why can’t Mother Nature learn to spread weather out evenly?
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/34 "2007-08-17T15:04:48Z")
You can have some of **our** rain. We’re sick of it.
Weird thing is, in Tampa it comes down cats and dogs almost every evening during hurricane season and the county **still** has to ration lawn-watering the rest of the year.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/35 "2007-08-17T15:07:12Z")
Rain? What’s that?
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/36 "2007-08-17T15:11:26Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
Rain? What’s that?
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Imagine taking an oasis and flipping it upside down over a giant sieve.
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/37 "2007-08-17T15:19:49Z")
_pulls up a chair next to kayT_
Would you just listen to these whiners? Ohhhh, it’s too dry, there’s no rain; ohhhhh it’s too humid, the air’s too moist. Ohhh, triple digit temperatures. Moan moan moan…
When the rest of you have no precipitation during the winter and 90 degree temps on Christmas Day, come talk to us.
😉
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/38 "2007-08-17T15:23:39Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre]
Oh, and right now, it’s 88 degrees outside. At 8:30. But it’s sitting at 76% humidity (but no rain.)
Anyone know what that means? Anyone? Bueller?
It means the heat index _at nearly 9PM_ is 103 degrees.
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_I_ don’t know what it means.
The “heat index” thing always sounds screwy to me. Here in Washington, DC, they said a week or two ago that “the temp is 100 degrees, the humidity 90%, which puts the heat index at 105 degrees.” I don’t see how that sounds plausible compared to your numbers. Frankly a 5-degree apparent increase hardly seems worth freporting.
Maybe our weather people are just bad at math.
Sailboat
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### Author:  [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/39 "2007-08-17T15:26:26Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr]
**14% humidity**!!!
Sorry, but 14% does not “sticky” make.
95 here in Richmond again, with that wonderful wet wool feel to the air.
I love summer.
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I know it sounds silly… but it is sticky for here 😉
I grew up in Nebraska so I do know what nasty humidity with high heat feels like. I definitely don’t miss that 95 F with 80% humidity.
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### Author:  [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ever-going-to-rain-again-mother-fuck/415886/40 "2007-08-17T15:37:01Z")
I hear ya. It’s been dry here in Reno as well, and I’ve taken to yelling at the weather man and calling him a Damned Liar because at least every two days he’s like “Ooh, chance of thunderstorms this afternoon!” and then: nothing. I think it rained four or five drops around the beginning of June, and nothing since then. It’s been over a year since we had a proper Wrath of God Thunderstorm. It is so dry I’ve had a bloody nose for about two months now. We went camping and the restrooms had been shut down due to water shortage.
What’s worse is I’m from Oregon and I _love_ the rain. ☹
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