# Looks like we're hitting one of our annual extreme days today: + 35 C. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446 "2017-07-30T16:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/21 "2017-08-01T02:02:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Presumably it’s not central air, but a couple of window units. > > Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk No, very much central air. Around the humid south, most homes (I believe everyone in my subdivision) has 2 units. The dividing line seems to be around 2000 sq ft. In my first house (1800) we had one unit. And of course any two story has 2 (or more) central A/Cs. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/22 "2017-08-01T02:17:21Z")
wow, that’s something. I’ve never heard of two central A/C in a house. Learn something new every day on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/23 "2017-08-01T02:22:35Z")
We stayed home from the Riders game on Saturday; good thing we did. [2 people taken to hospital for heat exhaustion at Riders game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=832259) > [@](#): > > On the hottest Rider game day this year, EMS said they responded to 21 calls for help with heat-related issues. > > EMS paramedic Dan Lewis said two people had to be taken to hospital. Six people were treated by St. John Ambulance. The remaining 15 people required fluids and cooling by EMS personnel. They were released soon after. > > Lewis called the 21 calls “very busy”. On average, EMS respond to two or three calls during Rider games. He is reminding people to hydrate lots during days of extreme heat. > > “Wear a hat. Wear loose clothing, and drink lots of water,” Lewis said. **“Limit alcohol intake which is one of the hardest things to do at a Rider game.** ” The air temperature at the stadium was 32, but the seats were actually 51 C - bit of a hot bum when you first sat down in them. Our seats are right in the sun in the afternoon, so I would likely have been one of those taken to hospital - I’ve got typical Scottish fair skin and freckles, reddish hair, and I hate the heat. Give me a grey day with a nice drizzle, and I’m set. Fortunately, the temps have dropped 10 degrees today. Took the Cub swimming in the afternoon at the local pool, and we’re good. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/24 "2017-08-01T02:23:47Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > wow, that’s something. I’ve never heard of two central A/C in a house. Learn something new every day on the Dope. Yeppers. Me too. My house (that I closed on today) didn’t even have air conditioning, and it was no big deal at all, in a bungalow in the country. Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/25 "2017-08-01T02:27:04Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Yeppers. Me too. > My house (that I closed on today) didn’t even have air conditioning, and it was no big deal at all, in a bungalow in the country. > > Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk Congrats on the closing! End of a long and winding road. Hope the new place is better for you. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/26 "2017-08-01T02:54:08Z")
Hey, y’all; don’t knock the “dry heat.” Yeah, it’s hot, but at least your sweat evaporates. In the humid, moisture-laden air of the Midwest, your sweat just runs down your body and pools in your shoes. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/27 "2017-08-01T03:56:53Z")
There is very much a difference between dry heat and humid heat. I grew up in bone-dry Salt Lake City which regularly got above 100 F (37 C). Then I went to Tokyo which has more humidity but doesn’t get as hot. I thought that was bad until I came to Taiwan which is somewhat hotter than Tokyo much much more humid. Today isn’t that bad, it’s only 33 C, with 72% humidity, which will soak my shirt with modest exercise. I don’t know about other dry places, but one really nice thing about Salt Lake is that the night get nice and cool, even in the summer. Both in Japan and Taiwan, the nights really don’t cool off that much. Many people use the A/C all night. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/28 "2017-08-01T15:43:39Z")
The temperature in Seattle is supposed to reach 35.5°C on Thursday. It should only be 30°C where we live (400 feet from the beach, just below the Canadian border), but that’s still plenty hot for up here. We’re getting a window that opens on Friday, and I can vent the portable a/c out of it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/29 "2017-08-01T16:03:41Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > Hey, y’all; don’t knock the “dry heat.” Yeah, it’s hot, but at least your sweat evaporates. > In the humid, moisture-laden air of the Midwest, your sweat just runs down your body and pools in your shoes. Indeed, dry heat does make a difference. I laughed about it at first, but when I visited Arizona a few years ago in July when it was in the low 110s (45-35C), it was a lot more comfortable to me than low 90s (32-35) and muggy. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/30 "2017-08-01T16:15:58Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Living in Saskatchewan, I’ve commented before that we have a 70 degree range (in Celsius, of course). Hottest day of the year is normally +35 C; coldest day is normally - 35 C. > > Forecast today is for + 35. I’m sweltering already. “But it’s a dry cold” works in winter; “It’s a dry heat”, not so much. I’m planning on staying in the shade as much as I can. :eek: Trust me, “dry heat” is much MUCH preferable to high humidity heat! But 35C is only 95F, that’s nuthin! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/31 "2017-08-01T16:27:39Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Indeed, dry heat does make a difference. I laughed about it at first, but when I visited Arizona a few years ago in July when it was in the low 110s (45-35C), it was a lot more comfortable to me than low 90s (32-35) and muggy. I lived in the Mojave Desert as a teen and into my mid-20s. Dry heat ain’t so bad. And swamp coolers work a treat in it. I was ‘friends’ 😉 with a girl from New Orleans in the '90s when I was living in L.A. We drove up to the desert to see my dad and to show her the opposite of a swamp. We had no a/c in the car. She asked how hot it was, and I said it was about 105°. She said it felt like the low-90°s. (Of course, the dry heat goes away in the monsoon season, and the swamp coolers don’t work. Never did like August in the desert.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/32 "2017-08-01T16:33:40Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > Hey, y’all; don’t knock the “dry heat.” Yeah, it’s hot, but at least your sweat evaporates. > In the humid, moisture-laden air of the Midwest, your sweat just runs down your body and pools in your shoes. It _is_ dangerous and icky. During dry heat, you just gotta stay out of the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/33 "2017-08-01T17:06:17Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Yeppers. Me too. > My house (that I closed on today) didn’t even have air conditioning, and it was no big deal at all, in a bungalow in the country. > > Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk I was a little surprised to find a lot of houses in Edmonton don’t have AC - not common at all in Winnipeg. So happy I have central air again. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/34 "2017-08-01T17:08:17Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > when it was in the low 110s (45-35C), That should read “43-45C.” Not sure how it came out “45-35C.” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/35 "2017-08-01T17:14:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I lived in the Mojave Desert as a teen and into my mid-20s. Dry heat ain’t so bad. And swamp coolers work a treat in it. I was ‘friends’ 😉 with a girl from New Orleans in the '90s when I was living in L.A. We drove up to the desert to see my dad and to show her the opposite of a swamp. We had no a/c in the car. She asked how hot it was, and I said it was about 105°. She said it felt like the low-90°s. > > (Of course, the dry heat goes away in the monsoon season, and the swamp coolers don’t work. Never did like August in the desert.) The first time I went to New Orleans, it was driving back a friend of mine’s car in college in June (she was on a summer internship somewhere, so I offered to drive it down from Chicago in exchange for a place to stay for a few days and a flight back.) I remember just stepping out of the car into the thick, thick June (not even July!) air and sweat was instantaneously pouring off me. I didn’t even have to move and I was soaked (to be fair, I do sweat very easily.) You couldn’t retreat to the shade or anything to be away from it. It was awful. I’ll take 110 in Phoenix during dry season over that anyday. As said before, as long as you’re out of the sun (and off the asphalt), it’s tolerable. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/36 "2017-08-01T23:50:31Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > A little rain would cool things off, but while there’s a chance of it this week, it’s only a chance… No rain yet. Which is a problem, because as the evening news just mentioned, the heat has dried everything out, and now there is a ban on outdoor fires in the southern part of Alberta. You can still grill on your back deck, but that’s about it: no fires at campsites, no backyard fire pits, not even any quad/OHV use (apparently, engines can get hot enough to ignite dry grass in these conditions). There’s still a chance of rain later this week, but now it is needed for more than just cooling things down. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/37 "2017-08-02T01:35:53Z")
It’s 100F and extremely muggy in Los Angeles. Nothing weird about that, except it’s also raining. [At least I think it’s rain.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=832421) Normally it only rains between November & April here, so maybe I’m confused. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/38 "2017-08-02T01:53:44Z")
I won’t try an argue that 35C (95F) isn’t hot, but I have decided that it isn’t the peak highs in the summer that are that important. Yeah it’s hot, but if it cools off at night, you can take it. It’s when it doesn’t get below 80F (26-27C) at night that it’s HOT. Opposite is true in the winter. The lowest temperature of the day (usually at 4 AM or so) is what makes the records, but it’s the highs that don’t get above 0F (-18C) that wear your soul. And if it doesn’t even get up to -10F (-23C), it makes it hard to want to see what tomorrow will bring. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/39 "2017-08-02T02:13:37Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > In Montreal, I don’t think we have had anything over 30 this summer. And all that rain that didn’t fall in the west was dumped here. Coolest summer in memory (following the mildest winter, to be sure). Today was 27, tomorrow 28, very pleasant. Nothing warmer in prospect and rain later this week. We had a 30 C day or two in June, but nothing in July. [The odds are August will be normal temps in Montreal, and scorching in Vancouver and Victoria, and Atlantic Canada](https://weather.gc.ca/saisons/prob_e.html) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446/40 "2017-08-02T13:47:21Z")
It really does depend on what one is able to acclimate to. The most miserable summer I ever remember was one where I would work 2 weeks in San Francisco (50-60 F, 10-15C) then fly home for a week (90-95F, 32-35C). I was never able to acclimate to either and spent 3 months either freezing or melting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-were-hitting-one-of-our-annual-extreme-days-today-35-c/792446.md?page=1)