The Usual Mid-Summer Weather Bitching Thread

[chromaticity]

I envy you all.
This summer has been horribly humid and hot. It feels like stepping into a freakin sauna when I step outside. I cant get by without at least a couple of showers a day.

[Mojo_Pin]

@Leaffan

So this is global warming, is it? I still call bullshit on that. We have had increasingly cooler summers and winters for about 5 years now, and although I don’t have the stats in front of me, apparently overall global temperatures have been declining for about 8 or 9 years now. Where’s the global warming? It ain’t happening here.

Yea it’s more “globally fucked up weather” than just “warming” as you can see from some of the responses here.

[BiblioCat]

@Lightnin

Yeah, it’s been ridiculously cool here in Baltimore, as well. This is my first summer here, so I don’t know what it’s supposed to be like, but all the natives keep saying that this whole summer has been unseasonably cool. Most nights, I’ve been able to keep the windows open, but during the day I’m still running the AC because it’s been really humid, and I’ve already seen mold on my basement walls.

@RTFirefly

I live about a half-hour south of Annapolis, and yes, it’s been a wonderfully temperate summer so far. We’ve still got August ahead, but getting this deep into July with as few obnoxiously hot+humid days as we’ve had has been great.

I have to second what **RTFirefly **said. It’s been rather rainy, but most days have been pretty nice for Baltimore. I just hope it carries over into August. Late summer is usually hazy, hot and humid; in other words, unbearable.

[hellpaso]

@elfkin477

I’m confused. Are you saying that 18% humidity is higher than you’d like, or am I totally misreading what you’re saying?

I can’t even comprehend what it would be like with 18% humidity. Even during the winter when it’s so dry that the skin on the backs of my fingers crack and bleeds the humidity doesn’t go below 30%. Right now it’s 88% which doesn’t make it too warm given it’s all of 67F (still been hell on my lungs all week, though. goddamn asthma trigger), but humidity in the 80-100% level isn’t unusual even when it reaches the high 90s - not that it’s going to this “summer”!

I’m not answering for Dale, but as one who lived in the high desert for years, yes, 18% is high humidity. In fact, if you use swamp coolers as a/c (evaporative coolers), they barely work with the humidity that high. It’s mainly that humid during the summer monsoon period, which lasts from about the first of July until September or so.

[BiblioCat]

@hellpaso

… yes, 18% is high humidity.
…with the humidity that high.

This just makes me laugh. I’ve always lived on the East Coast, and I can’t even comprehend humidity that low. I think I’d love it.
Baltimore is just freaking unbearable in the summer (usually), especially in August, when the temp and the humidity are both in the upper 90s. Being outside when the humidity is 95% is like walking though soup.

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

The thing that ticks me off is that the grass allergy season has been particularly long this year - I can put up with sneezin’ season, but usually there’s a pay-off in nice weather and happy people. Fuck it - let it snow again so I can go skiing!