I helped a friend tend to some yard work down near Boston, MA today and was welcomed by the horribly humid weather we so often get to experience.
I mean, imagine just walking from your car to the house and feeling sticky afterward (not hot, but sticky).
We got back to my place around 5:30 in the evening, just as dark clouds were rolling in (and a thunderstorm could be heard off in the north). The weather improved and dried out.
Now it’s midnight and some new front has moved in, bringing with it humid, thick air. I’m sitting here, writing this and now sweating my butt off. My forearm, were it touches the laptop, is getting sweaty and the skin is getting annoyed.
I really don’t know how the hell people lived around here before air conditioning. According to my car thermometer, the air never got above 73 degrees, yet I was sweating to death mowing that lawn.
I took a shower when I got home and am now sitting here, not hot, but sweaty.
I hate humid weather. I hate feeling sticky. I hate taking more than one shower a day. How the hell did people do it back before a/c?
If you want a shower, head out west. We’ve had rain just about every day for the past six weeks. Thankfully, it is warm enough that all we get is rain, not snow–and rain doesn’t need to be shovelled. But it isn’t much fun.
After today, I think I’d kill to be in that “dry heat” out west.
My throat is sweaty. I really don’t think anyone can truly enjoy themselves with a sweaty throat, especially if they have not shaved in the past 24 hours.
The really gross part is having to use a blanket at night because of the cool temp, but still sweat here and there from the humid weather.
We had some beautiful days last week – the work week. Today we had rain. The sun came out for an hour or so, but then it clouded up again. Temps in the mid-60s.
Former desert-dweller here. Dry heat ain’t so bad. Mind, we had swamp coolers.
First trip to New Orleans, I didn’t know when to stop drying after showering. Pretty hellish there in the Summer.
It’s been absolutely perfect here (Southern California), as usual. But I have to fly to Baltimore for a few days for work and the forecast says it’s going to be hot and stormy. I didn’t even know that could happen.
You guys are making me think twice about complaining about our continuing cool weather - we’ve had about two days so far this spring that have actually dipped into “hot;” the rest of the time we vary between cool and cold. I do appreciate the lack of humidity here, though - even when it does get hot here (for two whole days in August), it rarely gets humid. We have cool nights, too, so sleeping remains possible. And hardly any bugs! Have I mentioned that summers here are almost perfect?
It’s already 85F here, and 60% humidity. It was 82F at 8:00 AM. It’ll break 100F this afternoon. If it storms later in the week, it may bring the daily low down into the low 70s for a day or two. (Of course, the humidity will shoot up, too.)
I’ll just leave that here for you to contemplate. Maybe it will make you feel cooler by contrast.
Raining here and dewpoints are near 70, well into the nasty range. Unless we’re extremely liucky, from now till mid-September we’ll only see two or three days a month when the humidity isn’t at such Amazonian levels. At least Boston gets backdoor fronts every so often in summer.
Imagine?? All I have to do is step outside any day from May to October.
You can’t miss what you’ve never had. In other words, you get used to it. We didn’t have a/c when I was a child, and never sat in an air-conditioned classroom until I went to University.
Here’s a cute article from the local paper: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011106190313
I know, right? As for not enjoying oneself, we spent the entire weekend outdoors. We played disc golf in the heat of the day on Saturday and Sunday, then cooled off in my brother’s swimming pool.
95 degrees and feels like a sauna. Feels like home in the summer. It reminds me of a happy childhood, summer camp, and mowing lawns for summer spending money. I get all wistful when we’re in the usual late-summer dry spell, the humidity is still so high that the mid-day sky is WHITE instead of blue, and all you hear in the woods is the shrilling of cicadas.I love it.
You would hate it here. The heat today (and every day from May to October) could kill you. The sunlight here can be physically painful on naked skin. And it’s not a dry heat either. We typically have humidities in the 80% range.
Right now it’s 98F with a THI of 107. Humidity averages 70 - 80% here. Last weekend it didn’t matter which day you mowed, it was 100 every day. Beats June 5th and 6th though which were both a freakin’ 105. That’s actual, not heat index. Plenty humid despite the fact we’re in what they call an extraordinary drought, 3rd worst ever on record.
I know, right? As for not enjoying oneself, we spent the entire weekend outdoors. We played disc golf in the heat of the day on Saturday and Sunday, then cooled off in my brother’s swimming pool.