But it's a dry heat...

[riptides]

I was stationed in Saudi Arabia and witnessed heat at 121 f in the shade. Was hot but very dry...didnt know I was sweating unless I wore full gear. Imagine weaing all your gear, helmet, fatigues, vest...etc in that heat. Yet, its still much more tolerable than upper 80s here in Maine with the high humidity-or Biloxi Mississippi with 100% humidity. Send me back to Saudi with full gear any day! Yes hot is hot but Ill pick the least of the worse. Humidy causes all kinds of problems from chaffing to rashes....Also been to Cuiaba Brazil always upper 90s low humidity vs Rio De Jeneiro which is upper humidty level(now this is confusing ) I will take Rio because of that wonderful ocean breeze.

I go every year for a month or more (my wife is from there).

Humidity at 5-7 percent.

Concrete and vehicles so hot, they'd burn you.

Some wise person put some cold water tanks outside our building. We would turn OFF the hot water tanks and use them as cold. Use the cold as hot.

You could tell who the newbies were, they had a nice red complexion from the errant shower faucet choice.

 

[om21braz]

Having been in Jackson, MS in August (102-105f) and Los Angeles in Oct. when a heat wave came through (99-103f) - neither is particularly appealing. At least in Jackson we had ac - none in LA making it difficult to get a good night's sleep.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I am convinced that the weather we are experiencing in South Louisiana this week is some of the most miserable weather in the world.

For example, today our temps were around 95 and the heat index was around 112. Our humidity was at about 61% and dewpoint at 78*

At the ranch where I hunt in central Texas the temps were at 107 and the heat index was lower at 106. The humidity was about 15% and dewpoint at 48*

 

[stuckmotor]

At 69 I worked two days in the heat and humidity and had to take today off to recover. It's nearly 10:30 PM and I only started to feel better about an hour ago. I'm thinking my recovery might have to do with the yogurt I ate right before it began.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Rehydrating is definitely important. I've long held that eating fruit is more beneficial than drinking lots of water; it's released slowly into your system rather than passing right through.
In summer both of my trucks are stocked with at least 2 gallons of drinking water and a day's worth of emergency canned goods. Also a can of unsweetened pineapple... on more than one occasion I've gotten back at the end of the day when water hasn't kept me hydrated. I drink the juice, then share the fruit with my dog for a regeneration snack.

 

[Oaktree]

We have four seasons in NC, and in our area, we'll even get a dumping of snow from time to time. Having lived in Maine, New Hampshire and NY, I honestly find that we have more time to work outside then being further up north. Yes, summer months are early mornings for outside work, but it seems our spring season starts at the end of February. We also don't spend a lot of time with snow removal which I've come to love

Thanks, but I'll take snow over heat and humidity any day of the week. I don't know how you southerners do it...I've never been much of one for hot weather, and my tolerance for it has gone down the older I get.
That having been said, this has been an unusually hot summer even up here.

Haven't spent enough time in desert country to know much about ultra low humidity.

 

[Frankenkubota]

How long have you been in NC?

Born in Michigan, raised in Wisconsin, have lived in the pacific n.w., lived on west coast, Arizona, and Europe for a short time and....I知 a weather watcher.

Ive been here 40 years and, with all due respect, I must correct you.

We used to have 4 seasons, Now we have 2 seasons with occasional nice days sprinkled in.

Starting mid May it gets hot and muggy. The almost daily thunderstorms begin and the humidity is oppressive. That lasts until mid september. Durning that period, it rains every 50 hours on average, (I can prove it) hard rain with impressive thunder and lightening. Did it again last nite, 4 big rains in the last 7 days.

Mid September things change, seems to go from highs in the 90s to highs in the 50$, grey sky痴. Then the Oregon style rain begins. Oregon has very high frequency rain but not much volume. NC has medium frequency rain and massive volume, thank you Gulf of Mexico!

It rains all winter with the occasional break but, it stays wet, just like Oregon. Come May, it goes from the 50s back to the 90s.

And yes, the only time to work outside is early morning, still very humid but cooler, after 7 pm on these long summer days is also safe.

You said spring starts end of February? Call me March 1st.

North Carolina used to have, imho, 4 seasons and much better weather. I remember the fall days that went on forever, no more.

As I said before, as far as weather goes, Carolina is Oregon with an accent.

Go Duke!

 

[dalola]

I grew up in Yakima, and really miss the dry heat. I love having hot days, but with the low dew point, cool nights.

Just like the Tri-cities, every evening the wind would pick up coming down out of the Cascade mountains and cool things off.

Since then I've lived in Indiana, Washington D.C., and now New York. I've adapted some to the humidity, and it's relatively low where we are in (Far Northern) NY, but I would take the dry heat of the West Coast any day.

I remember driving to Yakima for something....don't remember what...but once we got out of Kennewick, it was like driving on the moon! This is the perspective of an Appalachian foothills guys, where it's trees & green everywhere! I also remember trying hard to just find a bug....any bug! People had no screens in their house windows!

 

[Jstpssng]

We've had a few hot days up here, but not as many as in other summers. It's been cloudy all day but no rain, temps around 72 and decent humidity. OF course today's also the day that I was stuck in the office for the first time since March.

 

[RSR]

I remember driving to Yakima for something....don't remember what...but once we got out of Kennewick, it was like driving on the moon! This is the perspective of an Appalachian foothills guys, where it's trees & green everywhere! I also remember trying hard to just find a bug....any bug! People had no screens in their house windows!

That's funny, because I had the exact opposite reaction when I moved out to Indiana for graduate school. The furthest East I'd been before that was Montana.

One of the things that caught my attention was the fact that the median between the freeway lanes was green. I had never seen that, and thought it the oddest thing.

I was also absolutely flummoxed when I found out that people didn't have to water their lawn, or have in ground sprinkler systems.

It all seemed so odd and foreign to me.