Tuesday, August 2, 2011

*whimper* again

Image credit: National Weather Service. (With some modification.)

Tomorrow's supposed to be about 10 degrees (F) cooler, but still. Motherfucker.


Posted by mr_subjunctive at 2:31 PM
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6 comments:

Rohrerbot said...

LOL!!! Yeah that's pretty hot....even for Tucson!

August 2, 2011 at 3:09 PM
El Gaucho said...

It's been a doozy of a summer, we've had more than a normal number of miserable days up here in North Dakota. This may be one year where no one is wishing for an Indian Summer in Sept/Oct.

August 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM
Mae said...

Holy Heck! I've never seen a dew point that high! I don't do humidity so you're a stronger man than I am...if I were a man...

At least you can take comfort in the fact that all your plants cool your house off a scooch. They do, don't they? Or is that only for outdoor plants? What is your procedure to avoid melting your indoor plants?

August 2, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Tigerdawn said...

I feel your pain. We're supposed to be 113 tomorrow. It was 110 at my house today. This sucks. At least the humidity is down to 14% right now. Usually it is above 75% all summer.

August 2, 2011 at 5:02 PM
mr_subjunctive said...

Mae:

That's probably mostly for outdoor plants. We do have central air, so it's not like I'm actually living through the 118F heat index (since dropped to 107F) directly. Though getting Sheba to the vet in the un-air-conditioned car with a heat index of whatever it was (103F? 108F?) was pretty direct and unpleasant.

It does still affect me, though: the plant room tends to be hotter than the rest of the house in the summer (lots of windows, less insulated than the rest of the house, humid from the watering station in there, and currently it's the only door outside we can use because the barn swallows claimed the front, so every time the husband goes out, the plant room gets a blast of heat). The plants like it, so I don't try to cool the room down as hard as we try to warm it up in winter.

It's also surprisingly difficult to be stuck inside and unable to go anywhere. (I suspect that my experience of summer is a lot like everybody else's experience of winter: shut up in the house, physically uncomfortable, etc. I enjoy harsh winters, though.) Which being increasingly habituated to the air conditioning may be making me increasingly intolerant of heat. I wouldn't be surprised.

August 2, 2011 at 5:03 PM
danger garden said...

You need to escape....come to the PNW for a couple of days....summer finally arrived here in the form of a week of 80 degree days with sun. Don't hate me because I'm cool...

August 2, 2011 at 10:00 PM

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