Today it’s 90º F outside. And I am roasting. The dogs are panting like mad, and even my rat is all sprawled out in her cage, stretched out as far as possible to beat the heat.
I just do not understand how people live in places like Arizona, where summer brings temperatures of 110º+.
I’d melt.
Yeah, but it’s a dry heat. 
(I start to wilt when the temperature gets over about 80º F.)
It’s awful here today too. Hot and humid. And it’s so early in the summer. 65 is about right for me.
I’d rather have five feet of snow outside and -20º F.
I watched a program before on people on a Polynesian island, and they said the way they deal with the heat and humidity is that they do everything slowly, that they don’t move around really fast and it keeps them from getting too hot.
That doesn’t seem to work for me, but I did also notice that the people were barely wearing any clothes, so that probably had something to do with it…
Cran - I’ve been in Arizona when it was 110. It was NOTHING like a 95 degree day here, cuz as stated, there’s little to no humidity.
Of course, I’ve been in Nawlins (New Orleans) in August when it’s 95, and it rains every day at 4:30 because the air just can’t hold any more moisture. You talk about HUMID!!!
I wouldn’t have minded this heat quite so much if we had had a little transition period. It was yucky, rainy, and 50’s here last week - then WHAM! - 90+ and humid yesterday (and today). I think this is the earliest I’ve had the air conditioning on since I moved into this house.
Missy
In Arizona, from what I remember, it cools off a lot an night. Pop the windows open at night and close them during the day. Georgia, with it’s constant 90°F/90%, humidity is what killed me. No relief, just constant sweating. But then again I am talking about Sierra Vista (Tuesday’s high and low 87°/53°) not Phoenix (98°/75°).
of course you can always drive to Flagstaff. 
I wish air conditioners didn’t cost so much to buy or to run, because I’d have one in every window!
I’m gonna take a cold bath. I might take the dogs with me, poor things. They’re covered in fur so I can only imagine how they must feel.
Man it was hell for me on Saturday I had a Competition which means being out side all day and it was about 90 degrees.
And it’s not even “really” summer yet. That’ll be here in about two more months. I’ve decided I’m going to live in a cave. I hear they stay pretty cool inside.
Actually, 110 in Tucson is easier to take than 90 in Missouri… in MO, the temop and the humidity are both very high at the same time, and you sweat like mad and it doesn’t evaporate, so you don’t cool off… while in the desert, it gets very hot, but the humidity is so low that when you sweat, it evaporates quickly making very efficient use of your natural air-conditioning system… and evaporative coolers work there… much cheaper to buy and run than AC.
What’s an evaporative cooler?
Cran - around here, air conditioners work in two ways…
They “cool” the air, but more importantly, they take the humidity OUT of the air. That’s why they always drip (or if you have a whole house unit, you have it hooked to a drain). That’s also why an air conditioner can “freeze up” here and stop working.
In areas where the humidity is low, all you have to do is cool the air. So just blowing air across something cool does the trick. Less parts, less things to go wrong, less cost.
Missy
Oh. Like putting a plate of ice in front of a fan?
Pretty much…
I’d never heard of those before. Thanks!
I’m so glad it’s finally warm. So much happier. I attribute it to a combo of sun deprivation and my equatorial ectomorphic build.
Evaporative coolers only work if it’s not too humid, Cran, sorry…we tried one in India in desperation…didn’t help! It’s a rotating circular strip of some kind of material, kind of like the old fabric hand towel machines, which dips into water and then rotates back up in front of a fan.
Robin
Right now I have a big square fan in my window…and it helps none at all. Keeps bugs out, though, if nothing else. :roll:
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