Will ice work ?

[Doc]

Hot you say? lmao you have no idea what hot is my friend! Let me know when you get to these temps then you'll be singing a whole different tune. See what I did there? ? ???

100 here in north Florida today …

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[ControlNode]

Hot you say? lmao you have no idea what hot is my friend! Let me know when you get to these temps then you'll be singing a whole different tune. See what I did there? ? ???

While that is hot, at least it's dry heat, so the feels like should be lower than that.

How it gets in my area:

 

[yamahaSHO]

I'm sure once your remodel is done it'll be more comfortable there especially with the muni splits. Every place I've ever stayed in that had those were super comfortable and what's nice is they're quiet and energy efficient.I thought of doing them in our new house but they're still to expensive for a whole house. So I'm doing an upgraded HVAC unit, better windows and spray foam insulation which should make it comfortable and efficient.

We're up in Bella Vista on the Missouri border and are renting a house right now until ours is built. I think it's a little cooler here than where you are being the hottest it's been has only been 93 and so far and mornings have been nice. What I like is it actually cools off a little once the sun goes down. Unlike AZ where it just stays hot (heat island effect) from all the concrete, tile roofs and asphalt everywhere. It's not uncommon to still be 106 at 10:00pm in July & August and 90 at 5:00am.

Then there's all the rude and inconsiderate people who've moved to AZ! The place is one huge melting pot of transplants who bring their crazy ways and all want to change the area to where they came from. No one is friendly there and it's almost impossible to make good friends. We've been walking and have said hello to others and most will just ignore you and keep their head down as they pass you. I've heard this complaint from many of my customers too in all different areas around the west valley. I would say 70% of the jobs I did last year were for people who were freshening up their house to sell to move away out of state. Most were going to the Carolinas, Tennessee and Texas. It seems the areas where people are "a little friendlier" are in the 55+ gated communities. I think they have more amenities there and the older people go out and socialize more.

The people thing is why we moved out of Colorado. People here... At least in my area have been more fake though. Haven't made any decent friends here, so I stopped trying. The average IQ is a bit lower than I'm used to, which was somewhat expect, but still hard to deal with at times. And the Bible thumper can be the worst... The most judgy people I think I've met, yet they're not even good people when you watch their actions.

I remember the hit temps at night in AZ, but I also remembered not dripping with sweat during those hot nights. I probably wouldn't like it as much as I did back then. I also remember it could be 115F and when you get out of a pool, you're cold from the evaporation.

We are actually going to build a house in a couple years or so. We want a stupid efficient barndominium with open space a and a 2,500+ sqft attached garage. My parents are moving out here, so we'll likely get some land together (my dad wants like 50 acres so he can play with his tractor... He's a retired fighter pilot and airline pilot). I also have two more years of high school to see my daughter through before moving.

I was out burning brush yesterday in "dangerous heat" and I was fine. Same last summer, I am always outside. The feels like temps are BS. I think they take peak humidity (which is early morning) and peak temperature (in the afternoon) and combine them to get these "feels like 120" reports when it never is. A good weather app like weather underground where you can choose what to display, and see humidity burning off with temp increase, is more helpful then some frantic weather girl. When I went looking for a better weather app I found they don't display humidity anymore, just "feel's like" temps. Let me judge what it feels like.

As far as the rude people coming in, well I typed something long out and deleted it lol. I'll just say they require an appropriate response. Some of the country folk are a bit naive in how welcoming they are, as they haven't lived around these people like I have.

Wunderground still shows humidity.

But what I posted yesterday, which was from Wunderground had me feeling pretty accurate. It was the type of hot that I stay out of entirely. The humidity hasn't been burning off as well this year as it was last year. I'm pretty sensitive to humidity and I remember dry 95-100+ days last year, which were more bearable for me than what we've had this year.

 

[NotBudule]

The average IQ is a bit lower than I'm used to, which was somewhat expect, but still hard to deal with at times.

I feel like I resemble this remark ?, but to be fair , you are replying to a thread that was started by me , (nuff said , right there) wondering if a giant fan being rotated by a stripper ? would help with the heat ? or just use ice ? ? (I'm just messing with ya , I turned my IQ off years ago, kept getting me in trouble, especially with wifey...)

 

[Texasota]

Very few places have comfortable weather year round. I’ve lived in SE Minnesota for the last 43 years and don’t know how I endured the winters. I remember many multi-day episodes of -35 temps.

For the last 12 years we have spent winter as snowbirds in Florida. Spring, summer and fall in Minnesota is wonderful and winter in SW Florida is spectacular. Our winter retirement community is full of happy and friendly fellow snowbirds because they know what they are escaping back home. We socialize with friends there more than at home in Minnesota.

If you are retired or your work circumstances allow it, snowbirding is truly the best of both worlds.

 

[AzScorpion]

While that is hot, at least it's dry heat, so the feels like should be lower than that.

How it gets in my area:

IDK dry or not it's hot and makes me feel like my skin is burning. If it were just a few days I think that'd be different but the 5-6 months of relentless heat with little to no rain or clouds is to much for me anyways. Today is pretty warm and humid here at 94 and it says "feels like 100" on the app with the dew points at 72. I don't love it but my skin does feel better with some moisture in the air.

People tend to forget even though it's dry you're still sweating. It's just evaporating so fast you don't notice it. That's why so many there get heat stroke and/or die. They go hiking mid day with a bottle of water and brag to their friends how nice it is. Someone in their 50's just died like that last week.

 

[Radioman]

Right now it is 103 degrees with a humidity of 16% and a dew point of 48 degrees.

I think tomorrow I will drive up to the high Sierras and visit a lake to two...

 

[Radioman]

 

[Roscoe_t]

I had a Vanilla Ice tape once and it melted. I left it on the dash of my Mom's car and the heat made it too wavy to fit back into the tape player.

It's nature's way of telling you, something's wrong ... Spirit, 1970

Very few places have comfortable weather year round. I’ve lived in SE Minnesota for the last 43 years and don’t know how I endured the winters. I remember many multi-day episodes of -35 temps.

For the last 12 years we have spent winter as snowbirds in Florida. Spring, summer and fall in Minnesota is wonderful and winter in SW Florida is spectacular. Our winter retirement community is full of happy and friendly fellow snowbirds because they know what they are escaping back home. We socialize with friends there more than at home in Minnesota.

If you are retired or your work circumstances allow it, snowbirding is truly the best of both worlds.

Real winter is down to about two months here in the Upper Midwest. Ten more years, and it may be down to six weeks.

I used to autocross on a nearby frozen lake in January and February. Driving in anger on ice is an experience. But it can't be done around here anymore because the ice isn't safe.

The worst part of winter up here is the short days -- sunset before 5 p.m., December through February.

The Driftless region of SW Wisconsin, SE Minnesota and NE Iowa is an undiscovered gem

 

[Texasota]

The Driftless region of SW Wisconsin, SE Minnesota and NE Iowa is an undiscovered gem

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Smart birds.

 

[ControlNode]

IDK dry or not it's hot and makes me feel like my skin is burning. If it were just a few days I think that'd be different but the 5-6 months of relentless heat with little to no rain or clouds is to much for me anyways. Today is pretty warm and humid here at 94 and it says "feels like 100" on the app with the dew points at 72. I don't love it but my skin does feel better with some moisture in the air.

People tend to forget even though it's dry you're still sweating. It's just evaporating so fast you don't notice it. That's why so many there get heat stroke and/or die. They go hiking mid day with a bottle of water and brag to their friends how nice it is. Someone in their 50's just died like that last week.

As I said, not saying it ain't hot. But for me it's way more bearable. When I was in Yuma I use to go to the junk yards on the weekends, I would wear long layered whites and bring water. Pulling parts to ship home or direct sell. Here, the sweat running down my face and getting into my eyes is just miserable, and that is just sitting in a chair in the shade.

 

[Synfulz]

Hot you say? lmao you have no idea what hot is my friend! Let me know when you get to these temps then you'll be singing a whole different tune. See what I did there? ? ???

I don't miss Lake Havasu days.?

 

[Friday yet?]

People here... At least in my area have been more fake though. Haven't made any decent friends here, so I stopped trying. The average IQ is a bit lower than I'm used to, which was somewhat expect, but still hard to deal with at times. And the Bible thumper can be the worst... The most judgy people I think I've met, yet they're not even good people when you watch their actions.

You my friend, just hit the nail right on the head....... but your description encompasses a whole lot of places, not just your area. I could not have stated it any better. Hell, I'm surrounded by some of these folks right now. We live in a newer neighborhood. Every time another house is completed and people move in I used to think "OK, this couple will be cool." After 2+ years? I've given up. Don't even get my hopes up anymore. Hopefully one of the newcomers will prove me wrong. But at this point my wife has to drag me to neighborhood events. I have less than zero desire to hang with any of these idiots. Next door neighbor is pretty cool. Enjoy talking to him. And he goes to zero events. Zero. I think the overall "stupid" of the others is just more than he can handle.

If I had the money........... 100 wooded acres with my house right in the middle of it.

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