Yeah, but it's a dry heat

[cybrxkhan]

Sweating actually works as intended in a dry heat, which makes is superior.

Also humid climates tend to have more mosquitoes, which are on the top 5 list of human worst enemies.

The Mosquitos issue is a good point. Ever since I've moved to SoCal, I've probably had as many bug bites in ~4 years as I would've gotten in one month in the DC area. But eh the DC area is a swamp anyways.

 

[hangman]

I prefer both of the choices about equally (maybe leaning towards hot/dry) to cold/dry and hot/humid.

I used to live in Louisiana. I've not lived in deserts but I've been there on vacations. Humidity can go eff itself, I will take dry heat any day of the week. Dry heat doesn't make you want to crawl out of your skin or make your clothes stick to your body and your glasses fog up the moment you open the door. Your entire outfit just gets soaked by the humidity and your sweat combined, if you can even sweat at all.

I grew up in Lafayette, and lived in Baton Rouge from 18-22. Louisiana, for those who live in other parts of the world, is a freaking rice cooker. It's not uncommon to get temperatures at 95F with dewpoints around 80F. Dew points can be even worse if you have to drive over the Atchafalaya Basin (a giant swamp with a 30-mile bridge and only one exit). Especially not fun after hurricanes knock out the power for days...

The weather in Morocco, on the other hand, is fantastic (at least in summer )

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Through a bizarre circumstance I have returned to the town I grew up in. When I was a kid this desert could produce near zero humidity (we actually had a humidity gauge that read high because the needle had bent against the low stop), and even with 100 degree plus days being common in summer it was comfortable enough as long as you didn't go barefoot on pavement. Now there are over half a million more people, with attendant lawns and trees and sprinkler systems. While most people would still say it is dry, and it still qualifies as desert, the humidity now runs noticeably higher (like in the thirties and forties) and it is flat out miserable.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Through a bizarre circumstance I have returned to the town I grew up in. When I was a kid this desert could produce near zero humidity (we actually had a humidity gauge that read high because the needle had bent against the low stop), and even with 100 degree plus days being common in summer it was comfortable enough as long as you didn't go barefoot on pavement. Now there are over half a million more people, with attendant lawns and trees and sprinkler systems. While most people would still say it is dry, and it still qualifies as desert, the humidity now runs noticeably higher (like in the thirties and forties) and it is flat out miserable.

I didn't realize the sprinklers and planted trees and all that could jack up the humidity that quickly, but that makes sense, I think I can sense a similar phenomena here in SoCal.

 

[hangman]

Oh yeah, there's a whole sub discipline in atmospheric science dealing with this sort of thing. You can actually see clouds pop up downstream in satellite images if the conditions are right.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I didn't realize the sprinklers and planted trees and all that could jack up the humidity that quickly, but that makes sense, I think I can sense a similar phenomena here in SoCal.

LOL...you are sensing the same phenomenon...I'm also in SoCal. But you are interpreting 'quickly' out of something that isn't all that quick. Since I'm in my fifties when I compare growing up in this valley to current day it's actually four decades plus of accumulated effect.

I can't guess how many thousands of acres of parched desert have been replaced with irrigated greens belching moisture into the air, but the population has changed from about forty thousand to something approaching three quarters of a million, so it's a huge amount.

 

[classical_hero]

The Mosquitos issue is a good point. Ever since I've moved to SoCal, I've probably had as many bug bites in ~4 years as I would've gotten in one month in the DC area. But eh the DC area is a swamp anyways.

"Washington was built on a stagnant swamp. It stinks then and it stinks now."

 

[Terxpahseyton]

This thread reminds me how awesome Europe is.

 

[bhsup]

This thread reminds me how awesome Europe is.

I agree. This guy is living my dream.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Dry heat all the way. Here in the Northeast U.S. we often get temperatures in the low 90s (~33C) with terrible humidity. It sucks. On those days, I have to get to work 15 minutes early so I can dry out my shirt.

 

[madviking]

I didn't realize the sprinklers and planted trees and all that could jack up the humidity that quickly, but that makes sense, I think I can sense a similar phenomena here in SoCal.

evapotranspiration y'all. all the corn in iowa makes it one of the more humid places in the us.

 

[cybrxkhan]

LOL...you are sensing the same phenomenon...I'm also in SoCal. But you are interpreting 'quickly' out of something that isn't all that quick. Since I'm in my fifties when I compare growing up in this valley to current day it's actually four decades plus of accumulated effect.

I can't guess how many thousands of acres of parched desert have been replaced with irrigated greens belching moisture into the air, but the population has changed from about forty thousand to something approaching three quarters of a million, so it's a huge amount.

Hmm. Ya know, might explain some of my father's comments about California weather being a little strange these past few years, as he's lived in SoCal for much of his adult life.

evapotranspiration y'all. all the corn in iowa makes it one of the more humid places in the us.

TIL that the term evapotranspiration exists.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Hmm. Ya know, might explain some of my father's comments about California weather being a little strange these past few years, as he's lived in SoCal for much of his adult life.

In my part the weather is more than a little strange in the forty year view.

The number of times a thunderstorm came down off the mountains and actually affected the valley floor in my youth was close to zero. There has not been a summer that didn't have multiple violent thunderstorms blow things over in town for the past ten years.

It is currently July, and has been solidly overcast all day, horizon to horizon. When I was a kid if a cloud showed up during summer vacation from school it was small, lonely, and doomed.

 

[onejayhawk]

Here in northern Iraq the temperature is a high of 44C with a humidity at 9%. I do prefer it to a place with higher humidity like in North Carolina where I break out in a sweat just walking to the mailbox.

I prefer colder temperatures because at least you can put more clothes on. Here the winter can be difficult because I only have a heater for the living room and bedroom. If I go to the kitchen or bathroom it's freezing. I just try and stay in my bedroom with the door closed as much as possible.

I remember summer in Iraq. Texans have no concept of heat. Even Arizona and Nevada only glimpse what 5 months over 40° C gets to be like. When I learned the Celsius scale, 50° (122° F) was only a number. Experiencing the reality was overwhelming.

J

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I remember summer in Iraq. Texans have no concept of heat. Even Arizona and Nevada only glimpse what 5 months over 40° C gets to be like. When I learned the Celsius scale, 50° (122° F) was only a number. Experiencing the reality was overwhelming.

J

I saw 122 one weekend in the California desert...it was mind bending. Opening the door felt like checking something in the oven. You could literally feel your eyes dry out.

 

[really]

Come back rain all is forgiven.

Dry-bulb temperature[°C]
Current : 18.9 °C
Yesterday's avg : 19.8 °C
Yesterday's max : 23.7 °C
Yesterday's min : 17.9 °C


Relative humidity[%]
Current : 93 %
Yesterday's avg : 94 %
Yesterday's max : 100 %
Yesterday's min : 79 %

I am finding it difficult to get to sleep.
A builder was working next door from 8PM till about midnight as it was cooler.

I know it isn't particularily hot but that is well over our average summers day.

 

[madviking]

75F is hot for ireland? christ's cupcakes

 

[really]

Yes - an average summers day is 16C / 61F but we are very humid all year round.

It's not good for ventilation or general health.

 

[Wrymouth3]

Down here in Miami, it's humid all year round. There are some days, especially this time of year, where it is sooooo disgusting that I basically clamor for a return to D.C weather when I was up there for the past 4 years.

 

[hangman]

75F is hot for ireland? christ's cupcakes

Bahaha! 75F? Hot? Dat baw trippin yeah!