This must be what it is like to live in FL. It was 87° and really humid today. I refused to go out except for an appointment.

 

We've had so much of that this summer....way too much hiding in the AC!

 

I had to do a little work in the garage today and it was like someone turned a faucet on over my head. I finally gave up and went into the AC.

 

Speaking of AC.....I was very thankful we had it when we had the heat wave a couple weeks ago. That's when we weren't feeling well, so the last thing we needed was to be sweating to death while dying from the plague.
Now that we are more normal, it was time to get the house cleaned. That's where AC came in again today. I kicked the thermostat down a couple of degrees, so I could get the job done without melting.

 

I saw an article the other day which said we may have cities which are headed towards uninhabitable soon.
ignoring the cause, temps ARE going up globally.
So cities like Phoenix, Basra, Kuwait City, Tehran, etc. are seeing 130°+ Temps. not feels like but real temps.
Throw in some humidity and you have feel like temps approaching 160°F.
You can only live there in AC conditions. Power failures become fatal events.
There was a reason some of the ancients in Iraq and so forth had underground caves to hide in.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/...t-of-the-world

 

88 feels like 99. The air is most thick out there. I went outside to stand in the shade and stalk hummingbirds. Didn't last too long only had a couple of fly bys by a female.

 

Yup glad this week is over. Worked in three houses this week and none of them had a/c and they all had major p.i.t.a. floors and it was very hot and very humid here.

 

Only inland Florida like Orlando, that place is brutal due to humidity. If you ever cross over the causeway bridge at Daytona Beach Shores you feel like you have entered an entire new country with really nice on-shore breezes constantly all day and night long. We vacationed in Daytona for 13 years and often went to Orlando for day trips (Disney) we could not wait to return to Daytona, a big relief going there from inland areas of Florida. The west coast of Florida doesn't seem to have much of a breeze like the east coast.

When we get to our vacation spot on Monday it will be the same, it can be more comfortable than being in Canada despite being further south. Still hot , but different hot.

 

About 30 years ago I was doing ethernet standards meetings.
One meeting was in Honolulu, in August, temps stayed in the upper 80's all week and humidity hovered around 100%
coasters for ice water glasses were about an inch tall to catch the condensation runoff.
They emptied the coasters every hour. And that was in the 'dryer' air conditioned conference room.
Outside it never really rained all week. just every once in a while everything would get dripping wet as the moisture directly condensed onto any surface.


The next meeting was in Sand Key outside Tampa/St. Pete. It was during tropical storm josephine.
Equally oppressive humidity but with hard rain and wind.

 

^^^I didn’t think it got that humid in Hawaii.
We’ve had a break in the rain here and now it’s getting very humid again, official stats are currently at 12:30 p.m. temp is 79 and humidity is 75 percent with partly cloudy skies.