My area, along with a good chunk of the middle of the country, is in the middle of a heat advisory. Until the weekend the temperatures will be close to 100 degrees, but the humidity will add another 5-10 degrees to that.
Just how hot and humid is it?
- Our area is under an Excessive Heat Warning until Thursday night, which means that the Heat Index is forecast to be around 105 degrees for 4 consecutive days.
- Yesterday Hubby Tony and I walked to the community clubhouse for a happy hour. The building is only two blocks away, but by time we got there I was a puddle of sweat.
- When I come out of an air conditioned building my glasses fog up.
- I went to the gym this morning for an aquatics class. When I got home I spread my towel over a chair on the deck. Eight hours later the towel was still wet.
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At the church today I walked some scraps over to the chickens. They grumpily told me it was too hot for them.
It was 75 and balmy down here today. No, really! Would I make fun of the weather?
ReplyDeleteIf it was 75 degrees were you sitting in your basement? :-)
DeleteExactly!
DeleteHow do you cope? it sounds horrendous.
ReplyDeleteI stay inside as much as possible.
DeleteI can sure relate! The next few days are expected to be actual (v. feel like) temps of 102-103. I know that's nothing compared to Phoenix, but the humidity makes it feel worse.
ReplyDeleteI've been in enough non-humid places to know that it DOES make a difference!
DeleteHope the chickens are okay. Heat is not good for chickens.
ReplyDeleteI hope they're okay too.
DeleteI walked some scraps over to the coop this morning. All three hens greeted me enthusiastically.
DeleteI putter in the garden from sunup until around 7 A.M. From then on, I don't do much outside. The grandson and his GF have two dogs and both work; they can't leave the dogs inside because they tear things up when there in there alone. They have a pen off the barn, and a room IN the barn with a fan for when it's hot, but it was just too hot today. Cliff let them out. They just lie in the shop in front of another fan, I hope this is the last awful heat we have, but I've seen pretty high temperatures in September, too.
ReplyDeleteI can handle normal August heat, but not these extremes.
DeleteIt's hot here too. 45*C in the shade. But I'm clever; did not stay in the shade.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Take care of yourself and stay cool!
DeleteToo hot to handle!
ReplyDeleteI just can’t take the heat as well as I used to. Fortunately we are dry here - low humidity under 10% so it is more bearable than humid heat. I don’t know how you guys handle it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I visited Oldest Son in the Central Valley last summer I really noticed the difference humidity can make. Although the high temperatures would be close to 100, before 10 am it was not bad to be outside as long as I stayed in the shade.
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