It's 100°F at 2 AM

[ForrestGump]

That's just wrong.

I went for a few mile's walk an hour ago -- I laugh in the face of sleep and if you recall Capt Willard's first hotel scenes in Apocalypse Now you've got the gist of my last two days -- and I swear my water bottle was filled with boiling water by the time I got back.

And tomorrow, with 114°F in the shade (as if I'll be in the shade) forecast, I'll be back out in it, dressed neck to toe in heavy black leather. I am constantly surprised that I somehow live through each week of this summer.

It's hot.

It's damn hot.

[enigmatic]

1. Are you in Phoenix?

That sounds like the summers I spent when I lived there..

[Porcupine]

2. Sounds like Redding CA.

Here in Chico, I noticed it had "cooled off" around 7 p.m. That was when the temperature was about 100 degrees.

Why in dogs name are you wearing black leather?

[ForrestGump]

6. Motorcycle leathers

Because I've been there, where the pavement waits, and I'd rather be uncomfortable during the ride than for weeks thereafter. It's almost tolerable when I ride, especially with swiftness...it's the traffic-light stops that kill me.

[ForrestGump]

4. Nope...I live in a charming little desert village, these days

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Black leather?

In 100°+ weather? Hm.

[ForrestGump]

5. Okay...so now you know my little secret...

Don't tell anyone.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Does this mean we can call you "Forrest the Gimp"?

[NMMNG]

7. True, but only 22% humidity

That makes a difference. We're at 78F but have 87% humidity so it feels like a sauna out there. I'd gladly switch places. I remember being in AZ with temps in the low 100s and not having a problem, then returning home. We walked out of the air-conditioned airport and it was only 90, but high humidity and I could hardly breathe.

[ForrestGump]

8. Yeah, humidity makes it hard

Worked and lived in the tropics and subtropics, and this is preferable from that standpoint, but there's a point where it's just TOO hot. A mere 100° is not that point, but when I'm working outside, in full sunlight, in temperatures up to 20° higher it gets a bit much. But, you're right, at least it's not humid. That makes a HUGE difference -- the danger is, thoug, that it's much easier to dehydrate without being aware of it, if you're not used to the desert dryness.

It's a dry heat...

[NMMNG]

10. Good comic

I remember seeing one where two skeletons were sitting side by side on lounge chairs below a blazing sun in a parched wasteland. One says to the other, "but it's a dry heat".



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