OMG! You *pansies*! :D

[kickaha]

I just checked the weather in Seattle, after seeing a lot of posts about it.

91deg. Ouch. That's pretty damned hot for up there.

Then I see the humidity.

**27%**?? You're complaining about **27%**?? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh dear god, you poor dears, you have no idea. At that nice dry humidity, sweating still works. Evaporation is efficient. You can cool yourself with a wet towel and a fan quite nicely. Seriously... years of living on the dry hot side of the Cascades, and in Salt Lake City make this a no-brainer: mist yourself with some water in front of a fan, and it will feel 10-15deg cooler almost instantly. Soak a towel in water and toss it on your back while you walk around - same effect. When the humidity is that low, water + moving air = cool. Temperature is easily overcome if the air is dry. When it's humid... not so much.

When the temp is in the 90s, and so is the humidity, *then* you're in deep doodoo. (Actually, that's pretty much what it feels like.... walking through warm poo.) cf: NC, NY.

Go sweat yourself silly, and enjoy the evaporation for those of us who cannot. :P :)

Comments

[zen-oven.livejournal.com]

43% here in the swamp, er houston. which is damn low for down here. i swim to the mailbox most days.

Acclimation matters.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

99, not 91. And Sunday it was around 75. Up 24 degrees in three days is going to screw up anybody, and the heat will be gone before anybody has a chance to adjust to it.

Just because it sucks worse where you are, does not mean it doesn't suck here. Just means you're stupid to live where you do. Try not to take that out on those of us who know better. :)

You also have AC, a cost that is not justified 355 days out of the year here, and an appliance that is not available the ten days it *might* be justified.

Fair warning: I may be the teensiest bit cranky the end of the month, if temps and humidity are in the 90s. I expect the other time I visit NY will be much closer to one end or the other of the baseball season.

[gwywnnydd.livejournal.com]

Love you hon.
Bite me :).

With previously acquired permission slips, of course...

[ssandv.livejournal.com]

You know, I spent 3 years on the East coast. That doesn't make this "downright pleasant", because it's not. If this here isn't a knife, My. Crocodile Dundee, does that mean you'll stand still while I open a vein on you with it? Because it'll serve perfectly well for that.

See also Dilbert, "head cubicles". Just because you've become acclimatized through years of weather-inflicted abuse to an unreasonable standard doesn't mean *we* should give it any credence. I'm going to stay out here where I don't have to worry about all the lovely weather related nonsense I remember from my 3 years on the East coast and *I'll* be the one pointing and laughing. Enjoy the crowded swamp--I think, and I'm pretty sure there's some evidence to back me, that if anyone's nuts here, it'd be you.