Let's snivel about the heat.
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it was not a month ago i was griping about the wind, and 'when would i get a good day for load development'. went to the range yesterday and begged for even a 2 mph breeze. humidity was stifling.
truck has been up on ramps in driveway for 3 days, waiting for fluid change all around. i can not get up early enough in the day for it to be cool under there....
truck has been up on ramps in driveway for 3 days, waiting for fluid change all around. i can not get up early enough in the day for it to be cool under there....
Another Carolina boy here, dreading the summer where temp and humidity are pretty close to each other, and usually above 90
This week I am on vacation and welcome these “bearable” temps
ADDENDUM: 7/9/23. went from northern Italy to Rome and dear lord is it hot. 102 in the city today.
This week I am on vacation and welcome these “bearable” temps
ADDENDUM: 7/9/23. went from northern Italy to Rome and dear lord is it hot. 102 in the city today.
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GotRDid
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Spent a couple of hot days cutting tobacco for hunting privileges later on a property in north central KY. Started out in a white t-shirt and shorts at daylight, but after just two rows I got sick from nicotine in the sap of the stalks. Old timer migrant worker put me under the well pump and got me soaped and rinsed. Was useless until nearly lunch. Back in the field again afterwards, but in jeans and a long sleeve shirt, I finished both days. I never kept up with the pros, but got invited back the second year.
The second year they did not need me to cut but I was useful in the barn to hang all the sticks from the rafters down; and I thought field work was hot!
The hunting was worth all the effort (and lessons), but looked elsewhere for summer jobs after that.
The second year they did not need me to cut but I was useful in the barn to hang all the sticks from the rafters down; and I thought field work was hot!
The hunting was worth all the effort (and lessons), but looked elsewhere for summer jobs after that.
Oooh, don't hope just yet for such things. Last winter, in my area we had temps dip to the negative teens and wind chill as low as -25ºF. Let's not rush. Wearing a 5x coat over a 3x over a 1x, to stay warm, gets a bit silly, what with everybody looking like the Michelin Man.
Of course, the other morning it was north of 80ºF and humidity in the 80s. I can certainly do without a lot of that. Waking up in a puddle ... showering in a puddle ... donning clothes then preparing for the day, only to end up in a puddle ... ensuring I take a couple of hand towels around with me, to deal with the puddlin' for the next couple of hours.
Look on the bright side. At least there isn't much of a monsoon season 'round these parts. I guess that's something.
I hear you. In the Winter, Spring and Fall is when I like to shoot. I don't have to worry about my barrel heat as much. In this humidity, I've found that here's not much you can do to cool a barrel down without getting to A/C or wrapping a wet rag around your barrel. Not to mention the mirage...Oooh, don't hope just yet for such things. Last winter, in my area we had temps dip to the negative teens and wind chill as low as -25ºF. Let's not rush. Wearing a 5x coat over a 3x over a 1x, to stay warm, gets a bit silly, what with everybody looking like the Michelin Man.
Of course, the other morning it was north of 80ºF and humidity in the 80s. I can certainly do without a lot of that. Waking up in a puddle ... showering in a puddle ... donning clothes then preparing for the day, only to end up in a puddle ... ensuring I take a couple of hand towels around with me, to deal with the puddlin' for the next couple of hours.
Look on the bright side. At least there isn't much of a monsoon season 'round these parts. I guess that's something.
Brians356
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Five pages of "Sure is hot. Huhyup." Sheesh. It is summertime. The other day a daily record set in 1937 was broken here. So the idiot on TV said "More proof we're warming the planet. We're all gonna die!"
The hottest temperature ever recorded in my little hometown in N. Idaho was 117 degrees. And I was there... in 1961. Proof of global cooling!
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The hottest temperature ever recorded in my little hometown in N. Idaho was 117 degrees. And I was there... in 1961. Proof of global cooling!
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We live in nortern Utah almost ID now. Lived near the Canadian border, near the Gulf of Mexico, next to the Pacific Ocean growing up in Ventura County CA, lived near Boston for a year in the 1950's, Graduated from high school just outside of DC in northern VA. Lived in Milwaukee WI, then San Jose CA area for 30+ years due to employement, retired to N Utah a few years ago. Each place has its good and bad some more of one than the the other.
20 more degrees and it will be just right.
Im doing yardwork in 116 heat index in TX and digging ditches. I live in Las Vegas and i am always out working in 110-115. It was a lot better when I had a pool. I simply plan on no shooting from mid june-sept. I do projects like glass bedding in the summer or just get drunk in the shade.
Brians356
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Yep, better to be lucky than smart. They put themselves in that position of needing cooperation from wind and sun by splicing too much intermittent into the grid. Right now they can afford to be smug. The real danger will come in crossing the line by adding even more intermittent without sufficient dispatchable baseload generation. The real experts recently issued a dire warning:
Grid monitor warns of blackout risks across U.S.
The North American Electric Reliability Corp.'s summer outlook is renewing a debate about whether fossil fuel-fired plants are retiring too quickly.
www.eenews.net
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Old Navy
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Brown beer?
It’s so hot I letting the sun anneal my brass
dhagerty40
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nobody bug me! I am busy cooking my eggs on the sidewalk!
Mississippi. No need to say anything else, 98° and 90% humidity. Picked 3 rows of peas in long britches and a tee shirt, my socks were soaked with sweat. It'll cool off in November in time for Thanksgiving,,,, I hope.
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