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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: long762range on August 12, 2009, 04:51:39 PM
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Today was the 53d day of triple digit heat. Even for Texas this is hot.
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Y'all are welcome to it!! Mid-90's here and it's hot as hell. Of course, the humidity is right up there with the temp, too. Thank GOD for ac!!
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sounds like out Heat Wave we had here :)
nice one ;D
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I remember 1980, 54 days in a row here in DFW, at midnight it would still be above 90, damn it was hot. A/C didn't even think about keeping up. Transformers popping like popcorn.
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73 and light rain. Cools down to 50 at night for good sleeping. We did have a few days in the 90's but the humidity was down in the teens. God I love Montana. By the way, I can still see "SNOW" in the mountains out of my window. ;D
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73 and light rain. Cools down to 50 at night for good sleeping. We did have a few days in the 90's but the humidity was down in the teens. God I love Montana. By the way, I can still see "SNOW" in the mountains out of my window. ;D
Snob.
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It got up to 75 today and will get down to 55 overnight. I think that's almost 20 degreees cooler than normal. No global warming here.
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Just a big hello, from the swamp....
Low 90's everyday, humidity is "same as it ever was" breeze feels like a hair dryer, pop up t-storms between 1:00 and 6:00.
Lows around 80.
Can't wait until Nov. Than the windows are open until May....
73 and light rain. Cools down to 50 at night for good sleeping. We did have a few days in the 90's but the humidity was down in the teens. God I love Montana. By the way, I can still see "SNOW" in the mountains out of my window. ;D
:'(
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73 and light rain. Cools down to 50 at night for good sleeping. We did have a few days in the 90's but the humidity was down in the teens. God I love Montana. By the way, I can still see "SNOW" in the mountains out of my window. ;D
Tell me how much fun it is Febuary tough guy. ;D It will still average 80 degrees here in the swamp. 70 at night,80 in the day and I don't have to worry about DIEING if I step out into my back yard in the middle of winter (though the damn pythons are a PITA). Just sayin'. ;)
FQ13 who finds the beach a bit chilly in March when the water temperature dips below 80.
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Tell me how much fun it is Febuary tough guy. ;D It will still average 80 degrees here in the swamp. 70 at night,80 in the day and I don't have to worry about DIEING if I step out into my back yard in the middle of winter (though the damn pythons are a PITA). Just sayin'. ;)
FQ13 who finds the beach a bit chilly in March when the water temperature dips below 80.
We go swimming on New years day sissy.
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We go swimming on New years day sissy.
Well Tom there was a warning about lead paint out years ago....... ;D
FQ13
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Yeah, its a little warm this year in Texas. We're making up for the last couple years, they were pretty moderate summers. The only thing that sucks now is we ain't go no rain, you other boys stop hogging it all!!!
DALE: I know what's wrong with your truck. It's your quote unquote pollution controls. I heard on talk radio you don't even need 'em, they're just an egghead government plot.
HANK: How is cutting down on pollution a government plot, Dale?
DALE: Open up your eyes, man. They're trying to control global warming. Get it? "Global?"
HANK: So what?
DALE: That's code for U.N. commissars telling Americans what the temperature's going to be in our outdoors. I say let the world warm up, let's see what Boutros Boutros Ghali Ghali has to say about that. We'll grow oranges in Alaska!
HANK: Dale, you giblet-head, we live in Texas! It's already 110 in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter, I'm going to kick your ass!
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I just got back from Mojave CA. I stepped off the plane at 9pm and it was near 90 and the humidity was low double digits so it felt like I was standing in a blast furnace. Spent the next week on the desert floor and it got to 120. Went to my parent's house near Oakland/SF (don't hold that against them/me) and it was in the upper 50s when I got there. I damn near FROZE! Get back home and it's 80 but torential downpours that had sections of the Beltway and other highways shut down and power out all over. It's still 90+ with the saem humidity and flash floods most evenings.
I never thought I'd say it, but I want to go back to California!
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Hey FQ13. I happen to love the cold. The last Ten years it been lucky to get down to zero. :'( I still enjoy a good -20 every now and then. I'd rather have that then 95 with 90% humidity. I lived in Tulsa OK for a summer and hated it.
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If you're too cold you can put more clothes on, but if you're too hot you can't take anything off. That's why I'll always choose cold over heat.
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Hey FQ13. I happen to love the cold. The last Ten years it been lucky to get down to zero. :'( I still enjoy a good -20 every now and then. I'd rather have that then 95 with 90% humidity. I lived in Tulsa OK for a summer and hated it.
No thanks. The heat is uncomfortable, but cold hurts. I can always start dropping clothes if it gets too hot, but you got to layer up in the cold. And you don't have to de-ice you car every day for a half hour before going to work in Texas. ;D But that one or two days a year it ices over in Texas, we don't do snow just ice, everything shuts down. Work, school, me, we don't do nothing then.
Jumbo, you beat me to it. I'd rather be in shorts and a shirt hot as Hell, than wrapped up like a damn mummy an still cold. And no shorts wearing in public you drunks.
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Today it's hot and dry, yesterday was hot and dry, tomorrow is supposed to be hot and dry, the next day is supposed to be________________________You can fill in the blank. ;D
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I HATE THE HEAT!! >:(
Give me the cold and snow any day.
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No thanks. The heat is uncomfortable, but cold hurts. I can always start dropping clothes if it gets too hot, but you got to layer up in the cold. And you don't have to de-ice you car every day for a half hour before going to work in Texas. ;D But that one or two days a year it ices over in Texas, we don't do snow just ice, everything shuts down. Work, school, me, we don't do nothing then.
Those Tx. ice storms a bitch. I got caught in one coming back to Austin from Christmas break. I had to hole up late aftrnoon in this fleabag hotel ($15 a night) outside of Houston for a few hours till it passed. (the first and only time I ever drew a gun on someone it was that a bad a fleabag). I stayed until midnight and then started to drive back using the backroads as the roads and bridges were closed and I needed to avoid the police since they wouldn't let me continue on. I felt like a damn drug smuggler. It was a hairy trip with about 1/2" of ice on the road and sleet and flurries. I did the thing in Grandma low with the F-150 in 4wheel. The only reason for the insanity was that UT has this rule carved in stone from 18 whatever that if a teacher isn't there the first day of class you lose your job period. It took me nine and a half hours to make a two and a half hour trip. I drove directly to work only to find classes were cancelled. I was not pleased. ;D
FQ13 who fids it funny in retrospect
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I like cold weather more than hot....but my hips and knees don't like the cold.
Hot weather is a real PITA with the type of prosthesis that I use and causes too much sweating....requiring frequent removal and drying and....well...it's a PITA.
I just wish it would stay cooler a little longer in my area than it does........ no -20 crap....but some extra days of 35 to 45 would be nice every year......you know, good long-sleeve shirt weather.
8)
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I just got back from Mojave CA. I stepped off the plane at 9pm and it was near 90 and the humidity was low double digits so it felt like I was standing in a blast furnace. Spent the next week on the desert floor and it got to 120. Went to my parent's house near Oakland/SF (don't hold that against them/me) and it was in the upper 50s when I got there. I damn near FROZE! Get back home and it's 80 but torential downpours that had sections of the Beltway and other highways shut down and power out all over. It's still 90+ with the saem humidity and flash floods most evenings.
I never thought I'd say it, but I want to go back to California!
I'm shocked to hear that it was HUMID in Mojave. But I will agree, the Bay area has the best weather, although 50's seems darn chilly for the east bay in summer.
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I'm shocked to hear that it was HUMID in Mojave. But I will agree, the Bay area has the best weather, although 50's seems darn chilly for the east bay in summer.
The Bay are has the best weather? It depends on which block you're on. I swear to god that moving a half mile can change the temparture ten degrees in either direction in San Fransico. The whole micro-climate thing is very real there. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen was watching the fog roll in there. We were stting n this bar (top ofthe mark I think) in the tallest building in San Fran. The view was of the bay islands and it was about sunset. This pure white fog comes in and it rolled over a hilly, tree filled island. It flowed to the top of the crest and then, because cold air sinks, descended down the summit like a waterfall. It was like watching a Japanese painting brought to life. We were riveted for about an hour as the fog slowly worked its way up to encompass the crest. Very, very cool.
FQ13
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The Bay are has the best weather? It depends on which block you're on. I swear to god that moving a half mile can change the temparture ten degrees in either direction in San Fransico. The whole micro-climate thing is very real there. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen was watching the fog roll in there. We were stting n this bar (top ofthe mark I think) in the tallest building in San Fran. The view was of the bay islands and it was about sunset. This pure white fog comes in and it rolled over a hilly, tree filled island. It flowed to the top of the crest and then, because cold air sinks, descended down the summit like a waterfall. It was like watching a Japanese painting brought to life. We were riveted for about an hour as the fog slowly worked its way up to encompass the crest. Very, very cool.
FQ13
The Peninsula that SF is on is usually 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the area, When I rode my bike to work it would be perfectly clear on my (East) side of the bay, but the bridges , (San Mateo to the south and Bay bridge to the north ) disappeared into a fog bank with the tops of the hills and taller buildings poking through.
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From the same trip home:
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Taken from the hill overlooking Livermore airport.
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Texans are definitely hot under the collar right now. I had an outside paint restoration that had to be postponed for while. Tomatoes won't put out hardly. Farmers here are wiped.
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If you're too cold you can put more clothes on, but if you're too hot you can't take anything off. That's why I'll always choose cold over heat.
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