Subj : hot
To : Accession
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Jun 23 2025 08:33 pm
Re: hot
By: Accession to Gamgee on Mon Jun 23 2025 04:38 pm
> > If you don't live in the Southeast, you don't know what hot is.
> I can definitely agree with that. Granted, here in WI between Saturday and
> today it was in the upper 90s, with the heat index up around 105. So sure,
> it has been pretty hot.
Wow that is indeed extra hot for up that way!
> However, we went to the Orlando area in June last year for volleyball
> nationals when it was 105F all week with like 80% humidity. Fuck that, you
> can keep that shit.
Yea it can be brutal at times. I've lived here long enough now to have gotten as used to it as possible, but it does suck sometimes.
> We, along with other team parents, were sitting under a canopy at the resort
> at around midnight having some drinks, still complaining about the heat. No
> sun, yet still sweating through our shirts.
>
> Then, the year before that we went to Peoria, AZ in June for vacation. Also
> 105F all week. Sure, when you were in the sun you felt like there was a
> torch pointed at you, but at least in the shade it was managable, and even
> dare I say enjoyable. (hardly any humidity at all). Evenings and nights were
> wonderful, too.
Yep that's the difference between "dry heat" and "humid heat". The "Heat Index" (what it actually feels like) is *FAR* worse with humidity. Same thing as the "wind chill factor" up in snow country.
> I can definitely tell the difference between the southwest and southeast.
> Yet here in WI, we get some of the best of both of those worlds, including
> Canada (it was 3 days, and now the rest of the week will be around 80F),
> where we can get down to -30F and lower in the winter. :(
Yes, I spent a few years near there, in the north Chicago suburbs, while in the Navy long ago. Winters were challenging but the rest of the year was pretty excellent weather-wise.
It's really pretty good here, for part of the year - from November to the end of April it's quite nice.
