At 8 AM it was 84 degrees already.

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,809
edited July 2011 in The Clubhouse
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Yeah, I'm not bitching. But when the A/C barely does anything because the compressor motor blew at 2AM, it's kind of a drag.

So here I sit, swamp **** and all, waiting for the A/C guy to get here. Thank God I have a service contract that covers this!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited July 2011
    It's been over 100 for 13 days straight here and forcasted for another 10 days. 103 yesterday. Pour yourself a big cup of STFU.

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2011
    Gah. The news (and most of the people on my Facebook feed) are treating a little heat wave like it's the end of the world. I love the hysterical anchors telling everyone to "not go outside unless absolutely necessary." Unless you're 100 years old or recovering from heart surgery, a little heat isn't going to kill you. People in the south or Texas deal with this crap all summer, why are we such delicate little flowers?


    It is damn hot out there though :wink:
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    It's been over 100 for 13 days straight here and forcasted for another 10 days. 103 yesterday. Pour yourself a big cup of STFU.

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    I'm not bitching about the weather, I'm bitching that the A/C broke. It's not my fault you live in Texas.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Gah. The news (and most of the people on my Facebook feed) are treating a little heat wave like it's the end of the world. I love the hysterical anchors telling everyone to "not go outside unless absolutely necessary." Unless you're 100 years old or recovering from heart surgery, a little heat isn't going to kill you. People in the south or Texas deal with this crap all summer, why are we such delicate little flowers?


    It is damn hot out there though :wink:

    Oh, I'll be outside later today moving a lawn tractor. My BBQ grille is supposed to show up today too. But sitting here hovering over computers while laboriously trying to build a new Oracle database across the VPN is a drag. The conference call at 11 isn't going to be any fun either. The hear is just making for a bad day right now. Hopefully it's a simple fix.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2011
    NJ has been slowly climbing for the last few days. The humidity feels like Orlando in August. No complaints from me though. I'll take the heat over the cold anyday.

    PS the AC in the VW no worky. Oh well I will just use the 4x65 method.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited July 2011
    We are looking at 117F today with humidity
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2011
    Willow wrote: »
    We are looking at 117F today with humidity

    I feel like you might have done some metric conversion wrong ;)
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited July 2011
    lol @ 'swamp-****'!!....i learned, when golfing in my neck 'o the woods, to not wear light colored shorts..especially, if you're prone to the aforementioned malady..;)
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited July 2011
    It's actually 19 consecutive 100+ days in Dallas (DFW airport). The news interviewed a jogger on one of those days and he said it's not so bad if you're acclimated to it. The jogger was Troy Aikman.

    As for myself, I've been out there running slowly or just walking but I'm carrying 32oz (Amphipod hydration system) or 72oz (Camelbak) plus pistachios and a Clif Shot Blok.

    But it does suck and most of us go running for the malls or movie theatre on the weekend.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I feel like you might have done some metric conversion wrong ;)

    Give him a break, he's from Canadia. They're still frozen this time of year and he just wants to feel like he belongs.


    Actually, the A/C dude just told me that "the heat index is going to be 112 today!!!!?!?!!11"

    Whoop-tee-doo.

    So I gave him a big glass of ice water.

    The thing that sucks about humidity is that sweating doesn't work.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2011
    Oh yeah heat index. I always forget that people consider that a thing. Pff, science.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited July 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I feel like you might have done some metric conversion wrong ;)

    Nope :

    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caon0512

    with humidity it will feel like 117F hence 117 with humidity. Or 95 do all the scientific crap by adding in the humidity factor and you get 117.

    And I'm damn happy that the ac in all vehicles is working but more impotantly the one at home.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2011
    Yeah, sorry, I forgot that people consider the "heat index" (or in Canada I think you guys use humidex).
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited July 2011
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Yeah, sorry, I forgot that people consider the "heat index" (or in Canada I think you guys use humidex).

    Yeah the Humidex and in winter it is the wind chill factor...it is nerver just a simple number....:confused:
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited July 2011
    Last night at 10:00PM in Illinois it was 92* w/90% humidity. Today we are looking at our 2nd day at 100* or more right now it's 89* w/75% humidity. Pretty dang hot for Illinois.

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    Well, wind chill doesn't matter a hill of beans but the heat index does matter. When it gets above a certain level, there are legitimate heat warnings about heat exhaustion and heat stroke. When it gets to those levels, sweating doesn't do anything but drain fluids from you body. That matters because you get dehydrated quickly so if you work outside for a living doing stuff like roofing or paving, you need to be careful.

    But for the majority of people that work in offices, it doesn't matter. Just make sure your pets aren't dropping dead from the heat and everything will be A-OK.
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  • cubdog
    cubdog Posts: 835
    edited July 2011
    I played golf Tuesday, 100 degrees. Don't ask why. :confused:

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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited July 2011
    cubdog wrote: »
    I played golf Tuesday, 100 degrees. Don't ask why. :confused:

    cubdog

    Ha, ha....I played yesterday in the heat over 95*. Consumed over 75oz of fluids like gatorade and water.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited July 2011
    Tell me about John. For a period of years,I used to work behind an asphalt machine in 95 degree heat. Breathing in those fumes didn't help much either and standing in asphalt hot enough to melt your boots. There were days bro....that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

    Nothing wrong with sweating, it's actually good for you. You just have to keep up with the liquids is all. Days like these and I see dogs in a frickin' car in a parking lot, and rest assured a phone call is made.
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  • Zeros
    Zeros Posts: 940
    edited July 2011
    My father in law works for Sun Oil here in the Philadelphia area. Working outside in a full Nomex suit in 100+ weather? No thanks!
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,413
    edited July 2011
    heiney9 wrote: »
    Last night at 10:00PM in Illinois it was 92* w/90% humidity. Today we are looking at our 2nd day at 100* or more right now it's 89* w/75% humidity. Pretty dang hot for Illinois.

    H9

    yep and i was on the roof adjusting my Dish for an hour must of lost 5lbs in water alone.....must go up again today man why couldn't this happen in april:redface:
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited July 2011
    Wind chill is a big deal when it is -30 and add the wind chill making it feel like -45C
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited July 2011
    I'm actually a little chilly at the moment. Office is around 68*. I'm about to go get lunch, though... which will probably kill me.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    tonyb wrote: »
    Tell me about John. For a period of years,I used to work behind an asphalt machine in 95 degree heat. Breathing in those fumes didn't help much either and standing in asphalt hot enough to melt your boots. There were days bro....that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

    Nothing wrong with sweating, it's actually good for you. You just have to keep up with the liquids is all. Days like these and I see dogs in a frickin' car in a parking lot, and rest assured a phone call is made.

    When I was working for the diesel repair shop, one of our clients we were on-call for was a paving company. Heat kills the machines. Which is odd because they are hot to begin with. But high temps make it worse and they die more often in the middle of the summer. There were a couple of days on on-site repairs where I wished I was dead 'cause it had to be cooler under ground. The guys who stood behind the spreaders dumping the hot asphalt actually felt bad for us digging around inside the machine trying to fix hydraulics and such.

    Those days, we charged a premium for service.

    Zeros wrote: »
    My father in law works for Sun Oil here in the Philadelphia area. Working outside in a full Nomex suit in 100+ weather? No thanks!

    Yep. Been there, done that but not at an oil refinery. Sitting in full sun in the staging lanes in full nomex under a racing suit in 100* heat with a 1600 horsepower engine rumbling away, waiting for your turn to run...yeah, there would be puddles in the seat when I finally got out. I had two racing suits for a while because of stuff like that. That was one of the reasons, I started being a mechanic instead and let someone else do the driving!
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  • Jstas
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    edited July 2011
    BTW, the A/C is back on and kickin' away. It was a rectifier switch that overheated and blew the fuse. He replaced the switch and the fuse and checked the coolant. No charge, covered under the service agreement! YAY! Temps were at about 87* inside. Down to around 79* and dropping.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    BTW, the A/C is back on and kickin' away. It was a rectifier switch that overheated and blew the fuse. He replaced the switch and the fuse and checked the coolant. No charge, covered under the service agreement! YAY! Temps were at about 87* inside. Down to around 79* and dropping.

    That is good news indeed. Stay cool!!!!:cool:
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited July 2011
    It's actually been quite nice here in Tucson, only about 100, lowish humidity and kickass storms all night!!! Last nights rocked here, almost 2 inches in some places, we are almost out of our extreme drought situation :smile:
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited July 2011
    That's nuts that 2" of rain gets you out of a drought situation. They issue drought warnings here if we are down 2" on average for the season. A severe drought has us down 3 inches or more for 2-3 months. We need 10"+ to break a severe drought at that point. Then again, NJ averages 45" of rainfall a year.
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited July 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    That's nuts that 2" of rain gets you out of a drought situation. They issue drought warnings here if we are down 2" on average for the season. A severe drought has us down 3 inches or more for 2-3 months. We need 10"+ to break a severe drought at that point. Then again, NJ averages 45" of rainfall a year.

    We only get about 12" a year, we were down almost 3" with 80+days of no rain before the monsoon started, we are now above normal Y-t-d in some parts of Southern AZ. So yeah, it doesn't take much in the desert to be in and out of a drought situation.

    Trust me, when you see prickly pear cactus pads wilting you know it's bad. I feel for ya'll in the rest of the south, especially my old home state of Texas. Short of a hurricane/tropical storm punching far inland it's not looking good. Ya'll don't need all 10"+ all at once :eek:
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited July 2011
    When we have issues with our AC's down here, it's usually a capacitor. I try to keep one on hand now. They tend to heat up and blow up.

    It's not bad here today. Right now its 93*, feels like 99*.
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