Okay, I know it's August, But DAMN ITS HOT!

[kimmerspixelated]

No real ac, just a costco tower thingy that helps, but arghhh!

[Lars39]

1. I've tried to get out and around the past few days...

been sweating buckets. :(

[Captain Hilts]

2. I had to do yardwork at mum's in Va. Beach. BEASTLY! nt

[noiretextatique]

3. it is unusally cold in the bay area

at least in oakland. it may reach 80 today, but it was so cold this morning that i had to wear a jacket to work.

[kimmerspixelated]

6. You don't have to brag!

Just kidding...Sounds divine!

[noiretextatique]

17. it's odd that it's this cold

it should be blazing here too.

[subcomhd]

10. F-U

I hope you take that in the spirit it was given (a joke, kinda.) Actually it was a little nippy here today - only 92 as opposed to our usual 100+

[noiretextatique]

15. LOL...i understand

i used to live in LA and traveled to Texas every summer. that's why i live here now. and it was cold this morning.

[demosincebirth]

19. Go 30 miles east and its probably 100.

[tosh]

4. Yes, and the mosquitoes...sheesh!

August is always miserable here.

[enlightenment]

5. If possible, try soaking a sheet (wring it out, of course)

and hang it in front of your fan - even hanging wet sheets in front of your windows, if you have any breeze at all, will help.

If you can't do the sheets, put a pan with a lot of ice and a little water directly in front of the fan (elevate it, if necessary, to get it right in line with the flow of air). That will help, some.

My sympathies. I hate heat (and I live (am stuck) in the damned desert . . .)

[kimmerspixelated]

8. But the desert is a dry heat-generally!

And I can bet you have ac units!

[enlightenment]

11. True - it is dry. Mummification level dry.

I wasn't really trying to insert my complaint or suggest that what you're dealing with is trivial in any way - I was just offering a suggestion of how to maybe feel a little cooler. The sheet thing used to be called 'desert ac' in the west (in the 1920s and 30s), but I recall my grandmother telling me that they did the exact same thing in the 1920s in Mississippi, so I assume it is at least semi-effective in high humidity areas.

Hope it cools off for you soon.

[Tansy_Gold]

9. Let's see. It was 108 when I came home from getting groceries

this afternoon in the Arizona desert.

But it is a dry heat, which means perspiration evaporates instantly instead of dripping, and it honestly feels more comfortable than the 90+ with 70+ humidity I had last week in NJ and the week before in WA.



Tansy Gold, who loves her desert

[create.peace]

7. nice here in kansas

70 degrees been raining, some thunder, very refreshing. sorry about the hot places. we were hot in june and early july.

[ejpoeta]

12. one positive... can't get enough water.... drinking water!! i thank god we have AC..

i am eight months pregnant and am already having a hard time getting around as it is... but in this heat is's awful... my husband was out mowing hte lawn and stuff this past weekend and i kept telling him to get inside and stay out of the weather in the mid day... even in the afternoon it was brutal. and yes, those bugs are awful!! the mosquitoes here are bad enough, but in the middle of the day i'm not used to them being as bad as they have been. and they go for my ankles and i can barely reach down to smack them. LOL! we do NOT have a dry heat here though... NY... when I was in arizona i remember it being 110 in the shade. the only difference is in NY the humidity is like someone put a nice hot blanket on top of you as you stand in the sun.

[Veruca Salt]

14. "the only difference is in NY the humidity...

is like someone put a nice hot blanket on top of you as you stand in the sun."

This had me chortling for some odd reason, possibly because it's so true and likely the best description I've ever heard for it!

[Prophet0621]

13. May through September are my least favorite months

I'm one of those that think anything over 80 is hot and to be avoided if possible, over 90 is inhuman. Give me mid 60's any day.

[abumbyanyothername]

16. Not in Santa Monica

we have been well below average for August so far this year.

[damntexdem]

18. Where are you?

Here in Texas, it's relatively cool: high 90s instead of 100s.

[leftyclimber]

20. We're getting clobbered to the west of you, too.

Humidity from HELL. T-storms moving in over the next couple of days. Hopefully that sucks some of the humidity out and takes the temp down.

Some ice in a towel on the back of your neck is always a good temporary break....

[Bravo Zulu]

21. I'll take the heat,

over this!

[BlooInBloo]

22. Sigh. It was 105 here for a few days, a few weeks back. So I bought a shiny new fan...

on amazon. I got it a few days later. Hasn't been even 80 degrees since.

I guess the fan works - but I'm curiously unsatisfied, since I haven't even taken it out of the box.