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Oh I know in a few days I'll be extra miserable knowing just how nice it could be/was. Hell are we even half-way through the hottest part of the year? Maybe so if this Sept won't be as hot last. It didn't even start to feel better until Oct.

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Has Fall arrived early? I feel like I'm on drugs.

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Makes me feel like walking outside and fricking something.

Oh yeah, we are well past halfway, or at least where I am.

By late August the angle of the sun has noticeably decreased in its angle, or at least for the northern hemisphere it has. That's why a 98* day on the MS dove opener, while still hot AF, is not the same type of hot AF as a 98* day on the June solstice.

It's why when football season kicks off, even though there's still plenty of ball sweating days ahead, the air has got that "feeling" and that "hue" to it, or why the biting, beating & incredible heat & humidity on July 4th at 2PM- so intense that it stands up the hair on the back of your neck- is missing on the NCAA CFB opener.

And I gotta admit, while I much prefer bitterly hot weather to the bitterly cold, with the kind of summer heat we've had, this current state of things has been a literal Godsend (albeit not for Pedialyte's sales numbers).

We have 2 seasons.

Summer or winter.

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The gulf coast is hot

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I've always thought that one of the hottest places on earth was the GC, but not necessarily the beach itself. The beach is on another level of hot- like, "kill you hot"- the kinda hot I'm talking about, though, is that kinda heat that'll make ya sweat like a whore in church- even in the shade. That stagnant heat but with beach temps.

It's where it's just far enough inland to where you don't get the near constant cooling "effect" of an ocean breeze. (Quotation marks because that ocean breeze has caused many-a catastrophic sunburns via deception on the actual intensity of the sun.)

I've won bids on several contracts down there in summers past, and that stagnant, inland daytime GC heat is not only hard on humans, but production-wise, it's also hell on bulldozers, forestry mulchers, hoes and most other heavy machinery tasked with severe duties like land clearing. Overheating is a constant problem that has to be dealt with, and there's still plenty of salt left in both the air and the soils that you have to build into your bid price the extra decrease to your machine's lifespan due to the inevitable, accelerated erosion of your machine's undercarriage, and also because of the lost production from constant intervals of work stoppages to let the machines cool down.

Frick that heat. That's a different kind of heat, but once the temps and humidity get to a certain point, it's all the same, or at least to me it is.