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Posted on 8/13/19 at 3:48 pm to BigPerm30
I was in my car when I took it. Was just trying get the temp. But yep.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 3:49 pm to Darth_Vader
Nice and cool here
This post was edited on 8/13/19 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 8/13/19 at 4:40 pm to t00f
You drive an infinity?
I hope you’re a chick.
I hope you’re a chick.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 4:45 pm to t00f
It's hot. Man it's hot. And that's coming from someone who much prefers the hot dog days of summer, but...it's f*cking hooot hot. Hot.
August 2011 or 2012 was the last time I remember the entire SE having such a brutal August. If you're not out there warming up with the day from morning on, then stepping into this kind of heat to do strenuous work midday is a possible death wish, and it's an act of futility regardless. This heat will kill a healthy man in no time, and even if you're acclimated, and therefore somewhat insulated from its misery, it'll still kill you if you're not mindful of what your body's telling you.
Around here, it's usually beginning to taper off by now; leaving the 2nd week of June to 2nd week of July as the worst for heat (and FTR, June was just as, if not more, brutal than the heat right now). I will say, the mornings are getting better; they're more "enjoyable" as opposed to mornings back in June.
However, when the heat and humidity sustains itself into mid August like this, then by 1:30 PM it's a "3 jugs of pedialyte per day" type of heat; water alone ain't gonna cut it when you're exposed to it day after day, all day, while trying to sustain maximum productivity and feeling good when you wake up.
Nothing feels worse than waking up dehydrated, and ask any ER health worker if any healthy adults have come in with renal failure lately and most will say, "Yes." I know of an elderly man in the last few days who had a stroke trying to pick okra midday, and another middle aged woman who died from the heat.
If you can stand it, then you'd better excercise extreme caution out in this crap. Heat exhaustion->stroke-> death will creep up on you so quick in this stuff that you won't know it until you're fading to black, and if nobody is around to help then you can pretty much consider yourself "dead as a hammer" before you even hit the ground. I had a good friend go out that way, and in between the time he ate the dirt and when they found him, well, the results were not pretty.
Be careful out there.
August 2011 or 2012 was the last time I remember the entire SE having such a brutal August. If you're not out there warming up with the day from morning on, then stepping into this kind of heat to do strenuous work midday is a possible death wish, and it's an act of futility regardless. This heat will kill a healthy man in no time, and even if you're acclimated, and therefore somewhat insulated from its misery, it'll still kill you if you're not mindful of what your body's telling you.
Around here, it's usually beginning to taper off by now; leaving the 2nd week of June to 2nd week of July as the worst for heat (and FTR, June was just as, if not more, brutal than the heat right now). I will say, the mornings are getting better; they're more "enjoyable" as opposed to mornings back in June.
However, when the heat and humidity sustains itself into mid August like this, then by 1:30 PM it's a "3 jugs of pedialyte per day" type of heat; water alone ain't gonna cut it when you're exposed to it day after day, all day, while trying to sustain maximum productivity and feeling good when you wake up.
Nothing feels worse than waking up dehydrated, and ask any ER health worker if any healthy adults have come in with renal failure lately and most will say, "Yes." I know of an elderly man in the last few days who had a stroke trying to pick okra midday, and another middle aged woman who died from the heat.
If you can stand it, then you'd better excercise extreme caution out in this crap. Heat exhaustion->stroke-> death will creep up on you so quick in this stuff that you won't know it until you're fading to black, and if nobody is around to help then you can pretty much consider yourself "dead as a hammer" before you even hit the ground. I had a good friend go out that way, and in between the time he ate the dirt and when they found him, well, the results were not pretty.
Be careful out there.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 4:52 pm to t00f
Subtle, “I have low mileage” brag.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 4:54 pm to t00f
104 in Austin. It's been brutal
Posted on 8/13/19 at 5:00 pm to saturday
quote:
It's 69 degrees here right now
Same here..
Even the wildlife are digging it..
This post was edited on 8/13/19 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 8/13/19 at 5:54 pm to Bigbee Hills
quote:
August 2011 or 2012 was the last time I remember the entire SE having such a brutal August.
This is a pretty similar ridge in terms of position and strength but it isn't driving the actual temps as hot. Mostly because the SE was in a bit of a drought and the soil was drier.
Posted on 8/13/19 at 6:04 pm to t00f
Well there is no air in space so there is nothing to measure temperature.
If Yuri, my Russian cosmonaut friend, went outside on the sun side he would burn up at 250 degrees f. On the dark side, i.e.no sun side, he would freeze at minus 250 degrees f.
It's both hot and cold in space. And lonely.
Posted on 8/14/19 at 1:31 pm to Duke
quote:
This is a pretty similar ridge in terms of position and strength
Well I'm just glad that, to a limited degree, some scientifically factual data agrees with my anecdotal opinion that the strength (which is all that really matters to me and my perpetual swamp arse) is similar to back then. (This assumes that my definition of "strength"= your meteorological one. If not, I'm gonna ignore it and make strength= ball sweat factor.)
I'm rambling, but to many this relentless heat and moisture- weather- is a very big deal: I know many guys in many trades losing their arse because they can't work like they need to due to the rain and/or soil moisture and reduced productivity of man & machine because of "blast furnace" conditions.
It was definitely much drier back then: Across the SE black flag conditions shut us down- especially for the work in east Texas. IIRC, those poor people were just beginning to crawl out of a freak drought, and in some east TX locales temporary bans to mitigate wildfire risks ( e.g., prohibited to park vehicles on unapproved roadsides & leave them running) were still in place. It definitely was drier, and to me, it wasn't as bad as this year because of this damned humidity. What's bad is that until a couple of weeks before that tropical system came through, conditions in my area were getting "scary" dry.
One reason among many that I like the (mostly) dry dog days of summer is it's my "bread and butter" time to make money, but this year the rain has wrecked things: Right when the soil dries out enough to work, it starts raining again. In fact, on most of our job sites moisture content is as high, if not higher, than in early/mid spring.
In my part of the world, unless things dry out more, then for the folks to whom it matters (e.g., outdoorsmen, backpackers, equipment operators, etc.) this winter is going to be miserable in terms of offroad areas offering anything close to reliable accessibility and usability- not without burying some machinery and equipment, or, at the very least, tearing up some soil and causing some headaches.
Here is a photo of a waterfowl impoundment situated a quarter mile or so behind a 300 acre flood control lake that we own the land around. I want to finish work on it and then sell it- IF I can ever get in to push up my levee and put my flashboard risers in. A small creek bounds it along the right side. I took this Saturday afternoon after we recieved 2 inches of rain over an 8 hour period (it was not a flash flooding type of rain); the creek that's flooding it has overtopped its banks multiple times this summer: That is unprecedented on this property in the summer; it's flooded like it is in late January. It's not taking much rain to overtop creeks in the middle of August, and that is alarming for what's possible this spring?
It's a fine line to walk: A few years back we couldn't get a drop of rain for months, but now it just won't let up, and the humidity and windless days aren't helping. Add in the kinda heat that we're having- the kind that causes men working in it to rage at any & every thing- and you get days like yesterday where, ashamed as I am to say it, I might've punched a lonely puppy because I was so pissed we were again rained out for 3/4 of the next day, aka, right when the next round of rain is due.
For me in my little world, I'd have to say that the "strength" of this August's "suckness" scale far surpasses 2011/2012.
Posted on 8/14/19 at 2:00 pm to Bigbee Hills
Cool front came through Dallas this morning. Planes at Love Field are landing to the north (and taking off but I don't see that from my house) and a high of 93 today,,,,,but that bullshite heat index will be 103.
Posted on 8/14/19 at 2:02 pm to t00f
Funny how it gets hot every year around the middle of august 
Posted on 8/14/19 at 2:14 pm to stapuffmarshy
quote:
Well there is no air in space so there is nothing to measure temperature.
Okay, this legit made me chuckle. Well played
Posted on 8/14/19 at 2:14 pm to t00f
Nice lease
Posted on 8/14/19 at 2:16 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Even the wildlife are digging it..
started to come up there last week when I was in Seattle, going back in a couple of weeks and am going to try and go up for a couple of days, weather was awesome
Posted on 8/14/19 at 2:18 pm to t00f
You have snot on your steering wheel you nasty frick
Posted on 8/14/19 at 2:45 pm to t00f
Yeah, it sure is!
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