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It is normal for Texas. I have lived here since 1979 and I have a pretty good tolerance for heat but it starts to wear on me by the end of summer. When you go out at 10:00 at night and it is still in the 90's, it gets old. But then nobody forces me to live here so I am not going to complain. I think I would like to live somewhere like Missouri where the terrain is prettier and they actually have four seasons. I know that will never happen.
Lived in Texas for a little while back in the 70's, and honestly can't say I miss the high heat temps... The only thing I can say is at least it was a dry heat and not very humid like it is up here in the Northeast...
South Louisiana doesn't usually get so high temperatures, but there is so much water here the humidity can also produce a slightly different kind of distress.
Global Warming may ultimately put all of us out of our misery.
Phoenix hit 119 on Tuesday, and we are forecast to have above 110 temps for quite a while. This time of summer it stays above 100 until after 10 or 11 pm, which makes dog walking a PITA.
It is hot. I think official was 100 yesterday. Sat on porch for a bit and thermometer said 110. Maybe rain today though and 90 for high. We do need the rain.
I lived in Karnes County in the 60s. The summer of 1969 was the hottest for the longest duration. The daily high was above 100 virtually every day for 3 months; lows never got below 80 in that time.
We were a few miles north of Beeville, which has the record for second highest humidity of all the weather stations in the US.
My ex was pregnant that summer (like having two heaters) and none of us had air conditioning at that time. But when you're young it's just another adventure.
Where I am now is hot but not so uncomfortable as many of y'all are experiencing.
A few years ago, my family and I went to see some friends of my wife that own a ranch about an hour south of DFW. The entire week ranged between 102-107. It didn't help matters that when we arrived the first thing that her friends did was to point out the different areas of the ranch to avoid because of the "rattlers".
Needless to say, I stayed inside in the a/c, while she and the kids took care of and rode the horses and fed and watered the steers. By the way, I know what you're thinking. I should have sucked it up and went out with them. I would have except for one other thing. I don't like horses and they don't like me. I've ridden horses 3 times in my life and been thrown off by the seemingly tame, gone wild, monsters all three times and bitten once.
A typical conversation during that week went like this.
Wife - Come on outside with us.
Me - It's 107 out there.
Wife - But it's a dry heat!
Me - There is no such thing when it's 107. Have fun. I'll take everyone out for ice cream later.
I don't like horses and they don't like me. I've ridden horses 3 times in my life and been thrown off by the seemingly tame, gone wild, monsters all three times and bitten once.
There is the problem. Horses have a sense about who is on their backs and will respond accordingly. I hate to say this but if you don't let them know you are in command, you won't be. We had a huge Appaloosa when I was in high school (17 hands) and every time I would try to saddle him, he would try to bite. A short piece of broomstick stopped that quickly.
It's 102 right now, the weather app says it feels like 106 (whatever that means?).
It's based on a formula that takes account of the temperature and humidity. The rate of evaporation of sweat off of your skin, which is what cools you off, depends on the relative humidity. The higher the humidity, the slower is the evaporation rate, and the less cool you feel. So 100 degrees temperature and 10% relative humidity, such as you might find in Tucson (and where you hear the term "dry heat"), will feel cooler than 100 degrees and 50% humidity, such as you might find in New Orleans and which will feel oppressive and like you're drowning in it.
It's basically, but not exactly, the reverse of the temperature/wind chill factor thing used in the winter. Both are based on the rate of heat transfer from your body to the surrounding air.
I wish they wouldn't dumb it down to "feels like." It's misinforming and stupid. The temperatures feel like they feel. Supposedly it is based on something like the temp at 20% humidity feels like the temp is supposed to feel and anything higher is higher. I grew up in Florida, I don't think it's been down to 20% humidity since the Third Day of Genesis.
I just looked at my out door thermometer here in Indianapolis & on June 26th 11:19pm, it is 62 degrees & supposed to get in the mid 50s over night. I hate to rub it in but I guess you southern guys get to do something similar when it is about 5 degrees here in the winter.
I wish they wouldn't dumb it down to "feels like". It's misinforming and stupid. The temperatures feel like they feel.
I completely agree with you on this. When I go back to visit the family in S.W Louisiana, the summer temps don't feel hot to me since I am accustomed to much higher heat. 95º with high humidity just isn't nearly as hot as 115+.
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I used to work in Freeport and I lived in Lake Jackson for a while, then Angleton.
What has you thinking about moving near Dow chemical's largest North American chemical production facility?
My Nephew lives about 15 miles from there and has a house that is in a canal that runs into the gulf. Also there is a drag-strip about 2/3 miles away. I do not know the name of the drag-strip. He says they are racing down there.
I don't remember a drag strip when I lived there, but that was 18 years ago.
Living on a canal where your boat is tied to the back porch and you can toss a line any time you want is nice. One of my co-workers lived in a spot similar to that.
Gotta remember how much it rains and all the tropical storms and high water, though. I remember many times when the highway from Freeport to Surfside was under water for days.
My aunt lives there, i lived in Port Aransas for about a year and liked it. I am a native Texan but im from up north west in Lubbock, its dry air there, not much humidity. I dont like humidity, now i live near College Station, Tx. It gets very humid here sometimes/often. Theres alot of trees, brush, bugs, snakes, every species of wasp known to man i think, and alot of humidity. I hate bugs.....
Ha! I had forgotten about that place. Went a few times. Used to like going to the Jetty Shack for burgers. Jeff's at the Jetties may be the official name. Bait shop on the ground floor, grill and bar upstairs. Had a big ol dog that would help you get rid of your fries.
now i live near College Station, Tx. It gets very humid here sometimes/often.
When I was young we used to visit family near there and were amazed at how dry it was. The whole time they would complain about how humid it was. It's all relative (pun intended).
Yes it was, but then again we are in Texas in late July..... I spent my day in the sun recessing and leveling the flat rocks for the foundation of my new burn pit of all things.. The ring is five feet in diameter, 3/8 thick, 16" tall with a 2.5"x0.5" thick crown. 400 plus #.. I sent some pic texts to my neighbors asking "who wants to burn some brush?". We opted for beverages instead.
June 23rd, 2017, 04:06 PM
