[OT] It's too damn hot!

[mmu1]

Face it guys the damn yankees of this board don't know have a clue about how hot and sticky it gets down here in god/dess country. O last night we had so many thunder boomers go though it sounded like Thor was smitting Loki again.

As a matter of fact, NYC gets nearly as hot as some of the places mentioned so far, and a hell of a lot more humid... Last summer we had a couple of weeks with temperatures in excess of 110, and humidity in the 90's. (with considerably higher heat index) It does get horribly hot slightly later in the year, but we get the disgusting humidity all year round.

 

[Squire James]

I'm here in "what's this snow you speak of?" Florida, and actually it isn't any hotter here than it is in New Jersey today! This is probably due to the afternoon thunderstorms we get every other day or so to cool things down.

It could be worse. Back in my graduate school days in Huntsville, Alabama, it once got to -2 F and it rained that day. Not snow or sleet, mind you, but rain! What's worse than frozen stuff falling on you? Non-frozen stuff freezing on you!

 

[Angcuru]

And I'll ask you advice in threee years. It'll be what kinds of flowers does Becca like.

Dead ones.


I think all of this "HA! I live in a hotter climate than you do so somehow it makes me superior to you! HA!" talk is a bit silly. Down south you get a lot of heat, and little cold, therefore you are more tolerable to heat than those in the mid to north regions. Up north you get a lot of cold, and little heat, therefore you are more tolerable to cold than those in the mid to south.

HOWEVER! If you are in the middle region especially along the coast) you go through both extreme heat and extreme cold, so you don't get used to either one, making the heat suck and the cold suck. Plus you get crazy weather ALL the time.

IN SUMMATION:

If you're from the south you're tough when it comes to heat.

If you're from the north you're tough when it comes to cold.

If you're from the middle you're tough because your body had been tempered by both hot and cold weather, tempering your body like steel, you toughie, you.

 

[BOZ]

If you're from the middle you're tough because your body had been tempered by both hot and cold weather, tempering your body like steel, you toughie, you.

and this is why the place i come from is called the midwest.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

My first two days of summer break have been humid and cool. I'm looking forward to some hot, tell you the truth...

And speaking of fire ants, I learned the weirdest thing a few weeks ago. In South Carolina I've seen these big fuzzy velvety ants, and the locals call them velvet ants. Well, I just read in an insect book that they're not ants -- they're wingless wasps!! Now that's weird!

Technically, all ants evolved from wasps, and they're all part of the order Hymenoptra. It's speculated that for whatever reason, a colony of wasps got trapped underground and eventually lost their wings, giving rise to modern ants. In fact, scientists think they may have found the "missing link" between ants and wasps. A species in Madagascar known as "Dracula ants" has, unlike other ants, the same waist structure as wasps.

 

[MaxKaladin]

Here in San Antonio we're below 30 degrees, which makes us officially subtropical. My hometown of Fredericksburg (Texas, not Virginia) is pretty much right on the 30 degree marker. Both can get really hot. We didn't even have an air conditioner at home until I was about 14.

Of course, the payoff is the winters are comparibly mild. They're a lot like what those Finnish summers sound like....

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

You people are bothering me.

This has been the coldest, wettest, darkest spring in history here, in southeastern Michigan.
The trees did not fully leaf out until well into June, and some still have not leafed out as of today, June 13th.
It has yet to reach 80 degrees here (for that matter, it has yet to reach 70 degrees and stay there.)

Sun? What sun? There is such a thing as a sun?

I've seen films about the Great Depression that were more cherry than our weather has been.

There was no spring. There is no summer.
Only one endless winter, that is going to go on for 2 years.

Edena_of_Neith

 

[mmu1]

There was no spring. There is no summer.
Only one endless winter, that is going to go on for 2 years.

Summer doesn't start until June 21st.

 

[bwgwl]

it has been quite hot here in New Jersey lately. it especially sucks when you have no air conditioning, work nightshift, and have to try to go to sleep at 2 in the afternoon with the sun streaming in through the windows and it's over 95 degrees in your apartment.

this isn't the worst i've experienced though. while i was in the Army my unit spent a couple months down in Panama. talk about 120 degrees F, 95-100% humidity and you have to wear pants, t-shirt, long-sleeve jacket, wool socks, combat boots, a kevlar helmet and carry around 50 lbs of weight on your back. that sucked.

especially because it was only February / March. when we finished our rotation in Panama, we went back home to Fort Drum NY -- and were greeted with -30 degrees F temperatures and a driving snowstorm as we stepped off the plane.

 

[Enceladus]

We've had an absolutely beautiful spring. Never got much out of the 70's until this week.

So nyah.