Official Simtropolis Weather Channel

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

People who live in air conditioning need not giggle.

Today, it is not that hot anymore, but it is humid.  So if you do anything much, you get soaked with sweat.  So I am sitting in fromt of my large fan, it is about 20 feet away, and drinking chilled water.  One thing I did when I was shopping today is I bought some Crystal Light single packs.  One just nicely flavours a chilled glass of water, making hydrating more interesting.  First time I've tried a new product in quite a while, and I am impressed.

Anyway, another thing I have learned to escape real heat is the afternoon siesta.  If you are asleep, you don't feel it.  Just pick a good spot with lots of air flowing past.

[joshriddle 29]

I hear ya. I can barely stand it anymore. Over here it is around 100, heat index close to 110. So it feels like Arizona.  I'm trying to hang in there too.

Only way I get out of the heat is sit there and suck down on a bunch of bottles of water. Earlier today a real bad flash of heat came across me, and my eyes started to black out, and I was getting dizzy, felt like I was like a burger under a heat lamp at McDonalds, had to lay down on my bed until it passed by. My fan is just going full blast as well.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Having a small USB fan attached to the laptop or netbook can be quite useful, too...

[Duke87 1,070]

Heat wave? Right now it's overcast here and *checks thermometer* 78 degrees.

Though, yeah, today is different. It has been topping 90 most of the past week.

EDIT: ...and that was thunder.

[Empowered One 41]

My trick to keep cool but function is this: get a towel, soak it in cold water en wrap it around your neck. This cools you down immensely (prepare for a temperature shock) and it takes a while before the heat vaporizes all the cold water from the towel.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: afstandopleren

My trick to keep cool but function is this: get a towel, soak it in cold water en wrap it around your neck. This cools you down immensely (prepare for a temperature shock) and it takes a while before the heat vaporizes all the cold water from the towel.quote>

Add a fan to that and your set even beter

[joshriddle 29]

Oh geez. I guess our local weatherman was right. My brother was standing around me crying cause I didn't want to take him to the school playground, which was right down the street, like ten houses down. I took my bike down there and all I had to do was watch him and his friend, and then 2 minutes later they want to go, and all I was doing was standing around, and I got sweaty like a pig. The heat index seems like 110, and it is around 100. And it is not humid either.

Wow! a cloud passed over us!

Very hot, go get a bottle of water, and some goldfish, start eating and drinking, much better, now off to our backyard swimming pool.

[metarvo 711]

Where I'm at, 90s are a given and 100s are likely every summer.  Unfortunately, it is expected get up to around 98 or so every day for the rest of this week, with 100+ heat index values.  My weapons against the heat are air conditioning and iced tea.  I guess it's good weather for SimCity, at least.

[blade2k5 1,523]

If I'm not outside working and having all the moisture sucked out of me due the 95%-100% humidity, I'm inside enjoying the Central Air I had installed 10 years ago. /+This is the first summer since we've had to use almost everyday starting around 3pm when the sun hits the west side of the house [it'll be roughly 10 F degrees warmer in the house than outside during this time of day] until it gets dark out. In the 10 years we've had Central Air, I don't think we've used it more than 100x until this year. Our summers have been steadily getting cooler starting in '98 and this year is the warmest since '97, but normal for North-Central Wisconsin. The hottest summer I've ever experienced in this part of the country was back in '88 when we had two weeks straight of 90+ with 85%-100% but no rain almost all summer. The rest of that summer was low to high 80s everyday. Take away all that humidity and it would have been tolerable. I can handle dry heat, I'm southern Ca born and bred and humidity on the coast is almost non-existent, at least in Santa Barbara where I grew up.

As for those of you really suffering this summer, especially out east where it was topping out at over 100 for a couple days there and 90 for a few more, glad to see you're getting some relief. I know how you feel.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Were are just now getting to our hot times.

I guess we were geting  the rain cause it was hot up north.

Not its the  opposite. 100+ today.

[joshriddle 29]

Nevermind, actually the humidity is extremely high. I am typing this sitting in my very warm and hot room, (my computer runs constantly), A/C turned on. fan set to full blast. So I am somewhat OK.

[sneakeypete 16]

Luckily im used to that kind of heat. Still tough to get through, and days without a nice storm to cool it down at the end can be a killer, but i do feel for anyone who lives in an area that doesn't normally get it. odds are your houses and bodies really aren't used to it.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

My trick is to live in Melbourne! Middle of winter! But I do feel sorry for you, as I hate heatwaves.

[fukuda 351]

Feels good

[Barbarossa 51]

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  Edited September 8, 2012 by Barbarossa  

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: Barbarossa

I recall the summer of 2000 in Oklahoma. We had 40+ consecutive days over 100. I think that was the year that Altus, OK hit 120. Absolutely baking.

Now that I live in California, where A/C doesn't necessarily exist, we still have really hot days, inland. Usually high 90s to lower 100s. My solution is to leave and go to the beach, where it is almost always 50s-70s. Stay out till dark, then go home when everything has cooled off. Still miserable during the work week, quite often.

Barbarossaquote>

Growing up in Santa Barbara always found me at the beach, mainly Henrys Beach near where I lived on the Mesa and go snorkling, boogie boarding, or I'd go out at Isla Vista [uCSB] near the Point and where I'd go surfing because the waves there broke further offshore and you could ride in for several hundred yards.  Or you could find me fishing off of Goleta Pier with my druken old man.  Those sea breezes were always the best air conditioning on a dry, hot day.

Funny thing happened one day at age 9 [1973] when I was reeling in my line and an octopus [about 4ft long] decided that the fish on my line looked like a tasty snack.  Well, I thought that was the coolest thing in the world at that time when I finally got it up on the pier.  Put it in a 5 gallon bucket full of sea water and proceeded to poke it gently with a stick, wanting to see if they rally did shoot out an inky blackness to escape whatever it was they were escaping from.  Once satisfied that they really did do that, I carried that 5-gallon bucket off the pier and down to the beach and waded into the water about waste deep and let it go.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

For those of you with air conditioning: "Cheaters never prosper."

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

For those of you with air conditioning: "Cheaters never prosper."

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Sounds like someone is a bit jealous? tsk tsk. 

Seriously though, are you saying that if you had the oppertunity to get air conditioning, you would pass it up because it's 'cheating?' 

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

For those of you with air conditioning: "Cheaters never prosper."

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AC isn't cheating.  It's working smarter.

[Easy Bakes 253]

And working much smarter.

here how i kept cool today.

dinner at Pizzeria UNO it must have been about 65f in the place, which felt awesome after walking from the parking

in 100+.

then the movies ( The sorcerers apprentice ) were it was about 70 in there. Very relaxing.

[Ndragonawa 37]

I put my clothes in the freezer.  It provides a quick chill but goes away after a minute or two.  

[sixers33 3]

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

For those of you with air conditioning: "Cheaters never prosper."

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It's practically illegal to not have air conditioners in Australia

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Originally posted by: sixers33

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

For those of you with air conditioning: "Cheaters never prosper."

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It's practically illegal to not have air conditioners in Australia

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Haha indeed. Last Melburnian heatwave, our trains failed and our observation wheel MELTED.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Originally posted by: ROFLyoshi

Originally posted by: sixers33

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

For those of you with air conditioning: "Cheaters never prosper."

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It's practically illegal to not have air conditioners in Australia

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Haha indeed. Last Melburnian heatwave, our trains failed and our observation wheel MELTED.

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observation wheel?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Originally posted by: ROFLyoshi

Originally posted by: sixers33

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

For those of you with air conditioning: "Cheaters never prosper."

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It's practically illegal to not have air conditioners in Australia

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Haha indeed. Last Melburnian heatwave, our trains failed and our observation wheel MELTED.

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observation wheel?

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

observation wheel?

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Aussie for "ferris wheel" apparently.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/16/defunct-ferris-wheel-envisioned-as-giant-energy-generating-windmill/

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose

observation wheel?

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Aussie for "ferris wheel" apparently.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/16/defunct-ferris-wheel-envisioned-as-giant-energy-generating-windmill/

[joshriddle 29]

How can a ferris wheel melt by just sitting there?

[joshriddle 29]

How can a ferris wheel melt by just sitting there?

[astronelson 339]

Originally posted by: joshriddle

How can a Ferris wheel melt by just sitting there?quote>

It was meant either metaphorically, or some of the more thermoplastic components were adversely affected.

I don't have air-conditioning, but staying inside definitely helps. If it's humid, evaporative cooling is less effective, but air blowing across a cold, damp towel or something similar should do something.

If all else fails, run yourself a cold bath. Unless you're in a drought at the same time, like most of Australia always is...