It's hot!

[thesummerqueen]

109 in Phoenix right now.

You fukkers don't know what HOT is.

You've gotten soft in your old age. Try again when it's 115 here in NC and full humidity.

I live in england, you all talking about your heat just sounds like bragging to me, I wish I lived in hot humid conditions like that.

No you don't. It's miserable. You can't do anything outside without getting totally soaked with sweat. I tend to sweat a lot anyway, but add 90% humidity and I'm literally sweating buckets.

I lived in England for about 2 1/2 years, and thought it was funny when they'd issue heat warnings when the temperature got up in the 80's. One thing I don't miss is the nearly constantly overcast skies.

Paul, when I leave my condo, even though the hallways to the elevators are insulated with small windows and all air conditioned condos open into them, the hallway is...damp. Then I get in the elevator, and it's damp, and hot. They don't air-condition them, because it's fucking useless to do so down here. And in the winter it's fine - the heat stays trapped and the atrium and elevators are pretty warm. In the summer it borders on disgusting, because, well, the heat stays trapped and so does the humidity. By the time I get to my car, which is in a lot a block away, I'm "glistening." Any more than that, I'd start to sweat.

There's a reason sweet iced tea is so popular down here.

We have fountains on nearly every corner here in Charlotte to help "cool" the air when the breeze goes through them, but also for people to soak their ballcaps or bandannas in to put on their heads, or for their kids to run half-naked through, or to splash your hands in, etc. I've never seen anyone get yelled at or chased off for dipping their feet or hands in a fountain here, and frequently the fountains are built with steps leading INTO them so you can sit a spell and cool off. That's because we're on the northern edge of "brutal" heat. I don't know how other states deal with it, but NC likes to put water features up.

Most of the public drinking fountains that still exist around here also are dog friendly, with a little bowl on their level so your canine friends can get rehydrated as well.

It's raining today, so it's not really that warm...80's I guess...but it's damp all around. Very unpleasant.

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Oh, and as for the humidity - go into your bathroom and put a washcloth into the hottest water you can bear, then put it over your face. Try breathing - either through your mouth or nose. Not so hard as to suck the cloth into your orifices - just enough to get a blast of that hot steam.

Now you understand what breathing outside of an air-conditioned area is.