"it's so Hot it's never been this Hot before"

[blume357]

I often bring up this subject that the weather reporters like to use a theme from a Japanese Sci Fi movie that "things are so bad they've never been this bad before." lately it has been hot here in S.C. and that is what I keep hearing... dangerous high temps... well ... Gotten up into the 90's for the last week.. I remember many many years ago rebuilding a chimney from the roof up and the the high that day was 104... I was much younger then.....
Duke Energy is struggling to keep our AC's going... but then since the population here has more than doubled in the last 20 years....
I still think we here in S.C. should pass a law that if you want to move here you can't have AC for the first 2 years.

 

[GasGuzzler]

It's 104 here every year. And we have humidity unlike the desert.

This year has been very cool. We're only in the mid-90's almost in July and it didn't get to the 90's until a couple weeks ago. Usually mid 90's by the second week of May.

 

[Mobuck]

I agree with that. A couple of things come to mind:
1: almost everyone has become addicted to air conditioning and have less tolerance for the heat/humidity
2: fewer people have to actually work outside and/or have no experience with being really hot
Those who have spent their life outside and working aren't impressed with the wimpy reporter's sensationalizing approach to normal weather. I grew up outside in all sorts of weather and presently live w/o A/C but I'll admit temps over 90 with humidity make it unpleasant. I struggle to get in 3-4 hours of work(?)--sometimes just tinkering-- in a day like yesterday but I keep right on at whatever pace I can manage and laugh at the folks who grandstand. They have no idea what it's like to stack hay up to the roof of a barn loft with zero air movement or spend the entire day stacking bales on a wagon behind a dust puffing baler with no breeze. I just think back to those days and say "heck, today ain't too bad". ;)

 

[GasGuzzler]

I've worked in no AC shops my whole adult life and it feels worse every year as I get older but it's not worse. Our new shop should be up in three years and it will have AC. I will be ten years from retirement at that point so I can enjoy the AC for a little bit.

 

[eveled]

When people have no heat they often mention how “It had to break on the coldest day of the year”.

It’s never actually the coldest day.

 

[Rat76]

Sounds like a good idea Blume, but I think 5 to 10 years might be better.

 

[Yaworski]

I agree with that. A couple of things come to mind:
1: almost everyone has become addicted to air conditioning and have less tolerance for the heat/humidity
2: fewer people have to actually work outside and/or have no experience with being really hot

I have little tolerance for humidity any more. I attribute it to being fat.

I grew up without A/C and I survived but I really like having it now. I went for years in the 90s with a broken A/C in my car. The A/C worked but the motor that controlled the air vents broke and my mechanic said, "You don't want to pay me to fix that." So I drove with the windows down.

My summer job in college was in a steel mill. We were a cold rolling mill but it was still hot as blazes. I just drank lots of water.

One more thing, modern houses aren't designed to be well ventilated using the windows.

 

[Chief 101]

 

[el caminero]

Break a heat record, the climateers jump upon their bandwagon and preach. I remind them that that record just broken was set by a day just this hot, back when? It may be a year or ten or 100, but this dosent sink in any deeper than, and we're still setting cold records? And how old are some if them? And same for × many days of a given extreme, you can look this stuff up, but the internet generations cant find it.

 

[el caminero]

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E= mc hammer. C+0(2)+l= cool. Great stuff hidden on that chalkboard.

 

[bobski]

cant touch this.........

 

[peachhead]

I have little tolerance for humidity any more. I attribute it to being fat.

That's me.
I have lived in GA my entire life. The heat aint getting worse, I'm getting older.

 

[Fox Mike]

102 on my front porch yesterday. As the wife and I were talking about it and said simply that it is summer, it is June and it is Maryland. If you don't like the weather, stick around...it will change. I grew up in an un air-conditioned house. Big window fan sucked in the hot outside air and blew it out the other window. Heat has never been an issue for me.

 

[41Dude]

When the OP said it was too hot I just assumed someone shared a picture of me in my Speedo.
Oops. Never mind :oops:

 

[Kevin]

Last summer we got new shingles on our roof. I commented about how hot it is. But the sales guy for the company said the workers get used to it. In fact, on weekends, some of them sleep in un-air conditioned rooms because they would get cramps on Monday otherwise.

I’ve never been bothered by the heat, but humidity just kills me.

 

[bedfordboy]

It was hot here yesterday…
HOW HOT WAS IT ???
Hotter than a hookers door knob on nickel night

 

[mirglip]

Two nights this week it got down to 46 degrees F. Unusually cool June this year.
In Montana we have a saying about "global warming".......... "promises, promises".

 

[Ale-8(1)]

They have no idea what it's like to stack hay up to the roof of a barn loft with zero air movement or spend the entire day stacking bales on a wagon behind a dust puffing baler with no breeze.

Aaahhhh . . . memories.

I recall all the wasps that lived in the barn . . .

:eek:

 

[RoninPA]

I wonder if the news media in African countries (or Australia) sensationalize the weather as much as the US media does???

I also grew up with no A/C in our house. In fact my parents didn't get A/C until 1985 or so. I've spend time in the Middle East where outside temps would get up to 50C (122F) or higher and they still worked outside. I was told that the Qatar government said "no outside work when it was 50C or higher" I asked my contact if it ever hit 50 or higher (we were outside the oil laboratory, in the shade, and I was looking at my digital thermometer and it showed 53C), he smiled and said "Not according to the government".

It's called the weather, it's EARTH, Ain't no one, NO ONE, gonna change it no matter what. LIVE WITH IT PEOPLE (not yelling at the forum members, yelling at the dim witted woke complainers.)

 

[el caminero]

Mad dogs and englishmen go out in the noonday sun, was a comment on how they got things done when the locals quit wirking for an hour or six.

 

[Johnnu2]

In my late 20's - thru 30's, I drove a car without A/C for 17 years (just because I was cheap, stubborn and totally against conspicuous consumption)... Now, I don't even go shooting at my club if it's over 78 degrees (OK maybe 79, but THAT's THE MAX).

J.

J.

 

[vito]

Like many here I was more tolerant of temperature extremes when I was younger. I used to go out on my motorcycle if it was no colder than 32 and the roads were free of ice, or no hotter than about 95. As the years went on my tolerance has changed, and now I pretty much do not ride if it is under 55 degrees, or over 90 degrees. At home I keep the temp at about 72 year round, down to about 67 at night.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

It was 112° last week. it cooled off this week though with high winds. Down to 100°. It's tolerable when you have low humidity. We run the A/C set at 80° at night with ceiling fans.
You can ruin your A/C system if you force it to cool down to 72° when it's 115° outside. It will run 24-7 non stop and never cycle.

 

[wproct]

I used to have it rough, I thought, but I really didn't. Born in 1945 and lived on a farm, no A/C of course. I would spend days putting up hay, hot dusty work, and bathing for me was a pan of water and a wash rag, but we lived high on the hog, each one of us had a little 8 inch fan that you would have blowing on your face when we slept. :ROFLMAO:

My parents got electricity I think about the year I was born. When I was young heat didn't bother me much. Today if it's over 70 degrees out I am seeking shade. I remember my parents talking about the heat and drought back in the 1930's, but I don't ever remember them talking about severe flooding and forest fires that we have today. But of course if something happened across the country you didn't hear about it on radio or television and probably didn't even read about it in the newspapers. If it didn't affect you personally you didn't worry about it.

 

[Richard76]

It's not the heat, it's the stupidity

 

[Bullthrower338]

Spent my whole life building and welding tanks and water towers in the oil and gas, mining and municipal world. Always seemed to be in the hottest places during the summer and coldest in the winter. A few that stick out are Presidio Texas in August, Yuma. AZ in July, Quartsite, AZ in July building a Stainless Steel Tank and it was like working on a mirror!
Now when I think I’m hot I just think back to the times of pouring pass after pass of welding metal into a joint while wearing a leather jacket and it suddenly makes me feel cooler! How in the hell we used to work like we did, drink and chase women until the bars closed and do it all over again the next day are almost unfathomable to me now, I start yawning at 9PM! My point is, it can always be worse, drive on!

 

[pisgah]

I still think we here in S.C. should pass a law that if you want to move here you can't have AC for the first 2 years.

Agreed. I am amused that our TV weathercasters are always obsessed with the "feels like" temp. "92 today, but it'll feel like 98!" I am currently in Utah on vacation, and just heard a forecast that on Monday it will be 107 in St. George. No "It'll feel like 122."

I guess Utahns are not stupid enough to need someone to tell them, "It's hot! Really, really hot!"

 

[Yaworski]

Mad dogs and englishmen go out in the noonday sun, was a comment on how they got things done when the locals quit wirking for an hour or six.

 

[Ride1949]

 

[TheTexasRAT]

I've been driving since 1979 and never ever had a vehicle with working A/C. And I see no need to start now. I do like to keep it rolling or in the shade when parked.