HUMID

I live in DC--I am roughly savaged by humidity every god damn DAY

95 to 97 in NYC tomorrow, followed by icky storms

must be moving east b/c here in the midwest it is fucking MISERABLE. ugh.

i know. gross.

i should go to an air-conditioned movie theater.

amateurist, that is a fantastic idea.

I put in an air conditioner yesterday, just in time. My room is bliss.

I put in an ac at the beginning of July, but I took it out a few days later. My apartment (on the first-floor) stays pretty cool. However, I went for a mini bike ride today, nothing strenuous, and when I stopped by the river and took off my helmet, I realized I was dripping with sweat. Hopefully this is the humidity, and not early-onset unhealthiness.

it's OK that i haven't left the apartment today, right?

i haven't either. i'm too afraid! have to walk like a mile to drop off a library book though. is it safe?

NO

well it's only 95, not 99 like they said it was supposed to be :-/

I'm pretty confident that this has been the least pleasant summer I've ever experienced, in terms of conditions outdoors. Even compared to the one Chicago heat-wave summer month I spent in a moldy garden apartment while some white supremacist was driving around the area shooting people. At least that summer the tomatoes were really good and the evenings were pleasant.

New York seems not to have "weather" and just have, like, atmospheric unpleasantness. That seems especially true this summer. It's never nice. There are barely even any pleasantly gray and drizzly days. There are just super-unpleasant days and then tolerable days where at least it's not actively gross out.

It's so gross here. I'm about to head home and I'm dreading having to go down into the subway. :-(

maybe it is just that perspiring is preferable to working my job, but getting to go out and feel sweat trickle from my brow for twenty minutes was nice before. yesterday, when it was humid without even being squinty and sunny and with the buildings being all edward hopperfied, that was unpleasant.

xp subways are awful though

plus fuck you west fourth

tbh there's been some hot days here in western MA but all in all it's been a relatively cooler summer. humid and rainy for sure but there haven't been many days that are over 90. none over 95 iirc. this past weekend was pretty gorgeous, yesterday was actually a little cool

like i remember last summer had a 3-4 week heatwave that was like 95 everyday. still tho it's absolutely nothing compared to the months-long swamp environment of DC where i had been previously.

just got back from 30 mile bike ride with pub break and 3 pints of old speckled hen in the middle of it.
i'm nearly dead :(

omg goodwin thats insane

yeah humid up north too, conditions tiring my head out

Today I am Mr. Tetchy.

oh god this is awful bah

ENBB OTM -- at least earlier, it was pretty fuckin bad -- it's better now tho. a little darker outside here & i have a fan

I too have a fan.

I have two fans. HA!

Air conditioners going in tomorrow. I can't wait.

Actually in this house there are three fans and two portable aircon units.

haha! wasn't there a children's sci-fi series of books in which aliens ruled the earth from tri-legged vehicles?
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:01 (5 years ago)

I guess since this is five years old it's too late to mention the Tripod series by John Christopher, so instead I'll just ask:
Britishers, was this year unusually humid or did I just get old or something? I was dying of TOO HOT so often even though the temperatures never got much above 25. (Might just be my office, which lets pretty much no air in ever)

― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 13 September 2009 11:39 (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And it's another six months later, but I thought I'd also point out that the first two books of the trilogy were made into TV series by the BBC in the mid 80's.

No wait, four fans, if I count the one that's in pieces under a pile of stuff in the box room.

Dude, this thread is for bitching not boasting! >:O

Fair enough. After about 11AM my mind is fried in this kind of weather.

when this kind of weather is super bad i more or less lose my will to do anything until it passes

83 degrees, 70% humidity

I vacillate between slumping in a chair going "bleugh" and wanting to jump up and down going "ORIGINAL MADMAN MADMAN MAD NUTTAH ORIGINAL MUNAH-MUNAH-MUNAH-MUNAH-MUNAH-MUNAH-MUNAH-MUNAH-MUNAH NUTTAH!"

the observatory says it's 85% here right now but it actually feels much lower. I guess cause I'm used to it being 99% all the time, 85% feels like a desert.

90 deg indoors here. We have AC units in two rooms, but trying to limit them to the evening when I just can't take it anymore. Heat makes me lose my will to live. Actually I would be okay with just a stand-fan directed at my sleeping form but BF is convinced that sleeping in the wake of a fan is a health concern. Europeans, feh!

convinced that sleeping in the wake of a fan is a health concern.

Wait, what? I've never really head this before. My wife and I sleep with a fan on in the bedroom pretty much every night starting in about May, a good way yo keep the AC costs down overnight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

I agree, Jvc! But it's something about the draft, he thinks it causes more congestive/sinus problems through drying. I appreciate that a lot of European views on medicine are more holistic than ours but I refuse to believe a fan is a bad thing. Right now we have an AC in the bedroom so it's a moot point but I like sleeping under moving air.

i don't like it either! when people have fans on at work i move away because i can feel my mouth getting dry.

even the a/c makes it too windy for sleeping, i just do nothing about the heat except not using blankets

having a fan pointed at you while you're sleeping is a good way to get joint pain and arthritis

man i miss brooklyn often, daily even. but i do not miss the city humidity.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2891701833_1095e2367b.jpg?v=0

having a fan pointed at you while you're sleeping is a good way to get joint pain and arthritis

― denvil crowe (dyao), Sunday, June 6, 2010 8:26 PM

also can cause belief in pseudo-science?

this is not what i want from my late september weather

I HATE IT SO MUCH. The liquid air is making BUGS come back into my apartment, I AM UNDER SIEGE AND LOSING. The sight of a palmetto bug deflates my weeks and weeks of back-straining manual labor because I think, why bother? If you're not safe from giant insects that make you want to vomit, who cares if your home is nice or not?

I'm starting to feel a Temple-of-Doom level of freakout coming on just from being STICKY ALL THE TIME.

It's SOOOOO GROSS.

(the humidity, although the bugs, too.)

I saw a dead and flattened praying mantis on my walk to work yesterday.

It was fall for about two days--come back, you beautiful sweatered thing.

Laurel: 60 degrees this weekend (40s at night). Time to break out the wool socks.

At last, a reprieve from my torment.

i am the most sweatingest person

I grew gills, they're gross.

isaac is bringing his humidity to ohio

i don't know how the south can bear it all summer

and it's only 78 degrees

can confirm that it is humid

Ah, I thought it felt a little unsettled and the daylight was a little green out there -- tornado warning for the next half hour.

We're not in the path, but Smithville, the town that was destroyed a couple of years ago, was under the gun again. Looks like it passed them this time though.

It's only 73 F in NYC but it's fucking DISGUSTING

Maybe you should pull your head out of your ass, it's hot up there!

this is absurd lol

bit of rain here earlier and it's only 27 out there now - Summer having a pretty normal one so far tbh

the good thing about this weather is being able to wash 3 or 4 loads of laundry and dry it all outside in one day. Bad things: almost passing out attempting to cut the hedges. A drunk idiot has scared off the ice cream van driver, making some dubious accusation that he scraped his car and threatening to drag him out of the van. Before I had the chance to buy an ice cream.

Is there not a giant fucking thunderstorm near any of you? It's all very exciting here.

But on the other hand, I couldn't sleep last night because of the stupid heat. Bloody muggy summer.

here it looked they were coming yesterday and the Met office predicted storms and 60% chance of rain. And it was a total thunderfail and no rain either.

I'm OK with hot weather but it went from low 20s at the end of last week to 32 this weekend.