101.5 degrees in the shade with the heat index @112…and the humidity!!


 
I feel for you! It was probably one of the most “temperate” July days yet here, upper 70’s, almost not humidity, gentle breeze.
It was pretty ugly here earlier in the week.
 
96 degrees, feels like 106 today in St Pete, FL. Been waiting on the sun to go down so I can go stick a pole in the water.
 
Last October, we took a vacation to New Orleans. The week prior, we started monitoring the forecasted weather - low to mid 90's - shouldn't be too bad. Boy were we wrong! I've never seen heat/humidity like that.
Go Downstairs in the morning & the hotel lobby windows are all wet... Did it rain last night? Then we go outside & BAM! The heat & humidity just slugged us. We'd be out walking & some of the cars driving by are all wet(?). Yet there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I finally figured it out - insane heat/humidity & condensation. Those "wet" cars had really good A/C cranked. Never seen anything like it, before or since.
We quickly wised up & got out early, came back & hibernated in the hotel during the afternoon, then went back out at night lol.
I can't imagine what 101.5 is like...

Be safe.
 
Brian_D said:
Last October, we took a vacation to New Orleans. The week prior, we started monitoring the forecasted weather - low to mid 90's - shouldn't be too bad. Boy were we wrong! I've never seen heat/humidity like that.
Go Downstairs in the morning & the hotel lobby windows are all wet... Did it rain last night? Then we go outside & BAM! The heat & humidity just slugged us. We'd be out walking & some of the cars driving by are all wet(?). Yet there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I finally figured it out - insane heat/humidity & condensation. Those "wet" cars had really good A/C cranked. Never seen anything like it, before or since.
We quickly wised up & got out early, came back & hibernated in the hotel during the afternoon, then went back out at night lol.
I can't imagine what 101.5 is like...

Be safe.
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Ha ha.
My wood front door window frames rot out due to the constant wetness from condensation.... Due to the air conditioning cooling the glass.

When my son was 8 they practiced football....105 F and basically 100% humidity at 5:30 p.m..
 
Brian_D said:
We quickly wised up & got out early, came back & hibernated in the hotel during the afternoon, then went back out at night lol.
I can't imagine what 101.5 is like...
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Exactly the same here Brian. Went to Turkey one July about 25yrs ago. (I need my head examined for agreeing to that). It was +100F every day for the two weeks we were there. One day it hit 115F....stayed at the hotel that day, and never left the shade by the pool. It wasn't that humid....but baking hot. Miserable.
 
103 here in the mountains of Arizona yesterday. No humidity to speak of even though we are in the monsoon season here, high pressure ridge keeping the moisture away. But due to the altitude (around 5600) the sun it just brutal.
Our daughter lives near Phoenix they were 115.
 
Rich Dahl said:
103 here in the mountains of Arizona yesterday. No humidity to speak of even though we are in the monsoon season here, high pressure ridge keeping the moisture away. But due to the altitude (around 5600) the sun it just brutal.
Our daughter lives near Phoenix they were 115.
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I went to school in Scottsdale in '77. I was 15, didn't notice the heat, as I had lived in the Middle East four years prior.
Oh to be young again!
 
@MartinB , @Teddy J. and @Brian_D -- you got that right. Our family moved to NC when I was 16 in 1961. It took me years to acclimate to be able to handle the temp/humidity. Now I still try to spend most of my time outside regardless of weather -- too easy to lose that adaptation. Today is our first break in about a week from highs in the 90s, heat index in mid-100s. Took my dog for a walk at 84* one evening and was dripping wet within 150 feet to the gate. Oddly enough, by staying acclimated, I still enjoy this crazy weather. 🥵
 
Bob H. said:
Try Phoenix, its a dry heat.......
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Actually, been there, tried that. And spent a month in Cottonwood to check it out. Too dry for both my wife and I. I'm happy having learned to sit and stew. Keeps me able to actually do some work in these hot, humid conditions. Especially work like grilling/smoking. 😁
 
RichPB (richlife) said:
@MartinB , @Teddy J. and @Brian_D -- you got that right. Our family moved to NC when I was 16 in 1961. It took me years to acclimate to be able to handle the temp/humidity. Now I still try to spend most of my time outside regardless of weather -- too easy to lose that adaptation. Today is our first break in about a week from highs in the 90s, heat index in mid-100s. Took my dog for a walk at 84* one evening and was dripping wet within 150 feet to the gate. Oddly enough, by staying acclimated, I still enjoy this crazy weather. 🥵
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I run in the evenings. I usually try and wait for the temperatures to cool off like 6:00 or 6:30. Sometimes it's really hot still, Hi 90s. And sometimes it has rained briefly and the humidity is 100% and sweltering. But you got to do what you got to do
 
MartinB said:
I run in the evenings. I usually try and wait for the temperatures to cool off like 6:00 or 6:30. Sometimes it's really hot still, Hi 90s. And sometimes it has rained briefly and the humidity is 100% and sweltering. But you got to do what you got to do
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The way I look at it, you're going to sweat and (probably) take a shower anyway, so why hold back. The main thing is you don't move from AZ or CT and try that. Not the same without acclimatization.

I acturally remember 14 years after moving to NC, walking out the building doors into high 90s, massive humidity and getting smacked with that hot blast. My thought: Ah, that feels good! Literally stretched out my arms to suck it in. Day after day.
 
When we moved here 20 years ago, we stayed in cottonwood as our base camp. We came in July for a week to look around. It was dry and hot, which for us being from SoCal it didn't bothers that it was dry but the heat (most of the days were 100-105) was a game changer.
We ended up building a house in Prescott which is much higher and cooler 15 years later we downsized and moved to Prescott Valley. We like it here as we still get the four seasons like Prescott but not as sever. Although every year it gets a little warmer in the summer. 2pm here and 101.
I grew up in Chicago, so I know about heat and humidity, and I don't miss the humid part at all.
 
Rich Dahl, I noticed your location a Prescott Valley as I visited it for a while several times while we were in Cottonwood. Prescott area was a definite consideration for a while, but in the end, it is the effect of dryness on our sinuses (might abate sometime?) that decided us on more of an East vs West US place to live. Fortunately, very happy where we are, but would still love to visit AZ again and explore more.
 
109 here today Rich and the dew point was up-tomorrow supposed to be 114 and dw point over 60 which is pretty humid here. Its still better than the upper 80's and 90's with sweltering humidity we used to get in Ma! Interesting you say its not as bad in Prescott Valley as Prescott-they're so close. Love downtown Prescott.
 
I agree, Bob. It was lunch in downtown Prescott that stirred my internet.

Here we got a major break with a mid-70s, cloudy, rainy day which washed the humidity away. Really nice and we had been gasping for rain. (But probably not good to say that to folks in AZ. 😔
 
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