Stupid Muggy Heat !
 

Anyone else having a yucky, hot, stormy, muggy, it hurts to move and I hate MS day? :mad:

As long as the storms don't take out my electricity, I'm good in my A/C house, with my wittle TV and PC..:smileypray: :smileypray:

I just wish, that every time I started to feel good, the weather didn't come along and take the wind out of my sails.:p

How's the weather in your neck of the woods and how are ya feeling? :grouphug:

The heat and humidity do a number on me, too, Sally. It's fairly dry here - just sooooo hot. It's supposed to get up to 95 today. Rain is on the way for tomorrow afternoon, Thursday and Friday. I can count on stiff legs and achy joints on those days. In fact, I take two Aleve when I get up on days it's supposed to rain. Sometimes it helps.....sometimes it doesn't.

I've been pretty "tipsy" the past few days. Staggering around like I'm drunk. I walked right into the back of the couch the other evening.......both boys just looked at me and then one of them said "I hate it when the couch does that". :p :D

I am hiding in my house. AC full blast. :cool:

I always wonder what you southern folks do when the power goes out...do you all have generators? I can barely survive 80 when it's humid. Like today. Yuck.

My brain moves in slo mo anyway, and in muggy weather it sounds like I've got the record player on the wrong speed.

You do SO remember record players. :mad:

Storms this morning -- otherwise dreary, humid day. Temp's are supposed to hit the 90s by the end of the weel. Blah!

Storms all day. Just about 1 hr. ago things got quiet.

I don't think I was ever in a thunderstorm warning for the whole
day. The wind, rain, lighting, thunder were terrifying.

The thunder at times sounded like a war ship shooting off one of its
big canons, (whatever you call it)

It wasn't hot or muggy while this was going on. That was a surprise
Outside the temp is 70

Everytime one of the boomers went off I don't know who jumped up
first ME or SAGE. That is the only time she barked.

There are still some showers predicted. I don't like this weather.

Jappy :(

Hot, muggy and no a/c. *moan*

The nice thing about Hot Hot Hot Florida is that almost everything is a/c. So you can go from house to cool car to cool store etc. The only heat exposure is the brief walk from car to store.

Of course, its very hot for five months if you want to garden though....

How about a cooling vest??

I'm not sure why but my power hasn't ever gone out here at this house. I've only been here a year and a half but the utilities are all underground in this subdivision. That might be the reason why. It's so nice not to have wires strung all over the place.

We've never had a generator. The only time I ever wished we did was in 1997 when a tornado came through our subdivision and the power was out for three days........and it was June. :rolleyes:

I just don't want a repeat of last years hurricane that hit in OHIO..:eek: and knocked out all our power for a full week....that was awful.

We are such pansies now, with all our amenities..:rolleyes:....but, with MS, it can become life threatening. I grew upwithout it, but I couldn't survive without A/C now..

Ruthie, California and no A/C???:eek: :hug:

A/C is a must for me now. I'm on the budget billing system so my electric bill is the same amount each month year round. It's still high but at least I know what it's going to be each month so I can budget for it.

Right there with you Sally and everyone else with this HOT, MUGGY, RAINY, YUCKY weather!! Last week the town I live in here in PA, had six inches of rain in three days!! Also two tornadoes touched down not too far away, and we're in the mountains -- strange weather all around. My daughter is flying in from Phoenix on Thursday so she'll probably think it's cool at temps in the 80's. Out there it's been well over 100. Even though they say there's no humidity, it's still REALLY HOT!!!!

Pain and more pain, stiff and more stiffness, fatigue........broken record. Blah :( Anyone here from Hawaii or familiar with the temperatures there? Someone told me she felt the best EVER when she was there on vacation. Let's GO!!! :)

Hazy:Melting 2: and Hot:Melting 2: and Humid:Melting 2:


here in New York


Can't say that I'm a fan of the deep snow but ... at least it's not muggy/humid.


Niko:cool:

I can handle cold humidity much better than hot humidity. I remember this past winter when it was rainy it didn't bother me near as much as it does when it's hot outside. I really need to move to a different climate. Where is it 72 degrees year round with low humidity? :rolleyes: Maybe I need to live in a bubble.

Well, it's going to be a lovely 66 degrees here tomorrow......:D

I hope all you Kentucks are ok...it looks like Louisville had a big flood.

Stay safe..:grouphug:

Temps for us are around 110. It is hot and gross out there. Dry heat or not 110 is hot! (Us desert rats aren't used to humidity so at 20% and 110 it feels muggy).

Does the heat affect me, 100% without a doubt. I hibernate in the summers.

DH and I are in NW Arizona which is a little cooler than where you are tkrik but still muggy here at 20% humidity and only 100 degrees. No rain yet this monsoon season just the humidity! :eek:

You are right about us desert rats not liking humidity; DH and I are humidity wimps!:rolleyes:

We moved here for the dry weather after flooding in Iowa and wet basements in Ohio.

I get my shopping and appointments done before 10:00 am and stay indoors with ac on or on the patio with the misters on when it starts getting warm.

Evenings are usually cool and no bugs! :D

DH and a friend went shopping yesterday at Cosco 40 miles from us and it was 123 degrees there!! They were both glad to get home to only 101 and both said how nice and cool it was here! :)

It's 91 here now and will get hotter before it starts to cool down. I think we reach our maximum temp around 5 PM. The humidity here is 41% right now but there is a 40% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon.evening. We had a bad thunderstorm last night about 9 PM. We're supposed to get the line that came through Kentucky and Tennessee yesterday. I think KY got about 6 inches of rain in a very short period of time.

I'm so thankful for my A/C. I shouldn't complain about having to stay inside. At least I have a cool place to hide! And.....I've been able to keep some $$ in my pocket because I don't ever go anywhere! There's a silver lining to this cloud! :)

Found another problem with the house I didn't know about.
With the past few rain storms I now have about 8inches of water in my
crawl space. Called the plummer, he won't be available for another day.

The water has to pumped out before my DS can check to see
what the reason for this is.

I feel like I just want to dig a hole and bury myself in it. Instead
of things being easier since I came to Ky. I have had more problems then
I ever imagined.

help!!!!!!

Jappy :(:(

Im so sorry Jappy.

STUPID MUGGY HEAT!!!!!!:mad:

Muggy is worse, but heat is heat. My friend that lived in AZ would say to me, "Yes, it's 110, but it's a DRY heat." Hello? Ya mean like a blow torch??? When it was thirty below here, I'd say to her sarcastically "Yes, but it's a DRY cold."

I think anything over 70 ought to be illegal.

"sally c" i know, exactly, what u mean "hun" the weather, this summer sure hasnt been the greatest, hopefuly it will get better, with-in time befor summertimes over soon.

altho im comfy-coxy inside, with, my ac enjoying it, heh.

p.s.im a winter, kina gal, could live in it year round "lol" so, basicly bring, on, winter now, heh.

*hugs* takecare.

I'll take some heat. send it my way...
It's winter, cold at night with sunshine but a cold edge in the day (around 18 degrees which I now find cold).
Summer will bring us tops of 45 which is 120 in old money. It'll be my first MS summer and I'm anxious what will happen. We kept the pool though thank goodness.
I'm fed up of the cold and the wind.
and no doubt I'll be fed up the heat when it comes too. Never bloody happy !! ;)

Gosh In southern Louisiana we have the awful heat plus humidity. This past week the temps have been hovering around 97-99 with heat index in the 100's. Our central AC unit doesnt get turned off at all. Since we have a lot of power outages, we also have a window unit in the den..if power goes off, we turn the generator on and stay in the den.We are buying another generator soon so that when power goes off, we can also run the central unit on 1 generator and use the other for TV, refrigerator etc. During hurricane Katrina, we stayed in the den for 8 miserable days! I'm praying for an early winter!

Sally,

Those were some wicked thunderstorms we had! I was at MVH on a morphine drip and they woke me up around 2:30 a.m.! LOL

This morning it's just beautiful outside and it's not supposed to be so humid today - we'll see. Just enjoying hanging out in the A/C myself. :winky:

Extreme heat warnings here in AZ.:eek::eek: I am so sick of this dang heat!!! We still have a few more months left of it too.

I posted this on the Insights thread but . . .This morning when I got up it was 82 degrees with 50% humidity. You all are going to laugh at this desert rat but it was so gross feeling. Sticky, sticky, sticky! I am at DBF's and he has an evaporative cooler not a/c. E/c work awesome and are just as effective as a/c in dry weather. But in humid weather they aren't as they are blowing moist air making it more sticky. I now have 2 fans blowing on me and it feels so much cooler in the living room.

AZJanie - LOL at DH. It is funny how when the heat is so high and it cools down 10 degrees it feels so much cooler. I have often done that myself. The year DD19 was born it was 124 degrees out. They cancelled all flights to and from Phoenix because of the heat. It cooled down to 100 or so and it felt so much better.:D

Or could it be the humidity?
 

A few years ago we took a summer vacation to Arizona ...... in July. We live in muggy humid northern Virginia where it was about 90, we had a lot of concern about going to AZ where it was 110 and zero humidity. It was easier for Kim to walk there?!?!?!? Not that it was like she could run or stuff, but she did a lot more walking in AZ, more distance per day than she could at home. Made me wonder.

Russell Johnson, a meteorologist with MS who made the connection between dew point temperature and MS symptoms some time ago has written a number of papers on the subject. Unfortunately you can't get at the papers for free on the internet. But, in a nutshell, he lays out a framework that shows that humidity is the oft overlooked variable, it's not just about heat. Ken

Ken - I think you made a very valid point. While it is hot in AZ, during the monsoons when it is more humid I have more muscle spasms, fatigue, and difficulty ambulating for any length of time, and generally more MS symptoms popping up on a daily basis. Once the humidity goes back down I start doing better. Hence, it is during the monsoon season that I tend to "hibernate" more.

We've had a mild temp summer so far here in mid ohio, but the humidity has been high. Can we say spasm marathon? :D

It is definitely the humidity that zaps me. It's not as humid today as it has been recently and I can feel a huge difference in the way I feel.....and the way I walk.

I'd go to bed with muscle spasms in my legs so bad I'd be crying.......checked the humidity and it was over 80%. Today it's low....51% and I feel so much better. Not great but better. :rolleyes:

Yes, the storms were awful and today is gorgeous....And just why are you in the hospital on a morphine drip, Missy..:eek::hug::hug:

Absolutely, Ken..:)