I'm Melting....
 

The heat is on!!! I think us in Arizona are either heading towards he11 or at least getting pushed towards the sun. It will be almost 120 degrees this week!!!! Ugh! Unfortunately, I have an appointment tomorrow to get some bloodwork done. I'm trying not to plan anything for the rest of the week as I don't want to go outside at all.

How's your weather looking?

You are tough cookies. I'm in awe.

I could never live in Arizona, I am in awe that you can handle it even without a heatwave coming through... not that ga is much better especially living in the southern portion... but then it only got up to 87 today and I still felt like I was melting :eek: and I'm dreading the weekend when it's suppose to get up to 92. Of course we haven't hit august yet... that's normally when the real heat and humidity sets in making life miserable for all.

I couldn't handle that either! :eek: We're in the 70s to 80s here in N. Illinois and rain on and off for the next week. The rain is good for the garden as long as we don't get too much.

It's a dry heat..........

Glad I'm not the only one who laughs when someone says "but it's a dry heat..." :D Anything over 80 is just too hot, no matter how dry or humid it maybe :p

Dry heat, humidity, it doesn't matter once it passes 100. Of course, I'm like Stars, anything over 80 is too hot. Our monsoons are brutal as the temps are high and so is the humidity. The temps can sometimes drop significantly right before, during, and right after the storm. It can go from over 100 degrees right down to 70 in a matter of minutes.

At our house we have an evaporative cooler, not air conditioning and although it hasn't been too humid, it's not as effective in this excessive heat. I've been laying low this week.

Also, I think humid heat is far worse as when you sweat, it sticks to you and doesn't evaporate as quickly.

Even worse in the humidity over getting sweaty and sticky is if you have the slightest breathing issue, a stuffy or even worse still a runny nose in the middle of August here and you might as well check into the nearest hospital and be put on oxygen because you will not be moving any air into your lungs. :( I still remember getting strep in August once... I couldn't get my fever down no matter what I tried, couldn't breath even though there wasn't any lung involvement, I just couldn't really get the air to pass through my nose that was running or my throat that was swollen and raw.

Ended up in the hospital for 4 days over that... and it was simply strep throat, nothing at all unusual other than highly oppressive humidity and heat that was so terrible there was no way to reduce the fever at home at least. In the hospital they had me rather covered in ice packs, on an IV, hooked up to oxygen and pumping me full of fever reducers, antibiotics and fluids. Even the A/C in the building couldn't keep up with the heat from outside... You can really only get about a 20 deg difference in outside air to inside air. So when it's 110 outside the coolest you can get inside is 90 give or take a few degrees depending on the age of your unit and insulation. :(

I now runaway up north for the worst of the heat in the south. I never want to go through something like that again. The two weeks of heatwave weather we get down here generally finds me hiding in the mountains of NH, unless the sneak up all of a sudden with the climate changes.

Last summer was terrible for me, like 29 days over 90 degrees. I lost 17 pounds over the summer, my appetite disappears with the heat.