[ShepherdsDog]

wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:

raydan raydan:

Still a 34C humidex in Québec City at 11:00 at night...
...and that's Québec City.
Doesn't happen very often when you sit outside in shorts and shirtless at 23:00 and still sweat.

Toronto has a 39C humidex right now.

Oh my lord... I could NOT handle that.

Anything over about 22C and I start getting grouchy.

Just got in from some errands and the humidex here is 48 C, with a UV inex of 11(partly cloudy with a nice breeze, so conditions aren't as bad as they could be). There's about a dozen people out jogging on the campus track and a few people playing tennis, and some were even playing some 3 on 3 at the basketball courts.

Here is our standard weather. The highs and lows are what we can expect until at least mid October. The lows then start to drop, so that by Halloween it's only about 30 C for a high and the mid 20s for a low. Then the A/C gets turned off until next May.

The daytime highs and lows are also standard, but the humidity goes up once the summer storms and typhoons hit(I have actually found mold growing on a can of lysol). Again, around October the humidity starts to drop into a more comfortable range. Come winter(or the dry season here) it's just about perfect.

Being so close to the equator(we're just inside the tropics) the fact that the days are short keeps it from becoming even more hellish. By 7 PM it's black outside and so are most people(outside, not black). I'd hate to see these temperatures coupled with the length of a Canadian summer day.

[Tman1]

Meanwhile in Saskatchewan...rain fall and flooding continues with sun in the sky once a week.

[ShepherdsDog]

We'll likely have that in a few weeks, when the typhoons start forming.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

The only thing I hate about high humidity is it makes sweating pointless, and extra-specially annoying to boot. Although not nearly as annoying as a flood mind you. It's 2:30 AM right now and the temp finally got below 80...to 79. That's not counting the humidex but the humidity is 83% atm. Hasn't been so much as a breeze all day.
They say you get acclimatized to it. Bullshit!! When I was growing up in Windsor EVERY summer was hot and humid. When the humidity dropped to 60% we got on our knees and thanked the Good Lord for his mercy
Some 16 years removed from Windsor and the humidity saps me even more than ever lol.

Just to draw some kind of comparison, I had a friend in high school in Windsor who's family moved up from Louisiana. He really missed Louisiana summers, they weren't quite as bad I'm willing to bet he missed Louisiana winters even more though

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

They say you get acclimatized to it. Bullshit!!

You do if you stay in it, but once you leave it, you quickly acclimatize to your new environment. I just had a former student come back from a few years at U of S in Saskatoon, just last week. She is actually feeling ill from the heat here, meanwhile her youngest sister left for Yorkton last week for 3 years of highschool. She's complaining about it being too cold. It took our eldest son a couple months to adjust when he went home too, as he went from a Taiwanese summer to a Prairie fall.......he'd forgotten how cold it could get and how long it stayed cold.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

The problem is Shep, I moved from a very humid area to a less humid area, although only marginally less apparently After 36 years of it, I still ain't used to it lol

[kitty]

i'm melting!

[BellaVega]

I always can't wait for the warm weather when it's freezing outside. Then it gets this hot and I can't wait until the cold weather. I guess I prefer the heat as I can cool off in the water when it's hot outside. Where when it's freezing outside, it's tough to warm up doing something fun. I usually stick inside next to the fire when it's freezing.

[SprCForr]

"Humidex"

An eastern word I care to never learn about.

[Proculation]

Montreal right now:

33 C
with humidex: 44 C

My mom is in visit at my house and she's doing some of my laundry (aaah the moms...). I don't know how she does. I'm not even able to move from my chair.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

KorbenDeck KorbenDeck:

I'll take some of that heat here on the west coast, the rivers are still ice cold here

I'll trade you a bucket of heat for a bucket of that ice cold river water.

Sound good?

-J.

[PluggyRug]

Had a laugh today. Was cutting some some vines out of my trees and the grapes were bursting all over my head. With the sweat running off my head my face became streaked with red. Went into the house and my wife nearly had a heart attack, she thought it was blood from a head wound.

[kitty]

i am so sick and tired of hearing "Is its hot enough for ya?" how very Canadian!

i work in a air conditioned office but over the past couple of days i have had numerous occasions to be in the warehouse. Its so hot just just cant breathe, you cant think ... you just want to lay down.

About 4:30 or so yesterday i had a call from a trucking company telling me my shipment had been delayed and would the warehouse still be open past 5:00 to receive my order. It was very important for me to get that order so i walked into the warehouse and begged and pleaded for a couple of guys to stay late. It was impossible. They were all exhausted, dirty and sweaty from working in the warehouse all day. This heat and humidity is a killer.

[ShepherdsDog]

and in less than 12 weeks, people will be bitching about shorter days, cold nights and the coming of winter.

[Brenda]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

Had a laugh today. Was cutting some some vines out of my trees and the grapes were bursting all over my head. With the sweat running off my head my face became streaked with red. Went into the house and my wife nearly had a heart attack, she thought it was blood from a head wound.