Stupid weather
Got thirty seconds of mist this morning. My water bill is gonna suck.
I love people who complain about the weather in texas, or florida. You want hardy motherfuckers? Come to the midwest. The lake effect dumps tons of snow, and we have winters that can get down into the -30 temps. The cold grips you like a vise, and you won’t see shit until spring, and due to the effects of global warming, spring is in JUNE. When summer finally hits. the only word to describe it is “oppressive”. jean Shepherd described indiana summers as “a 500 lb woman sitting on a camp stool” which just about does it, weighty, damp, oppressive. You sweat like a pig walking from your air conditioned office to your air conditioned car, and if you want to work outside or play outside make damned sure you have a garden hose, those pussy little quart bottles of Gatorade ain’t gonna help your ass at all.
When I was in Zambia we saw people dropping off from the heat left and right. “Oh, it is so hot! Everyone is suffering!” it was eighty degrees. EIGHTY!! And practically no humidity.
Texas in the summer is hot. But the temperature extremes are what, maybe a couple days a year it gets to 40 degrees? California almost never has days where you couldn’t, if you wanted, sleep outdoors. Florida gets plenty humid but never cold to contrast it- it’s either horribly humid or it’s pretty nice.
In Indiana, if the pretty nice day falls on a weekend, we have a picnic.
yeah, yeah, I know there are a lot of other places that get extremes of temperature, but when you combine the 100 degree plus spread of temperatures you experience in the course of ANY NORMAL YEAR, and the mind-sucking horror of the commute you must make unless you live at work, and the soul destroying political climate of the Chicagoland/Northwest Indiana region, this is the toughest place to live I know. Throw in a couple random shootings, as you regularly get in Chicago, and it’s probably statistically safer in Kuwait.
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Yeah, well in Arizona we got 106 with 30% humidity,and if it hits 85 at midnight we party. Not to mention 122 degree, “Hell on Earth”. I guess there’s plenty of bitching to go around.
Wish we could trade some weather with ya Og.
We’ve had about 10″ of rain during June, & it’s raining kittehs & pups as I type…
So true, so true. When I collapsed on a 100/100 day in downstate Illinois, while digging out railroad ties, my foreman looked at me and said “dumbass, you oughtta go back to college.” The applications were filed within a week.
azarch,let me know when you get -30 degrees and four feet of snow, and i’ll begin to feel bad for you.
Hey! Florida does too get cold! Why just this winter we got down to 30 degrees F for almost three days in a row. I darn near had to turn on the heater.
As for heat, I would suggest that you visit the central portion of the state before you begin to think that its not that bad here. 100/100 days are pretty common. The east coast usually has a seabreeze heading west, but God help you if the wind is from the west.
bs. i spent ten days at dibney in the hottest part of the summer. no big deal. plus i wore black jeans and a losleeve black shirt.
It’s quite often colder in this area during the winter than it is in southern Alaska.
I’ve cracked an engine block because I (stupidly) parked my car with the grill facing the wind (granted, that day was a record cold spell, -70 degree windchill, but not something most people would expect 75 miles from Chicago). You get used to it, to the point that when it hits the high 40’s/low 50’s, I start wearing shorts.
Exactly why I live in TN. We do get days like last week (95-98 degrees, 80-something humidity), but thankfully it only snows about twice a year. I hate that shit.
Then there are weather swings that outdo Charlie Manson mood swings for strangeness, and localized happenings that are a lot like in cartoons where the little kid has a cloud only over him.
Earlier this spring, it was 80 and sunny when I left home, and 55 and rainy by the time I got into WalMart. All those people in line were dressed like for the beach, and I just thought, oh you poor dumb b**tards. You can have a blizzard in a subdivision, with the rest of the city untouched. You’ll be late for work because you spent 30 minutes digging out, and get called a liar by the boss. Too many times I’ve seen the hard line on the ground where the snowfall began or ended – not a tapering, or a lessening of the snowfall, no! Gray winter ground, then all of a sudden, three inches of snow. I’ve stood completely dry in front of my house with a beer in hand and watched it rain like a banchee on my neighbor as he scrambled from the car into the house, 100 feet away.
The song Oh Suzanna, that’s our song, not Alabama’s.
mts, no more accurate characterization of midwest weather has ever been made.
I truly had no idea until you shared in an earlier post, Og.
For someone who comes from a high humidity region, I do sympathise with you. It sounds vicious!
aw, hell, we like it here fine! plus, we always got something to bitch about.
Besides, if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.
That temp spread sounds a lot like here in Salt Lake, only we have low humidity.
and mormons.
Yup, it sux. We were out roping and doctoring yearling’s this afternoon. About 85 and 60 to 75 % humidity. No breeze. Really made you sweat! Sure got the horses wet!
But beats the hell out of doing it when it is 10 below zero and a 20 to 30 mph wind!
When I was stationed at Ft. Riley, we went from 20 degrees in the morning, to 80 degrees at 4 in the afternoon, back to 20 degrees at night.
Here in Wisconsin we had a windchill so cold in January that people were getting frostbite just from running out to check the mail.
At Ft. Buchanan, I sweat for three years straight.
I can’t wait until I’m retired and I move my ass back to Idaho.
Out here in West-Central Illinois, so far this year (since January 2009) we have had temperatures from -31 (this is where the National Weather Service blew out instruments) and wind chills in the -50 range with snow blowing so much that the roads had to be plowed twice daily just to knock down the drifts. Last week, we were had 100/100 days. Just stepping outside, not walking or working just stepping out the damn door, was like the 500 pound woman sitting on the chest.
And now this week, we haven’t topped 70.
No where is there more weather variation than the Midwest. We can have temps in a range of almost 140 degrees-regularly.
Florida may be hot in the summer, but they are not that “cold” in the winter. When we hit -30 in Illinois, I was leaving the next day for central Florida (around Lakeland). When I pulled into my destination, it was 90 degrees warmer than when I left. It actually got cold while I was there, a whopping 17 degrees. Hey look, a temperature range of 93 degrees from hottest to coldest. FAIL.
It’s going to be 101 today, with 65% humidity and I scored myself a nice case of heatstroke yesterday. After I puke all the moisture from my body, the dry heaves sucked. Of course, they suck when you’re drunk too.
South Carolina/Yesterday/101 degrees/dew point over 70
YIKES!!!
I like to say that we have “perfect” weather nine months of the year but we pay for it the other three months. From mid-June through mid-September you’d better man up.
Nothin’ like bailing 600 bails of hay in one day then stacking them in the hay barn in August when it’s over 100 degrees, high humidity and not a breath of wind.
Sure makes the Budweiser go down good afterwards.
yeah, no question big heat and high humidity sucks. The weather wiplash in the midwest just amps up the nastiness.
mts1: I hear you on the weird weather patterns. I went to college (Muncie) about an hour’s drive north east of where I grew up (Noblesville), and one Christmas an ice storm came through while I was home on break. My hometown was fine, but the college town absolutely shut down — and driving back the next week, you could just about draw a line right below Anderson where it went from “pretty sparkly trees” to “the world will end in ice”. Same thing happened the next year when a blizzard came through: I had to dig into my apartment at college with my bare hands, but home got maybe six inches with some drifting. Okay, eight. It was still a lot less.
Just flew back from Sweat City (Houston). It was 100+ for 6 days straight. Normally it’s a sauna too, but they’ve been really dry lately. Then I flew through Chicago where it was 61 degrees at 6pm onto Indy where it was 65 degrees. I thought I was gonna freeze after being in the oven so long.
Today we baled straw in 68 degree weather. I have never baled straw with weather in the 60s. I barely broke a sweat. Indiana weather has been really weird this year.
People say I’m crazy to live in California, but you all are demonstrating why I’m not. It gets hot where I live, but there’s no humidity to speak of. It becomes a problem to get a deer properly cooled off after it’s field-dressed, but I don’t need to chain-up to get it out of the forest.
It get’s cold, too, sometimes. But not cold enough to snow. I went one winter without ever putting the top up on my Alfa that I drove to work on most days.
What’d I do to get bounced from your blogroll? Jeeze! A girl could get a complex about this…
Omnibus driver: Follow the link that says ‘get on the bus”. We have thgios conversation at least once a year.