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lowell holmes
08-17-2017, 3:38 PM
92 degrees in the shade, bright sun, no wind, miserable.

Around 1800 hours we will be able to venture out.

10 months of the year, it is pleasant here. I can remember carrying news papers in
Oklahoma City and in the winter it got down into the 20's and sometimes lower.
I don't miss that, but this is miserable.
It will be nice in the morning though.

Von Bickley
08-17-2017, 10:28 PM
Too hot to be in the shop. Temperature around 95 with a heat index around 105. Ready for Fall.....

Doug Garson
08-17-2017, 11:44 PM
It was a blazing 74 F here today in New Westminster BC :) on the other hand we haven't had significant rain here for about 10 weeks so we are ready for the fall rain too.

Alan Rutherford
08-18-2017, 8:01 AM
August 16, 2017. Note the "Feels like" number (112). I didn't know what "Heat index" meant until I moved here several years ago, from a place known for its rain and humidity.

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lowell holmes
08-18-2017, 10:18 AM
It's August 18 and in Galveston County, it is 84, bright sun, it will be a hot day.
Every one here has central air conditioning. I walk every morning for 1.1 miles
and this time of the year, you can hear them running.

Malcolm Schweizer
08-18-2017, 10:28 AM
You sure it wasn't 96 degrees in the shade?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE5gfZlMZY

Curt Harms
08-19-2017, 6:37 AM
First off, I'm not a fan of hot and humid. I recall being in Houston one summer when it wasn't fit to be out (by my standards) past about 8:30 in the morning. Just miserable.

Bert Kemp
08-19-2017, 6:16 PM
Bunch of whiners :D
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Todd Willhoit
08-20-2017, 2:32 PM
Bunch of whiners :D

Got you beat.

Bert Kemp
08-20-2017, 3:08 PM
Got you beat.

if you really want to go with 96 feels like 110 were Im actually 105 OK










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Todd Willhoit
08-20-2017, 6:42 PM
Ever been to Houston? Irregardless of location, AZ and TX are both hot. You (assuming Phoenix) are at 105, feels like 104 with 19% humidity. We are at 96, feels like 108 with 54% humidity. It was over 90% this morning. I walk twenty feet to my garage and I'm already sweating. It is too humid to offer any evaporative cooling effect.

Steven Kliebert
08-20-2017, 11:06 PM
It's too hot.No way.

lowell holmes
08-21-2017, 6:40 PM
It was hot hot hot yesterday, but today is considerably cooler.

Chuck Ellis
08-23-2017, 10:15 AM
Weather guessers just made up the "heat index" or "feels like" temperatures.... 105 is 105 and there's no way to know if it "feels like" 110.... I've lived in Houston and Arizona (Tucson) and hot is hot, but I personally would rather be hot then cold.
I may be akin to a snake, once my body temperature drops, I don't move well, except to get to some place warm.

lowell holmes
08-25-2017, 8:00 AM
This morning I Galveston County, Friday August 25, 2017, it is overcast, threatening thunder, and not a day to go on a morning walk.

Frederick Skelly
08-25-2017, 8:09 AM
This morning I Galveston County, Friday August 25, 2017, it is overcast, threatening thunder, and not a day to go on a morning walk.

Weather channel says a hurricane's coming toward Texas. How far from that are you and yours? You folks gonna be OK Lowell? Hope so.
Fred

lowell holmes
08-25-2017, 9:18 AM
We may see rising water from the tidal surge, but the storm is supposed to come ashore 100 or so miles south of Galveston.
The four foot surge that is predicted will not affect our property. Today, we will stay in, dry, and keep the dogs quiet.
It is raining a bit at this time.

Alan Rutherford
08-25-2017, 10:18 AM
Weather guessers just made up the "heat index" or "feels like" temperatures.... 105 is 105 ....

I'd have to agree with you, Chuck, even though I'm the one who brought it up first. It's truly miserable when the temperature and humidity are both over 80, but heat index only applies to humans. Cars, roads, houses and workshops are 20 degrees cooler at 85 compared to 105, no matter what the humidity is. "Wind chill" is another one. It applies to exposed skin. Most people have the sense to cover up when it's cold.

Galveston got truly hammered over 100 years ago and deserves to get off easier this time, although it looks bad farther South. We "survived" Hermine last year when the center of the eye passed about 15 miles from our house. It was the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years and except for the fact that some lives lost and not all the damage was minor, we could laugh at it. Harvey is not one to laugh at.

Bert Kemp
08-25-2017, 12:06 PM
Wind chill is a good thing when its 105 and humid. wind cools the body when hot and humid. If its hot and dry I'll throw on a sweat shirt and soak it then go for a bike ride. I'm actually chilly till I start to dry out.
Hope all you in the path of Harvey will be ok



I'd have to agree with you, Chuck, even though I'm the one who brought it up first. It's truly miserable when the temperature and humidity are both over 80, but heat index only applies to humans. Cars, roads, houses and workshops are 20 degrees cooler at 85 compared to 105, no matter what the humidity is. "Wind chill" is another one. It applies to exposed skin. Most people have the sense to cover up when it's cold.

Galveston got truly hammered over 100 years ago and deserves to get off easier this time, although it looks bad farther South. We "survived" Hermine last year when the center of the eye passed about 15 miles from our house. It was the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years and except for the fact that some lives lost and not all the damage was minor, we could laugh at it. Harvey is not one to laugh at.

Todd Willhoit
08-26-2017, 12:42 AM
wind cools the body when hot and humid.
When the humidity is too high, sweat will not evaporate and the body will not cool. In that case, wind speed means nothing.

This morning it was 77 degrees and 97% humidity. I was soaked in sweat standing still.