Whew!!!

[orezok]

Temperature got up to 121 yesterday! This morning at 7:32 it hit 100. Looks like another sizzler. The high in Death Valley yesterday was only 106. Makes me want to go there to cool off.

The only good news is that the humidity was 4%. This is the only place I know that you can spit and it turns to steam before it hits the ground!

 

[RavensRoost]

And I thought Phoenix was hot with 110-114 every day this week!

RavensRoost

 

[bigtiller]

But it is a dry heat.


That's what my relatives tell me when they are telling me how nice it is to live in Arizona.

 

[frank_f15]

But it is a dry heat.


That's what my relatives tell me when they are telling me how nice it is to live in Arizona.

yep my daughter tell me the same thing (tempe az) and my son (las vegas) they can have it i will stay in cool WESTERN NY lots of rain and high today 67 deg. love it . will deal with the cold and snow

 

[Egon]

I lit the fireplace last evening cause it was kinda chilly.

 

[Bird]

Arizona, especially the Phoenix area, is the only place I've seen where some homes have both refrigerated air-conditioning (which takes humidity out of the air) and swamp (evaporative) coolers (which puts humidity into the air). When I was a kid, and almost no one had air-conditioning, most of us had a swamp cooler in a living room window, but after air-conditioning got popular, I almost never see a swamp cooler anymore.

 

[orezok]

Arizona, especially the Phoenix area, is the only place I've seen where some homes have both refrigerated air-conditioning (which takes humidity out of the air) and swamp (evaporative) coolers (which puts humidity into the air). When I was a kid, and almost no one had air-conditioning, most of us had a swamp cooler in a living room window, but after air-conditioning got popular, I almost never see a swamp cooler anymore.

We have both and most all of the houses around here have both. When the humidity is below 25%, which is most of the time, the evaporative cooler works just as well as the refrigerated units. The up side is that evap costs about 1/3 the cost to operate versus the refrigerated unit. Second good thing is that it add humidity to the house. Without it, things, including people, just dry up and crack!

Most have both because in August when the monsoons hit and humidity rises to 50%, the evaps don't work.

 

[bigtiller]

We have both and most all of the houses around here have both. When the humidity is below 25%, which is most of the time, the evaporative cooler works just as well as the refrigerated units. The up side is that evap costs about 1/3 the cost to operate versus the refrigerated unit. Second good thing is that it add humidity to the house. Without it, things, including people, just dry up and crack!

Most have both because in August when the monsoons hit and humidity rises to 50%, the evaps don't work.

When I visit my folks in Arizona the weather is usually much nicer than is here in Iowa but I have a hard time blowing my nose it is so dry out there. I decided the only time to even try to blow is just after a shower.

 

[Bird]

orezok, that mades sense to me; I've just never seen that anywhere else.

 

[MossRoad]

But it is a dry heat.


That's what my relatives tell me when they are telling me how nice it is to live in Arizona.

My sister from Tucson tells me that every time I visit her. Several years ago she came to visit us in winter and it was -20. She was almost frozen through. So I told her "But it is a dry cold." She punched me.