I grew up and lived in deserts all, my life. 0% to 20% on bad days. My first day of basic training at Fort Lewis Washington (Olympic Rain Forest) I ran to get in formation got halfway downstairs and had to sit because it felt like I was strangling. A guy from Arizona was sitting below me and one from Texas a few steps up. The Drill Sgt. looked in and shouted three here. A medic came running in and told us to quit gasping or we'd hyperventilate, the humidity was 98% and our tissue were telling us we were drowning. He gave us puffs of dry oxygen and told us, use low exertion for two days until our bodies were used to it, but stay moving as constantly as possible.
It's like walking outside and being hit in the face with a wet blanket, a WARM wet blanket. It always up the temp a few degrees and makes the heat really unbearable. And if you have breathing problems, just makes it worse.
Last Thursday, my cat was outside with me for no more than 4minutes and got heatstroke. I live in Alabama around a lot of streams, creeks, ponds and a small lake so the moisture here can be horrible when it gets in the 90's. Some are once again trying to say it's Global Warming but the weathermen here have proven we've been through this many times and even for longer periods of time.
The problem with humidity is the moisture in the air becomes superheated so that a dry heat with little moisture in it can feel up to 20 degrees cooler quite easily. We had a storm blow through this morning and this afternoon, it looks just as dry as it did before the rain. But the cooling effect of getting all that hot moisture out of the air leaves it feeling a little cooler... at least until tomorrow lol.
Not too bad today (Monday) but it has been and it's coming back by the 4th. I absolutely despise the humid weather because of it's effect on my health. Once that dew point hits 65, I'm screwed. I know some people like it, but certainly not me.
Headaches, shortness of breath, light-headedness, sometimes I faint. It stinks, especially since every summer seems to be more humid than the year before.
Thanks and I do try to stay in the a/c as much as possible. That darn humidity is coming back and tomorrow is going to be really bad, so I'll be in most of the day. Fortunately the early mornings are still comfortable. I get up between 5-6:00am. Once the sun comes up though . . . Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.
Lucky! I was born and raised in CA. Living most of my life in the Bay Area and Monterey. I LOVED it of course. I love it here too but the weather has driven me inside. During the summer it gets so hot and humid it's very uncomfortable. Then in the winter it's freezing and sometimes snowing. Fall is the best.
I agree. I miss CA for this reason alone. I could be outside in the dry heat and not feel like I'm wearing it. I use to spend so much more time outside then I do now.
I was flown from SoCal in 1971, where I had been living for about eight months and flown across the world to Okinawa, arriving there in early June. When the plane door opened I thougth I was going to drown. I found out later the humidity was 98%, the sun was shining and the temperature was in the mid to high nineties. Took about a month before I stopped sweating.
The problem with humidity is the moisture in the air becomes superheated so that a dry heat with little moisture in it can feel up to 20 degrees cooler quite easily. We had a storm blow through this morning and this afternoon, it looks just as dry as it did before the rain. But the cooling effect of getting all that hot moisture out of the air leaves it feeling a little cooler... at least until tomorrow lol.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.