The best way to tell how hot it's getting in Arizona is to count the number of AZ license plates you see heading West on I-8 in San Diego.... We're seeing quite a few these days!
Phoenix needs to switch to a night schedule. this day **** is killing me. I want to wake up at 6:00 pm and go to sleep at 10:00 am At least the caddy has huge windows (I cant imagine the amazing gas mileage I could get if the a/c worked)
What's nice about sub-tropical Tampa Bay in the summer, is that it rains everyday at 4 o'clock, that way your gr*** grows 4 or 5 inches in 3 days. having to mow in 90-95 degree, 85-95% humidity, That works out to 2 hours on Sunday (the perfect hangover cure), and 2 hours on Thursday night, after the rain. Couldn't mow all weekend because the Dennis was p***ing by, so by Monday night it was about 10". Miserable.
That sounds more like it. If you ever need a thermometer that goes over 120 in Kingman, I'd hate to think what it would be like here. It's now 8:30 PM here and it's cooled off to 112. The hottest it's been since I've lived here was 127 a few years ago. Now that's damn hot, dry heat or not.
Where I live in Southeast Michigan we have been having abnormally hot weather since the end of May. When I first moved out here in 1968 I went to work in a bearing factory(Hoover Ball Bearing since bought out by NSK).As I was low man on the totem pole and it was vacation time,I was ***igned to fill in various tasks around the plant. The absolute worst month I ever had was working in the heat-treating department.The first day I came in wearing a T-shirt and shorts and the foreman told me to leave.He said when I came in the next day I was to be wearing Levis and a long sleeve sweatshirt! I found out why the following day:It seems that the bearing races are loaded onto metal baskets similar to dish strainers and fed through a conveyor into the furnaces.It takes about 8 hours for a basket to make a trip through the furnace. Usually along the way one of the baskets manages to get jammed on the conveyor and the only way to free it is to get as close to the furnace as you can with a long metal hooked rod and try to dislodge the basket without spilling bearing parts all over and REALLY jamming it up! Did I mention that the AVERAGE temperature there was 135 degrees and that up close to the ovens was well over 200 degrees.You had to wear an asbestos apron that hung nearly to the floor and a face shield similar to a welder's mask but with a clear lens and you could only stay there for about 30 seconds at a time before your skin started to burn. The long-sleeved sweatshirt got soaking wet within five minutes of being in the area and acted like a condenser.The least bit of movement caused you to feel like a cool breeze was blowing on you.It was not uncommon to be able to lose about 5 lbs.on an 8 hour shift.As I weighed about 135 lbs. at the time this was not a good thing. Maybe this is one of the reasons that heat doesn't seem to adversely affect me very much.But I sure as hell wouldn't want to test that theory in Arizona!
I feel your pain, Im in a metal/weld/sweat/slave2machine shop here in Dallas TX. No a/c just a fan that not only blows hot air, but just BLOWS. It always helps me when folks tell me to drink plenty of water........yep......it makes it all better
jay do as squirrel suggested and get an evaporative cooler. they work GREAT until the monsoon comes in and it gets humid. i suggest a MASTERCOOL, that's the brandname and they work the best. lowes/home depot both (i think) carry a shop sized one on wheels for around $400 worth every penny at this time of year. link is below later jim http://www.adobeair.com/info-products-mobilemastercool-hvb.html
It was a lovely 106 today in San Bernardino. Nothing helps you get a summer cold like getting in and out of truck with the a/c on..... As for humidity I would give my left arm to be in the nasty *** hot&humid Indy today with my Dad and Race Team for Indiana sprint week....Work ****s .........not the weather!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i wish i lived in a country that bad weather means its a little to hot... here in sweden bad weather is an cold febuary morning when the temprature is like -0 F (-20 c) and the snow is 20-40 inches high and it takes 15 mins for the fan in the car to get the windows clean and of course you first have to s****e the windows for 10 minutes on the outside...and of course they plowed the road so you first have to clean the driveway from snow from the road... I HATE WINTER!!!
we now have a quite hot summer here in sweden where the temperature goes up to like 88 farenheit (like 31 deg celciues) thats like about how hot it ever gets around here maybe can get up to 96 deg farenheit but thats about it and the air aint moisty at all compared to like florida
The swampers are a good suggestion. I told Sweetie we ought to get a small one for our bedroom. Doesn't make sense to A/C the whole house when we're all the way back in the bedroom late evening and night. She demurred, seems they're not decorative and all. Even so, she might be thinking about it now after seeing some of the electric bills. Not to mention the local electric company can't keep the voltage up where it should be with all the A/C load. A couple of my friends in Visalia had big swampers, roof models that they built an angle iron frame for and installed casters. In their shops - one big muffler shop, the other a really big private machine shop - they would light off the swampers and point them toward the work area. Drip water didn't seem to be a problem once they got the flow adjusted right. Usually no more than a small puddle under the swamper. I do ok with a couple fans in the standard construction - 2 x 4's etc. - garage/shop, but once it gets over a hundred I'm out of there. My friend who lives up the hill a ways built a 30 x 30' metal building. That thing heats up like nobody's business even with the walls insulated. (He didn't insulate the ceiling and I'm guessing now he wishes he did.) We usually have 'hot rod' day up there on Wednesdays. Yesterday he didn't even open the garage up due to the heat. As for Roger's question on why we moved here . . . one reason . . . winters aren't too bad, pretty cold, but once it warms up during the day, a modest size heater takes care of things in the shop. Spring and fall is the time though and we know how to get through the summer. The other reasons are in the pics below....
The swampers are good, but don't get the one that just sits in the shop as they are pretty ineffective. You need the evaporative unit on the outside and the discharge to go into the garage/house. Then make sure you crack a door/window on the opposite side of the space to get the flow moving. I've been in folks houses here in southern nevada that get down to 68 when the outside temp is 100. Any humidity will kill the effect. But then again IT IS A DRY HEAT!
Actually when I lived in Phoenix, I had no problem working on the car in the heat. Its the humidity around here that kills me. It might only be 80, but at 90% humidity, I don't feel like doing ****. I like dry heat.
Definition of Hot 95 degrees in the factory 135 in the diecasting department, rodding out the furnaces, means putting a 8 foot long bar of steel in a furnace of 1250 degree molten aluminum while standing on the platform above it to keep it from solidifing, takes about twenty minutes to clear the p***ages. Give you a great suntan on your face but tends to remove all traces of facial hair.
Yup, it's summertime in the desert. I spent Tues. afternoon in the back yard installing a new drive line in my '63 Impala. The tempurature was a melon baking 115 degrees.
Humidity is the pits. It was about 106-110 here in lancaster-palmdale, it was hot but not unbearable. I remember a few years ago back in west virginia, when it would get 90 with 90% humidity, and you'd want to die. Every breath would hurt your chest. Utterly miserable. Here, if you have some shade your fine. I changed out the control arms on my car the past weekend, heavy work, but it was in the shade, so I was able to work all day. I miss the trees and green gr*** back there, but not the weather!
It's 95 degrees in my garage at 11:23pm. I want to go back to Orange county so bad I can taste it, just need to win the lottery first.
Window shakers!!! It's finally staying in the 90's here, two blocks off the Chesapeake Bay the humidity can be killer. My kid and I are sticking a window shaker in tomorrow....should make a big difference.
http://heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050716/NEWS/507160482 Suddenly, a little sweat doesn't matter....but the third paragraph is what's scary..... Mutt
Mutt, Anybody that thinks that an animal is NOT dangerous that is 12 ft. long with teeth in a mouth that is longer than you are wide is an IDIOT!!! They should watch the Crocodile Hunter more to see what crocs and gators can do. Idiot people who don't understand the environment they live in scare me more than the heat and the critters. I'll take the critters in Arizona anyday of the week. We have fewer bears and mountain lions than you have gators. We have rattlesnakes, just fewer per person than Florida. Most of what I have to deal with are scorpions and black widows and a can of Raid and a hammer takes care of them. The Raid slows them down and the hammer makes them mush. I know how to deal with the heat and the dangerous critters, its the idiots that I can't control or deal with that are the scariest. Especially, those that think they can drive a car. They are why I quit riding motorcycles. The heat I can deal with, its the humidity that ****s. AZAV8
I found this little mama while cleaning the garage yesterday. Glad I got it before the eggs hatched... Mutt
Grew up in Miami thinking it was the hottest place in the world, then I moved to Tallah***ee for school & thought that was the hottest place in the world. After I joint the AF, my first base was Columbus, MS & I swore that was the hottest place in the world until I got stationed at Little Rock. Finally, I was convinced it was the hottest place in the world. Did a tour in Saudi in June...Little Rock was still hotter. Did the summer of '96 in Albuquerque. Little Rock was still hotter. Hey, the desert is a dry heat (of course, so's an oven!)...get in the shade for some relief. There's no escaping the humidity! After 5 years in the UK, I believe the UK at 85 (like today!) is hotter than anywhere else in the world BECAUSE THERE IS NO ****ING AIR CON ANYWHERE ON THIS ISLAND!! I have to go to the supermarket & stand in the frozen food section until the manager asks me to get out of the freezer! I sit in my wife's car with the air full blast while the neighbors stare & laugh. It's ****ing sick. The worst part is I'm so acclimatized to the nice (yeah, I said nice while describing the UK weather) normally cool UK weather, that when I was back in Ft. Lauderdale a few weeks ago, I thought I was going to melt at about 80!! Fortunately, summer is only about 2 weeks long here.
In this photo is the display window from my Honda Goldwing. Why they put an ambient temp display on a motorcycle is a good question. The 113*F is before I rode the bike home. It had sit in the parking lot in the shade all day at Hughes Performance. So that is a temp in the shade of an asphalt parking lot For those that say they will NEVER move here to AZ because of the heat. Thank you ! Sadly we have seen record growth for many years. As for the garage temps... I turn the thermostat down on my A/C . LOL
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