A tad chilly

Gotta admit, I don't deal with the winter part as well as I did even 15 years ago. Nosebleeds, cracked hands, and, most especially, using a cane on slippery surfaces were not problems for my first few decades. But I never did like the heat, even as a kid when I could at least tolerate it, I still hated it. I always figured why bother being warm blooded if you're just going to surround yourself with air and water that's pretty much the same temperature as your body?

I haven't lived in the south since I was a kid (Oklahoma) but I've still had my share of heat and humidity since then. Check out this coincidence: my last 3 universities I attended were at latitudes of 42.73 N, 42.03 N, and 42.28 N, in order. Each university was more than 550 miles from the one before it, but the total range of latitude was 0.7 degrees. And all 3 locations gave me more than my fill of days of 90+ degrees and what felt like about the same percentage humidity. UGH!

"my last 3 universities I attended..."

Forgive me, but I chuckled reading it, and I know Ok can be brutally hot and humid in the summer.

I also remember thegrobe asking you years ago if your occupation was an impetus for this topic, and you demurred. I contrast that with some others here that love to boast of their so-called education, and I'm well aware that the smartest in the room never feel a need to express it.

Many of us here have wondered about your physical condition, but, one thing that has impressed many is your intellect.

The 3 years I spent in Oklahoma were in Stillwater, well into the boring dry part of the state. The eastern 1/3 or so of OK is quite pretty as you get over toward the Ozarks, with lots of trees and ancient mountians (though still insufferably hot + humid), but by the time you get to central OK it's a different story. I think I've mentioned elsewhere that I hardly ever saw green grass in Stillwater except at Christmas. Lawn grass was either yellow or brown, depending on the season, but as part of their Christmas decorations a lot of people (especially in my grandparents' subdivision) had this stuff they sprayed on their lawns that temporarily painted their grass green so it looked healthy. They didn't paint it white, to make it look like snow-- they painted it green, to try to make it look alive. I always thought that was creepy.

This is fun to play with-- a site where you can look up practically any town and get a summary of all sorts of things, including climate. From the map at the link, click on a state to get a list of towns. Click on a town to get the main summary page, and click on "climate" on the left. One of the stats of the "climate" page will be "comfort index" which takes into account humidity during the summer months, and ranges from 0 to 100 with a higher score being more comfortable. The Soo scores 60, Ann Arbor scores 51, and Stillwater scores 28.

http://www.bestplaces.net/find/

Either way, a score of 50 ain't so great. San Diego's score got dragged down by an average relative humidity of 74% for the 3 summer months (which is the only period of the year that "comfort index" calculation addresses).

I only checked a few places, and my father's location in SW Colorado comes in at 81-- that's the highest I've seen of the 10 or so towns I looked at. Honolulu scored at 52, and I know I had a couple miserable days when I was there in June (~30 years ago).

I've never been to California aside from sitting on the San Francisco runway for a few minutes during an intermission on a Honolulu-to-Chicago flight, so I can't compare it with other locales. I've been up most of the Pacific coast of Mexico, but that was during the "winter".

A large number of scantily-clad women always makes high humidity more tolerable. At least for some of us.

^yes.

I tried to convince a couple of my fellow golf addicts to move from Chicago. I started and ended with, "Ladies are rarely ever bundled up".

I've wondered about this myself. My guess would be that a constant flow of wind, even if slight, alleviates the feeling you write of.

My uneducated guess is due to comparing the difference between the 'burbs of Chicago and downtown on the same day. The dew point may be within a couple of degrees, but the feeling is much better in the city, and I think it's due to the wind.

The west coast typically has weather patterns that come from the Pacific, so, while the relative humidity number may be similar, the flow of air helps one rid of the "moist" feeling (insert joke here).

The ocean currents on the east coast come from the Equator and the ocean currents on the west coast come from the North Pole. Just a thought.

Heat+humidity, that's something I can't endure. I think I was about to end my days in Yucatan.

 CP trying to sleep in the summer time with the a/c on the fritz.  

40.2 C and rising. Use your cursor over the red line (it give you time and temp) in the graph here...

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=9225&list=ob

Good golfing weather. As everyone else folds due to the heat, drink a lot of water and take their cash, kelvin.

Did you get ever get more beer? You mentioned you ran out a couple days back when it was hot.

Didn't get any more beers  just drank more water and Iced coffee 

you need help. iced coffee?

water when it's hot, and beer when you get to the a/c.

damn, why do i always have to straighten you out?

I don't have any a/c. 

I don't often need it here, but I've only had A/C for 3 of the last 45 years, and that was a crappy little heat/AC combo wall-base unit that was the only source of any temperature control in that apartment. The only part of the room that cooled at all was the tiny area in front where you were close enough to feel the airstream from the duct.

It would be nice to have a little unit just for the bedroom for those nights when the temperature doesn't drop and the humidity goes through the roof.

I spent 20 years in Cushing one night.

But Cushing has a Walmart SuperCenter!