It’s not really that the exterior temperature is so hot. It’s the humidity. Under high overcast come 11:44 a.m., it’s 105 degrees in the shade of the back porch.
Yes: that IS one hundred and five degrees.
{gasp!} Wunderground claims it’s 106 degrees (BFD!) with a 15% chance of rain in the next six hours. Peering out the back door, we see a high, thin layer of overcast, and a back-porch thermometer reading of 105 degrees. Indoors, the AC cools it down to 81 degrees. Which is some 20 degrees better…I guess…but not a helluva lot more comfortable, because it does little to suck the humidity out of the indoor air.
This feels like it did we lived in Arabia: where the weather was chronically hot and soggy. I was a little kid at the time, and so didn’t know any better. But my parents…well, they weren’t averse to complaining about it! 😀
My mother grew up in upstate New York — was sent to California when her paternal grandmother (who was raising her) died of diabetes. No: there was no such thing as insulin in those days…if there had been, you can be sure her folks couldn’t afford it.
My mother never got the Family Disease. I’m told I have “pre-diabetes,” whatever that is. And another family member supposedly has a full-on case of it. Is it not odd that such a dangerous, potentially fatal disease would be heritable? Surely, that would seem to keep the population boom down..
A dear friend also has this fine ailment. She seems to be coping with it well…but that being her business, one never knows.
WhatEVER. Just now I’m wishing I was back in the San Francisco Bay Area, whence my mother’s family emanated. And where, IMHO, I believe I belong. A hundred and five in the shade does not feel livable to me! 😀
I don’t know how you do it!
Our temperatures have cooled somewhat in the past few weeks, in the mid-80s instead of mid- to upper 90s, with lows in the 70s. This coming week, the highs are predicted to be in the low 80s, with the lows actually dipping into the 60s. I won’t know how to act, as they say in these parts!
We’ve taken out most of our summer veggies and planted a bit of a fall garden, which may or may not produce anything before the frost hits. I think that’s usually around early November, so we have a while yet. And by “we,” I mean mostly MrH, as I’ve had to stay mostly out of the sun of late. Now that we’re coming into fall, maybe I can get out a little more.