posted on April 26, 2001 05:15:48 AM new
It was official yesterday, we hit 100 degrees for the first time this year. (But don't forget, it's a dry heat.) How's the weather where you are? Anyone wanna trade for a few months?
posted on April 26, 2001 05:26:40 AM new
Hi Mouse Sorry, but I prefer the tropical climate here in Queensland - you know, sweaty, clammy etc. Honestly though, when I moved to Western Australia many years ago, I thought I was going to die!!! They have a dry heat too and I kept thinking I was suffocating, breathing in hot air - just couldn't get used to it. Anyway, did you have a bit of a sun-bake?
posted on April 26, 2001 05:31:25 AM new
We have rain tonight, but normally we have fantastic weather here in our Sunshine State of Queensland.
We do get some extremely high summer heat here as well and at time we can exceed the 100 mark. That is when you just veg out in the pool and make sure you are well covered and have sun block on and a hat. Ours is more a humid heat, but if you go up north it is a different humidity again and the heat is endless.
posted on April 26, 2001 05:32:27 AM new
Mouse you do not want to sun bake, that is were you lie out in the sun to get a tan, and you also get sun cancer.
posted on April 26, 2001 05:43:49 AM newMouse Sun-baking, Sun-bathing, Sun-tanning - they're all bad for you!!! I used to do it all the time when I was a teen - rub myself all over with olive oil or baby oil and lay there hoping that I would go home the reddest. I tan easily, I've got olive skin but I now have approximately 10 scars over my body, where skin cancers have been cut out - and there will be plenty more to come. Luckily, they were all benign except for 1 and that was on my breast, had a huge chunk cut out, I was lucky not to lose the lot.
posted on April 26, 2001 06:02:26 AM new
We just had a summer "teaser"....temps rose just about into the 80's....We painted outside, we did yard cleanup, we danced the dance of joy!!. ..But alas, it was shortlived, and we are now back in the 60's (40's at night).... I'm in NY and our summers are hot (usually) and sticky (NO dry heat here!)....
Kazanne, teen - rub myself all over with olive oil or baby oil and lay there hoping that I would go home the reddest I thought I was the only lunatic who did that!!!.....I remember nights where I was sooooo sunburned that I could bearly stand the weight of my little nightie touching my skin...freezing (cause the skin was burning) but unable to tolerate any blanket!!!..Unable to walk because of the pain in my sunburnt legs...Ah youth, foolish, foolish youth!!!....But back then there were no warnings about the sun being harmful, back when we could use the shade from a passing dinosaur for a quick cool down!
~ Rancher
posted on April 26, 2001 06:09:21 AM new
Ah, yes. If only we knew then, what we know now. As if sun-baking wasn't bad enough, I even bought a sun ray lamp to top up on the days that weren't sunny enough!!! I too remember the pain and suffering of the sunburn, I used to have to wear the same bikini for days..... And still I kept on doing it.
posted on April 26, 2001 06:40:50 AM new
It is 40 degrees F right now in SE - MI. We have a perfectly clear sky with no cloads - just jet trails. It is cool out but nice with not much wind blowing. Perfect for walking around the park with a jacket. The problem is it has been going back and forth between 80 degrees and 40 from day to day. It is hard to adjust to such big swings day to day.
I have been looking at where we live in terms of retirement if global warming really does happen faster that the experts think. We are
high enough to not worry about sea level and
stand as good a chance as anyone to have enough rainfall to provide fresh water. The Great Lakes basin has anough reach that there should be supplies even if the size of the lakes scales back in 10 or 20 years. I figure if I can stay alive another 15 years the medical technology is going to advance so fast I will have a shot at at least another good 15+ years on top of that - so I am still interested in long rang planning.
posted on April 26, 2001 07:00:08 AM newMouse love that "tongue-in-cheek" (hard to talk that way, isn't it) "It's a dry heat" oooh yeah, like having an anvil dropped on your chest. I was in Phoenix back in the late 70's my first time experiencing
"Dry you know what" and it was 104...caught the worst cold I've ever had while I was there. I will not trade with you as now I'm sure I couldn't survive. You can come visit here in N.E. We have had 80 degrees for two days this week, today is 60- the right temp for this time of year.
posted on April 26, 2001 06:45:15 PM new
Well, we got to 101 today, with 12% humidity. I haven't been outside yet, and probably won't until after midnight. You know a true Arizona native by their skin color-pale! Here, we hibernate in the summer and come out in the winter.
I had a hunch that's what you meant Kaz, but wasn't sure. When I was a kid, I would go tubing down the Salt River all day and no sunscreen. That was my tan for the year. I'd get probably 1st or 2nd degree burns, peel for 3 weeks and hope there was some color left when it was done. Yes, I know about the hot/cold thing. It's too hot not to have a fan or a/c on you, but when it does blow on you you get goosebumps which make it hurt even more! I've already had 3 moles removed before I was 23, and probably have another one taken off soon. I was lucky in that they had just started to change, but weren't cancerous yet.
Zilvy, it really does make a difference and I learned that one summer. I'd gone to Texas, Louisiana and Georgia in late June/early July. I swear I was never dry the whole time I was gone! I returned to Phoenix on July 4th. As I was waiting for my dad to come pick me up at the airport, I was sitting there thinking, "damn, it's hot today as usual!" (It was 107 that day.) But I never broke a sweat. When the monsoons arrived that summer, everyone else was dying, but I'd already been acclimated in the deep south, so it was nothing to me. There's a big difference between 50% humidity and 90%! So now when I say, "But it's a dry heat," I'm only saying in half toungue in cheek.
I'm still waiting for someone to offer to trade though!
Hippy wannabe 
~^~
I'm in NY and our summers are hot (usually) and sticky (NO dry heat here!)....