mailin 0 #26 June 13, 2005 QuoteI'll take this weather over the crappy 20 - 40 degree days that we're so lucky to have for the other half of the year. When it's hot like this, that's the perfect excuse to go skydiving. That air feels GOOOD. I'm complaining that the air conditioning in the office is too cold. I get my new laptop tomorrow, I'm gonna move out to the patio so I can enjoy the hot and humid weather while it lasts (which is never long enough) Ya, the plane is hot up to altitutde, but once the door is open, it ain't so bad JenArianna Frances Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #27 June 13, 2005 Quotecome closer to the lake. it's cooler by ~10 degF Yup, gotta love this city. Hot? Turn on the AC or go down to the lake. It's beautiful outside today and went for a 30 min walk on my lunch break! I love the fresh air and being able to keep my windows open all the time - plus I get to fall asleep to to the sound of airplanes landing/taking off. How damn cool is that? I only turn on the AC in the morning when I am getting ready for work.....for now. My new roommate is big on keeping the place at 63F year round. It was great to go up north to WI this weekend and to spend so much time in the sun having fun. You just can't beat the heat! Winter in this city sucks...a good portion of the city closes up and there isn't as much to do...plus the winter lasts too damn long. Nothing better than walking around in a large city that is alive again because it's warm._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spizzzarko 0 #28 June 13, 2005 I will trade summer with anyone of you. The AZ desert is 105-120 between June and Oct. It cools down to 90 at night. The A/C is on 24/7 from June/July to Sept/Oct. My elec. bill is $250+ in the summer. Anbody wanna trade summers? Didn't think so. So quit yer bitchin' ...SANDY But it's a dry heat! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,534 #29 June 13, 2005 Quote120+ is damn hot, I don't give a rats ass how high the humidity is I had a friend who moved from Houston to Phoenix; he said the exact same thing. That said, I'd rather have humidity than too dry. Humid heat just doesn't feel that much worse after I get used to it (and I have 3 summers in Houston with no A/C). Plus, when it's humid out, your wrinkles don't show as much; it keeps your skin moist. You just have to worry about mildewing then Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #30 June 13, 2005 QuoteFrom what I've been told by quite a few folks is that Fl isn't nearly as bad as a lot of the Gulf Coast...Mississippi, Houston, etc. It's true. I've lived in the south my whole life, but the worst place was Louisiana in the summer. The temps get higher than FL and the humidity is just as bad. Florida is still the worst overall though because the heat lasts so many months. We won't get any relief now until November where it will finally go below 80. She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #31 June 13, 2005 QuoteI would LOVE to be in the lower 60s! We can cover that most of the time in SF, but as for jumping, it's still likely to be pretty warm in Davis, Byron, or Hollister. Too far inland to benefit from the nice ocean winds. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #32 June 13, 2005 QuoteFlorida is still the worst overall though because the heat lasts so many months. We won't get any relief now until November where it will finally go below 80. On the flip side, though, yall get some bitch'n waves a few times a year when certain "names" tend to go blowing through town. Huh, I guess that's not a good thing...--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
swedishcelt 0 #33 June 13, 2005 QuoteQuoteI'll take this weather over the crappy 20 - 40 degree days that we're so lucky to have for the other half of the year. When it's hot like this, that's the perfect excuse to go skydiving. That air feels GOOOD. I'm complaining that the air conditioning in the office is too cold. I get my new laptop tomorrow, I'm gonna move out to the patio so I can enjoy the hot and humid weather while it lasts (which is never long enough) Ya, the plane is hot up to altitutde, but once the door is open, it ain't so bad JenI am totally with you girl. Bring on the warmth. I love it!!! I'm sick of shivering and having a cold ass. I won't have to blanket and sit on a heating pad tonight!!! YUM! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jumpervint 0 #34 June 13, 2005 Currently in Spokane, on the dry side of Washington, 69 degrees, mostly cloudy, 36% humidity, winds at 13 mph. A bit cool, but nice. I'd jump it for sure. Then again, we don't jump much from Nov. to March. Vint. . . . . "Make it hard again." Doc Ed “A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” Nikos Kazantzakis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #35 June 13, 2005 QuoteI will trade summer with anyone of you. The AZ desert is 105-120 between June and Oct. It cools down to 90 at night. The A/C is on 24/7 from June/July to Sept/Oct. My elec. bill is $250+ in the summer. Anbody wanna trade summers? Didn't think so. So quit yer bitchin' ...SANDY But it's a dry heat! Fact: No matter how nice the weather is to one person you can always find someone else to bitch about it. It can get very hot and humid here in Chicago - enough to where I've seen it match up with weather I've experienced in Florida and Texas (it just doesn't last as long). I remember cooking an egg on the hood of a car in high school when it hit 115F or so here. Then there is the flip side where it can hit -40F with 29"inches of snow. The winds in either season can hit up to 70mph sustained and up to 100mph bursts...don't forget the tornados! It can't suck too bad here since I've seen a few people knock off over 1000 jumps in our season. Personally speaking - I hate both ends of the extreme weather we see here. With the global weather changing we are seeing less of the moderate weather and more of the extreme ends every year. The last few years we have had very short spring/fall weather. But you know what? You deal with it or move - otherwise you are bitching about it 24/7 (and certain southern states seem to do it more than others). I'm a spring/summer kinda guy so I love the weather we have now....I can't stand winter and would be happy to never see another day of snow. However, that isn't going to happen since I am not leaving Chicago. So this past winter I needed a break from cold so I went down to Dallas for a bit to warm up._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #36 June 13, 2005 And that my dear is why I live where I doMay your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 1 #37 June 13, 2005 Why do you live there? Why does anybody live there? I spent a summer camp in Quantico Virginia, and that humidity allows only two things. Clean and wet, and stinky and wet. But always wet. Yicky. (and it rusts the holy shiite out of any kind of gun) Cali. And Quickly. We need you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Zenister 0 #38 June 14, 2005 QuoteQuoteBa, come to the Houston area and enjoy a 95F day in 468% humidity. Hot is hot, but humidity makes hot even more shitty. I hear people say that and want to strangle them... 120+ is damn hot, I don't give a rats ass how high the humidity is. 120 in AZ is WAAAAAAAAAY better than 90 in AL...____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NEcrewDOG 0 #39 June 14, 2005 What? You are nuts! I can't wait for July and August. I'm getting tired of having rain 5 days a week. This coming week is looking beautiful for us.Skydive Radio!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites grue 1 #40 June 14, 2005 QuoteWhat? You are nuts! I can't wait for July and August. I'm getting tired of having rain 5 days a week. This coming week is looking beautiful for us. I'm just about 2 hours from you, and I don't wanna see rain, but shit, it's gets so hot and humid in the height of summer, and I work outside.... cavete terrae. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #41 June 14, 2005 Don't feel too bad. I'll be back in Baghdad in a couple weeks. I don't even want to know how hot it is there. I walked out to our bar last night (On the roof of our house) at about 2 AM. It was actually cool out. That's been the one thing I haven't minded about this place. The weather isn't bad. Everything else SUCKS but the weather isn't bad. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jraf 0 #42 June 14, 2005 Hey Val...come to FLorida. It was 97 here in O-town yesterday and I had several meetings.jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Vallerina 2 #43 June 14, 2005 QuoteWhy do you live there? Because I love it! Luckily, it's much cooler out today! I slept great last night because it cooled down so much!There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites apley 0 #44 June 14, 2005 QuoteQuoteHA! Its 93F in my house right now... (the AC broke on Friday and I'm waiting for the AC tech to show up today). Brother, I'm feeling for you...my AC went out last summer and it took a week to replace the unit after wrestling with my crappy home warranty company. My house was 108 during the day and cooled down to 100 at night...my dog and I slept in the pool... Summer in AZ is slightly uncomfortable without A/C... what's ac? not much need for that in sandy eggo, with the mean temps being 65 deg all year... i'm spoiled. but don't move here, it's full. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kap84 0 #45 June 14, 2005 try living in the UK! AT least you get summer, we get about 2 days of nice weather out of the year, the rest bof the time its pissing it down! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jumper03 0 #46 June 14, 2005 Quote120 in AZ is WAAAAAAAAAY better than 90 in AL... I disagree Scars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites swedishcelt 0 #47 June 14, 2005 Whatevah... Texas heat was sure as heck better than this!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yardhippie 0 #48 June 14, 2005 QuoteQuote120 in AZ is WAAAAAAAAAY better than 90 in AL... I disagree I disagree, with your disagreement. sort-of. While Ive not experience AZ at 120F I have been in the bush (no really) in Western Austraila when it was 110, and I remember it being hot, but not miserable. Hell it only go to 91 yesterday here but the heat index was about 103. BAH! Humidity adds a sweaty balls factor that is most unpleasant. But hey, Ill stay here rather than go north! Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jumper03 0 #49 June 14, 2005 well, I grew up in NC where the humidity and temperature raced to see who could get to triple digits first during the summer. All you have to do is get used to it! Now that said, I do like using swamp coolers (saves energy!) but no way in hell will they work back east.Scars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yardhippie 0 #50 June 14, 2005 Quotewell, I grew up in NC where the humidity and temperature raced to see who could get to triple digits first during the summer. All you have to do is get used to it! Now that said, I do like using swamp coolers (saves energy!) but no way in hell will they work back east. 29 years and counting... still not used to it! but, I live with it. yea its hot, but it feels goot at altitude! Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 3 Next Page 2 of 3 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. 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Zenister 0 #38 June 14, 2005 QuoteQuoteBa, come to the Houston area and enjoy a 95F day in 468% humidity. Hot is hot, but humidity makes hot even more shitty. I hear people say that and want to strangle them... 120+ is damn hot, I don't give a rats ass how high the humidity is. 120 in AZ is WAAAAAAAAAY better than 90 in AL...____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NEcrewDOG 0 #39 June 14, 2005 What? You are nuts! I can't wait for July and August. I'm getting tired of having rain 5 days a week. This coming week is looking beautiful for us.Skydive Radio!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grue 1 #40 June 14, 2005 QuoteWhat? You are nuts! I can't wait for July and August. I'm getting tired of having rain 5 days a week. This coming week is looking beautiful for us. I'm just about 2 hours from you, and I don't wanna see rain, but shit, it's gets so hot and humid in the height of summer, and I work outside.... cavete terrae. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #41 June 14, 2005 Don't feel too bad. I'll be back in Baghdad in a couple weeks. I don't even want to know how hot it is there. I walked out to our bar last night (On the roof of our house) at about 2 AM. It was actually cool out. That's been the one thing I haven't minded about this place. The weather isn't bad. Everything else SUCKS but the weather isn't bad. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #42 June 14, 2005 Hey Val...come to FLorida. It was 97 here in O-town yesterday and I had several meetings.jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vallerina 2 #43 June 14, 2005 QuoteWhy do you live there? Because I love it! Luckily, it's much cooler out today! I slept great last night because it cooled down so much!There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apley 0 #44 June 14, 2005 QuoteQuoteHA! Its 93F in my house right now... (the AC broke on Friday and I'm waiting for the AC tech to show up today). Brother, I'm feeling for you...my AC went out last summer and it took a week to replace the unit after wrestling with my crappy home warranty company. My house was 108 during the day and cooled down to 100 at night...my dog and I slept in the pool... Summer in AZ is slightly uncomfortable without A/C... what's ac? not much need for that in sandy eggo, with the mean temps being 65 deg all year... i'm spoiled. but don't move here, it's full. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kap84 0 #45 June 14, 2005 try living in the UK! AT least you get summer, we get about 2 days of nice weather out of the year, the rest bof the time its pissing it down! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumper03 0 #46 June 14, 2005 Quote120 in AZ is WAAAAAAAAAY better than 90 in AL... I disagree Scars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
swedishcelt 0 #47 June 14, 2005 Whatevah... Texas heat was sure as heck better than this!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #48 June 14, 2005 QuoteQuote120 in AZ is WAAAAAAAAAY better than 90 in AL... I disagree I disagree, with your disagreement. sort-of. While Ive not experience AZ at 120F I have been in the bush (no really) in Western Austraila when it was 110, and I remember it being hot, but not miserable. Hell it only go to 91 yesterday here but the heat index was about 103. BAH! Humidity adds a sweaty balls factor that is most unpleasant. But hey, Ill stay here rather than go north! Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumper03 0 #49 June 14, 2005 well, I grew up in NC where the humidity and temperature raced to see who could get to triple digits first during the summer. All you have to do is get used to it! Now that said, I do like using swamp coolers (saves energy!) but no way in hell will they work back east.Scars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #50 June 14, 2005 Quotewell, I grew up in NC where the humidity and temperature raced to see who could get to triple digits first during the summer. All you have to do is get used to it! Now that said, I do like using swamp coolers (saves energy!) but no way in hell will they work back east. 29 years and counting... still not used to it! but, I live with it. yea its hot, but it feels goot at altitude! Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
