Funny story: not long after I moved to Texas, I ended up romantically involved with a manager at a restaurant, where I was a line cook. It was fun at first, and we both decided to 1. keep it private from the other staff, and 2. Not let it affect our romance. I’ll give you two guesses as to whether that went well.
This summer in Dallas is being fairly weird. Normally, by now, the highs are in the mid-to-high 90s. This year? Not so much. Our pool is solar heated (read: the water heater is broken), and it’s barely been swimmable in the month of May. In 8 years of living here, this has never been the case, this late into the year.
Then again, the heat is JUST starting to hit, and ugh. Combined with my outdoor workout, I am sweating mother fucking BALLS.
But summer means one thing to us: Time to PARTY.
Meanwhile in Phoenix, it’s been 100+ for the past two weeks. This summer is going to be an absolute motherfucker.
Don’t knock it, we had a full three months of spring, and that NEVER happens. Granted it was February through mid-may, but…
Yet a typical australian summer contains multiple 40 degree days (about 100+) and it is rare for the top temp in the coastal regions, where about 80% of the country lives, to get below 70-80f.
The difference is that NONE of the continental states are in the tropics.
Here in the UK, it’s bloody cold or bloody warm. Highs of around 17C which is just pushing “too warm”
It’s a dry heat ( at least until monsoon season ). Not sure about Dallas.
But sweating balls sounds damned uncomfortable. And scary.
I’d contend that sweating balls is not as bad as shitting bricks.
Or puking up your toenails.
Don’t worry, the summer down here in Houston isn’t any better, and we probably have more humidity than y’all do up in Dallas. But speaking as a native Texan, I will wholeheartedly agree that this summer has had some strange weather. Hell, this entire calendar year has been one for the oral history books.
This is Marquette’s Lower Harbor (Marquette, Mi) just a few days ago.
Almost time to swim!
Heh. When I was… ummm… 12 years old, living in Maine, 1980ish…..
First spring day (April-ish) getting the kayaks into the water (there was at least 100 yards width ice-“free”, about 1/3 mile long….
Who steps into his boat, and promptly rolls it?
THIS GUY.
Took me an hour in the car to shake the hypothermia…..
@Coinneach, when I lived in the Valley (Phoenix) in 97 or so, everyone liked to remind me it was a dry heat. Except at 109 in the shade I sweat like a lawn sprinkler. And the damn folks from back east insisted on flooding their lawns at night, then the sun would come up and that water would jump 4 feet in the air and just hang there due to the inversion layer. Stay cool … its gonna be an absolute bastard out there.
Phoenix is not that bad you go from your air conditioned car to your air conditioned home. The monsoon sucks sweaty ass, but again just crank the ac and you are fine.
IronAngel the dry heat jokes are made by assholes. Arizona starts with an A for a reason. However, I lived all over the world and I prefer Arizona, guess I am an asshole too.
When I was a kid we made dry heat jokes but really you want to know real pain use a swamp cooler instead of ac during the monsoon.
For anyone that has not heard of this horribly stupid way to cool your home here is a wiki link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
Yip, I used wiki because this not a English paper, despite the length of my comment.
Yeah, swamp coolers lose what little effectiveness they have right around mid july, when it gets hot *and* humid.
I’d almost prefer one that can move air like a hurricane over the anemic wheezing that my current A/C plant puts out, though.
*puts ‘fix the air ducts’ on the list of shit to fix in this old place*
Dammit forgot the word is
100-and-friggen-died-of-heat-stroke here in Tucson….
Omar is getting a blowjob, isn’t he.
That was my thought, yeah.
Brain bleach, please.
And here in MN, the coldest, longest, snowiest winter EVER. Followed by the Spring that was drowned at birth, then 1 week ago someone threw a switch and SUMMER. WTF. We don’t got no climate, only this weather 5h1+.
Oner of my many sisters is up that way, and yeah – She’s suonding off about that stuff.