19-01-2024, 07:52 PM
It's going to be round two of the arctic blast for us starting tonight. This is very unusual for us here in the Southeast.
Last summer was also unusually hot here in the regard that we had temps pushing 100° and the humidity & dew point specifically was in the high 90's as well. It made it very difficult to breathe, as you were literally shedding pounds of water weight at the same time. It sucked.
They came up with a new term for that situation and I've already forgotten it, but it described the condition of high heat temperatures combined with high dew point, and the body literally can't sweat enough to cool you and they pronounced it a life threatening situation. I spent 22 years of my career loading airplanes, and I know suffocating heat, but there was something really strange about last August here.
Last summer the heat was an often topic and I saw a story out of Atlanta about 4 out of the 5 hottest days on record there was in 1980. It's a summer that I'll never forget because my Grandfather made me run laps around his 20 acre farm to prepare for playing college football as I had moved from NC to live with him as I was going to attend college in GA.
10-15 years ago, I used to spend two weeks every June in Las Vegas, so I am familiar with the heat in the desert SW. It can get 115° with 20+mph winds. It's like living in a hair dryer. I remember one summer in the 80's where we had almost a full week that planes couldn't take-off from PHX because of the thin air & high heat causes a loss of lift on aircraft.
Arctic blasts are unusual here for us, and it's distressing tbh. I had to harvest my brassicas early and I might lose my carrots. I've got about 300 in the ground.
Another weird thing about this upcoming week was the forecasted conditions we're going to be 15°F with 0°F wind chill and a few days later they said it was going to be 75°F. They've since revised it down to 67°F. Weird swings, for certain sure.
Anyway, I hope everyone affected gets through this week unscathed.
Last summer was also unusually hot here in the regard that we had temps pushing 100° and the humidity & dew point specifically was in the high 90's as well. It made it very difficult to breathe, as you were literally shedding pounds of water weight at the same time. It sucked.
They came up with a new term for that situation and I've already forgotten it, but it described the condition of high heat temperatures combined with high dew point, and the body literally can't sweat enough to cool you and they pronounced it a life threatening situation. I spent 22 years of my career loading airplanes, and I know suffocating heat, but there was something really strange about last August here.
Last summer the heat was an often topic and I saw a story out of Atlanta about 4 out of the 5 hottest days on record there was in 1980. It's a summer that I'll never forget because my Grandfather made me run laps around his 20 acre farm to prepare for playing college football as I had moved from NC to live with him as I was going to attend college in GA.
10-15 years ago, I used to spend two weeks every June in Las Vegas, so I am familiar with the heat in the desert SW. It can get 115° with 20+mph winds. It's like living in a hair dryer. I remember one summer in the 80's where we had almost a full week that planes couldn't take-off from PHX because of the thin air & high heat causes a loss of lift on aircraft.
Arctic blasts are unusual here for us, and it's distressing tbh. I had to harvest my brassicas early and I might lose my carrots. I've got about 300 in the ground.
Another weird thing about this upcoming week was the forecasted conditions we're going to be 15°F with 0°F wind chill and a few days later they said it was going to be 75°F. They've since revised it down to 67°F. Weird swings, for certain sure.
Anyway, I hope everyone affected gets through this week unscathed.