We are currently sweltering under a "heat dome" here in Northeast Ohio (and I hear that a good chunk of the country is dealing with it as well!). Temperatures have soared into the upper 90s with high humidity, meaning that the heat index is running over 100 degrees, dangerously hot even for those of us who are relatively fit, but the moreso for elderly or fragile people. I am running both of my window air conditioner units on full tilt today and I am STILL overly warm in my apartment. At work, the AC was out of order so it was miserably stuffy all day in our office. I have a small desk fan I ran to try to stay cool but it is very small and didn't really work that well to accomplish that. This heat dome isn't supposed to move off anytime soon but the forecast does call for some thunderstorms to come through over the weekend. I don't know if this will cool anything down or just add to the miserable humidity that we're already stifling under at the moment. I just know that I do not like excessive heat and don't tolerate it as I once did when I was younger. I was just reading today, in fact, that the older people get, the less well they tolerate temperature extremes. And here I thought that all those sunbirds from the north who flee to Florida were just being a bunch of wusses! I must say that I don't care for winter, either, especially when we get those frigid Alberta Clippers in that dump tons of snow on the ground in addition to dropping temperatures into the single digits. I love summer, always have, as long as temperatures stay seasonable, around the low 80s with relatively low humidity, but when we get these "heat domes" that stall over us in the summer months, it can feel like walking outside into a furnace if you've been in air conditioning all day long. I am departing on vacation on Sunday and I hope that we don't have wilting heat in SE West Virginia where I am going. The dorm rooms at Davis & Elkins College where I am going are not air conditioned, although I do bring my large 20" box fan to use to cool down my dorm room. I'm looking forward to this vacation that I have scrimped and saved for all summer. It's getting tougher each year to save for this vacation all year long with soaring gas and food prices and a stagnant paycheck making living extremely tight right now. In the meantime, I am just trying to stay cool and get ready to take a nice drive south into West Virginia mountain country in a few days. I need this vacation, badly! Stay cool, everyone!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Hotter than Hades
We are currently sweltering under a "heat dome" here in Northeast Ohio (and I hear that a good chunk of the country is dealing with it as well!). Temperatures have soared into the upper 90s with high humidity, meaning that the heat index is running over 100 degrees, dangerously hot even for those of us who are relatively fit, but the moreso for elderly or fragile people. I am running both of my window air conditioner units on full tilt today and I am STILL overly warm in my apartment. At work, the AC was out of order so it was miserably stuffy all day in our office. I have a small desk fan I ran to try to stay cool but it is very small and didn't really work that well to accomplish that. This heat dome isn't supposed to move off anytime soon but the forecast does call for some thunderstorms to come through over the weekend. I don't know if this will cool anything down or just add to the miserable humidity that we're already stifling under at the moment. I just know that I do not like excessive heat and don't tolerate it as I once did when I was younger. I was just reading today, in fact, that the older people get, the less well they tolerate temperature extremes. And here I thought that all those sunbirds from the north who flee to Florida were just being a bunch of wusses! I must say that I don't care for winter, either, especially when we get those frigid Alberta Clippers in that dump tons of snow on the ground in addition to dropping temperatures into the single digits. I love summer, always have, as long as temperatures stay seasonable, around the low 80s with relatively low humidity, but when we get these "heat domes" that stall over us in the summer months, it can feel like walking outside into a furnace if you've been in air conditioning all day long. I am departing on vacation on Sunday and I hope that we don't have wilting heat in SE West Virginia where I am going. The dorm rooms at Davis & Elkins College where I am going are not air conditioned, although I do bring my large 20" box fan to use to cool down my dorm room. I'm looking forward to this vacation that I have scrimped and saved for all summer. It's getting tougher each year to save for this vacation all year long with soaring gas and food prices and a stagnant paycheck making living extremely tight right now. In the meantime, I am just trying to stay cool and get ready to take a nice drive south into West Virginia mountain country in a few days. I need this vacation, badly! Stay cool, everyone!
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