It's like walkin' into an oven!
Gosh it's hot.
Sure is hot!
Hot enough for ya?

Knock it off, Hudson!

I walk around in the summertime saying "How about this heat?"

And I thought I smelled bad on the inside.

My usual snarky responses:

“Hot enough for ya?”
No, I'm praying to Cthulhu for another 10 degrees today.

“It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity.”
It's the heat AND the humidity, especially since your sweaty ass walked up.

“Yeah, but it’s a dry heat.”
(I actually don't have a retort for this since I live in Georgia and it's NEVER a "dry heat")

“It’s hot enough to fry an egg out there!”
Well go for it then, Paula Deen!


Yeah, they're stupid and silly retorts. But so are the people who repeat those clichés ad nauseam. It's fitting.

Had house built house in July of 1978 during 110-112 degree Texas weather. Our builder would say everyday "It sure is sultry". Never had heard that word before, so maybe it is new one for you too.

sultry adj. , -trier , -triest . Very humid and hot: sultry July weather. Extremely hot; torrid: the sultry sands of the desert.

What are you going to do when it really gets hot?

Oh, I love the heat, I wish it were hot like this all year long.

My retort was generally, "Not as hot as yo mama! Ohhhh. Need some ice for that burn?" I found out you're not actually supposed to ice a burn though, so now it's, "Need some cool running water for that burn?" People's blank stares tell me they respect my snappy comeback abilities while being appreciative of my accurate and up-to-date first-aid information.

"It's all that Global Warming I keep hearing about"

What I hate is the Heat Index. "It's 90 degrees but the heat index is 125." No, it's not! It's 90 degrees. Call it what it is or change the way we measure temperature!

"...yeah, but it's a dry heat."
"Yeah? So's my oven, jackwagon!"

all the above

Most beloved comment regarding heat:
It's not the heat,it's the STUPIDITY.

Teripie wrote:What I hate is the Heat Index. "It's 90 degrees but the heat index is 125." No, it's not! It's 90 degrees. Call it what it is or change the way we measure temperature!

Actually, the Heat Index is very important - it's based on the relationship between the temperature and the relative humidity (RH). When the RH is lower, your perspiration evaporates more readily, cooling your body. When the RH is higher, perspiration does not evaporate as readily, so your body does not cool itself as well. This can lead to an increased risk for heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. That's why a temperature of 95 degrees feels so much different in Arizona than it does here in the South (TN, MS, AL, GA, AR, LA), where the RH is usually significantly higher.

ladypiper wrote:Had house built house in July of 1978 during 110-112 degree Texas weather. Our builder would say everyday "It sure is sultry". Never had heard that word before, so maybe it is new one for you too.

sultry adj. , -trier , -triest . Very humid and hot: sultry July weather. Extremely hot; torrid: the sultry sands of the desert.

"I have an enormous headache in my eye."

We like to say it's hot like death out, considering this is MS and all.

khiraji wrote:Knock it off, Hudson!

That pretty much made my day

"I just love hot weather - the hotter the better!"

Must be someone training for life in hell.

mndvs737 wrote:Actually, the Heat Index is very important - it's based on the relationship between the temperature and the relative humidity (RH). When the RH is lower, your perspiration evaporates more readily, cooling your body. When the RH is higher, perspiration does not evaporate as readily, so your body does not cool itself as well. This can lead to an increased risk for heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. That's why a temperature of 95 degrees feels so much different in Arizona than it does here in the South (TN, MS, AL, GA, AR, LA), where the RH is usually significantly higher.

Sorry, it's still an attempt to place an objective measure on a subjective phenomenon. Just like with "Wind Chill" - if it is 35 degrees out, with a wind of 40 MPH, the Wind Chill is substantially below freezing (about 20 degrees F), but any water laying around will not freeze.

Just an example of the weather bureaucracy trying to tell us how we should feel. I demand my right to feel as hot or cold as I feel like feeling, and forget trying to put numbers on it! Free the subjective perception of temperature from the meteorological intelligentsia!

prfesser wrote:Sorry, it's still an attempt to place an objective measure on a subjective phenomenon. Just like with "Wind Chill" - if it is 35 degrees out, with a wind of 40 MPH, the Wind Chill is substantially below freezing (about 20 degrees F), but any water laying around will not freeze.

Just an example of the weather bureaucracy trying to tell us how we should feel. I demand my right to feel as hot or cold as I feel like feeling, and forget trying to put numbers on it! Free the subjective perception of temperature from the meteorological intelligentsia!

You fail to understand the difference between temperature and heat transfer.

"So, when does summer start around here?" Re: Seattle.

My balls are sweaty*


*this is more of a personal observation than comment about summer

As a former resident of Phoenix, and a current resident of a part of northern California that occasionally sees triple digit temps, I can say that the 'dry heat' thing is absolutely, positively, true.

I'll take 115 and 'dry' over 95 and humid any day.

Dry heat is not as bad as humid heat. Just sayin'

Dry Heat > Humid Heat by far

Hate the heat don't like it don't even like writing about it!!!!

Seriously, when it's 110+ for 5 or more days straight... in the SUN... with NO trees and nothing but rocks, scorpions, and snakes... It's flippin' HOT! It doesn't matter about the humidity or lack thereof, it's just HOT! The sand does NOT feel good, nor does the water out of the tap, because it's over 100 degrees out of the ground (it's true, you can look it up, and check my bathroom "cold" water setting). When you can see a water mirage only "50" feet away... that's hot!

Oh, and in Phoenix, we do fry eggs on the street... every year. There should be no need for some traditions, but there you have it.

Why I could not have been born in Akaska or Denmark, I have no idea. :-(

I'm sometimes guilty of inane comments like those, but in my defense, I'm required by my employer to make idle chit-chat with my OMGOMGOMGPONIESOMG PWNIES OMGic customers, and one runs out of intelligent things to say after an hour or so...

Gatzby wrote:...if someone would just give us a straight answer, we'd stop asking.

The Oatmeal may have your answer...

"Well Bruce, I heard the Prime Minister use it. 'It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty,' he said and she smiled quietly to herself." [Monty Python]

"Just be glad you're in here working and not outside."

People who say that get the evil eye.

j-o-h-n wrote:You fail to understand the difference between temperature and heat transfer.

You fail to understand the difference between dumb comments and educated sarcasm.

I understand the difference between temperature and heat transfer - just think it is over-stepping the bounds of legitimate science to say that a temperature of 96 "feels like" a temperature of 112 with a relative humidity of 55%. To whom? According to what?

Certainly, the human body does not cool itself very efficiently, and the problem is exacerbated by the inability of sweat to evaporate if the humidity is high. It is also true that being in direct sunlight makes it "feel" hotter than being in the shade. And hot, dry wind does not make you feel any cooler.

And I also understand that wind chill reflects the fact that stronger winds have the effect of dispersing the warmer air that surrounds our bodies, which is itself a product of our body temperature. But, again, I question the legitimacy of translating an objective measurement of temperature into a supposedly "objective" measurement of a subjective state of being.

Right now, it is 101 F. on my balcony, and the thermometer is in the shade. humidity roughly 45-50%. It is not pleasant. It makes no sense to add that, with heat index, it feels like (nearly) 120. It is still only 101. But it is a nice, comfy 74 in my house, energy costs be damned.

I can put on enough clothes to stay warm during the winter but I tried getting naked to get cold during the summer and it didn't work that way. DANG...

Personally I think it's all Al Gore's fault.

Gatzby wrote:This is why you should keep your cold beverages away from your golf bag.

Would you like to know how many strokes over par I am?