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Old 03-16-2008, 05:07 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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My brother used to live in Las Vegas and one time I went out to visit I ended up doing some body work on his truck while he was at work. It was 115 that day, with the temp in the parking lot at his apartment over 120. Because it was so dry, it didn't feel real bad actually, but I still couldn't do much out there.
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Old 03-16-2008, 05:54 AM
 
Location: Subarctic maritime Melbourne
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yer dry heat is bearable. It was 104 here today, but with 9% humidity so it is actually tolerable. Sure I sweat a bit but I'm not uncomfortable at all.

Dry heat is nice.
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Old 03-16-2008, 07:49 AM
 
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118, I think. In Arizona. I was young, but that may have been the time I vowed never to live in the southwest, or any desert for that matter. I grew up in the southeast where it's hot and humid.. didn't like that, either. It regularly got to 100-105, with buckets of humidity. Where I am now gets hot and humid in the summer, but it's not long compared to further south, and there's the occasional cool break. Dry heat, humid heat, it's all very bad for me.
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Old 03-16-2008, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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yer dry heat is bearable. It was 104 here today, but with 9% humidity so it is actually tolerable. Sure I sweat a bit but I'm not uncomfortable at all.

Dry heat is nice.
I don't even have a concept of what 9% humidity feels like at any temperature.

I've felt 103 F with 30-35% and that was very tolerable. I couldn't feel any humidity.
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Old 03-16-2008, 10:10 AM
 
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Last August 2007 in Kentucky visiting my son at Ft Campbell... 109...I couldn't believe it
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Old 03-16-2008, 12:17 PM
 
Location: Paris, France
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Something like 115°F in Las Vegas during summer 1998.
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Old 03-16-2008, 01:13 PM
 
Location: So. Dak.
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112 was the hottest I've experienced. I can't find any stats supporting that, but it's what the radio had said that day~back in the 80s.
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Old 03-16-2008, 01:23 PM
 
Location: Eastern NC
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104 was the highest but with humidity it felt like 125. An incredibly miserable day.
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Old 03-16-2008, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Subarctic maritime Melbourne
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I don't even have a concept of what 9% humidity feels like at any temperature.

I've felt 103 F with 30-35% and that was very tolerable. I couldn't feel any humidity.
I've seen 1% humidity recorded at many places in Victoria and South Australia. Sometimes the humidity sensors even fail presumably because the wet bulb thermometer (or whatever measures this) is sucked COMPLETELY dry!
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Old 03-16-2008, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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I've seen 1% humidity recorded at many places in Victoria and South Australia. Sometimes the humidity sensors even fail presumably because the wet bulb thermometer (or whatever measures this) is sucked COMPLETELY dry!
Can you describe how the air would feel?

A wet bulb thermometer here is probably more likely to grow green mold than go bone dry.
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