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1% humidity? C'mon is that the best you can do? We have many stations across Southeast Australia with their humidity sensors failing as the air becomes so dry that it actually drops to 0% which causes the humidity sensors to "crash". Happens every year, especially in late spring. The dewpoint readings can reach -50ºC while the air temp is in the 30ºC range.
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Originally Posted by ColdCanadian
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.
103F with humidity that "high" is rare here! Melbourne's humidities with that temp are usually around 10-20%.
We have many stations across Southeast Australia with their humidity sensors failing as the air becomes so dry that it actually drops to 0% which causes the humidity sensors to "crash". Happens every year, especially in late spring. The dewpoint readings can reach -50ºC while the air temp is in the 30ºC range.
Is that a good or bad thing? Sounds good to me,I hate humidity.
What's the hottest temperature you've ever experienced? Where?
For me, it was two summers ago in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. The temperature made it up to 119, which was a record for city of Los Angeles. I quickly made my way to the beach (no more than 7 or 8 miles away) and it was 85 degrees.
I believe the temperature made it up to 118 here in Phoenix last summer. However, Scottsdale is always a couple of degrees cooler, so it was probably 114 or 115 at my house.
My bf lives in Santa Clarita. Pretty much SFV... But it doesn't get as hot as another hour north to Bakersfield. My cousin lives there and last time I went it was 112... My uncle turned his AC on and his windshield cracked!
But yeah, at my bf's in the summer, it's about 110 a lot.
102F in St. Louis, MO - the reason I remember - it killed my car. Literally. The car overheated and died and never ran right after that. The heat killed it.
The hottest I ever experienced was last year. Late August or early September. I was in El Cajon, CA and it was 110 degrees outside. It was so hot it was sort of hard to breath. And I was only out in it for 15 to 30 minutes.
Actually I just remembered when I was a kid back in 1990 there was a day when I was in 116 degree heat. That was in Ontario, CA. It was right after school got out for the year.
119 degrees in Las Vegas NV. But the worst was that it was 104 when we got up in the morning and 106 when we went to bed at night. While it is hot in Las Vegas in the summer in general, this was like living in a oven. The above normal temps lasted for about two weeks in July of 2001. Yes, it is a dry heat...but hot is hot.
BTW: If your interested in records, check out weatherbase.com
The Nat'l weather service keeps averages, highs, lows, rainfall, snowfall, etc...for many towns and cities.
103F with humidity that "high" is rare here! Melbourne's humidities with that temp are usually around 10-20%.
Well it still felt bone-dry to me at 30% RH and 39 Celcius.
To me, there's no humidity if it's not at least 40%;
I simply can't feel any humidity below that.
*In summer, Toronto's dewpoint is usually between 10-20 C, probably never goes below 4 C,
gets as high as 23 C every year and sometimes has been up to a steamy 28-29 C.
I always liked some of those desert names like Death Valley, Furnance Creek and the Funeral Mountains. Conjures up images of skeletons being bleached in the relentless desert sun.
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