[Litos]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

You realize you posted deviation from normal, right? According to the gospel of Wiki, Houston averages 54 inches of rain a year over 99 days, while Yuma gets a stunning 3.01" per year. How's your argument going?

if you'd read, you'd see i was referring to THIS SUMMER.

i openly told you that it had rained 4 times since February, which is this year.

nowhere did i ever bring up averages.........

"jump to conclusions" much !?!?

[Red Bread]

Originally Posted by Litos

"jump to conclusions" much !?!?

I have that game! If it's rained four times in Houston just since February, that that will be more than the full three inches Yuma will get all year. HTFU, it's hot, it's Houston, that's what you get. Carry on.

[Blake]

Originally Posted by Litos

you pussies are already starting to cool off, HAHAHA !!!!

it's not even September yet - c'mon !!!!

like i've said before - Dallas is hot for like 6 or 7 weeks out of the year. Houston is hot from April to October.



Houston
Humidity: 49%
Dewpoint: 74°
Pressure: 29.86"
Heat Index: 107°

Dallas
Humidity: 33%
Dewpoint: 65°
Pressure: 29.8"
Heat Index: 102°

you make no sense whatsoever. you're completely ignoring anything factual and keep posting your random humidity blotter. humidity doesn't dictate heat. period. it influences the heat index, which IS NOT air temperature. it's a formulaic equation that factors in several atmospheric conditions to give an estimation to what it FEELS like, not how hot it is. give me a fucking break and take your idiocy somewhere else.

[Litos]

our bodies cool down by sweating the shit out of itself.

the sweat evaporates as soon as it leaves our body in low humidity.

when the humidity is so freaking high, the sweat is not able to evaporate = that's why it feels hotter.

everyone knows triple digits doesn't feel hot unless your running high humidty.

it's why people in Yuma, Phoenix are more comfortable than people from Houston, Birmingham, Miami, etc.....



***yawn****

Originally Posted by About.com

Phoenix: Is It Really a Dry Heat?

You've certainly heard the phrase, "It's a Dry Heat." Some people think that this is the Phoenix city motto! You can even find it on tee shirts. The truth is that because our humidity levels are lower than many other regions of the country, 100° may not feel as terrible here as it does when temperatures rise to triple digits in parts of the country that have higher levels of humidity.

Why Does it Feel Hotter When it Is More Humid?
When the humidity is high, sweat doesn't evaporate as much, and so our body loses some of the cooling effect that the evaporation of sweat provides.

Originally Posted by achooallergy.com

The problem with high humidity making us feel hotter is not just that we are more uncomfortable, but that we actually are hotter. And our bodies compensate by working harder and harder to cool us down. When sweating doesn’t work to cool us down and we continue to heat up, overheating results, which causes loss of the water and chemicals that the body needs. Overheating, or more commonly, heat exhaustion, can lead to dehydration and chemical imbalances within the body.

Originally Posted by achooallergy.com

The process of sweating is your body's attempt to keep cool and maintain its current temperature. If the air is at 100-percent relative humidity, sweat will not evaporate into the air. As a result, we feel much hotter than the actual temperature when the relative humidity is high. If the relative humidity is low, we can feel much cooler than the actual temperature because our sweat evaporates easily, cooling *us off.

[ghosthi32]

Originally Posted by Litos

our bodies cool down by sweating the shit out of itself.

the sweat evaporates as soon as it leaves our body in low humidity.

when the humidity is so freaking high, the sweat is not able to evaporate = that's why it feels hotter.

everyone knows triple digits doesn't feel hot unless your running high humidty.

it's why people in Yuma, Phoenix are more comfortable than people from Houston, Birmingham, Miami, etc.....



***yawn****

god you are dumb

[Blake]

litos...thread title: hottest outside TEMPERATURE. not hottest outside HEAT INDEX/RELATIVE HUMIDITY. if you want a valid argument, make a highest humidity thread. otherwise, no one really cares how humid it is there. humidity isn't causing problems for houstonians, while up here in 'tropical dallas', our infrastructure is crumbling because of high air temperatures. power grid stretched to the limit, roads are cracking because of dry soil everywhere, even my fucking house is having serious foundation issues because the soil around my house literally looks like barren desert soil (dry and cracked). your humidity doesn't cause that. that's caused by air temperature. i don't think anyone is particularly comfortable anywhere. if you don't like it, move.

here's a little quiz for you, oh weather god:
KHOU 100153Z 18010KT 10SM FEW250 30/24 A2980 RMK AO2 SLP094 T03000239
KDAL 100153Z 17009KT 10SM FEW140 SCT260 37/16 A2971 RMK AO2 SLP050 CB DSNT NW DSPTD T03720161

what is this and which is hotter? whats the relative humidity? i would much rather have those figures from houston than the ones for dallas. in that mumbo-jumbo, there's every piece of weather data you need. once you extrapolate the data from there, you'll see just how hot it is in dallas, even at 8:53PM. must be nice to have that sea breeze.

[JayKay335i]

Originally Posted by Blake

litos...thread title: hottest outside TEMPERATURE. not hottest outside HEAT INDEX/RELATIVE HUMIDITY. if you want a valid argument, make a highest humidity thread. otherwise, no one really cares how humid it is there. humidity isn't causing problems for houstonians, while up here in 'tropical dallas', our infrastructure is crumbling because of high air temperatures. power grid stretched to the limit, roads are cracking because of dry soil everywhere, even my fucking house is having serious foundation issues because the soil around my house literally looks like barren desert soil (dry and cracked). your humidity doesn't cause that. that's caused by air temperature. i don't think anyone is particularly comfortable anywhere. if you don't like it, move.

here's a little quiz for you, oh weather god:
KHOU 100153Z 18010KT 10SM FEW250 30/24 A2980 RMK AO2 SLP094 T03000239
KDAL 100153Z 17009KT 10SM FEW140 SCT260 37/16 A2971 RMK AO2 SLP050 CB DSNT NW DSPTD T03720161

what is this and which is hotter? whats the relative humidity? i would much rather have those figures from houston than the ones for dallas. in that mumbo-jumbo, there's every piece of weather data you need. once you extrapolate the data from there, you'll see just how hot it is in dallas, even at 8:53PM. must be nice to have that sea breeze.

CUmmmmmmon blake. He's still waiting for his green card, he don't give a fuck about the sea breeze.

Also, hes a horrible human being. Talking about those poor Norwegian kids.

[Blake]

Originally Posted by JayKay335i

CUmmmmmmon blake. He's still waiting for his green card, he don't give a fuck about the sea breeze.

Also, hes a horrible human being. Talking about those poor Norwegian kids.

this i know, but sometimes i can't help but engage idiots. BTM does it all the time.

[JayKay335i]

Originally Posted by Blake

this i know, but sometimes i can't help but engage idiots. BTM does it all the time.

I knowwwww. Him and collins are always talking.

[gizmo335i]

Litos,

I said Dallas avg's ALMOST as high. Below is the graph that shows it's not much different. I don't know why you think it's so "Dry" in Dallas. I grew up there and I remember it being humid as a motherfucker. And it actually avg's higher temperatures. I don't know if you know this but places that avg. high higher humidity tend to be cooler at night. And it keeps the temperatures down. And humid places avg more rain so you get more breaks from the heat. So I WOULD argue that Dallas summers are usually worse than Houston. And this year (you can look at the numbers), Dallas is avging a WAY worse summer than Houston.

http://ggweather.com/ccd/avgrh.htm

Here you can see the avg temps. It's almost the same really. Dallas avg's higher temps in July and August.

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxcli...graph/USTX0327

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxcli...graph/USTX0617

This is kind of a pointless argument. Arguments about humidity are an opinion I think. Humidity is an annoyance. I thought the same way you did until I lived in Arizona for 5 years. I realize you say that you're only talking about this summer...so you're right, Texas and the midwest period for that matter are having a worse summer than Arizona this year...but this is not normally the case. The monsoon season in Arizona sometimes can be good...but usually it's a joke. Usually in Central/Ease Texas, it doesn't get over 100 too many times during the summer. It usually stays high 90's because we get some rain.

But it's cool....we can keep going back and forth on this. I'm no meteoroligist...but I have been fascinated by temperatures across the world for most of my life. I've been in the military for 17 years and I've lived around the world and in both climates here for quite a few years. So I'm just relaying my personal experience with both. I have played softball year round in Arizona and Florida/Mississippi (which BTW are MORE humid than Houston) and I can tell you from being outside all day....humidity is meaningless compared to temperature.

Most people extremely exaggerate temps anyway. When I got to Qatar, people were saying "Man, it was 160 yesterday." The highest recorded temperature on planet Earth is 136 in the Lybian desert. Of course there are a lot of factors and if you read about it, the reports admit that it's probably been higher in places over the years...but hotter means maybe at the most 140. But that would be extremely rare.

I just think heat indexes and wind chills are pretty much meaningless. Actual temperature is what really matters.

People also think the Northwest is the rain capital of the U.S. New York state avg's much more rainfall every year.

OK...I'm getting out of hand now....I love weather arguments...

[JayKay335i]

Originally Posted by gizmo335i

Litos,

I said Dallas avg's ALMOST as high. Below is the graph that shows it's not much different. I don't know why you think it's so "Dry" in Dallas. I grew up there and I remember it being humid as a motherfucker. And it actually avg's higher temperatures. I don't know if you know this but places that avg. high higher humidity tend to be cooler at night. And it keeps the temperatures down. And humid places avg more rain so you get more breaks from the heat. So I WOULD argue that Dallas summers are usually worse than Houston. And this year (you can look at the numbers), Dallas is avging a WAY worse summer than Houston.

http://ggweather.com/ccd/avgrh.htm

Here you can see the avg temps. It's almost the same really. Dallas avg's higher temps in July and August.

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxcli...graph/USTX0327

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxcli...graph/USTX0617

This is kind of a pointless argument. Arguments about humidity are an opinion I think. Humidity is an annoyance. I thought the same way you did until I lived in Arizona for 5 years. I realize you say that you're only talking about this summer...so you're right, Texas and the midwest period for that matter are having a worse summer than Arizona this year...but this is not normally the case. The monsoon season in Arizona sometimes can be good...but usually it's a joke. Usually in Central/Ease Texas, it doesn't get over 100 too many times during the summer. It usually stays high 90's because we get some rain.

But it's cool....we can keep going back and forth on this. I'm no meteoroligist...but I have been fascinated by temperatures across the world for most of my life. I've been in the military for 17 years and I've lived around the world and in both climates here for quite a few years. So I'm just relaying my personal experience with both. I have played softball year round in Arizona and Florida/Mississippi (which BTW are MORE humid than Houston) and I can tell you from being outside all day....humidity is meaningless compared to temperature.

Most people extremely exaggerate temps anyway. When I got to Qatar, people were saying "Man, it was 160 yesterday." The highest recorded temperature on planet Earth is 136 in the Lybian desert. Of course there are a lot of factors and if you read about it, the reports admit that it's probably been higher in places over the years...but hotter means maybe at the most 140. But that would be extremely rare.

I just think heat indexes and wind chills are pretty much meaningless. Actual temperature is what really matters.

People also think think the Northwest is the rain capital of the U.S. New York state avg's much more rainfall every year.

OK...I'm getting out of hand now....I love weather arguments...

I'd take a humid new york summer day a million times before I'd take another 110+ day in AZ.

[gizmo335i]

I agree completely...

[Blake]

Originally Posted by gizmo335i

Litos,

I said Dallas avg's ALMOST as high. Below is the graph that shows it's not much different. I don't know why you think it's so "Dry" in Dallas. I grew up there and I remember it being humid as a motherfucker. And it actually avg's higher temperatures. I don't know if you know this but places that avg. high higher humidity tend to be cooler at night. And it keeps the temperatures down. And humid places avg more rain so you get more breaks from the heat. So I WOULD argue that Dallas summers are usually worse than Houston. And this year (you can look at the numbers), Dallas is avging a WAY worse summer than Houston.

http://ggweather.com/ccd/avgrh.htm

Here you can see the avg temps. It's almost the same really. Dallas avg's higher temps in July and August.

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxcli...graph/USTX0327

http://www.weather.com/weather/wxcli...graph/USTX0617

This is kind of a pointless argument. Arguments about humidity are an opinion I think. Humidity is an annoyance. I thought the same way you did until I lived in Arizona for 5 years. I realize you say that you're only talking about this summer...so you're right, Texas and the midwest period for that matter are having a worse summer than Arizona this year...but this is not normally the case. The monsoon season in Arizona sometimes can be good...but usually it's a joke. Usually in Central/Ease Texas, it doesn't get over 100 too many times during the summer. It usually stays high 90's because we get some rain.

But it's cool....we can keep going back and forth on this. I'm no meteoroligist...but I have been fascinated by temperatures across the world for most of my life. I've been in the military for 17 years and I've lived around the world and in both climates here for quite a few years. So I'm just relaying my personal experience with both. I have played softball year round in Arizona and Florida/Mississippi (which BTW are MORE humid than Houston) and I can tell you from being outside all day....humidity is meaningless compared to temperature.

Most people extremely exaggerate temps anyway. When I got to Qatar, people were saying "Man, it was 160 yesterday." The highest recorded temperature on planet Earth is 136 in the Lybian desert. Of course there are a lot of factors and if you read about it, the reports admit that it's probably been higher in places over the years...but hotter means maybe at the most 140. But that would be extremely rare.

I just think heat indexes and wind chills are pretty much meaningless. Actual temperature is what really matters.

People also think the Northwest is the rain capital of the U.S. New York state avg's much more rainfall every year.

OK...I'm getting out of hand now....I love weather arguments...

you hit the nail on the head. nothing further needed.

[Litos]

Originally Posted by Blake

must be nice to have that sea breeze.

that sea breeze that's blowing hot ait everywhere !?!?

gulf coast sea breeze is more like having a hair dryer the size of Reliant Stadium blowing you while walking to work.....






Houston
Humidity: 88%
Dewpoint: 78°
Pressure: 29.87"
Heat Index: 91°


Dallas
Humidity: 65%
Dewpoint: 70°
Pressure: 29.84"
Heat Index: 87°

[Litos]

yeah, 87 degree waters in the gulf is really proving my point.

this ain't California dude where the water is like 50-60 degrees.

[ghosthi32]

Originally Posted by Litos

that sea breeze that's blowing hot ait everywhere !?!?

gulf coast sea breeze is more like having a hair dryer the size of Reliant Stadium blowing you while walking to work.....






Houston
Humidity: 88%
Dewpoint: 78°
Pressure: 29.87"
Heat Index: 91°


Dallas
Humidity: 65%
Dewpoint: 70°
Pressure: 29.84"
Heat Index: 87°

this proves you are an idiot. thank you come again

[Blake]

Originally Posted by Litos

that sea breeze that's blowing hot ait everywhere !?!?

gulf coast sea breeze is more like having a hair dryer the size of Reliant Stadium blowing you while walking to work.....






Houston
Humidity: 88%
Dewpoint: 78°
Pressure: 29.87"
Heat Index: 91°


Dallas
Humidity: 65%
Dewpoint: 70°
Pressure: 29.84"
Heat Index: 87°

again, you have no idea what you're talking about. i'll break it down for you since you still don't understand. your scientific terms like 'feels like a hair dryer' lend no credence to your argument. sea breezes and land breezes have the biggest influence on houston weather. we're going to focus on convection currents. the sun heats the land much more rapidly than the water. so in the day, when the sun is heating the land, a convection current occurs that causes the air pressure on land to be less than the air pressure at sea, which in turn pulls cool, moist air in off the gulf keeping ambient air temperature cooler than it would be in, say, dallas. the trade off is humidity. ever notice how a lot of days that aren't influenced by a stronger weather system start out clear and become partly cloudy with just generic cumulus clouds? the gulf moisture from the sea breeze causes that on a daily basis. now, the opposite happens when the sun goes down. the solar radiation is no longer heating the land, so the process reverses. cooler air in the upper atmosphere sinks over land and pushes the warm air out to sea, which in turn cools the water down for the process to start all over again the next day. the major benefit to this convection current is the coastal land areas cool off much quicker after sunset. that's something we don't have here. my whole point is this...the humidity will always be there, but the gulf does more good for you than it does bad. it helps cap air temperatures when there isn't a greater weather pattern at large, it also causes you to cool off more rapidly at night, and it brings more frequent rainfall.

besides....WHAT THE FUCK DOES HUMIDITY OR HEAT INDICES HAVE TO DO WITH HIGHEST OUTSIDE TEMPERATURE, YOU FUCKING IDIOT?! this still isn't the worst heat index thread yet, even though you've been trying your hardest to make it that. besides...haven't we already been over this? heat indices just let you know how many beads of sweat will appear on your numb scull in the 20 feet from your air conditioned car to your air conditioned office. air temperature is the shit that fucks things up. and no matter how much anybody refutes your bogus claims, you just won't fucking listen. i mean, seriously, are you retarded? or do you just act that way on the internet? why don't you just talk about things you know about, not argue stuff that you've been proven over and over to know absolutely nothing about. can't you just say something like 'hmm, that's interesting. thanks for telling me something i didn't know!' instead of coming back with the most asinine responses with nothing of relevance to back your bullshit up with? or are you just trying to piss everyone off at this point? i'm gonna go with the latter...

[Red Bread]

What the hell, it's 89 in Dallas and 108 in Houston right now. For once, you deserve to be miserable Litos!

Dallas:

Overcast
89°F
Feels Like: 91°
Wind Chill: 89° Ceiling: 11000
Heat Index: 91° Visibility: 10mi
Dew Point: 66° Wind: 12mph
Humidity: 46% Direction: 30° (NNE)
Pressure: 29.88" Gusts: NA


Houston:

Few Clouds
108°F
Feels Like: 113°
Wind Chill: 108° Ceiling: Unl
Heat Index: 113° Visibility: 5mi
Dew Point: 66° Wind: 5mph
Humidity: 26% Direction: 240° (WSW)
Pressure: 29.82" Gusts: NA

[Blake]

That's because the ridge of high pressure that's been causing this heat wave is still in place and has only moved off slightly to the west. There's an upper level disturbance moving in from the north that caused a squall line, but all the showers that did develop have since fallen apart, although there's a great layer of clouds that's keeping the heat down. I'm a little bummed that the 100-degree streak will be over at 39 days though

[Red Bread]

Originally Posted by Blake

That's because the ridge of high pressure that's been causing this heat wave is still in place and has only moved off slightly to the west. There's an upper level disturbance moving in from the north that caused a squall line, but all the showers that did develop have since fallen apart, although there's a great layer of clouds that's keeping the heat down. I'm a little bummed that the 100-degree streak will be over at 39 days though

Do you talk like that to the ladies? Does it work?

I know, I'm bummed about the record, we made it this far, let's outdo 1980.

[Blake]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

Do you talk like that to the ladies? Does it work?

I know, I'm bummed about the record, we made it this far, let's outdo 1980.

All the time! They love when I talk about pressure ridges. Serious though...I enjoy weather. It's fascinating. I took a couple meteorology classes in college. I probably could have been happy if I made meteorology a career. But not like a weatherman, more like storm chaser.

[JayKay335i]

Originally Posted by Blake

All the time! They love when I talk about pressure ridges. Serious though...I enjoy weather. It's fascinating. I took a couple meteorology classes in college. I probably could have been happy if I made meteorology a career. But not like a weatherman, more like storm chaser.

I took similar courses in college but I'd feel more fulfilled if I were helping to build a razor wire electrified fence between here and mexico. Or helping to dredge and deepen the rio grande.