Check in if you hate the heat

[DerekG]

This is a thread for those who balk when the weatherman boasts about looming 80 degree weather. For those who don't care to wake up in a sweat. For those whose most dreaded Twilight Zone episode is "The Midnight Sun." For those who feel energized when they see their breath in the air.

This is a celebration of beautiful, rainy gloom. For snowfalls. For brisk autumns. For anything not summer.

[Danmel]

1. i am with you Derek

I can't stand the heat. I had to walk today for work in real feel heat of 97 degrees. I was thoroughly drenched. Yuck. At least when it is cold, you can put on a sweater, or drink something hot, or light a fire or cuddle up. When ut is hot, you just can't get comfortable. I want to retire to international falls or winnipeg.

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. I get an upset stomach when it's over 85

and when it's over 90, I down-right bitchy. Fortunately, here in the Pacific Northwest, we don't get a lot of really hot days.

Likewise, in the winter, it's not extreme either. An inch of snow for a couple of days and then winter is OVER.

[Initech]

3. I thought this was about the Miami Heat, but yes I hate both.

[Locut0s]

4. It's been in the 30s (86+) here in Vancouver...

mild for you guys maybe but too hot for us

[Populist_Prole]

5. Check-A-Rooney. Preach on!

It just makes life difficult as hell for me since I work outside. Here in the southeast it permeates my being and totally envelops me as if it were hot wax. Even in leisure time, there's no activity so fun or enjoyable that I can put it out of my mind how uncomfortable I feel.

[XemaSab]

6. It was 116 here last week

n/t

[nadine_mn]

7. hate it - anything over 75 and I hate it

I am such a cold weather gal! I am not one of those finicky people who also complain when its cold outside - I love it, even below zero.

I have lived in the deep south (Louisiana) and out west (Vegas) so I have experienced the thick humid heat and the dry heat and hate 'em both. Give me snow or rain or cold any day!

[femmocrat]

8. Checking in.

I hate the heat. It might as well be the dead of winter because you can't go outside! I am a prisoner to air conditioning.

We have had about 3 weeks straight of hot, humid, and rainy days (PA). The weeds are out of control and it's too muggy to work outside. Bleah.

I actually love winter. I don't mind the snow one bit.

[RebelOne]

9. I hate, hate, hate heat.

And I hate, hate, hate summer. I am a winter person. Bring on the cold.

[pink-o]

10. I'm living in 62 degrees with partly sunny skies here by the ocean in SF.

If you want cooler summers, follow Mark Twain's advice and get on out here every July. Make sure you bring you thick winter jeans and sweatshirts.

I'll have my heat going until September!

[LWolf]

11. I hate heat.

I hate it so much that I allow my house to stay colder than most tolerate for much of the year. In the summer around here, I close the place up when the sun hits, and open it up, windows and doors, when the sun goes down. Even when it's in the 40s at night, the place stays open.

I hate heat so much that I slept in a lounge chair with ice packs under a powerful fan last week during the heat wave.

I hate heat so much that I have evolved into someone who greets clouds with joy.

[hobbit709]

12. There's an old saying in TX

air conditioning is that invention of the devil that allows Yankees to live in TX

[Major Nikon]

20. My A/C is on full time for the next couple of months

Growing up my dad would turn off the A/C after the sun went down every day and he would only allow it to be run during the day for a few weeks during the summer. We had an attic fan that actually made you feel pretty cool at night, or at least it seemed that way. The heat is not that bad if you don't know anything else. The cold is what I never got used to. I'll take 9-10 months of great weather over life up North.

[kalli007]

13. Oops.....thought you meant the Miami Heat

Cuz I do. Hate 'em.

[tblue]

14. Someone I know just died from heat

hiking in the desert. She worked for me and I knew her pretty well. Found out by reading the paper. Yes, I hate the heat. And now it's on my shit list. Don't go hiking in the summer heat in the desert, people!!!

[MerryBlooms]

15. Maybe tmi, but

I'm going through menopause and hot and/or humid weather is miserable.

[fizzgig]

17. oh, i bet

i wonder how my mom did it living in the midwest.

[MerryBlooms]

18. I don't go anywhere without paper towels in my handbag. lol

[GoCubsGo]

16. Only damp heat.

I love dry heat. I can take summer in Phoenix far easier than I can 85 degrees with matching humidity here. At least in the desert, the sweat doesn't stick to you like it does down here in the Southeast. There, you can stay cool with a fine mist of water and a nice breeze--even in triple-digit temperatures. Here, my clothes get saturated within a half hour on most days, even when it's only in the 80s, like today. Yuk.

[romantico]

19. Count me in

Hate the heat. I think I hate the humidity more though. Thing is I am 40 and when I was younger, I did not mind it so much. I thought a couple years ago that it was my age making me more heat intolerant, but it is not. I think our summer's are getting worse. We have always been lucky and have had central air. We use to turn it on just a few times over the summer, during our brief 4-5 day heat waves. Nowadays we leave the AC on from late May til Labor day it seems.

I live in Connecticut and we use to deal with heat and humidity in July and August. I even started a thread a few days ago about where I can travel this time of year to escape.I DO NOT leave the house in this weather and if I do I make the sure the AC in the car works and that where ever I go has AC.I don't even like walking out to the mailbox to get the mail.

I can tolerate the winter much better. Below zero? Sing digits? I can deal with it just fine. Love the autumn and winter. I start getting happy when we begin losing daylight savings. My two favorite holidays, Halloween and Christmas also make the fall/winter worth getting excited for.I love it when it is dark by 5 PM.

I even LOVE the rain. I would fit in just fine if I lived in England or Seattle. I love the rain and cloudy damp weather. So, I guess this thread is for me and everyone here are 'my kind' of people!

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Dry heat - not so bad. Humidity plus heat - FAH-GET-IT !!!!

[love_katz]

22. I have always hated hot weather.

Hot weather is only fun if I can go up to the mountains and swim in a cold mountain stream, go camping and spend the day in the shade, or go to the coast.

Working when it is hot is horrible!

I had heat stroke twice: when I was a baby, and then again when I was a year old (my parents were slow learners on this one). I have remained sensitive to the heat, ever since.

I love mid-fall (after the rains begin) through Spring. Hate Summer.

When it gets hot, I too end up a prisoner of the AC, especially since I can't afford to go up swimming or camping anymore. (Thank you, lousy Rethuglican policies, and greed head oil companies :sarcasm .

[madinmaryland]

23. I HATE the cold. Fucking hate it. ANYTHING BUT WINTER.

[NightWatcher]

24. I'll take 90 over 30 any day. Cold sux

I lose feeling in my hands and toes when it gets too nipply outside. There are reasons I live in Florida and weather is pretty high on the list.

[Still Blue in PDX]

25. I absolutely HATE the heat.

I'm not crazy about cold, either, but anything over 78 degrees is too hot for me.

[liberal N proud]

26. It's not the heat, but the humidity

I can handle the heat, but sweating at 75 sucks. Living in Cleveland for the last dozen years, we suffer from 85% humidity at 75 degrees.

I would welcome some warmth.

[magical thyme]

27. I *wish* it was 80 degrees. It's been 90 here in midcoast Maine

humid, muggy, buggy 90. I have big itchy lumps everywhere now. The local lake water felt like a bath. I ventured out to put my pony in for the night. Swatted 2 deerflies drinking her neck. She has bumps everywhere now, too, and she doesn't usually attract many bugs. When I got back to the house, I discovered my right eyelid is now giant, red and droopy. Turned on the light and could see where I'd been bitten there.

I ate 3 double popsicles today. Had to stop myself from grabbing a 4th. I hate this weather.

[romantico]

28. I

I really hate our weatherman.He was so excited and said tonight some relief is on the way. It's been in the low 90's here for the past 4-5 days and he said Wednesday it will be in the upper 80's but still very humid.His idea of either a joke or a cool front moving in.I'll take 90 days of below zero weather over 7 days of heat and humidity over 85

[Trajan]

29. When people tell me "But Portland is always rainy ane overcast"

I say "Yup" .....

[Jamaal510]

30. I hate when I hear meteorologists act like that is such beautiful weather.

It isn't. What's so great about randomly sweating and struggling to get to sleep in a stuffy bedroom at night? It's probably no big deal for them because most meteorologists are rich enough to afford AC, but most everyone else doesn't have that luxury. I can't speak for everyone else, but I can't sleep when it is warm. It is why I have been recently staying up until 3 or 4AM. Up until last Friday, it was so warm here and temperatures were regularly in the mid 80s. This is a big reason why I want to transfer to Humboldt State University next month. It hardly ever gets above 70 degrees in Eureka and Arcata, plus I like the frequent rain in that area.

[romantico]

31. I

I could not agree more. Today was still hot but the humidity was not "as Bad' as it has been. I turned on the news this morning at 5 AM and our Weatherman said today was gonna be like yesterday with hot muggy humid weather. Well, I just turned the news on at 5PM and an other weatherman said,'not as humid today as it has been'. Like they actually predicted this.Our News station and weathermen LOVE to brag and boast about how they have Doppler weather,the only here in Connecticut but they often get it wrong. They do this in the winter as well. Say we are expecting 8 inches of snow and it will start at 10 AM. The the snow will come at about 3PM and we'll only get an inch or two. They always blame it on 'typical New England Weather'. I can cut the weathermen some slack here and there but lately the weathermen at the station I watch have really been pissing me off.

[Demoiselle]

32. Welcome to Philadelphia.

Hot and humid. Aaaaaaarrrrrrgh. Thank God for air-conditioning.