A buck 30 in Death Valley

[Maggot]

Thats hot. Ive been in 117% driving across Arizona in a truck with no ac. Had to keep the windows up because the wind would scald you. Ill pass on 130.



Sunday's Searing 130-Degree Temperature in California's ...
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3 hours ago - An automated measuring system in California's Death Valley reported a temperature of 130 degrees during a blistering heat wave on Sunday, a reading that would be among the highest ever recorded globally if it is confirmed.

 

[_Windrider_]

I was i. Death Valley in late June. It was like 115 that day. But it’s a dry heat so it’s no biggie

 

[Broncovan]

Thats hot. Ive been in 117% driving across Arizona in a truck with no ac. Had to keep the windows up because the wind would scald you. Ill pass on 130.


Sunday's Searing 130-Degree Temperature in California's ...
www.nbclosangeles.com › weather-news › death-valley...

3 hours ago - An automated measuring system in California's Death Valley reported a temperature of 130 degrees during a blistering heat wave on Sunday, a reading that would be among the highest ever recorded globally if it is confirmed.

Hottest I've been was 122 at Khobar Towers in Saudi. Thought I was going to melt into the flightline.
There were days that it was well over 100, and 100% humidity. Couldn't see 30 feet to the blast walls.

 

[Jgunner]

Been working in 115+ a lot this summer, many times in dead air. Shoot in it too. Drink water and ignore it.

 

[_Windrider_]

Hottest I've been was 122 at Khobar Towers in Saudi. Thought I was going to melt into the flightline.
There were days that it was well over 100, and 100% humidity. Couldn't see 30 feet to the blast walls.

Bahrain was bad too. I remember my boots sticking to the tarmac.

 

[Snipe260]

Bahrain was bad too. I remember my boots sticking to the tarmac.

You shouldn’t have been dragging the bitch around with no legs!

 

[phxfa]

120 here the other day (Phx)

 

[Drew890]

It was 113 today at my house in Las Vegas. Not too tragic.

 

[Jgunner]

120 here the other day (Phx)

It was? What day? I thought i would have heard about it.

 

[HeavyAssault]

 

[PinesAndProjectiles]

But it’s a dry heat

So is a brush fire...

 

[Sandhog308]

So is a brush fire...

So is a oven

 

[srtsam]

130 is hot. If you want hot though you should try 85 degrees with 100 percent humidity in memphis in july LOl. It was disgusting.

 

[acudaowner]

mmmmm toasty !

 

[fdkay]

I live on the South Texas Coast now, spent 6 months during the summer in Charleston, S.C. and 4 years in Yorktown Virginia, years ago.
I also did a year in Kuwait and 6 months in Bahrain.
My time in S.C. and Virginia gave me tremendous respect for the Revolutionary and Civil War era soldiers that wore wool uniforms.
I remember going outside in Kuwait, on days that it only got to 105 or so and thinking "damn, it's not too bad today".
Now, I can stand in the shade, with a breeze blowing and have sweat dripping off of me.

 

[phxfa]

It was? What day? I thought i would have heard about it.

Last Friday

 

[hlee]

Sweat and vapor pressure, and why a dry heat “isn’t that bad...“ Your body cools by sweating. We all know that. Humid air is full of water. We all know that too. However, it is not the act of sweating that cools your body. It is the evaporation of that sweat from your skin that carries away the unwanted heat. Humid air is already full of water and doesnt readily accept more. When you sweat in a really dry climate, you may not notice it because it can instantly vaporize and carry the heat away. It’s not that you are not sweating, it is that you are sweating very efficiently. Sweat soaks your shirt, and pools in your boots, and gives you a raging case of the swamp ass on a 95 degree day in the shade in South Texas because the air is humid and the sweat doesn’t have anywhere to go. Water dripping off of your body can carry away some heat. And, you can get some convective cooling if there is a breeze blowing on your sweaty shirt. But, you are sweating very inefficiently because the sweat cannot evaporate efficiently.

Ok, now back to your bitchfest about the weather...

 

[Blue Sky Country]

I was i. Death Valley in late June. It was like 115 that day. But it’s a dry heat so it’s no biggie

Yep. 122F dry heat is still better than 89F with 90% humidity. Shanghai in the summer has a combination of BOTH. 100+F and 94+% moisture right from the Pacific Ocean. Even the Metro stations are air conditioned. Always wondered how they did it until I saw the powerful downward facing 'force shield' fans at the entrances of every tunnel, just like the ones at the front doors of supermarkets and shopping centers, but even bigger.

 

[Fret]

 

[Ravenworks]

Okinawa sucked, Q-Huts and no AC but we just drank more.
That's about all there was to do back then, drink more.

 

[MrSmith]

I lived two summers in Furnace Creek, then, later, my wife and I lived in Furnace Creek for about a year and a half. At 3000 Foot Level and Amargosa for another year while I dug holes in the ground. I've mentioned it before. Beautiful place but really warm in the summer. Warmest we ever saw was 127F, as verified on our outdoor Wallyworld thermometer. We always turned off the hot water heater and used the opposite faucet in the summer.

I've seen five 4th of July parades in Furnace Creek. Really interesting place in the late '70s, and early '80s.

Thank you,
MrSmith

 

[The D]

Fuck. That.

The older I get the more I hate heat and humidity

 

[Soulezoo]

Hottest I've been was 122 at Khobar Towers in Saudi. Thought I was going to melt into the flightline.
There were days that it was well over 100, and 100% humidity. Couldn't see 30 feet to the blast walls.

I remember those days pal. At midnight, over 100* and foggy. I missed the bombing by a month. I was in the tower that was hit, on the 5th floor.

 

[Soulezoo]

People tend to think that being in Saudi or the middle east is dry. Let me assure you it's not. When the hot wind blows from the north out of Iraq, yes, it's like a blow torch and dry. But a south wind from the gulf will choke you with the humidity. Different parts of the area I have gone out to the flightline at 6am, it was already past 100* .... and foggy. FOGGY! Ever work in a dry cleaner or laundry in the summer? Like that but worse. I think the worst I was in was Manama Bahrain in late '90's and maybe 2000. Officially from the Naval weather station on base it was 130* with 92% humidity. Over 180* on flightline. Ouch.

 

[rjacobs]

I was in Kuwait city in July 2017... it was 52c... 125f...

I asked our handler while we were standing outside waiting on the transportation how they dealt with living in a hair dryer and he said "oh, today its no big deal, last summer it hit 65c and the paint got damaged on my car and I had to have it repainted"... 65c is 150f ....ambient... holy shit.

Abu Dhabi was 110f and I went to "cool off" on a swim in the persian gulf... felt like getting in my hot tub... They keep the pool itself cooled to like 85 I think is what the guy told me. 30c...

 

[BullGear]

But it's dry heat. It's not so bad then.....

 

[Snuby642]

Gila bend Az 123 in the shade.

On the tarmac with a f-4 who knows?

Good thing I was 20 years old.

You learn to cover tools or drop them.
Not funny in a cockpit , crew station for you pc types.

Riding in a dodge 6 pk with no ac 2 hours each way to get there.

After working my regular 12-7 midnight shift and volunteered to do it. Ocasional training efforts had me volunteering more for the same .

Stupid dayshift troops never caught on that the msgt would give me a 3 day pass fot the next weekend every time.

I hunted quail on the closed ranges on Gila bend, pro tip roll your windows all the way up when leaving your vehicle.

A sqaudran of bomb runs will fill it with several inches of fine desert dust that takes a month + to get out.

 

[Huskydriver]

I was in Kuwait city in July 2017... it was 52c... 125f...

I asked our handler while we were standing outside waiting on the transportation how they dealt with living in a hair dryer and he said "oh, today its no big deal, last summer it hit 65c and the paint got damaged on my car and I had to have it repainted"... 65c is 150f ....ambient... holy shit.

Abu Dhabi was 110f and I went to "cool off" on a swim in the persian gulf... felt like getting in my hot tub... They keep the pool itself cooled to like 85 I think is what the guy told me. 30c...

Yep... Nothing beats playing tag with lead 115-120 F in full kit black on water....good times