Realistically How Concerned Should I Be About Sweat?

If I can only manage off the mosquitos. Went fishing today, was a humid one.

I wonder how our brethren fair who reside near the oceans, if that has any rusting affect for them. As one shared — since we do our cleaning 'up-keep", we hopefully are in good shape.

It was 8% earlier when it was 104f

I’m between 102-105 this week. The great thing about it is the shade is 40 degrees cooler. :sunglasses:

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Whoah ! :sunglasses:

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I’m jealous of that low humidity. It’s the humidity that absolutely assaults you so much more than pure temp. The whole dry heat thing is a thing…much much more tolerable

Except maybe when you are getting into your car that’s been sitting in the sun without a windshield reflector/visor.

And don’t dare go barefoot on pavement

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Where I live in Florida no metal lasts outside unless it’s well painted or very high grade stainless. The stainless fittings on my boat lasted forever, but it was a good alloy. Regular builder grade stainless door hinges from Home Depot, for example, are totally rusted out in a year or so. This is even on my patio, totally out of the rain, but just from humidity.

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“It’s a dry heat!”
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
When it’s 100 degrees it’s friggin’ hot! you move it feels hotter.
Cactus Junction is downright balmy low 90’s this week but when she
gets up 110-115 wphew! Sweat city! (for me) Then you wear a Plate Carrier
it’s like wear (2) Frying pans!
A Brother in Syria many moons ago had one of those watches (Altitude, Temp, etc)
one day the Temp had ‘Boxes’ across the face of the watch–we just looked at each other
and decided we didn’t want to know. :crazy_face:

68 now @ 05:53 nice

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I feel it similar to wind in the cold/winter. Cold, dry, still air is one thing…whip up some wind and it’s another.

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Damn, you guys living outside the gates of hell?

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I hear ya! We’ve got them pretty bad over here. Plus it’s been raining so much it’s probably only going to get worse lol

I’m curious about that as well!

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I was in SA in college and they had similar weather…well…maybe not 115 but about 98-103 maybe 104 dry heat. Other than getting boils on the back of my neck because my 20 year old self couldn’t be bothered to actually protect myself I prefer that than the humidity we get here lol

Still though talk about extreme heat lol

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That :point_up_2:

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8%?

That should be illegal with what others have lol

Yes jealous I’d take it

I mean, maybe.

It’s still triple digits.

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Yousers… sure is comforting to get the flu report considering it’s the middle of summer. :wink:

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When camping in the height of the summer, I’ll build a fire then sit next to it to cool off waiting for the fire to cook down to coals so I could cook dinner. When you walk away from the fire pit it feels so much cooler :face_with_peeking_eye:

Yea, I’ve lived in NC all my life and a lot of it without AC. I went to southern Louisiana one summer to visit some relatives and I swear it was worse than NC. I couldn’t even walk out the door without sweating. I thought I would never go to places like Arizona or New Mexico. Went to both and many others a few years ago for a vacation and 104 seemed nice compared to 90 in NC. Slept in the bed of my truck almost the whole month trip and was only hot one night in Carlsbad, NM.

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Not concerned.

And that’s all I have to say about that.

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Same in KY. What I hate is that fleas become “immune” to certain drops and have no effect. This week I had to find another brand of drops to put on my dogs.

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