But it's a dry heat....
Moderator: Modern Buddy Staff
- Howardr
- Member
- Posts: 1605
- Joined: Thu May 15, 2008 9:42 am
- Location: Tucson, AZ
- Contact:
But it's a dry heat....
I couldn't resist taking this pic today. It was hot but probably not as hot as this thermometer said it was. Buddies do just fine in this kind of weather.
Howard
Howard
- Attachments
-
- Yes, it says 113 degrees.
- 113 degrees.jpg (108.48 KiB) Viewed 1455 times
Iron Butt Association Member Number 42256
Club - The Sky Island Riders.
Publisher: The Scooter 'Zine thescooterzine.com
Club - The Sky Island Riders.
Publisher: The Scooter 'Zine thescooterzine.com
- peabody99
- Member
- Posts: 1775
- Joined: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:19 am
- Location: San Diego
- illnoise
- Moderator Emeritus
- Posts: 3245
- Joined: Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:23 pm
- Location: Chicago, IL
I'm pretty good about always wearing a jacket (at least mesh) and a full-face. Even when it gets up to the mid-90s and humid in Chicago, as long as you're moving, there's a cool breeze and it's not so bad. If you're sweating, the wind cools you more. But Thursday, even with some pretty serious wind, it just felt like I was riding into a hairdryer, just hot dry air blowing past me with no cooling effect. Friday, I decided to forego the jacket, and ended up riding home in the rain, which was more relaxing than that heat the day before.
2strokebuzz: When news breaks, we put it under a tarp in the garage.
- neotrotsky
- Member
- Posts: 1546
- Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:48 am
- Location: Phoenix, AZ
- Contact:
Seeing posts and testimonials like this keep tempting me away from a Stella to a Buddy. You just can't seem to kill these little guys. Granted, the Stella is a tank in it's own right. But still... Arizona heat is the most brutal to any engine. I've had many a "cage" killed by the heat of many different makes. The only two that seem to survive the heat year after year are Mercedes and Suzuki. Explains why our current car is a Tracker 

"Earth" without Art is just "Eh"...
<a href="http://slowkidsscootergang.wordpress.com/">The Slow Kids Scooter Gang</a>
<a href="http://slowkidsscootergang.wordpress.com/">The Slow Kids Scooter Gang</a>
- Diblit
- Member
- Posts: 53
- Joined: Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:03 pm
- Location: Cincinnati, OH
it's gotten up to 100 here in cincinnati for the past couple of days....and muggy as can be!! best advice i got when i bought my scoot (thanks to awesome seth at metro scooter) was to drink lots of water when riding, and not only when it's hot. even in cooler temps the wind against you when you ride will dehydrate you. i always put a bottle of water in my drink holder when i'm riding.
- Tocsik
- Member
- Posts: 1918
- Joined: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:40 pm
- Location: Denver
Denver's been brutal lately:
When I lived in San Diego (Lakeside and Rancho Bernardo, which are inland) the temps would peak around 1:00 and cool off in the evening. Here, the temps hit their highest around 3:00 or later and it might not cool down until 1 a.m.
Our weather is not as uncomfortable as Arizona or places in the South or Mid West but I feel for you folks in those places!
We don't have humidity here, but if you've ever been to Denver or Colorado in the Summer, you know how hot the sun feels here at a mile high.DENVER -- June 2012 will go down in the record books as the hottest ever for Denver - at least back to 1870 when official records started to be recorded.
With two hot days to go, the average temperature for the month will be at least 74.5° - and full 7.5° above normal! The blows the previous record away by over a degree. Before this year, the hottest June was in 1994, with an average temperature of 73.5°.
We also have had the single biggest heatwave in Denver history as the streak from the 22nd to the 26th saw an average high temperature of 103.5 degrees! This streak included two days with temperatures at 105° - the hottest temperature ever recorded for any month in Denver.
When I lived in San Diego (Lakeside and Rancho Bernardo, which are inland) the temps would peak around 1:00 and cool off in the evening. Here, the temps hit their highest around 3:00 or later and it might not cool down until 1 a.m.
Our weather is not as uncomfortable as Arizona or places in the South or Mid West but I feel for you folks in those places!
- kmrcstintn
- Member
- Posts: 435
- Joined: Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:23 pm
-
- Member
- Posts: 34
- Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:20 pm
- Location: NM
My body finds there to be quite a difference between the humid and dry heat. When I was in Atlanta the heat was so bad once that I felt that I was breathing in fire or furnace air, my lungs were in true pain. There is nothing that the dry area of where I am in NM can do to compare to that misery. Sorry but that is how it is for me. Also, the benefits of evaporative cooling can really kick in when it is dry. Again, I only speak for myself but as long as I am hydrated and wearing my sunscreen, it is a safer more pleasant heat in the drylands.
- 2wheelNsanity
- Member
- Posts: 385
- Joined: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:36 pm
- Location: kansas
- LunaP
- Member
- Posts: 1152
- Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:17 am
- Location: Richmond, VA
It's 100 right now.
The last 2 days it's been 100-104, with a higher heat index. Also, power outages across the area due to storms. Local counties have had to open cooling shelters n stuff.
Also, I'm told it's humid as f**k here. I've only NOT been in humidity once in my life and I didn't really know what the hell was going on. It was weird...
We might make a break for the pool downstairs once the sun starts it's descent...
The last 2 days it's been 100-104, with a higher heat index. Also, power outages across the area due to storms. Local counties have had to open cooling shelters n stuff.
Also, I'm told it's humid as f**k here. I've only NOT been in humidity once in my life and I didn't really know what the hell was going on. It was weird...

We might make a break for the pool downstairs once the sun starts it's descent...
My body prefers a dry heat to a humid heat, no question. But my brain doesn't appreciate the dry heat we've been having here in Michigan the past week (and forecast for several more days). The governor is talking about banning open fires and fireworks, and if they're considering that at this time of year, that's serious.
- Rob
- Member
- Posts: 1177
- Joined: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:09 pm
- Location: Munster, IN (Chicago 'burb)
Well, you're speaking for at least two as I agree 100% (which is what the humidity levels have seemed to rise to at times this year.La wrote:My body finds there to be quite a difference between the humid and dry heat. When I was in Atlanta the heat was so bad once that I felt that I was breathing in fire or furnace air, my lungs were in true pain. There is nothing that the dry area of where I am in NM can do to compare to that misery. Sorry but that is how it is for me. Also, the benefits of evaporative cooling can really kick in when it is dry. Again, I only speak for myself but as long as I am hydrated and wearing my sunscreen, it is a safer more pleasant heat in the drylands.
I've been very uncomfortable with temps in the high 70's and high humidity and comfortable in the 90's with low humidity. I'll take high temps over high humidity every time.
Rob
"Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."
- Steven Wright
- Steven Wright
- neotrotsky
- Member
- Posts: 1546
- Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:48 am
- Location: Phoenix, AZ
- Contact:
The temp sign on a bank on the way to a gig showed 114 yesterday!
A funny thing about "dry heat": I was doing sound work yesterday at a women's roller derby bout, and a girl from the visiting team kept going on that 114 degrees was nothing because it was a "dry heat". She kept insisting we were weak and her home state of Georgia was far worse. Did I mention the rec center staff didn't turn on the air in the Gym until an hour after players arrive?
The result? The same girl giving everyone crap for complaining collapsed from dehydration not 20 minutes in. It seems no one told her that with "dry heat" comes flash dehydration. Luckily they had some volunteer EMT's that squared her away.
Heat is deadly in any form. It will just kill you in different ways.

A funny thing about "dry heat": I was doing sound work yesterday at a women's roller derby bout, and a girl from the visiting team kept going on that 114 degrees was nothing because it was a "dry heat". She kept insisting we were weak and her home state of Georgia was far worse. Did I mention the rec center staff didn't turn on the air in the Gym until an hour after players arrive?
The result? The same girl giving everyone crap for complaining collapsed from dehydration not 20 minutes in. It seems no one told her that with "dry heat" comes flash dehydration. Luckily they had some volunteer EMT's that squared her away.
Heat is deadly in any form. It will just kill you in different ways.
"Earth" without Art is just "Eh"...
<a href="http://slowkidsscootergang.wordpress.com/">The Slow Kids Scooter Gang</a>
<a href="http://slowkidsscootergang.wordpress.com/">The Slow Kids Scooter Gang</a>
-
- Member
- Posts: 19
- Joined: Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:39 pm
- Location: Tucson
Re: But it's a dry heat....
I heard a rumor that this business's thermometer is connected to the concrete, making it read hotter than is accurate. There's a bank up the street where the marquee always reads a bit cooler.Howardr wrote:I couldn't resist taking this pic today. It was hot but probably not as hot as this thermometer said it was.
-
- Member
- Posts: 1045
- Joined: Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:44 am
- Location: Alabama
114 is too hot regardless.. I think the problem with high humidity is that you can't get away from it, even in the shade. Your body's cooling system is compromised because you can't evaporate the heat awayneotrotsky wrote:The temp sign on a bank on the way to a gig showed 114 yesterday!![]()
A funny thing about "dry heat": I was doing sound work yesterday at a women's roller derby bout, and a girl from the visiting team kept going on that 114 degrees was nothing because it was a "dry heat". She kept insisting we were weak and her home state of Georgia was far worse. Did I mention the rec center staff didn't turn on the air in the Gym until an hour after players arrive?
The result? The same girl giving everyone crap for complaining collapsed from dehydration not 20 minutes in. It seems no one told her that with "dry heat" comes flash dehydration. Luckily they had some volunteer EMT's that squared her away.
Heat is deadly in any form. It will just kill you in different ways.
from you if the surrounding air is saturated.
Did not even wear my mesh today. Did wear my full face because I won't let myself buy anything else.
- LunaP
- Member
- Posts: 1152
- Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:17 am
- Location: Richmond, VA
neotrotsky wrote:The temp sign on a bank on the way to a gig showed 114 yesterday!![]()
A funny thing about "dry heat": I was doing sound work yesterday at a women's roller derby bout, and a girl from the visiting team kept going on that 114 degrees was nothing because it was a "dry heat". She kept insisting we were weak and her home state of Georgia was far worse. Did I mention the rec center staff didn't turn on the air in the Gym until an hour after players arrive?
The result? The same girl giving everyone crap for complaining collapsed from dehydration not 20 minutes in. It seems no one told her that with "dry heat" comes flash dehydration. Luckily they had some volunteer EMT's that squared her away.
Heat is deadly in any form. It will just kill you in different ways.
Eeyup. The humidity around here may suck, but it doesn't dry you out nearly as bad (despite how people complain about it).
You know, it amazes me how little some people know about basic first aid and emergency procedures. Appalled, actually.
A week or so ago, we experienced something here called a wet microburst (MAY have been a macroburst, by the area of damage vs the article's definition, not sure... the local news only mentioned microburst or called it a storm, but I digress). A microburst creates an identical effect to a tornado, and under similar perceived conditions to the average joe, but is a completely different weather process entirely.
It was a cloudy day, I wanted to get out of the house, so I rode with my mum to a store she wanted to shop at... a little strip mall chain clothing store. On the way there we could see a section of dark clouds headed our way a bit off, but it wasn't alarming at all- the forecast called for isolated/scattered T-storms later within the next few hours, continuing through the evening.
My phone was dying, but as we pulled up to the store I received a severe thunderstorm alert for the area via text (this is a wonderful service you can sign up for through the weather channel... since Lokky's apartment was across town from my work in a different zip code, I signed up for it so that it would give me advance warning for severe alerts, rain, fog and snow on my phone for my work's area code for my scoot commute

It's off for a few seconds, and comes back on. I receive a tornado warning-no watch, straight to a warning- on my phone, then the power goes out for good.
Well, as a kid I found watching all kinds of Discovery and Weather Channel shows about natural disasters and emergency situations absolutely fascinating, so I have a brain when it comes to a situation like this. I get up from my seat and tell the lone cashier and other customer in the store that they need to get back to the dressing room, there's a tornado warning and we probably need to take cover.
My mother receives an upset call from my little sister, who is back at the house, and it cuts off mid- call. Mom wants to leave. The wind has picked up to what felt to me to be at least 45mph when I poked my head out on the sidewalk to warn some people I saw to GTF inside. "Mom, what the hell? You can't go out there in that. I'm not letting you. We're staying here."
I didn't convince her, the weather did. Suddenly, the parking lot was a total whiteout (later I saw online that winds were recorded at 80mph). She then began to lose her cool, and tried convincing the store employee to let us in to the back room, because she wanted to find the load-bearing wall. She wouldn't listen to me, that in a store that small the back room would share a wall with outdoors, the load bearing wall was likely the wall between the dressing room and the stock room, and that the stock room would have all kinds of fixtures in it that we wouldn't want to be in a room with if something actually happened... they finally listened to me that we should stay in the back of the dressing rooms once mom had a look at the stock room. We also had to explain to the one other customer with us why she shouldn't go stand up by the register... she wanted to be in the light, I think, and mother and I kept trying to explain to her that the glass storefront was dangerous. I couldn't believe that.
Seriously. They really should teach a basic first aid/emergency situation course in middle and high school. I think it'd do us all a lot better than learning how to do the macarena, or learn the rules for croquet.