But it's a dry heat...

[Brad Johnson]

Temp is a chilly 110 deg F. Relative humidity ? A swampy 4%

Cookout plans canceled. Alternate plan of staying anywhere with air conditioning and cold beverages, engaged.

Brad

[Fly320s]

Good for smoking meat

[Monkeyleg]

Yeah, I was out in Utah and Nevada many times in July when the temps in the afternoon hit 110 or even 120. Dry heat? Doesn't make a difference. Find air conditioning immediately, then an air-conditioned motel room.

[230RN]

Yeah, dry heat.  Shrivels your eyeballs and makes nose pickin'  
'n blowin' difficult.

There are times I wish Chapstick would make one fer yer nostrils.

Hey, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, you listening?

Humidity suddenly jumped from its normal low to a whole 37% about an hour ago, and I sure felt it.

"When the weather's hot and sticky,
That's no time for dippin' dicky.
When the frost is on the punkin,
That's the time for dicky dunkin'."

I refuse to sign this one on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate me.

[Monkeyleg]

Yeah, dry heat.  Shrivels your eyeballs and makes nose pickin'  
'n blowin' difficult.

There are times I wish Chapstick would make one fer yer nostrils.

Hey, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, you listening?

Humidity suddenly jumped from its normal low to a whole 37% about an hour ago, and I sure felt it.

"When the weather's hot and sticky,
That's no time for dippin' dicky.
When the frost is on the punkin,
That's the time for dicky dunkin'."

I refuse to sign this one on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate me.

Buy nasal drops. I always kept a big bottle in my motorcycle bag. Kept my nose from drying out and bleeding.

[BlueStarLizzard]

If I could send you some of Virginia's humidity, I totally would.

[K Frame]

4% humidity?

You are a man in need of a swamp cooler.

[lupinus]

At 110 I don't care, I'm making my own humidity bubble. A/C stat.

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[230RN]

Swamp coolers usually work pretty darned good out here.

I think most of the large buildings in downtown Denver use them to chill air being circulated through the building.

I seem to remember there being some problem with buildings creating enough humidity in the local atmospheres that "all" the nearby buildings had difficulty cooling their own air.

HVAC / architect guys, feel free to comment, but I recall reading about that in the newsrag a couple of years ago.

Terry

[K Frame]

Friends of mine outside of Denver cool their house very nicely with swamp coolers.

[Jamisjockey]

They suck when you get summer monsoons.  Had a rental we were in in salt lake that was cooled with one.  Summer thunderstorms and even the smallest uptick in humidity would kill it's effectiveness.

[K Frame]

They suck when you get summer monsoons.  Had a rental we were in in salt lake that was cooled with one.  Summer thunderstorms and even the smallest uptick in humidity would kill it's effectiveness.

Not as big of an issue in the high desert.

[Perd Hapley]

Swamp coolers usually work pretty darned good out here.

I think most of the large buildings in downtown Denver use them to chill air being circulated through the building.

I seem to remember there being some problem with buildings creating enough humidity in the local atmospheres that "all" the nearby buildings had difficulty cooling their own air.

HVAC / architect guys, feel free to comment, but I recall reading about that in the newsrag a couple of years ago.

Terry

Are you talking about screw chillers?

[K Frame]

"screw chillers"

My guess is he's confusing swamp coolers with a cooling tower based HVAC system.

Not all of those use screw chillers.

But, depending on the cooling requirements, enough water towers in an area can cause a micro climate.

San Antonio is a good example of man-made microclimate. There, though, it's apparently mostly caused by non-native plant species such as lawns and other ornamentals.