[elky] Re: Fwd: HOW HOT IS IT?????
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:16:39 -0500
Exactly. And say the humidity is 100% at 80* well as
the temp goes up the humidity goes down. Same amount of water in the air but
the air is able to hold more. So... Say it's 80* and 50% humidity. Well at
90* and 50% humidity there is quite a bit more water in the air and to
compare humidity by given temperature you have to go by the dew point or
grains of water. Basically when the dew point gets to 60* or more it's
considered humid.
Sometimes in the hot part of the day the temps will be around
105* and the relative humidity will drop to around 27%. Now many would say
that's a dry heat. Well no it's not because the air is still holding just as
much moisture as say 80* and around 55% humidity. Hence the use of dew point
and it's not a dry heat.... Higher temps just mean that the air can get even
more uncomfortable. Also with that 105* temp and 27% humidity the heat index
is 109*. Now that is lower than it typically is here. Lately the heat index
has been around 105* to 122* with full sun and everything including the
ground heat soaked. The ground is so hot you don't have to use the hot water
knob when taking a shower. If it were just me I would turn the water heater
off, it's that hot.
Right now here the dew point is 62* and it will rise
through the day usually. It's 80* as well and the low for the night was 79
so it was a cool night. Our weather the last almost 3 months now has been
very easy to predict. 80* lows at night and 103 highs during the days and
that would be the cool days. Pretty much every day with the few weeks of
108* and 85* low temps.
As for humidity the best way to really measure it
is by grains but that's not a realistic way to measure it so short of that
ignore the humidity and look at the dew point.
Robert Adams
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Jared Ryan <jryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No. 100% relative humidity simply means that the air is fully saturated.
> It is the point at which the air cannot absorb any more water. It is
> possible to have 100% relative humidity and not have any precipitation or
> even fog. It happens in Houston all the time. The air *feels* thick, but
> there is no visible water.
>
> Remember that relative humidity is a measure of how much water is in the
> air, compared to what it *could* hold at that temperature. Warmer air can
> hold more water than colder air. 40° F air at 100% RH has a tiny fraction
> of the amount of water as 90° F air at 100% RH.
>
> Absolute humidity is the measure of the actual amount of water in the air,
> but relative humidity means more to us in terms of how the air feels and
> especially the heat index (a measure of how hot the air feels), so RH is
> what is normally given in weather reports.
>
>
> On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:46 AM, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Hey isn't 100% humidity solid water?
>
> Smokey Mt Frank
>
> In a message dated 7/19/2011 10:32:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> johncgg@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Not entirely true Robert. It was 89 at 8 AM this morning here. All the
> windows had condensation because of the humidity. Fog driving Nate to the
> train today was so thick you couldn't see a block. 95%+ humidity. Liquid
> air.
>
> Still not nearly as hot as you. I couldn't do it. I could handle Duluth
> better in the winter. Give me what you flew in to in Jan. here, over your
> heat down there, any day.
> JC
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> It's been 100* or higher every day since the end of
>> may. Nightly lows are rarely below 80. The other night it was 84 for a low.
>> And it's only around that temp for about 2 hrs. It's usually the same temp
>> at 9 pm as it is 9 am and that's right now and it's 96*.
>>
>> I haven't figured out the complaints with the heat
>> all the sudden in many areas up north. You guys cool down at night... After
>> you have daily temps of 103+ every day 90*s in the early morning and late
>> night and everything is heat soaked, buildings trees the ground and no
>> appreciable rain since last year I don't want to hear complaints about the
>> heat.
>>
>> On the upside.... We installed the 2 ton window AC
>> in the shop today. Works good. Might get it down to the 90s in there. Need
>> another foot of insulation all around.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Adams
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:56 PM, John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> You need to get something that will blend in with the locals Frank. A
>>> tired Elky that you can store stuff in.
>>>
>>> Cindy says the Mini temp gauge says 98 in the shade, 101 in the sun.
>>>
>>> JC
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, <STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's not my dog, but thought you get a kick out of it. We are fine,
>>>> Dorothy is volunteering at the hospital, trying to get her foot in the door
>>>> there for a job.
>>>> I sold my SUV so we are now down to one vehicle. Unless we hit the
>>>> lotto, I don't see another hot rod in my future. Still smiling in North
>>>> Carolina
>>>>
>>>> Smokey Mt Frank
>>>>
>>>> In a message dated 7/19/2011 12:26:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>> printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> poor baby!
>>>>
>>>> we're not getting it. I just took the dogs for their walk and it's 56*
>>>> and sprinkling. We started down to the El Camino and Chevelle show in
>>>> Oregon Sunday and quit before we got there it was raining so hard. Figured
>>>> no one would take a nice car to park in a muddy field in the rain. A few
>>>> nice warm days but for the most part it's just cool and wet. Nothing will
>>>> change until that hot stuff in the middle of the country decides to move
>>>> east.
>>>>
>>>> How are youz doing?
>>>>
>>>> Mary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Smokey Mt Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> From: ms01031@xxxxxxx
>>>> To: stillfranksfault@xxxxxxx
>>>> Sent: 7/18/2011 10:26:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
>>>> Subj: Fwd: HOW HOT IS IT?????
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> ----- *Subject:* Fwd: HOW HOT IS IT?????
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>>>> *HOW HOT IS IT????*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *One picture is worth a thousand words, send it on to those who ask
>>>> you the same question.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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