You wimps down south

[goofy!]

So half the country is under "excessive heat watches/warning" but we are not in MN. Earlier today it was 95 degrees with a heat index of 110 and we are not included in the excessive heat watch or warning . People seem to think that we are always cold and one poster even suggested that their summers were more hot and humid than ours . Wimps

The temp did just drop from 92 to 78 as the thunderstorm is rolling in

We have vacationed yearly at both Leech Lake (Cass, MN) and Orlando, Fl and throw in the desert a few times.

The absolutely most tolerable was always Minnesota.

 

[golfgal]

It's 103 with 70% humidity today. I just spent 6 hours watching DD golf and will spend another 3 hours helping at marching band practice today. It felt worse yesterday.

 

[T*Bird]

The ones I feel sorry for are the roofers, construction workers, and road crews. How they work 8+ hours a day outside in this heat I cannot imagine. Most of us (myself included ) complain about the walk from the air-conditioned car to the air-conditioned store or office!

Just looked at the weather channel to see why I am hearing all this lightning and thunder. It still says 94 degrees, feels like 104. Even though it's very dark and ominous looking outside!

 

[golfgal]

We have vacationed yearly at both Leech Lake (Cass, MN) and Orlando, Fl and throw in the desert a few times.

The absolutely most tolerable was always Minnesota.

Of course Cass Lake is more tolerable, it's less than an hour from Canada and about 20 degrees cooler then what you usually see in the rest of the state.

 

[Planogirl]

It's been over 100 degrees here for a long time now and we get little rain all summer. I have no idea what the dewpoint is because I don't dwell on it. I just know that it's hot.

 

[brerrabbit]

Well if this Texas boy is a wimp, then so be it. I am almost 51 years old and have lived on the Texas Gulf Coast my entire life. I played baseball all summer growing up, did two and three a day football workouts in August for 8 years of my life and pay cheap greens fees to play golf to this day because I am willing to tee off after 1:00 pm in the heat of the day. The thing is while a large part of the nation is experiencing above average heat and it's on the news everyday, day after day, the reality where I live is, it's just another Texas summer. I really don't even pay a whole lot of attention to what they say the temp is going to be. We played golf on Saturday starting at 1:30 and on Sunday starting at 8:30 am. I would have preferred to play later so I could have slept some more but had to get my friend to the cruise ship in Galveston by 2:30 so we had to start early.

While I know it's hot just about every where all I can say is that if you live for 51 years with this kind of heat and humidity that starts in April and last through October then you have my blessings to call any one who complains about the heat a wimp.

 

[NewCrew42]

I believe this explains why we're under a heat advisory.

My heat index is the 117! The other day our actual temp was 108.

On Sunday, the dew point was so high, we had condensate on our windows almost all day.

 

[bookgirl]

So half the country is under "excessive heat watches/warning" but we are not in MN. Earlier today it was 95 degrees with a heat index of 110 and we are not included in the excessive heat watch or warning . People seem to think that we are always cold and one poster even suggested that their summers were more hot and humid than ours . Wimps

The temp did just drop from 92 to 78 as the thunderstorm is rolling in

Okay you know when you northeners laugh at us because we shut down the town for 3 inches of snow...well right back at ya.

 

[Minnesota!]

We have vacationed yearly at both Leech Lake (Cass, MN) and Orlando, Fl and throw in the desert a few times.

The absolutely most tolerable was always Minnesota.

Probably b/c you have a lake to jump into when you get too hot Can't exactly do that in FL (w/o fearing gators, snakes, deadly organisms, etc) or in the desert...

I love being on a No MN lake when it's too blasted hot to do anything else! Nothing like laying in the shallow water in the sun!!

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I lived in central MA about 4 miles from the NH border for a while, but I'm from LA and live there now.

I would rather deal with the seasons of Almost Summer, Summer, Still Effing Summer and Christmas than the seasons of Almost Winter, Winter, When will this Effing Winter Effing end? and Roadwork.

OTOH, the truth is that if you're not acclimated to it, heat can be deadly, but cold is just cold. Many years ago I read a doctor from the 1700's writing about acclimation and tropical climes. He said something to affect that people from temperate zones who move to tropical zones tend to die sooner due to all the complications of overheating and due to the additional disease load. He further observed that people from tropical zones who move to more northernly climates tend to complain a great deal. . .

 

[EMom]

Well if this Texas boy is a wimp, then so be it. I am almost 51 years old and have lived on the Texas Gulf Coast my entire life. I played baseball all summer growing up, did two and three a day football workouts in August for 8 years of my life and pay cheap greens fees to play golf to this day because I am willing to tee off after 1:00 pm in the heat of the day. The thing is while a large part of the nation is experiencing above average heat and it's on the news everyday, day after day, the reality where I live is, it's just another Texas summer. I really don't even pay a whole lot of attention to what they say the temp is going to be. We played golf on Saturday starting at 1:30 and on Sunday starting at 8:30 am. I would have preferred to play later so I could have slept some more but had to get my friend to the cruise ship in Galveston by 2:30 so we had to start early.

While I know it's hot just about every where all I can say is that if you live for 51 years with this kind of heat and humidity that starts in April and last through October then you have my blessings to call any one who complains about the heat a wimp.

DH went up north for the better part of a week and would call daily. It was a good 20 degrees cooler where he was. He called once at 6:00 p.m. and it had gotten "down" to 100 degrees here. He asked what the heat index was and I said I hadn't bothered to check. Once you get above a certain level of misery, what does it matter? It had been hovering around 110-115 heat index for days, so I suppose in was in that range.

In Texas, from April on to October, we have hot, hot as h*ll, and hotter than h*ll. Anything under 100 degrees is a blessing.

 

[T*Bird]

I lived in central MA about 4 miles from the NH border for a while, but I'm from LA and live there now.

I would rather deal with the seasons of Almost Summer, Summer, Still Effing Summer and Christmas than the seasons of Almost Winter, Winter, When will this Effing Winter Effing end? and Roadwork.

OTOH, the truth is that if you're not acclimated to it, heat can be deadly, but cold is just cold. Many years ago I read a doctor from the 1700's writing about acclimation and tropical climes. He said something to affect that people from temperate zones who move to tropical zones tend to die sooner due to all the complications of overheating and due to the additional disease load. He further observed that people from tropical zones who move to more northernly climates tend to complain a great deal. . .

DH went up north for the better part of a week and would call daily. It was a good 20 degrees cooler where he was. He called once at 6:00 p.m. and it had gotten "down" to 100 degrees here. He asked what the heat index was and I said I hadn't bothered to check. Once you get above a certain level of misery, what does it matter? It had been hovering around 110-115 heat index for days, so I suppose in was in that range.

In Texas, from April on to October, we have hot, hot as h*ll, and hotter than h*ll. Anything under 100 degrees is a blessing.

At least this thread has gotten funny and moved away from the snipping going back and forth. Maybe the heat gives us southerners a good sense of humor!

 

[lil mermaid]

I'll admit it, I am a wimp. A Minnesota winter would kill me.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Okay you know when you northeners laugh at us because we shut down the town for 3 inches of snow...well right back at ya.

This isn't north/south specific. Where I am in Oregon, it doesn't snow much i.e. if we get snow, it's usually under 3 inches and only once or twice per year. So when we get more, the city goes into shut down. It's a very hilly & mountainous area and drivers here usually aren't really used to it. Not only that, we're not equipped to handle the snow so passes often get shut down.

People, truckers especially, get annoyed about how Portlanders act but I don't really care. Would you want to be driving around with a) a bunch of people from California (a huge chuck of the population here) and b) people who aren't used to driving in the snow at all.

 

[sunnyday123]

"Wimps in the South"?? You have GOT to be kidding me..........the ONLY other "Minnesotans" I know whine like BABIES every time they are near the south and ANY heat! We are SO thankful we live in the south and we RELISH the heat.
It'll be winter soon enough-now THAT we don't enjoy!

Well, we all know how much better the schools are in MN, so obviously the heat must be too!

 

[wdwfan16]

This thread is a hoot!!!!

 

[sunnyday123]

I am talking about these humidity levels--heck the dewpoint was 80 making the humidity level higher.

The whole point is that you have your 110 heat index and excessive heat warnings to go along with that, we have 110 heat index and no warnings .

Sounds like your weatherman dropped the ball. Or are you trying to say that people from MN tolerate heat better and therefore need no "warnings" about the heat?

 

[ajk912]

I think it's because it's always so hot here in the south they put the warnings on in April and don't bother taking them off till October. We don't even pay attention to them anymore. It's summer. It's gonna be miserable. Yeah, someone dropped the ball in MN that day..you guys aren't really used to super high temps like we are, they should have had tons of warnings.

 

[bluesaturn]

Maybe in the grand scheme of things, Minnesota is just not that important.

I'm going to hope that md in your name stands for maryland, because you just made me proud to be a marylander.

 

[NCRedding]

Well, we all know how much better the schools are in MN, so obviously the heat must be too!

MSN had a list of the cities with the best public schools in the country. I immediately thought of this thread. Surprisingly, no MN schools were listed, but I was proud to see NC represented in two categories.