Like Swimming, But Worse
With weather like this, who even needs a pool? Am I right!? O ho hooo! But seriously, I’m drowning over here.
New England doesn’t have the hellishly oppressive temperatures of Arizona, nor does it have the wretched wetness of a place like London but what we do have is humidity and, boy, do we have it in spades!
Short blog post today, there’s not much to be said about some of these non-mythology comics and I have some work to do. I hope everyone is having a great summer so far! Make sure to maintain your scuba gear!
We’ve got it bad in Michigan too! It’s been high 90s-100s every day for the last week and a half, I can’t take it!
I can attest. I live in Port Huron, which is on a river the river at such place as I am both on the river AND the lake. Humidity, man, we has it.
didn’t they just pass exactly the cat shaped deity to complain to?
When has he ever done anything to help anyone? He laughs at their fluid-filled lungs. 🙂
Well, he might care if I get my paws on him!
I HATE this weather!
While I prefer Spring and Autumn,over Winter,
I’d rather have Winter right now!
It’s so hot and humid,
I think you humans have brought your “hell” to Earth!
And YES, I am blaming you humans!
You’ve wrecked the very Earth you live on!..
…
(Calm down, calm down….no need to rant…)
Whew! Sorry about the raving,
I think the weather has affected my nerves.
On a side-note
…Do they still use catgut for violin strings?..
Hmm, probably not… oh well…
Humans didn’t invent seasons.
You seem to like nature, less urban areas are cooler than cities. Pavement absorbs light. Trees photosynthesize it. Of course, there are fewer job opportunities outside of cities. Why give up and leave when you can improve where you are. Green tech, all the wealthy idiots are investing in it.
Side note: I played violin for a while, I had metal thin strings wound with small, thin, ribbons of metal. More durable. Wikipedia said it wasn’t just cats’ gut, I imagine they used the whole animal, using the intestine of food animals. The strings aren’t where the animal product is located nowadays. The hairs on the bow aren’t called “horsehair” for no reason. I’d better shut up. I’ve been waaay too ‘”vocal.”
Nah, you haven’t been too vocal!
I was referring to global warming by
“I think you humans have brought your “hell” to Earth!
And YES, I am blaming you humans!”
My mentioning of the cat-gut strings was to spook the God-kitty…
Yes I am aware that gut strings are rare these days,
whereas the bow strings are still made of horsetail hair…
I used to play viola myself, matter of fact I still have it…
Catgut for violin strings? *shudder*
Lol I know! It’s currently fimbulvinter (forever winter) right now here in Connecticut, and trust me, New England is sooo huuumiddd in the summer. The weather is so insane it needs to go into an asylum or something.
Hate the heat, dislike the humidity. Who the hell thought “oh, I do love getting sweaty, let’s do all the outdoor things in the summer and everyone can just stand around in the sun getting stinky!” What is wrong with winter, I ask? You get goosebumps, you shiver, what is wrong with that compared to oozing salty liquid from your pores until you faint. In virtually all of the populated world it never gets cold enough to get hypothermia. You easily put on more layers to warm up in the winter. How do you regulate temperature during the summer? You BUY a pool membership or live near a beach, you pay tonnes for air conditioning, buy a house with a basement that doesn’t get damp, it is all so expensive! Compared to putting on more layers that you can re-use without even cleaning a few times because you didn’t sweat all over them?
What the fuck, people… You could even light a fire, toast marshmallows, enjoy the smell. Does AC smell nice? If it smells it needs to be fixed! Winter smells of clean, dry air, smoke from the fire, hot food, cocoa, damp leaves, wool scarves… Summer smells? Sweat, deodorant and other sweat covering stenches, smog, trash cooking in the heat, humidity, all the smells that are never released into cold air…
I sleep so much better in the winter, too! Get all bundled up, don’t need the heat on with all these blankets, snuggle down, make a nest, invite the cat. In the summer you just lay there, cursing the heat trapped in the mattress, trying to maintain the cool side of the pillow, trying to have a blanked while you also have it touch as little of you as possible, AC and fan blowing all night, shooing the cat because the warmth of it tips the balance between uncomfortably hot and sweating like a pig.
I have a lot of feelings on this subject.
youmadbro?
I just have a lot of feelings XD
Not where I come from. My winters consist of permanently grey skies, weekly blizzards, 6 foot snow banks, and everything is ALWAYS muddy and wet. Don’t even try and do anything outside. Good luck finding sidewalks, hope you like walking in traffic. Got a car? Shovel it out every other night.
Winter starts at the end of October and ends at the last week of May.
Winter is death. Nature just about disappears, except the bare skeletons of trees, and the ice covered evergreens.
I wish winter only meant cold, clean air. But it’s not for me.
Oh, sounds wonderful. I grew up in Massachusetts. I had a garage, it was a lifesaver. When the sleet and snow got so bad the front door wouldn’t open, we used the garage door’s skill of opening vertically. When the power cut out? Wood burning fire…
I prefer grey skies, its relaxing, like having a massive shady spot. Don’t tell me summer weather is any better. After I moved south to the Land of Never Snow I have seen so much worse weather. My neighbor’s house burned down after being struck by lightning, a tree in my back yard was struck by lightning (removing the top half.) Every single independence day down here has been preceded by a massive lightning storm (that I’ve been stranded in.) I like long winters, too. Once I made a snowman and it was cold enough during spring for the pile of snow to almost make it to summer.
Walking in the road isn’t so bad, because no one dares drive if it is THAT snowy.
I think I’ve become verbose this summer. Its not a good thing.
Easy fix, come back to Mass haha
Haha I wish! I do…
Yeah, but personally I looooove ice and snow and frost! I think I’m part frost giant, seriously.
Trust me on this: London is comparatively non-rainy. If you want a place in the UK where is NEVER STOPS DRIZZLING, try Birmingham or Aberdeen.
I have a pet theory that this is why we Brits talk about the weather so much: if you live in northern Canada, or in Dubai, or so on, you pretty much know what’s it’s going to be like outdoors. Here, it could be doing anything in five minutes with no warning whatsoever at any time of year. Thirty celsius in March followed by below-freezing a week later, snow in June, drought one week and flash flooding the next, and that’s just the last few months here.
I can definitely relate to this one. South Alabama is absolutely miserable during the summer months. Triple-digit temperatures and humidity that never drops below 70%.
Hee! But you’d think that cat would be all-knowing.
There are things it doesn’t care to know. Most things.
According to National Weather Service, east coast should be cooling off next week, down to around the 70’s and 80’s. Let’s hope so…
Be thankful that you don’t live next to the Missouri River.
Triple digit temps, and triple digit humidity. It’s like breathing the worlds hottest and most disgusting soup.
Bwahaha!
Try living on a peninsula, with the Chesapeake Bay to the West, the Delaware Bay (and the Atlantic Ocean) to the East, and the Atlantic to the south!
Delaware has got the worst mixture of weather.
Cold, wet winters and hot, humid summers.
Compared to Oklahoma, where I lived for over 10 years,
the summers here are worse!
I’ve been to Alabama and Florida too, and the humidity down there is ridiculous too, but at LEAST EVERYONE HAS A POOL!
Here in Delaware, I can’t even think of where there is a pool!
(Oh dear, I’m raving again… I best just shut up now….)
This. So much.
Living in Congleton at the moment, and it’s constantly horribly humid inside and chucking it down with rain outside. Joy!
Yeaaa, that’s what I felt like this weekend. Instead of lingering in the basement where the cold reigns, I rearranged and redecorated the main floor. O_O I was quite put out. I think the humidity/heat, all the moving around furniture, putting furniture in the storage, and cleaning without re-hydrating brought on a migraine that lasted til the end of the weekend… should’ve worn one of those drinking helmets with cans of lemonade attached. I tend to forget to take care of myself when getting carried away with projects…
Ha this whole conversation consists of people complaining and talking about the weather! 8D
Lol I live in Australia, it’s mid winter but the temperature was only 21 degrees Celsius. Have fun yanks 😀
My sons are adorable. 🙂
That’s so true. I moved to California from New York a few months back, and I’m still going on about how fantastically not humid it is here. (I realize that I’m late to the conversation, but that’s okay.)
I’m in nova scotia, and I have actually had days where we’ve literally hit 100% humidity… it doesn’t mean the air turns to water, it just means that’s the physical limitation for saturation. In reality, the comic’s not far off from the truth; even at 100% humidity, it feels almost more like you’re drinking than breathing the air.
500%, though obviously impossible given, you know, the greater than 100% value, probably would be pretty accurate with the scuba gear. The real question is, would the viscosity be enough that you could swim through it?