Hottest Day Yet! - July 23, 2008

Okay, I have a task for all my Blog readers. Actually it's two tasks.
1. turn on your oven, just pick a temperature. When it's to temperature, place your hands just and inch or 2 from the edges of the oven wall. Feel the heat.
2. Get your hair drier. Turn it on high and hot. Blow it on your face and chest.

What you have just experienced:
1. What the sun feels like on exposed skin between 10 AM and 6 PM.
2. The wind that accompanies said sun blast.

That's what it has been like here for the past month. August has been historically hotter. So we have to look forward to this the next 4-6 weeks. They say September starts to cool off again. I sure hope so.

So you may ask what prompted this short and highly demanding blog entry. Well, today was the hottest day that we've experienced thus far. We have to take tempurature and humidity ratings with a wet bulb hourly between 8 AM (0800) and I assume 7-8 PM. (1900-2000). Today, with all the readings and calculations....

Air/Actual Temperature: 130 degrees F.
Heat Index (Feels Like Temp): 160 degrees F. (No, that is not a typo--- one hundred and SIXTY DEGREES).

I hope you all are enjoying your nice cool temperatures back in the states. 90 degrees here is what it is like indoors, and what a relief it is!

Oh, and next friday is August and that is another month closer to getting the Hell (appropriate given today's temperature) out of here!