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Be careful in this heat people

no life said:
I love the heat and humidity, Dirty Jerzey is a state that seems to get most of the USA weather and summer is the best season.

just drink things that are made with water like iced tea and/or lemonade. And don't over-do your work/fun and take breaks. Gatorade was a drink i loved when i was overly active and could drink it without cramping up. Nowadays there are mix-ins like liquid IV that are really good to keep people from drying out. Things a few people i know add to water at work or if they are out and about.

Enjoy this great weather and take breaks to be "safe" like if you were going to go to a range to shoot a P320...
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Coming from Jerz to NC i thought heat wouldn’t bother me down here, but holy fudge did i underestimate 😂. I love the fact i can wear shorts and short sleeves all year, but damn, the summer is brutal here.
 
Three layers( thermals tops and bottoms, long sleeve t shirts , then your “greens” at steel companies “melt shop” . Ambient air temps were insane at the caster deck working within feet of liquid steel.
Our teammates had to pay attention to their urine color. The clearer the better. 10-15 minutes work intervals before going inside air conditioned pulpit for breaks. Generally if you were thirsty you were already dehydrated.
Iron and Steel workers are some the toughest and hardest working folks I’ve ever been around.
Be safe folks, stay hydrated with mix of water and Gatorade. We usually recommended 3 waters for every 1 Gatorade. Take breaks and pay attention to what your body is telling you.
 
east/gulf and west coast humidity is a world apart! i can handle the west coast humidity, but no way in he-double hockey sticks i can deal with east/gulf humidity! was at a family gathering between la and sd. we flew there and when the plane door opened............wow, what a difference between la and sd! 90 in la and 121 in sd area. i've lived pretty much all my life in the same town and still can't stand the weather here............well, the heat that is! from my experience i don't buy into the whole "if you don't pee enough, you need more water", but that's just me. others i can tell they need too. now, if i were on the east/gulf area, then oh ya, i'll need that h2o! i think it's more about the sweating than peeing when it comes to the h2o requirements. from my 48-60 hour straight work days in 90-100* (except for nights being 70-80's) i probably peed 4 times, but did drink a lot when i had time. 120 acres of alfalfa by yourself is no fun for sure!
 
TEXASforLIFE said:
east/gulf and west coast humidity is a world apart! i can handle the west coast humidity, but no way in he-double hockey sticks i can deal with east/gulf humidity! was at a family gathering between la and sd. we flew there and when the plane door opened............wow, what a difference between la and sd! 90 in la and 121 in sd area. i've lived pretty much all my life in the same town and still can't stand the weather here............well, the heat that is! from my experience i don't buy into the whole "if you don't pee enough, you need more water", but that's just me. others i can tell they need too. now, if i were on the east/gulf area, then oh ya, i'll need that h2o! i think it's more about the sweating than peeing when it comes to the h2o requirements. from my 48-60 hour straight work days in 90-100* (except for nights being 70-80's) i probably peed 4 times, but did drink a lot when i had time. 120 acres of alfalfa by yourself is no fun for sure!
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Humidity east of the 100th Meridian is suffocating & swealtering to various degrees.

Glad I got out of it.
 
Sharks79 said:
I was a numpty yesterday and cut the grass when it was at hottest. Reached that point no longer was sweating and then went in for a break. So I was uncomfortable and wife was yelling at me for being dumb…was a great afternoon 😂
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You're lucky. Ya got to do the job. My Mrs. starts in on me before I finish my coffee. "Don't you even think you are going out in this heat/cold. You WILL take care of yourself. You will outlive me if I have to kill ya" o_O
 
Talyn said:
Humidity east of the 100th Meridian is suffocating & swealtering to various degrees.

Glad I got out of it.
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the difference between the atlantic and pacific waters are so different when it comes to humidity percentages or any water borders (ie, great lake areas). with the pacific being warmer than the atlantic year around creates less than the atlantic (or maybe just feels like it).
 
TEXASforLIFE said:
the difference between the atlantic and pacific waters are so different when it comes to humidity percentages or any water borders (ie, great lake areas). with the pacific being warmer than the atlantic year around creates less than the atlantic (or maybe just feels like it).
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IMO, the Gulf (much warmer than the Pacific) is the main cause of the humidity in the eastern 1/2 of the country.

The various low/high pressure systems suck humidity out of the Gulf and send it into the Midwest & East were it sits.

We very, very rarely get any Gulf moisture (= higher humidity than normal) here due to retrograde pressure systems.

Most of our weather comes off the Pacific, but we're at the uper extent of a summer monsoon when moisture gets sucked up from the Gulf of California.

In the winter Pacific moisture can mix it up with cold waves coming down from Canada for big snow dumps.
 
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Jester560 said:
Just another summer day in Alabama
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Installed a machine in Winfield AL during summer, that was ridiculously hot. My gauge was always the amount of cigarettes i would smoke during the day. Some jobs i wouldn’t go outside at all to burn one because it was like frying an egg and bama was one of those places. Forth worth and Lincoln Nebraska were others. Nebraska was actually worse around 5pm.
 
Sharks79 said:
Installed a machine in Winfield AL during summer, that was ridiculously hot. My gauge was always the amount of cigarettes i would smoke during the day. Some jobs i wouldn’t go outside at all to burn one because it was like frying an egg and bama was one of those places. Forth worth and Lincoln Nebraska were others. Nebraska was actually worse around 5pm.
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Winfield is only about 1.5 hours south of me. I am hurt you didnt call😉😉
 
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