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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Southern California desert
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Make sure you never touch your steering wheel unless you have gloves! Most people have window shades. The intensity of the heat is overwhelming & prohibits anything outdoors that requires exertion. I once spent a week in Palm Springs\ Rancho Mirage w/ family members thinking we were getting a great deal by renting a house on a golf course. Nobody was there & prices are great. Something people fail to tell you in Palm Springs is how humid it can get. Can you image relative humidity above 70% in 110F heat? We spent as much time as possible swimming in a pool they actually cool down since the sun will push the water temp to over 100F The only time we could golf was before sunrise & it was already 90F.

I'm sorry but I love Palm Springs from November to March; summer comes very early & lasts forever in the California desert. How many people even live in places like Borrego Springs\ Brawley\ Blythe\ Needles? Death Valley was 112F yesterday.

I was raised in the Central Valley & know how long summer lasts & begins to drive people crazy.
Well, the less people in the Valley in the summer the better, like when the snowbirds go home, the locals an actually get around, get parking places, etc...
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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:39 PM
 
Location: Coachella Valley, California
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Well, the less people in the Valley in the summer the better, like when the snowbirds go home, the locals an actually get around, get parking places, etc...
Yes - we can get into restaurants without having to wait 45 minutes! Less out of state drivers to ruin our "pattern".
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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Coachella Valley, California
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Make sure you never touch your steering wheel unless you have gloves! Most people have window shades. The intensity of the heat is overwhelming & prohibits anything outdoors that requires exertion. I once spent a week in Palm Springs\ Rancho Mirage w/ family members thinking we were getting a great deal by renting a house on a golf course. Nobody was there & prices are great. Something people fail to tell you in Palm Springs is how humid it can get. Can you image relative humidity above 70% in 110F heat? We spent as much time as possible swimming in a pool they actually cool down since the sun will push the water temp to over 100F The only time we could golf was before sunrise & it was already 90F.

I'm sorry but I love Palm Springs from November to March; summer comes very early & lasts forever in the California desert. How many people even live in places like Borrego Springs\ Brawley\ Blythe\ Needles? Death Valley was 112F yesterday.

I was raised in the Central Valley & know how long summer lasts & begins to drive people crazy.
I have never, ever experienced that kind of humidity - except maybe once in over 12 years of living here. It's pretty dry here.
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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:44 PM
 
Location: Southern California desert
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Happ must have showed up on an unusual weekend..there is some humidity, more than there used to be, but...that sounds pretty high, it's not normally that bad
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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:52 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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I think it was much tougher living through Ohio summer nights with its brutal 85-100 degree summer days with absolute brutal humidity - the kind that made your entire body sticky and your breathing heavier because all of the air around you was heavier. I also grew up without air conditioning. Try going to sleep like that. I'll take a dry 100 every day of the week instead of that!
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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:53 PM
 
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Make sure you never touch your steering wheel unless you have gloves! Most people have window shades...

I'm sorry but I love Palm Springs from November to March...
Yeah I forgot to mention the shades: must have.

No need to feel sorry. I really treasure the memories of working 15 months in Palm Springs. Towards the end I was thinking about relocating there, but unfortunately the job evaporated. I've always loved the desert.

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To a certain extent, yes, but Phoenix has a virtually identical climate to Palm Springs...
I've often said the same thing. I recall working in PS and each night watching television the Phoenix weather was almost the same as ours.

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That has never happened here, and it probably has never happened anywhere on this planet.

110 degrees with 70% relative humidity would mean ...
Would mean get out of the sauna!
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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:55 PM
 
Location: los angeles
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I have never, ever experienced that kind of humidity - except maybe once in over 12 years of living here. It's pretty dry here.
I'm surprised because La Quinta is in the Coachella valley. The high deserts [ie. Joshua Tree\ Victorville\ Palmdale] have lower humidity. I have never experienced humidity problems in Las Vegas because it is over 2000' elevation. But Phoenix\ Yuma\ Imperial-Coachella valleys pull in moist muggy air from the Gulf of California by July & thunderstorms are not uncommon. For example, during the time I vacationed in Palm Springs. After dinner one night we decided to drive down to Indio to look at the groves of date palms. We only got down to Palm Desert & a wicked-looking thunderstorm was moving our way. As soon as it began to rain we turned back to our rental. The thunderstorm was as strong as I have ever seen w/ abundant lightning\ strong winds-dust\ torrential rains. It got so intense that we even left the sheltered porch for fear of dangerous lightning. The next day we saw on the news that Highway 111 experienced a flash flood & cars filled with mud right up to the car windows
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Unread 05-17-2009, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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110 degrees with 70% relative humidity
Heat index = 194F
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Unread 05-17-2009, 03:07 PM
 
Location: Southern California desert
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There are occasional thunderstorms, yep they roll through and they roll out, flash flooding but high desert gets a higher share of flooding, look at las vegas..On the whole, however, it is a drier heat. Again..less folks in town, the more room for us...
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Unread 05-17-2009, 03:34 PM
 
Location: los angeles
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Early summer isn't that bad. I took care of an ailing aunt by visiting her\ cooking her a week's worth of meals each weekend. May & June are hot but not uncomfortable & Thursday evenings when they close Palm Drive to travel for street fairs is delightful. The warm dry air is great & most restaurants with patios have water sprays.
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