[Omahahonors]

Originally Posted by dogwalker425

I keep seeing this "horrible weather 90% of the time claim." I'd like to know what exactly constitues "horrible weather." Yeah, the extreme temps, wind and humidity are annoying but that's hardly 90% of the time. Are we talking days when it's not 70 degrees and sunny? Is that what "horrible" means?

90% of the time would have to be no more than 72 degrees and no less than 68 and sunny..

In Nebraska, the amount of extreme temperatures is constituted to less than 20% and sometimes less than 10% of the year.. Everything else is a real grey area where nitpickers like to nitpick.

[TheBeagleLady]

Originally Posted by Omahahonors

90% of the time would have to be no more than 72 degrees and no less than 68 and sunny..

In Nebraska, the amount of extreme temperatures is constituted to less than 20% and sometimes less than 10% of the year.. Everything else is a real grey area where nitpickers like to nitpick.

If anything other than that is horrible, the pansies should just move to San Diego. LOL

[mostie]

I was born and lived my entire life in California, even on the Mojave Desert where the temps would hit 120 in the summer, and the 90's in the dead of winter. I've lived in Omaha for a little over a year, and although the heat hardly broke 100, it was completely miserable because of the humidity, which was just wretched. California has dry heat, so even though it's a lot hotter, it doesn't feel nearly as hot because of that, and it's doable- this last summer, the humidity was so bad that it made it difficult to breathe- and you come out of the heat feeling so wilted and drained- when the heat index is 115 because of the humidity, well, that's hot. It's like being steamed! Thank God there weren't a lot of days like that, because in Cali it stays hot 8 months out of the year.

[Omahahonors]

One problem with that theory mostie!

It's called heat index. Humidity + temperature = body response. We have not reached 120 heat index in quite some time. We had hit 100 heat index for the first time in years last summer, as a matter of fact.

90 degrees plus 70% (75 degree dew points) humidity causes the body to react the same as a 105 degree dry heat. Our average high in the hottest part of the year is 88 degrees and humidity is usually around 55-60 degrees at that time (equating to about a 95 degree heat index in the hottest part of the day in the hottest part of the year).

[mostie]

I'm always watching yahoo weather, and last summer at one point it said the heat index was supposed to be 115- I don't know if it hit or not, but just reading that was enough to make me huddle in the basement-lol!

humidity+temperature= hysterical mostie body response- LOL

[Omahahonors]

Originally Posted by mostie

I'm always watching yahoo weather, and last summer at one point it said the heat index was supposed to be 115- I don't know if it hit or not, but just reading that was enough to make me huddle in the basement-lol!

humidity+temperature= hysterical mostie body response- LOL

I imagine there are differences in body response for everybody! They do say that one shoe size doesn't fit all. I imagine the 'body response' is an 'average' for all. For some the heat with minimal humidity is better and for some it is worse!

It's about the body's resonse and I imagine that comfortability should be measured differently with certain conditions and varying sizes that exist.

[mostie]

I think it could probably be the fact that my entire life was spent in places where it was dry heat- and then all of a sudden, here I am in what feels to me like the Louisiana swamplands- probably like those regular mice that they used in an experiment and put in super cold conditions, and the mice adjusted by growing longer fur to accommodate the colder temps-

I guess I haven't acclimated yet, lol-

[MountainMen]

I imagine people who have grown up in Nebraska are more used to the weather here and don't consider it extreme. It's just something that's hard to adjust to for people like Mostie and myself, who have moved here from other places. For outsiders, it's not comfortable.

[rezfreak]

Hmm. Tampa, FL seems just about the same as Nebraska in regards to heat. We got into the 90s this last week and the humidity was in the 40s-60s... It was like I was back home for a few days in the summer

[SandmanSand]

Originally Posted by rezfreak

Hmm. Tampa, FL seems just about the same as Nebraska in regards to heat. We got into the 90s this last week and the humidity was in the 40s-60s... It was like I was back home for a few days in the summer

It was like that on the east side of the state too, 4 record high days. Nice cooler day today though. At least we won't fall into the 30's tonight rezfreak.