[thechat] Where is it winter, please?

Scott Dexter sgd at ti3.com
Wed Jul 18 15:57:47 CDT 2001


North Texas Weather advisory:

HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY... ...AFTERNOON
  HEAT INDICES RANGING FROM 105 TO 110 DEGREES... 

  DAYTIME HIGHS IN THE UPPER 90S TO 105 DEGREES AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL
  COMBINE TO PRODUCE AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES FROM 105 TO 110 DEGREES
  WEDNESDAY. LITTLE RELIEF FROM THE HEAT IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT AS
  TEMPERATURES FALL INTO THE UPPER 70S TO AROUND 80 DEGREES BRIEFLY NEAR
  DAYBREAK. 

  THE HEAT INDEX IS A MEASURE OF HOW HOT IT FEELS WHEN THE EFFECTS OF
  HUMIDITY ARE COMBINED WITH THE TEMPERATURE. A HEAT INDEX OF 105
DEGREES
  IS CONSIDERED THE LEVEL WHERE MANY PEOPLE BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE EXTREME
  DISCOMFORT OR PHYSICAL STRESS. THE HEAT INDEX IS MEASURED UNDER SHADY
  CONDITIONS...AND DIRECT EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT CAN INCREASE THE HEAT
INDEX
  AS MUCH AS 15 DEGREES. 


110F = 43C

The humidity makes it uhhhgly

Summer as usual in Texas....
sgd
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