....with 115 forecast for Monday and Tuesday. Honestly, I'd rather spend February in Cheektowaga.
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109 K-Beautiful degrees in Palm Springs, CA right now....
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I moved to Rochester from West Palm Beach. They have 8 months of the year with just oppressive heat & humidity. You just live for air conditioning. 95 degress, 99% humidity. You run from house to car to work. You had better start your car a few minutes early to get it cooled down so you can sit in it. In upstate N. Y. you really (usually) have 4 months of cold, nasty, weather, the rest is at least, tolerable if not downright beautiful. Don't get me wrong. I'd love to spend the winter in Florida or Arizona, but the rest of year in Upstate N. Y. If you are wondering what this has to do with radio, I worked in radio in Florida, and N. Y.
"...but it's a dry heat..." Like my oven. Even the snakes have the AC turned up to 11. (Rimshot, Grey FideliPac, rattling tension bar, worn pads, gummy, nicotine stained Dennison label.)Nick Gerard said:
We visited Palm Springs in August years ago. It was 113 in the shade. There were 'misting' streams over the sidewalks to cool pedestrians. The mist rarely made it to the ground before evaporating.
Brings to mind one of my favorite drop ins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpktBGInl60 There. It's a radio post.
Nick Gerard said:
It was 115 outside my home in La Quinta, part of the Palm Springs metro. Humidity was 8% and there was a nice little breeze. Went out to lunch and did some shopping... not unpleasant at all... unlike Cleveland where, if it hit 90, it was unbearable.
JustPastBuffalo said:
If the "mist" hit the sidewalk, it would be a sprinkler, not a mister. A mister is supposed to produce very very fine spray which evaporates before hitting the ground causing a consequent reduction in temperature.
A spray of water gets you wet. Misters actually cool, using the same basic principal as evaporative coolers such as are used in places with dry climates all over the southwest as a much more cost efficient alternative to air conditioning.
It's too hot. My feet hurt. Kids these days have no respect. Today's radio sucks. Now, get offa my lawn!
There. It's a radio post!
When it's hot out west here (near Salt Lake City) it's so dry you know you're sweating profusely, but your shirt never gets wet. It's actually pretty neat, like a free sauna. I lost 6 pounds mowing the lawn Saturday when it was 100, then the low Saturday night was 63º. (None of that high of 97º/low of 89º with 99% humidity I remember from summers along the Great Lakes!)
The winter snow here is so dry I can often clear my driveway with my leaf blower.
The preceding was brought to you by the Western States Regional Chamber of Commerce.
There. It's a radio post!
When it's hot out west here (near Salt Lake City) it's so dry you know you're sweating profusely, but your shirt never gets wet. It's actually pretty neat, like a free sauna. I lost 6 pounds mowing the lawn Saturday when it was 100, then the low Saturday night was 63º. (None of that high of 97º/low of 89º with 99% humidity I remember from summers along the Great Lakes!)
The winter snow here is so dry I can often clear my driveway with my leaf blower.
The preceding was brought to you by the Western States Regional Chamber of Commerce.
DavidEduardo said:
You live in a La Quinta? Don't you get tired of bagels in the lobby for breakfast every morning?
(Sorry. Couldn't help myself!)
Shoulda used the rim shot cart, Paul.Paul_Warren said:
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Hey, this snow shoveler knows the difference between a sprinkler and a mister, mister...DavidEduardo said:
Good thing the misters were functioning, it might have been 120 as we strolled along North Indian Canyon Drive. (That came later in Desert Hot Springs.) BTW, the radio in PS was quite interesting. A scan of the FM band featured a station doing Schulke-type "1001 Strings" beautiful music. It sounded live 'n local. Kitschy. And strangely cool.As a friend of mine said about desert heat, "It's so hot you don't really sweat. You also don't have to pee."
All I can say about us here in the Great Lakes is that we've got all the water we need. And, no, you can't have it - at least until my water bill is a LOT lower than yours, and we figure out a way to replace it.
All I can say about us here in the Great Lakes is that we've got all the water we need. And, no, you can't have it - at least until my water bill is a LOT lower than yours, and we figure out a way to replace it.
SirRoxalot said:
We have an aquifer that is at a higher level today than any time in the last 10 years... and drinking water you can actually drink and which does not smell. I paid $12 and change for water last month (2500sq ft home with two interior patios with lots of plants and sprinklers), and there's enough water for the valley to produce a half-billion dollars worth of fresh vegetables and fruit a year, in 2 to 3 growing seasons, depending on the crop. It's nice to go to a little roadside market in January and have fresh produce that only traveled 20 miles at most to get here!
What we do have is perhaps the worst ground conductivity in the US... worse than Long Island. There is an AM at 1140 with 10 kw in the East Valley (near Palm Springs) that does not cover the West Valley (Indio and La Quinta) so they have to have another AM, 5 kw on 970, to cover that part of the market... where I live, there is only one AM with a solid night signal, the 1 kw station on 1400 which is only about 8 miles away.
The beautiful music station on 98.5 finally migrated to 1340 AM last year, in part of a deal where one Class B in Palm Springs got moved to Redlands... this being an amazingly over-radioed market where satellite is really the only option.
And... I've never been offered a bagel anywhere here. ;D
Thanks for coming to the Buffalo/Niagara Falls/Rochester board and extolling the virtues of the desert southwest, David.
Our water here doesn't smell either - thanks to the zebra mussels. Enjoy your palatial estate. Thanks for the veggies.
Our water here doesn't smell either - thanks to the zebra mussels. Enjoy your palatial estate. Thanks for the veggies.
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