Hot! Hot! Hot!

[Keith_Hixson]

Death Valley reached 134 degrees in 1913 second highest recorded temp of all times.

The Hottest Places in the World. Or places you won't find Chris on Vacation.
Death Valley, USA: Dead Sea, Israel: Interior of Southern India: The Sahara of Northern Africa: Arabian peninsula. Most of these places have dry heat but the interior of Southern India Will have temp exceeding 120 with 90 per cent humidity. Must be hell to live there. Know as the most miserable place to live in the world. I was in the interior of Africa. It gets hot there! And it was in the winter! Hate to be there in the summer.



Keith

[delta1/28]

Here on the high desert of Southern Colorado we've had only four days in July, so far, of below 100 degrees. One day it was 109 -- a record high for Pueblo. Fortunately, our humidity is low; single digits to about 15% so it usually cools off to the 50s at night. Several days have been warmer than Phoenix or Tuscon but generally it's just hotter than the hubs of hell!

[exlrrp]

Andy: "After I got used to Vietnam, the climate, which took about 3 weeks, just loved the heat. Actually when it gets below 20 I hurt, just hurt. But since my illness few years ago, just can't take the heat and have to stay out of the sun or wear a hat, I'm not a hat person. However recently I have become attached to my Plantation hat. "

Andy--I'm like you in that I love the heat, within reason. It was often in the 90s when we were back in the NAm but along the coast they had some fairly stiffish breezes to cool the place off--I thought a whole bunch that this would be an excellent coast to sail up and down. I also love the warm water of the tropics. I got to the beach only once the first time at Chu Lai but remember it as being real nice. (Packo: This is where Dan saved the drowning man)
The second timewas nothing short of spectacular, beach wise. The warm sun, the breeze, the warm water caressing the shore, eager young comrades at beck and call to spring to attend to your every needs snack and drinkwise--thats the way to invade a country!! All you guntotin' conservatives can go along by your ownselves next time.


Billr: Well, it may be hot in the Valley but here in Pollution By the Bay I don't think it's been more than high 90s, usually high 70s--low 80s with a fairly nice norwesterly to keep it cool. It's cool and foggy right now but it will burn off by noon.
Sure has been some terrific sunsets lately around here, bout as nice as you see anywhere. I ride my bicycle out to the top of the Potrero Hills and watch the sun go down. This is one of my favorite places, the best 360 view in the Bay Area, after Angel Island It could have been famous--not many people know it but the steam powered airplane was almost invented right here, a true fact!

James

[Andy]

The jungle from Cu Chi right up to War Zone "C", don't ever remember feeling a breeze! I know I've posted asking other guys who were in that AO if they remembered ever feeling any wind and all have said no. Seems that would be a big part in it being to damn hot. A costal breeze and 90s is a lot easier to take.

Sailing off Cape Cod is a real trip. Did that once in Florida around Coco Beach (might have mis-spelled that). Going sailing, being one with the elements is an amazing experience, unless it's 30 degrees and the sea is flowing in six directions at the same time. After that, I knew why Navy people would say to each other, "Calm seas." Probably more of a wish than anything else.

Stay healthy,
Andy

[Stormy]

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tulsa/climate/tulsacli.html

http://www.tornadochaser.net/tornalley.html

[exlrrp]

Originally posted by Andy The jungle from Cu Chi right up to War Zone "C", don't ever remember feeling a breeze! I know I've posted asking other guys who were in that AO if they remembered ever feeling any wind and all have said no. Seems that would be a big part in it being to damn hot. A costal breeze and 90s is a lot easier to take.

Sailing off Cape Cod is a real trip. Did that once in Florida around Coco Beach (might have mis-spelled that). Going sailing, being one with the elements is an amazing experience, unless it's 30 degrees and the sea is flowing in six directions at the same time. After that, I knew why Navy people would say to each other, "Calm seas." Probably more of a wish than anything else.

Stay healthy,
Andy

Yeah, Cu Chi just seemed like a hot dank, featureless , miserable place to be to me, all right. I liked the Central Highlands better, which aint saying much. All us CA boys get turned around if there's no mountains to take guide offa; I always get turned around when I go to Louisiana too, they need to pile up some dirt several stories there so they can see where the heck they's at.
Thats just the way it's going to be here today, 90s with a coastal breeze.
The Bay here is numero uno for sailing small boats but Hawaii No Ka Oi ("there is none better") for ocean sailing, I sailed around all the islands for 6 months in a 37' Islander when I first got there in '75--went for 2 weeks, wound up staying 2 years.
I remember once changing headsails off Molokini, racing before a Kona storm to get to Lahaina Roads and thinking--hmmm hope this don't get TOO elemental. Nothing like 30' swell in the Alenuihaha to make you a believer. This is the place for whale watching and maybe closer than you like, too
I've always wanted to go to Cape Cod, Nantucket, martha's Vineyard, etc, I'm still determined to do it soon.

James

[Keith_Hixson]

A hundred miles down the road its going to be over 100 today. Come on over and pay me a visit.

Keith

[exlrrp]

Originally posted by exlrrp


I remember once changing headsails off Molokini, racing before a Kona storm to get to Lahaina Roads and thinking--hmmm hope this don't get TOO elemental. Nothing like 30' swell in the Alenuihaha to make you a believer. This is the place for whale watching and maybe closer than you like, too
James

Was sitting remembering this event and remembered about the Kahoolawe Yacht Club. Kahoolawe is an island that sits about 7 miles SSW of Maui; Itwith Maui, Lanai and MOlokai, surround the area of water called Lahaina Roads. Molokini sits between Kahoolawe and Maui. Kahoolawe is a barren rockpile about 12 miles long and maybe one and a half miles wide, there's nothing there but goats.
The Army, Navy, Airforce and MArines, maybe the Coast Guard too for all I know, used the eastern 2/3ds of Kahoolawe as a bomb site and there's tons of unexploded ordinance all around. Every now and then one of the goats will set one off, you can see it while tacking to the south side of the Roads.
In '75 they were still using it for bombing and they wouldn't let you near it but weekdays you could come in close to fish if you were so inclined.
Of Course me and My buds went in on the coast--the western 1/3d is an old deserted WWII Army base and even then you could tell it was used by Army guys that would come out with a CAse of Cs and several cases of beer and more or less party for a few days. We'd pull into this gorgeous beach cove and anchor, claiming the right to repair after storm.
There were about 200 old Army trucks that they flew (?) out and used as targets.
We went out there in the Islander and stayed 3 times for days--the best spear fishing anywhere, they'd never seen a diver, you could reach up and tap em on the shoulder before you poked them (Hawaiian sling) Huge Bugs, the Langostino kine
The 3d time there, I was walking back to the boat from spear fishing with a spear full of fish,and, hehe, I was sorta suffering from the efects of some Cosmic Fritos I'd picked up on the North Shore (the cowshit kine, not the horseshit kine) when I looked upand noticed 3 Apache gunships circling overhead. I mean here it is: yr boy strolling down the path in shorts and sandals with Apache gunships circling over head and thinking; Geez--this is what the VC must have felt like. Lalala I smiled up at them and whistled a cheerful tune to show them I had no hostile intent. (these are the kinds of ideas you get on Cosmic Fritos)
Course when I got over the top of the hill I saw the plain truth--it was not me they were circling over, it was the 2 babes we had brought with us who were sunbathing in the all together on the beach--well, I might have figured.
We packed up shortly thereafter and left. Later that year we had Tshirts made that said : Kahoolawe Yacht Club--Weekdays '75

Just another day in the life

James

[revwardoc]

Damn! I hate the term, "dry heat". Its usually said by someone living in a desert climate whose brain has baked to beyond a well done state by the sun. Summers in San Bernardino sucked to thenth degree. It would reach well over 100 most days and the smog would settle in your lungs and would make taking a breath feel like you're in chest deep water. The glare off the flightline was blinding and the aircraft skin was so hot we'd have to wear long sleeve shirts and gloves when working out on the wings otherwise we get some nasty burns. And the only shade was under the plane where everything leaked and stunk to high heaven.

I used to work with a woman who went on vacation, every winter, to Phoenix and she loved it. She and her husband made plans to re-locate out there. I advised her to vacation there in the summer to see what it was like. She gave me the old "dry heat" argument. So she moved. Eighteen months later she was back and said to me, "I don't wanna hear it!". I hate it when I'm right all the time...nah!

[PHO127]

We were south of Xuan Loc, just below FSB Blackhorse. It was very hot thru November and December but just before christmas that year a cold front came in. It was getting down to mid 70s at night and we were freezing to death. I don't remember being so cold.