Son is in 29 palms for 3 weeks Drill
He texted me from the hospital a couple days ago,
Couldn’t eat and got sick, they had him on COVID quarantine but came back negative
He did Paris island in July thru Sept with no problems but that must be a different kind of heat where he’s at now, and he is no malingerer by any stretch

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
As I write this its 70 with a dew point of 50. We have had pretty good summer so far. Had some soaking rains yesterday but could stand some more.

I could handle some of that about now.

I guess I can't complain. It'll be like this for another month or so, then it'll cool off and we'll be into the dark wet for six months.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
We've gotten more rain in Phoenix in the last two days than in the last year. I had forgotten what it was like to not be hot all the time. Now it's cool and humid.

Down here in Gilbert, we've gotten rain every night for the last 5 days. Sometimes a lot of rain, sometimes a little. Daytime temp is around the high 70s or so and the pool temperature has dropped from 92 to 82 degrees.

It's more like November than July here.

Oh, and I hate the humidity we've got now.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
This feels like scorch the earth period in our existence. No relief in sight, only worse. Sorry but this sucks big time. Older I get, worse it is. Give me snow and cold all year long. Please.

Man I hear you
Here in Idaho it’s been miserable
No relief until the end of August, makes me wonder what kind of winter we are going to get?

Fishing has been great, catching has sucked big time...

SW Utah is HOT!! but the real problem is we're dry. In fact, all of Utah is in a severe drought with no real end in sight. At the house we had temps around 108°-110° for a week and it's actually cooled off to the high 90°s. We're getting some monsoonal rains in the area but that doesn't really help the drought and just increases humidity.

I always enjoyed my deployments to Bagram AB during the summer fighting season. June to Sept 90s-120 and dry with the 120 Days of Wind. Maybe once you'd get a 5 minute rain cloud that would leave moon-sized rain drop craters in the dust. I hate STL summer heat and humidity.

Yup...crazy!

Before you fantasize about moving to Idaho. We do have triple digit summers and sub, sub-zero winters. And it is usually more than a few days.
Oh yeah, then there is the smoke from forest fires in the other states and here.

We're ten degrees over normal for this time of year. It feels like 20 over.



Jim

Three days plus of monsoonal rains in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area of Arizona....finally!!! We've really needed this and its so good to be getting drenched.

Living here on the SE coastline of way south Miami for 68yrs, I honestly can handle the buckets of humidity every year. It's the hurricanes and strong tropical storms that have put me off each year. Moving isn't an options so a prayer each year to dodge another season will do. Currently it's 90º and under a flood watch due to our regular hot/humid summer tropical moisture.

If health stuff never caught up to me I planned a move out west to exchange the hot/humid for the hot/dry. I was really forwards to it.

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Here in "Rim Country"/Central Arizona we've had a good Monsoon this year with one down pour, and showers most every day. It's 66° here right now, so a nice, though temporary, reprieve from hot and dry...

Some of you posters don't even give a hint of your location.
Might be more interesting if you did.

This year's monsoon rainfall has been wonderful so far. Last year we had 4" of rain for the WHOLE YEAR. We got nearly 4" of rain last Friday night. The desert is really starting to green-up, and my weeds are sooooo happy!!

Just warm and humid, feels like hot here.
Highs in the mid to upper 80's but walk outside for a minute or two and you are wet.
They say it'll be in the 90's next week.