Dew point, schmew point
(subtitled - it is TOO about the humidity. Who gives a rat’s ass about the dew point?)
I know, I know - there are scientific explanations for everything. But some times, the answer is a very very simple one.
When the temperature is 89 degrees and the humidity is 49%, it’s going to feel a whole bushel of habaneros hotter outside (or inside, if you’re without AC) than it is when the temperature is 103 and the humidity is below 18 percent (as Russ cited in his example below.)
I don’t need to know about the friggin’ dewpoint to know THAT.
So for those of you with signficant others, when this weather is this hot, how do you calculate the “do” point?
Well if you mean the “do” I think you mean, for me it’s the sticky-if I am sticking to myself, then certainly Mister Fishbones will stick to me as well. Which leads to “I love you too, but stop (*&%$#ing touching me.” So the point where I’m not sticky is the “do” point. (Mister Fishbones tends to disagree with this theory, so your mileage may vary.)
THese weather readers on TV are just hype types. In the winter its the chill factor and in the summer its the heat index. Anything to make things worse thn they really are. What is the chill factor when its (% degrees and the wind is 15 miles per hour?