At about 3:00 AM this morning I realized that the absence of home AC is probably a big difference between VT & NM. I estimate that I've lost the equivalent of 2 hours sleep every night for the past two weeks. Hard to recover from that and feel like yourself on a bicycle.
michael On Jul 16, 10:48 pm, PATRICK MOORE <[email protected]> wrote: > Shoot, swamp coolers don't work well unless the humidity is under 20%, and > one does notice 20%; I've seen it as low as 4%, lower than the Sahara, and > sub 10% is common, but, really, 20% is quite bearable. Now 30% .... > > I was born in the WDC area and moved back there for five years in 1984, so I > know the climate. I remember thinking that, in summer, when the humidity > dropped into the 30s on a hot afternoon, it felt dry. And I remember 85 > degree mornings with 90 percent humidity. > > Much prefer an oven. > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 13:22 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > > > It's when the humidity soars to over 20% that things get unbearable. > > ^^^^^ > > That really is funny. Only a desert dweller would have come up with > > that. Do we EVER have humidity as low as 20% here in the DC area? > > Right now, it's 97 degrees with 38% humidity. By 3 am, it's supposed to > > get down to a mere 81 degrees with 69% humidity. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<rbw-owners-bunch%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at [email protected] Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
