Friday, November 12, 2010

On armpit humidity

In snow country, there is nothing odd about driving through an April blizzard in partial sunshine with the heater blowing full blast and the sunroof open. There is sun, so you will avail yourself.

One of the issues here, especially with the amount of rain, is the chill factor. Sure, it's 60. It's not that cold. But the humidity's 95% or utter downpour; instead of waking up in nasty, tepid bath water, the atmosphere has turned against you and there is no getting out, toweling off, or drying up enough to warm up.
As part of winter awareness, they taught us, "If your toes are cold, goput on a hat."
Strangely, part of tropical awareness seems to be, "If you're cold, turn on the AC."
Which spawned the very pleasant vision of the AC blasting me from one side and a radiant heating element blasting me from the other. I haven't seen such a contraption, but maybe it's time to hit up the camping store for a few cans of gel fuel to ignite and dry things up....

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