Comments on: Air Quality http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/07/air-quality/ A personal web log Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:13:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jbctech http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/07/air-quality/#comment-40621 jbctech Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:01:38 +0000 http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/07/air-quality/#comment-40621 Yeah, no I agree - the Arizona desert is ridiculously hot. But, in reality - there is no humidity...I still say I prefer the heat here over the heat there. I still disagree with Gwansho and the "It's a dry heat..." thing. When you have months of 100 days in a row, add in the fact that everything's rocks and cement...it's miserable. But, the thing is...we average over 46% humidity in the afternoon any given month of the year and over 78% in the morning. HOWEVER the number of "extreme" temperature days averages around 37 per year...whereas, Tucson averages 143 days. So, maybe it's that when those "extreme" temperature days do come around, it's more of a shock -- add in the humidity and that just makes it a bit worse. We don't get to 115-120, but 103 with the humidity is still not fun to be out in. OH - one other thing I've noticed is that in Tucson, they build houses and buildings to help that. Houses are built, in my experience WAY better there for cooling. I remember my house in Tucson stayed cool - maybe it was better insulated, bigger A/C's, etc...but here, my AC runs all day long and doesn't get below 80 degrees inside...it just can't keep up. A lot of people I've talked to experience the same thing. Yeah, no I agree - the Arizona desert is ridiculously hot. But, in reality - there is no humidity…I still say I prefer the heat here over the heat there. I still disagree with Gwansho and the “It’s a dry heat…” thing. When you have months of 100 days in a row, add in the fact that everything’s rocks and cement…it’s miserable.

But, the thing is…we average over 46% humidity in the afternoon any given month of the year and over 78% in the morning. HOWEVER the number of “extreme” temperature days averages around 37 per year…whereas, Tucson averages 143 days.

So, maybe it’s that when those “extreme” temperature days do come around, it’s more of a shock — add in the humidity and that just makes it a bit worse. We don’t get to 115-120, but 103 with the humidity is still not fun to be out in.

OH - one other thing I’ve noticed is that in Tucson, they build houses and buildings to help that. Houses are built, in my experience WAY better there for cooling. I remember my house in Tucson stayed cool - maybe it was better insulated, bigger A/C’s, etc…but here, my AC runs all day long and doesn’t get below 80 degrees inside…it just can’t keep up. A lot of people I’ve talked to experience the same thing.

]]> By: Richard Jones http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/07/air-quality/#comment-40484 Richard Jones Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:49:03 +0000 http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/07/air-quality/#comment-40484 The smog thing... yuck. The heat thing... people out east and what not are out of their mind... 100 degrees with 80-90% humidity, we call that a typical monsoon day. Hehe. 110 with 75% or more humidity and people here start to complain. I miss the weather back home... hehe The smog thing… yuck. The heat thing… people out east and what not are out of their mind… 100 degrees with 80-90% humidity, we call that a typical monsoon day. Hehe. 110 with 75% or more humidity and people here start to complain. I miss the weather back home… hehe

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