It hasn't been hair-bursting-into-flames Phoenix hot, or even skin-melting Sac hot, nor even early-summer-oppressive-early-morning-heavy-air Austin miserable, but it has been a combo.
It's almost like it's been Manila outside. Or Bangkok. The air starts out not so bad, but by 10 am the sweat has begun to bead on my forehead and my neck feels like it's got a halo of heat production surrounding it.
Then it goes off.
Our apartment begins to warm, despite keeping the shades drawn to keep out the heat. We keep some fans blowing to help keep us cool by evaporative means. By 11 or 12 the apartment has started the severely-uncomfortable times, and it only gets worse, topping out by 3 or 4 pm. From about 5 until we go to bed around 11 or midnight, inside the apartment remains sweltering, between 85 and 95, and sticky.
Outside at 10 pm is glorious, but inside, at 87 degrees or so, is awful, and we can't get the air inside fast enough to cool it.
No AC! Makes for a steamy day. Today it seems like the heat has broken, but not the humidity, as I'm pouring sweat already. Yesterday I had some errands to run and saw something that made me want to snap a picture:
This is a random banana plant on the street, and because of the heat and humidity, it's begun to sprout bananas. The sky was the perfect combo of hazy heat clouds blacked by blue sky, and there isn't enough building to tell where it was taken, unless you're familiar with the structure and have been told which it is.
It's not usually like this, and because it's not usually like this, we in the Southland are ill-prepared for it.
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