Texas heatwave is making a run at the 1980 record.

[SEB]

I love this heat, it don't bother me none

How in the world do you handle it. Im done by 10 most of the days. I am getting up at 4:30 to avoid the heat & even then at night when Im mowing by lights on my commercial accounts im still sweating and thats on a rider.

[quikag]

I want to drive your car.

It's not mine, it's a buddy's. We swapped cars for a few hours. It's a bada** ride, no doubt about it. Very comfy and smooth, but put it in sport+ shift mode, with suspension on the firmest setting and it flies straight-line and around corners. It's a 2010 Mercedes E63 AMG. I want one.

[stevo]

8pm and it is still 106* locally.

Stevo

[jnobles06]

Our HSE department in Iraq has to pull a wet bulb reading every hour on the hour and then distro it via email to all department heads.

Check with Denny, he will confirm 149* in the summer in Iraq on a wetbulb is 100% fact.

Hang your arm out the window in Taji, Iraq and you litterally think your skin is sizzling. Go sit down in a port-a-jon at noon to take a shit and you will smell your skin burning about the same time you jump on the seat and sit on your hands; even then it still hurts. Go ahead and leave a wrench in the sun for 10 minutes and see if it does not send you to the TMC (clinic) for 1st degree burns; same goes for your rifle.

I am not the only guy on the board to have been in Iraq in the summer. Wiki is full of shit or their information is being measured differently.

Edit: this is from the bulb measurements today at 1400L (Afg) in Bagram
wet bulb = 72* (thermometer exposed to sun and prevailing winds)
dry bulb = 112* (thermometer)
black globe = 135* (thermometer in direct rays of sunlight)

...and it is NO WHERE near as hot as it was in Iraq this exact same time last year when I was there.

no shit!! i was in full gear going back to my dorm at balad ab and i could not make it, lol. so i had to stop at a porta-john and i was in that damn thing cooking. it looked like i jumped in the lake by the time i got out (i was in there for maybe 5-10 min). not to mention the smell of multiple shits baking in the sun all day. And if that not bad enough the water from inside splashed up on me. i almost vomited! lol. i think i used all the hand sanitizer in that thing wiping my ass off!

[scootro]

i tell you one thing this heat is really screwing up my stomach!