response to elixxir's question

[the_siobhan]

44 freakin' degrees outside. After the sun has already gone down. It was like cycling through soup.

No sign of cats, racoons, or anything else unusual in the house. I suspect I will be sleeping very lightly tonight.



That depends on what day it is.

During the week, breakfast is almost always in front of the box. (You will note that due to teasing by some of my readers, I cleaned up all the painkiller containers.)

My keyboards are always a mess.



Dinner happens here. Axel usually joins me, right before going home for the day.

It's pretty dark in this picture because I took it on a Sunday when the cafeteria is closed. The fence you can see on your left is for the Tim Horton's.



On the two nights a week that I eat my meals at home, we sit here. (Generally we clear all the crap off the table first.) We watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report while we're eating or whatever we have lying around on DVD.



We used to have a kitchen table, but it was always heaped with crap and on the verge of falling over so we got rid of it.

What I'm listening to right this second: Moth Complex

Comments

[ash-pixie.livejournal.com]

I just checked the hygrometers in the lizard cages--the Iguana's is at 90%humidity, and that was before I took the plastic off her cage--which in this case seems to be keeping the hymidity out. She loves humidity and needs the airflow so I took the plastic OFF. The Bearded Dragon's "desert" habitat is normally about 15-20% humidity, a bit high for his species, but he likes it. Tonight, Mr.Beardie has a humidity of 65% in his tank... Needless to say, he's sleeping really close to a lamp where it's dryer and he feels more at home. This is just crazy-even I, someone who loves humidity 'cause it makes it easier for me to breath--is finding this a little too much at the moment. I think I'm going to go for shower number three before bed!

[nachtisch.livejournal.com]

My tomato plants are about as happy as your Iguana. The long-haired black cat, however, is wishing she were a nice green tree frog right about now.

[nachtisch.livejournal.com]

Totally. It's like sitting in soup, and I'm inside.

Outside it's like sitting in soup that sucks your blood with 10,000 itty bitty poky things that cling to human sweat like sharks to blood. Citronella doesn't have a chance.

[http://users.livejournal.com/cincinnatus_c_/]

"44 freakin' degrees outside."

I apologize in advance for going into crank mode. I can't help myself.

I know practically *all* the weather people on the television give humidex values in "degrees", and/or the completely meaningless "feels like" thing, but: it doesn't make good sense. Given that it's an index combining two different variables, it's a bit like saying your car is travelling at 90 kilometres, or that its fuel efficiency is ten litres ... though it's kind of *worse* than that, given that velocity and fuel efficiency are actual objective phenomena, whereas humidex is a more or less arbitrary calculation. The American "heat index", for instance, is based on a different formula, which, AFAIK, tends to yield lower values.

A number of months ago, Accuweather came up with something it calls "real feel", which takes into account sunlight intensity and wind speed as well as temperature and humidity, to try to do what people generally think humidex (and, in the winter, wind chill) is supposed to do, i.e., say how it probably feels relative to what a given temperature feels like *on average*. The humidex value, of course, is always at least as high as the temperature, which is what makes nonsense of the "feels like" thing: if it's 28C--which is pretty warm, for southern Ontario, under most circumstances--and the dewpoint is, say, 12C, then it's actually going to feel *cool*, unless you're in the sun. It's going to *feel like* *less* than you'd *expect* 28C to feel. Accuweather's "real feel", on the other hand, is just as likely to be lower than the temperature as it is to be higher. Which means that it can't possibly catch on, because it's not as exciting.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That makes sense to me. There have been days when it's been really hot in the sun, but there's a soft breeze that feels cool by comparison.

So do you know what Accuweather's "real feel" was for last night? Because I could not believe it could feel that freakin' hot out at a time of day when the sun wasn't actually shining.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

what was the real temperature? i think all those humidex and windchill temps are a bit silly, and tend to go for "36C and 80% humidity" or "-15C with a strong wind"... it doesn't actually feel hotter with humidity. it just feels humid...

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

It feels a lot hotter when the humidity is high. Ask Axel, he's spent tons of time in deserts where the temperature is very high but there's no humidity in the air.

[melete.livejournal.com]

I'll second that. If I were forced to chose, give me desert like temps in the 100s deg F with no humidity over this 95 deg F plus absurd humidity any day.

Why can't it be a nice temperate 70 something every day? ;P

[elixxir.livejournal.com]

Ha, I can't believe peer pressure made you clean up yer drugs. :p No lunch btw or is it so fucking hot I can no longer read?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I don't really eat a formal lunch. My regular meals are when i get up and when my boss tells me to. Other than that I just snack all day and that happens where ever I happen to be.