To cope with the heat, i go from the AC’d house to the AC’d car tothenAC’d store and back. I feel trapped at home. I have barely sat on my porch at all. I cant wait for fall. Predicted to be 95 and very humid here today.

No rashes so far!

My basement is 10° cooler than upstairs, and that’s with as many ducts to the space closed as possible, so it’s a great opportunity to clean it out! I’ve gotten a lot done, still more to go. The yard looks awful, but the weeds in the landscaping will eventually die on their own. In four months.

I don't get skin irritations. I get whole-body irritation at having to be cooped up in my AC house all day and only leaving to water my 1/2 acre of flowers and bushes and filling all ten or more birdbaths, Even though it was 95 yesterday ,I tried to hike the trail since I was going to the library on the way. I could not tough it out and only did 2 and 1/2 miles. For the foreseeable future, I will be walking the dreaded mall 2 miles from my house. Joy! I love doing eight laps through crowds. NOT! It's already 96 at noon! When will this summer ever end?

I'm just back from Italy. 100f most days by the afternoon. I love going but my skin doesn't. I never sun bathe but I get itches, blotches, flaking, swelling, and it just generally feels horrible. Always a relief for my body to get back to a cool damp climate even if my brain enjoys the travel. I did manage to run but only early and in the shade. I'm just not made for heat. Nor, for that matter cold.

At home I go braless. Most of my horse riding time is in the morning but July seemed to be in constant heat wave. We ride in an open arena. So I wear a cooling sport vest over a tee shirt. You soak it in cool water and works by evaporation. I just rewet it when it got too dry.

I do everything I can to keep dry. Wiping down and powder. If it gets too out of hand, I will cringe, and swipe it with a bit of rubbing alcohol. Over within seconds, but fixed. It's excruciating but it's better than fighting it day in and day out. I might do that once a month. I still have to wear real clothes to work, and getting to and from the building means I'm in the heat with clothes that cover my body. I might otherwise wear a fewer clothes. Shorter clothes, whatever you want to call it.

Yes this heat is a gardening killer fer sure, it chases me indoors by 10:30am with cloths dripping wet from the unbearable humidity. I come inside to AC just before the Heat Warning goes into effect or I pass out which ever comes first. No skin problems other than extreme uncontrollable wetness.

I'm out in the garden by 6:30 and in before 9 at the latest. I just can't take the heat.

i could have written dedtired's post!

the heat/humidity has been relentless here and i feel like a caged animal. i'm having a new deck built, the work is supposed to start next week. i hope, by the time they are done, it will have cooled off so i can actually enjoy it.

no skin issues though.

Humidity is 89% right now but Humidex is still under 80F (at 8 am), so I'm going out to water my newly planted grass-free front yard now while I still can. Humidex later this morning will be 95F. They're calling for rain, but I'm going to water anyway because I don't believe them. They called for rain yesterday too, and it never came.

It is more than unbearable here with temps in the 90s and humidity almost as bad. Yesterday we got a four-minute downpour and the airport got almost three inches, in other places none. Today is like a sauna. I've lived here all my life and this is by far the worst summer ever. Everything is dying from lack of rain and 2/10th the whole month of July with temps in the 90s every day..once 100. Nightmare.

"Scattered thunderstorms" has been the daily prediction here for more than a week. They must have been scattered somewhere else, although the humidity has made up for it. It's not nearly as hot here, near Chicago, as in the rest of the nation, but I'm still sick of being indoors. We are fortunate to *have* the A/C.

Radio news this morning said more than 400 people have died in recent weeks due to the heat in Arizona.

And yet...and yet...thousands of people are flocking to Chicago's annual Lollapalooza to gyrate to the bands, eat, drink, take drugs. Crazee!

This humidity makes my knees hurt pretty badly; every time the weather gets like this, I start shopping for a desert home on the internet.