Prickly City by Scott Stantis for August 30, 2020

In Arizona, he’s right. It’s the heat.

Elsewhere, where it doesn’t get as hot as Arizona, yeah, it’s the humidity.

That said, these last couple of years, it’s felt like Arizona here in Colorado.

Most coyotes know enough to prowl at night, so they avoid that desert sun and save on sunscreen.

The heat makes the humidity.

A friend of mine in Arizona says exactly that. “You know how they say it’s not too bad, because it’s a dry heat? That’s a lie.”

having experienced humid heat in tokyo and dry heat here up north, it’s definitely the humidity…

With dry heat you feel like a roast in the oven. With high humidity you feel like steamed vegetables on the stove.

When its 117 F, its just hot, damn hot, hot hot hot, don’t tell me “its not the heat. . . .” its hot!!!

It’s the difference between being in a steam room or an oven

I learned back in school that a wet burn does you more harm than a dry one, but either seems quite sufficient to me.

In the desert, when it’s 115 degrees…who even notices if there’s humidity?! I have to deep water my plants every night so that they don’t burst into flames during the day. LOL!

Some say the world will end in heat

Some, humidity

From what I’ve felt on the street

I favor those who hold with heat.

But for repeat morbidity

I could say with a knowing grin

That you could say humidity

Would do you in

Sans stupidity.

Earlier, under Ignatz, people were talking about Texas.

My first impression of Texas: Flying from Chicago to San Antonio, on the way to Basic Military Training, there was a layover in Dallas.

It was August and 2 AM in the morning. Just outside the door was a newspaper vending machine. So, I popped open the door to get a paper.

It felt I had just opened the oven door and walked in. Just about knocked me on my tail.

I don’t remember anything like that in Phoenix. Even though it got down to the eighties at night, it still felt cooler than the day.

Later, I lived in Florida, twice. Honestly, if you’re not on the coast with an incoming breeze, it’s pretty unbearable there, too.

And in both Florida and Chicago, the flip side: Cold with humidity compared with Colorado’s dry cold. Again, no comparison. 40 above in Florida can sail right through any and all clothing, while zero here in Colorado often doesn’t bother me at all.

I get it. Heat is heat. But humidity is a great amplifier of both heat and cold.

Climate change can be brutal

I didn’t know that Winslow was related to the wicked witch of the West?

I’ve lived in the jungle and I’ve lived in the desert. They are both freakin’ uncomfortable.