Damn hot in NYC

famsearch says on Aug 5, 2006, 19:58:

you're right about the medellin area. but you're getting what we in minnesota were getting the last week or two. funny thing is we just suck it up, and keep going. while we were getting hit with 100+ degrees, nothing on the news, but when it hits the east coast, IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!! for me, the east coast folks ought to toughen up and live here in the midwest for a while, learn what real weather extremes really are... lol
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Rubiazo says on Aug 5, 2006, 21:38:

I'm going to Bogota on WED this past week has been H_E_L_L. If you have been following my posts at all, I suffer from pretty bad ezcema, and right now my legs are a mess because of it.

NYC gets hotter than Colombia ever gets in the summer (except for maybe parts of Chocó or the desert in Huila??) and colder than it gets in the winter (except for maybe the peak of the Sierra??). Bogota is gonna be just like landing in heaven right about now!

Of course my hometown of Winnipeg gets just as hot in the summer as here, and in the winter it can hit -40 or below sometimes.

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Rubiazo says on Aug 5, 2006, 21:39:

It was the same way when I was growing up in Winniepg, you are just expected to be stoic about some of the world's worst weather. If you opened your mouth to bitch about it you were a pussy and subject to a beat down. Personally I'm glad I got away from that ass part of the world. What the hell are people even doing living there anyways?

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Gomezman5 says on Aug 5, 2006, 22:13:

Hey Peter....... What you are suffering we had in Chicago a few days ago. I think it hit 100 on Wednesday/Thursday. Funny, I remember getting into my car the other day at 11:00 PM, and the weather man on the radio said it was 92 degrees at O'Hare Field, I cannot remember ever hearing Chicago being 92 degrees at 11 at night.

The Good news is it should cool off (less hot) in a few days.

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platano says on Aug 5, 2006, 22:42:

Rubi, You should try Victoria, B.C. No global warming. Probably good for your eczema.plátano

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miamimike says on Aug 5, 2006, 23:14:

Miami is pretty bearable now,,,Cool, windy, rainy 79 Degrees(2:20am est) and a nice shower,,,,

"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- Feb. 28, 2008 --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.

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famsearch says on Aug 5, 2006, 23:21:

gomez, last week it topped out at around 100-102 here in minnesota. 108-110 with the humidity added in.
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Gomezman5 says on Aug 5, 2006, 23:59:

Famsearch....I hate this weather. I would rather have Chicago's famous sub zero temperature and wind chill factors than all this heat and humidity. Not to mention what it does to my electric bill.

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Miguel says on Aug 6, 2006, 00:04:

Nearly the entire US Has been under record heat for two weeks; the Midwest, California, the East Coast, and many parts of the South. Today's high in St. Louis was a comfortable 91F, the lowest high temp in 3 weeks. We hit a heat index of 116 last week. It feels like Barranquilla without cumbia and mamacitas.

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aztec says on Aug 6, 2006, 08:46:

Rubiazo, ... ..."Bogota is gonna be just like landing in heaven right about now!'

I know how you feel. First time I went to Colombia the weather in Georgia was 101 degrees. What a wonderful feeling when I stepped out of El Dorado. Hell, at that time I had no idea of the weather in Bogota and almost froze.

The weather is one the three reasons I love Bogota and try to return as often as I can.

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utopiacowboy says on Aug 6, 2006, 10:53:

You haven't experienced heat until you've spent some time in Monteria. It's usually close to 40 degrees Celcius with 90% humidity. Good thing I like the heat.

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mcraig says on Aug 6, 2006, 12:46:

Dallas Texas is miserable heat every year I love getting out of town on business during the summer so I can enjoy the normal heat of summer. I have lived in Texas all my life an as you get older the heat really starts taking its toll on you. I have not been to any place that is more miserable than dallas for heat ever during the August. NY,FLa, NC none of them know how lucky they are to be in regualar summer heat. Dallas the air doesnt move an the humdidity an the city escalation the heat is miserable.

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tomtom33 says on Aug 6, 2006, 13:37:

Monteria A friend of mine from Cartagena went there for a long weekend. After his report, I don't think I'll go there anytime soon, if ever.

Funny thing is that I have several amigas from Monteria. They all tell me how nice it is.

The saving grace from the heat in CTG is the ever-present sea breeze.

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utopiacowboy says on Aug 6, 2006, 15:10:

I love Monteria! It's hard to say which is hotter, the temperature or the chicas. It may be a dusty, dirty, noisy, crowded, traffic-choked dump but nothing beats it for vitality and vivacity. Other than the toll booth at Los Cedros, it's my favorite place in Colombia.

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tomtom33 says on Aug 6, 2006, 19:25:

UC From my amigas, I can tell that the chicas are hot. I can quickly think of five from Monteria. There is only one that I now try to avoid. She developed a yen for the white powder.

I appreciate your comments and may have to re-evaluate my position.

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utopiacowboy says on Aug 6, 2006, 21:39:

GD, Monteria is the one place where I can behave as we do here never thinking about security or constantly being aware of your surroundings. That's what's a drag about Medellin - security is always the #1 thing on your mind. It's tedious thinking about it. Heck, the first thing we do when we come back to my wife's apartment in Medellin is lock the door behind us. You're always obsessed with locking things. Meanwhile in Monteria, the front door is usually wide open to get air circulating in the house. At night everybody sits out on the sidewalk and talks or plays cards and pedestrians wandering by stop and visit. You won't see that in Medellin. I don't know whether the chicas want to leave but I am the object of a lot of female curiosity since they rarely see a gringo. If I weren't married, I could do quite well.

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Rubiazo says on Aug 6, 2006, 23:15:

I wonder what really is the hottest spot I guess it must be the desert in Huila. Dry heat is not as uncomfortable as humid heat but it's actually a lot more dangerous even.

I remember being a kid during a heat wave in summer where it was about 41C out and maybe 10% humidity. I was riding my bike and didn't stay properly hyrdated. Next think I knew, I almost fell off my bike and started shaking, breaking out in this crazy cold sweat. I had to go inside right away. I was sick as hell for 3 days afterwards. Heat sickness :(

Cartagena really doesn't get THAT hot. It rarely goes above 32C/90F there. Even BAQ usually peaks around 35C or so in the day, and goes down quite a bit at night.

Victoria BC has a beautiful climate, although not much else. Anywhere west of the Rockies generally has great weather. Even Anchorage actually has pretty good weather. Winters aren't any colder on average than they are here in NYC and summer is NEVER hot or humid.

In South America it seems that even temprate cities like Santiago and Buenos Aires and Florianopolis tend to have a lot milder weather than temperate areas in North America do. If you look at a climograph for those cities they are MUCH smoother. In the summer you'll get low 30s C/low 90s on a hot day, but not too often and not too much, and in the winter maybe once in a blue moon you may get snow, but for the most part it is just rainy and on the cool side, maybe around 10C=50F or so.

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elmodefoque says on Aug 7, 2006, 06:59:

I don’t know what you guys are talking about, NYC was just perfect, not too hot, but then again I got a penthouse apartment on the top floor with ocean view (ok , Hudson river) and on the other side I’m right over crowded, noisy, busy, exhilarating Broadway. This is freaking paradise

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mcraig says on Aug 8, 2006, 18:09:

Dallas texas heat Thats what they tell us on the News why we are getting so much hotter in around the metro plex. We had two high school football players die of heat stroke not too far away the other day, Thats just scares the shit out of me cause my oldest is playing this year an eventhough I coach an played an college an just wanna teach these boys to play right so they dont get hurt. For some reason its tough to judge this heat its different for some reason now. My coaches in JR high an HS punished us for bad play or being lazy by not letting us have water now they would probaly go to jail for that. But , it is hotter your kids are usued to it you think just like I was but there just seems to be alot kids that 4-6 grade that are just coach potatoes its hard to know how to far you can go with them. Its different generations I guess we never stayed inside as much as these kids do today. So the heat is real bad on us all I guess.

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mcraig says on Aug 8, 2006, 18:26:

We vacation in Mexico atleast two if not three times a year depending on if we can finagle there granparents into keeping all three. But , it will supposedly be so hot in Mexico but you always have a good breeze so it doesnt bother me. Thats the problem in Dallas your right in the area after end of spring an start of summer were the air just stops moving there is no breeze at all.

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elk says on Aug 8, 2006, 18:46:

U.C. Security in Medellin U.C.

I've been living in the Medellin area for the the past five weeks. I however don't spend much time in Medellin, but rather Sabaneta and Evigado. I haven't seen the danger thus far, but perhaps I'm in the wrong areas.

I walk the streets every night in Sabaneta and see many homes with the front doors open and neighbors visiting. I've ask many people, locals, about the danger and been told security really isn't a problem.

I've spent years living in Fresno, Californa, and Tyler, Texas and truthfully I feel safer in Sabaneta. I would agree certain areas of Medellin are probably better avoided, but I could say the same about certain parts of Los Angeles.

Just my observations and conversations with the local people.

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Miguel says on Aug 9, 2006, 12:19:

The importance of reading posts! (or re-reading) "New York Heat? that's "Off-Topic" as Hell"

The name of this thread is DAMN HOT IN NYC.

All but one response is ON TOPIC.

The OP is the founder of Poor But Happy.

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Rubiazo says on Aug 9, 2006, 22:48:

According to Elmo Barranquilla is just as hot for most of the year as it was in the heat wave here. God knows if I lived there I'd sleep in an air conditioned room from 8am-4pm every day, wake up, eat a LONG breakfast and not go outside till the sun was going down!

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utopiacowboy says on Aug 10, 2006, 05:55:

Very interesting comments, Elk. In my wife's neighborhood of Belen-Miravalle, there will be people on the main thoroughfares but the side streets with residences will be deserted for the most part after 9. I will be eager to see if things have changed much when I visit later this year.

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Juanes says on Aug 12, 2006, 12:25:

comments on this thread guys, i think the founder peter was trying to find out from our experiences if we think the humidity is more in new york than in other parts of the world and hows it compare to those places. theres no point going around insulting new members like miguel is there ?

well my experience of humidity or should it be humilioty for some of you here is that the US and indeed england has been experiencing a massive heatwave in june and july which explains the cliamte this year. it was damn hot here in london in the hottest july or end of june since records began. it has been a total nightmare to sleep even when it has cooled to 22 degrees at nite, it was so humid. i would probably say it was more humid than when i went to thailand a few years back (not as a sex tourist by the way) and even as nearly as humid as the yucatan province in mexico when ive been there the last 2 years in august.

hope this is of interest but please calmado y en el futoro hablas sobre el subjeto, vale...

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billyb says on Aug 12, 2006, 23:35:

Rubiazo, I think... the AC in B'quilla should stay on way past 4pm.

BillyB

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