Recently there has been a few guys explaining how hot the temp and humidity has been. Hard to work on your beloved Bump when you're wiping sweat out of your eyes rather than getting something accomplished. Your King (2) is here to help. While I like you folks letting us know you're under the weather, I'd rather none of us needs "best wishes" or Prayers.
1. Get a loose fitting T-shirt wet except for about the bottom 4 inches or so. Squeeze the access water out of it. Don't wring it out. The lower dry 4 inches will except the water from above as Mother Gravity is pulling it down. If using cold water put the shirt on. If using warm/cold tap water, 1st wave the shirt back and forth about 6 or 7 times. The air movement will cool the water down. Evaporation workin' for you. You'll be Cool as the other side of the pillow while the shirt is wet. Once it starts drying simply re-wet it.
2. Get yourself a clean rag and do the same wet/waving trick as the T-shirt. Why percolate your brain? Hold the cool wet rag on your forehead, temples, rear of your neck, AND the front of your neck. Cool the blood entering your brain. Example: Hold the rag on your forehead for 3 - 4 seconds. Feel the water excepting the heat. Then wave it around. Poof, as long as it's still damp it's cold again.

 

Only when working on things other than welding right?

 

Ho Ho Ho. But of course. This is meant to be while wrenching, not welding. And kudos for bring it up.

 

BBBBBZZZ ouch lol

I live in the desert , so I can relate to this thread .
I have two 20" box fans (walmart under $20 each) stacked on top of each other. makes a wall of air flow, I position the fan so it blows over where I am working keeps me working even in 105 weather .

 

By the time I get home I don't even want to work on anything. I just want to jump in the pool,
Laying asphalt that comes out of the truck at 240° doing a few miles a day trying to stay hydrated and still get the job done wears you out.
Weekends keep tools covered because after a week of asphalt, it's not that hot on weekends.

 

Forecast here for this weekend is 103°. An Arkansas 103° probably doesn't feel like a (drier) Arizona 103°. After you factor in the oppressive humidity percentage in the air here, combined with the actual air temperature, the heat index becomes a temperature that makes it feel like 110+ degrees.

With these kinds of temperatures/humidity here and working outside, you don't have to dunk your shirt in water. Within in 30-45 minutes, your shirt (and your pants and your drawers too) will be so thoroughly soaked in sweat, no added water to them will be required.

Fortunately, next month is on its way and we'll start getting a break (here) from the high humidity then.

Mean time, keep yer powder dry.

 

Homm.... umid.... Humed.... H-U-M-I-D-I-T-Y... what's is that?

Seriously, we get some.. but usually only when a hurricane falls apart and gets suck up into the the summer's high pressure systems' circulation.

I spent a year each in Memphis and Norfolk.. been there, experienced that. No thanks! It was suffocating... like breathing water.

And for yall in AZ, NM, and the Las Vegas area.. I guess yall would know how to live on the Sun. Yowza.

 

Tell you what, you don't do anything outside here between noon and 5pm. Sometimes 10-5. It's too damn hot!

 

My office has underground parking in Arizona. I park on level 3, my car is nice and cool when I leave. It ticks me off when I have to stop somewhere for customers or lunch and I come out to 130 degree mobile oven. AC cools it down... but never as fast as you want in a long sleeve button down shirt.

 

For us old farts on here most have lived and worked in many harsh conditions.
Very Hot or very Cold and we've mostly all lived through it with out AC or a heater.
Some people may say those were the good ole days.

Now days many younger guys have it much easier working conditions having AC or heated building.

Then theirs some guys still living & working outside in some of the hardest working conditions in all parts of all country's.

Then their those who wake up every morning that have to go out on a convoy getting KIA on the road or just walking in open country on patrol and may be KAI

Each day they wonder will, I return or will any buddies be KIA.

Not an easy job and your put in some of the worse working conditions that most people could never imagine in their wildest dreams.

This is where a Soldier goes.

Yup we've got it pretty easy:
Orich

 

I've lived in 10 states and criss crossed the country completely. I love the west for its lack of humidity. Here in North Carolina, though, is the worst heat I ever have had. The AZ heat is hot and you can get overheated quickly, but evaporation is your friend. Here, not so much. In fact, on a hot day where the temp is 100 or so in NC and the humidity high, I am pretty sure much of the sweat is actually condensation. Your 98.6 is cooler than the outside air and so it condenses on you like a water glass. It is miserable. I complain about it all summer. My wife gets tired of hearing me. My boss gets tired of hearing me. Most people can't wait for winter to end and I just try to survive summer.

+1 to Ultraranger - no need to soak your shirt, it is that way in no time.

Now that I am thoroughly depressed, I have to figure out how to get excited to go work on the truck tonight and tomorrow! lol

 

Oh, I remember humidity. Waving that sweat soaked shirt will prolly work. When I was about 20 I was working at a Lincoln Mercury Dealer back in Toledo Ohio where I was born. Toledo is right on Lake Erie. One day it was 98 degrees and 98% humidity. I was stuck in a Semi trailor unloading parts. The whole 4 man Parts Dept was helping. By the time we got done I was about to pass out. I ran to the cold water drinking fountain in the Service Dept. Ripping my uniform shirt off as I ran. I wouldn't doubt there was steam coming off me when I put that cold, wet shirt back on.
And "keep yer powder dry"? I'm witcha.

 

Yep. Every year in my state there are people that die from heat exhaustion/heat stroke.

I can put additional clothes on in the winter time but, there's only so many clothes you can (legally) take off in the summer --you can't just run around 'nekked' out in public.

I'm more of a fall weather kinda guy, when there's low humidity and it's not too hot and not too cold --it's just right.

 

Yep - October through May are beautiful in NC, but June through September it is just miserable. I keep trying to get my wife to let us move west again. I loved AZ, CO, OR and WA when I lived out that way. But she wants to be around her family! Sheesh....I really DON'T want to be around HER family! lol

 

As a Memphis boy myself, to quote Pres. Billy Jeff, "I feel your pain." Today is not too bad, after two days of rain, but by Sunday, it's going to be a 103° sauna!