well since you asked so politely, letβs talk about something very important vis a vis weather-hotness that you clearly ainβt ever heard of, called
oh alas, you say. oh papa, whatever shall i do, it is ever so hotte and drye in california. the very air hath been sucked of all its moisturey droplets and whatnot.* one hundredy and tennith desiccated degrees!
*(yo, drought is serious. i am pretty obviously not making fun of that.)
alright. letβs check it out. hereβs a random california city, right about now:
thirty-two percent. and hereβs a random mid-atlantic city located somewhere in the wet fleshy crease behind a demonβs knee*:
*(confession: i do not live in dc, but several years ago i spent three weeks steaming like a tinned ham in arlington in august. none of the pants i took with me could ever keep a crease again.)
huh! funny thing! βsee, dcβs actually seven degrees COOLER,β you say, because youβve obviously never gone outside and taken a deep lungful of wet sock trash air in your life. and now for added bliss, hereβs what early wednesday morningβs gonna be like for these poor clowns:
thatβs right! eighty-two percent humidity! the point at which showers no longer matter, because youβre all caught in Godβs grease trap! just stressed human eels miserably slip slidinβ their way through a damp melty bathwater-flavored hellscape that feels like itβs actively sous viding their top layer of skin! a hundred thousand people packed into public transit breathing air that feels like deepthroating swamp thing! and you wanna talk to me about fuckin california!
[cue science voice]: human bodies cool through evaporation, a process by which the body sweats and sweet invisible angels towel us off, whisking away our unwanted moisture into the air and literally chilling us out. (itβs also why air conditioned air feels so fucking deliciously refreshing: itβs not just being cooled, itβs being conditioned, aka, dehumidified. itβs cool dry air.) but. if the air is already made out of fucking chowder and canβt absorb shit then guess what the fuck our bodies canβt do.
so is this weak fool gonna remain indoors and hydrated through this only medium-hot but fuckoff-humid season? you bet your dried out ass.