We get the worst of both worlds here in southeast PA. Summer highs in the low to mid-nineties with very high humidity and winter lows in the teens and single digits.

A week ago we had dew points over 80. That's air so wet fish can swim in it.

I work outside most of the time. I'll take temps in the teens all day long over that unbearable heat and humidity. I hate being drenched in sweat all day long.

I really don't know how you folks that work outside in the south deal with that crap on a regular basis.

I guess you get used to it after a while although I don't think I could.

Water isn’t drank by the bottle, it’s drank by the gallons. 1 gallon of water produces one urination, you sweat the rest out, lol.

Pace yourself, plan your day to get it done early or late, sit down lunch inside if possible. As said water available at all times.

I've had the beginnings of heat exhaustion quite a few times, usually while roofing in the summer. You stop sweating, start getting the chills, start getting a little dizzy, a little nauseated.

Time to go sit in the shade for a bit and pound water then get back at it.

That was when I was younger. I don't do the stuff anymore. At least not in the summer heat.

When a man gets so hot that he is feeling cold he is about to get in serious trouble. I've done that a couple of times hauling hay in July and August. Someone asked how does a man ever get used to it. You don't, you just build up to the point that you tolerate it. Even we that are out in it everyday; it hurts us too.
Rickey

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Dang good reply Rickey & true...Just a little north of you across the KY line, and have seen strong men go to their knees in the heat.

Hauled a lot of hay in the summer as well, and have recently been on a firewood cutting frenzy, broad daylight in the sunny heat of the day...Think we're a little more acclimated, and know how to read our body signs, but yep we suffer too.

Been there. AIT at Ft Lost in the Woods. Two medics put me in the bunk and handed me two canteens and insisted I chug them down immediately that or they were going to stick me for an IV.

I used to cramp up bad when I was framing houses. Come home and lay in the floor tied up in knots bad.

My brother the ball coach straightened me out on that. Half a pot of coffee in the morning wasn't hydration. I needed to be loading up on water and electrolytes before I ever walked out the door. If you wait until you're thirsty, it's too late.

I’m in no hurry just putting the fur shed back together. I work until I’m soaked then go in and rest and change shirts and hit it again. Tried starting early but the humidity is so high it’s no real advantage. I’m not a heat/humidity guy never have been but I hope to get the outside done and the wall with the heat elements in before it turns cold should not be a problem.

I'm in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Right now it's just before 10PM. Temperature in the yard is 74° and humdidity 92%. The most comfortable it's been since sun up this morning. You just live it.

Well, here’s something l learned hunting out West…in that drier, lower humidity, and add in elevation, I dehydrate quicker than back home.
Walking mountains I have to conserve my water/power aid for the return trip back down than I do while going up. There ain’t nothing worse than cramping up trying to walk those switchback elk trails down a mountain. I’d rather struggle going up than down any day!!

I believe that it doesn't matter where you live; there's going to be something you are forced to deal with. Here on the Gulf Coast, it's the occasional hurricane, along with the tornadoes that spawn off them. In the north; you have more winter weather..but I do find it odd when the temperature is lower here than in Michigan for example. In the midwest, I think tornadoes are more common and they have a lot more snow than I ever see.
But I think I would like it to be a little cooler. I've always said that a feller can always put on more clothes. There's a limit to how much you can take off. And it gets improper and possibly illegal somewhere before that.

Improper or not I'd blister if I stripped down.

As younguns we ran around barefoot and in shorts. Only wore a shirt to church or go to town. Got brown never burned. Since growing up wearing long pants and shirts I don't dare wear shorts or pull off the shirt.