From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:04:23 -0700, Bob La Londe    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >CORRECTION:  Approaching 100, not 110.  Never saw temps over a 100 in   
   >Ohio.   
   >   
    Not common here in Ontario but I've seen over 100 several times over   
   the years - over 80% RH.   
   In Zambia 115F in the shade was not terribly uncommon in October - and   
   in Livingstone, next to Victoria Falls, on those days 90% RH was   
   "dry"!!!!   
      
    On those days NOTHING got done!!! (In the seventies Air Conditioning   
   was virtually un heard of outside of luxury hotels (and not even   
   common there.) and even Mercedes cars were generally not air   
   conditioned (partly due to taxation issues)   
   >  my   
   >> grandmother said read the obits in the next few days and you will see   
   >> many older people without air conditioning who succumbed in their homes.   
   >>   I could work for a little while, but because I had no natural cooling   
   >> at those high humidities I had to take twice the breaks to recover.  I   
   >> can't imagine living and working in the old south where they see 110F+   
   >> and 90-99% humidity routinely.   
   >>   
   >> See, you got me all wound up again Jim.  I want to get outside and get   
   >> more work done before summer.   
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