In our humidity, however, evaporative cooling is a bust… .when the air is saturated, there’s no way for anything to evaporate.
There are days your hands feel damp all day just because of the humidity.
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Yes – if you are experiencing 95% humidity on a regular basis, evaporative cooling isn’t going to help.
If we get monsoon rains, I tend to ride before or at sunrise. Two of my grocery stores open at 6:00am, so I get there as they are opening.
I would hope that your temperature is tolerable at that hour, but there are days (here) when its already pushing 90 (F) at 6:00am.
Here, too…and the humidity matches.
By 3 pm in the summer, we are expecting our daily thunderstorm…the good news is that it breaks the heat and humidity, the bad news is that they’re potent thunderstorms most days that you absolutely do not want to be caught in.
Our drivers here are self-entitled and seem to all be on their phones (bicyclists frequently get run off the road or hit)…so I’ll keep driving in the interest of self preservation.
I used to live in Miami and sure as clockwork, during the heat of summer we would get a thunderstorm every afternoon between 2 and 3. Those ones were noisy but not too violent and as you say, they cooled it off a good bit so they were welcome.
I worked as doorman at the Hyatt Regency there, and at the Grand Champions in Palm Desert CA, too, back in the late 1980’s.
Miami with its humidity was much easier to work in than Palm Desert with its dry heat. We would lose 2 to 3 pounds of body weight per day shift in Miami. In Palm Desert we could lose 8 pounds or more, and we were drinking water non-stop.
Yep…life in the tropics!
For the rest…Florida has an actual dry season and a rainy season…welcome to a place that receives 60" of rain per year!
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I try to avoid posting on this thread, but I have to ask; doesn’t that miss the point? I thought the point was that living in certain places supported a healthy lifestyle.
OTOH, I love it when comments about the USA provoke discussion about what helps makes the USA the USA
It was Kick Off Day at our spiffy new gym, finally! We met with our personal trainers, did a 3-D body scan with super-interesting results /s 
, and then were subjected to a fitness assessment 
My legs are prettttty sore RN from fewer than 15 squats, a handful of lunges, and a couple of pushups, having done funk all since we left Philly (and our building’s convenient basement gym) — but that is hopefully going to change! 
3 30 min sessions a week for the next 4 weeks.
And then we ruin it all in Berlin* 
*But bc they make you commit for 3 months, we can work it all off again in July and August.
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I’m ashamed to say I’m an American now … what has become of us. I remember JFK … the whole world loved him and thought he was trying to make things better for everyone. Remember the good the Peace Corps did?
At least I’m happy to say I’m a Californian.
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bringing the discussion back to ozempic, et al. i started in january for type 2 diabetes. i’ve lost 15 pounds, a1c is 6.
and while my appetite has decreased, i’m still enjoying food. only side effect is hard stools, which disappear when i remember to drink enough water.
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I’m happy you’ve had good results with it…both your weight and you A1C.
I started on it for heart failure, and lost 45 lbs in the process as well…I went from around 205 to 160 over the course of a year.
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I take Amlodipine for high blood pressure and discovered it was the cause of unbelievable constipation. My doctor let me change to a half dose, 5 instead of 10, and I still have issues. What helps a lot is eating an apple a day, I like the organic Honeycrisp.
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i’ve been having 1/2 (depending on size) granny smith every day and was always regular. the hard stools are definitely a side effect of the ozempic. i keep some colace around, but drinking enough water really seems to help.
Is that like Miralax? Read up on it. Researchers accidentally discovered a link between osmosis laxatives and dementia.
I threw mine out. I accept getting older but I don’t want to stay alive if I get dementia.
There is a recent study linking but to also put in perspective that there are a number of studies linking certain drugs or drug classes to higher risk of dementia, e.g. anticholinergic medicine, PPIs or pain medication
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miralax is a an osmotic laxative; colace is a stool softener. couldn’t find any link to dementia. and, as i noted: as long as i remember to drink enough water, i’m good.
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Here is the link for the osmotic laxative dementia correlation
Their sample group was people who used laxatives almost every day. Is that common? Kinda puts me in mind of the link between artificial sweeteners and cancer, but only if you drink a shitton of diet soda.
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If you have to use laxatives everyday, you may already have cancer (colon, to be specific) to begin with.
And this may actually be a case of reverse association (or causation).
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