Weather

[azurelunatic]

I've been loving the weather lately. It's hot, but it's moist, so I can actually breathe! This is so awesome!

I now see why votania says that damp weather dehydrates her. That was counterintuitive to me earlier, but...

Damp weather means that your body notices that oh, there is sufficient atmospheric water, so I don't have to retain all my water lest I fry. And then you sweat. And to a desert-attuned body, the amounts of water that can be dumped in that fashion are startling, and mean that you really need to have a waterbottle, or you're going to be so, so dead.

I still love it when it's like this. It's currently 95, with 34% humidity. *happysigh* If it never got any hotter than that, and it were often this damp while this warm, I'd be so, so happy.

I do think that wet, windy cold is the Anti-Good, however.

Comments

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

everytime you post about weather preferences, it tweaks me wee ragdolli brain a little bit.

heh. i was raised in the sub-tropic zone. i feel *parched* if the humidity is below 70%. i think my skin has develped a way to take moisture out of the air. i feel as if i am suffocating just a little in dry weather.

oddly enough, i have desert genes. lol
i don't sweat as much as other people, even in HIGH humidity. prolly why i don't drink as much.
umm.. i guess i have turned into a tropical cactus.

i always get confused when people say "yes, but at least it is a dry heat" as if it is a *good* thing. wtf?

tropical air is softer. it caresses your skin. it is gentle.
*sigh*
can you tell i'm homesick?

[azurelunatic]

Heh.

It was dry in Fairbanks, but I loved the way that the air feels softer when it's humid, like it's not scraping your skin off.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Huh. My body had something of the opposite reaction: once it caught on that sweat could actually be good for something, it started sweating more. I'm also much more willing to drink water in dry weather, even if I'm at similar hydration levels.

Bodies are wacky.

[azurelunatic]

Bodies are very wacky.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

Yay, a person other than me who doesn't passionately hate humid weather!

My skin dries out easily, so I prefer the humid weather that doesn't make me look rather like a shedding snake.

[azurelunatic]

Silly snakie!