Does extreme heat make anyone else cranky and miserable?

I almost can't believe how angry and nasty I get when the weather is very hot and humid. I feel like a wild caged animal or like I am going to explode at any moment. Does anyone else react like this?

Why can some people tolerate it or even like it, while others find it unbearable?

I hate the heat.
I despise summer.
It's too frickin' early in the season to experience 107 degree temps!!

Where do you live? I hope you have A/C !!!

:)

P.S. It doesn't even have to be extreme heat-- anything over
85 is hot to me!!

The concrete and traffic and the sun shining off the buildings make it ten times worse than it would be otherwise, not to mention just the sheer population density.

Every summer, I say "this is my last summer here - I can't take it." But most of the US is like this in the summer - I would have to move to Northern Europe to get away from it completely.

I do have A/C which is such a godsend at home, but at work they crank it so that it's absolutely freezing - so you are either way too hot outside or way too cold inside. It's miserable.

I can't wait to go visit my sister in Maine - the ocean and the pool at least make it bearable. Plus,it cools down at night too!

I just hate some of the smells.

Can't we please just jump from May to September? Please?

get even worse. Even September in NYC can be pretty toasty, although at least some relief is in sight by then.

That's when I go take a cold shower. :spray:

I spend the 4 or 5 months of summer cranky and what's worse tried. The heat just knocks me out.

there's a song from the 60s called "Summer in the City" and
it's great!! Really sums the season up perfectly...

"...doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
downtown, people looking half-dead
walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match-head..."

And I'm an usher at an outdoor theater, so I have to be smiley-happy-cheerful while sweating my ass off in long pants in 100+ degree heat. :(

my normal state,but I do think I'm a tad more cantankerous when it's too blasted hot.

Basically 6 months of humid heat. I am not much of an outdoor person in the daytime during summer. There are times I pine for the north, and season changes. I have been at a decent career for a while, and need the retirement.

Ugh.

but I'd rather be cranky and miserable while hot than cranky and miserable while cold. I'm cranky most of the time anyway! :)

Heat does not make me cranky. I live in SC so heat and humidity is a regular damn thing. Do you have a problem with that? I didn't think so. :hi:

It finally rained tonight. OMG! Now it's cool but tomorrow morning will be humid and the high will be 97 degrees (again!) We Southerners know what hot and humid really is.

Stay cool. CB :hi:

Stay strong. We will get through this. Not only are we surrouded by Republicans, we have to deal with the heat too!!! I still love living in the south though.

is nothing compared with South Florida where I lived most of my life. I can deal with it here, but in South Florida, you walk out your door and absolutely melt from the humidity.

And yes, it can get hot north of the 49th too!

Rarely where I live, though, and I'm glad about that. Toronto/southern Ontario (comparable climate to NYC) was utter hell in the summer. Ugh.

Here, it rarely gets higher than 90F. A few days a year, perhaps, at most.

more murders in the summer, and more violent crimes, more domestic fights, bar fights, etc. And some people are more sensitive to heat than others. Diabetics, for example, and people who take certain medications.

YUM! :)

(It makes me lie.)

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always have been. But I've lived most of my life in hot places. Now, I live in the desert. In August and September, the temp reading in my car is often 134. It cools down a bit after the car is driven a while, usually to about 118. The heat is so insane it doesn't feel real. I remember last year when it got to mid October, and it was only 105, so the girls and I walked home from the convenience store because it was so much cooler than what we were used to.

But I still hate the heat. I dream of cool days and walking with a chill in the air. I don't know when I'll get to do that again, though.

I hate the heat/humidity. I have been living in the midwest for over four years now, and I can't stand the heat, or the bugs. During the summer time, its horrible...I do get cranky...;)

Fortunately, I live in the Pacific Northwest, where the days above 90 are few in a year. I am particularly intolerant of hot weather, and have suffered through it in other places I've lived. The worst was D.C., where I had to wear pantyhose to work and drive a car with no AC. Aghhh!

The next three days will be mid-nineties. I've done the things I know will help the household to stay cool. Bought popsicles and foods for meals that require little cooking. Cleaned house and especially the hardwood floors. (I've learned that a very clean house feels much cooler.) Planned for no errands that require going out in the hot part of the day.

My New England grandmother taught me to open everything up in the early morning and cool the house down with window fans, and then close it all up about 9 a.m. and pull the shades to keep the heat out. Then she would go outside and use the hose to cool the porch down about noon. That seemed to help, and I do it, too.

Last night I decided to take a walk because I was bored.

I shit you not: The heat of the sidewalk melted the glue that held my hiking-shoe soles together.

Phoenix sucks.

it got hot there..in August they not only had heat but the attendant humidity due to the "monsoon season."

I don't know how folks live in Arizona..Once my mom was at the Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix. One of her friends put me up in a hotel down the street from the hospital. I got up, had breakfast and decided to walk down to the hospital. It was 9AM and ALREADY it was in the mid 90s! Oy vey!! I don't buy that crap "oh but it's a DRY heat." Listen it's a dry heat in my OVEN but I don't turn it to 125 and sit in it for a spell.

One thing that made me chuckle when I visited my mom while she lived in Arizona was the fact that the weather folk on TV didn't bat an eye when they said the temperature was going to be 110. A COOL down was temps in the 90s! In St Louis sustained temps in the upper 90s will trigger a heat emergency, then again we have HUMIDITY!

Oy vey!

Meshuganneh!

I would be non-functional in that kind of heat. Or very, very dangerous. ;)

I will NEVER understand how anyone enjoy the heat

well for two reasons....1) I am fat and have more body weight and 2) I am allergic to the sun (I break out in a rash if exposed too long).

Nope. Never makes me cranky. Not one little bit.:hi:

I wish I knew the answer to your question. My spouse thrives like a cactus in very hot weather. I have no patience at all once the temperature hits about 90 with high humidity.

:hi:

I've been in Texas for 36 of my (almost) 40 years.

Summer always meant swimming and baking in the sun, cicada sounds, picnics, fire ants, and the all the wonderful hot weather accoutrements Texans know and love.

I was used to working out in my garden in 94-104 degrees, slathering on sunblock and just drinking buttload after buttload of water.

I got diagnosed with MS last year, and that's all changed. Now I have to sprint from the car to the house, can barely go outside for 4 whole months, and we have to keep a generator here because if the power ever goes out and we lose our air conditioning, I'll will turn into a quivering mass of non-functional jelly from the heat.

Humidity makes it worse.

Heat is wonderful because when you go in the AC it feels so much better.

lame joke, I know.

and it is so true what they say about dry heat vs wet heat.

However, my fibromyalgia is 10 times worse in cold weather.

because it feels so good when I stop. Heh heh....

:hi: :+

go outside you feel like you need another one.

Often if I'm in the heat too long, esp. with humidity, I will get sick. Which makes the misery even worse.