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[Brentai]

Brutally hot-and-wet is a different kind of brutal than brutally hot.

You know, I was going to stick a disclaimer on my post to the effect of "I am going to stick the first motherfucker to say 'but it's a DRY heat' in my oven"...

Though one is mostly uncomfortable and the other is likely to cause heatstroke and cancer if you spend more than a half hour in it.

...but it seems like you're agreeing with me.

Well, with the qualification that wet heat makes you more miserable in general, esp. since air conditioning doesn't quite neutralize the problem.  But it won't fucking bake your skin off.

[Detonator]

No, you're right, those were bad numbers, and I pulled them out of my ass. How about -10 - 70 vs. 50-115? (Sub zero and mild summers vs mild winters and face melt summers.)

That seems like personal preference.  Some people prefer ludicrous heat to ludicrous cold, I don't think one is necessarily better than the other.  I seem to remember a thread about that very thing.

[Thad]

Oklahoma Gets up to 104-5 once or twice a summer, though it was for two weeks straight this summer. And we usually go sub-zero for a while each winter, plus windchill.

Does it not count because it only gets up for two straight weeks? (Honestly, that's enough to even satisfy a girl like me.)

If you're in Oklahoma, I'd say the weather is the LEAST of your complaints.

[Friday]

@ Det: Yeah, my (modified) point was, if you have at least one extreme, and your variance is bigger than the other guy's, doesn't that mean you win? Or lose? Whatever.

[Shinra]

Oklahoma Gets up to 104-5 once or twice a summer, though it was for two weeks straight this summer. And we usually go sub-zero for a while each winter, plus windchill.

I don't know, the last year... I don't think we went sub-zero once? Maybe down to the 10 degree range, but sub zero is a bit of a stretch at best. Outside of the big ice storm for the most part most of the winter was spring weather. Summer was BALLS. My electric bill for a one bedroom apartment was pushing 200 in july from the AC, and my apartment was STILL uncomfortably hot.

Oklahoma Gets up to 104-5 once or twice a summer, though it was for two weeks straight this summer. And we usually go sub-zero for a while each winter, plus windchill.

Does it not count because it only gets up for two straight weeks? (Honestly, that's enough to even satisfy a girl like me.)

If you're in Oklahoma, I'd say the weather is the LEAST of your complaints.

Depends on where you live in Oklahoma.

Tulsa is not a bad place to live. You'd really be surprised. There's a lot to do here and the city is fairly progressive. We have a fairly sizable water park, excellent schools, a performing arts center that sees some pretty big acts and a fairly popular, if not world renowned opera. Now, the REST of Oklahoma, on the other hand...

[Kashan]

Norman is nice too, though I don't understand how fortune magazine could possibly consider it the 6th best city in the country to live in. And yeah, checking the average temperatures and extremes, it seems I was exaggerating, wind chill here can be a bitch though.

[Detonator]

@ Det: Yeah, my (modified) point was, if you have at least one extreme, and your variance is bigger than the other guy's, doesn't that mean you win? Or lose? Whatever.

Not necessarily.  Like I said, it's all about preference.  There are also many other variables like humidity and overall percipitation (snow is fine, weekly blizzards are not).

[François]

There is no winning or losing when it's all about subjective assessment and sheer physiology. I can run half an hour in a t-shirt and shorts at -10°C without getting winded or feeling the slightest discomfort, but I can't go two minutes at 30°C without getting dizzy and nauseated and panting so hard my throat feels like sandpaper.

[Friday]

So, then, how would you determine who has the right to complain and who doesn't? Anyone with an extreme can, and Thad laughs at anyone who doesn't who does?

[Dooly]

The weather in Washington is so mild that people complain when it gets up to 85 in the summer, and can't handle driving on the rare occasion in the winter when the roads ice up.

Also, every stereotype you've ever heard about Seattle and rain is completely true.  Definitely in the fall, at least.

[François]

Everyone has the right to complain about their local weather extremes. That's not a fucking competition. It's just that Thad felt like he had to remind everyone he is the God of the Flame, Son of the Sun. But we all already know that every morning he eats his Kellogg's Obsidian Flakes with purified phlogiston instead of milk and then goes to work riding his magma sled pulled by twenty-five snarling, smoldering hellhounds.

[Friday]

That's not a fucking competition

YOU LOSE BY FORFEIT

[François]

oh noooooooooo

the stinging rebuke of defeat!

why was i not born into the arms of vulcan like thad

this burning shame could have been avoided completely

[Niku]

Other types of burning, on the other hand...

[Arc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKwMiExUKXg

This tragedy is unBearable.

[A²]

So I just learned the other day that Hurricane Ike wiped out my childhood in texas.

I'm not quite sure how to feel about this.

[The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji]

So, there seems to be a windstorm going on in Orange County. Howling outside and everything. Visibility couldn't be more than a mile or so at street level thanks to the dust, and I had some trouble seeing some larger buildings in the distance from the top of a freeway overpass.

On the way to the bus stop, I thought it was fitting that the Second Great Depression gets a Second Dust Bowl.

[MadMAxJr]

I'd like it if Oklahoma stopped sending me their bad weather 5-6 hours after it hits them.  Stupid jet stream.  Stupid Kansas City being in MISSOURI.

Obligatory 

[clutch]

On the way to the bus stop, I thought it was fitting that the Second Great Depression gets a Second Dust Bowl.

Psh, we don't have agriculture in Orange County. Our economy is a system of barter that utilizes Botox injections and luxury sedans as a sort of primitive currency. You obviously haven't lived here long.

On the way to the bus stop

Ah, I was right. You haven't even gotten your first Acura sedan yet. Toil harder, and one day you shall reap the rewards of German engineering and deadly toxins.

[The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji]

Geez, I only meant Dust Bowl in the sense of wind blowing dust everywhere, not that I can expect a total ecological disaster brought on by severe erosion.

And I've actually seen a couple small agricultural sites around. There's even an orange grove within a stone's throw of my place.