Humidity and Bugs
E veryone seemed to have been complaining about the heat yesterday and television pseudo-weather forecasters clamoring about "record heat like we've never seen before". Honestly, I'm very vulnerable to any heat above 80 degrees and I had few problems yesterday. Actually, that record heat and relatively low humidity (in the 50s) was rather comfortable for the most part. All the thunderstorms (some quite severe) bypassed Waterbury too. Yesterday, the temperature was at a high of around 97 degrees (which was only for an hour or two late in the afternoon) but the humidity was only in the 53-60% range which made the heat quite tolerable. That may be a record for mid-June, I suppose, but we regularly get into the triple digits in July so being in the 90s in June doesn't really seem so far-fetched nor highly unlikely. In fact, my birthday barbeques which are always the last weekend in June or first weekend in July are often brutally and uncomfortably hot and hum