Heavy Humid Weather 2022

I'm not usually one to take excessive note of atmospheric conditions around me. I pretty much try to take whatever comes my way in stride. Today, however, the weather brought back childhood memories of Hollow Creek community in Aiken County with the thickness of the air and heat of it all.

I recall the yellowflies and gnats dive bombing us when we ventured out doors. There was a white insect repellant balm which came in a tube that members of my family would smear on my face, mostly the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears — which helped somewhat.

It was a time where if the 98 degrees didn't get you the 90% humidity would. Such was the weather in my yard today.

Humidity is good for some things, bad for others. The general comfort level is improved with diminished humidity in the presence of heat. Personally, I'm pretty sensitive to humidity in the summer heat.

The heat index is a composite of the temperature factored with the humidity and represents what the current temperature "feels like" on your skin. Lately my local heat index has been steadily running in the 105 to 110 degree range during peak sunshine.

That is what the weather "feels like" lately. I hope your weather is more amenable to your lifestyle. I'm pretty much shut in the air conditioning. I'm very fortunate to sport the 3 ton unit in my small home which accommodates all the electronics I maintain.

Locally we don't see much in the way of gnats and yellowflies. I have been wondering if this holds true in rural Aiken county nowadays where they flourished in those hot humid school days of my youth.