My World is Upside Down
I recently moved from North Carolina to Colorado. I knew that it was dry in Colorado, but it never hit me just how dry until today. I went out for my usual lunchtime walk at noon. The temperature was about 90 degrees. Now in North Carolina, that would probably mean a heat index of close to 100 degrees because it is so humid and the air is so still. However, in Colorado where it is much breezier and currently only has 9% humidity, the heat index is actually lower than the measured temperature.
After getting back from my walk, it was 96 degrees and I was completely parched from breathing the dry air. The weirdest part was that I had to turn on the A/C when I got home, not because I was so hot, but I just had to close the windows and crank the humidifiers full-blast to get some humidity in the air. In North Carolina, you’d do just about anything to get the humidity out of the air in Summer. What a crazy world.
