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Nah, as someone who lives somewhere with actual humidity “mid day” is basically “whenever the sun is up”. 85 and humid here is worse than -00 and dry in Phoeni
by TylerE 2y ago
Nah, as someone who lives somewhere with actual humidity “mid day” is basically “whenever the sun is up”.
85 and humid here is worse than -00 and dry in Phoenix. It’s so humid your sweat can’t evaporate because the air is already saturated. It’s beyond miserable, and actively unhealthy to many.
- inglor_cz 2y agoYeah, hot and humid areas have never been particularly friendly to human civilization. Prior to the industrial era, they were mostly covered by rainforests.
- TylerE 2y agoNorth Carolina is hardly rainforest, nor has it ever been.
- inglor_cz 2y agoI don't know much about NC, but the only parrot native to the US used to live there [0], which indicates that it must have been pretty heavily forested prior to the Colombian exchange. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_parakeet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_parakeet
- randomdata 2y agoThe map of US rainforests shows an active rainforest along the western side of North Carolina. It is not all that hard to believe said forest could have been much larger before the human touch.
- TylerE 2y agoWestern part of the state is farther from where I am than LA is from SF, just for the record.
- randomdata 2y agoThe easternly side of the forest to the easternmost points of NC is not further than LA from SF, though. Unless you live way out in the ocean, but still consider that to be North Carolina for some reason, you are closer than said distance to the forest.
- TylerE 2y agoI do I. Fact live almost at the Coast. Just to get to Asheville, which is hardly the westernmost point in the state, is over 6 hours. Los Angeles to SF is 381 miles. My town to the Cherokee, which is about where the rainforest zone starts, is 383. North Carolina is a much bigger state than most people realize.
- randomdata 2y agoYou do live out in the Ocean? Fair enough. Nobody has ever thought North Carolina was small, though. Where did that idea come from? In fact, it is not clear why the record needed a distance in the first place.
- TylerE 2y agoIn the ocean, no, but about 30 miles inland. I assure you, as life long resident, I have blown the minds of many non-natives by stating I can drive for 8 hours west and still not quite be in Tennessee. In most places east of the Mississippi that gets you through 3-4 states.
- randomdata 2y agoIt's all relative, I guess. I'm looking at 20 hours of driving to get the western extent of the province. And seven hours the other way to get to the easternmost side. 8 hours is but a leisurely afternoon cruise.
- ffgjgf1 2y agoIt’s not a tropical rainforest though. Temperate/subtropical rainforests aren’t as bad.
- zamadatix 2y agoYou might be thinking "tropical rainforest". Even today parts of North Carolina (and even Alaska) are classified as temperate rainforests: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Temperate_rainforest_map.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Temperat...
- TylerE 2y agoVery small parts. We just have lots of water and swampland down where I am.
- cafard 2y agoSicily? Rome? Angkor Wat?