Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
It barely hit 80 on last year's ride and got down into the high 50s on many nights.
Next week the high is 83.
Its hardly hot and humid every day of every week each summer. This year's ride just fell in a hot week.
Having been here for almost 20 years now, it's no different from the Chicago summers I grew up on and Mississippi in the summer was way more brutal.
Does Philly not have heat waves from time to time?
It does, and I don’t ride long distances during them. We just had one break. First time I’ve had the windows open in a while.
As I’ve aged, I’ve become less heat tolerant. Like to go to the northwest for a couple of weeks in mid-June then tour again starting in September, with maybe a couple long weekends in between if temperatures are acceptable. You can keep the lows of 85 with dew points in the 70s. The heat index the last few days was 100 or above.