During my “starving student” days in B’klyn and w/o a/c, one way I found to cool off at home was to keep a couple of spray bottles filled with water at the ready. While in shorts and flip-flops, I’d simply spray myself down and let evaporative cooling do the rest while sitting near a slow running fan. Anyone who has experienced heat and humidity in NYC knows that just using a fan doesn’t quite do it, hence the spray down.
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YIKES!
Had no idea.
Thanks for chiming in about it.
Those mahi-mahi know something…
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at the risk of derailing a very fine topic regarding the SW’rn US megadrought (and I did live in the Phoenix “valley of actual hellfire” for 20 years ) may I just say that yes: the mahi know something AND that IS related to the factors that cause the sargassum overblooms.
offshore, the floating rafts of this seaweed have increased in size and are fed, nourished, by the westward blown, high atmospheric Saharan dust that blows up and over the Atlantic almost every summer now. this dust “rains” down over the parts of the mid-atlantic where the “Sargasso Sea” nurses this seaweed. climate change has increased the expansion of sargassum until it has become a very big (and stinky) problem to resort beaches from the FLKeys (Conch Republic) to Cancun all the way to Honduras and Panama.
climate change, just like what is happening in SW’rn US, is -as we all know - causing major disruptions to ways we have come accustomed to.
sargassum has always been a smelly mess, just never like we are seeing now.
but as for catching mahi-mahi (also called dorado, dolphinfish - same thing) - 2 - 5 miles offshore you see a big seaweed raft and birds diving… get your lines in the water!
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No worries, Cancun Ted’ll fix it.
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Here’s another trick for dealing with the heat: get some of those skinny plastic water bottles, commonly 500mL. Fill a couple almost full and freeze them overnight. When the heat gets annoying, carry one of those bottles around. If the heat gets really bad, carry one in each hand. When one melts, drink it and swap it out. The reason this works so well is that so much blood goes through the hands, which you are actively cooling before it returns to the torso.
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