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RE: [RC] Who says it's humid! - Rae CallawayIt's been in the mid 90's in Houston and the Weather Channel says right now the humidity is 90%, but it will go down to 60% this afternoon. I've always thought white horses did better in the heat too, but when I get home from work at 4 pm, the white, light gray and all 4 chestnuts will be wet, but the black and bay are dry and fine. I'm kinda confused on the black - I thought that mare would be hotter than any of them. I feed at 7 and when I go back out at 8 to kick them out of the barn, they're all standing right in front of their fans. It's cute. Rae Tall C Arabians - Central -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rides2far@xxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:25 PM To: trottin27@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Who says it's humid! When I moved to South Eastern Colorado in the early 90's I thought it was quite humid. I found the heat index chart at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/heat.php It's 85 and 61% humidity here right now at 10 PM. and I'm a couple of hours north of Jody. When you drive down my road at night you have to put your windshield wipers on intermittent. The humidity builds up on your windshield. It was 97 today. If the humidity was even 50% that would put us at about 110 index According to this website that is calculated for shade and a light breeze. Direct sunlight can raise it another 15 degrees. All I want to eat is tomato sandwiches and watermelon for dessert. Jello is OK, ice cream seems too thick. Checked Gunner when I fed. He feels slick, as if he hasn't even sweated. Looks totally unconcerned. Good day to have 3 white horses. We rode 5 hrs. Saturday mostly walking with some big hills. The non-endurance horses in the group were panting like crazy but our guys really didn't seem affected at all. Funny someone mentioned cats. Our cats look hotter than the horses or dogs. I've heard you can tell the temperature by the length of a cat. Mine are getting very elongated. Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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