Hot stuff

Well, time to really talk about the heat here. It's the end of the hot, dry season, which lasts from about April until the hot, rainy season comes sometime in June. After that I think it's monsoon and typhoon season, and then we're back to the hot dry season again.

So, it's hot. For example, it's just past noon, and according to the Weather Underground, currently 34 degrees, feeling like 42 with the heat index (which is like Humidex). This is, of course, in the shade. Apparently a heat index of 42 has the following effects:

Danger — sunstroke, heat cramps, and heat exhaustion are likely; heat stroke is possible

It goes down to about the mid-high 20s at night, I don't know what that is with the heat index. In any case, this can really take it out of a person, though I'm adapting a little.

There are people pedalling pedicabs out there in the diesel-exhaust-saturated furnace that is the street, which is an indication I think of how badly pedicab drivers need the money.