Are Current Weather Conditions - Heat/Drought, Affecting Your Shooting?

[DF]

Are you putting it off, or braving conditions? 'Specially in places from Arizona up to Montana - anywhere else....

 

[Sirius Glass]

In Southern California we now have to deal with boring cloudless days day after day. Where has the rain gone?

 

[Trail Images]

Pre-pandemic I drove once a week year around out to JTNP for sunrise photo outings. However, the key word is "sunrise". Once it was up I'd make my way back to the vehicle and blast off. Now somewhat post-pandemic and fully vaccinated I've yet to find my way back to the routine in this blistering heat. This stuff is just flat ass brutal anymore......

 

[MurrayMinchin]

Our local temperate rainforest is very happy so far this year. Weeks of drizzling rain, fresh snow on higher peaks, fall mushrooms popping up, and deciduous trees that haven’t quite greened up yet.

Nope...no problem with heat.

 

[wiltw]

I count my blessings I am not in Phoenix or Las Vegas, over 110 degrees F, as I sit indoors in 75 degree comfort rather than iout n 98 degree heat, rather than shoot.

 

[ChristopherCoy]

I live on a boat, in Texas, in the summer. Yes... yes, it's affecting my shooting. It's affecting me putting on pants.

 

[MattKing]

I live on a boat, in Texas, in the summer. Yes... yes, it's affecting my shooting. It's affecting me putting on pants.

For some reason, this made me think of a character named "Spongebob ....

 

[cjbecker]

For some reason, this made me think of a character named "Spongebob ....

haha.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Sorry I don’t deal with F; but C.
Once it is above +30 C and humid I’m not good.
30C+ and dry is different, but it is very rare where I’m.

 

[logan2z]

It's pushing 100 degrees here but it hasn't really affected my shooting - Firstly, the heat doesn't really bother me and second, if I want to be cooler I can get to the coast in about 20 minutes where it's 30 degrees cooler. But to @Sirius Glass 's point, the cloudless skies are making landscape photography a bit less interesting.

 

[Two23]

Just a month ago highs were in the 50s F here, now they're hitting 100F. The high temps are affecting my photography because I mostly shoot wet plate. Temps above 80 make developing more difficult, and above 90 it's a real challenge. In winter I deal with temps at 20 to 30 below.


Kent in SD

 

[guangong]

Currently enjoying 70-80 degree days in NW NJ. Great weather to be outdoors. My other usual shooting location is NYC. August there can be as hot and humid as working in a stone quarry.

 

[gone]

I live in Tucson, and it was 117 degrees yesterday. Yes, of course, the weather is affecting everything.

 

[BrianShaw]

I can deal with heat and drought. It shortens my time out and really shortens any hikes. But what impacts me the most is the fire danger in the more wild areas… it’s just not a good idea to be there and during/after a fire it’s not a good idea either.

 

[BMbikerider]

It is all 'C' for brits too. We are in some places getting unseasonal hot weather but not on the scale that some describe. Being a small island off the continental shelf of Europe anything above 30 C is uncomfortably warm especially as we are surrounded by water it soon gets unpleasantly humid. It never fails to amaze me, living on a rock some 1100 or so miles long and at it's widest about 325 how different the weather can be in various locations even on the same day. In summer on the south coast it can be what we take as blisteringly hot at around 32-38C. Whilst 300 miles north on the east coast it can be as cool as 15C.

Photographically speaking we are only very rarely left with a plain blue sky so we are somewhat blessed with where we are. Oddly enough the north west coast of Scotland get warmer weather than we do thanks to the Gulf Stream Drift bringing warm water over from the Gulf of Mexico. (plus a higher than average rain fall) That is one of the reasons why you can find palm trees growing in places around that area.

 

[ChristopherCoy]

I live in Tucson, and it was 117 degrees yesterday. Yes, of course, the weather is affecting everything.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I nearly passed out last week when the temp got to over 92 in NJ and I was out in the mid-day sun shooting for two hours without water. Fortunately, a woman passed by walking her dog and I asked her for water which I needed desperately. Had to pour it over my head as well as drink it. Lesson learned.

 

[wiltw]

Sorry I don’t deal with F; but C.
Once it is above +30 C and humid I’m not good.
30C+ and dry is different, but it is very rare where I’m.

Public service: 30C = 86F, which I think is quite moderate!
Of course, where I am (San Francisco Bay area) does not normally contend with high humidity. I do recall being in 85F and 100% humidity during a business trip many decades ago in Virginia, and it was horrid.
Back then white shirts and ties were customary business attire, and I recalled exiting the hotel to my rental car, and all of the creases which had been carefully pressed into the shirt almost immediately vanished during the short walk to the car.
Today's weather forecast for Phoenix Arizona is 118F or 48C, 10% humidity

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Public service: 30C = 86F, which I think is quite moderate!
Of course, where I am (San Francisco Bay area) does not normally contend with high humidity. I do recall being in 85F and 100% humidity during a business trip many decades ago in Virginia, and it was horrid.
Back then white shirts and ties were customary business attire, and I recalled exiting the hotel to my rental car, and all of the creases which had been carefully pressed into the shirt almost immediately vanished during the short walk to the car.
Today's weather forecast for Phoenix Arizona is 118F or 48C, 10% humidity

But it's dry heat.

 

[wiltw]

But it's dry heat.

When the soles of your shoes can melt as you walk across the asphalt, I don't give a darn about the heat being dry!

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

When the soles of your shoes can melt as you walk across the asphalt, I don't give a darn about the heat being dry!

Well your name is wiltw.

 

[wiltw]

Well your name is wiltw.

My name is not 'wilted'; I do much better in the cold than the heat.
Then there is heat so bad the streets melt

 

[MattKing]

I nearly passed out last week when the temp got to over 92 in NJ and I was out in the mid-day sun shooting for two hours without water. Fortunately, a woman passed by walking her dog and I asked her for water which I needed desperately. Had to pour it over my head as well as drink it. Lesson learned.

Glad you are okay.
Did the dog complain about someone else getting the dog's water?

 

[wiltw]

Is that fine desert sand?!

 

[Sirius Glass]

My name is not 'wilted'; I do much better in the cold than the heat.
Then there is heat so bad the streets melt

If onw shoes stick to the street, one should probably not go crossing the street and seek ways to cool down. Just a thought.