The last few days in New Orleans have been REALLY hot and humid. We enjoyed a fair amount of clouds and rain all summer to keep the heat down a bit until this week. Feels like I am biking in front of an open oven cooking asphalt pie. Even 20 mph has little to no cooling effect seemingly.....until I have to stop at a light or ped crossing.....where I heat up like the surface of Mercury. My brake levers were almost too hot to touch from 5 to 6 pm on the way home riding right into the setting sun.

In the AM it was 82 degrees F just BEFORE sunrise! 100 percent humidity. By mid day it was nearly 96 in the shade with a trifle less humidity. By quitting time at 5pm the pavement was blistering hot and convecting heat into the air like a hot plate and still in the 90s.

So I took the long way home on wretched pot-holed backstreets past seemingly a thousand stop signs BUT partially shaded by lots of trees and the taller houses. My commute is 17 miles, and I like to ride between 23 and 25 mph hanging with, or passing traffic. Not on days like this. Gimme shade! In the sun temps reach 130. Stopping is unbearable in direct sunlight. Gotta take it slow if you want to live.

Other than the heat - no prob.