Where's them "humidity boys" at?...
Invitation is open - fly in. I'll treat you to a Range Day over your weekend, and we'll check this all out. Come Eat Heat. It's nothing like your "99* feels like 106*" thing that your weather-guessers tell you about. This is blast-furnace-in-yo-face shiit... It's fun - and different.
Went out last weekend with a friend just to gather heat data on Dope. Went out Saturday night around 8pm, and it was over 100*. Set up camp for the night, to get heat data on loads the following morning. Sunday, 5:30 am, set targets, gathered first data at about 7am, and it was 93*. Literally sat around until it hit 100*, just to get that data. About 10:30am, I was about done, but I wanted to wait until 107*, to get that data. That was around 11am. It hit the temp on the Kestrel, was shot, got the data, got the fugg outta there shortly there after.
I'll risk that again for any one of you guys that wants to come out and shoot this. It's worthy. I had 7 gallons of water with me, plus 2 cases of bottled water - we won't DIE out there. But, it's a mind-bender, doing it...
There is no better way to gather load data than to do it. Calculators only give you some of the information. The the rest of it, you just gotta go do it, and gather what's really happening on the ground. In the heat.