Dry

[den]

So very dry. The hygrometer has spent the last hour registering <2% humidity, and is only now just climbing above 5%.

Everything is crackling with static. I have to grab the metal table leg as I stand, and walking to the other side of the room risks a zap. My hair sometimes feels like it is either floating like a hair-conditioning ad, or sometimes it is plastered flat and tight like an unwashed geek's.

Pulling a pen from my pocket makes the hairs on my arm stand. Pulling the wallet from my pants gives me the feeling of small spiders running up my legs.

I appear to have no residual perspiration. I suspect it is being sucked into the air as it appears, so that my skin feels dry. I don't mean stepping-from-the-shower towel-dry, I mean DRY. It's like I'm wearing super fine latex gloves on my hands and I can still feel everything but the surface is dry to the touch.

It's very strange. I hope it stops soon.

Comments

o.0

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

Damn, where are you? Out in the middle of the Sahara? I don't think I've ever experienced humidity that low. The lowest was out in Colorado which made me feel a bit like that. But then I'm used to a constant 70-100% in my home state. Well, we get drier in the winter, but nothing even near like Colorado had in their summer. Anyway, hope you get some rain or something soon!

Re: o.0

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

You'll be happy to hear that the humidity rose to 50%, and today it is 25%

I'm in Dubbo. Look 400km NW of Sydney.

...on a good map. 8)