Re: Heat and humidity

[Ramey Peticolas-Stroud <ramey@wvi.com>]

CMKSAGEHIL wrote:
> 
> Actually, Ramey, the Nance family used ice water very effectively out here on
> the occasions when humidity was up, but they were before your time.  The main
> reason it is not normally used here is that we don't usually need it.  The
> Nances were from the Midwest, though, and understood how to use it--never saw
> a problem with it, and have used it myself on a couple of occasions when the
> humidity was well beyond our desert norms.
> 
> Heidi

The reason I'm interested in cooling strategies is that we have a horse
on the long-list for the World Championship in the Middle East.  As I
recall, when the Nance family was active we were riding in the Southwest
where the conditions are often similar to Quatar.  That was back when we
were adding alcohol to cooling water to change its evap temp.  Now, some
twenty-five years later, there has to be a better way.

Ramey