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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 05:00:03 +0000

I just can’t conceptualize those kinds of temperatures in the Bay Area, hell being warm up there is beyond my ken. When I was in Monterey the first time, I had a cousin living in San Francisco and I always had to dig out a heavier jacket to visit him.

Yes, you head inland and you got the extreme heat in the summer and snow in the winter, but not on the coast.

As Hipparchia notes, climate change is really messing with the cost/benefit ratios of various areas of the country.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 04:32:55 +0000

Though the previous two days made me think I was living in Lafayette Louisiana again, lafayette lousiana, now with earthquakes! the best of both worlds! :twisted:

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 03:37:46 +0000

Well, today the heat wave broke here in the Silly Cone Valley, so I’m happy. Well, except for the fact that I have an air conditioner coming in on Monday for dealing with the heat wave, but no worries — there will be another heat wave before the end of this year (sigh!).

Hurricane season is one of the things I *don’t* miss about living in the South… that and the humidity. Though the previous two days made me think I was living in Lafayette Louisiana again, between the heat and humidity :(.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:32:21 +0000

We hit the split tonight with the rain bands to the east and west of us, while we are drying out.

Yes, it is nice to scrub the pollen, but every three days would be plenty, and they might finally finish all of the road work and sidewalk construction that has been going on for months.

I think the fleas are finally under control, but that just means the cats disappear until 3AM when they wake up and raise hell.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:13:07 +0000

the heat index has dropped by 40 degrees, the pollen count is way down, and we didn’t get any tornadoes.

the tourists are cranky, the mold is replacing the pollen as #1 allergen, and the fleas are in hog heaven.

some of my cats go into hiding for the worst of the lightning storms, but mostly they’ve got cabin fever and don’t care any more.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:44:34 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates.

There is a front stuck along the Mississippi River that just doesn’t move. We get rain, and you get blocked, so the pollution builds. We never got the super hot temperatures that you guys had because the front didn’t move. It is beginning to look like summer is going to be the rainy season here, which is not something you look forward to in a tourist economy.

The rain is scrubbing the air, so I can hear normally without sinus and ear problems from allergens, but my two pairs of boat shoes isn’t enough because they don’t really dry out in a day. I may have to lower the temperature on my air conditioning to get it to act as a dehumidifier.

I’ve seen the rain coming your way on the national map. I would love to redirect two-thirds of this rain to somewhere that needs it.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 01:27:31 +0000

Wow. You’re really getting hammered with lots of things at once! And so are we…

We have some rain coming this weekend, but we’re all grateful: in one part of Harris County, Houston Aldine, pollution with particulates is so bad it’s rated Unhealthy, a rating I’ve seldom seen over the years, and only two notches below the worst rank (Hazardous). Several times today I had coughing fits, despite our spending most of the day indoors, and despite our not living in one of the highly polluted areas. It’s because the whole county is polluted, to a point at which no one can escape it. We live in parlous times…