This is getting out of hand
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apg said:
I think it's the heat island effect as many areas are overrun with concrete and asphalt. In Phx I see storm after storm break apart as it hits the greater phoenix area, with only the outlying fringe getting any measurable amount of rain. The desert cools quickly after the sun goes away, but cement keeps it's heat for many hours.
I've been trying not to complain too much, but it's extraordinarily nasty. I lived in Florida for the 1st 38 years of my life, and what we are feeling in the Midwest right now is hotter than anything I've ever felt down there. The base temperature is only supposed to be 96 today and we are all cheering and ecstatic about it. All 3 air conditioners at my office are working nonstop and by 11am it's 85 in here. :ack:
It looks like fall because there are so many trees that have lost their leaves, and all the dead, brown foliage is blowing around like it's November. I've already lost my Yoshino Cherry tree and my 70+ year old Maples are looking really bad, too.
It looks like fall because there are so many trees that have lost their leaves, and all the dead, brown foliage is blowing around like it's November. I've already lost my Yoshino Cherry tree and my 70+ year old Maples are looking really bad, too.
at least done south its either warm or hot. around the 40 deg north band like Pittsburgh, it can go from cold enough to freeze diesel to hot enough to melt plastic. Sometimes even in the same damn month. we have like a 120 degree temperate swing between the seasons
What may be the only current thing that's good about California. In the Bay Area just about every night the fog rolls in, if it doesn't it's usually only a matter of a few days before it comes back. The other night I had to close the window down some because it was too cold. I'm in Newport Beach today and it's in the 70's.
DiscoJen said:
And you live in St. Louis? I lived in that wretched city for 15 years. Thank god I spent much of my summers far, far north of that city and lived in the 'burbs. The only saving grace was the Checkerdome (RIP) and various other indoor ice rinks around the county.
60 degrees here today. Door tops off and sides rolled up, heater cranked, I drove through a thunderstorm on the way back to the house and froze my ass off.
I'm headed to our home near Taos, NM for a week in September. Can't wait, and I'm actually going to pack a light jacket.
DiscoJen said:
If you don't want the hippie smell, eastern WA is completely different than Seattle. It has warmer summer temps, 300+ days of sun per year, and vineyards from Walla Walla to Yakima. If there was a way to make money out there, it would be paradise.